How did I do this or lost textures

Dangerousdave26

Dangerousdave26

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While flying my Alaska Hops List tonight I ran into a problem I have never saw before.

I down loaded and installed Mikko Maliniemi's FS2004 Maule M-7-260 6-pack plus the update.

File names m7260_v1.zip and m7260_V11.zip both from flightsim.

I started at SAG and flew to AK99. All was fine until I started down into descent. About 1 to 2 miles from AK99 I lost all textures in the VC. The 2D panel still worked but the VC was a white out.

When I switched views to see what was going on I noticed that the exterior of the aircraft was all white as well. No textures at all. This problem also seemed to affect the runway textures and building textures as they were pure white as well.

I landed the plane in the 2D then reloaded the plane No change.

I then spawned at KPBI and all the textures were fine.

So back up to AK99 and White out again. I figured at this point it was an issue with the airport so I just decided to fly to the next destination PABA.

About 2 miles into the flight all the textures just appeared. Yep no problem just an issue at that airport.

Until I get to PABA and again 3 miles from PABA :pop4: White out.

:isadizzy: Now I am confused.

So I took some screenies to ask the experts see below.

Then I get the bright Idea lets switch to the default C172 and make sure it is the plane.

Sure enough it is not the plane the C172 is all white as well.

So then I slew up and at 1000' all the textures return. Slew down again and I lose them again at 1000'

Has anyone seen this before?

What causes it?
 
I think it has something to do with your weather settings - you are in a fog layer, so FS is rendering (some) of the textures as if they were in the fog. Your ground textures are evidently NOT in the fog rendering subset though.

I'm not running FS9 right now, but do you have a weather program running, that has a tweak for the fog layer? Try changing the weather, or at least eliminating the fog layer.

Brian

Edit - I'd almost guarantee that - I just loaded AK99 in FSX, and it has 1/4 mile visibility, and 200' ceiling. FSX has a visibility layer from 0-200 ft at 1/4 mile, then clouds from 200ft to 6200 ft. If you dip into the visibility layer, you probably get the whiteout effect.
 
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