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  1. When I retired, the cost of maintaining my site became an issue, as I am on a fixed income. There are a number of tools required to supply the downloads etc, which individually don't cost much, especially for a thriving business, but they do add up. By the way, the main reason why I retired at this time (I'm 67 now) was that I couldn't get access to the MSFS Marketplace. In the past, any scenery which I 'retired' from the store became freeware, from the Avsim library, but I understand that the file size for NZCH is larger than their limit. I've just put the MSFS Taieri airfield onto flightsim.to, but I've yet to find a host for the P3D/FSX NZCH. If anyone can offer a solution, let me know. The reason why support is tricky is that when the business was still active, I maintained 3 versions of Prepar3d with the developer's license -- a monthly subscription. Now I just own the new personal license for v6, which none of my scenery supports natively. EDIT: Before I closed my store, I had promised to check to see if it was possible (and easy enough) to add P3Dv6 support to the installer, and although the scenery mostly worked well, the SODE elements -- mostly jetways -- were misplaced. With a bit of a hack, it is possible to install this in v6, although the jetways don't quite join with the terminals.
  2. Cheers, Adam. The SODE jetways should work, they do for me, I'm not sure why they don't work for you. Most of the battle is actually getting the jetways to show up, but since you already have them, then I'm stumped. Can you get the SODE menu to appear onscreen? Does the SODE log file give any clues? Here's a shot of one of the jetways. Sorry about the aircraft, I didn't have anything appropriate in v6 to test this out, so I borrowed the default FSX 737:)
  3. Although I've retired now, while my scenery will remain at SimMarket for a month or two I am looking at how Real New Zealand NZCH and Real New Zealand NZDN perform in v6. There's some info on how to get an existing P3D installation working on the Godzone forum at NZFF.org.
  4. -- some random guy yelling on the train.
  5. My online Store will close sometime on Monday 3rd July, New Zealand time. Until then, everything* in the Store is NZ$5, which is about US$3. *The current scenery products are NZCH Christchurch Intl Airport, NZDN Dunedin Airport, for FSX and P3D up to v5, and NZTI Taieri Airport for MSFS. As downloads will remain available till the end of the year, I hope to extend support to Prepar3d V6 if possible. The site will remain at least until the end of the year for support and redownloads. SimMarket will continue to carry my scenery until I work out a plan to finish there as well. However this sale is my own store only. There are a lot of reasons why I'm shutting up shop, I have been making New Zealand scenery for over 20 years now, and there's been a few things which have made it more and more difficult to complete projects. I'm now 67 years old and it's been 14 years since I got my mechanical heart valve, which means 14 years of heart medication. Covid took a big hit on my ability to visit airports for photos etc, and this hasn't really changed any now. MSFS was the sim which I always wanted to see, but the market has changed enough that it means that without access to the MS Marketplace it is difficult to reach the new users. It's now been three years since I applied for access to the Marketplace, but it seems that smaller developers like me are not getting in. I know that Microsoft have a great sim which will continue to flourish, but I do hope at some point that they open up the Marketplace to smaller developers. Too late for me, probably, (if they rang next week, I'd be more than happy to complete a few projects over the next few years) but there are a lot of one-man-band developers who have plenty to offer. My first support forum was here years ago, and Avsim has always been the community which offered the most, along with NZFF, the New Zealand flightsim forum, which has been my second home for 15 years. I'd sum up the last 20 years as 'mostly fabulous', I never thought I'd end up doing flightsim scenery full-time, but I've loved being able to show my New Zealand to the world's simmers. Cheers! Robin Godzone Virtual Flight
  6. Rather than just leave this here as an unanswered support issue, if anyone has a similar issue here's a link to the continuation of this particular issue on New Zealand Flightsim Forum. I'm pleased that this was resolved relatively quickly, although it did raise the issue of obsolete links in some of my older manuals. I did in fact have a redirect in place, but this had stopped working when I installed the HTTPS server. As I haven't quite figured out a fix, I've had the 404 page redirect to my home page, which gives a more obvious link to support.
  7. Sorry, I don't know your name, Hamilton_ Yes, my support page has moved since the manual was written (3 years ago now), sorry about that, I'll see if I can arrange a redirect for anyone else who follows the link in the manual. In the meantime every page (except, ironically, the 404 page) on my website has a link to Contact/Support. I'm also aware that the NZFF forum is tricky to access these days, and I now recommend support via my website, or Facebook page. I see that you have managed to access the forum, and I did reply to your query, please let me know if you still have a problem with Orbx compatibility. The most common issue is that Orbx Central resets the priority of Orbx scenery every time you run the tool, which means that normal methods of over-riding this priority don't work. However Orbx Central does include the ability to set the Insertion Point for all Orbx scenery, and this is really a requirement for anyone who wants to use third party scenery with Orbx scenery. I have previously petitioned Orbx to make it clearer that this needs to be set, although it's been a while since I used Orbx Central and I don't know if they ever did this. Let me know if this helps, if not I'm sure we can come up with a solution. Note that priority issues with NZCH and other Godzone scenery have always been solved by either setting the Orbx Insertion Point, or by ensuring that Orbx is installed before Godzone scenery, so my installer can make any relevant changes to ensure it works with Orbx NZ installed.
  8. I don't think that Asobo have ever recommended this, they do say that if you have problems after the installation then this should be the first step to see if there was a conflict with one of your addons. A few people missed the conditional and it then became an update mantra.
  9. Taieri works well, there's some cosmetic changes to come -- I did a lot of work originally to hide the aerial image border, placing it under treelines etc, but WU12 means this needs to be tweaked a bit. The appearance of the area outside the airport bounds is kind of disappointing, I'm not sure what data they've used for WU12 but I had hoped for a better match. It will be a quick fix, so keep an eye on my site. No real issues with running the existing scenery though.
  10. Largest is Auckland, then Christchurch, then Wellington.
  11. Me too, but that's more to do with a couple of divorces.... Watches are certainly going the way of the land-line etc, when I last went to get the battery replaced at the local mall I watched (no pun intended) the people passing by, no-one under 40 wore a watch. A few years ago some kids stopped me in the street and asked for the time, they were amazed at this weird device on my wrist! Still, it makes sense that they are on the way out, our phones can do all that and much more, I just like the disconnect where I can keep the phone in my pocket when I'm out and about. My favourite for the last 20+ years was a gift from Microsoft, as part of the MVP program, I like that it has a tech-giant logo on the back, but only tells the time:) Oh, and the date, but I don't think I'd ever rely on that, I still reach for my phone when I need to know what day it is.
  12. Watched the first episode on TVNZ OnDemand last night.
  13. Although I've never had download issues on my new system, and most updates are done in minutes, I still have my old PC which I use to see how my scenery performs on an older system. The last time I tried this, it had been a long time since it was updated, so I was ok with a 100+GB download. However it is frustrating watching the livery updates etc which I'll never ever use:( One tip, after almost three hours of downloading to about 25% I paused the download, shut it down and moved the PC through to where the router is so I could plug it in. The rest of the download came in under an hour via ethernet.
  14. It doesn't matter at all. Normally, library priority determines layering of scenery elements, and the order of scenery exclusions. Library objects will appear no matter what. (Of course, a placement file which places the object may be affected by priority.) I tend to pop these out of the way in the scenery library, down the list with the stuff that you normally wouldn't need to worry about:)
  15. Have you tried the Windows Photo app?
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