about 3 years ago

over 3 years ago

Hi,

Sure:

-Dave3dpeople -> all people

-Dave's Library -> Construction works vehicle and assets

-BeeKay -> runway end markings

-Windy -> windsock

almost 4 years ago

HI, thanks! No, no plan to add the bridge for now, but who knows. ;)

Thanks!

almost 4 years ago

Yes, there seems to be an issue with third party meshes. In particular NZ Mesh from Orbx is completely off... They are aware of the issue and apparently work with Asobo/MS to find a fix.

over 4 years ago

Hi, I noticed that as well since the release of SU7 January 22. Before that, after the GOTY edition release, it seems to be corrected but for some reason it's back... It something we have little control on unfortunately... Unless we "cut" the grass entirely which is not the way I want to go.

over 4 years ago

over 4 years ago

over 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm deeply sorry to hear that you had to go through this kind of troubleshouting.

As a fresh developer (and I do this on my spare time for the benefit of the community, and myself), I try to deliver the best scenery I can. This includes removing stupid marshallers or pushbacks from bush strips, as you may understand that this would alter the immersion otherwise.

I did this following the -little- information we have in the SDK. It is clearly stated that editing AirportServices with the relevant ICAO-named folder is only affecting the said ICAO airport. If I want to change Airport Services in the whole world I have to use a "Shared" named folder. So honestly, I can't be hold accountable for a change of behaviour originating from a change in the sim (or a bug in that sim). With SU5, you certainly noticed that a lot of things got bugged, even within the Asobo own environment (you can't land in Megève without a CTD for instance). Almost all my sceneries suffered from that situation, even if I complied with the SDK.

So for the time being, I can recommend to either remove my scenery from your community folder, especially when you plan to fly to other-than-bush airfields (you can use AddonsLinker to ease this process), or enjoy the service-less strips I propose for dedicated flight sessions. Or you can simply edit the "layout.json" file from my scenery folder, removing the entry specific to AirportServices (should look like this:

   {

     "path": "AirportServices/NZGY/NZGY-Services.spb",

     "size": 552,

     "date": 132742801837411404

   }

Meanwhile, I will try to provide you with an update, reintroducing the services, as a temporary fix.

Thanks.

SB, I enjoy your airfields immensely as I mainly fly NZ and sincerely thank you for all your considerable efforts in producing your selfless gifts for our community. My observations and suggestions must not be construed as blaming you for the mess that Asobo recently (again) created with their half-baked SU5. If I were a suspicious sort I'd even consider the possibility Asobo is purposely breaking freeware to exasperate users into considering payware alternatives and dissuade freeware developers from further projects. 'If they make it...we'll break it." Whatever the situation, it is abundantly clear that with every update Asobo always breaks something that used to work perfectly fine. There's no way a freeware developer can test exhaustively every possible configuration of user setups to see what may or may not work properly on their projects, after each sim update. I absolutely get that. Once such problems are spotted and reported by users it is only then something can hopefully be done. That's all I've attempted to do here...report the problem, a very rare and unusual one at that, for which I believe most users would not readily identify the cause. This isn't your usual 'one mod is breaking another' or a CTD caused by a mod...much easier to get to the bottom of. Here we have a situation of an airport incompletely loading, not crashing completely, caused by another airport halfway around the world that is also being loaded in the community folder.

Your suggestions are good ones and I'll follow them until a more suitable solution is at hand. In the interim enough light and warnings have been shed on the problem here as to identify the issue and possibly help anyone else struggling with the same symptoms.

No doubt there are many other freeware airports out there that will similarly cause these problems...yours was simply the first one I identified. I use Addons Linker and only have 70-100 airports activated at any one time of the 300-400 I've downloaded, so I fully expect that I'll activate another airport soon that will generate the same issues. In the interim, please keep up the good fight. Long live freeware.

Thanks for the clarification, mate!

Meanwhile, as there is a relatively easy interim fix, I updated the package that shouldn't now interfere with the Airport Services on other airports. The drawback is that you may see services at NZGY... It's anyway better than having no pushback at all at NZQN with a A320.

Please check changelog.

Cheers!

Many thanks for your quick responses SB, I think your update indeed represents the lesser of all evils in this situation and will allow users to continue experiencing your excellent scenery without consequence. Just to be clear, I found that not only airports in the region are affected by this anomaly, but worldwide...but not all of them! This makes it even harder to diagnose the problem. I think it may have something to do with the loading order. It MAY mean that an airport attempting to load AFTER yours (or similarly afflicted airfields) is first loaded, incomplete loading of assets is apparent. IMHO not worth troubleshooting further pending Asobo's possible future fixes.

over 4 years ago

Thanks. Indeed, the more I read the more I'm convinced it's sim-related. But now comes the great question: will I edit and remove the AirportService entry from all my packages/sceneries or will we wait for the next update (that hopefullly will solve this)? I tend to go to the second...

Makes sense! Thanks for your efforts