NZFF

A couple of things you can check -- any Real NZ/Godzone scenery which is designed to work with Orbx NZ does require Orbx NZ to be installed first, as the Godzone installer can only make the necessary changes if it finds Orbx NZ. It sounds like this may not be an issue for you, though. You will need to set the Orbx Insertion Point using Orbx Central, so that Orbx scenery loads before any other scenery addons, otherwise Orbx Central will keep bringing Orbx scenery to the top of the list, always giving it priority. If you have already set the Insertion Point to the correct location, then we'll...

Thanks toprob I thought I was going nuts ha ha. When ms2020 introduces helicopters I may move on from fsx but my simulator is a full scale MD500E. I have set my sim up with firefighterX and added a sling option to pick up liftable objects Really enjoy nz scenery and set up a base with object placement near my home in Upper Hutt Thanks heaps Rhys

I can remember taking photos at Rangiora a while ago, I've just checked the date -- 4 Nov 2010:) So it's been on the list for a while!!! At the moment I have a lot of ideas, but no firm plans. Still, never say never. Well, I'm meeting the instructor, weather permitting, on Sunday 6th - so you have about two weeks .... GO !!!! :)

MSFS Taieri looking very good Rob from the reports seen in this recent preview video by Kiwi Mace with a true Southern Kiwi bloke commentary.

I'm actually looking for a few people to test this, as I really need to know how the lights appear on different systems. Note that it won't fix the taxiway lighting issue, as this seems to be part of Prepar3d v5 at the moment -- not sure if it can be tweaked sim-side, but really there isn't much I can do with the actual scenery. To test the PBR-capable lights, I'll just send a quick ZIP file, which updates the VLC Libraries. I'll include a couple of screenshots showing how to do this.

Thanks Rob, it looks a bit better but still having some sloping issues, if this is the best i can get it that's cool but let me know if there is anything else i should do to improve it

Very nice!

yea that was it Robin thanks heaps, as somebody who regularly flew out of chch you've done a great job mate!

I'm not aware of any custom Ashburton scenery apart from Godzone. Of course this will still work in FSX, although I had to do some searching to find a download. Luckily the VLC download pages are archived here. Although not custom, Orbx do a reasonable NZAS in NZSI, but the best 'modern' version would be the default in MSFS. There's a youtube video which shows the airport and town, although you should mute it, the constant stall warning stresses me out.... P.S. I see that the Godzone NZAS is coming up 10 years old.... a lifetime in FS.

zk-gd, Thanks for awesome explanations and hyperlink . Regards, Aharon

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Toprob, Thanks for answers. Regards, Aharon

A bit of searching and I found the problem. In case anyone else has a similar issue I found another instance of a Godzone_NZCH.xml file in the ProgramData/12bPilot/SODE/xml folder. The duplicate was Godzone_NZCH.bak but was still an xml file. I'm not sure how it got there but I was using the GSX editor to adjust some parking/vehicle positions at some point prior to noticing the change. Removing that file fixed the problem and I could reproduce the error by putting it back. On the bright side at least I installed NZCH with the surrounding PR scenery.

How is beta testing doing for FSX version of NZCH scenery, please? Regards, Aharon

The good thing is that you can activate and deactivate large areas of scenery very easily with improved load times.

Eureka...windsocks! Having a look around there seemed to be duplicate SODE folders here and there. I am wondering if updating SODE via ORBX central is the culprit. In the end I uninstalled and deleted all the related SODE folders and reinstalled. Then I added the saved objects and XML files back in. I had heard that some simmers were having trouble with SODE after updating to 1.7.0 with ORBX Central. Most seemed to cure it by deregistering and reregistering. Funny how it only affected the windsocks.

First, sorry Bug, I overlooked your previous post. Sorry about that. Thinking this over once more, I do wonder if it an issue with the Orbx installation. Although I only cover this in relation to an Orbx reinstall or update, it does apply for a 'verify' of NZSI as well -- any changes to Orbx NZSI, and you should really uninstall NZDN first, then reinstall after any update/reinstall/verification. And it would be worthwhile to check the Orbx NZSI folders for any disabled NZDN files after the initial uninstall of NZDN. The issue is that Orbx Central will try and reverse any changes which my...