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Missing Textures in FSX Will Cause Problems!

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WARNING: I have found that even a single missing texture called for by an FSX model can cause animated parts in a model, as well as texture rendering to exhibit bizzare behavior when loaded in the sim!

For example, I "assumed" that the texture file "Fresnel_Ramp.dds" found in FSX's main \texture folder would be "seen" by the model...

...BUZZZ!!! Wrong assumption!

I spent far more hours that I'll ever admit trying to find out why - on MY computer system - a particular model I'm building would work perfectly, but on other team member's systems animated parts would be scattered around like they had been fired from a shotgun, and textures would be semi-transparent!

Yesterday morning I had what can only have been an "Epiphaneous Moment": I had a team mate copy/paste the "Fresnel_Ramp.dds" file into my a/c's \texture folder...

...problem solved! :eek:
 
Hi Bill,

Good post. By accident I also learned the same yesterday evening. I was testing the animations on one of the hangars I made and the doors were laying flat on the ground (although I could see the animation in the shadow). After I put back all textures, the animation works fine.

So checking all textures is indeed a good rule when having trouble with animations.
 
As I posted "elsewhere", would this not be solved by adding a line to the texture.cfg file (at least in SimObjects/Airplanes) pointing to the default FSX\texture folder?
 
For aircraft that might help, but for scenery it is not an option :).
 
FelixFFDS said:
As I posted "elsewhere", would this not be solved by adding a line to the texture.cfg file (at least in SimObjects/Airplanes) pointing to the default FSX\texture folder?
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Felix, as I replied "elsewhere," I tried that and it flat didn't work!

The default "texture.cfg" file only points to the a/c's own \texture folder, or the ..\Scenery\Global\texture folder.

Code: 
fallback.1=..\texture
fallback.2=..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture
fallback.3=..\..\..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture

I could not get this to work:

Code: 
fallback.1=..\texture                     <= a/c's own \texture folder!
fallback.2=..\..\..\..\texture           <= FSX's default \texture folder...should have worked!
fallback.3=..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture
fallback.4=..\..\..\..\..\..\Scenery\Global\texture
 
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