Terrain behaviour on taxiway

haromo · Post by **haromo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:24 am

Hi George,

Firstly my big compliments for creating this masterpiece!

I have a small problem though. When on the taxiways my aircraft bounces. From the outside you can see dirt bouncing up behind the wheels as if I'm on a dirt road.
This same problem occurs at Simflyers KPHX and I haven't been able to solve this yet.

I'm using FSG 38m mesh, UT USA patch 2, FSG landclass with UTCITY fix.
All these have a priority below KSEA in the scenery.cfg.
Installed KSEA with the terrain mesh fix.
Tried everything from turning of all landclass and vertex-levels 19, 20 and 21. No difference in taxi behavior though

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Have you ever experienced this behavior end do you have a possible solution?

Regards, Haromo

Post by **martin[flytampa]** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:39 am

Go into the scenery library and move the "Seattle Aerial Photo" (located way down where the default Microsoft entries are) up to a position between FlyTampa-Seattle and Ultimate Terrain.

I think George mentioned that the order has to be:

1. Fly-Seattle
2. Seattle Aerial Photo
3. Ultimate Terrain

haromo · Post by **haromo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:27 am

Martin,

Thanks for the reply!
This trick works.....I see it's mentioned in the manual to do this for blending reasons but not to prevent some terrain issues.
I'm very happy to experience that this areal photo trick also solves my problems in the Phoenix area!

Maybe you can make a "sticky" of this topic in case some other users have the bouncing problem.

Regards, Haromo

aarskringspier · Post by **aarskringspier** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:28 am

haromo wrote:Martin,

Thanks for the reply!
This trick works.....I see it's mentioned in the manual to do this for blending reasons but not to prevent some terrain issues.
I'm very happy to experience that this areal photo trick also solves my problems in the Phoenix area!

Maybe you can make a "sticky" of this topic in case some other users have the bouncing problem.

Regards, Haromo

LOL yeah I think I was the first to have this problem. When George told me to do that I did it with my SimFLyers airports to see if it would work and it did. Three weeks and they couldnt figure it out, fifteen minutes George had it fixed.

sfgiants13 · Post by **sfgiants13** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:04 am

I was about to post it this morning as well.

But thanks for the trick! I haven't tried yet as I don't get home till tonight, but does it change any terrain or anything back to the default around KSEA, or is it still Ultimate Terrain shoring instead of the aerial photo.

aarskringspier · Post by **aarskringspier** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:48 am

sfgiants13 wrote:I was about to post it this morning as well. But thanks for the trick! I haven't tried yet as I don't get home till tonight, but does it change any terrain or anything back to the default around KSEA, or is it still Ultimate Terrain shoring instead of the aerial photo.

Still UT, didnt mess anything up that I could see. Just made all my airports work the way theyre supposed too LOL.

Post by **george[flytampa]** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:50 am

The photo area is very small & Seattle's ground texture looks better with it than they do UT.

specialist · Post by **specialist** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:23 pm

I've done what was mentioned above and I don't have the bouncing around on the taxiway, but I have another problem that is still there. My plane bounces and crashes on the runway. Also, if I start at the runway, it's off center. Any idea why?

Post by **george[flytampa]** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:09 pm

Make sure Seattle is right at the top of the scenery database & see if that fixes it. Very odd problem.

hmm, check if you installed any third party afcads?

specialist · Post by **specialist** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:13 pm

I've done that, I use ScanAFD to check and made sure I deleted the FU1 version that came with Ultimate Traffic. The only AFCAD I have is the one that came with FlyTampa. I know I'm not the only one with the off center problem since I just saw another person post similar problem. I still have the problem of the bouncing and crashing on the runway too. The bouncing on the taxiway is no longer a problem with the solution given above.