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Installing RAF West Malling (EG58)

Wings of Gold

Wings of Gold

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A little help please Guys,

This scenery was included with RealAir's Spitfires. They, unfortunately. are no longer around to ask questions.
I have not installed it for a very long time, but I have it on a backup CD. I did not include the original readme, but the notes on my CD label indicate that the contents of the "EG58" folder go into "Addon scenery\scenery". As I saw no scenery after installing it that way, I looked in the EG58 folder. There is no Afcad there. Would explain why I see nothing.

Will one of you please explain how this was supposed to install. Am I missing an Afcad file?

Regards to you all.

Bill
 
I had the opposite problem of trying to uninstall it when i made my own West Malling scenery. i seem to remember it installing to somewhere rather strange which took me age's to find. You could try installing everything again into a new folder in desk top or somewhere, having a look for the scenery components and making up your own West Malling folder with scenery/texture sub folders and activating like any other add-on scenery. Hope this helps :wavey:
 
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the input. I am missing something here. If I construct a folder called "West Malling", and then create a sub folder called "scenery" and put the contents of my "EG58" folder into the scenery sub folder - and then add the "West Malling" folder to my Scenery Library and try to select a airport called "West Malling" - there is no airport to select.

I have 22 files in my scenery sub folder: an "aprons_fsx.bgl, 18 Eg58_dpXX.bgls, a photoscenery_FSX.bgl, a eg58lib.bgl and a eg58x.bgl. Thats all. What do you have that I don't.

I did not have a installer to use any more, only what files are on my backup CD.

Bill
 
When you install the spitfire the scenery automatically installs itself in the addon scenery directory.

You do not need to do anything.Look in your addon scenery directory and you should find it.You should also have a texture directory with texture files in it

Cheers Chris
 
When you first install the RA Spit the scenery will install into the Addon/Scenery folder. There are 22 files in the scenery folder and
16 texture bmp's in the texture folder. If you haven't installed any other scenery they will be the only files in those folders. There is
also the traffic file which will be in the Scenery/World/scenery folder. All the files in the scenery folder will have EG58 in the file name,
same goes for the bmp's in the texture folder so they are pretty easy to find.
I would just create A new folder with a scenery and texture folder in it and then move the files to their respective folders, then install the
scenery thru the scenery library

Joe
 
Hi Chris and Joe,

Thanks for both of your posts. I was able to relocate my installer (executable) and ran it. It then told me that it could "not find a valid Spitfire 2008 installer on your computer". I located a "RealAir" folder that had a "spit08" folder inside it. I put both the inside and outside folders in my root FSX folder. I reran the executable. I got the same result ("can not find..."). I have a Steam version of FSX. Should I try to create a dummy set of folders to lead to where the classic FSX is normally located? I note that the window that comes up when I access the installer (executable) says that "This program will install high quality textures into your RealAir Spitfire 2008 installation". Should I have placed the RealAir & spit08 folders elsewhere? What is happening here? You thoughts please.

Best regards,

Bill
 
The installer you are using is for extra HD textures not the spitfire installer.The realair spitfire was made for FSX not for FSX Steam hence I doubt that it will work with steam but as I do not have steam I do not know.
Have you found a texture directory for West Malling?

Cheers Chris
 
Wings of Gold said:
Hi Chris and Joe,

Thanks for both of your posts. I was able to relocate my installer (executable) and ran it. It then told me that it could "not find a valid Spitfire 2008 installer on your computer". Should I try to create a dummy set of folders to lead to where the classic FSX is normally located?

Best regards,

Bill
Click to expand...

Yes, it's been awhile since I installed it, in both FSX and FS9 the Real Air installers look for the default program pathway IIRC, as well as creating dummy folder, youll need to copy the FSX. exe program file to same dummy location.

Ttfn

Pete
 
Hi Guys,

Now that I know that the installer that I put on my backup CD is only for textures (is not the main Installer), I think I'm out of business for getting EG58.

I most appreciate all of your help,

Bill
 
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