Hi all,

I enjoyed a nice weekend in Tahoe over the last 3 days, so as I was sitting on the couch last night letting my body recover, I fired up FS9 to explore the area "from the air".

The first flight I set up out of Lake Tahoe airport was set to noon, winter, and fair weather. As I took off, I noticed that the color of Lake Tahoe in game is a nasty "lake green", not a brilliant blue like the real-life lake. Because I was playing using my keyboard, I promptly crashed and had to restart the flight. Same settings, but this time the lake was blue. After I crashed again (why didn't I get my joystick out?), I restarted and the lake was green again. On a couple following the flights, the lake remained green.

There is a resiviour right near my house (Crystal Springs) that is always a nice dark blue, and I remember it appearing blue in FS9 before. However, last night, I set up a flight and it was that nasty lake-green. Now that I think about it, since I've had FS9 over the last year, I think I've seen lakes show up as both blue and green. Over that time, I've also experiemented with different addons.

Does anyone know what determines weather a lake shows up as blue or green? Is it dictated by landclass? Weather? Season?

Here are the addons I have installed:

Ground Environment Pro
Real Environment Pro
Active Sky 6
Ultimate Terrain USA
FS Genesis USA Landclass (above UT in my scenery library)
Megascenery San Francisco (does cover Crystal Springs, but haven't had an issue in the past)
Megascenery Nor Cal (does not cover lake tahoe)

Thanks!

I believe FS can only use one global 'water' texture at any time. By this I mean one texture that controls the lakes, oceans and wide rivers but not the water bodies that are 'painted on' to the terrain like minor rivers or aerial photo overlays. With your particular setup, I would look deeper into Flight Environment Pro; I believe it has an interface called FE Congigurator that allows you to customize the water color and wave textures. I think it also has a randomizer function.

It has been several years since I've used Flight Environment and I no longer really do anything with FS9, so I might be confusing its functions with another scenery addon.

Thanks for the heads up. My install is giving me blue water for oceans even though the lakes are green, which is good.

Also, I don't have Flight Environment Pro (I have Real EP and Ground EP, confusing, I know). But, I am looking into REX, which supposedly allows you to cusomize water colors for oceans and inland waterways separately.

Sorry, I thought I saw Flight Environment Pro in your specs.

And if you're getting different colors for ocean and lakes, then I guess what I thought I knew is wrong.