answered Total Desert Over all Orbx Regions and LC

[Mithras]

Just noticed in England, rest of Europe and NA desert out on the horizon. When I pull back, I see this ... South America is fine. 

 

 

I've run the FTX Configurator exe and the FTX LC Configurator exem with no luck. It may have happened after I reinstalled Australia, I can't be sure. When I untick Australia in my FSX scenery list, there is no change.

 

 

[Mithras]

I've checked my scenery order, my LC entries are above Edwards AFB, and my FTX regions are above the LC entries.

[Holger Sandmann]

Hi Paul,

 

nothing wrong with your setup, it's the same for everybody.

 

What you've noticed aren't deserts but rather the "infamous" default sand-colored winter landclass textures for mid latitudes. Beyond the radius of high-detail landclass, as determined by the Level of Detail slider in the display settings menu, both FSX and P3D load crude maps of the globe, namely the "image_globe_{..}.bgl" files located in \Scenery\World\Scenery (see screenshots of winter vs. summer of one of those files below). Their seasonal coloring is meant to match the coloring of the default landclass textures, hence the stark contrast to the Orbx replacement textures during some months. Fortunately, in most flight situations, flight level and/or weather conditions hide the sharp edge between the detailed landclass and the "painting" in the background. 

 

Cheers, Holger

[Mithras]

Ah, thanks Holger, I feel stupid! I've never seen it before on my airline flights over Europe. I'll investigate other months of the year! 

 

Thanks very much for your reply!