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I've been exchanging emails back and forth with a gentlemen who painted an amazing private Airbus A319. Everything except the rear fuselage looks great. For some reason there doesn't seem to be an alpha channel or maybe specular mapping? I'm not sure of the terms since I haven't painted in a while. The file is in the avsim library and works on the Aerosoft Airbus... if you have it can you check this texture? Maybe it's just me http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=196564 The file in question is: AS_A319_EXTTAIL_C.dds Here's a video I made after I imported the mdl into MCX and the paint... panning around should help you notice what the difference is.…

Hello, I have P3d v 3.5 with W10 and this is running very fine. After installing As16 +Asca i get this 0xc000014B error reading from pipe ,internal error 109 P3d connection not established after about 1h20min of good flying. I surch on the internet , but did not find the solution. Anyone familiar with this problem? Thanks in advance. Hugo

How to decrease time it takes to go from dark to light when HDR enabled? There used to be a shader edit or text file we edited in earlier P3D versions. Does anyone recall how to do this?

I'm speculating that this may have something to do with the configuration of the aircraft's headlights/spotlights. The 'artifact' is not seen with other aircraft I've tested nor is it seen when the outside view is selected, only in the VC of the Legacy. All views are of the sun looking east after dawn. KBGE: KVPS: Mike

I wonder if someone can help me I did a full clean reinstall with peepar3d V 3 upon using the Cessna 180 I bought from A2A simulation everything works perfect except I am unable to find the command for the walk around and preflight I know it's Shift F command but I am unable to find it .I tried all the F,s with no luck do I have to reinstall something or activate something Thanks

Are there any issues installing P3D on the same drive as FSX-SE? if so could P3D be installed on a separate partition? Thanks

Hi All, I have recently upgraded to P3D from 2.5 to the latest version, I have spent the last week updating all my addons (basically re-downloading them with the V3 installers) and all was going well. I have added the final big one today - Pilots world Terrain mesh. Seemed to go fine, then I noticed that I didnt seem to have any cloud shadows on the ground, did a bit of research and people seemed to be saying that a possible cure could be deleting the shaders, in users/...so I gave it a go, but before I did I backed up the file, that turned out to be a good call, as although the sim rebuilt the folder, not low clouds were now showing up at all. Just high alt Cirrus. …

I have a weird issue with runway lights. When they get close to the a/c, they change color and/or shape. See screenshot: http://fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/image/Gmp5 It occurs on all runways all around the world that I've tried, stock and add-on sceneries. This is P3D 3.3.5 and I have all the common addons like REX and the ORBX stuff. Unfortunately I can't remember if this happened from day one without the addons. I've tried any and all settings I could think, disabling/enabling sceneries, tried the orbx 3d lights configuration tool, and so on. Switching runway lights within REX changes the lights as expected but the behaviour still remains. Setting HDR …

Hi Folks... Was wondering if there is an official guide to "FTX Central version 2" that relates to library insertion points... Thanks... Flyboy 53

Hi guys, I have a small problem. When I open the ATC window in 3.2 it looks like this: http://www2.pic-upload.de/img/30042870/Untitled.png The "textbox" is missing. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Stefan

Not seen this mentioned yet but the Eaglesoft Citation just got a couple of upgrades released, new version is 3.08. Fixes the Direct-to function, adds ASN/REX Weather Radar and uses Simconnect rather than the registered version of FSUIPC for FADEC (so now anyone who owns it gets FADEC). I had a few issues with the upgrade caused by old data on my system, but got to say (especially since I have been critical of ES support in the distant past) that the issue was identified and sorted out. Very impressed to be honest! G

Hellow my friends :smile: , Lately and i meen lately i am having this annoying issue that my traffic is reloading more than i can remember. I am only using 5% MT6 traffic at the moment but the reload starts in a pattern (random ) 2 -5 minutes or so.. Sooo many information out here and i cant recall if this is just a clitch or so ? It has been a while since this phenomenan has occured Vatsim or not its the same Damn comming in to a fine Approach almost on touchdown and then you have it ! Thanks Apreciated Michael Moe

I wonder if they will fix all the issues some users have with Saitek controllers, and they will start making the throttle quadrant which has been out of stock for months. . https://www.helisimmer.com/hardware/logitech-acquired-saitek/

Folks, I've noticed in a lot of videos how easy it seems for users to quickly move around the virtual cockpit in the PMDG, Aerosoft, etc add-ons. What software/hardware should I consider to add this level of realism to my sim? I've see Track-IR, but prefer not to have to wear a hat or visor when simming. Thanks in advance for any guidance. Busdriver

Is one thing to explain to you why they removed a topic you posted on their website forum, and is another to just remove it because they didn't like you criticizing an issue you are having with their product. As long as you blow smoke up their rear, they seem to be fine, but if you have a problem and ask for their help to explain an issue you are having with their product, your post disappears without an explanation if they don't have an answer. I simply posted a screenshot of my sim crash to desktop. I've kept my settings to as close as bare bone as possible, before you start looking like you have FSX or FS9 installed again on your computer, yet P3D crashed on me. I …

These are payware - there's probably very few freeware ones out there. AFAIK these all work in P3D v3. I've just seen a lot of threads recently on this subject. (Developers - there's plenty of old fast jets to do, Falcon 20/50/100 comes to mind!) The FPS column is really subjective... just what my experience is. If it's blank, I don't know. I've sorted this by Maximum Mach Operating speed (because I like to have the ability to go FAST!) I can upload the xls file too. Also if you know of any more feel free to tell me.

Hi everyone. Here's my first post ever. I know there's a few other posts about this topic, but I couldn't find a solution yet. Since I updated from 3.0 to 3.3 I don't get any AI traffic to work. I used ### AI traffic in P3D 3.0 which worked fine. But even if all sliders are up to 100% nothing shows up. Not a single airliner at KMIA, whcih I use for testing. I tried to add entries to the p3d.cfg like you would do for MyTraffic but that didn't help. One thing I find strange is that the "World" entry in my scenery library is unticked and greyed out. The trafficfiles are in the P3d/Scenery/World folder so I assume that should be ticked in the secenry library? …

I've already posted this in the Orbx forum but no one seems to know what's going on. Essentially since the LCLookup FTX 2.1 migration their scenery has been worthless to me. When I load from my default flight my plane drops 500 ft and when it "bounces" and stabilizes the scenery elevations are all screwed up. I've tried everything that has been suggested at the Orbx forums. I do not own any FTX global products though. Maybe it's a UTX USA conflict after the LCLookup update was applied? IDK - it all worked great before I did that! Holger Sandmann, scenery guru explained the reason the 500 ft load happens: "the only mechanism I know of that makes planes …

Hi to all Now that i become more confident with P3D, i'm having a few questions and i hope someone can help me answer them. As a brand new User i posted the first part here 10 days ago: http://www.avsim.com/topic/494299-x-plane-user-new-to-p3d/ In the meantime i installed around 20 airport scenerys from Flytampa, ORBX, Fsdreamteam and Tax2Gate. I also own the PMDG 737 and 777. Here my specific questions i have so far after 10 days of experience flying with P3D: 1) I have installed the whole ORBX base scenery and also FTX Vector. Since i hade 2-3 OOM's today, i tried deactivating FTX Vector in the Scenery Library. For example, during one of the OOM's, i…

Hey guys, Ive been googling like mad but to no avail so here goes. my aircraft seem to load miles of the parking line at airport. predominantly in the UK. how do I change it so they load on the mark ? I have tried SLEV but its not working for me im affraid so I need an alternative way to do this. thanks in advance Best regards

Hi there, Hoping someone can help me with the scenery library order within FSX for ORBX products. Currently I have FTX Global, FTX Vector, openLC Europe and FTX Scotland. Within FTX Central, i've had to apply FTX Global with Europe not selected because when I do select Europe, I come across texture problems both within the FTX Scotland region and outside it. With FTX Global selected, there are no problems. I've done a few 'fixes' suggested though this has not fixed the issue. I'm fairly sure it is to do with the scenery order I have in FSX. My current order is, from the top: FTXAA_ORBXLIBS FTX Scotland - - - Addon Scenery OpenLC Europe - - …

Hi Just purchased one of these and having a few issues if anyone could help out please? I am using SPADNext (Simconnect on the same PC) and the panel seems to initialise however, it seems to go through a loop displaying the Saitek pages. When I add a new guage its still seems to scroll through on a loop every 3 seconds or so? Any help advise greatly appreciated :smile: Cheers, Rusty

How can I bring the standard P3D ATC window to sit above the 2D Main Panel? It appears OK in the VC but in the 2D it is layered below the main panel. Is there someway I can apply the equivalent of ZORDER as in the layering sequence in 2D panels. The ATC seems to work OK as does the 2D panels.

I just started experimenting with DSR setting and seem to have found a sweet spot at 2X and 33% smoothing. I've seem some real improvements with visual quality and performance with DSR but wonder what the impact or negatives are to utilizing DSR? Is their an impact on VAS? What about GPU and CPU? Will my GPU run warmer at higher DSR settings? Thanks, James

It has been brought up a few times, but a thread on the P3Dv2 forum confirms (by dev Beau Hollis) that LM has changed the way cloud textures are handled, resulting in violent spinning textures, when moving your head, or camera position. So, this has nothing to do with ones system, or shaders, as was suggested, it is a global change to cloud rendering. As can been seen in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZOYn4wIdFP8 Beau states in the tread that they could, very simply, put an 'option' in the GUI by adding a couple of lines of shader code, so the clouds behave as they do in FSX, which in general is far more realistic. Please n…