Stumped with landclass water problem

[Gaiiden 98]

Hey folks, I just noticed a problem flying around one of my airports today, 4N1 Green Lake in northern NJ: I modeled this airport a while ago and you can see in the first gallery shots that the water textures were fine back then. Here's what I've done to try and resolve this so far:

• I disabled all my custom scenery layers to revert the terrain back to default. This worked, so I went back and started re-enabling bit by bit. I found that the only thing that seemed to make a difference was whether MegaSceneryEarth was enabled or not as you can see in this screenshot. The removal of no other layers (like UTX) had an effect
• I re-installed all REX water textures. No effect.
• I re-installed all GEX textures. No effect
• I deleted all entries in my terrain.cfg file following the autogen entries to reset it to default as I had tweaked it a little while back (adjusting the index count accordingly). No effect
• I uninstalled and re-installed these MSE tile areas. No effect.
• I noticed these textures looked fall-ish so I tried changing seasons (even though I'm currently still in Summer). No effect (cept the textures themselves changed seasons, lol)

So at this point I am stumped and looking for advice. So far the only thing that seems to make a difference is disabling the MSE tile layers that affect this region of scenery, and I have not yet come up with a reason as to why this is. If anyone has any ideas please let me know! Thanks in advance :) P.S. - I'm not emtrely sure I reverted my terrain.cfg file back to default so if anyone has a clean copy can you email it to me? EDITED

[GHD 21]

You seem to be missing an hydro-poly for the lakes.

[David Roch 1,968]

Hi Drew,For privacy reasons I've deleted your email address.Here is the default Terrain.cfg for you: DELETED

[ZKOKQ 984]

Gee David, i;m glad the fsx.cfg is not that long. I drank a coffe and 2 chocky bikkies whilst scrolling that.

[Gaiiden 98]

thx David. Is the posting of email not allowed by some rule? I don't care if people know my email address and spam isn't a issue for me. You can remove the CFG text to shorten up the thread - I tried pasting it into my terrain.cfg and it didn't have any effect. Still stumped :(

[David Roch 1,968]

Sorry about that Drew.Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the original file.

[Gaiiden 98]

no no, it's not the file. I copied what you posted and tried it and it didn't work so doesn't seem to be terrain.cfg. I'm clueless as to what else could be affecting this

[GHD 21]

So far the only thing that seems to make a difference is disabling the MSE tile layers that affect this region of scenery, and I have not yet come up with a reason as to why this is. If anyone has any ideas please let me know! Thanks in advance :)

There are two default hydro-polys for those lakes: Presumably MSE has excluded them but not replaced them to suit the photo-textures.

[Gaiiden 98]

Presumably MSE has excluded them but not replaced them to suit the photo-textures.

No, this isn't the case. See this older image (from the gallery linked to in my first post), where the water was fine.

[Gaiiden 98]

Still stuck here. I'm hoping it'll come to me in a dream or something at this point :( Luckily it's not too widespread a problem - at least I haven't noticed it anywhere else yet.

[Benjamin J 751]

Until that lucky night you can pretend that the water is extremely dirty....

[Gaiiden 98]

*sigh* :(

[Gaiiden 98]

Update - the cool folk over at FSDeveloper pointed me to the TmfViewer tool so I could check the MSE water polys and sure enough they were missing along with a lot of others: So I thought maybe my MSE install was corrupted so I uninstalled and reinstalled again. Checking the scenery files revealed the same missing water poly issue so I went back to pondering how the hell I was able to see water there a few months ago?? Then I realized it was because I had my Ultimate Terrain water layers on top of my MegaScenery Earth layers. So I shuffled the layers around and presto - I had water again. It's not a 100% perfect solution - the MSE scenery has a lot of smaller ponds/lakes too small to see in the above photo masked out but without a water poly included, and UT doesn't manage to catch them all, but at least the big ones which are more noticeable are now properly showing water like they should.

[Benjamin J 751]

Glad you got it sorted! It's index important to make sure that you have got your layers all set correctly: mesh - water/road/etc - photoreal scenery - airports.