I appreciate this airport was designed for FSX and P3D up to v3 but does anyone know if the bleedthrough can be corrected? See attached image. Whilst the runway numbers are visible the texture is missing as is the taxiway ones.

I've edited the AFCAD to adjust airport altitude and the feet of the avatar just touch the ground so that appears correct.

No one else has done Rio and its long runway makes it ideal for heavies.

I remembered @blaunarwal’s post about fixing these type of problems. I looked on his site for SBGL but sadly it wasn't listed. I’ll try what he suggests in his pinned topic.

Fingers crossed! 🤞

I have reworked the Tropicalsim SBGL2016 scenery, but it doesn't look perfect. Think I need to go over it again.

Just now, blaunarwal said:

I have reworked the Tropicalsim SBGL2016 scenery, but it doesn't look perfect. Think I need to go over it again.

That would be greatly appreciated. 👏

Some suggestions: Have you tried setting the BGL for the underlying photoreal off (not sure if there is one but sometimes that does the trick)? Also, new terrain polygon might sometimes do the trick. Worst case scenario: tweak the AFCAD and add your own runways/taxiways (not the best solution but worked quite well for me for the Aerosoft Dublin airport in P3Dv5). 🙂

@Blasb,thanks for the suggestions but I don’t know how to do any of that. I can correct many of the issues in Fault Finder but that’s it really.

I’m hoping Dan can solve it as he has done for so many other airports.

There is some interference with Paulo Ricardo SBRJ. It adds nice freeway bridges to Galeano but has also sat-view files. I'm trying hard. 😉

 

19 minutes ago, blaunarwal said:

There is some interference with Paulo Ricardo SBRJ. It adds nice freeway bridges to Galeano but has also sat-view files. I'm trying hard. 😉

 

I don’t have that scenery. Runways too short. If you disable that addon does it help?

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I don’t have that scenery. Runways too short. If you disable that addon does it help?

After having problems with trees on apron, autogen where it shouldn't be I did a fresh install into the Prepar3D program directory, like suggested by the installer.

Don't like installing into Prepar3D but sometimes it's better. So I went on and tried it.

Anyway, after switching scenery to the new installed, it works perfectly. I still need to try if I can move it outside Prepar3D v5 directory into my addons drive keeping it working. I guess it has to do with the installation. I may have installed it outside Prepar3D before. 

I used the .exe from TSIM-SBGL2016_P3Dv2v3.zip and then the updating .exe in TSIM-SBGL2016_P3Dv2v3_Update.zip. 

So no need for my afcad for this but of course, I will produce a better afcad than Tropicalsim.

If one has both sceneries, there's a mix of the bridges alongside the Galeao island. Also Paulo Ricardo Rio has sat images of SBGL. I disabled these files:

...\TropicalSim\SBGL2016\Scenery

• CVX_sbgl16_fsxbrd.BGL
• sbgl16_fsxbrd_EXT.BGL
• in sbgl2016_p3dplacers.BGL i had to remove part of the hanging bridge

...\PauloRicardo - MegaRiodeJaneiro P3Dv5\Scenery

• 000_GaleaoArea.bgl
• 000_GaleaoArea2.bgl

When I get the afcad finished, i will publish it. It will be more accurate as always but it's not needed to fix the scenery appearance.

14 minutes ago, blaunarwal said:

Don't like installing into Prepar3D but sometimes it's better. So I went on and tried it.

Anyway, after switching scenery to the new installed, it works perfectly.

Interesting. I have several TS so it’s installed to C:\P3DAddons\TropicalSim\SBGL

When you say into P3D do you mean P3Dv5\AddonScenery?

13 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

When you say into P3D do you mean P3Dv5\AddonScenery?

No, it installs into ...\Prepar3D v5\Tropicalsim\... 

I also install usually everything into F:\flightsim addons\.. and the sim is in F:\program files\lockheed martin\prepar3d v5

I have several sceneries from Tropicalsim. They are all outside Prepar3D v5. Maybe it's not the folder, but just the fresh install. Maybe the update didn't install correctly, if not in the default folder (prepar3d v5) I don't know this since to find out, it required a lot more testing and since it seems to work in v5 without any mods, i won't further investigate this.

My advise is only, reinstall the scenery, install it where the installer wants it. Don't forget the update. You can still move it after update into C:\P3DAddons\TropicalSim\ and change the entry in the scenery.cfg to this. I expect it to work that way. But to be sure, go this complicated way. If it still does not work, it has to remain in the Prepar3D v5 directory.

I also made the experience, installing into Prepar3D v5 enables the installer to copy effects and Global textures into the right directories. After installing, the scenery itself can be moved to another storage. The other way round you have to care for effects and Global textures to be moved into Prepar3D v5. Some installers can do all that for you, but not all. So always check if it created new directories like effects, world\, sound. or Global\...

17 minutes ago, blaunarwal said:

No, it installs into ...\Prepar3D v5\Tropicalsim\...

In that case I’ll reinstall to that location.
 

17 minutes ago, blaunarwal said:

My advise is only, reinstall the scenery, install it where the installer wants it. Don't forget the update. You can still move it after update

What update? When I log into my account I only see the main program..
 

TSIM-SBGL2012-FSXP3D.zip

263.65MB

Where are you getting the update from?

Bingo!!! Solved. The install screen makes it clear it must be loaded to the default P3D folder. Thereafter it creates a TropicalSim folder with SBGL folder under that. The only other scenery I have in that structure is TAPA.

But what is also odd is it didn't create entries in scenery.cfg. Once I did that the airport now looks as it should. Thanks for your help Dan.

The jetways remain an issue. No SODE ones supplied and no jetway file I can disable. The ADE shows no default jetways.

I would like to add GSX ones but those defaults need to go first. Any ideas?

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

TSIM-SBGL2012-FSXP3D.zip

You have the oldest version. I have 2016 version. The 2012 may not be compatible.

Edited September 29, 20241 yr by blaunarwal