rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Hi fellas, can anyone help with this one as I'm bamboozled! I've done a reinstall of both England and Compton Abbas. I've run Vector control panel. I have no other third party mesh and EGHA appears to be in the correct position in the scenery library. <img src="http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2016/11/15/Capture.jpg" alt="Capture.jpg" border="0" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk mike Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 You didn't leave a freeware Earth Sims Compton Abbas elevation correction in your scenery/world/scenery folder by chance? (If there was one even). I hope I'm correct in thinking you've used a lot of UK photoscenery addons in the past? Maybe it was somebody else, in which case you'll wonder what the hell I'm talking about! Or possibly a UK2000 VFR correction? I'm not seeing your screenshot by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 14 minutes ago, norfolk mike said: You didn't leave a freeware Earth Sims Compton Abbas elevation correction in your scenery/world/scenery folder by chance? (If there was one even). I hope I'm correct in thinking you've used a lot of UK photoscenery addons in the past? Maybe it was somebody else, in which case you'll wonder what the hell I'm talking about! Or possibly a UK2000 VFR correction? I'm not seeing your screenshot by the way? Hi, No, no other freeware scenery. Nothing that would cause this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk mike Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Ah, you have two posts with the same title, and in the 'other' post your screenshot is showing okay, so ignore the above comment. I've trawled through the ES Compton Abbas, and I can see no reference to an alt correction file, so you can dismiss that potential cause! I CAN say, having now seen your screenshot, I had the exact same 'issue' a week or so ago, and I cannot think for the life of me how I cured it! I play around a lot with SimStarter NG and its possible I had a rouge configuration conflict with OrbX. It 'might' have been the mesh resolution slider not being ramped up enough, or maybe it cured itself, but I did have that exact same symptom with the sunken apron. I was half wondering if I'd inadvertently left the FTX Library unchecked in the SimStarter profile, leading to some 'object flow' related elevation discrepancy? I know it was a two minute fix, so probably no biggy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Cheese Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Have a read of the manual to see what your mesh should be set at. I seem to remember that one of the UK airfields needs the mesh set at 2m and not at the usual ORBX 5m setting, but can't remember which airfield it is - not at my flightsim PC now so can't check myself. Cheers Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 OK fellas, Thanks. I'll check the mesh slider and report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk mike Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I think it might have been Damyn's Hall Jack. The one needing the higher mesh setting I mean. The terrain around Compton IS very undulating though, so maybe slider related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 Fellas, as I thought, the mesh slider has made no difference at all. Nothing has changed here, except a new reinstall and Orbx migration, which incidentally is not showing any errors anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Cheese Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Howard, have a look at Christopher's second post in this thread - maybe you also have a stray ALT file in there? Cheers Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 Fellas, as I thought, the mesh slider has made no difference at all. Nothing has changed here, except a new reinstall and Orbx migration, which incidentally is not showing any errors anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 9 minutes ago, Holy Cheese said: Howard, have a look at Christopher's second post in this thread - maybe you also have a stray ALT file in there? Cheers Jack Hi Jack, are you referring to:- FTX Library unchecked in the SimStarter profile ? Unsure what this means! What SimStarter profile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Cheese Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Hi Howard - no, nothing about Sim Starter in that thread??? Christopher found an EGHA_ALT.bgl file in his scenery/world/scenery folder, when he removed it everything went back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockliffe Posted November 14, 2016 Author Share Posted November 14, 2016 11 minutes ago, Holy Cheese said: Hi Howard - no, nothing about Sim Starter in that thread??? Christopher found an EGHA_ALT.bgl file in his scenery/world/scenery folder, when he removed it everything went back to normal. Ah ha! Found this in there... 000_EGHA_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL ! Took it out and all is good! Don't know what it is or how it got there, but all is well. thanks for everyone's help, appreciated. cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk mike Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 No, the SimStarter NG was something I mentioned, but really, that was going off at an unnecessary tangent anyway. Its a brilliant tool, and for the amount of scenarios I enjoy playing around with its indispensable, but, because its so darned easy to set up profiles, you can very easily leave things checked (or unchecked) that shouldn't be! And, I've now remembered why my Compton Abbas elevation was exactly like that in Howard's screenshot, AND how I fixed it. Alas, I don't think its going to be relevant to Howard's issue, but it might point to something. Right, I just saw a prompt showing Howard found his solution! But, I will just say that MY issue was due to the fact I'd forgotten to activate the FTX England entries, and was in fact running Compton Abbas with FTX Global . Well spotted Howard! I've located that file in my folder, but strangely its an active file (as opposed to an 'off' file? Still, if it works, it works, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebirduk Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Rockliffe's fix worked for me as well. Userd to live just round the corner from Compton Abbas so was most upset to find a big 'ole twixt the hangers! I'm assuming this is an Orbx issue as my configuration is unsullied... - Fresh install of Prepar3d v3 on a new hard drive - Install FTX Central - Install Orbx libraries - Install FTX Global Base Pack - Install EU England - Install EGHA Compton Abbas - Install A2A C182 - Taxi at Compton and fall into big hole Can't understand where 000_EGHA_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL would have come from therefore other than Orbx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisheye Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 I have had many issues like this since FTX Central 3 and found for some reason that in your FSX/Scenery/World/Scenery folder that the airport elevations have been set to .OFF. If this is the case then just remove the .OFF and make sure the .BGL is still at the end of the file then try it again. I had three of my files that were changed in my Scenery file. Hope this helps. fisheye PS this is also listed by in another post by someone else named Grego under this listing Compton Abbas Airfield Sinkhole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhasdell Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I was having exactly the same problem, and while I didn't understand all of the replies here ("SimStarter profile?"; "remove the .OFF"?) I was able to find 000_EGHA_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL in Scenery\World\Scenery and removing it has done the trick. Goodness knows where it came from, but it's gone now and everything is fine. There is also a file 000_EGTH_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL. Is this likely to cause similar problems at Old Warden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Over the past week I having been downloading airports and installing them in P3Dv4. Today I had an elevation issue with EGHA Compton Abbas in a similar spot to Howard. I checked vector etc. Also I have no other scenery installed here which might conflict. Anyway, the solution was to rename the file 000_EGHA_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL to OFF. The same solution as worked above. Perhaps the scenery download needs to be corrected? There is also the same file for EGTH under scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 Just an update, I did the same for EGTH Old Warden i.e. renamed 000_EGTH_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL to OFF. No elevation issues once I turned that file off. I don't know if these files came with the sceneries or perhaps with FTX England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikcol44 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 On 14/11/2016 at 3:30 PM, Holy Cheese said: Hi Howard - no, nothing about Sim Starter in that thread??? Christopher found an EGHA_ALT.bgl file in his scenery/world/scenery folder, when he removed it everything went back to normal. Thanks for this answer, it's solved the same problem for three of us in The Bristol Flightsim Group. (UK) Regards Mike Collins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knoblet Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Same elevation problems with Old Warden EGTH and England even after turning off 000_EGTH_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL and also EGTH_ADEX_GRJ_ALT.bgl. Disabling England corrects the elevation. P3Dv4.2 with FS Global FTX 2018 mesh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristi Neagu Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Hello, I've just had the exact same issue with Compton Abbas and was (i hope) successful in fixing it by moving 000_EGHA_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL. Why is this still an issue? What's causing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I suspect that the file is needed for those who don't have the addon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
level135 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Hi, since I have installed Orbx Central and migrated Europe scenery and airfields in an external Library, I got another time, a ground level issue at EGHA airfield, even after I have deleted this file 000_EGHA_FTX_Exclude_ALT.BGL in World Scenery. Do you have an idea of what happen ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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