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    One Heck of a Bit of Fun

    in Community Screenshots

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Sniper31 said:

    Now that is some adventurous flying indeed! Fine shots here good features of the scenery to showcase.

     

    Landon

     No, this is adventurous (sorry it's not in an Orbx scenery - I'll do one later)

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    If you have ever seen the Jeb Corliss video "Flying the Crack" on YouTube.

     

     

     

    Follow the dotted line

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    One Heck of a Bit of Fun

    in Community Screenshots

    Posted

    A translation of some of that text:

    We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone. The future belongs to those who can imagine it, design it, and execute it… The future does not wait… The future can be designed and built today.

     

    Makes you think, doesn't it?

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    Frustrated by the Halloween Hunt

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    Sorry for not replying earlier...

    Thanks all! I fixed my issue by deleting the Frightsim package using Orbx Central and reinstalling it. But that didn't work first time round, perhaps because of fat thumbs... So anyway, I deleted the foldere manually and deleted the content.xml

     

    Then I reloadedthe Halloween Hunt via Orbx Central again and after msfs had recreated the content.xml file and hey presto! Exactly as you say Holger, the alphabetical sort puts the Halloween Hunt in the right place.

    The main reason for my problem was that I hadn't reinstalled all my new and old Orbx sceneries after SU6, so the hunt was placed above some of the other addons.

    All fixed and (hopefully) all targets found, although I don't have all the Orbx original sceneries and some of the spooked locations do look odd, especially the Essenden hideaway.

    Frustrated by the Halloween Hunt

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    I have seen entries on your discord that show spooks where I have none. One notable example is Key West. I have the Orbx payware installed and some discord entries show spooks all around the entrance to the terminal building both with the default texture and the Orbxpayware.

    What have I done wrong on my msfs setup that I do not see these spooks. Is there a missed setting? But if there is, why do I see Spooks elsewhere where I don't even have the Orbx addon?

     

    London Landmarks Pack not compatible with MFS London photogrammetry

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    Further to my earlier submission, I have now had a successful flight without CTD by turning photogrammetry off. So my current guess is that Orbx London and Bing Photogrammetry (or the way Asobo interprets it) have a clash.

    Is there some way that you (Orbx that is) can turn off default photogrammetry in your sceneries? You know, something like FSX addon sceneries could switch off default meshes and scenery configurations...

    @Nick Cooper I think this is what @gundamf91 also had concerns about...

     

    It is somewhat of an inconvenience to have to remember to turn off photogrammetry before you approach a cityscape - leave it too late and you get a CTD and when you leave the area you have to remember to switch it back on. Especially in the case of flying from London to Booker because without photogrammetry, the areas just outside Booker tend to look a bit bare and flat.

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    London Landmarks Pack not compatible with MFS London photogrammetry

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    Oh dear... I had the duplicated buildings models issue around London (Flight plan Elstree to Booker via a tour along the Thames). Otherwise that flight went without a hitch (clipped wing Spitfire and my own livery) and I flew through tower bridge, followed the Thames and hung a right near Heathrow to head up to Booker. Bearing in mind the duplicate buildings - in particular I noticed the London Eye was doubled - I looked here and found the "Cure" - i.e. set the configuration in the Orbx Central configuration section. Rebooted msfs, selected "Fly this route" again. Take off was OK but then outbound eastwards from Elstree I turned towards LCY and had a CTD.

     

    Just to make sure, I repeated this with a fresh plan and different aircraft (that cute little Sonex that was put out recently) Started at City airport instead of Elstree. Orbited the East End a couple of times and then flew towards Tower Bridge - and guess what... CTD!

     

    First flight with Spitfire:

    Saw the double Eye, checked here and set your fix...

     

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    Second flight with Spitfire - no image because of unexpected CTD

     

    Third flight with Sonex

     

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    I don't know if you can see anything different about the London scenery. I CTD'd when I got level with the Shard.

    Don't work on your PC when you are angry...

    in Hardware and Tech Talk

    Posted

    Good catch Seanmo. As you righly notice, I do have a "MyCloud" drive so I will have to keep an eye out. Hopefully the router firewall, McAfeee and VPN will keep things reasonably safe. Also, I haven't set up an account to access my home cloud from external usage - being a pensioner I don't use my computer remotely. All the other storage is hardwired via USB to my PC.

    As for the alphabet spaghetti, I suppose I should de-partition the external drives... but I have a cluttered mindset sometimes.

    Don't work on your PC when you are angry...

    in Hardware and Tech Talk

    Posted · Edited by EagleSkinner

    Well, I am getting there. All my working data is going onto "spinners" with a backup to my WD myCloud server downstairs.

    I now have around 12 TB hooked up to the PC (4 SSD and 8 on HDD) The latter "spinners" are all WD Black drives, so I now back to a comfort zone. Now it's time to make a first backup of c:/ and the flightsim data... I need to keep the two DVDs for another year or two still as I still watch the odd movie. But all in all:

     

    Getting there.

     

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    Some Scenery Issues Post SU5 / 1.18.15.0

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Forum

    Posted

    I just took a helicopter from Stapleford, down to London City airport, allong the Thames, up to the M25, hung a left onto the M40 and landed at Booker. During the flight I noticed some oddities:

     

    • Some of the Bridges over the Thames are doubled and the AI traffic is down on the lower textures - it looks like an FSX type thing is missing where you can hide the default scenery.
    • Water masks are rather iffy again.
    • There also seem to be conflicts between Orbx Buildings and landmarks with the default built in ai generated maps/3D structures
    • For the last couple of days, EGTB has been denying take off and landings due to airfiled being IMC. I have live weather on in sim. Only once was it raining, but even then it was good VFR.

     

    Any help or suggestions where I may have made the wrong settings?

    Don't work on your PC when you are angry...

    in Hardware and Tech Talk

    Posted

    The strange thing is that apart from updates, just putting my last community folder back into msfs doesn't cause problems. So why can't Asobo create a simple subroutine to rename community when they force a mandatory update on us. Ye Gods, I could have done something like that in Fortran IV on punchcards in 1969 / 1970 at school.

    Seriously! The algorithm would be something like:

     

    • if update then goto checksub             (right near the beginning of the update code)
    •  
    • [checksub]
    • Locate community folder
    • Rename community -> bugarup             (or move to temp)
    • Locate contents.xml
    • Delete contents.xml
    • Locate rolling cache
    • Delete rolling cache
    • [end checksub]
    •  
    • if update complete then goto reloccomm
    •  
    • [reloccomm]
    • Locate bugarup
    • Rename bugarup -> community
    • check for interference
    • if interference then reset
    • alert user
    • [end reloccomm]

     

    No? Even in BASIC, a well coded series of commands as above would  possibly work.

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