mikegg@comcast.net Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 So I purchased Global and now only some very few airports have car traffic on highways. How do you enable cars on roads after installing FTX global? The scenery looks great but I miss the highway traffic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 After I purchased and installed Global Base I no longer see and automobile traffic on the roads. How do I resolve this issue? Sorry if I posted twice as I'm new to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 I have some installed scenery and the cars are near the airport. If I uninstall, can I reinstall later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 1 hour ago, mikegg@comcast.net said: If I uninstall, can I reinstall later? Hello mikegg, welcome to the forums. Have you also installed the Orbx Libraries and Object Flow in Orbx Central ? I don't think you can uninstall and reinstall, I think they replace the simulator default textures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 I also installed the Iceland demo...there is plenty of auto traffic there but not in my normal flying area...SW Florida, Page field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Here is a screen shot where Installed scenery of Santa Barbra, CA ends and the car traffic stops. There are no cars in the generic scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 My receipt # is: Your transaction ID / receipt number is available if you need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Hi Global base is only a default texture replacement, it has nothing to do with car traffic. What are you P3D traffic settings set at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Makes sense, but I changed nothing when I installed Global base. Traffic is set to around 20-25%. I believe it has to do with the masking or priority of the textures. The road textures are somehow blocking the traffic from showing. If you look closely at the screen shot you can see where the traffic ends. I should have made that more explicit. I also believe I have less static ground airplanes at airports, but I don't remember what that used to look like. There is some active aircraft traffic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Hi there, as Doug mentioned, neither the ground textures nor the road textures have anything to do with traffic density. Road traffic is generated by an entirely separate set of vectors that make road vehicles spawn along specific (major) roads. There's a global file of population density that regulates road traffic based on landuse type, meaning urban areas spawn more vehicles than rural areas. I'm not sure but I believe there's also a time-of-day component to simulate rush hours, which may influence how much traffic you see at a given hour. The only way to affect road traffic via third-party add-ons is by excluding the traffic vectors. Global Base doesn't contain any exclude files. Also, since there are some vehicles visible in your screenshot the vectors are present and thus density is regulated by your slider setting and the above mentioned population density file. Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Hi, Holger, Thanks for the reply. Though your logic makes perfect sense, there is the reality of what I'm experiencing. I've attached another screen shot. The left part of the photo is part of a 3rd party scenery, and the right part is the generic scenery. The left part has many cars and they disappear right in the middle of the screen. There are no cars on the right side of the screen. This is with ground traffic set at 90%. I slewed to the point where the ground traffic stopped. I know what I was experiencing before the purchase and I can plainly see no cars now in most of the world. I do see cars in the demo Iceland scenery. I don't mean to be contrary, but I know something changed and I'm trying to figure out how to fix it. Is there something in the land class that says the new highways are not roads? I don't know how to explain it. I tried removing the scenery and that had no effect. I reordered the scenery as well. The purchase also included the simobject display engine and the world airports. What is simobject display engine? I uninstalled and reinstalled them as well to no effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 To amend my last message...I tried another area, Southeast Florida. There are no cars on most of the roads, but there are vehicles on one major highway. There used to be cars on many smaller roads and for example in the iceland demo there are cars on all the smaller roads. There's something happening here and I don't know what it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegg@comcast.net Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Hello, following Holger's detailed explanation, here are two images of Florida that might help to convince you that he is of course entirely correct. These are taken in a completely default version of FSX which has no addons at all, from any developer. Road traffic is set at 100%. If you have traffic in a third party addon and not in the adjacent default scenery, it is because the third party developer has added traffic where there was none before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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