Disable Vector ?

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

 

Just a quick question - - - new to Vector (thanks for the sale) - - - is there a quick and easy way to temporarily disable all the flattens included with Vector ? As some may have gathered I'm a huge fan of Little NavMap and in order to do an accurate scan of "Freeware Improved" airports - I need to disable these files to prevent all the false positives for the scan - then turn them back on when done...

 

I don't see Vector as an option in the scenery.cfg...

 

Thanks...

 

Regards,

Scott

[Triplane]

I don't know which specific files are involved but you should see Vector entries in the scenery.cfg file. Mine look like this:

 

[Area.003]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_AEC
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_AEC
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=3

[Area.100]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_EXX
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_EXX
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=100

[Area.101]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_CVX
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_CVX
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=101

[Area.102]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_APT
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_APT
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=102

[Area.103]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_FixedAPT
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_FixedAPT
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=103

[Area.104]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_OBJ
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_OBJ
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=104

[Area.144]
Title=FTXZZ_OLC_FixedAPT
Local=ORBX\FTX_OLC\FTX_VECTOR_FixedAPT
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=144

 

Your Layer numbers will, of course, be different but I think temporarily disabling these files will let you do what you want.

Doug

 

[Scott Harmes]

Hi Scott,

 

There should be several entries in the Scenery.cfg for Vector.

 

You may only need to disable one entry which is right near the bottom of the Scenery.cfg:  

 

[Area.003]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_AEC
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_AEC
Layer=3
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

 

 

 

There are also several other entries for Vector:

 

 

[Area.100]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_EXX
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_EXX
Layer=100
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

 

[Area.101]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_CVX
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_CVX
Layer=101
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

 

[Area.102]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_APT
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_APT
Layer=102
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

 

[Area.103]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_FixedAPT
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_FixedAPT
Layer=103
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

 

[Area.104]
Title=ORBX!VECTOR_OBJ
Local=ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_OBJ
Layer=104
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
 

 

 

 

 

 

There is one more which I am a bit unsure of:

 

 

[Area.145]
Title=FTXZZ_OLC_FixedAPT
Local=ORBX\FTX_OLC\FTX_VECTOR_FixedAPT
Layer=145
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE

 

 

 

I use Scenery Config Editor for ease of use editing scenery.cfgs.

 

 

 

Cheers,

[Geezer]

I forget what it's called but there's a setting in Little NavMap where it will disregard those false airports.

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

 

Thanks for all the info...

 

There is a setting in LNM - LOL - I should have known - Alex thinks of everything... I didn't see anything on the "database" page - I'll poke around there as well...

 

 

Regards,
Scott

[Stewart Hobson]

Scott,   If you would let the rest of us know what you find, please, it would be appreciated.  I wasn't aware of this setting either--it must be in the docs somewhere, though.

[scottb613]

Hi Stew,

 

Found it - [TOOLS] [OPTIONS] [SCENERY LIBRARY DATABASE] - - - has some fields to exclude specific scenery files... Should work - I'll try it later...

 

Regards,
Scott

[Triplane]

Thanks. I didn't know about it either.........Doug

 

[Stewart Hobson]

Thanks, Scott.  I've been in the habit of just refreshing the entire library whenever I add a new airport.  Begs the question, which of the Vector folders should we exclude from updates?  Vector_AEC at least, I think...

[dbutterf]

Look here https://albar965.github.io/ for Little Navmap manual. It give information on using 'exclude'.

[Stewart Hobson]

Thank you.  I have the manual and eventually found the information.  It appears excluding Vector in toto should do the trick so that LNM won't identify those airports as addons  whose elevations have been corrected by Vector.  Good to know.