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Post by fredhoward on Sept 23, 2008 11:27:57 GMT
First of all, thank you for these marvellous addons. I have in the past installed hundreds of aircraft, but I can't get any of the textures to show on any of these aircraft. To use the simplest example, the Boeing 367-80 which has just one set of textures, the aircraft flies perfectly and the aliased sound and panels are there too. It shows up in the opening page of FSX as a "ghost" without a skin and is the same when flying. I have been at this for a couple of days now and thought that I knew all the tricks but this one has me beat. I have followed all the installation advice offered here, before posting this. Can anybody see from this screenshot of the aircraft.cfg and the folder contents, what I am missing ? Thank you. Fred URL=http://imageshack.us]  [/URL] [URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img370/screenhunter042dz8.jpg |
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Post by garryrussell on Sept 23, 2008 13:15:24 GMT
Hi Fred There shouldn't be anything wrong with these if you have followed the instructions precisely.  It doesn't really matter how many paints you have added before as these have their own instruction on how to get them in properly...... May I suggest you start again and re-read the installation guides. Garry |
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Post by fredhoward on Sept 24, 2008 8:18:53 GMT
Thanks for the quick resonse, Garry. I used the 707 protype as an example of my install, as there being only one set of textures should have reduced the chances of my stuffing it up. As I said, the aircraft installs and flies and the sound is there as is the panel. The detailed sounds have installed Ok too, but no textures. I was at this for days, on and off, before asking for help and hoped that there would be something obviously amiss in my screenshot of the aircraft.cfg and folder contents. In the past when I've had similar problems, it's been a missing comma, hyphen or some such. I did note one bit of advice which was that the "sim=" line in the .cfg file should read "B367-80" and not "B367-80.air". I note that in my screenshot I have "air" inserted, but that was because I tried it with and without, after reading that advice and forgot to delete it again before posting.
I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth and once again thank you for all of this marvellous free stuff. I'll get there in the end as I always do. The challenge is half the fun !
Thanks.
Fred
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Post by fredhoward on Sept 24, 2008 9:28:54 GMT
Gary, Here's the answer and it has absolutely nothing to do with any of the fixes suggested here. Nor does it have anything to do with my installation, which was perfect ! I have recently reinstalled the Vickers Vimy from FS2004 and that too had no textures, nor did an Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat by Rick Piper that was perfectly OK the last time I flew it. That set me off on another path entirely and the culprit is this setting in FSX SP2 ! As soon as I unticked "Preview DX10" and got back into the Sim, all of the texures reappeared ! I hope that this may be of help to others. Fred   |
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Post by Tony Madge - HJG on Sept 24, 2008 11:39:32 GMT
isnt FSX wonderful  |
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Post by garryrussell on Sept 24, 2008 12:10:21 GMT
Hi Fred
Glad your're sorted
As Tony says......
Soory if I seemed unhelpful.......I know in the past being used to adding paints has made me miss so important detail bytn thinging all things are the same and I did think that was perhaps the porblem here.
But good ole FS.X to throw a new one in
Frustraion it certainly can be at times
Garry
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Post by fredhoward on Sept 24, 2008 14:48:49 GMT
Not at all, Garry, it was only when I realised that aircraft other than HJG stuff was also missing textures that I started looking elsewhere. Only the basic FSX aircraft on my system were showing up ! I had enabled that "Preview DX10" box some time ago and hadn't noticed any benefits at all. I was flying an FSX aircraft at the time. I hadn't been back to FSX for some weeks until I started downloading and installing all the HJG aircraft.
I'm running FSX SP2 on an E8500 with 4GB of memory and a 512 8800GTS card, so I expected to see something better, not to lose all of these textures !
I have one other problem to solve now. I made a new folder in Simobjects called HJG and put all of these aircraft in it. I then added another line to the FSX.cfg folder, pointing it to these files but they don't show up ! If I drop them in the "Sim objects\Airplanes" folder they do, whereas "simobjects\HJG" has no effect.
I'm now going to download and install the Panels.
Fred
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Post by garryrussell on Sept 24, 2008 15:48:18 GMT
Hi Fred
Can't really comment as I don't have FS.X and can't check but that sounds like a path problem
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Post by Dan K. Hansen on Sept 25, 2008 12:55:19 GMT
Hi Actually the DX10 preview problem has been mentioned before... but it's always good to get it around again ;-)
Not many aircraft has been painted so they are able to be shown in DX10 style. and indeed not many Graphic cards are yet capable of showing/using DX10. My advice would be to anyone that cares to turn of DX10 no matter if you have Vista FSX or anything else until DX10 is a de facto standard as DX9 is now. This has nothing to do with FSX or FS9 .... it is a utility that ACES/MS put in to FSX as it was expected that DX10 would be more or less everyman's DX by the time FSX was out. As we know that wasn't the issue....
So: as along as DX10 is not the standard, turn it of. I could just as well has been an option in FS9 given the circumstances, so it's NOT a FSX/FS9 thing....
Regarding the path problem Garry is correct. That or you might not have given your new path entry the correct index.... note that each path entry in the fsx.cfg file has it's own index.... a common problem that even I forget by mistake every once in a while ;-)
You will of course also have to edit the respective panel.cfg and sound.cfg files in order to reflect your paths.... You'll get there I'm sure.
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