1 hour ago, tszchun_anson said:

Hi! I saw you on the official forum as well. After you had gone back and ticked on the clouds, did you get Envtex clouds back or just the ASCA clouds?

 

Anson

ASCA. Probably going with SF clouds shortly. 

Thanks everyone for providing insights and suggestions. Here's a little update:

I have been keeping in contact with both Envtex and Hifi support. The latter confirmed that my cloud textures were properly installed into \Prepar3D v4\Textures folder, so they believed the issues were not on their side.

Today I discovered that the clouds come back if I don't start Active Sky with my sim. I suspect that ASP4/ASCA has some issues which make external cloud texture fail to get loaded in.

 

 

Anson

I'd say that your system or setup has some issues that interfere with Active Sky's operation.

Reinstall Active sky.

Reboot

Start active sky

Start sim

do you get clouds?

 

Actually, you may want to try this to define what is causing your issue.

Uninstall Active Sky and ASCA

Uninstall Envtex

Install AS and ASCA and use default settings

Run AS, ASCA and sim - you should get cloud and skies just fine.

Install Envtex and use defaults - run as,asca,envtex and sim - should be ok.

NOW, slowly start changing your settings and running the sim - see if you can track down what is happening

On 7/1/2019 at 11:59 PM, vgbaron said:

I'd say that your system or setup has some issues that interfere with Active Sky's operation.

Reinstall Active sky.

Reboot

Start active sky

Start sim

do you get clouds?

 

Actually, you may want to try this to define what is causing your issue.

Uninstall Active Sky and ASCA

Uninstall Envtex

Install AS and ASCA and use default settings

Run AS, ASCA and sim - you should get cloud and skies just fine.

Install Envtex and use defaults - run as,asca,envtex and sim - should be ok.

NOW, slowly start changing your settings and running the sim - see if you can track down what is happening

Sorry for my late reply.

 

A developer from TOGA Projects had a Teamviewer session and did several tests on my PC. In summary, it is highly likely that ASP4/ASCA has bugs which prevent Envtex's textures in \Prepar3D v4\Textures folder from being loaded into sim.

 

Anson

10 hours ago, tszchun_anson said:

A developer from TOGA Projects had a Teamviewer session and did several tests on my PC. In summary, it is highly likely that ASP4/ASCA has bugs which prevent Envtex's textures in \Prepar3D v4\Textures folder from being loaded into sim.

 

Well I hope you can get it sorted. It is more likely that Envtex textures are not following the ASP4 SDK else they would be injected. If they are in the proper format and location ASP4 will inject them. I run ASP4/ASCA and Envtex/Envshade with no issues at all.

Vic

I had the same issue. Reinstalling ASCA did the trick.

13 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Well I hope you can get it sorted. It is more likely that Envtex textures are not following the ASP4 SDK else they would be injected. If they are in the proper format and location ASP4 will inject them. I run ASP4/ASCA and Envtex/Envshade with no issues at all.

Vic

Actually which one determines which cloud textures to inject, ASP4, ASCA or P3D? As far as I know, Envtex is  responsible for installing textures into \Prepar3D v4\Textures folder. But how to ensure that the sim does not use the default textures anymore?

 

Anson

13 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Well I hope you can get it sorted. It is more likely that Envtex textures are not following the ASP4 SDK else they would be injected. If they are in the proper format and location ASP4 will inject them. I run ASP4/ASCA and Envtex/Envshade with no issues at all.

Vic

The developer who helped me believed that there could be sort of compatibility issues with the newer versions. Maybe you had a successful installation long time ago so you don’t encounter any issue right now.

38 minutes ago, tszchun_anson said:

The developer who helped me believed that there could be sort of compatibility issues with the newer versions. Maybe you had a successful installation long time ago so you don’t encounter any issue right now.

Did you try to remove and reinstall ASCA?

12 minutes ago, HeLord said:

Did you try to remove and reinstall ASCA?

No. What he did for me in Teamviewer session was to:

1. in ASCA, re-tick the option of “cirrus” and “cloud texture”, which I had unticked previously, then click “install to sim”

 

2. in ASCA, untick the option of “cirrus” and “cloud texture”, then click “install to sim”

 

After these two steps, the clouds came back. You might have to test that  eventually there was no settings changed. That’s why we suspected that there is a bug on ASP4/ASCA side, preventing Envtex’s textures from being injected.