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Texture problems ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH! (Read 642 times)

Feb 8^th, 2011 at 10:29am

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Can someone please help me? I recently learned how to add textures to planes. I learned on HJG planes and they all worked perfectly but today I downloaded a USAF texture that said it required the Moach Experience 737 which I also downloaded. After adding the texture file I added the new texure cfg to the planes air.cfg but when I tried to save it it kept saying error make sure path name and destination file are correct. I know Im doing it right because I did it to about twenty planes from HJG. Whats wrong? I have had this happen many times to other planes what can I do? Please help. Angry

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Reply #1 - Feb 8^th, 2011 at 11:39am

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Right-click on the icon of the Aircraft.cfg you wish to edit & select Properties. Make sure the Read-only option is not checked.

PS. If you have Vista/Win7 you might need to paste the Aircraft.cfg file to your Desktop before editing. Then save & paste it back again.

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Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2011 at 8:13am

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Thanks so much! When I copied the air.cfg to the desktop it worked. Not sure why I had to do that but it worked. The HJG aircraft didn't have to be done that way but whatever. As long as it worked. Thank You again.

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Reply #3 - Feb 15^th, 2011 at 6:25pm

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Hagar wrote on Feb 8^th, 2011 at 11:39am:

.... If you have Vista/Win7 you might need to paste the Aircraft.cfg file to your Desktop before editing. Then save & paste it back again.

Interesting. I have FS9 installed on a Vista system and don't have to do that; just click on the files and edit them in place.

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Reply #4 - Feb 15^th, 2011 at 6:35pm

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jgf wrote on Feb 15^th, 2011 at 6:25pm:

Hagar wrote on Feb 8^th, 2011 at 11:39am:

.... If you have Vista/Win7 you might need to paste the Aircraft.cfg file to your Desktop before editing. Then save & paste it back again.

Interesting. I have FS9 installed on a Vista system and don't have to do that; just click on the files and edit them in place.

webberernie's problem is caused by security features of Vista/Win7 when FS9/FSX is installed to the default Program Files location. There are possibly other ways over it but never having used Vista/Win7 myself I can only suggest methods that I know work. From his reply my advice obviously did the trick.

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Reply #5 - Feb 16^th, 2011 at 1:28pm

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Not disputing the validity of your advice. For years I've isolated my C drive for the exclusive use of windoze, installing nothing there that doesn't absolutely have to install there. This was certainly advantageous with Vista, I've never experienced any of the access/security problems reported by so many others. (Though I did have to disable DEP since it prevented some game mods from working.)

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Reply #6 - Feb 16^th, 2011 at 5:57pm

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Hi,

One thing to watch for with any config file is the path as fs9/fsx don't install to the C:\programs files path in win 7.

I have no problems editting files where they are, I'm not needing to copy to desktop and i have uac turned on.
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