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  6. X-Plane 10.20 Beta 11 Out now!!

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    It is best to leave any default files as they are as Laminar will continue to update them.

     

    If you do not want scenery to be used, read this.

    I guess so, and I know the .ini controls the order but i like to have my folders organised too, just makes everything easier... But i guess i'll just keep the aerosoft named folders and delete the ones i had renamed.

  7. X-Plane 10.20 Beta 11 Out now!!

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    I've got this nuisance with updating my x-plane, I wanted to organise my custom scenery folder a bit better so i renamed all the Aerosoft sceneries by deleting the "aerosoft" part in the beginning so there's only the ICAO code and the airport name, like all my other airport addons. Now everytime i run the patcher, it thinks that i'm missing the AS scenery and redownloads all of them from the server, i guess a solution would be to rename all of them back before running patcher, but i didn't remember what the first part was.. I'm going to write it down now, but would there be any way to ignore the AS sceneries in the patcher so i don't have to download & delete those duplicate folders?

  9. Possible to remove default x-plane terrain?

    in Scenery Development

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    The organisation in my custom scenery folder was indeed the culprit.  :D  Well, i had named the scenery zzzzz_HD_mesh so that it would be absolutely last in my custom scenery folder, but for some reason in the scenery_packs.ini it was inserted first, above all addon airports. Now i cut & pasted it below everything else in the .ini and alls working and i got nice mesh for the world :P

     

     

    You can make it so that the ortho keeps the water, and loads below it so the water defined in X-Plane cuts through the ortho. It lets you have an ortho that has streams or rivers that X-Plane doesn't draw merging into the ones it does draw.

    I forgot what layer it should be.

     

    How would i go about doing this? That'd be great.  I spent way too long cutting out water in my orthophoto yesterday... Also is it possible to somehow fade the water, so that you can get some of the orthophoto's water mixing with x-planes water? (so you could see some of the underwater ground that you can see in orthophotos etc.)

  11. Possible to remove default x-plane terrain?

    in Scenery Development

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    Blah, that's annoying, would make approaching the airstrip easier and nicer if you would have better scenery than just default textures and OSM buildings in the city.. Spend whole day editing the water out of the orthophotos... :P I'll see how much i can cover with orthophotos without them showing default terrain beneath it...

     

     

    Also, another problem: With alpilotx's HD mesh, my airports go underground... all i can see is taxiways that are in the apt.dat, but stuff like the draped polygons for the orthoscenery are invisible. I've checked the airport elevation many times and its correct, even from the .dsf file like Tom Kyler adviced in a thread on 2nd page. When i remove the HD mesh everything is fine.

  12. Possible to remove default x-plane terrain?

    in Scenery Development

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    Hey.

     

    I'm making orthophoto for this nice finnish airstrip in typical finnish landscape, which means there's lakes everywhere :P Now i've been removing all the water so that the x-plane's water can show through, but problem is that the islands and also the river are on ground in default scenery, so when i remove the water what shows under it? You guessed it, ground! looks kinda nasty and not nice... :P

     

    Couple pics to illustrate the problem:

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    A06TE.jpg

     

     

    I know how to exclude the beaches, but i still can't exclude the earth/water... Any suggestions? :) 

     

    Cheers, Kim.

  15. Good place for Charts

    in General Discussion

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    Andyrooc posted a nice list, what I usually do when i try to find charts for specific airports I google the name of the country and AIP (Aeronautical Information Publication) or AIS(Aeronautical Information Service). Usually the first link will lead me to a directory of the country's airports and then all the charts for that airport. :)

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  16. What did you fly today?

    in Screenshots

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    There's only one way to compare them gheed--Open FSX--Open X-Plane--uninstal FSX--Fly X-Plane & enjoy......in 12 short months v10 has done nothing but get better..... :P

     Haha yep, I still want to keep my FSX installed, got some addons for it that I still want to keep for occasional flying. (NGX, bunch of Aerosoft's european airports, FTX AU & NA...) 

  17. What did you fly today?

    in Screenshots

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    I guess this is sort of an introduction. Long time FSX flyer, bought XPX on release as I saw what it was capable of and been keeping an eye on addon development since. Really starting to like the platform now and slowly flying more on XPX than FSX :)

     

    Anyways, here's Chris K's amazing Toronto City scenery with the downtown buildings, simply amazing, thank you Chris for your efforts! 

     

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