FSX-MS FSX Black Ground Vehicles

[Mattie941 4]

Hi,

I recently installed the trial version of GSX and uninstalled once I had checked it out. However, some airport ground vehicle models still exist without textures (see image). I've tried reverting to a backup of my Simobjects/Groundvehicles folder and restored old backups of the veh_air_*** files in the Scenery/Global/Texture folder, but the black models still remain. 

Where can I find and delete these ground vehicle models to restore the FSX default vehicles?

Cheers,
Matt

[Berlopez 33]

I'm afraid to say your uninstalation of GSX, may have messed with your default textures, Desepite you using your back-up( Good Idea) Didn't help 😕 You might have to reinstall your FSX to restore your textures, i'm afraid.

Hope someone else comes with a better idea.

I HAVE A GOOD COPY OF MY FSX IN AN EXTERNAL HD; WHENEVER I RUN INTO ISSUES I CAN'T FIX EASELY I COPY THE FILES I NEED FROM THAT INSTALLATION, IF I DO A LOT A LOT OF CHANGES WITH TIME I MAKE A NEW COPY.

 

Berlopez

[virtuali 4,419]

24 minutes ago, Berlopez said:

I'm afraid to say your uninstalation of GSX, may have messed with your default textures

GSX doesn't change or replace any of the default ground vehicles models or textures.

[Berlopez 33]

Didn't know. I have heard Black textures or textures NOT showing (Showing Black) can be caused by lack of memory.Does this happen when you Pan Around 360° I notice the plane in your image is missing textures too.

 

 

Berlopez

Edited February 28, 2022 by Berlopez
info.

[stans 702]

Did GSX add new ground vehicles?  If so, perhaps the uninstall did not remove the vehicles, just the textures.

[Berlopez 33]

I believe GSX does add new vehicles to FSX frrom the images on their website:

 

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/products_gsx.html

I suggest one contact them and inquire, what could have gone wrong? and how to fix it, avoiding a complete reinstall of FSX.

 

Berlopez

Edited March 1, 2022 by Berlopez
grammar.

[Berlopez 33]

Here's something I ound in their forums maybe helps?

 

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=16642.0

 

Berlopez

[Mattie941 4]

Thanks for the replies all. I found the issue and have a solution. The fault was not with GSX (sorry for the accusation). The fault was a mixture of another scenery and my meddling.

The scenery used custom ground vehicles and updated the LWCFG.spb file to use these custom vehicles. 

Due to the limitations of my setup, I move my scenery folders to another drive, outside of my main FSX root folder. However, doing this meant that the fallback in the texture.cfg for new ground vehicles in the Simobjects/Groundvehicles folder could no longer locate the necessary textures because they were not in the Addon Scenery folder. 

I can think of 3 solutions for this: 

1) Move the scenery back to the Addon Scenery folder in the FSX root directory 

2) Copy the textures from the scenery into each ground vehicle texture folder (however this defeats the original desire to save space on my small SSD) 

3) Find the textures the new ground vehicles are using and copy them to one of the ground vehicles texture folder and adjust the fallback in the texture.cfg for all vehicles to find the copied textures

I went with option 1 for now (only because I don't have the time to implement option 3)

Edited March 2, 2022 by Mattie941
Fixed typo