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vonratnick · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

Gents,

Im running FS9 and I have installed some scenery for Hong Kong as I'm keen to shoot approaches on RWY13 at Kai Tak.

The land scenery is fine, but the water component flickers between water and some form of default land scenery - looks like urban sprawl.

I have not installed scenery before. Have I made some kind of mistake and how do I stop this from occuring.

Thanks

ricktobin · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject:

Can you give a link to where you found the scenery file and also, where did you install it in the FS9 folder?

vonratnick · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

Rick,

The scenery is Flightsoft Hongkong 2004, ex eBay. Before going to the good people at flightsoft I thought I'd make sure I had not done anything stoopid as I'm new to this scenery stuff. I have attached a snapshot of the directory structure so you can see where its put.

Thanks for any assistance

ricktobin · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

Copy everything in the HK2004/SCENERY folder to the
ADDON SCENERY/SCENERY folder and then do the same for the HK2004/TEXTURE folder, copy the contents of it into the ADDON SCENERY/TEXTURE folder.

Then remove the HK2004 folder completely from FS9, move it to your desktop or somewhere outside of FS for now.

Start-up FS and see if things look better in Hong Kong.

vonratnick · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

Thanks.

Do I need to configure the add on scenery for the new file location ?

ricktobin · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject:

Most likely not. Some scenery packages require you to "activate" them in the addon scenery library in FS Settings. So far, I haven't had to do that yet.

When I add things the way I told you above, the addons overide the default because the addon scenery has a higher priority in the scenery library hierarchy than the default scenery.

If you want, you can make a copy of your original SCENERY and TEXTURE folders found in the ADDON SCENERY folder, so if you have any problems with the way I said to do it, just delete those folders you added the files to and move the copies of the originals into the ADDON SCENERY folder.

vonratnick · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

Thanks - explains a lot. The file structure I had seemed a bit odd. Can you recommend a site/tute or some such so I can pick up some fundamentals and learn the difference between mesh and textures etc.

ricktobin · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject:

No problem, and good luck.

Sometimes the way you had it works...sometimes it doesn't. I'd had the same problem with a scenery package before and that's the way I fixed it, didn't have any problems with it after that.

I need to look around, but I think I have a few links to a couple of scenery sites (tutorials, design info...). I'll try to get some posted here later today.

Either way, let me know how that fix works or if you have any other problems with it.

groundsquirrel · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject: As to the question,

As to the question of "activating" the scenery addon, if you place the files as Rick' said to the scenery and texture folders in addon scenery, they will be configured at next startup, if you add them as a seperate named folder in the addon scenery folder then you will have to go to the settings/scenery library function to add them to the list and they will configure at next startup. be aware that sometimes you will run across an addon that will set up a new named scenery folder but ask you to place an afcad for the scenery in the addon scenery/scenery folder. As always, be on your toes and double check the readme files or post here with questions.

vonratnick · Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

Thanks for the clarification, things make more sense now. I relocated the texture and scenery files etc., but without improvement :cry:

I thought it may be a compatibility issue with my display and installed the program on a friends PC - same problem. :?

ricktobin · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject:

I'll see if I can find that file and see if I can get it to work here.

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't know it was payware. I guess you didn't have any luck contacting Flightsoft?

skipperdan · Joined: 10 Aug 2003 Posts: 1217 Location: Florida

Rick

If you check on page 30 of the January 2004 issue of COMPUTER PILOT MAGAZINE, you will find an excellent article written by Navman titled, "MORE FS ADD-ON Installation Methods". I have corresponded to Francois several times concerning this article and others. He is very knowledgeable about Flight Simulation and writes frequent articles for the magazine. 8) 8)