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GSX appears to be incompatible with UK2000 airports
tf51d:
Just tried EGCC (UK2000 extreme) and had no problems, other than some ground vehicles running into each other, and since I was at a static jetway, a stair truck over lapped it, but no graphic anomalies.
flapsup:
Pete, Have you checked your scenery cfg ? Making sure that Gatwck is above Heathrow, that's important as it can cause weird graphic errors, and also the common library is below all UK2K airports.
Pete Dowson:
Found it!
Nothing to do with traffic, or scenery layers, but thanks for the suggestions.
Reading everything about GSX carefully, I note that the only actual scenery element (as opposed to AI ground traffic) affected was "vehicles_airport.bgl" in scenery\global\scenery. So I checked -- it had renamed the 'original' to vehicles_airport.gsx. I renamed its newer or patched one and then the "original" back to a bgl.
Checked EGCC (which was previously afflicated by sevaral striped sloping planes and at least 6 infinitely high poles), and ... it's okay! Of course I have my pushback vehicles back because those are the ones patched out by the BGL change.
Now here's the thing: my "original" vehicles_airport.bgl was NOT the default FSX one. I'd already updated my FSX installation with the much improved vehicles from DSD ("DSD Ground X Vehicles Europe"). I suspect that the GSX installer isn't so much replacing the BGL as patching it, and since it isn't the original that patching is going awry.
It's odd that, as far as I've found so far, that only affects UK2000 airports, but that might be just because Gary uses different techniques to others, or possibly the vehicles called up by the scenery are different.
Anyway, I'm now stuck. I really don't want to try uninstalling and renstalling GSX just for that one file, so can some kind person here please ZIP up their GSX-patched "vehicles_airport.bgl" and send it to petedowson at btconnect.com for me? I#d be very grateful.
I think the GSX installer needs to check the BGL before patching it, and maybe include a patch for the DSD enhanced version. I can supply that BGL if they need to examine it. Just need an email address.
Regards
Pete
virtuali:
Ok, that makes sense, although since we use a standard patcher utility, I would have guessed that if the vehicles file wasn't the original from MS, it would have returned an error, which the installer obviously check for it.
If you send me that file via email (use the address on the bottom of the "Contact Us" page), we can do a patch for DSD file too.
Pete Dowson:
--- Quote from: virtuali on February 02, 2012, 11:08:26 am ---Ok, that makes sense, although since we use a standard patcher utility, I would have guessed that if the vehicles file wasn't the original from MS, it would have returned an error, which the installer obviously check for it.
If you send me that file via email (use the address on the bottom of the "Contact Us" page), we can do a patch for DSD file too.
--- End quote ---
Okay, doing that now.
I've received an GSX-updated original and will install it now for proper verification.
[LATER]
Yes, that works. Though presumably I'm losing some of the DSD vehicles not replaced by GSX -- the DSD BGL was over 4 times the size of the default!
Thanks,
Pete
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