Ground terrain "checkerboard" pattern

[Roger Wensley]

I have modified the area around Bethel PABE with a new terrain texture, "cold grassland". It shows up as a checkerboard of two distinctly different textures, just like a checkerboard for playing draughts or chess. Any ideas? I could post a screenshot on here but it wouldn't anything to my description.

[Roger Wensley]

One thing I will add, having looked at screenshots I took before I installed the cold grassland texture: the previous default fs9 texture or textures already had the checkerboard pattern.

[tgibson_new]

I don't know of a way to overcome FS's default terrain pattern.

[Roger Wensley]

Well that makes things easy Tom, I just ignore it.

[wblackret]

You can use FTX (ORBX) products. Most of the add on items I ran across over the years did nothing great for FSX, it was like trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear at best. Let’s remember, FSX has had no development in 15 to 20 years. The only change was internal things to make it run better (FSX-SE) by Dovetail games, that can’t develope a flight sim to save their ???.

[bam1220]

You can use FTX (ORBX) products. Most of the add on items I ran across over the years did nothing great for FSX, it was like trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear at best. Let’s remember, FSX has had no development in 15 to 20 years. The only change was internal things to make it run better (FSX-SE) by Dovetail games, that can’t develope a flight sim to save their ???.

 

The OP is talking about FS9 not FSX. And this is a FS9 forum :)

[hjwalter]

Roger,

 

By the sound of your post it seems that one or more of your FS9 default BGL files in your main scenery folder and which covers the area concerned, is either missing or has somehow been de-activated, especially when you say that you already saw the problem before you began modiying your Bethel area.

 

Hope this helps.

Hans

[Roger Wensley]

Hans, nice idea but there is nothing missing or deactivated as far as I can see. It is just another FS9 fault, like the line of a "join" where there is a loooooooooooooooong gap between textures, or the straight line coasts. No good reason for any of them and Tom had the right solution; ignore it.

[jgf]

I've had a similar problem for ages with water textures - checkerboard oceans. I've tried different textures, different cfg settings ...nothing helps. Oddly, when panning the external view the pattern will change and occasionally, briefly, disappear.