answered New Chicago Landmarks Conflicts with Meigs Field

[neilw]

Just today purchased the recently released Chicago Landmarks. FANTASTIC! Having spent a good deal of time in Chicago and area over the years, great fun taking a heli tour up Michigan Ave and "visiting" a whole bunch of favorite spots around town!

 

HOWEVER, having also purchased Meigs Field awhile back, Meigs is destroying many of the buildings/landmarks in downtown Chicago. Yes, I have Meigs above Chicago Landmarks in the ini file (Meigs is with airports at the top section of file and Landmarks is down just below airports in the landmarks section).

 

Hopefully there is an easy way to remove/exclude the downtown from Meigs scenery pack. I like having Meigs. A good friend and fellow RW pilot actually had his plane trapped at Meigs the night the Chicago mayor moved bulldozers in and tore up the runway thus dramatically closing the airport, which eventually led to the end of Meigs! Was also disrupting for my friend to have to get his Piper flatbedded to another airport!!

[neilw]

Sure would appreciate staying on the topic of how to fix my problem, not Chicago's problems. Thanks!

[Jon Clarke]

There are several Goggle available reports on this topic and y=the conclusion is that it is one addon or the other without some serious .ini manipulations of which I am not familiar with.

I do know that disabling the Meigs Mesh file helps and also removing the Laminar Chicago Landmarks helps performance but not necessarily compatibility.

 

https://www.helisimmer.com/reviews/review-drzewiecki-design-chicago-city-xp-and-chicago-airports-xp

 

BUT... I WANT TO USE Orbx’S MERRILL C MEIGS AIRPORT, CAN I USE THIS SCENERY TOO?

I’m a big fan of that airport too. So, to answer that question, I bought the Orbx Meigs scenery to see how well the two integrate. The short answer is yes, with some creative scenery .ini file management you can get the two to work together, but there are some compromises. For example, expect to lose the Downtown Police Marine heliport. And some changes to the area immediately around Meigs. Overall, by gaining Meigs with the Orbx scenery, you’ll lose a lot of the other details that make that area great about the Drzewiecki Design. Ultimately it’s really up to the user to determine if this compromise is worth it.

[neilw]

Thanks for the link to that article. That's too bad they can't co-exist. Sadly, with Orbx Meigs loaded, most of the downtown buildings lose about 50% or more of their actual RW architecture and other critical buildings are simply missing/excluded. And the DD Chicago Landmarks is sooooo good for heli flying (or just plain manual moving around town, visiting favorite spots), just no way to run both UNLESS a person actually wants to only fly fixed wing out of Meigs and quickly leave the area (which I have done several times in the past).

 

I did find that putting DD Chicago Landmarks just below Global Airports in scenery.ini, I am getting runways/taxiways for Meigs overlaying the newer park area from the Landmarks scenery, so can still use it for a takeoff, etc. Just no airport buildings, etc. For heli pilots, the DD Chicago Landmarks does offer a nearby heliport by Navy Pier, so can easily spawn at Downtown Heliport (CH1) for great waterfront and downtown tours.

 

SUGGESTION: Since Orbx is now selling this package, I think it would be advisable to clearly mark on both of the scenery pack pages that they are not compatible with each other. Both are great packs, but they apparently can't be made to work together without problems. That at least gives the buyer awareness that the two (sadly) don't compliment each other and cause serious issues. And perhaps someone will come up with a recipe for a cure!

 

As usual, thanks for the assistance!

[Jon Clarke]

@Ed Correia Please comment Ed on the customers suggestion. 

[Ed Correia]

I have made that note on the product pages.