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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Orbx Releases 2S1 VASHON ISLAND - Now available for FREE download

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the windsocks at the smaller airfield are off by about 90 deg. I set up the wind from the west and the socks show it coming from the north. The larger airfield (Vashon?) doesn't have the same issue.

It's also a pity the grass causes aircraft crashes (even the tiny little flowers). Impossible to taxi about Vashon with detect crashes on.

Apart from that, two nice little airfields and much appreciated. I actually have somewhere interesting to fly to in PNW now.
 
Hi everyone. I've never posted over here before but glad to say hello and glad most of you are enjoying the scenery. Special thanks to Bill for his comments, what an honour to have those words coming from the 'master'.

I'm not sure about the 90 degree error in the WA69 windsocks but thanks for pointing it out, and if it needs to be changed we'll fix it in a patch. I know I need to remove some crash boxes for those who fly with crashes enabled, so I can look into the windsocks at the same time.

I'm also not sure why one of you has the missing textures on the statics, but we're looking into that too.

I'm greatly enjoying listening to everyone's tales of landing at the strip!

cheers
John Hockings (aka Prof)
 
Congrats on the two beautiful crafted airfields. I'm really enjoying them a lot. The bushes and trees look amazing when coming in on 17. The first time I found the 2S1 and did an approach was very exciting and felt very real.

I hope that Orbx will make airfields with even more big bushes and tress just like on 2S1. It gives a very nice realistic 3d effect.
 
Y'all are simply the best Orbx crew. :ernae:

I wish you'd consider the US southeast with the Appalachian Mtns. :santahat::guinness: I'd pay dearly.

Caz
 
Back at'cha!

The low frame rates come when you're looking at Seattle I bet, Seattle is a frame killer, not Vashon Island.

Super job Orbx gang, took off from Wax Orchard and flew the length to Vashon Municipal.

The Bleriot XI is the perfect airplane for scenery like this! :ernae:

Caz
 
Thankyou Orbx and for all who posted the screenies. It looks great and love the grasses (achoooeeeeee, hay fever) and I will be downloading as well. :applause::applause::applause:

Jim
 
These lines added to the FSX.cfg can help debug missing texture problems like the black aircraft. They are added to the [SCENERY] section (don't create a new [scenery] section)

[SCENERY]
// To show alerts or areas, set to = 1
// To hide alerts or areas, set to = 0

// Alert for missing textures
ShowMissingTextureAlert=1

// Alert for missing objects
MissingLibraryAlert=1

// Render Trigger areas as visible boxes
ShowTriggers=1

Make sure you turn off ShowMissingTextureAlert when you have finished debugging as it can be really annoying having messages constantly pop up.

I'm also with Cazzie on the framerates. There is a bit of a hit with the airports but nothing too great (only 3 or 4 fps when running at 25-30 fps). Seattle city and KSEA seem to be the ones causing the framerate problems as far as I can tell.

+1 on the bushes and grasses. I've never liked the grass ORBX place around their airports and always delete it but what the Prof has done with the grass for these 2 airfields is much much better.
 
Black Textures

I too would like to add my praise for this great freeware.

I also have the same problem of missing textures on some of the planes which is puzzling since I actually run this on two different machines with duplicate installations and only see the black textures on the e8600 dual core with a 260GTX while the quad core is absolutely fine.

Puzzling

I added the lines to my .cfg but didn't see any results maybe I need further clarification as to what I should be looking for.

EDIT:

I have now found my mistake (error copying)

and am getting 3 GUID errors and 4 texture loading errors which seem to be associated to the missing textures:

DAB9276E-46E5-F44C-074C-25A800C9B023

B203C663-2EA2432F-8462-F08B7D97E654

000BEB16-4B8C-8BDC-AFA4-E78611ED5CF2

SIERRA_001.BMP

TURBO ARROWIV_001.BMP

PA28_001.BMP

C172_N944LAQ.BMP

Maybe this will help someone to find a solution.

Thanks
 
I am also getting some black textures, and slow downs.


Not sure but in my case I think the textures are just not loading.

My rig is a 3.1 E8500 with GTX 280 video XP 32 bit 4 gig ram. I find quiet a lot of scenery gives me black textures that often pop in when I get up close. The main reason I still use FS204 the most.

I love the scenery but I loose too many FPS for it to be a regular place to fly


Cheers MarkL
 
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marklaur said:
I love the scenery but I loose too many FPS for it to be a regular place to fly

Cheers MarkL
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Yep this is what I experience...

It's not looking at Seattle either... this is simple looking at the airfield.... stutters appear and fps drop 40%. Look away off to the west towards Olympic mtns.... fps go up.
 
ramsa329 said:
I found a solution to the black textures problem at 2S1.

It was solved by installing the "KB Static Aircraft Library" found at http://www.kb-sim.com/

I now have a perfect and smooth 2S1
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Where did you install it...for the fix

funny how I injoy this scenery so much that even though the planes are still black I don't notice so much...:mixedsmi:
 
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