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Question on Orbx FTX and P3d

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I have all the Orbx NA FTX regions installed. Included in those regions if CYYC The issue with Calgary Orbx is it has the old Runway 16 instead of the new 17L and 17 R layout. So I downloaded a couple of months ago, Ray Smiths CYYC which has the update runways. Last evening I flew into CYYC, and I saw that I was back to the single runway 16. I then went into P3D scenery manager, and I saw that all the Orbx scenery regions had been moved to the top of the scenery list. My P3D add on folder which contained the updated CYYC was now down in the 30's layer. Apparently when OrBx did an update, which I ran about a week ago, it moved all their scenerys to the top of the stack, which of course causes a problem with any add on scenery that someone installs, being overridden by the re-positioned Orbx scenery in the scenery list. Has anyone else seen this happen? 

Edited by Bobsk8

 

 

 

I've never seen this happen, but I'm careful to always check that FTX is bellow my addon scenery folder. This is a folder that I added manually.

After every update open Central and check to see that FTX is bellow your selected scenery and you should always be good to go.

Edited by DJJose

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48 minutes ago, DJJose said:

I've never seen this happen, but I'm careful to always check that FTX is bellow my addon scenery folder. This is a folder that I added manually.

After every update open Central and check to see that FTX is bellow your selected scenery and you should always be good to go.

Yes, I learned my lesson now, I will check that positioning after every Orbx update. 

 

 

 

There's more to the problem than just the scenery load order--any time you run FTXC, it will reinstall any missing or renamed ORBX scenery bgls, so if you have an addon scenery or an AFCAD/ADE file for an airport that's also part of an ORBX package (including the FTXGlobal freeware airports packages), you'll end up with double AFCADs, which can cause a whole host of problems, scenery order notwithstanding.  I ended up writing a script that checks a folder where I move my sequestered ORBX scenery bgls and removes new occurrences of them...I run that script after running FTXCentral.  I have a whole bunch of sceneries that conflict with the ORBX lite stuff (airports included with their regions or in their freeware packages), and it's a good hour's work to go back and clean it up every time I run FTXC, hencing having to create an automated tool to do that.

Regards

 

 

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