Louisville does no longer work in P3D5

[19pecker67]

Any news on this from the developer?
No buildings!
We pay some bucks and then -- after an update -- the buildings go missing?
Anyone with a fix that works for all?
Thanks in advance.

[19pecker67]

Hello to FSDT,
any news on the broken KSDF scenery?
What can fix this?
Can you fix this?
I'd like fly into KSDF with my new M11F...
Greeting,
Andreas

[sticky1202]

I can also confirm, KSDF does not work, I'm using P3Dv4....

Jim

[virtuali]

I can only confirm KSDF works normally, although I must say I only tried it in P3D V5. Are both the Addon Manager menu and GSX menus visible ?

[Blasb]

Yeah I have same problem and both addon manager, gsx menus, etc. are visible. All other fsdreamteam products work like a charm!

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

I can only confirm KSDF works normally, although I must say I only tried it in P3D V5. Are both the Addon Manager menu and GSX menus visible ?

In response to this, as I have just purchased it myself now and I am in the middle of installing it, I noticed in the Scenery folder for the airport, there are only 6 files, the basic files for the layout of the airport. I dont see any building models or any other BGL that relates to the airport itself. In the Texture folder, there are loads of textures, but I dont think the installer or the Universal Updater installed the models for these textures. Are they located somewhere else Umberto?

[Blasb]

Yeah these are the bgl files that I have:

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

Umberto, can you confirm please that only 5 files should be in the scenery folder for this airport (I moved the GSX ini file into the GSX folder)  and please share how the buildings are loaded into the simulator? I installed it as per the instructions in the manual and activated as needed. I get the same issue and Im on Windows 10, no windows security running, all folders and drives are shared with full permissions. I run no anti virus and keep the airport in the location it wants to go in. I installed the airport with the given installer, loaded up into the sim, activated the airport with the license, closed the sim down. Ran the universal installer to update the airport, GSX and GSXlv2, then loaded into the sim with the same results. its activated and verified within the manager, I get the airport layout and the gates, thats it. No buildings, light poles or simobjects. Of course no default either, so the afcad is being read. But with only 6 files in the scenery folder, Im thinking some assets were not installed correctly by the installer or updater. In the sim, under the addon menu, GSX is there and so is Coautl. I have no XML problems on my PC that were created by the windows update back in last November, I fixed them on my end. So there is no reason why the airports should not load unless there is a problem with the installer, updater giving me assets or assets loading in the sim.

[kmanning]

Hi adamtpestridge and Blasb,

I think all the bgl files are present in the Scenery folder. The files for the models are located in the Addon Manager, Simobjects, Misc folder, under the FSDT-KSDF folder.

Ken.

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

Okay. So its most likely a set up problem then with GAXlv2 then.

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

so here is my current pathway to getting this airport to show up as clearly there is some kind of thing going wrong here.

I installed it using the installer provided, reading through the instructions. It gave me no special sequence for installation. Just the usual thing about anti virus software. which isnt present on my pc.
Once installed, I activated it within the sim, using addon manager. Restarted the sim, nothing.
Ran the FSDT Universal updater, updating this airport and both GSX. Still nothing.
I then downloaded the GSX installer from the website, was going to do level 2 as well, when I discovered they are the same installer so I only had to run it once. Once that installed, I then ran the FSDT updater (to make sure everything was up to date) and installed that. Then headed back into Universal Installer to make sure ALL my products were updated. Still nothing.

Then I thought I would de-activate and re-activate the airport. Sadly currently right now, its just stuck in a loop of contacting activation server, it goes up to 100% and then starts all over again, like its trying many times to contact a server but not getting the response or not making contact. Clearly Couatl crashes at this point. Restarting it doesnt help.

Whats your thoughts please @umberto on this one please?

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

I do honestly believe there is something about this airport, that is problematic. When I open up the addonmanager where you would register the serial or activate the product away from Trial mode, If I make any changes in the box on the right, restart the sim, it doesnt save anything. Maybe that menu is no longer working, but if its there and clickable, it would lead people to believe it functions. But sadly, no changes are saved. The gates and the groundpoly are the only thing that loads in the sim. No autogen or simobjects beyond the GSX SODE gates. GSX functions as it should tho  as does all the other airports.

So I cant imagine its anything to do with the settings, but here are mine:

FXAA: OFF
AA: 2xMSFASA
Texture Filtering: Trilinear
Texture Resolution: 2048

Vsync OFF and FPS Unlimited

Level of detail Radius: MAX
Tessellation Factor: LOW
Mesh: 1M
Texture Resolution: 7cm

Scenery Objects all maxed out.
Road Lights: None
No dynamic 3D autogen

All water, special effects and Volumetric Clouds sliders maxed out with all reflections ticked. I dont use Amortize Clouds but all those other boxes are ticked.
All shadows are casting and receiving except for No Shadow Flagged Content and Particles, with Vegetation not receiving shadow info either.

Dynamic Lighting is on and reflections slider is on Ultra.

The airport is in the addons menu which shows up as grey in the scenery library, it does load in, but however you code the actual buildings to load is I feel what has failed here. If its an XML file that communicates through this or maybe the python package that instructions to load the airport, could that be in error or not being culled?

Even in the global view zooming outside the planet there is no change to the load in the sim of the airport. So its not a radius problem. I do believe tho that there is something with this airport because Ive installed other FSDT airports last year with no issue. Which I know means nothing for this one.
I dont use a VPN, I dont have antivirus, Windows Defender is disabled on my Windows 10, fully updated but with updates disabled. Ive also disabled Cortana, removed the bloatware from the OS as well, the candy games and Facebook apps.
I have a program that clears out the memory cache every ten minutes for stability.
cant think of anything else relevant on my PC.
Does it matter if the FSDreamTeam Exclude is loading into the sim first above the airport? Or does the airport need to load in first before the Exclude? I mean, its all XML so I guess it dont matter.
 

My next step is too clean wipe all FsDreamTeam products and then restart installing everything again, ending with GSX1&2, which is a major undertaking and something I would rather avoid if possible.

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

I will add tho, when I swapped around the entries for the FsDreamTeam Exclude and KSDF airport in the XML file, just the point at which they appear in the list, I now get a full groundpoly loading and when in global camera view and zoom out, I can see more textures on the ground loading in at the airport, still no simobjects, but I do see a difference in the texturing, when I zoom in, that extra layer of texture disappears, like when Im in the sim on the ground, I just get the groundploly loading and not the extra layer of texture. Although by swapping the entries around in the XML list, I do get a deeper colour of texturing on the ground now that I didnt have before. So I think the simobjects loading is broken for this airport. I wish I could upload images, but Im in the UK and IMGUR is gone for us to link in pics.

[adamjpestridge@gmail.com]

I will also add Umberto, that in the trial mode even before I added the license key, no buildings showed up as well, which is not the behaviour of other FSDT airports in trial mode, buildings did show up for 10 minutes before loosing textures or the models disappearing whilst in the trial mode. So I do really think there is something up genuinely with this airport that needs to be looked at. Maybe something to do with the communication files between Coautl and the airport itself? Looking forward to your response.

[sticky1202]

Definitely something wrong! I've had the airport installed for years and worked perfectly, until recently. Something changed. KSDF does NOT work "normally" as Umberto claims.

Jim