ICAO airspaces showing as solid black

[airgreg]

Just installed it and found that all the airspace areas are showing as solid black rather than as shades of color. No idea why... would like to fix this issue

I have a screenshot but not sure how to attach it to the posting.

[tim arnot]

What graphics card are you using, and are the drivers up to date? I have to say I've never heard of this happening before.

[airgreg]

I am running a Geforce 5500 with 512 megs of ram. It is strange. I will check my drivers and see if they are up to date.

[airgreg]

Here is the screenshot.......






I know... it does'nt make sense to me either....
I recreated the database from FSX to no avail.

[tim arnot]

Does it happen with other vector overlays, like ILS feathers?

[airgreg]

Yeah, it seems to happen with every overlay. By turning off all the overlays it looks less like a 12 year old with acne. I can live without the overlays. If I absolutely need them I can turn them back on. Losing the ILS feathers is not a huge sacrifice but still mysterious. I will try tweaking my graphics settings. Maybe something in there is not playing nice with your software. Oh yeah, I am running the latest drivers.

[tim arnot]

Do you have the gfx card set to a strange or unusual colour depth setting? The way it's rendering the bounding boxes makes it look like it's not handling transparency properly...

[airgreg]

Running 32 bit color depth. Have tweaked the graphics settings with no change so far. I know the fx5500 supports at least shader model 2.0. Is your code doing weird things with DirectX calls or something?

[tim arnot]

Nope, it's all standard Windows API - nothing fancy at all.

[airgreg]

I can install Plan G on my laptop although it does'nt have FSX installed on it. Could I transfer over a subset of the FSX scenery for testing purposes? I would need to know what BGL files(or others) to transfer for the US north east area. Even just the New York area would work. Basically anything that would generate an overlay without having to move all 3 gigs of scenery data. It is possible there are some windows updates that I hav'nt installed on this system that could be causing this. Sometimes I get a little tardy with updating this system.... it takes a real man to admit that I know.........

[sky one]

airgreg, you could just copy the Plan-G's DB without any need to copy FS's sceneries.

Ciao
Cristiano

[tim arnot]

Just copy the My Documents\Plan-G Files folder to your laptop, and you'll have everything.