Resolved Strange ?Shadow?

[Quickmarch 488]

Here's a strange shadow or something on the ground at NZAA, using the ORBX New Zealand North Island package in Air Hauler. I have not checked whether or not this appears at this airport when AH is not running - that's next. It first appeared when the aircraft was about 30NM out.

 

I get the same thing at NZNR only it's 4 parallel lines instead of one.

 

Any ideas anyone?

 

 

FSX and Acceleration.

 

EDIT: Time is approximately local Noon. The same line appears in the same spot when AH is NOT running - same aircraft, same airport. I also checked with the default hang glider - same thing, so let's assume a problem with the scenery rather than the a/c.

 

YET ANOTHER EDIT: Under the heading RTFM - The Orbx forum covers this (although, as is usually the case with forums, difficult to find). The checkbox "Ground Scenery Shadows" under the Settings Heading - Scenery - should not be checked (ie: must be OFF).

[flybytes 34]

John,

 

Checked NZAA, not Orbx, but the FSX default, with & without ground scenery shadows enabled - do not see any strange shadows or ground artifacts, so more likely that it is an Orbx scenery anomaly.

 

On the other hand, wonder how much main memory your laptop has, as I've seen similar ground effects when free memory is running low.

 

Also noticed that scenery objects which extend below ground so that their height may be modified or can be positioned on sloping terrain can sometimes display strange or reversed ground shadows (when ground scenery shadows enabled).

 

Ray.

[Quickmarch 488]

@Ray,

 

Thanks for the note, please see the edited post, above. You were exactly on track.

 

Incidentally, I'm no longer using the laptop - retired it in favour of a new ship's computer that is quite a bit more powerful than the laptop. I should edit my profile to reflect this change. 

[flybytes 34]

John,

 

OK.

 

I tend to fly with the lens flare, light bloom & ground shadows tick boxes 'unticked' as the added effects are not worth the hit on frame-rates.

 

Also I fly a lot with photo-real ground textures & having ground shadows enabled often results in objects having two shadows - the photographic one & the fsx generated one.

 

Cheers,

 

Ray.