Missing taxiways and ramps in Golden Wings

[quink99]

I was hoping that, prehaps, one of the in-residence scenery and/or computer gurus might be able to help me find the light on this problem as I am virtually challenged.

I have, and have had, for about the last three years seperate installations of Golden Wings and Silver Wings on my computer. Both have been well behaved and still are with one exception.

The Golden Wings version for whatever reason now has absolutely no taxiways or ramps for any airport in that version. The runways are there as are the various buildings and other airport scenery. The only thing missing are ramps and taxiways.

One other thing that has happend is that on those larger airports such as KJFK, KLAX, KSEA and others of the same gender show all the modern buildings which did not exist in the Golden Wings era though they, too, are also missing ramps and taxiways.

Some show Golden Wings type runways; others show no runways; and none show either taxiways or ramps with the exception of a handful of add-on sceneries such as Houston or Roosevelt Field from our site. This is true whether the "photo scenery" airports are activated or not in the Scenery Library.

I miss my Golden Wings very much!

Anyone who can help me resolve this dilemma will be cannonized.

Regards,
Quink

[windrunner]

Saludos amigo!

As far as remember the Golden Wings airports doesn't show any tarmac taxiways nor ramps...there were none during the 20s. And that's why Golden Wings was made for. You'll see a nice grass carpet in your airports instead. That seems to be right.

I can't comment about Silver Wings 'cause I don't have it.

(...ya estoy en proceso de beatificacion...)

[quink99]

Windrunner,

Thanks so much for your prompt attempt with a helping hand. My answer was delayed because my ISP tried to digest a lightening bolt and has just now recovered.

Having flown in the delightful world of Golden Wings I have a pretty good idea as to how it looks and operates and that is the way it has worked the last three years until recently.

Out of boyish curiosity I wonder if you might be good enough to take a look at the following airports and tell me what you see. I see the following and this is something new within the last two weeks;

LIPB(Good old Bologna) - RW 1/19 a light beige colored concrete runway with modern threshold markings but no ramp or taxiways which I'm almost positive I had, on larger airports, previously.

KSEA - single modern runway with a modern terminal but no taxiways. This is interesting as KSEA did not exist during the Golden Wings era!

KBOS - Concrete runways with CAT II instrument markings(?), modern tower and terminal but, again, no ramps or taxiways only grass surrounding all buildings and runways.

O26 and 207 - Even going down to such very small airports as Independence and Lone Pine, California I still find good concrete runways with no ramps or taxiways.

I finally got down to an airport so small (NV77) that probably no one other than the people who live there have ever even heard of it before I could find a grass strip.

One more interesting point is that Golden Wings update 2, I believe, said that it would remove all the shipping cranes around seaports and I find I still have them at the port of Seattle and along the Houston ship channel even after installing this update.

I think, prehaps, my Golden Wings may have gotten hold of a bad taco or something because it no longer looks as it used to.

Thanks in advance and Chiao,
Quink

[windrunner]

Quink,

For what I see you have a texture problem. For some reason, it seems you have overwritted the default GW3 textures (may be because the installation of a scenery or any other addon).

The good news it's an easy issue to solve, because you'll want to replace the textures that manages runways, ramps and all airports structures by placing the GW3 default textures back. Do as follows:

1- Execute the GW3 exe in a dummy folder (not your already existing GW3 one! create one just for this occasion)
2- When the whole program was installed and each folder was created, go the "GW3\texture" folder and copy paste the whole textures inside of oit into your own GW3 installation.
3- Or...just copy-pate the runways and ramps textures you'll want back (unfortunately, I can't say wich textures are..sorry).

Oh, and LIPB is not Bologna...but Bolzano-Bozen, capital of the South Tyrol Province (but I wouldn't mind living there their cooking is the best in Italy!!!)

Orale! coraje amigo,

[Dave3cu]

Quink,

All of the airports you listed appear as you have described in my GW3...except for KSEA.

KSEA should be gone, except for the buildings, which are scattered amongst urban, residential autogen buildings....You must leave the 'Seattle Aerial Photo' scenery area active as this is where the excludes for the airport are located.

Per your original post, the same would hold true for LAX and JFK. (On these 2, airport and buildings should be gone, and only grassland, no autogen.)

For the port cranes (removed with Update 1, not 2) look in Scenery\Generic\texture\ folder. The .bmp files, SCO_noaa_portcranes_*.bmp, should be 3kb. If they are 43kb they are the FS9 files and should be replaced. The files remove the cranes by making them 'invisible'.

Dave

[quink99]

Dave and Windrunner,

Many thanks for both of your helping hands! Because of your suggestions I'm now much closer to the resolution of the problem.

Windrunner, I tried the your suggested reloading of the textures but it effectively changed nothing.

Color me red with embarrassment! My tiny, little mind had forgotten to deactivate some of Tom Gibson's wonderful California Classics sceneries in the scenery library since I hadn't used them for a while and that resulted in the residual reasonably modern terminal buildings here and there in the bigger airports. Duh!

Dave, Using your advice, which I most appreciate, and reactivating the "photo image airports" resolved the modern runways at airports which hadn't yet been built and and modern buildings sitting in the middle of nowhere. My dock crane bit maps were all the 43 kb .bmp variety and reviewing the cranes in the simulator again what actually happens is that approaching the cranes from a distance they are at first visible but when you get a couple of miles away they suddenly disappear as they should (?).

Thanks to you both I'm now a contented aviator.

Windrunner, No tengo ningun idea porque me confundio Bolzano y Bologna pero me encanta el Tyrol de Italia.

Eres Italiano porque hablas el espanol hasta los modismos como un verdadero Mexicano? Nunca se usan "orale" in Espana. Esta es muy Mexicano!

Quink

[dennyv]

Aug 29, 2008 14:12:44 GMT -5 quink99 said:

Many thanks for both of your helping hands! Because of your suggestions I'm now much closer to the resolution of the problem.

Windrunner, I tried the your suggested reloading of the textures but it effectively changed nothing.

Quink

Have you removed the taxiway_detail.bmp in the main texture folder as explained in step 5 of manual?

This solve the black taxiways in the airfields!

Bye
Daniele from LIME