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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Aug 15, 2019 5:41 pm

Just make sure you run this command:
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git checkout fgfs-342-1
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Thu Aug 15, 2019 5:46 pm

legoboyvdlp wrote in Thu Aug 15, 2019 5:41 pm:Just make sure you run this command:
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git checkout fgfs-342-1

Not sure what that does, but ok. Is that before the cmake/make/install or after?

Once I do this cmake/make/install, I need to run
./download_and_install.sh SIMGEAR FGFS
Nothing else? No OSG?

Edit: It showed it was building 3.4.2 files. Install went ok. The simulator runs now, but the text colors are still wrong.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Aug 15, 2019 6:59 pm

You need to do it in this order:

- Clone OSG from zakalawe's fork
- Checkout the fgfs-342-1 branch
- Build OSG
- Build SG
- Build FG

The second step is the most important - if you just clone the repository and build you still will get the wrong text colours. Checking out the branch will load up the branch that has various fixes / modifications done for FlightGear.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Thu Aug 15, 2019 7:32 pm

When I entered the git checkout, it told me it was the current branch.

I am rebuilding OSG SIMGEAR FGFS

Edit: It did not fix the colors. Most text still white.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:34 pm

Hmm - I wonder is SG and FG actually using the OSG you compiled? It's a known bug and a known soloution... Is the old version of OSG still there from GitHub.com/openscenegraph/? If so that's probably why - if not not so sure.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Thu Aug 15, 2019 8:57 pm

According to the d_n_c script, if OSG is selected, it will download the OSG from the openscenegraph Github site and build it.

That is why I asked.

I would have guessed SIMGEAR and FGFS only.
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./download_and_compile -j4 SIMGEAR FGFS


I started over. This time I am not going to build OSG, just SIMGEAR, FGFS, and DATA
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:55 pm

That sounds righ, yep. Hope it works!
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby Alant » Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:57 pm

After all of these downloads and rebuilds, I don´t know how mixed up your system may be. It may help if you check that your environment variables are all still pointing to the ones that are relevant to the current build. Can you can safely delete directories and files that relate to old builds?
"apt remove" may be needed if you still have stuff from Ubuntou or saikrishna.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:02 pm

Well, it runs, and most of the colors are good. Some of the text has color, but most is white.

There is no alternative AFAIK. The OSG installed with the d_n_c script doesn't even start the simulator. Immediate crash.

I can deal with it like this. :D

@Alant:
Yes, I can empty directories without problem.
I have no OSG installed from the Ubuntu repository.
The last couple installs went pretty good.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:28 am

If you want to see if it is fixed maybe you could open up the IDG A32X and show a screenshot of the autopilot panel and the pedestal?

Glad it's fixed ;)
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:37 pm

The "route" feature display in the Citation-X has text for fixes, waypoints, etc, in color where appropriate. Cyan and magenta.

Is that the one from the Octal450 3rd party livery? If so, I'll try to download and take a quick flight in it after getting your screenshot.

Gonna take a flight first in the Twin Otter.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Fri Aug 16, 2019 2:54 pm

Certainly not sure how you could fly it before downloading it but yes :P
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby Alant » Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:17 pm

SurferTim wrote in Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:23 pm:
Alant wrote in Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:05 pm:AFAIK, this bug affects other aircraft with glass cockpits.

OK, a glass cockpit? I'm not familiar with that term.


This is how glass cockpits started. Back in 1977 the two main British aircraft companies (BAC and HSA) collaborated in a joint project which we called the Advanced FlightDeck https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1977/1977%20-%201182.PDF. The attached is from BAC´s 1978 Calendar . They could not afford a pretty girl, so the handsome young pilot is yours truly.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby SurferTim » Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:53 pm

My flight in the Twin Otter went well.

I wish I could say the same about the A320. No matter which version I try to run, it throws an error "FGPropertyValue::GetValue() The property /systems/electrical/bus/ac1 does not exist", and aborts the app.

@Alant: Nice pic. Lucky guy!

Edit: The C172 has a Garmin 196 option. It has the same problem. The rest of the cockpit looks fine.
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Re: Unreadable white text on white background on Twin Otter

Postby legoboyvdlp » Fri Aug 16, 2019 4:27 pm

Have a look in INSTALL.MD - make sure you removed -master from the folder name (as is standard for every aircraft downloaded from GitHub).
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