I'll quickly cover some of the reported issues with Wellington here.
First, it is very important that your System Registry points to the correct installation path for your flightsim installation. If it doesn't, the installer won't work properly. The main reason why this would be incorrect is if you manually moved the whole flightsim installation at any time.
Tomorrow I'll post some details here and on the Wellington FAQ page showing how to fix the registry.

Runway numbers:
You might not see them. This is a bug, caused by faulty layering which came about due to last minute changes to the runway. I'm sorry about that. Again, I'll post a fix for this. It won't apply to every installation, but certainly all subscribers will need to update.

Raised southern runway tunnel:
This was placed based on my understanding of how various meshes react with and without the topo scenery. However with some combinations it may rise up too high. A slight rise is no problem, just fly over it:), but if the base sits level with the runway, then there will be a fix available tomorrow. This will also tidy the approaches for those who don't have the Topo scenery. If you have the Topo scenery and a higher resolution mesh installed the fix will not be necessary, or desirable.

The scenery should come with a disclaimer: 'Works best with the Red Baron/Geographx 20 metre mesh and topo scenery' but I've tried to make it work without having to spend any more money on these addons. There will be some display issues without these, though.

Dimples:
These are holes around the runway, and are an interesting issue. These are normally caused by having the TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL entry in the FS9.cfg set too low. If you have installed the Red Baron Entertainment 20 metre mesh then you would have been advised to increase this value for proper mesh display. It shouldn't be necessary to increase the value for a 75 metre mesh, but it seems that it is necessary here. This may be a by-product of the way the scenery is flattened.
If you see dimples:
Open the FS9.cfg file. The manual will show how to find this file in the 'Wreckless Tweaks' section.
Find the line which starts:TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=
and change the value to 21.

Howdy,

See: Here (second post down) for a helpful hint on how to create a .bat file switch without having to edit your FS.cfg file all the time.

Ok, here's the runway numbers fix. This will apply to all local subscribers, plus a handful of pre-orders. First up I have to say I'm sorry about this, it is normally something which would be picked up in beta testing, but it was missed.

How do you know if you need to fix? When you run the installer there's a version number shown on the title page -- version 1.0 needs to be updated, version 1.01 doesn't.

You can download the fix here:
Wgtn101.zip

There's a text file included to explain what to do with the files.
There's also a small fix to make the southern tunnel elevation independent of the mesh. This should overcome any different elevations with different meshes.

Wonderfull job Robin. Beyond all expectations
Install went perfectly. Have one query though (so far).
At the southern end of NZWN , there are 3 large fuel tanks partially buried in a hill.
Are they meant to be partially buried, or is this a glitch in my install. Seems to be the only thing i can see wrong anywhere.

Lawrie.

This is my pathetic attempt at the waterworks. Yes, they are meant to be buried. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get good enough photos of them to do them justice.
Luckily they disappear at night...

Well, in that case, they dont look too bad at all. Just like the real thing.....

Lawrie.

Hi Robin.
Just a couple of small things i noticed at Welly. The grass textures in the middle of the Caketin are shimmering and fading in and out, and i must be going blind, because im damned if i can see the beehive in there anywhere.
Also at NZPP, i have an airport beacon tower in the middle of runway 11 (at the rwy-16 end) and beside the tower, a fueling point in the middle of the taxiway.


Lawrie.

I can live without the Beehive, it was just an observation. All the IMPORTANT things are there. The caketin shimmer i can live with, it too was merely an observation ithought i'd mention, after all, i dont have tp look down into it do i.
Look forward very much to the freeware NZPP later this year. Thanks Robin.

Lawrie.

The wish-list of objects which I start with is normally pruned because of time constraints. That's the main reality of trying to make a living from this.
As an example of this, one of the things on the Wellington for FSX list is an AI Crusaders stomping all over some little AI Hurricanes in the caketin... It'll be interesting to see if it makes it into the final scenery.

Now that little "stomping" animation WOULD be interesting..........

That's interesting, these are default objects, from the same library as the boats. Do you have a marina at Tauranga?

Marina and buildings by Te Papa all ok in mine Rob..........

Lawrie.

Yep, thats where the marina should be Trolly (i live in TGA). I dont see the ships or the cranes etc at the port to the right of your screenie either that are in the scenery, or a lot of other buildings that show in my sim.. Guess this is one for Rob to sort.
Do you have your autogen settings all the way up on dense, or very dense ??
I have mine ALL the way up.

Lawrie.

So I remember back a ways when Someone by the name of Trolly suggested removing Marina objects in Auckland to save Frame Rates Guess if you removed the default bgls then they still apply in the newer sceneries as well?

I've just ordered Wgtn, can't wait

Howdy neighbor. Its worth the wait. You WILL LOVE IT !!

Lawrie.

Re-installed NZWN and noticed these on approach to Rwy16:



and a little closer to the airport:



I think my installation has always had these, but since I'm doing a fresh look, thought I'd ask if it's a known issue.
I've been through the FAQ's

Howdy Charl,

Screenshot 1: that looks like a problem with one of the Cook Strait AFCADs cutting a path through Point Halswell (either that, or virtual prisoners from Wellington Prison have tunnelled their way out ).

Screenshot 2: is your TL set at 21?

Well Dorian I'm glad someone's awake - I think I asked this before, you provided the AFCAD answer, I fixed it, and on re-install lost it.
Thanks.
Here's terrain stuff in fs.cfg:
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400
[TERRAIN]
TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=100.000000
TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=21
TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8
TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5
TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.5000000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.500000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4

Have you also installed the Wellington 101 fix Robin released? I know this addressed the problem with the Lyall Bay sea wall. Haven't approched NZWN on 16 for some time now, but, from memory, I think I may also have the same "problem". Might just be a misalignment between mesh and scenery tile.

Robin?

Other small issue - can't for the life of me find the reference - 10 Squirrels AFCAD raised the sea level locally at Queen's Wharf.
Robin fixed this, where can I get the patch?

Here it is.

Scholar and a gentleman. sir, I thank you.
Interesting part is the sea used to make a hump where the AFCAD sat, despite my best efforts.
After my total re-install this has now vanished, the RealNZ QW looks great once more.
Must be the order in which the scenery loads itself?

i just installed it on fsx and all the airport and a few other buildings are all black any way to fix this as it is hard to land at wellington airport being like this

You may need to reinstall. Are you sure you installed the FSX version?

yes i did use the fsx install and i have reinstall twice but same thing

Did you install the FSX version from the CD, or run the patch on the FS2004 version?
What are your specs? In particular your video.

i installed it from the cd and cant remember what vid specs are but the marlborough one works real good just not welly

Apart from a faulty installation, I don't have many ideas on this. That's why I wanted to know your specs, because maybe your graphics system is being overloaded.
In FSX, I think that black textures can mean a few different things:
1. FS9-style untextured materials -- the type of thing which the updated Wellington for FSX was designed to fix. But this would only apply to a few objects.
2. Missing textures -- which is why I was asking about how you installed this. I have had people just download the patch, without installing the basic scenery first -- this would definitely account for missing textures, but since you installed from the CD this won't be the case;
3. Textures just not being rendered -- which comes down to system specs again.

Regarding no. 2, how many files are inthe RealNZwgtn/texture folder? Just navigate to there in Windows Explorer, and the status bar will tell you how many files.

Hi Robin

I have just installed Welly in FSX and applied the patch, I have an issue where I think the AFCAC may be the default and there seems to be an incorrect landclass (waves under the taxiways ?) is there anything I can do to fix this??

I just bought It about 40minutes ago and im just gobsmacked! (in a good way )

Good job Rob!
Cheers
Hamish

My Wellington is looking a little bare ... how do I fix this? I have all the sliders on max.

http://nzff.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5192&hl=tower

Those look like default ground textures -- this is normally caused by installing a landclass file with a priority higher than Wellington.
It could also be a faulty installation, so if you haven't 'nuked' it with landclass, you might try to reinstall it.

Thank you Rob and Nick, I changed the order and it seems to be okay now.

Ho Ho, I just sent a note to cousin down in "Fog City" that I was going to attempt putting some Crusaders lined up on their goal line with a Hurricane taking a conversion, also a shot at painting the cranes with the Cane's colours and the name "Hurrycrane" written on them, (as in real life for those who don't know)
The only problem I have with Real Wellington is that the seawall at the South West corner end - between the road and Lyall Bay appears to be floating a couple of Meters higher than it should be. This is not really a problem but does appear if you have are in Spot Mode and look West when at ground level. Still fiddling with all parameters/addons/meshes etc.
Very happy with the Real series of scenery. Thanks Robin.

I think there is a patch for the tunnel, but best wait for Rob to show up

Which mesh do you use?

I have this problem also. fsx updated version, and am using 20m mesh.

Thanks for the prompt response - sorry about the delay in replying but I've been working on it.
Using RedBaron 20M and Topo, I had previously reinstalled RealWgtn and Wgtn101 and the 20M and Topo without success, this time I disabled all other
addon sceneries and the seawall problem dissappeared, reenabled the other addons 1 at a time (same priorities) and now can't recreate it. I'll continue and update this thread if I ever get it back- and with how I fixed it.
Thanks again.

Hi there

I have just played around with this and tracked it down to the RBE Topo. If it is disabled the problem goes away. I think this has to do with the ability to use FSX coastlines or not, as explained in the readme with the RBE Topo.

Glenn.

Ok, so I know that the last post in this thread was literally YEARS ago, but I only just bought NZWN and I have the sea wall problem. Sticks out like a dogs proverbials:





I'm running FSX, the 75m mesh and thats it. Any tips on settings to tweak, etc?

Cheers
Mark

Are you talking about the rock 'thing'? That is part of the scenery

Yeah thats it. I know its part of the scenery, but surely it shouldn't be sticking out like that? It certainly doesn't look anything like that in RL....