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Chur, bro's... I normally skip New Year's Eve, not because I don't have any friends -- well, not only that -- but at least one night a year I like to be able to say 'I've going to sleep now, don't wake me until next year.' Actually new year is THE time in Timaru, with the Caroline Bay Carnival. I'd never seen it until last night when I went for my normal walk through the Bay, and it was a real party atmosphere. I have always wondered what the rows of shuttered doorways were, but now I know they open up once a year with raffles, games, fast food etc. It was quite a lively place. I walked past...

Okay thanks for all kind help, Toprob and happy New Year to you! I am off to make first landings on your two airport sceneries NZDN and NZNS soon this week to be sure everything goes smooth (I finished successful ground testing of two airports and it passed the ground tests with flying colors showing nice touches such as flightboards showing flights inside the airport terminal and waters showing photoreal realistic green color. Regards, Aharon

Another 6 pre-pay sales before I reach my target, but have no idea how long that'll take, or even if I'll reach it. The last half-dozen are always the hardest to sell:)

Just no rest for scenery designers is there?

Haha. You sure you didn’t have the beers before you went for a walk?? The trenches I had have gone after a reinstall of Orbx NZSI

Thank you very much Robin - this is very much appreciated Regards - Ran

Ok, just saw this after I replied to your email -- I'll assume it was you and not someone phishing....

Yeah, the Subscription/compilation scenery is only partly annotated with autogen, it really depends on the available data -- if there are building 'footprints' available, then there are plenty of buildings, otherwise it means placing them manually -- something which in an 'ongoing' project. There are still a lot of places not covered by footprint data, which is a nuisance -- when it is there, it is great! Thanks for the comments and feedback, appreciated!

Yes agreed. The gates work well with the iFly 737 after I tweaked them but the AI just doesn't seem to want a bar of it. I may have to slew the aircraft around until I get a position where it works. NZDN Gate 1 is tricky because it is fixed. Gate 3 has wheels.

Sounds good, thanks @Doug One of these days when I not landscaping, assembling shelves, putting up washing lines, etc, etc, etc ... I may even get to download and install. Still have my various Saitek panels to get working again yet ... tbh, I keep getting side-tracked by theHunter:Call of the Wild! ;)

Picked up Dunedin recently for P3Dv4 and it is fantastic! Looking forward to your additional products!

Nothing immediately springs to mind, but there are a few things you can check. First, the priority -- when Vector Land Class adds itself to the Scenery.cfg, it changes its priority, but if this doesn't work for some reason -- or you choose not to have it edit the scenery.cfg -- then you'll need to set the priority yourself, as explained in the manual. Some of the airports you mentioned have elevations stubs in Scenery\world\scenery. (Not all of them, though.) It would be worthwhile checking these to make sure these airports don't have more than one stub there. I'm not sure what would affect...

The edge of the Real NZ photoscenery is just outside the right-hand marking, so this is FTX NZSI landclass polys -- representing Nelson Pine Industries? When attached to commercial/urban landclass, this normally blends better, but in a rural setting it does stick out a bit -- which I guess is the same in real life:) When I made Nelson, there wasn't always high quality aerial imagery available for free, so the imagery was limited. These days, I'd be more inclined to include photo scenery as far as you could see from the airport. P.S. just saw your post count, welcome to NZFF! Glad you are...

Looking damn fine there Rob. Outstanding quality work.

Just email via my site with your email address and I'll send a link when it's ready

That's actually the best plan, but I've had to devise a way to cater to everyone -- this is trickier than you'd think. What I'd like to do for v4 -- and v3 -- would be to use the 'new' install method, which doesn't involve adding scenery to the Library. This means that a sim reinstall or update would automatically pick up the scenery. However the autogen config merger tool doesn't yet support this, so I'll leave everything as-is. At least I've managed to remove the scenery library editing from Prepar3d 3 and 4 for all the current installers. Now Prepar3d itself adds the entries, so there's a...

Hi Robin I found the issue and am embarrassed that it was completely my fault. i had DX10 preview ticked in my Display Options. Once I deselected this option, the Black boxes disappeared. Sorry for wasting your time. Murray

P.S. something I've been meaning to do -- I've renamed the Subscription 'product' to 'the 2014/15 NZ Photoscenery compilation'. Compilations have always performed better for me than the subscription, that's for sure:) So tell all your mates about this great budget compilation, with all the added benefits of the subscription!