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P3D v5 Runway markings - please help me, this is driving me nuts

gsnde

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Let me summarize what I am doing...

1. I have created an island with SBuilderX
2. I have placed several airports on this island
3. I have compiled these airports with the respective ADE version and the respective SDKs for P3Dv3, P3Dv4 and P3Dv5
4. There is no issue in P3Dv3 and P3Dv4

These are the two issues I have in P3Dv5 only:

1. Depending on your viewpoint height the white markings on runways vanish at certain levels
2. While slewing over the airport, some straight lines appear (like parts of rectangles) and vanish again after a moment

Examples for runway marking

1. Close, markings visible
rw_ex_1_01.jpg

2. Zoomed out, markings still visible
rw_ex_1_02.jpg

3. Zoomed out further, markings still visible
rw_ex_1_03.jpg

4. Zoomed out further, markings gone
rw_ex_1_04.jpg

5. Zoomed out further, markings gone
rw_ex_1_05.jpg

6. Zoomed out further, markings gone
rw_ex_1_06.jpg

7. Zoomed out further, markings visible again
rw_ex_1_07.jpg

8. Zoomed out further, markings visible still
rw_ex_1_08.jpg

9. Zoomed out further, markings visible still
rw_ex_1_09.jpg



Below the examples for the second issue. I moved to the position in slew mode. When I stopped, these marked lines kind of crawled up from the ground. 2-3 seconds later they are gone, not to reappear.

1. Lines visible
strange_lines_ex_1a.jpg

2. Lines no longer visible
strange_lines_ex_2.jpg


I experimented with the airport & airport flatten height and countless things, but nothing worked. Has anybody an idea, please?

Many thanks in advance
Martin
 
I am more than happy to provide the source or compiled files, if that would help.

I did not mention that the setup of all 3 P3D versions is plain Lockheed Martin, with FS Global Ultimate Mesh, FSUIPC, SODE, AI and some airports.

No OrbX, no other add-ons.


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Hi Martin,
have you tried disabling "FS Global Ultimate Mesh" at all?
problems like that i find it best to disable everything and try to get back to the default sim to test
its nearly always an addon somewhere that usually causes issues......................
 
Many thanks!

I did not, since this mesh was also active in v3 and v4, but will test this now and report back.

Martin


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Ray, I would have loved if this was the reason, but it is not.

Please don't give up with new ideas. Care to have a look at it?
 
I have another small island nearby, which - to the best of my knowledge - I have made absolutely identically and which does not have this issue. Although the runway there is very short.
 
I don't have P3D Martin, perhaps someone with v5 would like to give it a try................
i cant see it being the runway but try shortening it like the new island if that one is ok, or even deleting it,
have those lines been there from the beginning before you started adding the airport stuff?
is your sim now back to basic without any extras?
 
I had reinstalled all three sims in order to have a comparable environment without external influence.

Only the mesh addon was running on all three sims. This is now removed from P3Dv5.

SODE, FSUIPC and AI Aircraft are on top of the virgin installations.

At this place there is nothing but North Sea. I created this - in reality non-existent - island with SBuilderX.

Good point with the lines. I will remove the airport files to check if the lines will then also make their appearance.



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Ray, thanks a million. The questions you have asked triggered me to finally find the cause of the issue.

The reason is that I had a flatten both in SbuilderX for the whole island and for the airports in ADE. This caused no issue at all in P3Dv3 and v4, but in P3Dv5 created the issues desacribed above.
 
gsnde
I tried to send you a PM (I think it went as a conversation) Don't know how you send PMs on this site.
 
Hover over the user name on the left and choose Start Conversation.
 
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