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I have suddenly started seeing default land textures where water should be when flying around the UK with Horizon VFR Photographic Scenery installed. Everything was perfectly fine until today, and I am starting to suspect that installing France VFR Basse Normandie has done something to one of my cfg files. I have since uninstalled this scenery (because I thought that it might reverse the situation), but the problem remains. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I do not seem to be able to fix it :angry:

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No suggestions? After disabling all of my scenery addons and reactivating them one by one, I have located the source of the problem as the PlayHorizon VFR Photographic Scenery Volume 3 Area 2 2.4m Photo folder. I decided to uninstall Volume 3 (and Volume 8, since this borders the Volume 3 region), and reinstall, but this has not solved the problem. I will probably have to laboriously check to see which file (or files) are the source of the issue, but to be honest I am not really sure what I can do even if I find them...... :sad:

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On 3/4/2018 at 8:41 PM, Christopher Low said:

I have suddenly started seeing default land textures where water should be when flying around the UK with Horizon VFR Photographic Scenery installed. Everything was perfectly fine until today, and I am starting to suspect that installing France VFR Basse Normandie has done something to one of my cfg files. I have since uninstalled this scenery (because I thought that it might reverse the situation), but the problem remains. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I do not seem to be able to fix it :angry:

Are you using ultimate terrain products? If so after installing an add on scenery running the config tool always fixed this issue for me.


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A shot in the dark here Christopher, but I seem to recall reading in a discussion on the ORBX forums a few years ago that France VFR alters your terrain.cfg, which sounds pretty much like what is happening to you. have a look in there to see if there is anything relevant to France VFR. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to get a fresh copy of the terrain.cfg file from either your ORBX installation or by asking on their forums.

 

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I was going to say Terrain.cfg 

Back up the one you've got

Delete terrain.cfg 

Run sim to rebuild it 

Close sim

Run orbx Centre as administrator 

Run sim to see if fixed 

 

 

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If I let P3D rebuild the terrain.cfg, won't I need to reinstall (or reconfigure) ALL of my scenery addons? I do not use ORBx regional scenery (only complete photoscenery of the UK and Ireland). I also do NOT use any UTX (or similar) products.

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No you won't 

Make a back of the original Chris. Then you be able to revert back. 

But the original is knackered anyways 


 
 
 
 
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Sadly, letting P3D rebuild the terrain.cfg has not solved the problem :sad:


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Hi Chris,

I have experienced something similar in the past. In my case it was water, water everywhere where in fact land should be. If memory serves I think deleting the content of the SceneryIndexes_x64 folder fixed it. No harm in giving it a shot as P3D will rebuild the Scenery Indexes at next run.

ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\SceneryIndexes_x64

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Thanks for the suggestion, Mike........but that did not work either :sad:


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I would check the scenery.cfg and have a look at the file dates in the P3D folders for changes.


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I have tried an older version of the scenery.cfg, Steve......but no luck.


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I'm afraid you may be looking at a bottom-up rebuild of the whole sim, then.  Ouch.

BTW, Lorby-SI's free P3D Addon Manager saves a copy of all the P3D config files (including the terrain.cfg) when you use its backup function...once you get things working again, it might be a good idea to save a snapshot of your config periodically with this very useful tool.  Oliver's support forum is here on AVSIM.

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Elaine mentioned in another forum thread somewhere about rebuilding the lclookup.bgl file. I do not know if this would help in my situation, but I encountered a problem when I followed the instructions....

Go to the Prepar3D v3/Scenery/BASE/Scenery folder

Delete the SCENERY folder

Right click on the Install_Scenery.msi file, and select REPAIR

 

The problem here is that I am unable to find Install_Scenery.msi

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It's in the full download .zip with install_client.msi etc


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