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Misplaced ships and missing golf course

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 5:10 pm
by shasta62
Hello Thorsten,

in Travemünde I found ships at the Privall (red), although they belong to the other side of the Trave river, where the Ferry docks are located. In Addition there is a huge Brown field instead of the golf course North of Travemünde (blue). Maybe this could be changed later with a patch?

Cheers
Christian

PS: Any News concerning the trees and houses on the beaches around the Baltic Sea? I also found them around Dahme in Schleswig Holstein.

Re: Misplaced ships and missing golf course

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 10:38 am
by horst18519
Hello Christian,

we're looking into the UTX issue right now.

Both golf courses (Travemünde and Maritim) should be placed correctly as seen on the attached screenshot.
It looks like you may have leftovers from the original DEX installation, please make sure to completely remove that (also old "DEX" additions to the terrain.cfg) before installing the current version.

The ships are part of the German Airfields 2 series, I guess they park there waiting for their schedule. FSX has a weird way of parking AI ships...

Re: Misplaced ships and missing golf course

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:36 pm
by shasta62
Hello Thorsten,

unfortunately this didn´t work. I deinstalled DEX reloaded, scanned the HDD for any filenames with DEX in them, used a terrain.cfg with no DEX entries (from before I installed DEX) and also a default.xml from before the original Aerosoft DEX installation, but no luck. The golf courses are still brown. It seems, like the golf course texture is substituted with the brown one :( I have no idea, where to look else for DEX files from the previous installation.

Cheers
Christian

PS: I just found out, that by disabeling UT Europe the brown texture is gone and the correct texture is visible, so it is obviously an UT Europe interference problem (UT Europe is far far down in the scenery library).

Re: Misplaced ships and missing golf course

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 10:32 pm
by horst18519
I see the problem. UT indeed seems to cause issues with our beach and golf course definitions. We'll look into this...

Re: Misplaced ships and missing golf course

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 10:56 pm
by horst18519
Ok, that was a tricky one. UT golf courses are defined as polygons (which is not the best of ideas as you will have lots of cut off fairways) whereas DEX golf courses are raster landclass. UT polys are rendered above DEX raster landclass in that case, not nice.
We solved the issue by explicitely excluding the UT golf course and beach polygons though. Please use attached exclude files.

Re: Misplaced ships and missing golf course

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:00 pm
by shasta62
Hello Thorsten,

thank you very much for the new exclude file - it works perfectly for the beaches and golf courses. I´d like to thank you very much for your fast support - I´m really happy with DEX North reloaded! Since I live in Lüneburg and fly in real life around northern Germany from Hamburg Finki I´m happy to recognize in FSX what I know from real life.
Probably I´ll bother you in the future with more issues when I find them (e.g. missing autogen on both shores around the Fehmarn-Sund bridge ;-) ), but all in all I´m really happy with DEX.

Thank you very much and have a nice weekend
Christian