Manual aircraft install - effects folder

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vmx12

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Hello again!

I know I'm supposed to copy the contents of the downloaded aircraft's 'effects' folder into the 'effects' folder of FS9, but there's a texture folder already in FS9's 'effects' folder. I'm afraid the texture folder in the aircraft's 'effects' folder will overwrite the texture folder already in FS9's 'effects' folder.

However, it looks like I can open up the texture folder (effects>texture) that comes with the aircraft, which opens up files in filmstrip view. It looks like I can copy these files over to the texture folder in FS9 and it may be fine.

Help?! :banghead:

Darrin
 
Files that are in the Effects/Texture folder must go to the main Effects/Texture folder in order to work. Placing them in the main Textures folder will result in your effects not working. If you are worried about the new files over writing previous ones, simply compare the names of the files in the new Effects/texture folder to those in the existing Effects/Texture folder. If there are files of the same name, open them up and compare them. A lot of times, designers will use the same effects textures over and over....if they are identical, forgetaboutit. If the names are the same but the files are different in terms of size, what the texture file shows....then you have to decide...do you want the effects associated with the original file to work or the effects associated with the new file to work.

OBIO
 
vmx12 said:
Hello again!

I know I'm supposed to copy the contents of the downloaded aircraft's 'effects' folder into the 'effects' folder of FS9, but there's a texture folder already in FS9's 'effects' folder. I'm afraid the texture folder in the aircraft's 'effects' folder will overwrite the texture folder already in FS9's 'effects' folder.

However, it looks like I can open up the texture folder (effects>texture) that comes with the aircraft, which opens up files in filmstrip view. It looks like I can copy these files over to the EFFECTS>texture folder in FS9 and it may be fine.

Help?! :banghead: Darrin
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You are exactly correct, Darrin! I added the EFFECTS to clarify where the texture BMPs go (altho I think that is what you meant!)
- H52
 
Thanks, Obio and Hawkeye.

So don't open the texture folder inside the aircraft's 'effects' folder and copy those bmp files one by one into to FS9's effects>texture folder?

You're saying to simply copy the 'texture' folder itself over to the effects folder of FS9, where it will likely 'overwrite the 'texture' folder already inside FS9's effects folder?
 
NO! Just the opposite.
Open the effects folder that comes w/ the a/c; in there u will find some effects files and a texture folder.
Copy the effects files into the FS9\Effects folder
Go back to the a/c effects folder and open the texture sub-folder that is there; copy those BMPs into the FS9\Effects\texture folder.
Go fly! :jump:

- H52
 
At least in Win7 you can simply copy the effects\texture folder from the aircraft you downloaded as one piece into the FS\effects folder. Since there already is a texture folder present Windows will ask you if you want to combine the two. Answer yes to the prompt and the operation will start.
If a filename is already present you will get another prompt to skip, overwrite or keep both.

Do not however copy the effects\texture folder from the aircraft into the FS\effects\texture folder in that way....as that would simply create another subfolder and the files are then not accessible to FS.

Cheers
Stefan
 
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