subscription elevations

[toprob]

I did check the Volcanic Air jetty, and yes, I forgot the exclude! There's enough issues to warrant a patch, as I promised someone I'd fix the Tower view at Rotorua. I did put it aside as I wanted to match it to the online webcam.

That's the trouble with doing things to a very tight release schedule, not everything makes it, so I have to decide at which point I hold off changes until next time. But in this case I might do a quick patch.

The other thing I notice was that some AI weren't taking off -- I ran the checker which told me that the hold-short was too far away from the runway, so I moved it closer, but I keep forgetting that just because the error checker likes it now, it can still be too far away!

And I'm not too sure whether the version I released was the actual final airport layout -- in James' screenshot the fuel pump doesn't align with the photo, whereas it does in mine.

[toprob]

Currently sitting outside the bakery in Lyttelton using free WiFi to download aerials of Rotorua [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH] since I used all my allowance this month!

And with a Chocolate Eclair in one eyeball and the luxury of your own private motor yacht to get you home again

Only partly true -- no eclair, as I went to Lyttelton with $15 in my account to get food for 3 days, $10 for me and $5 for the cat. Luckily I scraped up some coins, enough for a pepsi, so I didn't feel guilty sitting in the bakery chair in front of the Spark wifi booth.

The cat did alright, the supermarket had just put out all their short-dated chicken for half price, he loves chicken.

But the private yacht is true.

Oops, don't know what happened there, I think I edited your post, rather than 'reply'. Damn new forum...

[Ian Warren]

But the private yacht is true.

HMNZS NZFF its called I'm sure ... or maybe just simply called the Eclair

[cooldad]

Ah ha, fair enough Rob. Sounds an easy fix (for you).

I hope you had enough spare change to make it home again lol.

Paul

[toprob]

I recall that someone put their hand up to help with a patch -- if anyone has Orbx NZ, and or FTX Global, and can help with a couple of things, let me know.

I'm actually getting quite good at scrounging, one of the skills you forget if you always have a steady income:) Today I walked up to Diamond Harbour village, where's there's another Spark phone box with free wifi, and downloaded another 1GB of aerials. They let me have a GB a day, so I fine-tune the download to match. Takes about 10 minutes to download.

On the way home I walked up the Mt Herbert track a bit, and picked some wild blackberries for afternoon tea, and then came home and raided my flatmate's garden for radishes and tomatoes -- not a bad haul for zero dollars...

Still, I wouldn't be annoyed if my income did pick up a bit -- click on the sig!

[Ian Warren]

to help with a patch -- if anyone has Orbx NZ, and or FTX Global, and can help with a couple of things, let me know.

I do have both and running at the same time , I don't have Global Vector tho.

On the way home I walked up the Mt Herbert track a bit, and picked some wild blackberries for afternoon tea, and then came home and raided my flatmate's garden for radishes and tomatoes -- not a bad haul for zero dollars...

Still, I wouldn't be annoyed if my income did pick up a bit -- click on the sig!

Vegeman .. I could see you like this but with a couple off radishes in the eyeballs for camo.

[cooldad]

Hi Rob,

I have both if I can be of some help. Happy to test for ya

Sure hope your situation improves soon Rob.

Paul

[sandman]

Hi Robin,
a liitle bit off topic: You´re doing a great job and I like every scenery. The price of your subscription is more than fair and it´s so pity, I can´t buy this two times I use ORBX NZ, FTX Global and FTX Vector and I can´t see any problem. The street seems a bit bumpy but I can live with this and the wrong placed fuelpump.

I´m glad Government Garden (governmentgardens.zip) from Tim Barnes matches so well.
The best wishes from Germany
sandman

[goingboeing]

Hi Sandman are you having any probs with Napier? it's really weird still can't pinpoint what the issue is

[Ian Warren]

Hi Sandman are you having any probs with Napier? it's really weird still can't pinpoint what the issue is

James, a thought have you installed the scenery a couple of times over the top, sounds silly and it is something I have seen before.

[toprob]

Hi Sandman are you having any probs with Napier? it's really weird still can't pinpoint what the issue is

I normally have a stock solution for this kind of thing, but now I can understand that sometimes the usual tricks don't work -- I have big problems with Orbx Queenstown elevations, even though I've searched high and low and cannot find any conflicting files.

Ian's point about reinstalls is worth taking note of -- especially for those areas where an addon -- such as mine -- has to disable an Orbx file, if you reinstall Orbx, then it will put that file back, but also leave the disabled (through renaming) version, which is very tricky to fix. I really need to come up with a solution for this some time, but it is a bit of a house of cards at the moment. The real problem is that sim has some quirks which prevent scenery priority from working as expected. One day we'll have a sim where everything is able to be excluded by a higher-priority scenery. I am hoping for something great from Prepar3D, they are already introducing some changes to help different sceneries co-exist.

But back to Napier, what happens when you go to your FSX installation and type 'nznr' into the search box?

[sandman]

Hi Sandman are you having any probs with Napier? it's really weird still can't pinpoint what the issue is

Hi goingboing,
I can´t see any issues in Napier. Everything looks fine (sometimes I´m the lucky one) .

Regards sandman

[goingboeing]

screenshot of nznr search fsx directory

[toprob]

screenshot of nznr search fsx directory

I wonder what AFX_NZNR_ALT.bgl is? Sounds like an elevation adjustment file. What folder is it in? What happens if you disable it by changing the extension?

[Ian Warren]

I'll checked my directory, and compared, in the FSX Scenery/World/Scenery that file is not in my directory, .... rename or put in a new folder, very sure that is the problem.

[Ian Warren]

I wonder what AFX_NZNR_ALT.bgl is? Sounds like an elevation adjustment file. What folder is it in? What happens if you disable it by changing the extension?

The AFX tool is the program I brought to adjust levels .. its basically a Airport build and afcad tool and that is the name description , wonder if it is another previous scenery by another.

[emfrat]

Much the same in ADEX...if you have started building an airport, then change the original altitude you used, ADEX automatically generates a matching ALT.bgl which needs to go in Scenery/world/scenery, to over-rule what's in the airport bgl. Otherwise you might have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch.

[goingboeing]

EUREKA!!!! that was the problem, good thing that wasn't hard cheers everybody now I can use napier woohoo

[Ian Warren]

And the crowds roar It dose not take much to muck it up for ya !