MSFS SDK 0.6.0.0

[Szpike]

The 1.9.3 patch apparently ships a new 0.6.0.0 SDK... there are changes to bglcomp.xsd to add a new LandmarkLocation type...

 

[Szpike]

Amongst many other things, looks like fspackagetool is fixed to work with Steam now too.

 

[Devinci]

I somehow lost all my textures or at least the albedo is not showing. All my buildings are showing as in ambient occlusion.

 

[frkristi]

I somehow lost all my textures or at least the albedo is not showing. All my buildings are showing as in ambient occlusion.

I'm seeing the same... Lost all textures on my RWY/TWY markings.

 

[Christian Bahr]

After the update and the first restart of the Sim I had strange artifacts in the top-down view - that was also the case with the last update. I had restarted the computer and everything is okay again.

 

[ronh]

Reports of white textures on the MSFS Forum. Not sure in reference to what textures. One that the developer made themselves.

 

[frkristi]

Reports of white textures on the Forum. Not sure in reference to what textures. One that the developer made themselves.

The ones I made myself, yes...

Restarted several times - no change. Even tried adding image to Normal in Blender and recompiling project.

 

[Vitus]

Yay for the fixes of the Aircraft Editor! Can't wait to try it!

 

[Vitus]

btw. Did y'all restart your computer? The changelog notes that a restart is required. They might just mean the sim though.

 

[Devinci]

btw. Did y'all restart your computer? The changelog notes that a restart is required. They might just mean the sim though.

Probably. I restarted my PC but still the same. I notice my custom ground textures are showing though but nothing on objects and buildings even the Emissive textures are not showing.

 

[frkristi]

Probably. I restarted my PC but still the same. I notice my custom ground textures are showing though but nothing on objects and buildings even the Emissive textures are not showing.

I browsed through most of the available scenery objects visible in DevMode, and most of the objects/names that seemed user made was all white.

 

[Devinci]

I browsed through most of the available scenery objects visible in DevMode, and most of the objects/names that seemed user made was all white.

I wonder if it's because of the texture type? I'm also using 8-bit color instead of 16 bit.

 

[ronh]

The flight model information has really been expanded. However the coding of the chm file has a lot of \ (back slashes) and it makes for difficult reading.

 

[Vitus]

I'm also using 8-bit color instead of 16 bit.

The metallic/comp textures should be 16 bit. 8 bit for albedo/normal is fine though. Maybe that makes the difference?!

 

[Devinci]

The metallic/comp textures should be 16 bit. 8 bit for albedo/normal is fine though. Maybe that makes the difference?!

I didn't know that. I thought 16 bit was only needed if you had alpha/transparency on your textures. I'll experiment with it.

 

[Vitus]

It's in the SDK, in one of the material/texture pages. I was told that the reason for this is that when the textures are compiled, they apply some non-linearity magic to the comp/metallic map, which doesn't play ball with 8bit textures.

 

[Jay Bloomfield]

Is anyone able to add jetways to gates with 0.6? I'll try a 2nd reboot. Every time I try to add a jetway to a gate, the sim CTDs. Everything worked okay with 0.5.

 

[Devinci]

It's in the SDK, in one of the material/texture pages. I was told that the reason for this is that when the textures are compiled, they apply some non-linearity magic to the comp/metallic map, which doesn't play ball with 8bit textures.

Unfortunately the problem still remains even converting all my COMP textures to 16 bit. I wonder what did they change that could have caused this?

 

[rhumbaflappy]

The new 0.6.0.0 downloaded SDK msi file now gives no option where to place the SDK. Defaults to C:\MSFS SDK

 

[BrBlazer]

I cannot add a jetway now. Always crashes the sim back to desktop without any errors