NZFF

4.5.12.30293, I just installed it 4 days ago so it should be the latest.

Hi Rob, I am very grateful for the time you took to explain in such detail how the jetways setup works. And it is good to hear that it wasn't something I did wrong during the install. I regularly travel to NZCH for work (on ANZ's A320s) and I think you are right about the jetways that work : gates 27, 28 and 34 are all at International and that's where I see, for example, the QANTAS 737-800s docked IRL. Now I know at which gates the jetways work for the 737 as things are, I'll just use those, at least for now. Same will apply to the 777 in due course (that's all I fly, other than eventually...

Prior to NZCH, the VLC Libraries installer was a stand-alone installer run during the Real NZ installation, so you needed to choose the install location separately. To make this easier, with NZCH the Libraries will install to the same 'root' folder as NZCH, unless they are already installed, in which case they will just update the current version. So it seems that with Dunedin (or prior?) you let the libraries install to the 'default' location. (Default as defined by Lockheed Martin.) The Libraries are not large, so you could leave them there, or wait for the coming stand-alone installer and...

Just to keep you informed, although no solution as yet. I was thinking that this issue was caused by 'reusing' textures in two close airports, in this case NZDN and NZTI, but I've now made all textures unique to each airport, with no change. Since disabling the ground textures at NZTI fixed NZDN, it does appear to be a bug in Prepar3d v4.5, similar to the bug in v4.4 which was mostly fixed. I will see if the NZTI ground polys can be redone without affected NZDN, but at the moment I'm a bit stuck.

Looks amazing Rob, have sent you a message via your site. Cheers Phil

I understood it to be just the ILS issue Rob. The stock ILs can be moved a small distance using ADE. Select the localiser or GS "feathers" and in the properties box that appears the new lat/long figures can be entered or you can drag to the desired location. A lot depends on the accuracy of the ground poly/markings placement. The localiser and GP antenna static objects may need to be relocated as well to match. I am away at the moment so cant take a look at it just yet. Most NZCH sceneries have had this ILS problem.

Thinking this over lately, you are certainly right -- although I recommend having shadows (cast/receive) turned on for buildings and simobjects, this does mean a lot of shadows on the thousands of autogen buildings in the city. Although it's great to see autogen all the way to the Port Hills, that's probably not going to help performance-wise. So leaving autogen settings high-ish, but reducing the range, is a good way to go.

Ok, thanks for that.

ToProb, Just want to let you know that when I installed ORBX libraries, full working ORBX demo of entire island of Tasimira, ORBX's YMML Melborne airport, and ORBX's ESSA Arandada airport, it made your Godzone's NZDN terminal disappeared leaving only jetways hanging in mid air even though ORBX libraries, full working ORBX demo of entire island of Tasimira, ORBX's YMML Melborne airport, and ORBX's ESSA Arandada airport have NOTHING TO DO with your Godzone NZDN scenery I checked scenery add on list in FSX and found out that installation of ORBX libraries, full working ORBX demo of entire island...

Thanks... I'm glad its easy to solve... I'll upgrade... been needing some motive to do so. :D Michael

I certainly have enough Prepar3d 4.5 testers. Does anyone still use v3? If I can't find any testers I may have to wait until I finish the FSX version before releasing P3Dv3, as they are pretty much the same scenery.

Ok, good timing, I'm taking a lunch break... spicy noodles, 'developer's budget lunch.' I'd love to have working doors etc, and one day I'll do this. It is reasonably easy to do with SODE, and I already use some SODE elements -- air bridges and windsocks, for instance. But there are some reasons why I don't do hangar doors. First of all, I only model what I can see. I've said before that I have no imagination, or artistic ability, so if I don't have a photo of it, it won't happen. There are two hangars at NZCH that I've actually see inside of, and modelled inside, the two big yellow things at...

Thank you for the fast answer! And yes, you were right. It only affects Wellington and in Nelson it is quite sparse. So I do not have a technical problem there. I understand the pain when it comes to trees in residential areas as I am working on sceneries myself. But I found a way in QGIS that makes it a lot easier and faster. And the result is absolutely sufficient for flightsim purposes. There is a function in QGIS that lets you spread random points in an area. I do that to my residential areas and subtract the areas where I have buildings already: The result is: With a little additional...

Although I'm pretty much committed to NZCH for a while (working towards X-plane and Aerofly FS2 versions for a while yet after the Prepar3d/FSX version) the Wellington photoscenery is still a real option. I have two kids living in Wellington, and they both are keen to have me visit. Ha, they'll learn... I have said I'll visit after I release NZCH for Prepar3d, so if I plan it right I should get to see a lot of the place. I still have thousands of city photos, which I haven't even sorted through yet. So Woofington's might actual be on the agenda!

I'm looking forward this this also, pre-purchased and can't wait for the release. Coupled with RealNZ Dunedin and the new Mlviz ATR 72-600, will make for a lot of fun.

Nailed it Robin!!! Turns out no SP was installed. Installed both SP1 and SP2 and wow.... what a difference. Loading has sped up to what I remembered before too. Had to reinstall orbx because the mesh seemed screwed up. I had the south island almost part of the Wellington coastline lol. A very happy camper :groupwave: Cheers, Paul

Hi Robin, as always, happy to be a tester. I am still running FSX with NZSI. Cheers Phil