Evonski Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 I don't seem to have any 3D lights or poles visible at Canberra, just night textures. The airport(FTX YSCB) lights work just fine. The installation was performed as instructed - latest patch installed for AU Blue SP4 and followed by the latest ORBXLibs. And of course, I activated the FTX Night mode on my desktop prior to launching FSX. I checked out Sydney, Anchorage and KHQM(PNW demo) and found them to devoid of any lights as well, just night textures. Any help would be appreciated. I have the latest ATI graphics drivers installed for my Radeon HD 4850. My display settings are set as recommended in the user guide. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Hi Evonsky, it's really strange that you have no lightpoles everywhere, it seemed it could be a library problem but if you have installed the latest libraries, this could have fixed eventually the problem. Do you remember in which order you installed the sceneries you have? Cityscape Canberra, for instance, should be installed after YSCB airport, it contains some routines to upgrade YSCB too. The switch day/night works to enable/disable the lightpoles, and it seems to have no effect on your sceneries. If you open FTX central and under the menu tools -> FTX lights tweaker does a window open correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 I may have installed YSCB after Canberra Cityscape, I will check when I get home. The window for the FTX lights tweaker opens properly and changes the lights at YSCB. The lights at the airport seem to work just fine. I notice no difference switching between day and night ops (restarting FSX each time).....no light poles except at the airport. Could I have downloaded a corrupt or damaged libraries file? Is that even possible? Thank you for your assistance.....and the Canberra Cityscape is fantastic. Really well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 It may be worth re-installing the latest Orbxlibs again Evonski. Grab them from here: http://fullterrain.com/support.hml#orbxlibs It is indeed weird that the airport lights are working but not the generic 3D lightpoles annotated in the landclass textures or Maurizio's photoreal imagery. We'll work with you to solve the problem however, I am sure there is a simple answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 Thank you, I will download them again and give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 16, 2013 Author Share Posted October 16, 2013 No luck. I reinstalled YSCB, Canberra, and downloaded the libraries and reinstalled them. No lights, no light poles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Try this, go to the Orbx\Scripts folder and doubleclick the FTXLights_Night.exe file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petfy Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 I am very interested in the results of the current topic. http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/63260-au-gold-region-night-street-lights-missing/?hl=%2Bau+%2Bgold+%2Bmissing+%2Bstreet+%2Blights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 Try this, go to the Orbx\Scripts folder and doubleclick the FTXLights_Night.exe file It does the same thing as doubleclicking the desktop shortcut. I get the window telling me night mode is activated and my performance will be affected. But it doesn't seam to make any difference to day or night operation. What does FTXLights_Night.exe control? I'm starting to wonder if It's my FSX install. If I recall correctly, I never got a clean install and I had to reinstall Acceleration several times to get it to work right. I was going to reinstall FSX and Accelleration, but I have misplaced my FSX box, so I ordered the Gold edition and it should be here in a few days. Everything has always worked for me until this, so it may be a long shot. Could it be a conflict with an add-on? Like ENB Series? I tried with it on and off, but I was thinking of removing it alltogether. I have an unregistered version of FSUIPC that came with the QW Avro, and I do have a fair amount of payware scenery...but none in any of the Orbx regions I have. Any Thoughts? Thanks for all your help...the night flying experience is important to me and I am excited with the direction you guys are going with it......now if I could just get it to work on my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Hi Evonski, i am sorry that you didn't succeed to make the nightlights to work. The switch activate/deactivate a library, lightpoles are annotated items, so you control the density by the autogen slider. I don't think there is some conflict with FSUIPC or some other addons. The thing you have to check it's if in FTX central you have Australia region activated. Maybe it could be this, so simple but essential for have the libraries working correctly inside the region. Otherwise it should be maybe your FSX with some problems, having updated the libraries, there is no reason because lightpoles are not shown. If you are interested in the night light scene, for sure with Canberra you will have a favourable surprise, at least i think so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Chaps I seem to have the same problem all poles have gone, I thought it was dx fixer but gone from 9 as well This happened when I set day then night setting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Evonski, could you please go the the ORBX\Scripts\Lights\OFF folder and tell me the date of the Miscelleneous_lib_orbx.bgl file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Evonski, could you please go the the ORBX\Scripts\Lights\OFF folder and tell me the date of the Miscelleneous_lib_orbx.bgl file. Ed, the date on mine is 5/20/13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Evonski, drop this file into the ORBX\Scripts\Lights\OFF folder and re-apply the FTX Night setting and see if they come back. Miscelleneous_lib_orbx.bgl.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Meant to add Im getting this in the UK region not in Canberra Cityscape as Evonski is.problem occurred after i installed EGML,EGSG & EGTH (not sure what order I did it in ) and I did get a few poles(not all and flashed) but they seem to have gone after i disabled/enabled the lights in DX10 fixer (still gone in dx9) and ran the FTXLights_Night.exe lights at airports are OK and look fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 ED just applied the fix and ......whoohoo lights are back im a happy bunny again (this is with the dx10 fixer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 magical Ed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 No joy for me. Tried Ed's misc file. no poles, no lights. I am sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Feel my pain: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Evonski What are your autogen scenery sliders set to ? I have read that the sliders have a direct bearing on the amount of poles displayed, Ed may correct me on that Mine are both at max And I do feel your pain ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Evonski, can you please confirm that the file I gave is also present in the Scenery\Global\Scenery folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Ed, the old file was in there. I put the new one in and tried it.....no change. Bountyhunter, my sliders are maxed, except for mesh res(5m), texture res(7cm) and my water(low 2x). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 It has to be for sure a library problem, because your autogen in Canberra (buildings and trees i mean) is correctly shown. Being the lightpoles part of the autogen, the only reason for this issue you have might be only a library problem. Maybe could we try with a older library version for Evonski? Just to try.... Also, in FSX scenery library what you see? Please post a screenshot of your FSX scenery library like this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Maurizio, would you like screens of the Scenery Library as seen in-game? Or the files themselves? I also had a thought. I have World of AI and MAIW installed......and I didn't bother to change the plans to fsx. I didn't want any of the default AI running around so I left everything fs9. This makes the fsx AI disappear.......and AI is effectively moving scenery....could it be conflicting with the libraries? Also, I have...I think it's the owls nest, prop fixer for fs9 AI. Maybe it's messing with just the light poles and lights? Or am I off the range with this line of thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 19, 2013 Author Share Posted October 19, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Giorgi Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Hi Evonski, thanks for the shot, the library is correct, but maybe it's not correct the position of the ORBX sceneries. Please try to untick everything in that panel above FTXAA_AIRPORTS, then if you have your lightpoles back we will see how to set as priority the other addons you have. I can confirm by the way that World of AI suppresses the ORBX AI trafic, personal experience But i don't think it can affect by the way the lightpoles. A perfect maintenance of your FSX is fundamental to obtain good performances, expecially when you manage with a lot of addons, or simply when you like to test and to write about a product. The optimum, as we do here, it's to have a clean FSX and to revise it time by time when we add something else new. If you doesn't succeed with the library cleaning, maybe it's better to restart with a new installation of FSX, so to be sure that all works correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 I will try that. And yes, I am way past due reinstalling FSX. Problem is I lost a disc. But I have gold edition in the mail. This issue has lit a fire to do it. And I have it tweaked just so (no OOMs, ever). Just need to record and organize before I start over. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Could you try this please; set FTX Lights to Night load up the sim at daytime and go to ground level and see if you see any lights poles on the roads for the street lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 No poles. I haven't applied Maurizio's library fix yet. I did remove any and all of the WOAI and other traffic BGL files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 21, 2013 Author Share Posted October 21, 2013 I have given all suggestions a go, still no poles. I do still need to do a fresh install, and I will soon but, IIRC, I did have lights at the town east of Bowerman in the PNW demo and in the Tasmanian Demo. They went away after I installed Australia and/or SAK. Possible conflict with the demos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 That might be the case. Did you follow the uninstall process of both demos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 No......I missed that bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 22, 2013 Author Share Posted October 22, 2013 The User Guide for Taz states the demo scenery will "automatically be upgraded for you" when the payware installer is run. I find no instructions for uninstalling the PNW demo in the PNW User Guide. And I do not yet have the full PNW yet. Should I manually remove the PNW demo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 PNW demo shouldn't be affecting it. I assume you have FTX Central set to Australia? Could you tell me the date & size of your default.xml file located in the /Autogen folder? Also, what other addons do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petfy Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 To keep this topic alive until Evonski replys (and not trying to hijack it). For me : default. xml 22,079 kb 30/7/13 7:18 PM addons UT2 and ants airports (ants above FTX entries in the scenery library) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 Ed, sorry I haven't got back to to you, I've been hooked up at work. The file you speak of is dated 9/27/2013 and is 22,079KB in size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Correia Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 That's the correct version. The only thing I can think of now is to drop this file into the Scenery\Global\scenery folder. Miscelleneous_lib_orbx.zip This file is the file with the agn models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 I will do this as soon as I get home this evening. Thank you for your continued attention to my issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evonski Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 Ed, you fantastic man, you. Whatever magic smoke you put in that file did the trick. Behold: Thank you Ed, Maurizio, John and anyone else who contributed, for your efforts in unraveling the mystery of the missing lights. They are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petfy Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Also worked for me. Thanks (said with smile from ear to ear). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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