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hi all, i am using world of ai traffic however... when i look at the traffic at hesh i cant see the models only their lights. when i view them on decent / final decent into hesh i can see the model but appon finals i cant see the models on the lights of the ai.... there is also nothing on the apron apart from the ai aircraft lights ? ... it seems they are there but i cant see the model ?

This is a known issue with WoAI aircraft it you turn on aircraft shadows. Disable this option in the FSX settings and you should be able to see them.
This issue occurs with almost all today's airport addons.

horst18519 wrote:This is a known issue with WoAI aircraft it you turn on aircraft shadows. Disable this option in the FSX settings and you should be able to see them.
This issue occurs with almost all today's airport addons.

Hi Thorsten

Since such a big part of the community use these high quality WoAI packages (they are some of the most downloaded files on AVSIM!), I think that you guys should update your scenery so that AI shadows can be displayed. Even though it is a known issue, many quality developers have found ways to make it work (your Heraklion being a good example).

Having AI shadows disabled kills the realism in my opinion. It makes aircraft look like they are levitating on the ground instead of sitting firmly on it.

I hope you will do this to both HESH and Djerba, they are beautiful airports and I hate to see them held back by this lack of shadows.

Heraklion uses the same technique as HESH and DTTJ.
We do not like that situation either, but we can't change this from our side. WoAI uses old models (not FSX models), we can't change this. It is a known limitation of those old models that they cause issues in FSX.

Heraklion uses the same technique as HESH and DTTJ.

Uh, no it doesn't. That was my point, AI aircraft show up fine in Heraklion - no need to turn shadows off. So if it can be done in that scenery, why can't it be achieved in HESH and Djerba? That was the original question.

I do not know how WoAI created their aircraft models and why they decided not to make them fully FSX-compatible. You will find a lot of addons that make them disappear.