As some of you know I had the weirdest problem with my MAIW Scenery Library Objects folder, and I want to thank those of you who tried to help me figure it out, but I finally got it sorted thanks to a random idea Greg had which turned out to be the key to fixing the problem. Even though since 2006 I had meticulously installed all of the MAIW packages to date manually, followed Martin's guide to a T, and made sure there were no errors in my sim setup - I ended up with a bunch of non-textured libraries that were frustrating me to no end after I reinstalled FSX recently, and made the sim look terrible with a bunch of black library objects scattered around the bases and nobody could figure out why this was happening. It was a mystery, because every obvious answer proved to be wrong.
Well thanks to Greg's idea, we finally fixed it - after I spent the whole night last night reinstalling every MAIW package and going through every possible way this could happen, and working on this all day it turns out that we discovered if there is more than one copy of the MAIW_ABO.BGL files activated in the addon scenery folder, FSX ignores the file and they show up black as if you did not have anything installed. I did everything else possible but think to check for duplicate files of MAIW_ABO.bgl, because obviously I was assuming that if there were in individual packages they belong there, especially since in my case they were all installed at the same time. Apparently that is not the case, you should ideally only have one or it can cause this conflict. I had a total of 8 MAIW_ABO.bgl files between all the packages, and this was what apparently was causing the conflict and all the black textures - the objects were all black no matter what I did until I deleted all of them except the on in MAIW Scenery Library Objects folder. I truly did not think this would make any difference, I did not expect them to show up when I reloaded FSX, but I tried it anyway and they did and now the sim looks incredible again.
Anyway I just wanted to thank Greg for spending the time with me today, and let all you guys know these guys at MAIW will go out of their way to help you if you run into a weird problem like this one, these guys truly just want us all to be enjoying flight simulator as much as they do, and in this case it proves again that the people in this community are some of the coolest in the world.
So thanks everyone for your help, especially thank you Greg, I mean you did not have to spend a couple hours on a Friday evening helping me with this. You guys are awesome, and I appreciate being a part of the MAIW community. Thank you all so much for making my sim as cool as it is today!
I CAN SEE THE TOWERS, THE BLASTSHIELDS AND ALL THE CHECKERED OBJECTS NOW
NO BLACK BUILDINGS AT ATSUGI ANYMORE!
I NEVER EVEN KNEW THERE WERE TWO DUDES AND A HUMMER AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY LOL
ITS NICE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE OFF TO FLY AND NOT TO TAKE PHOTOS OF BLACK BUILDINGS!
