Ground Textures becoming black

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

Hello

My ground textures keep cycling between the normal textures and a black texture. I'm not sure whether they are cycling between day and night textures, or just simply disappearing, I initally thought that this was due to ActiveSky, but this happens with all aircraft and default scenery.

Normal ground textures

"Black" ground textures 

As far I can see, this does not effect autogen, which remains in place.

 

Any ideas on how to solve this issue ?

Cheers 

9W

[simbol 5,819]

Hi there,

Are you creating your own XML to install scenaries?

Regards,

Simbol

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

Just now, simbol said:

Hi there,

Are you creating your own XML to install scenaries?

Regards,

Simbol

I might have moved a few airports from the deafult Prepar3d v4 Add-on folder and edited the add-on.xml to reflect the new updated locaation.

I have FSDG VQPR and VOBL which I moved to a new folder outside, and changed the addin.xml. I also used Lorby Addon Organiser to add some other airports, which aslo created a few other addon.xml entries.

[simbol 5,819]

 

1 minute ago, ninerwhiskey9W said:

I might have moved a few airports from the deafult Prepar3d v4 Add-on folder and edited the add-on.xml to reflect the new updated locaation.

Ok, how many airports have you done like this? there is a bug that after installing certain amount of XML's the bug above will occur, I don't remember how many but it is something like 18 or more I believe.

Second, are you aware of what the SDK XML method does? there are a lot of topics on this forum where I am warning people about the consequences of this method in relation to file name resolutions, so it is posible you have now a conflict of textures on your system.

Please read: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/523322-best-way-to-add-sceneries-add-ons-or-scenery-library/ and this https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/523111-change-prepar3d-v4-add-ons-dir/  

To solve your problem I advise to disable your XML's using the Add-on's manager and enable them one by one restarting PD3 each time to see which one might be causing the conflict.

 

Best Regards,
Simbol

 

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

Just now, simbol said:

Ok, how many airports have you done like this? there is a bug that after installing certain amount of XML's the bug above will occur, I don't remember how many but it is something like 18 or more I believe.

Definately not 18. Other than the 2 FSDG Airports, I have 5 other freeware sceneries which I added via the addon.xml method to see if it was working properly. 

There are 2 other airports OMDB and YSSY which I added manually via the scenery library. I did read both the posts you mentioned above before starting to mess around with the addons. I will try disabling the addons one by one to see if the culprit can be found.

 

BTW, This bug currently exists only for airports added via addon.xml method only ? So if I add the airports via the Scenery Library, I should have no issues ?

 

[simbol 5,819]

4 minutes ago, ninerwhiskey9W said:

Definately not 18. Other than the 2 FSDG Airports, I have 5 other freeware sceneries which I added via the addon.xml method to see if it was working properly. 

There are 2 other airports OMDB and YSSY which I added manually via the scenery library. I did read both the posts you mentioned above before starting to mess around with the addons. I will try disabling the addons one by one to see if the culprit can be found.

 

BTW, This bug currently exists only for airports added via addon.xml method only ? So if I add the airports via the Scenery Library, I should have no issues ?

 

Yes this is my understanding, however your issue could be because something went wrong with your XML's.

Try disable them one by one first.

Regards,

Simbol

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

21 hours ago, simbol said:

Yes this is my understanding, however your issue could be because something went wrong with your XML's.

Try disable them one by one first.

Regards,

Simbol

I disabled them all one by one as you suggested, but the problem still exists. I even tried trying to run p3d with an empty Add-on folder.

Do you think this could be a shader issue ? I tried deleting the shaders folder from AppData/LM/Prepar3d v4/  but there was no Shaders folder. 

[simbol 5,819]

Yes could be, are you using toga or pta shaders?

Also make a backup of Prepar3d.cfg and delete it it to see the problem goes away.

If not repeat with scenery.cfg, etc.

Simbol 

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

1 minute ago, simbol said:

Yes could be, are you using toga or pta shaders?

Also make a backup of Prepar3d.cfg and delete it it to see the problem goes away.

If not repeat with scenery.cfg, etc.

Simbol 

No. I dont use any of those programs. Will try deleting the cfg files one by one, 

Thanks.

[Bob Scott 7,719]

Before you drive yourself too crazy, read this thread in the LM forum:

P3Dv4.1 (suspected) internal texture handling problem

Regards

[TomaszBrasil 1]

Hey Ninerwhiskey9W and others

Have any of you been able to solve your problems??

If yes, could one you explain how you did it to me because I have no idea what to do.

Thanks

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

10 hours ago, TomaszBrasil said:

Hey Ninerwhiskey9W and others

Have any of you been able to solve your problems??

If yes, could one you explain how you did it to me because I have no idea what to do.

Thanks

I deleted the Prepa3d.cfg and the Shaders folder to get it back to normal.