NZFF

Hello I recently acquired a new PC and P3D V2.2

But I am having issues with my NZ scenery.

FTX NZNI and NZSI seem to have a lot of bugs on airports (grass on top of taxiways) I have yet to find a way around this issue ?! so if someone has P3D V2.2 running with no issues with the FTX scenery help is welcome.

I have also tried VLC vector land class but it seems to interfere with FTX GLOBAL and FTX VECTOR (blue textures) only way around is disabling global and activating only Oceania (Australia only) but then I get misaligned autogen ..... this should be coming from the FTX GLOBAL textures since VLC is meant to work with the default textures (like an idiot i did not backup when installing FTX GLOBAL)

I have done a clean reinstall of P3D and need help to get either the FTX NZ scenery working with no problems or the VLC scenery working with no problems with the ftx global and vector addons.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi,

FTX NSNI + NZSI have not yet been released for Prepar3d2, and ORBX does not recommend installing them, e.g. via Migration Tools. However, NZSI should be ready really soon now with NZNI to follow. Just watch the ORBX Forum.

Kind regards, Michael

Hi, I'll answer your PM here, as I have an aversion to the PM system...

As Michael said, Orbx don't recommend or support trying to install their FSX products into P3D, I assume because there are so many issues to fix.

But in your case, I think the problem is that when you activate Oceania in FTXCentral, it also changes NZ to the extent that VLC will no longer work at all, and the result you see -- messed up blue textures etc -- is simply because VLC uses default landclass definitions, which Orbx changes when you switch regions.

The problem might be that now FTX Central's Oceania region includes NZ, even though you don't have FTX NZ installed. Normally, by adjusting scenery priority (VLC does this automatically), it is possible to have both VLC and FTX NZ installed, I do it this way in FSX, it is a good way to go if you have only one of the NZ islands, so you can fly between a FTX island and a VLC island. But without any FTX NZ scenery, I don't think you'll get a good result. And of course it doesn't make sense to have 2 different vector products for the same area, as one will be over-ridden by the other anyway, depending on priority.

But you could check to see if changing priority improves things -- refer to the VLC manual on how to set priority, if you didn't allow the installer to do this for you. You might also need to adjust the FTX priority using their scenery priority tool in FTX Central.

However, I don't think you'll get the result you want, without some sort of compromise. Someone here might know a bit more about how all these things work together, but my understanding is that Hybrid mode was created to prevent the problems caused when you activate a specific region, but it might be a lot more complicated when you try and use FTX Vector as well.

I suspect that you might need to deactivate VLC to get the rest working together. That would be a shame, it's bit like having to sell your favourite grandmother just to keep the rest of the family happy ...

Personally I'd tell the family to p off, and I'd stick with the grandmother, she's probably got you covered in her will anyway. That's what I've done with P3D, I don't think I'll ever install any FTX products in P3D for fear of stuffing it up. However I do have FTX NZ in FSX, for when I need to test things.