RickD Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 *sigh* Reinstalling FSX from scratch is a much more complicated task than I anticipated. With some help from this forum I managed to reinstall all my ORBX products into FSX-SE. But unfortunately I have run into problems again: This is in the Vancouver area in PNW with Vector, Pilot's Mesh and several ORBX airports installed. As you can see there is land around Vancouver where water should be. I already tried these steps to solve the problem without success: - switched between global and NA groups in FTX Central - reinstalled libs - reinstalled PNW Patch 8 - rebuilt the terrain.cfg Please help me once again. What else can I try? I really don't want to start all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Hi Raphael, what may appear as land from that altitude and in top-down view are in fact silt-colored waterclass textures representing the famous sediment fan of the Fraser River estuary. If you look at the area in normal oblique view, with water effects settings active, you should see normal water reflections albeit with sandy colors. The actual boundary between the muddy water of the Fraser and the ocean water of the Strait of Georgia is usually much sharper but that's difficult to portrait with the FSX/P3D waterclas system as it has a 1.2km x 1.2km resolution (which also explains the slightly blocky appearance in your top-down view). Here are a couple of airphotos that show the sediment fan off the coast of Vancouver and Richmond: http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/BC/Vancouver/University/2014/0333/2 http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/BC/Richmond/Airport/2006/225/2 http://www.oceannetworks.ca/sites/default/files/images/pages/sog/ed_mcnichol_boundary_smaller.jpg http://venus.uvic.ca/wp-content/uploads/IOTW_BC-Ferries-in-outflow.jpg http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/vancouver_tm5_2011250_lrg.jpg Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Do not worry Raphael: confirming what Holger said above, this is the image I have of your position: Very similar, right? Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickD Posted July 19, 2015 Author Share Posted July 19, 2015 Thanks for clearing that up. Now I feel stupid for spending hours trying to "fix" this. The only strange thing is that I have been flying around Vancouver a lot in my previous installation and I have never seen this before. Just the usual water around Vancouver. So I guess something was not right with my previous installation then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Right. I see it from 33000ft: Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.