Simviation Forum - Invisible AI

Mar 17^th, 2012 at 3:55pm

scalper_old Offline
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Has any one else have this problem. most of my AI is Invisible??? .Using dx9.

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Reply #1 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 4:20pm

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Reply #2 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 4:37pm

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..another case for the Invisible Man... Smiley

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Reply #3 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 4:40pm

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What are you using for your AI? WOAI or default AI or what?

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Reply #4 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 5:12pm

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I forgot to mention that I do see the Nav lights from them.
I am using World of AI

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Reply #5 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 5:38pm

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scalper_old wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 5:12pm:

I forgot to mention that I do see the Nav lights from them.
I am using World of AI

Then how do you know they are there??? Grin

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Reply #6 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 6:11pm

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Well I got go into ai view mode and there is a no plane there. just the nav lights. and runways with tire smoke showing. but with no plane

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Reply #7 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 6:26pm

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Try turning aircraft shadows OFF & tell me if that fixed it.

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Reply #8 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 6:32pm

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Ok I will try that. Thanks.

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Reply #9 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 9:35pm

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Hagar wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 6:26pm:

Try turning aircraft shadows OFF & tell me if that fixed it.

I confirm these words. It's a well known bug: AI will dissappear at some addon airports if the ground shadows (not the scenery shadows, the shadows from the planes) are activate in the options.

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Reply #10 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 2:18am

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Just had this issue after updating my AIA models with the FSX native ones. Caught a 737-600 flying around, only the nav lights could be seen. Went into the model folder and noticed a typo on the model.cfg file. Model=mormal vice = normal, fixed no longer invisible.

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Reply #11 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 5:28am

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Daube wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 9:35pm:

Hagar wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 6:26pm:

Try turning aircraft shadows OFF & tell me if that fixed it.

I confirm these words. It's a well known bug: AI will dissappear at some addon airports if the ground shadows (not the scenery shadows, the shadows from the planes) are activate in the options.

The bug should not affect FSX native AI aircraft. I understand it's caused by runway lighting on some 3rd party scenery. From a quick seach, one of the culprits is Aerosoft & I noticed that scalper has just installed their Heathrow scenery. There are several alternatives for fixing it. The easiest method is to turn aircraft shadows OFF when using these airports. More info here --> http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/14646-heathrow-2008-fsx-sp2-invisible...

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Reply #12 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 7:19am

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Victory103 wrote on Mar 18^th, 2012 at 2:18am:

Just had this issue after updating my AIA models with the FSX native ones. Caught a 737-600 flying around, only the nav lights could be seen. Went into the model folder and noticed a typo on the model.cfg file. Model=mormal vice = normal, fixed no longer invisible.

Good to know. Thanks for the information !

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Reply #13 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 11:56am

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Thanks scalper for being brave enough to post that problem. I too had invisible planes, well wing tips and wheels only but no fuselage but was too embarrassed to ask on the forum. Undecided

It only started after installing VFR photograghic scenery for Scotland South but switching off shadows has fixed it. Thanks everyone.

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Reply #14 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 2:17pm

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Thanks for all of your tips guys. It worked. Turning off the shadows worked. Sorry Fozzer no more shadows.

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