Mayday....what have I done ??

Fastair · Post by **Fastair** » 24 Mar 2008, 20:51

Hi all,
Please can you anyone help me here. Have been playing around and having a tidy up on my system. On going flying I have now found that I have lost textures where ever I have anything MAIW installed, in the screen shot, Lakenheath, Marham ( HAS ) areas and Coningsby now look like this ?!
Please tell me it is recoverable, many thanks.

Post by **Firebird** » 24 Mar 2008, 21:12

I am just double checking, but it looks like a default fs9 texture rather than an MAIW one, the clue being Marham. Not many textures supplied there.

Have you used the sysinternals utility filemon before? If you have set it so that it only looks for FS9 errors and then slew across an airfield that has this problem. The missing texture will be displayed.

If you haven't used it before or can't work out how to use it, we will try and work out what you have deleted but it might be slower.

Can you remember what you tidied in your fs9\texture folder?

Fastair · Post by **Fastair** » 24 Mar 2008, 21:16

Hi Firebird,
Many thanks for the reply, to be honest I've never heard of that utility. Happy to give it a shot though. So, do you think this is possibly recoverable?

Regards

Fastair · Post by **Fastair** » 24 Mar 2008, 21:24

If it helps here is a quick screenie from Marham.......

Post by **Firebird** » 24 Mar 2008, 21:55

I checked the scenery folders and there aren't any taxiway textures in any of them, so I think that its your default scenery folder thats the problem.

In my folder I have 24 textures beginning with taxi, 21 taxi_*.bmp and 3 taxiway_*.bmp.

I have a feeling that its either taxi_asphalt, taxi_macadam or taxi_tarmac that Ian uses.
If you can pm me a list of the taxi* files you have in fs9\texture then I am sure that we can sort this out.

Fastair · Post by **Fastair** » 24 Mar 2008, 22:12

PM sent, oh and I too have three taxiway bmp's

Regards

Post by **Firebird** » 24 Mar 2008, 22:21

Got it, think I have spotted the problem and have pm'd you back.

Fastair · Post by **Fastair** » 24 Mar 2008, 22:49

SIR,
You are a genius and a true gent. A very humble and slightly embarressed thank you. Sorted at all three stations and guessing a few others I haven't checked.

Thank you once again for your time and patience....
Regards,

Post by **Firebird** » 24 Mar 2008, 23:13

No problem, Paul. Its nice to be able to fix things quickly once in a while.

scottr5213 · Post by **scottr5213** » 25 Mar 2008, 20:27

To everyone here... I just wanted to drop a note saying that the team work and fellowship that everyone has her is second to none. I am honored to have some of the friendship that I have found here,and hope MAIW never die's. To all lets keep up the great work.

Post by **Firebird** » 25 Mar 2008, 21:28

Thank you, kind Sir, on behalf of all of the MAIW Staff and its Members.

MidNight · Post by **MidNight** » 26 Mar 2008, 00:47

A little off topic but: LONG LIVE MAIW, never die on us

Post by **BadPvtDan** » 26 Mar 2008, 00:59

As long as there is one guy to do flightplans, repaints, vpcmods...and package them all up; I will keep the site going. Mike and Desmond will still have to maintain it, though