FSX Wanaka Crowd not showing

[leow5263]

Hi,
first of all i would like to thank Robin for the scenery
its all good just when i go to wanaka the cround/stands are not showing and i do have the accleration pack.
cheers.

[toprob]

Try lowering your graphics settings a little -- I think this is caused by overloading your system. For me, it's the cars in the carpark -- I need to use lower settings otherwise I only see shadows.
What are your system specs?

[leow5263]

ok will try lowering the settings after the friday night flight (ARNZ)

i have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core processor 600+ 3.00 gHz
2.00 GB RAM
and a 8800 GTS 512MB grapics card

i think thats all the info you need not sure though

[toprob]

Hmm, it shouldn't be possible to overload that system -- I've had some reports of missing textures on low-end systems (mainly 128MB graphics) but this is normally fixed by resetting the graphics settings to the default 'bucket' settings.

[leow5263]

ok ill just keep playing around with the settings

[leow5263]

Whats the name of the croud BGL? cos then maby i could just copy and paste it into the addon scenery/scenery folder?
i have used that croud in FSX before and still do so it should work

cheers

[toprob]

That's not really a solution, the crowd is an Acceleration object. Placing it in Addon Scenery would just double up the GUID, which would do more harm than good.

I think that the crowd is there, it's just that the texture doesn't show. Originally I had twice the number of people, but a few people had trouble with them not displaying, so I dropped it back to just the one crowd object, and this solved it for most testers. However there is something going on here, FSX does tend to drop some objects out at times, and I've put it down to stress. The cars by the airside fence are another object which tends to come and go depending on system specs and settings. They tend to appear about 20% of the time on my system, but I only have a 128MB graphics card.

I have done a fair amount of research on this, but I think that this is just one of the many display bugs in FSX. I'll keep looking for a solution, but this is related more to the way that FSX organises textures than a scenery issue.

[leow5263]

ok, im guessing it wont hurt it if i put my own croud in? Thanks for your help, apart from that minur problem the scenery is really good, cheers

[toprob]

QUOTE (leow5263 @ Sep 26 2008, 10:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ok, im guessing it wont hurt it if i put my own croud in? Thanks for your help, apart from that minur problem the scenery is really good, cheers

Would be worth a try -- let me know how you get on. Do you use Object Placement Tool? If you do, try loading the airshow mission -- Missions\Just for Fun\WanakaAirshow.xml -- and let me know if the crowd appears in OPT. I think you'll find it will.
(It's probably best to edit the mission to delete the existing crowd and add your own, however you should back-up the mission first as it is real easy to wreck a mission by reckless editing:)

[leow5263]

when i load the airshow mission the croud appairs fine in objet placemeant and when i play the mission in the game.

[leow5263]

i also put my own scenery in at first it didnt show up then like just now it just showed up, problem is it doesnt look anywhere near as good as yours with all of the tents stands cars ect

EDIT: there also is a few cars in the airport parking that i dint put there, looks like some of yours and some of mine arew there but not the whole of one of them

restarted fsx and now everthings gone exsept for a few cars
got a few pics before that happend though

oh and just a note i do have the 75m mesh dont think that would do anything but just tellin ya

[Charl]

DO remember to uninstall any cobbled-over previous versions of Wanak/Tekapo...interesting effects if you don't...

[toprob]

QUOTE (Charl @ Sep 27 2008, 03:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

DO remember to uninstall any cobbled-over previous versions of Wanak/Tekapo...interesting effects if you don't...

Ah, yes, because there was no official port to FSX, I didn't cover this in the manual, but you would need to delete the two folders -- RealNZwanaka and Tekapo2 -- before installing.
Did you watch Monk this afternoon? This reminded me how pleased I was to get rid of the old Tekapo2 folder, and bring it into line with other Real NZ releases.