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I don't know of any automated method but, I think FSET 1.03 has a method to exclude tiles you don't want downloaded from the within the download rectangle. It's been awhile since I last used it. So I don't remember the specifics. If nothing else, you could simply mark all tiles that contain only water for exclusion from download.

Looks good.

If your goal is simply to keep the default costline from showing through, then the simplest, least painful, and least time consuming way of doing it remains adler58's suggestion.

What's the airport that these are near? Are the towers by any chance a part of that airport's BGL?

Looks like the missing texture alert has alerted you that the missing texture is: sunglow2.bmp. Don't have REX4 myself, so I can't speak to whether or not it's a REX4 issue.

Does this mean that you let MS do the fix? If so, you might want to go back and follow the fix it myself steps on the site: LetMeFixItMyselfAlways . You're likely to get more positive results. Rich

In my experience that usually means that either 1) the TIFF file name doesn't match what's in the INF or 2) while the file name is correct, I've accidentally saved it to a different directory so that it isn't found. If nothing else has changed, a third option might be that the TIFF file is in a format that the compiler can't use. I think that's happened to me once or twice, too, when I've been playing around with the TIFF Save settings.

The blend mask is a mask. You don't combine it with any other image to get a 3rd. Here's a reduced JPG example of one of my TIFF masks to blend the default FSX scenery into the photoscenery: Pure black lets the FSX scenery show through, while pure white allows you to see the photoscenery. In this case the photoscenery is on the right side of the area. This particular area is along a coast. Rich

Have you tried copying the install files to your HD and installing from there? Also, when's the last time you rebooted your computer. That alone has solved more than one odd FSX related issue in the past.

Sure. Think of photoscenery as a layer of paint. You're just placing your scenery on top of it. Kind of like placing furniture on a painted floor.

Made some progress on this last night. Can get the autogen to show up through the ground bgls but not with all the other files installed as well. So there is something else interfering. Hopefully I'll have some time later today or tomorrow to investigate further. This is a nice piece of scenery.

Isn't that a script someone wrote for Autohotkey. I think I was using it for awhile. Don't have time to check it out right now but, hopefully, this afternoon after I get home from work.

You need to create sloping flattens to blend the airport flatten into the surrounding terrain. Basically, start another flatten at one corner of the airport flatten and extend it further from there. I normally use several additional flattens as I work my way around. You then enter the correct altitude for each point in the new flatten. Unfortunately, I'm at work and not at my computer to doublecheck this next part. You have to deselect (I believe) a box in the flatten dialogue that sets a single altitude (the default setting) for all points before you can set separate altitudes. I normally create the flatten that I want to have sloping, then with FSX slaved to ADE, have the aircraft move to the point I want to set, read the altitude, and write it into that point's dialogue. Then move to the next and so on.

Does your blendmask run from pure black to pure white? Pure black will let your photoscenery through, while pure white will block it. Shades of grey allow varying degrees of photoscenery to show through depending on the degree of darkness. Not sure what the red pixels are about.

Sure. I'll create it for you later today. Have some other work to finish up first. Rich

No, it was a clean install. From what I've read, the OS won't actually allow the files to be written because they are older than the existing DirectX install even though the program in question (FSX in this case) thinks it's doing it. If that's the case, then the 9.0C libraries (or whatever they're called) weren't completely installed for some reason, when I installed Win7. Anyway, the solution, once I stumbled onto it, was quite simple. In researching, I'd seen people advised that they needed a new video card, needed to completely reinstall FSX, update their video card drivers, etc. And, of course, the response was that the advice was followed but hadn't solved the problem. Rich

I posted this over at SimViation and thought I might post it here, too, in case another late adopter of either Win7 or FSX should run into this issue. I finally got around to installing Win7 with all the updates. Reinstalled FSX only to have it not start, while receiving the following error message: Win7 installs DirectX 11.0 which should, one would think, be backward compatible. And you cannot install an older version of DirectX over a newer one. The solution was to go to the Microsoft website and download their "DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer". It scanned the DirectX libraries installed by Win7 (DirectX 11.0), then downloaded and installed the missing 9.0C "libraries". Hope this helps someone in the future. Rich

Did a Niihau scenery set for FSX a few years back. The island has been privately owned since sometime in the mid-1860s and, because of stipulations at the time of purchase, it's the only one of the Hawaiian Islands where Hawaiian is the primary language. Until 1999 residents there worked on the Robinson family cattle ranch. There's also a small Navy installation on the cliffs but no permanent naval personnel. It's tied in with the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. EDIT: <p> Judging from the location in the photo and the angle to the small island (a volcanic cone) in the background, that pad is on the NE end of the "highlands". If it's where I think it is, it's in among some buildings that might be the naval station (I've never been certain as to it's exact location). Rich

Antlab, Thanks. That took care of the Live account problem. I'm all set there. But Flight still doesn't load. I've tried installing multiple times without success. Each install ends the same way: The Marketplace?? window is there with a button that says something to the effect "Click play to fly" but in front of that is another window saying that I have to reboot my computer for the installation to complete. And there's no possibility of clicking "play" until I've rebooted. Once I'm back to the Desktop, I can never get that window back again. And trying to start Flight from the EXE is a no-go. There are no error messages or anything. Just a bit of HD activity and, then, nothing.Unless someone has another idea or two, this will have to get shelved until I have more time to play around with it.Rich

Never a truer statement spoken, as long as those that are released are ones I'm interested in. :) Which is, I suppose, the problem. Where I fly and where you fly might not be the same. That's FSX "whole world" advantage. Or, if I see a news story and am interested in what that part of the world looks like--topography, etc--I can fire up FSX and fly over it to check it out. That's provided me with some interesting insights that I might not have had otherwise. Flight might never offer me that.Rich

Thanks, Dburne and Antlab. D, I went through and deleted everything I could find relating to MS Flight before reinstalling. A lot of programs like to leave pieces behind, so I learned long ago to check for that sort of thing. But the reminder doesn't hurt.A, I checked your link quickly and recognized the error code as identical to mine. I'll read through the thread more carefully, when I get home. Hopefully you've put me on the right track.Rich

Thanks, Keith, for the info.There was no Desktop icon until I put one there. It is listed in the Start menu. I presume that's how you start Flight--through the Flight executable. I tried both but Flight didn't start. No error messages or anything. I tried twice. The first time there was HD activity. The 2nd time silence. Nothing resembling flight was listed in the Task Manager window under either the programs or processes tabs.I also tried to set up a Wondows Live account. Thought it was set up but, in trying to log on, I got an error message with an numbered error code of some sort and nowhere to get an explanation. I'm a work now. I'll play around with it again tonight.Rich

Thanks for the info. I reinstalled Flight overnight (in the default location this time) and will give your suggestions a shot at some point this evening.Thanks again.Rich

Well, according to their website XP SP3 is supported. And I'm not about to go through a Win7 upgrade at this point just to try out the free demo of a game. So...back to the drawing board. I might uninstall it and let it install where it wants to just to see, if it's enough of a pig, for that to be the issue.Rich

So I want to give Flight a try. I downloaded and installed it to a drive other than C:. Everything seemed to go fine with the install. But how do you start this sucker?If I select MS Flight in Program Files, nothing happens. There's also a link for Games for Windows Marketplace that asks for my GamerTag??, when I click it. There's also a Windows Live ID shortcut that also asked for some sort of ID the first time I clicked it and I had no idea what it was referring to. The 2nd time I clicked it, I went nowhere.I'm running WP Pro SP3, myself as administrator.Thanks,Rich