Douglas C-47 V3 Beta missing textures

[ananda]

In the paratroop verson:

 

[Spikehughes]

In the paratroop verson:

Do you have Windows 10 upgrade?
I updated from windows 7 64 bit to Windows 10 a month ago and have continuing teething problems
The Paddrand.bmp file is also an issue for me
After searching the net it appears as though it is possible not all File associations updated correctly when upgrading to windows 10.
However, I cannot find PADDRAND.BMP anywhere on my system as yet - still looking
Anyone out there have any hints as to where this BMP resides?

Ray

 

[Lane Street]

GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome.dds should be in ...\FSX\Texture.

FSX should pick it up regardless of the difference in file extensions.

PADDRAND.bmp is mapped to some polys in the VC that are not visible (not sure why they are even there) so you are not missing anything by not having it.

cheers,
Lane

 

[familton]

All I have in the texture paratrooper folder are a thumbnail.jpg, a panel_3.dds and a texture.cfg fallback. Where are the aircraft textures for the paratrooper aircraft?

Thanks, Bob.

 

[TuFun]

All I have in the texture paratrooper folder are a thumbnail.jpg, a panel_3.dds and a texture.cfg fallback. Where are the aircraft textures for the paratrooper aircraft?

Thanks, Bob.

In the "texture.EATS_315221" folder.


The texture.cfg file points to that folder.

[fltsim]
fallback.1=..\texture
fallback.2=..\texture.EATS_315221

 

[Alky]

All I have in the texture paratrooper folder are a thumbnail.jpg, a panel_3.dds and a texture.cfg fallback. Where are the aircraft textures for the paratrooper aircraft?

Have you tried to fly it or even load it up in the sim?

 

[familton]

In the "texture.EATS_315221" folder.


The texture.cfg file points to that folder.

[fltsim]
fallback.1=..\texture
fallback.2=..\texture.EATS_315221[/QUOT

The two thumnnails look different. Are you saying both textures are the same? Thanks, Bob.

 

[TuFun]

Yes it's the same aircraft, the only difference is the paratrooper panels has the red and green lights used to stage para drops.
When selecting the paratrooper thumbnail it switches to the paratrooper panel only.

 

[Spikehughes]

GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome.dds should be in ...\FSX\Texture.

FSX should pick it up regardless of the difference in file extensions.

PADDRAND.bmp is mapped to some polys in the VC that are not visible (not sure why they are even there) so you are not missing anything by not having it.

cheers,
Lane

Ok, thanks for that, but how can I get rid of the error box that always pops up when I switch from external to internal views (and vice versa)

 

[familton]

Yes it's the same aircraft, the only difference is the paratrooper panels has the red and green lights used to stage para drops.
When selecting the paratrooper thumbnail it switches to the paratrooper panel only.

Ok Thanks. I was jut going by both thumbnails which are different. Bob.

 

[ncooper]

Switch off the error reporting?

 

[Penzoil3]

Switch off the error reporting?

After all the error reporting is a developer tool. It's not meant for the user.

 

[Spikehughes]

Switch off the error reporting?

what error reporting option is that?
are we talking windows 10 or something in FSX - I see no option that is not already disabled that would enable me to turn off the error dialogue

 

[ncooper]

FSX will not report texture errors unless this line has been manually added to the fsx.cfg file.
It is not there by default.

[SCENERY]
ShowMissingTextureAlert=1

You can disable it by either of these methods.

ShowMissingTextureAlert=0 or
\\ShowMissingTextureAlert=1

or simply delete it, of course.

 

[ananda]

After all the error reporting is a developer tool. It's not meant for the user.

I don't understand this reply

If a texture is missing, FSX will spend unnecessary time looking for it.

BTW. I am using XP.

 

[Spikehughes]

FSX will not report texture errors unless this line has been manually added to the fsx.cfg file.
It is not there by default.

[SCENERY]
ShowMissingTextureAlert=1

You can disable it by either of these methods.

ShowMissingTextureAlert=0 or
\\ShowMissingTextureAlert=1

or simply delete it, of course.

Thanks, will give this a shot
Running Microsoft XP?? wow - and I thought it was Windows 10 at fault !!

 

[Javis]

@ Ananda, Spike et all, re the 'paddrand.bmp' issue, sorry, my mistake. This particular texture is no longer used and i thought i assigned the new texture to all parts that used it. Apparently i missed out on one part... Remarkable that i never got that particular error message myself...

Anyway, i corrected it but that doesn't help you until the first update is released.. So, in the mean time, i think it's best to give FSX what it fails to look for. Please download this small zip. Inside you'll find the missing texture. Just put it in your C-47 V3.12 Beta/texture folder. http://sectionf8.com/f86files/mj_dc3vc/paddrand.zip

Again sorry for the confusion.

cheers,
jan

 

[ananda]

Thanks Jan.

It was still asking for GLOBALENV_AC_CHROME.DDS and GLOBALENV_AC_CHROME.BMP so I added a 32x32 bit invisible GLOBALENV_AC_CHROME.DDS

George

 

[DaveB]

Odd it was asking for the chrome dds file unless it's search was case sensitive. GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome.dds is a default FSX file. There's no bmp version in either FSX or FS9.

ATB
DaveB

 

[ananda]

Odd it was asking for the chrome dds file unless it's search was case sensitive. GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome.dds is a default FSX file. There's no bmp version in either FSX or FS9.

ATB
DaveB

Yes, I have GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome.dds in FSX\Texture and FSX\Substitutions\Texture as well as various aircraft texture folders.

However, there is a texture.cfg which only falls back to "..\texture" and "..\texture.EATS_315221". Perhaps it should also have "texture" ?

FSX looks first for a dds file and if it doesn't find it, it looks for an equivalent bmp.

George