johnb Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 After I installed X-Aviation new DC-3 on X-Plane 9 and used some I found all other planes went to Generic livery.I can find no way to change liveries. All other planes just show a generic livery button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hi, John,I've never heard of this before. That said, we don't touch any aircraft directories or alter any files in the install process. We actually create our own folder, so I would assume you may have something else at play here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Cameron, thanks for reply. The DC-3 liveries all work, but no others. Also get an error message when I open others saying minor error in loading contact the maker. When I open other aircraft livery menu get a choice dialog box with Generic only. All planes other than DC-3 are now generic.I installed DC-3 from your disk to X-plane folder, not the aircraft folder per your instructiions. But the DC-3 is now installed in X-aviation folder INSIDE the aircraft folder.Should I remove the X-Aviation folder from the aircraft folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hi, John,X-Aviation is the correct folder. That said, I think there's something else at play here that just so happened to take effect around the same time of install. As stated, we don't alter any X-Plane settings, aircraft, or folders with the exception of creating our own. I've never in all my times doing support heard of this actually. Did you do some kind of a mass aircraft update in Plane Maker any time recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 No major changes. Was flying other planes and looked fine. Not sure it was from install if DC-3 in correct aircraft folder. I rebooted and it appears liveries restored, but faded. (Also Chase view does not work when I switch planes. so something else).There is a new "shrink wrap" plug in. Never saw that before. Part of DC-3 install?And understand GIZMO is DC-3 plug in. Will it affect other aircraft?Sorry to be such a bother, but want to get back to normal again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Shrink-Wrap and Gizmo are part of the DC-3 install. Both will do no interaction with any aircraft unless we tell it to. A specific file has to be present that initiates any kind of interaction with those plug-ins, so you're in the clear there.By faded I assume you mean graphically faded textures? This really sounds like a video driver issue or perhaps memory exhaustion. What are your system specs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Cameron, Yes, that may be the issue. Running an external monitor from a Macbook Pro. 8mb RAM May be runnning on 256 vram instead of 512. Will research that. But, I rebooted 2 more times and it now appears back to normal colors on other aircraft. So I dont know what happened, but will be more watchful when I try the DC-3 again. I am a little suspicious that I was in some view other than Window view when I switched planes. Guess too, good idea to disable Gizmo and shrink wrap when I fly other planes. Thanks very much for your help and patience. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameron Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hi, John,You're welcome to disable as you please, but as a matter of mention you certainly shouldn't need to! It's an extra step we don't want to tack on to our customers, and if you're seeing no effects from it I don't think you should have to.Glad things are looking on the "up!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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