IanHarr Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 My scenery has got screwed up since installing P3Dv5.2. If I fly over water often it looks like desert. I have tried sync. and verify but does not help. The attached is the Great Lakes, running Open LC N. America. Ignore the 2nd screen. PS I tried to post this earlier but failed. If it turns up elsewhere, kindly delete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Hello, is your scenery installed inside or outside P3D please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 1 hour ago, Nick Cooper said: Hello, is your scenery installed inside or outside P3D please? It in its own folder "Orbx" but on the same drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Hello, presumably that folder is linked into P3D? If you are using that method, then there will also be numerous other files scattered around your P3D folder. Can you attach a copy of your scenery.cfg file please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 As requested. scenery.cfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Hello, thanks, I take it that the folder "Orbx" is in fact an Orbx central Library? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 Correct. It is the main library and outside P3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Thanks. have you set the Insertion Point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 I had it set to below Edinburgh. I have noticed now that there are a couple of airports a bit lower, so I have reset it to below Gibraltar and will check tomorrow to see if it helps anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 No change. Still no water depicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Hello, I wonder if you could attach a copy of your add-ons.cfg file please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Sure: there are two. One is in Program Data\Lockheed Martin The other in Users\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin Is that right? add-ons.cfg add-ons.cfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Hello, Thanks. Can you say what this is please? [Package.17] Path=C:\Users\27824\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\Orbx Active=TRUE Required=FALSE Also, could you try disabling all your non-Orbx add-ons and see if the problem persists? The quick way to do this is to back up the relevant add-ons.cfg file and then open it. It would be the larger of the two that you have attached. Use "Replace all" to replace Active=True with Active=False. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 3 hours ago, Nick Cooper said: Hello, Thanks. Can you say what this is please? [Package.17] Path=C:\Users\27824\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\Orbx Active=TRUE Required=FALSE Also, could you try disabling all your non-Orbx add-ons and see if the problem persists? The quick way to do this is to back up the relevant add-ons.cfg file and then open it. It would be the larger of the two that you have attached. Use "Replace all" to replace Active=True with Active=False. Package 17 appears to be the xml files controlling all my Orbx add-ons. I will try the add-ons.cfg job tonight and report back. ASAP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Thanks, Orbx Central does not use the Documents folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Hi Nick, You are on the way to becoming a genius! Disabling all those has sorted the problem. I have lovely blue water back in the Lakes. What do you suggest is the next step. I should mention that I tried previously to fly over the North Sea and it was blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Nick Cooper said: Thanks, Orbx Central does not use the Documents folder. If I were to delete that entry, would that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Hello, I am not sure but you could just disable it to try it out. Unfortunately, the only way to find out which of your addons is causing the water to disappear is by trial and error. The least time consuming way is to load half and if it remains, unload them and load the other half. Once you have the half with the problem, half it again and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 OK Nick. I think that is about all you can help with for the time being. I will come back once I resolve the conundrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHarr Posted June 23, 2021 Author Share Posted June 23, 2021 Nick, It turned out to be one of those weird "Computer knows better" things. I put everything back, checking each step and to cut a long story short, everything is now working as it should. So, something just got messed up and is now fixed. Thanks for putting me on the right trail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts