Simwings Heathrow // EGLL // Strange night ground lighting // Strange ground textures.

[Pro FS 1]

Hello! So, I have 2 issues with the Sim Wings Heathrow. First, the ground night lighting is very strange. It has green and red blotches at night (see photo). Second issue is the ground textures. The entire ground layout looks like it is made of grass (?). The only exception to this is the runways, which are fine. It appears the main ground layout is slightly transparent over the satellite image.
System specs:
2060 SUPER
i7 9700
16 Gigs of ram

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[Herman 1591]

If you're using any ORBX products, please ensure your EGLL is above them in the Scenery Library order by using the function in Orbx Central to set the Orbx entry point below all your add-on scenery.

[Pro FS 1]

Ok, will do after waking up. 

[Pro FS 1]

Negative, did not fix either of the issues. My ground layout still looks transparent over the satellite image layout.

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[mopperle 4162]

Which sim are you talking about?

[Pro FS 1]

P3D V4.5 (This is the Simwings Heathrow for P3D V4 and V5)

[OPabst 2091]

I could not see any mayor fault on your screenshots.

It is a common technology in the design, to have a photoreal ground at the area the airports, which could not have the resolution, to present details of the surface in the apron area.

This details will be given by high resolution textures, which have a small transparency to keep some shadings of the photo, but give the details of the groundstructure on the apron areas.

It is possible, that there not in all areas of the detaillayers fits 100% exactly to the groundstruture given by the photoground, but this is technically difficult based on the round earth calculations, which not always generate the correct offsets in the millimeter area.

[Pro FS 1]

Oh, I dont mind the offsets, its the grass material on the apron which is the issue. Here's stand 544 for what others (from a previous topic regarding the same issue [Their solution did not help me]) see versus what I see: (stand 554)

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[Pro FS 1]

as you can see, there is a grass material on the apron:

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I should be seeing something like this:

[OPabst 2091]

Ok, the difference of this two pictures...

13 minutes ago, Pro FS said:

Oh, I dont mind the offsets, its the grass material on the apron which is the issue. Here's stand 544 for what others (from a previous topic regarding the same issue [Their solution did not help me]) see versus what I see: (stand 554)

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... is only the view angle of the same postion? The oneworld 747 looks ok, the easyjet is different at the same position 544.

[Pro FS 1]

1 minute ago, OPabst said:

is only the view angle of the same postion?

What do you mean by that?

[OPabst 2091]

The view to the position in the first case (747) is more from the top then in the second case of the A320. The viewpoint is lower above ground in case of then easyjet.

[Pro FS 1]

It should be enough to show the 74 image (the way its supposed to be [photo taken by someone else]) has no grass material on the apron. My image (the A320 one) has a grass material on the apron.

[mopperle 4162]

11 hours ago, Pro FS said:

It should be enough to show the 74 image (the way its supposed to be [photo taken by someone else]) has no grass material on the apron. My image (the A320 one) has a grass material on the apron.

Then something must be messed up on your side.

This is what I see in P3Dv4.5HF3, no matter what zoom level and/or viewing angle I use:

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So please go to OrbxCentral and make a screenshot showing this:

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[Pro FS 1]

Will do, let me get my pc on

[Pro FS 1]

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I inserted it below Heathrow.

[mopperle 4162]

In general the Insertion point has to be below the lowest 3rd party addon.

[Pro FS 1]

Ok, done.

[Pro FS 1]

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still got grass

[mopperle 4162]

As said something in your setup is messed up:

- delete the shader cache

- start with a fresh prepar.cfg

- maybe do a fresh install of EGLL

- maybe do a fresh install of P3D

[Pro FS 1]

- delete the shader cache - Did that a few days ago while trying to fix dynamic lights.
- start with a fresh prepar.cfg - Did that a few days ago too.
- maybe do a fresh install of P3D - Did that a few weeks ago while moving it to another storage device.
- maybe do a fresh install of EGLL - Will do this

[Pro FS 1]

Nope, grass isnt fixed

[Pro FS 1]

Ok so I just re-installed ORBX central then re-installed EGLL and all issues seem to have fixed themselves

 

[mopperle 4162]

Great to hear.

[mopperle 4162]

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