HS 748 - missing effect texture

[gaab]

Hello,

I am starting to learn flying this beauty. But the landing lights display a semi-transparent square which is really a pity on this beautifull model !



The landing effect (HS748_land.fx) is refering a texture "cs_1.bmp" which is missing on my FSX installation.
The alternative effect (HS748_landfsx.fx) is refering "fx_wop2_b17_light.bmp" .

Any clue were I can find one of them.

Thanks in advance.

Gérard

[DaveB]

I'm really not sure what's going on there mate. You have the light effect showing and if the texture was missing.. you'd have a black square. I've looked through all the effects folders I can find (and I have a few!!) and there's no sign of cs_1.bmp in any of them. I can't find a ref to the wop B17 bmp either I've even flashed up my old WinXP pc (I used this for my VA flying).. opened up FS9 and loaded the 748 and the landing lights work fine. I don't currently have it installed in FSX.

Are you using DX10 by any chance?
ATB
DaveB

[Rick Piper]

im guessing it's been altered by a third party as I would have never used that as a texture knowingly.

I don't have that texture either

Just replace the effect with the Jetstream landing light

replace the Aircraft.cfg entry with .............fx_Jetstream_landing_light
and unzip the file in the link to your FSX Root folder

http://rickpiper.cbfsim.org/files/748lightproblem.zip

[DaveB]

Hiya Rick..

I've just dragged the 748 off another install to FSX and added the required fx files and the landing lights work ok. I DID try DX10 Preview (just in case) and got an all white model
ATB
DaveB

[gaab]

Thank you both for your answers

1 - I cross checked that I downloaded the genuine files from the CBFS "File Library".
2 - Yes, I am using DX10 with DX10SceneryFixer - as you can see on my first post, the appearance is perfect, but the landing lights.
3 - Since, I have looked to other landing effect in my FSX effect folder. One is very similar to HS748_land.fx, the only meaningfull difference being the texture=cs_1.bmp, replaced by texture=fx_2.bmp. The two other texture= were already pointing to fx_2.bmp. This fixed the glitch.

But, I will follow your advice and use the Jetstream landing light.

I take this opportunity to thanks
- DaveB for the HU for the Jetstream on SOH,
- Rick for these two beautiful models.

And, of course, Happy New Year.

Gérard

[gaab]

With the Jetstream landing light, everything is perfect.

Thanks, Gérard

[DaveB]

Excellent Gerard.. glad you're sorted

ATB
DaveB