Sticky: UTX USA Version 1.1 Released

Allen,

When trying to run the file, my Virus Detection says it contains a Trojan Horse SHeur.ETP.

Any comments....

John

Thanks,

AVG.

That's all I need to know.

John

Paul,

I do remember this now.  But, the patch issues came straight from the new reporting tool mechanism.   Since this was not on the list, it was forgotten.

To get the wave effects added, we would probably need to release a new setup tool.   However, I believe you can do this yourself in the meantime.  You can do this by editing TERRAIN.CFG.

To add the wave effects now, you have to find the UTX sections that define the rocky and or sandy beach coastlines in TERRAIN.CFG.   Then, you simply add one of two lines for wave effects.

Effect=wavecontroller  -> adds the larger ocean waves
Effect=lakewavecontroller -> adds smaller lake waves

To add the effects (I think), just add the lines below in red to the 2 TERRAIN.CFG sections below.    The Texture.440 and Texture.441 labels might possibly be different on your system.    Let me know if this works.....it should.

[Texture.440]
Name=UT_OCEAN_SAND
guid={C216CC56-1EF8-4214-90E1-82019E64B0A7}
Textures=UTSandCoast.bmp,UTSandCoastHW.bmp,UTSandCoast.bmp,UTSandCoast.bmp,UTSandCoast.bmp,UTSandCoast_LM.bmp
Layout=3_PLUS_4
StripWidthMeters=40
FlattenMode=none
FlattenPriority=41000
LandClassRemapType=none
ExcludeAutogen=Yes
RenderToTexture=Yes
RenderPriority=90000
Effect=wavecontroller
Water=No

[Texture.441]
Name=UT_OCEAN_ROCK
guid={AB4D08D9-DA6A-40a7-BA88-648BD4CAEC34}
Textures=UTROCK.BMP,UTROCK.BMP,UTROCK.BMP,UTROCK.BMP,UTROCK.BMP,UTROCK_LM.BMP
Layout=3_PLUS_4
StripWidthMeters=40
FlattenMode=none
FlattenPriority=41000
LandClassRemapType=none
ExcludeAutogen=Yes
RenderToTexture=Yes
RenderPriority=90000
Effect=wavecontroller
Water=No

Mike,

Since you brought it up, I will tell you what happened.  After downloading the update on another computer, I went to install it on my FSX computer ((Vista Home Premium, Pentium Duo Core E6400, 600 Gig HD, 4Gig RAM (yes, I know it only uses about 3.3Gig), nVidia GeForce 7950GTOC)) on which FSX and UTX is installed.  Vista said it could not be installed.  AVG persistantly gave the Trojan message.  I could not "run as administrator either".  I restarted the computer in "Safe Mode" and it loaded and now runs fine and AVG  (latest edition/update) does not bother with it.  That's all I know or need to know to make it run unless that message proves true and then I will format and start again.  Thanks for the work Allen, Jeff, and others have done and everyone's input regarding this installation problem.

John

The waves are now intermittant on my sys also.

Anyway, it's good to have a simple fix to bring them back.

Thanks for the tip on bringing the waves back. They now work as they did before installing UTX.

Would it be possible to post a list of the 44 items implemented?

Yikes!  Correct indeed sir! Same the world over.

I even tried uninstalling UTX, replacing ALL texture and effect files, and replacing any tweaked files with originals.

Thing is, i had waves before UTX. Any other ideas....?

Thanks

I have the same problem with waves.

I "restored" them as instructed (pre acelleration) but, they only appear ocasionally.

Funny you should mention Texture section 383

With Acceleration/SP2 the terrain.cfg stops at texture.382 and then a very large section of autogen is defined, after which the texture lines start again at texture.383

For giggles I just edited the terrain.cfg file and moved all the new autogen entries to the end and made sure the texture lines all ran congruent.

I will test this now and see if that recovers the waves. I also lost them outside the USA

The waves came back after I edited the terrain config numbering so the SP2 autogen additions were after the UTX entries. Why, I do not know however I just reinstalled FSX recently to test something and in doing so I installed UTX after SP2/Accell where the first time when I had no wave loss issue outside the USA I had installed UTX -before- SP2/Accel. In both cases I ran the UTX/SP2 patch.

The only difference between install A (waves worked) and install B (waves lost) was when UTX was installed, meaning the numbers in the terrain.cfg for UTX were not split by the SP2 additions as they were in install B

No performance issues here. I test hardware for some of the majors and run refrigerant cooled 4gig+ CPU, DDR3 2000 (and higher) memory with video card core/memory/shader clock speeds that would make a Nvidia Ultra blush 

NickN,

In reference to the surf wave problem, you mentioned in your earlier post that you simply...

     "moved all the new autogen entries to the end and made sure the texture lines all ran congruent."

...and would test it to see if it worked. Did it work?

In this most recent post, you said you renumbered the various entrys to put them in order. Please give more detail, since the numbering format of the texture entries and the autogen entries seem to be very different.

I tried moving the autogen to the end and that didn't seem to help. I'm guessing that means I need to do the renumbering thing, but I'm not sure how to do that, because of the concerns I have about the seemingly different numbering format between the texture and autogen entries.

(I do have the "Effect=wavecontroller" in the 2 proper places and also the various files in their proper locations. Actually I put "Effect=wavecontroller" under "Name=UT_OCEAN_SAND" and "Effect=lakewavecontroller" under "Name=UT_OCEAN_ROCK". And I've tried viewing the waves at various water and effects settings while running FSX. Still no surf waves.)

Thanks.

Thanks for your comments, Nick. I misunderstood and thought it was a fix for the U.S. coverage area. I did move the autogen entries down but didn't check the rest of the world for the results, only the U.S.  Well, at least it will be good to have waves everywhere else.