Anybody have a problem where certain add-on sceneries won't display in the sim?  There's a guy that is taking Google objects of main terminals and creating Mods of airports like CYYZ and KIAH but they never displayed in my sim.  I didn't think much of it until I saw the problem with a payware scenery I just bought (KPIE over at Simmarket).  This is a custom scenery and it will not display.  It's in the community folder like everything else.  I even refreshed my 'contents.xml' with no difference.  Everything else from this developer (FSXScenery) works fine.  I would love to get to the bottom of what's causing this.    

FSXScenery, really?. I’ll pass on all of them. Ask them directly for support.

Cheers, Ed

21 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Anybody have a problem where certain add-on sceneries won't display in the sim?  There's a guy that is taking Google objects of main terminals and creating Mods of airports like CYYZ and KIAH but they never displayed in my sim.  I didn't think much of it until I saw the problem with a payware scenery I just bought (KPIE over at Simmarket).  This is a custom scenery and it will not display.  It's in the community folder like everything else.  I even refreshed my 'contents.xml' with no difference.  Everything else from this developer (FSXScenery) works fine.  I would love to get to the bottom of what's causing this.    

Hi Dillon,

KPIE. Thanks for the HU.

I was also interested in Sanford. Do you have it? Is it any good? I read that some objects were elevated. Dev not responding to my questions.

As for your issue, I read that a restart of the sim could help.

Jose

3 hours ago, DJJose said:

Hi Dillon,

KPIE. Thanks for the HU.

I was also interested in Sanford. Do you have it? Is it any good? I read that some objects were elevated. Dev not responding to my questions.

As for your issue, I read that a restart of the sim could help.

Jose

The hangers are slightly elevated but not a big issue for me.  I just wanted my home area filled in and overall it looks nice.  Ed is right above.  I got one email concerning support and haven't heard back from them.  As I have certain scenery from two developers now that don't work I think there's something with my setup, an option not turned on or something.

13 minutes ago, Dillon said:

The hangers are slightly elevated but not a big issue for me.  I just wanted my home area filled in and overall it looks nice.  Ed is right above.  I got one email concerning support and haven't heard back from them.  As I have certain scenery from two developers now that don't work I think there's something with my setup, an option not turned on or something.

Maybe the installers are making assumptions about where stuff on your system lives, have you installed the game to the default locations ? Also are you a steam install or a MS one?

3 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Maybe the installers are making assumptions about where stuff on your system lives, have you installed the game to the default locations ? Also are you a steam install or a MS one?

My sim is installed on my D:\ and not c:\ which is default.  I have the MS installed version not Steam.

28 minutes ago, Dillon said:

My sim is installed on my D:\ and not c:\ which is default.  I have the MS installed version not Steam.

OK, well one possible thing to investigate is whether the scenery is assuming the default location and installing stuff there.

An MS install on D instead of C  most likely has written to D:\wpsystem somewhere .

Edited October 21, 20205 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

Do you really want to spend a bunch of $$$ on quick and dirty portovers of FSX scenery (which is my understanding of what FSXScenery is doing on SimMarket)?  Why not wait for someone to do it from scratch to the new MSFS standards? 

I supposed if it's your home airport and you can't wait....

Just seems like the kind of behavior we should not encourage. That and things like selling some King Air liveries and a bush trip for $18, with a misleading name that makes it sound like it's an actual aircraft.

Edited October 21, 20205 yr by marsman2020

Hey I have Sim installed supposedly on "another drive" ie.. Drive F but when sim updates it always updates drive C   go figure...   anyhow I found i have to symbolic link sceneries from "another drive"... ie Drive F over to C to get everything to work.  Simple to do now that this Program has changed my ways MSFS Addons Linker.  Now yet Another Drive is storing the Freebies 20+ gigs already and I can pick before I fly what gets loaded into sim.   I can organize addons  USA East  USA West  Canada Alaska and linker allows me to easily change the scope of what's loaded before i fly. Excellent Mod

 

Also did you get Savannah yet  curious about that one??

Good Luck!!

Edited October 21, 20205 yr by sluihn

6 hours ago, sluihn said:

Hey I have Sim installed supposedly on "another drive" ie.. Drive F but when sim updates it always updates drive C   go figure...   anyhow I found i have to symbolic link sceneries from "another drive"... ie Drive F over to C to get everything to work.  Simple to do now that this Program has changed my ways MSFS Addons Linker.  Now yet Another Drive is storing the Freebies 20+ gigs already and I can pick before I fly what gets loaded into sim.   I can organize addons  USA East  USA West  Canada Alaska and linker allows me to easily change the scope of what's loaded before i fly. Excellent Mod

 

Also did you get Savannah yet  curious about that one??

Good Luck!!

Savannah works fine.  How do you 'symbolic link' sceneries from another drive?

7 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

Do you really want to spend a bunch of $$$ on quick and dirty portovers of FSX scenery (which is my understanding of what FSXScenery is doing on SimMarket)?  Why not wait for someone to do it from scratch to the new MSFS standards?

I'm going to assume that you know nothing about scenery development for flight sims.

Do you really want to spend a bunch of $$$ on quick and dirty portovers of FSX scenery?

Are you sure that they are portovers?

Why not wait for someone to do it from scratch to the new MSFS standards?

Cause he'd be waiting years before that happens.

I sound like a broken record. I can't fathom why some simmers on this forum want to convince customers not to buy payware.

13 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Savannah works fine.  How do you 'symbolic link' sceneries from another drive?

Download this tool. It's really easy to create symbolic links:

https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

Edited October 21, 20205 yr by DJJose

3 hours ago, DJJose said:

I'm going to assume that you know nothing about scenery development for flight sims.

Do you really want to spend a bunch of $$$ on quick and dirty portovers of FSX scenery?

Are you sure that they are portovers?

Why not wait for someone to do it from scratch to the new MSFS standards?

Cause he'd be waiting years before that happens.

I sound like a broken record. I can't fathom why some simmers on this forum want to convince customers not to buy payware.

I'd say they are trying to convince customers not to buy bad quality payware with floating low poly buildings.

Saying that though, you can see they are not direct ports by comparing the pictures of the old product and new.

16 hours ago, Dillon said:

Anybody have a problem where certain add-on sceneries won't display in the sim?  There's a guy that is taking Google objects of main terminals and creating Mods of airports like CYYZ and KIAH but they never displayed in my sim.  I didn't think much of it until I saw the problem with a payware scenery I just bought (KPIE over at Simmarket).  This is a custom scenery and it will not display.  It's in the community folder like everything else.  I even refreshed my 'contents.xml' with no difference.  Everything else from this developer (FSXScenery) works fine.  I would love to get to the bottom of what's causing this.    

Dillon,

Check to see if a community folder was created inside the community folder.

I installed Clvi airport and the installer created a community folder inside my community folder.

Obviously I had to move the scenery!

Yes i found out i was not linking the correct folder with mods inside but as with KILM great freeware I originally linked the folder that  included a folder with scenery components inside.  Tricky but once you have experienced this you can now check other stuff make sure mistake wasn't made.   

Thanks DJJose CHEERS