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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Aeroman on December 01, 2008, 10:20:59 am
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Gents,
Sorry for posting this here. I don't in any way intend to advertise BEV here. In fact, this post is more of the opposite of an advertisement...
Anyway...I need help with BirdsEyeView. I installed all five versions and they all worked when I installed them. However, I just did a flight the other day and it looked like the default FS textures were showing, not BEV. Sure enough, I changed to different seasons and nothing changed. The trees look the same (bare).
I was under the impression all I had to do was select a season (in this case, Fall) and click Apply Theme in the Configurator. Nothing seems to happen when I do this, although it does take a long time for the textures to "apply".
I haven't recently installed any new scenery or textures. The only modification I did was move Ultimate Terrain USA down in priority in the Scenery Index under Megascenery so that Megascenery would show up. Just for good measure, I moved UT-USA back up where it was and BEV still doesn't work, so I don't think that was it. Also, FSGenesis had me change "TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL" from =19 to =22 in the FS9.cfg. That's it. Haven't done anything else.
So, any help with this would be much appreciated. It's very frustrating to think that I bought 5 BEV packages only to all of a sudden have none of them work for some reason.
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I haven't recently installed any new scenery or textures. The only modification I did was move Ultimate Terrain USA down in priority in the Scenery Index under Megascenery so that Megascenery would show up. Just for good measure, I moved UT-USA back up where it was and BEV still doesn't work, so I don't think that was it. Also, FSGenesis had me change "TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL" from =19 to =22 in the FS9.cfg. That's it. Haven't done anything else....
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If these are the only changes you made then unchange them......Go back and undo the four changes you made one at a time.......Once trouble shot you can then determine what your problem is. Something is conflicting and when that happens I believe default wins.....If none of this works then something became corupt, and may end up removing it and reinstalling it.....
Hope that helps.....
Doug
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I only made 2 changes...1 moving UT-USA down in priority and the other changing the "TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL" from =19 to =22 in the FS9.cfg. I did put UT-USA back to where it was and nothing. I guess I can go ahead and try putting the .cfg setting back to =19, but I don't see why that would conflict with it.
Also, when I start up the BEV Configurator, an error comes up that reads "Cannot find one or more images: C:\Program Files\BirdsEyeView\VOL1\TEXTURE\AUTOGENG\THUMB.bmp". I was suspicious about this, but it's not only with Volume 1...it's with all 5 volumes, but just in case, I did uninstall all of BEV and reinstall them all and nothing changed.
Anyway, I'll try that .cfg setting and see how that works.
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Nevermind, got it to work. Turns out BEV is smarter than I thought. Even though it's still fall, it's showing its bare winter textures, just like, for the most part, in real life. So, apparently it was working all along. :P
Thanks for the help though!