Just a thought đź‘€

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With the new rendering engine, I heard that it will be used to implement new features while at the same time being able to actually “handle” them and not make the game buggy (better performance).

BUT, what if it could implement older featuresđź‘€?

More specifically, the old water textures. As us IF fans, especially to the older ones, we deeply miss the old water textures that was removed for the global update (i believe). And the fact that it also MOVED was amazing for a mobile sim made in 2011. As IF’s technology is growing each year, it seems gradually more possible that the old water textures could be brought back.

yes i know there is already an option to vote on this, I am just curious to know if it would be possible to bring back with the new engine

old water textures could be seen here

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Hey there! Next time use the handy search function so as to not make duplicate topics. This feature topic was the third thing to pop up :wink: It’s always a good rule of thumb to keep discussions to the relevant topics

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/re-add-old-water-textures/246044

Another quick search also gave me this:

The water graphics comes from the scenery provider, and since that isn’t a change foreseen in the future, it’s probably going to be what it is for a while. But like I said above, discussion of this topic is best suited for the feature request.

Also, I feel as though I should add this: that trailer is pretty awesome!

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Yeah, I know that that’s why I said that in my topic. I’m just asking if the new rendering engine would make it possible for the old water textures to actually make a comeback👍

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This is my favorite trailer :heart_eyes:, the music is insane !

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It’s a bit more complicated. The problem when using satellite imagery instead of just any random ground imagery like we did before 2017 and just “tie” that to coastline data is to determine what is actually water and what isn’t and then place that water rendering in the right places. Back then when we just had tiny regions it was fairly simply. Now with the entire world and satellite imagery in use, it’s not.

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Ah, gotcha, thank you for the clarification! I guess I might take another look at that feature topic and consider voting for it, because those textures sure did look nice!

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