ES Isle of Man black textures

[Christopher Low 5,393]

I noticed recently that the textures on the hangars (and one or two adjacent buildings) at Jurby Airfield in the Earth Simulations Isle of Man package were not being displayed (the models were jet black). I seemed to recall encountering a similar issue at ES Alderney many years ago, so I conducted a search, and found the following thread here at AVSIM.....

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/481183-earth-simulations-alderney-black-houses/?tab=comments#comment-3351485

Based on the identified solution in that thread, I copied all of the textures in the ES-3D/Texture folder that started with "Jurby..." to the main Prepar3d v4 texture folder......and it worked! I thought that I would post this here just in case anyone else is still using the Earth Simulations scenery packages in P3D (and is experiencing similar problems). That thread was over seven years ago, but I can honestly say that ES Isle of Man is still one of the very best scenery addons that I have installed in P3Dv4 (I think that I was using the recently released v3 at that time). Lots of the objects used in the package are bespoke 3D models, and therefore look significantly better than the (rather dodgy looking on close inspection) autogen buildings and textures.

ES Isle of Man was a masterpiece in its day. It was so far ahead of its time.

Edited March 5, 2023 by Christopher Low