Hello All -

Just when I thought I had everything in order...

 

I decided to have a night flight around NYC to check out the Orbx Global lighting. Somewhere along the way I ended up losing my water around the city. Help please...

I have FTX Global, a few FTX NA scenery, UTX USA, UTX Europe, and all the FS Genesis mesh. I only have one non payway scenery "KPHL".

 

I am hope that someone will spot something obvious in my scenery library....

 

 

Thanks!

Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for taking the word screenshot literally, Daniel. ^_^

 

Well, since you've mentioned the other addons installed, can you run the UTX setup tools once and let them check their entries? They are pretty smart, so to speak, so they check their scenery entries and the terrain.cfg, which could be a source for the errors you are seeing. You will see the tool running through some sort of checklist, that's a good sign.

 

You could also start the FTX Central and switch the modes back and forth since this tool also checks if the terrain.cfg entries are in place. Maybe that clears you to see water again.

 

If not, you could post the contents of the terrain.cfg, which can be found in the main FSX folder. Will be a long post for sure but maybe some of the experts can see the error most likely defining some land mass where water should be.

 

Before any edits, make a backup of that file.

Thanks for the quick response!

 

 

 

Thanks for taking the word screenshot literally, Daniel.

LOL - I'm in technology - I learned that more info is always better when debugging !!

 

 

 

Well, since you've mentioned the other addons installed, can you run the UTX setup tools once and let them check their entries? They are pretty smart, so to speak, so they check their scenery entries and the terrain.cfg, which could be a source for the errors you are seeing.

 

I'll give this a try - I was mucking about in the scenery.cfg file to add the Orbx Vector Lighting to the UTX road texture entries.

 

 

 

You could also start the FTX Central and switch the modes back and forth since this tool also checks if the terrain.cfg entries are in place. Maybe that clears you to see water again.

 

 Tried cycling thru Global and NA and hybrid modes and nothing fixed the water.

I was mucking about in the scenery.cfg file to add the Orbx Vector Lighting to the UTX road texture entries.

This could point to the origin of errors. Mind you that you would have to edit the terrain.cfg for that Orbx lights to UTX roads action. Which I think is what you mean.

 

Well, if you made a backup before starting the edits, use it for a test flight. Maybe you've mixed something up. Your land instead of water issue sometimes comes up and mostly points to terrain.cfg errors. You will also find a few threads on 'tress instead of water', which covers the same origin. That one file and the definitions.

Thanks CoolP - you nailed it. I reran UTX USA and everything was back to normal. No more global warming!!! Thanks!!!!

:Whew: :smile: