Thanks for the advice. I do use MCX. How great a positive number.....decimal greater than 0 or a whole number greater than 0? What value have you used successfully to get rid of the flicker? Any whole number should work, try 1. My understanding is that all the textures have a zbias of 0 by default ...

I am wondering how folks are dealing with the FS9 to FSX conversion of objects that have "decal" type textures? My conversions result with a lot of flickering textures that I have never been able to sort out. If you are using MCX to do the conversion try setting the zbias for the decal te...

Piet, this is kind of going off track for this forum but... The alpha channel is part of the texture format, if you import the texture into a good quality paint program like Photoshop you can see the alpha channel as a separate component of the image. I would guess that the 2 textures are the main t...

Thanks Greg. Do you have an idea if the Northrop T-38 Talon ( incl. in the MAIW Talons package ) will be converted soon ? (as they have an opaque canopy now) Thanks for your reply Piet Hi Piet, I don't think the T-38 is on anyone's short term radar for conversion. Opaque canopies in FSX is usually ...

That looks like you have missed updating one of the models to the new version - what you are seeing is classic FS9 model in P3D.

Gavin

Update - it appears that clearing out my PMs has resolved the issue. I haven't had it happen once in the last 2 days.

Gavin

Thanks Greg, John,

Just checked my PMs and I was at 101 (I hadn't cleared out my sent folder). Cleaned out a bunch of old messages so lets see if that helps.

It is happening on 2 PCs but I am using Chrome on both of them. i wll try a different browser and see if that helps.

Gavin

IE I just posted that with no issue

Greg, It has happened about a dozen times so far. Try to read a post - get "you are not authorized to read posts". This has happened in multiple forums Try to reply to a post - get "you are not authorized to reply to posts" - also in multiple forums Try to read a PM - get " ...

This time with error message

Having said that, it just happened when I tried to reply to a thread.

the error message wasn't very descriptive

Gavin

At which airports is it likely for me to see the Mitsu F-2s? In reply to all 3 threads where you asked similar questions It depends on what traffic files you have installed. You can open up the traffic files with AI Flight Planner and see all the airports that are used in the flight plans Gavin

Will do Greg - having reported the issue it will probably never happen again

Andrew,
I don't know what texture it is off the top of my head but MCX will tell you which texture it can't find.

Gavin

Just did it here and I had to hit the back button and retry because the first time I was told I didn't have the right to submit a post

Any thoughts?

Gavin

Hi,
I'm having weird intermittent issues where I write a post or a PM and go to submit. I am then told I don't have rights to do whatever it is I'm trying to do.

So folks understand why some packages will have both FSX and P3D versions (at least the packages that I did the conversion work for). If the model has props (for example the A-400) then I will try to create an FSX and a P3Dv4 native version of the model. This is to get rid of the prop behind clouds ...

"Scripts simply go into "Prepar3D v4\Scripts"." I honestly can't recall ever seeing anything about "scripts" -- can someone explain what they are and if they are important to add to P3Dv4? The lua scripts are what we use in P3D to control the cabin lighting (also the p...

Hi Dean, re LODs, 3 sounds about right, I usually take the top LOD (obviously) then the lowest LOD that has 3d shape (quite often the last LOD is just flat fuselage & wings). Then I try to find a one of the middle LODs that has most of the major components but non of the details. Hope this makes...

BTW - welcome to the frustrating, addictive world of AI