square lakes and the Florida Keys

[av8r1313]

hello,

 

i am seeing square lakes in Florida and the scenery around Key West has the elevations screwed up. the ground scenery is bleeding between water and land.

 

appears to be an elevation issue.

 

any ideas?

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

welcome to the forums.

Have you installed the Orbx libraries?

[av8r1313]

hello,

 

yes sir. the libraries are installed

i have FTX Global, open LC NA, and vector.

 

i remember a long time ago having a similar problem with FS9 and Ultimate Terrain (square lakes and bad coast lines in Florida) but i dont remember the cause or fix

[Nick Cooper]

Please also try this.

Go to ORBX\User documents\Versions and delete FTX_OLC_NA.TXT and

if it is there, FTX_OLC_NA1.TXT.

Open FTX Central and Open LC NA will show as not installed.

Select install product and FTX Central will check all the files.

I f that still doesn't work, please try the Force Migration on the seytings page 

and if that still doesn't work, this:

 

 

[Eclex]

Hi Nick-

 

I can confirm the OP's original problem. I saw this also days ago while trying to fly the hurricane from Key west.

The problem is caused by one of the Orbx entries in the  terrain.cfg file. I used Holger's  idea to revert back to the

archived terrain.cfg in the Orbx directory. The result was that Key West downtown looked normal for default P3D V4.

I next ran the Orbx Central which automatically updated the terrain.cfg  , adding substantially to the file size. Next, I started 

P3d and found Key West all messed up with the OP's symptoms near the downtown area of Key West.  Given enough time.

I could have narrowed down the exact entry causing the problem.  But  I bought the commercially available Key West add-on,

 and forgot about it. Still, It's Orbx's fault.

 

Dave Swigert

 

[Nick Cooper]

Thank you for your astute observation.

 

Perhaps a screen shot with the coordinates would help to illustrate the exact problem.

Sometimes swampy areas will show as water, sometimes not but without an image to compare with Google Earth,

any diagnosis is guesswork. 

[Eclex]

 

I have some new information. I have fixed my original Key West problem. In FTX Central

 I uninstalled the openLC North America. That allowed a proper sim behavior in Key West.

Next, I reinstalled openLC, expecting a return of the original problem- But nothing of the 

 kind happenned. Everything appears to be working just fine. Anyone else with the OP's experience may want to try this simple solution.

I would have thought that Central automatically detects incorrect versions and files for the underlying base products.

 

Dave Swigert

 

[Nick Cooper]

Thanks.

That was the advice in the fourth post.

[av8r1313]

thanks,

 

the above fixed the Key West issue but i am still having problems with a lot of square lakes in southern florida