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When working on an airfield my green grass aprons turned to brown clay colour.Any other airfield with grass aprons had done the same.I deleted ADE and reinstalled 120 and 135 Now when I start ADE I get the following....failed to read updater file ADE.Remote name could not be resolved.www.scruffyduck.co.uk ...
Any apron I draw does not now show in FSX.
If I draw a small apron of any colour on top of these clay aprons they and any others on that airfield revert to green grass aprons in FSX
 
I presume you are referring to the color of aprons in FSX and not ADE? Colors of aprons are not determined by ADE but by FSX. It sounds like you may have inadvertantly changed the texture used for your grass aprons There is also an order in which apron surface types get drawn and you cannot change it. That order is the same as the order of surfaces shown in the drop down list.

The error message you are seeing is related to the automatic update checker. It is trying to access the internet. you either need to allow it past your firewall or turn off the automatic start-up checker in the Options Dialog.

Also the current version of ADE is 1.37 and you should upgrade to that
 
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Also, in the northern hemisphere, as of September 1, it is autumn in FSX. This means (among other things) that many of the formerly green polys will become brown.

They will remain so until next spring, which in FSX will come on March 1, 2009.

These colors are governed by the seasons.bgl file that comes with FSX. The seasons.bgl is alterable, by means of methods described in the SDK.
 
Good point Rhett - I had forgotten we are now in Fall - the weather here in the UK has been so bad that we have been in Fall since May :(
 
Yep, 6 months of colours that bear no relation to the world outside! :( England is only 'brown' for about 3 weeks at the end of August/beginning of September, when the crops are ripe, being harvested, and the fields are ploughed ready for the winter crops. Otherwise, the grass is always green, it rarely snows in winter... (winter colours are best described as green and grey, the grey being provided by bare trees). It's not called a 'green and pleasant land' for nothing!
 
aprons etc

Thanks for the replies.I will try the summer season.
Unfortunately I had forgotten what the updater message meant and reinstalled ADE thinking the message was a pointer to my problem.I had made a backup of all my ADE files and when I go to the airfields which I have drawn everthing shows up.But if I try to add anything such as runways,aprons,peritracks etc it shows on the ADE map but is not there in FSX.
I do not get a rebuke for compiling with FSX running and when I start FSX I do not get the horizontal bar crossing the screen as it loads new scenery,so I know that the additions will not show.I have reinstalled three times in an effort to get it up and running to no avail.
When I draw a new airfield and look in addon scenery/scenery I only have the ade and bak files,no cvx or bgl files.Net 2,bglcomp and simconnect seem to be still in place.
Life in FSX will not be worth living without ADE! Help
 
Check the folder that you are compiling to - it should like you are not sending the bgl files to a folder somewhere in the FSX Addon structure. Thus FSX cannot see the updated files.
 
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Vivaldi called it 'autumno'
Charlie remember Jon has some Yank in him, I believe.

On that note, I present a poem written by a friend of mine in 6th grade, and due to its simplicity and childlike forthrightness, I have never forgotten it:

Leaves fall
in the fall
everyone likes fall


:)
 
I guess Vivaldi had all Four Seasons in Italy. I grew up in Southern California where there were only two seasons: Memorial Day and Labor Day. Still trying to get used to snow here in Colorado.

Bob
 
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Thanks Jon

It was compiling to FSX root instead of Addon Scenery/scenery.
Turning FSX date back to July makes apron areas green again.I only use VFR scenery which is permanently summer so in the past I have only used the month to control daylight.
The taxiway drawing produces great fillets from peritrack to dispersal lead in, without having to draw each one separately,but it makes the drawing of loop dispersals too rounded.Is it possible you might bring out a mod for this?
Keep up the good work.
 
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