Subscription 1 Elevation Problem

[Ex ANZ Eng]

Hi Robin,
I know it must be something g simple, but I have some airstrip elevation issues with subscription 1,



Okarito Lagoon



Okarito Lagoon



Rivers Mouth



Rivers Mouth



Rivers Mouth

Haast Beach seems to be just fine, so I am picking it is something simple.....I hope.
I am running ORBX NZSI and NZNI.

Any ideas Robin ?

Cheers
Phil

[toprob]

If the installer finds FTX NZSI installed, it will change the elevations in some areas, but it looks like this might not have worked for you. The most obvious reason might be scenery priority? You must set the FTX priority using their tool to make sure that using FTX Central doesn't put FTX back on top of the scenery library list every time you change regions. If you've done this, though, then you might need to reinstall part 2 of the sub, after first confirming that you have a default FTX install -- that is, the Orbx folder is in your main FSX folder.

You can also check to see if the installer actually put the FTX changes in place, the simplest way to do that is to check Scenery\World\Scenery and see which file is active for Neils Beach -- search for NZKL0 (that's a zero) -- and see whether the active stub file has 'GZ' or 'FTX' in the filename. It should have 'FTX'.

I did mention the water elevations previously, though. Orbx use a 'programmed' elevation change for rivers etc, which don't work well with New Zealand's braided rivers. At the mouth of a braided river, for instance, there might be 3 or 4 different programmed elevations, none of which are actually correct. Getting the photo to sit well on top of Orbx's altered elevations is impossible without redoing all the elevations, and I don't plan to do that. However the more obvious ones were tweaked close to the airstrips, so I think that Okarito, for instance, should fit better than your screenshots show.

[toprob]

Sorry, all, there was a file missing from the West Coast Airstrips, which gave the wrong elevation at Neils Beach (Rivers Mouth) using FTX NZSI. Here's a wee patch which should fix it. I'd appreciate a couple of FTX users installing the patch and reporting back, just so I know it works for everyone.

The current download on the Godzone Photoscenery Subscription site includes the correction, so if you want to archive the installers, you might want to re-download this part of the subscription. See the 'readme' in the attached patch for details.

The patch download is now available from the Subscription site.

[toprob]

[Ian Warren]

Doing a complete fresh install , had all these silly registry problems after recent repeat HD crash files going this direction and file the other, finally looks like I'm some headway I'll check this fresh start later this afternoon.

The Above really dose look nice ... The real West Coast

[Ex ANZ Eng]

Rivers Mouth Patched............perfect Rob





Okarito Lagoon still has some issues as per my previous screenshots.

Cheers
Phil

[Ian Warren]

That dose look superb Phil , ... maybe this next weekends fly in maybe ... bitta room there for least eight DC-3s ...or maybe more , best I keep planning , not sure where SeanTK wants to go .

[ardypilot]

I ran the patch (with NZSI active) and my Neil's Beach airport is still looking like Phil's screenshots at the beginning of the thread?

[toprob]

Sorry about that. Can you send me through a file list from Godzone\GZ9347Airfields\Scenery?
The easiest way to do that is to shift-right click in the folder, click on 'open command window here', then type or copy/paste:

dir > dir.txt EDIT: oops, then press 'enter'

...then 'exit', and send me the resulting dir.txt file.

Also, let me know if you have made any changes from the default NZSI installation, such as moved files elsewhere.

[Ian Warren]

I'll do a check just after TV4 movie at 10.20 tonight .

[ardypilot]

Dir txt contents:

Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Godzone\GZ9347Airfields\Scenery

01/08/2014 08:35 p.m. <DIR> .
01/08/2014 08:35 p.m. <DIR> ..
17/05/2014 05:50 p.m. 112 000_NeilsBeach.BGL
31/05/2014 12:46 p.m. 160,104 Coast_lib.BGL
10/06/2014 01:24 p.m. 228 CVX_NeilsBeach.BGL
12/06/2014 09:38 a.m. 651 CVX_Okarito.BGL
12/06/2014 01:06 p.m. 968 CVX_OkuruFTX.BGL
01/08/2014 08:35 p.m. 0 dir.txt
23/05/2014 02:43 p.m. 78,591,013 HarihariPhoto.bgl
11/06/2014 01:56 p.m. 61,017,202 JacksonBayPhoto.bgl
28/05/2014 07:57 p.m. 49,260 LaFontaine_objects.bgl
11/06/2014 12:50 p.m. 148,892 NeilsBeachObjects.bgl
11/06/2014 10:43 a.m. 3,526 NeilsBeachRunway.bgl
13/06/2014 01:39 p.m. 1,126 NZGT_ADEX_GZ.off
13/06/2014 01:39 p.m. 932 NZGT_ADEX_GZ_CVX.off
13/06/2014 04:26 p.m. 117,076 NZGT_objects.off
10/06/2014 01:21 p.m. 532 NZKL0_ADEX_GZ.off
13/06/2014 04:44 p.m. 175,565,653 OkaritoPhoto.bgl
11/06/2014 07:59 p.m. 64,092 Okarito_objects.bgl
12/06/2014 04:49 p.m. 186,652 OkuruObjects.bgl
02/05/2014 12:10 p.m. 71,991,493 OkuruPhoto.bgl
19/05/2014 10:00 a.m. 1,555,800 OpenBayIslandsPhoto.bgl
20 File(s) 389,455,312 bytes
2 Dir(s) 92,494,258,176 bytes free

The only mods for the NZSI folders I've made have been renaming certain airfield BGL's .OFF to be compatible with the Marlborough/Timaru/Tekapo freeware as far as I can recall.

[toprob]

Thanks for that. A couple of things are apparent:

-The original install recognised the fact that you have NZSI installed;
-The patch didn't work.

I'll need to look at this tomorrow, as the patch uses the same code as the original installer to find the FSX location, and check for NZSI. Something else must be getting in the way.

I have made some changes to the patch, though, as it did include some code to act as a simple switcher, but as this was not finished I've just removed the extra bits. I've therefore removed the patch from NZFF, so it is just available from the Subscriber site now.

I might add some reporting steps to the code tomorrow, and we'll see where things go off the rails.