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The good thing is that you can activate and deactivate large areas of scenery very easily with improved load times.

Eureka...windsocks! Having a look around there seemed to be duplicate SODE folders here and there. I am wondering if updating SODE via ORBX central is the culprit. In the end I uninstalled and deleted all the related SODE folders and reinstalled. Then I added the saved objects and XML files back in. I had heard that some simmers were having trouble with SODE after updating to 1.7.0 with ORBX Central. Most seemed to cure it by deregistering and reregistering. Funny how it only affected the windsocks.

First, sorry Bug, I overlooked your previous post. Sorry about that. Thinking this over once more, I do wonder if it an issue with the Orbx installation. Although I only cover this in relation to an Orbx reinstall or update, it does apply for a 'verify' of NZSI as well -- any changes to Orbx NZSI, and you should really uninstall NZDN first, then reinstall after any update/reinstall/verification. And it would be worthwhile to check the Orbx NZSI folders for any disabled NZDN files after the initial uninstall of NZDN. The issue is that Orbx Central will try and reverse any changes which my...

Ah that did the trick thank you. I have been mucking around with 4.5 and settings etc and the building shadow setting must have been changed....not that I would have connected the two. It's not something you notice until you notice if you get what I mean. Was it always like that just that I never noticed before? I must say I am quite happy with my current set up. It looks nice and is performing ok. I just updated to the 4.5 client only as I really didn't want to bother reloading all my add ons. Is there anything in particular in the Content and Scenery modules that is worth upgrading them...

Much appreciated. Thanks. :)

Hi Rob, Are you able to offer any more help to resolve this issue? Even if i can find out which tree files is the culprit and delete it. Thanks Les

4.5.12.30293, I just installed it 4 days ago so it should be the latest.

Hi Rob, I am very grateful for the time you took to explain in such detail how the jetways setup works. And it is good to hear that it wasn't something I did wrong during the install. I regularly travel to NZCH for work (on ANZ's A320s) and I think you are right about the jetways that work : gates 27, 28 and 34 are all at International and that's where I see, for example, the QANTAS 737-800s docked IRL. Now I know at which gates the jetways work for the 737 as things are, I'll just use those, at least for now. Same will apply to the 777 in due course (that's all I fly, other than eventually...

Prior to NZCH, the VLC Libraries installer was a stand-alone installer run during the Real NZ installation, so you needed to choose the install location separately. To make this easier, with NZCH the Libraries will install to the same 'root' folder as NZCH, unless they are already installed, in which case they will just update the current version. So it seems that with Dunedin (or prior?) you let the libraries install to the 'default' location. (Default as defined by Lockheed Martin.) The Libraries are not large, so you could leave them there, or wait for the coming stand-alone installer and...

I understood it to be just the ILS issue Rob. The stock ILs can be moved a small distance using ADE. Select the localiser or GS "feathers" and in the properties box that appears the new lat/long figures can be entered or you can drag to the desired location. A lot depends on the accuracy of the ground poly/markings placement. The localiser and GP antenna static objects may need to be relocated as well to match. I am away at the moment so cant take a look at it just yet. Most NZCH sceneries have had this ILS problem.

Thinking this over lately, you are certainly right -- although I recommend having shadows (cast/receive) turned on for buildings and simobjects, this does mean a lot of shadows on the thousands of autogen buildings in the city. Although it's great to see autogen all the way to the Port Hills, that's probably not going to help performance-wise. So leaving autogen settings high-ish, but reducing the range, is a good way to go.

Ok, thanks for that.

ToProb, Just want to let you know that when I installed ORBX libraries, full working ORBX demo of entire island of Tasimira, ORBX's YMML Melborne airport, and ORBX's ESSA Arandada airport, it made your Godzone's NZDN terminal disappeared leaving only jetways hanging in mid air even though ORBX libraries, full working ORBX demo of entire island of Tasimira, ORBX's YMML Melborne airport, and ORBX's ESSA Arandada airport have NOTHING TO DO with your Godzone NZDN scenery I checked scenery add on list in FSX and found out that installation of ORBX libraries, full working ORBX demo of entire island...

Thanks... I'm glad its easy to solve... I'll upgrade... been needing some motive to do so. :D Michael

I certainly have enough Prepar3d 4.5 testers. Does anyone still use v3? If I can't find any testers I may have to wait until I finish the FSX version before releasing P3Dv3, as they are pretty much the same scenery.

Ok, good timing, I'm taking a lunch break... spicy noodles, 'developer's budget lunch.' I'd love to have working doors etc, and one day I'll do this. It is reasonably easy to do with SODE, and I already use some SODE elements -- air bridges and windsocks, for instance. But there are some reasons why I don't do hangar doors. First of all, I only model what I can see. I've said before that I have no imagination, or artistic ability, so if I don't have a photo of it, it won't happen. There are two hangars at NZCH that I've actually see inside of, and modelled inside, the two big yellow things at...

Thank you for the fast answer! And yes, you were right. It only affects Wellington and in Nelson it is quite sparse. So I do not have a technical problem there. I understand the pain when it comes to trees in residential areas as I am working on sceneries myself. But I found a way in QGIS that makes it a lot easier and faster. And the result is absolutely sufficient for flightsim purposes. There is a function in QGIS that lets you spread random points in an area. I do that to my residential areas and subtract the areas where I have buildings already: The result is: With a little additional...