macca22au Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I uninstalled FTX, downloades SP3 all four regions. Noted they did not appear in the scenery library, so manually installed them. FTX seems to come up well, though Fishermans Island near YBBN appears to have totally and wrongly changed. Shut down FSX. Used FTX central to turn FTX off, Validated UTX, watched what appeared to be the expected rebuild of the scenery list, flew out of Victoria International, nothing changed. The sea and islands remain converted into a landmass. Pressed escape, then checked the scenery library again, and all FTX and UTX entries had disappeared. There seems to be quite fundamental problem. Is it possible to resolve this from within the add-on folders, or am I looking at a full reinstallation of UTX and FTX ... and may be FSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 I must correct my own post. I now understand that the FTX entries are removed from the Scenery Library when FTX is turned off. The UTX entries are in place. However even validating and flushing the Library entries still leaves the original problem unchanged. Even doing everything by the book leaves the land-sea problem in UTX unaltered. Do I need to reinstall UTX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Hi Ian The usual method is to do the following: turn FTXcentral to Default and then re-run the UTX setup application, then run FTXcentral and switch back to Australia not having any UTX products myself I am unable to comment further but the above works well for others: http://orbxsystems.com/forums/index.php?topic=13357.0 see if that helps Cheers Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 You don't need to set FTX to default to fly in other parts of the world. The only time you'd do that is to disable FTX in Australia so you can take before/after comparison shots of FTX versus default. In fact, things work better if you just leave FTX set to Australia (or soon, North America). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby23 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Have I completely missed the point of SP3? Can I leave FTX active all the time? Or do I still need to switch back to Default when flying in other parts of the world? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 Seems however the problem just will not be overcome. So I will uninstall, and reinstall the Ultimate Terrain series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 The problem was overcome!! Holger's Victoria and Victoria Plus were the culprits. Turn them off and there is no longer a false landmass where there should be sea between islands. I don't know whether this suggests that PNW FTX should ensure that there is no similar conflict with UTX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby23 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Victoria and Victoria Plus are not the culprits... Your terrain.cfg file is the culprit. Something didn't work when you installed those add-ons. I have them installed and they work fine. You need to keep a close eye on your terrain.cfg and keep backups of working versions... I speak from experience... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 Thanks Toby, I take your point. It certainly was not a problem for me before SP3. So, somewhere in the uninstallation of the earlier versions and the installation of the SP3 a corruption has occured. Could you post your terrain cfg file, because at the moment I couldn't tell what is a 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby23 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Sorry but no, I can't. My terrain.cfg has been customised for development, so it will not help you. You need to find a backed up version of yours and work from there. Good luck, Toby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 FTX Central is not FTX mode; they work differently. FTX Central does *not* corrupt your terrain.cfg file. It merely checks for and adds the Orbx custom entries to it, nothing less, nothing more. If UTX entries were there before FTX is installed, it does not mess with them or touch them. However, if you've used the old FTX Mode *after* FTX Central then yes, there's a chance the terrain.cfg gets replaced with the old Orbx one. That is why you should not mix old Pre-SP3 downloaded regions with the SP3 DVD or the new SP3 certified regions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toby23 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 So does that mean that I can have FTX mode active all the time, regardless of where I fly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted October 4, 2009 Author Share Posted October 4, 2009 Yes, that's my experience now. But get rid of that old on/off icon. In fact I uninstalled the previous version totally. Be careful read John's sticky on this, it doesn't uninstall in the normal way. As to why Victoria + is corrupting UTX I can't work out, and in fact I have decided not to spend any time on it. I will wait for FTX Pacific Northwest to come out, and hopefully sit it on top of UTX - which I want for the rest of Canada and the USA - it beats the default totally and is a quality product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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