This was a little project I did over the Holidays just to learn how to do something new. I never messed with track textures before. It was never intended to be shared, but like my other resources, I always figure someone might get some use out of it, even if it's just one person.
I love VIR, but the tall Pines always bugged me because of how light and washed out they looked so I did some editing to them to try and make them look better. Mind you, i'm no Photoshop expert so don't expect much and none of this makes wholesale changes to the stock look. It's only small tweaks. I already know one of them still has some small bleed through of the old color that I may choose to get rid of at some point.
There are two skins, one just has the three edited Pine files. The other one I went ahead and edited all of the vegetation to fit my system better. They have a little more (or is it less) gamma and some increase in contrast because I like things colorful and less washed out. I did reduce the saturation a tad to compensate for the extra contrast. Be curious to hear if it needs more or less saturation.
There is also an ext_config file included. Even if you don't like the skin, the config may be of use. It makes fall look more like fall. The grass doesn't turn orange and neither do any Pine trees or bushes, because really, when have you ever seen orange Pine trees in the fall.
This may get updated in the future, but i'm okay with it like it is. It does what I wanted it to do and makes the Pine trees easier to look at and that was really the only issue I had with the track. The rest of it is pretty much perfect so why mess with perfection.
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I love VIR, but the tall Pines always bugged me because of how light and washed out they looked so I did some editing to them to try and make them look better. Mind you, i'm no Photoshop expert so don't expect much and none of this makes wholesale changes to the stock look. It's only small tweaks. I already know one of them still has some small bleed through of the old color that I may choose to get rid of at some point.
There are two skins, one just has the three edited Pine files. The other one I went ahead and edited all of the vegetation to fit my system better. They have a little more (or is it less) gamma and some increase in contrast because I like things colorful and less washed out. I did reduce the saturation a tad to compensate for the extra contrast. Be curious to hear if it needs more or less saturation.
There is also an ext_config file included. Even if you don't like the skin, the config may be of use. It makes fall look more like fall. The grass doesn't turn orange and neither do any Pine trees or bushes, because really, when have you ever seen orange Pine trees in the fall.
This may get updated in the future, but i'm okay with it like it is. It does what I wanted it to do and makes the Pine trees easier to look at and that was really the only issue I had with the track. The rest of it is pretty much perfect so why mess with perfection.
Before:
After:
