nandrews Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I am getting some strange effects where odd ground textures are popping in and out around me. Such a many 'blue lakes' changing into green fields, then urban areas becoming rural ones and bits of highways appearing in the middle of the countryside! I have followed the general solution offered by Holger Sandmann at http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/79004-resolving-rapid-ground-texture-morphing/, but that hasn't made any change. I am just running with Global, Vector and open LC Europe and one airport installed on FSX. I get the following visual effects - taken in sequence over less than a minute. http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2014/12/14/a54wW.jpg http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2014/12/14/0qR58.jpg http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2014/12/14/wvMfG.jpg http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2014/12/14/9GPSo.jpg Can anyone offer some thoughts? Thanks Nigel Whoops I cheated with the photo links - sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Hi Nigel, that looks like you might have some other add-on with a landclass layer active above the FTX Norway entries in the scenery library menu, which can cause incorrect texture assignments. Please check that the openLC entries are correctly positioned as per http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/81831-setting-your-openlc-entries/ Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 Thanks, But I don't have FTX Norway?! I just have the three I listed and one airfield Shoreham (EGKA) (all ORBX). Background. I had all installed previously on the SSD (boot drive) and working reasonably, but was running out of space. So I removed all the scenery and moved FSX from the SSD to the secondary hard disk drive, then reinstalled the scenery. All appeared to be going OK, though had a brief problem with (free) FSUPIC, of FSX crashing, and reinstalled FSUIPC. Now it is crash free, but have this problem. Can you offer any other thoughts? Thanks again Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Do you have any suggestions to offer on this as I am completely stuck. Obviously I can't fly with the scenery doing these strange things. The only alternate that I can do, is uninstall everything inc' FSX and reinstall it again (but this will be the third time in as many months!) and hope the problem goes away. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Hi Nigel, please have a read at this => How to configure openLC scenery library entries (1).pdf I get the feeling that your OLC entries aren't lined up properly in the scenery listing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Thanks Wolter. I will give that a try at the next opportunity - hopefully later this evening. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennH Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I see this in areas too, even with my scenery layers positioned as listed in the guidance docs. I will try Holgers terrain.cfg cleanup procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Just to say I've not ignored your suggestions or gone quiet. It's gotten busy and now with Christmas, it's going to be a week or more before I can get around trrying it. But I will try it, be sure, Happy Christmas Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Wolter,Happy New Year. I am now back after a long break to try and sort out my problem.It is disappointing to note in the pdf that it seems the Orbx OpenLC doesn't sit well with other Orbx scenery! I would have thought it would be automatically handled at install. Anyway, looking my Scenery library(note. I only have Orbx scenery installed)I am a bit confused as to how my library relates to the suggestion in the pdf. All the Orbx OpenLC entries, regions and libs are at the top i.e., 1-18Then the default named FSX entries 19-40, tho' Addon Scenery is at 24Then the Orbx Vector entries 41-44 (see below)Then the numbered FSX entries 45-140At 141 is ORBX!VECTOR_AEC all on it's own!Then Default Scenery and Default Terrain at 142 and 143. It seems to be a real mess!But I don't quite see how it should look. Being that the instructions only show the part of the Library starting at 132. Which of my other entries should be above that? Can you give me any more tips or must I just try to fathom the instructions? I would be grateful for any advice NigelP.S. I saw there is an update to Europe OpenLC and applied that (and the new libraries) incase that changed the situation, but it hasn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 the OLC entries should be below the regular FTX entries, Vector and FS Global mesh may be below the OLC entries, also in the Vector CP disable Frozen water and Golf courses and run the Vector tool AFTER you switched regions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Wolter, It must seem that I am incredilbly dim! But I am still a bit confused. You mention OLC (Orbx OpenLC?) should be below FTX (Orbx FTX?) and Orbx Vector and Orbx FS Global below that. But I'm not sure where the default FSX scenery should sit in releation to all that. Also in the PDF that you referred me to earlier it requires me to group some scenery together (Addon Scenery) so it can be dealt with as a group in FTX Central. But is that still required? I am begining to wonder if it wouldn't be easier and simpler if I just uninstalled everything Orbx and FSX and reinstalled it. Or would I likely have this same problem again? As I said I have essentially just done that and it seemed to go bad right after adding open LC Europe I only have the FSX default scenery and Orbx components and a couple of add-on aircraft. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hi Nigel, I'm a bit pressed for time atm, just about to leave the house, please try and move the OLC entries below the other FTX entries and then have a look again, you can use the insertion point tool that comes with FTX central Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Walter, Now I am feeling very stupid - and I am supposed to be a computer engineer!!!! I assume OLC is all the Orbx OpenLC entries, but not the regions and libs? I tried to move the first of those to the very bottom, below the last of the FTX entries ORBX!VECTOR_AEC (which is 3rd from the bottom), but I couldn't get it below Default Terrain in the FSX settings. So I gave that up. I did look at the FTX Central tool, but that says it will insert what I choose ABOVE the position I select. But as you said I should be moving the Orbx OpenLC entries BELOW a point. FTX Central doesn't seem the tool to use for this. If you have the patience and the time, can you try once more to tell me what you think I need to do? The order of things has at least remained the same as I listed above, if that made any sense. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Wolter, I haven't seen anything back from so I guess you are too busy. I will therefore have to uninstall everything and re-install it again hoping that next time, as the guide says, "FTX Products all contain special coding and files to make sure they are always where they need to be inyour Flight simulator scenery list."! This is basically what I have done before, but you say it has gone in the wrong order and is causing my scenery problems. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 No need to un-install use the insertion point tool that comes with FTX Central have a look at this piccie, need to mouse over and then hit the + to enlarge => http://www11.pic-upload.de/05.10.14/nct7l4jdmil8.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Wolter, Thanks for your reply. I will try to relate that to the library I have and see if I can understand it better now. At least mine has fewer entries than that one! Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandrews Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Wolter, I think I have done it and flying the area I did before shows no strange texture effects that I described. The pointer in FTX Central was by default pointing to the right place so all I had to do was apply it and save. I have added two screenshots, if you would look at and confirm this is what you intended me to do? I think there are two other effects which seemed to have appeared with me adding the LC Europe product. Runway numerals and arrows resolve at only about 20 ft, whereas the other runway markings are clearly visible at distance - at Orbx Shoreham (EGKA). Also I see large patches of trees jumping in right below me or becoming more dense, at around 1500ft. Thanks for your help Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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