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Malta scenery problem.

stoney

stoney

SOH-CM-2023
I haven't flown out of Malta for quite a while, but today decided to go for a hop. I now seem to have a problem with the texture that was not present on my last flight.
Would anyone be able to suggest a fix? Looks to me like a water texture replaced a land texture, but I can't imagine how.
Thanks.
 
stoney said:
I haven't flown out of Malta for quite a while, but today decided to go for a hop. I now seem to have a problem with the texture that was not present on my last flight.
Would anyone be able to suggest a fix? Looks to me like a water texture replaced a land texture, but I can't imagine how.
Thanks.
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Hi Stoney,

check first if you enabled the sceneries according to the correct sequence explained in the readme instructions in your CFS2 scenery lib.

Then, if you are using Rhumba's enhanced mesh for CFS2 and SdC's Euro coastlines, rivers and lakes, disable the latter which conflict badly with Rhumba's files.

Get also here Jean Bomber's fix for North African coastlines: although they do not cover Malta, in my install they improved it greatly, go figure!

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
Thanks guys, but I've tried to do everything suggested, but I still have water climbing up cliff sides and water inland. The shore lines are there but water on both side of them.
The last time I flew from Malta (about a year or so ago) I didn't have the problem.

In my scenery cfg:
[Area.012]
Title=DEM mesh

[Area.013]
Title=DEM mesh LOD 8

does not appear, although it is in the scenery library in it's correct place below Global Exclude.
 
I have FINALY:jump: got the shore lines and land/water to behave with the exception of one area outside the harbour. Everything seems to be fine but for that spot. What would be cause? Sorry to be such pain, but it's such fine scenery to not show correctly. BTW I can live with that one spot if there is no way to correct it. Thanks.
 
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Stoney,

Do you have the flatten line installed in your scenery.cfg? If so, you might want to try removing it.
 
No, sorry Rami, but I've tried just about all I can think of but this spot remains as shown. I also deleting the filelists in each of the Malta folders but to no avail.
I noticed in the read me in the install instructions that extra textures were included in the D/L. However mine did not. I re-D/Ld Malta V.2 to see if I missed something. No extra textures were in that one either.
Could this have an effect? All the rest of the Malta scenery is just perfect, so I don't get this one spot.
Thanks again for helping, I do appreciate it.
 
Don't have a MED install, but I did see stuff like this when I was working on my Aleutians scenery.

Do you have Rhumbas watermasks installed/ activated?

If so, deactivate the watermasks, then go fly - if the problem goes away, it's the watermask that's the problem.
If watermasks need to be active, you need to move this layer down the pecking order - it needs to sit beneath the add-on scenery.

Hope this helps
 
Let me repeat myself...

Stoney,

I had the same problems a few months back, Rami followed my efforts step by step and we resolved all problems.

Please, refer to the following thread:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...dy-happy-with-your-Malta-North-Africa-scenery

What resolved the water flooded areas in Malta with only the coastline appearing for me was deactivating SdC's conflicting Euro coastlines and set the correct hierarchy order in my scenery.cfg for old Giorgio's Malta scenery included in BSK's Malta pack.

Now I'm away from my computer, so I do not remember correctly whether is Giorgio's Malta1 that must be above Malta2 or the other way around. Try switching them around: the result is surprising!

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
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Stoney,

If you supply your scenery.cfg, I might be able to help you out here...
 
I will join the discussion. Why do my scenery layers show the proper arrangement in the MTO flight sim library but two files are missing in the scenery notepad???
 
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Stoney,

I have some good news, but it is also bad news.

Your scenery.cfg checked out okay. You have things organized correctly, so that is not a problem. Instead, I'm convinced that something else is running "interference" on Malta. It could be an old runway.bgl from the original Heinkels or Swordfish campaigns, or perhaps something else. I would make the attempt to scour through your scenery folders to find the cause, but that's about as much advice as I can give.

You're getting interference from somewhere, my friend.

Highpockets,

Without looking at your scenery.cfg, I wouldn't be able to tell you too much.
 
I had the same problem when i tried to install the MED and Malta and never did figure it out. I had thought that Sander's european coastlines could stay active and that the new sceneries would just overwrite them...?? i had hoped to have a install for Europe AND the MED but it looks like you have to just do the MED and then Europe seperate which is a bit of a pain if you want to take off from the allied bases in Afrika and then bomb in Germany?
 
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CrisGer and others,

If set up properly, there should be no conflicts at all between Sander's European files, (which also cover some of the northern Med) Jean Bomber's African coastlines and his Afnor scenery, and Brunosk's Malta. The trick is not having anything else in the way.
 
Rami
I hand edited my scenery files to proper alignment, but note the screen shot out of Luqa Malta. Some problem with shoreline and water. Maybe something missing inside one of the Scenery db files?
View attachment 52389
 
Okay and many thanks for your help Rami. I will start looking throught the rest, I'll probabley find it. I'm looking in each SCENEDB; scenery folder right?
 
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stoney said:
Okay and many thanks for your help Rami. I will start looking through the rest, I'll probably find it. I'm looking in each SCENEDB; scenery folder right?
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Stoney,

Yes, that's what I'd do. The issue you have is that there is something running interference. A couple of guesses might be that you have Rhumbaflappy's 2002-era coastlines installed along with the new ones, or perhaps some old Malta scenery is muddling up the works. It's kind of hard to guess without seeing it firsthand.
 
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