Just Installed KLAS: Entire Airport Missing...

[raysot]

The city looks fine, but the airport is missing!

What's missing:
Airport Buildings
Taxiways
All Apron/Taxiway/runway markings & Signage
Tower(s)

The City looks great but with the entire airport missing, it rather defeats the point......

Please help!

[raysot]

Anyone? Is this thing on?

[Jeff355]

I have the same problem. I’ve exchanged emails with Emilios but he hasn’t been able to suggest a solution that fixes the issue yet.

[raysot]

I'm going to try and delete the Airport folder, but retain the City folder. THe City is freakin' amazing but in it's current form, KLAS is pretty much nothing but a huge grass strip.

I'm hoping this will restore the default KLAS airport while retaining the Cityscape.

[Jeff355]

Did that work for you? When I tried that last week, it put some scenery tiles 1000 feet in the air above the airport.

[raysot]

Didn't work at all... In fact, absolutely nothing changed. Still the same missing airport but no floaties as you've described. Quite a disappointment.

I did discover something curious in the docs:

Something about if your "Field of View" is set to something above 100 degrees, that certain scenery objects will not be drawn to "Conserve on performance".

In my opinion, this is a poor programming decision. Don't stop drawing objects because the scenery detects a slow machine. Let the customer figure that out.

Regardless, I have a very beefy machine. Intel I9 w/64Gb RAM and a 2080 Nvidia card, so the system is definitely a powerhouse..

Even with that tidbit of knowledge, I dialed back my FOV to 45 and still no airport. I normally run a FOV at 205, since I have a wrap-around screen with 3 projectors.

But, I think therein lies the problem. The scenery is making decisions it shouldn't make and has no need to make in my case.

[emilios[flytampa]]

Hi guys, apologies for the delay.
The LOD comment in FAQ is not relevant in this case.

The airport missing is usually down to errors in reading SAM objects (ie not installed properly or not latest version), or to errors due to the scenery folders not being in the root folder of XPlane11, ie in XPlane11\Custom Scenery

Are these cases both in Mac ?

[Torbin]

True. I know in Windows if I don't have SAM installed for a SAM using airport, the airport won't appear in the sim.