hughesj2 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Guys, Just noticed this at KDLS. Have tried switching FTX to default and then back to North America, no joy. Uninstalled PAKT and reinstalled (in order to confirm install of latest ORBXlibs 111225?). Stopped short of reinstalling CRM in case it's a known issue being worked on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 HI James, Run a windows search of your main FSX folder for 'KDLS', let us know what comes up, you should find 4 KDLS files (FTX ones) Cheers Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Tim, Results attached, I do have 4 files as you mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Hill Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, I don't think Tim will mind my jumping in here. Your "KDLS_elevation_adjustment.OFF" is not right if North America is activated in FTX Central. If FTX is set to North America ALL the PNW, NRM and CRM elevation adjustments should be at .BGL (not .OFF), if not you can make it so. It has been known for elevation files to get out of sync and when that happens you get an error message when switching FTX Central areas and the conversion of elevation files to .BGL process stops. Let me (and Tim) know what you find. Cheers, Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Neil/Tim, I had been flying in NZSI yesterday...I've switched back to NA in FTX Central. No errors were displayed whilst doing so and FSX rebuilt the scenery. Still the same issue Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, please delete the ADE_FTX_CRM_elevation_adjustment.OFF file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wolter, Just tried that and no joy, do I need to switch to default and back in FTX?? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, yes try that again pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Done, still no joy although I noticed that FSX didn't seem to rebuild the scenery? Not sure if that's significant? Should it rebuild every time you switch a region in FTX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, every time you switch you need to hit the apply button also best is to switch to default hit apply and then select NA and hit apply again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 OK, I do hit apply after each switch. Redone it to make sure, sceneries rebuilt. I actually loaded all the way up at the airport with default and it looked correct (albeit not very good!!). Closed FSX and switched to NA, sceneries rebuilt, but still same sunken areas (but nicer buildings )) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, please check for more files with the .OFF extension, all NA related files in the World/scenery folder should be with a .bgl extension for the NA section, so please check that all files that start with : ADE_FTX_CRM_* ADE_FTX_NRM_* ADE_FTX_PFJ_* ADE_FTX_PNW_* check that all files that start with ADE_FTX_NZSI_* have a .OFF extension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wolter, OK so...If I understand you correctly and any ACTIVE region should have no .OFF files whereas any INACTIVE region should have no .bgl files? Then looks like I have an issue with CRM/NRM and NZSI?? ADE_FTX_CRM_* = 49 .OFF and 948 .bgl ADE_FTX_NRM_* = 69 .OFF and 756 .bgl ADE_FTX_PFJ_* = 0 .OFF and 123 .bgl ADE_FTX_PNW_* = 0 .OFF and 1084 .bgl ADE_FTX_NZSI_* = 56 .OFF and 293 .bgl My FTX Central version is 1.0 1027 and I run it as administrator when I use it if that is any help? Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, looks like you have a lil bit of a mess up there what we need to do is set FTX Central to default and hit apply next step will be to check the World/scenery folder again and look for . bgl extension files with the ADE_FTX_* preface you'll need to delete those once that's done run FTXCentral again and switch to the NA region and hit apply again fire up fsX and it should rebuild the scenery Dbase and if all goes well things should be OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wolter, can you just confirm it's the .bgl files I need to delete and not the .OFF files?? *EDIT* E:\FSX contains 3104 .bgl files across NZSI, CRM, NRM, PNW & PFJ after switching to DEFAULT... E:\FSX\Scenery\World on conatins 3 .bgl files? Which ones should I delete?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, sorry for the delay, had to go out. in the world/scenery folder when ftx Central is switched to default all ADE_FTX_* files should have the .OFF extension so all the files with the .bgl extension should be deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Ok so all (3) .bgl files deleted from E:\FSX\Scenery\World (I've left the other ones that are dotted about my FSX directory)..FTX default, applied, FTX NA Applied, still the same Not sure if this is pertinent but after applying NA, I only have elevation adjustment files (.bgl) for PNW and PFJ, nothing in there for CRM or NRM? Correction there are some ADE files for CRM/NRM but they are .OFF, also there are no files at all in there for KDLS, does this mean the regions aren't being applied properly?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, OK, next is to rename the ones that are still named .OFF to .bgl and leave the FTXCentral set to NA as it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Wolter, there's 174 files with .OFF extension?? Any suggestions how I can change them all without doing each one individually? Ta OK so I was playing around and I noticed there were no files for KDLS (.OFF or .bgl) in the FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery folder after any of the switching in FTX Central...I have now copied the ADE_FTX_CRM_KDLS_elevation_adjustment.BGL file from E:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF and it works?! I have about 220 files in the folder E:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF, should I copy them all to FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery?? What is the E:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF folder doing? Should it be populated under normal circumstances or should it only be populated when a region is switched off?? Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Some more investigation...Compared the files side by side that were in the E:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF with FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery....Did it a region at a time, got to PNW and again there was a file ADE_FTX_PNW_2WA1_elevation_adjustment.BGL in the E:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF and no mention of it in FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery. Started FSX with FTX NA Still enabled and hey presto more elevation issues...Copied the file from E:\FSX\ORBX\Scripts\Custom.na\OFF to FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery and it works, same as KDLS... Am I going to cause myself problems by doing this? It's fixed my issue on both occasions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hi James, if it's fixed it you should be OK, still puzzled as to the how the whole file mixup got started at all, but no prob if it's solved then the acid test would be to switch to default and check if all the files have a .OFF extension and then switch to NA to see if they all have the .bgl extension, same trick applies for the Oceania (AU+NZ) I'll mark the issue as resolved and wish you happy flights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesj2 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Cheers Wolter, Tim and Neil....Very strange, just done a good few hours in AUS and NZ as well, no issues. At least I know how to fix if it happens again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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