JF Arrow III "clean" version

[ThreeNote425397]

Hi Folks,

I read the manual, after a half hour found the location of the 2 texture versions. I copied the “clean” folder, then found the TEXTURE file mentioned in the manual. I deleted all of the old texture files; then tried to paste the “clean” I get a message “your administration does not permit you to place any objects here”. So much for an old 85 year RW pilot with little computer knowledge. I have opened at ticket at JF but seems it might take a long time for them to reply.

Any idea of what i can do?? I know I can always uninstall, and reinstall --that i can do! And get back to the dirty look.

Thanks for any help!!

[JayDee6281]

Do you have the MS Store or Steam Version? The MS Store version has its files kind of protected and sometimes long files names are a hindering too. You could try to zip the just flight folder an copy it out of the community folder then make the changes and copy it back.

[ThreeNote425397]

Hi JayDee,

I bought from the Just Flight website. Of course the aircraft shows up in the MSFS aircraft selection. Not sure I can do what you suggest, perhaps my son can do it when here in 2 weeks. Thanks.

[WeptBurrito2749]

You’re wording makes it sound like you did it wrong.

You don’t copy the clean folder, you copy what’s IN the clean folder and copy it to the texture folder and just let it overwrite those files it’s replacing.

[hobanagerik]

I can write a little guide to do this tomorrow if you like. I suspect it’s a permissions problem, which should be easy to overcome.

I’ve not tried this myself, but now have a reason to.

The last time I looked there are two separate folders, one with the clean textures in, the other with the old. You shouldn’t need to delete anything, just copy over the files inside the folder, not the folder itself, into the destination, and overwrite the existing files.

The two backup copies allow you to flip flop between the two versions at will. I suspect the permissions problem could be sorted by opening a copy of Explorer with admin rights.

Open a copy of Command Prompt, but run as Administrator. From that Window type:

Explorer.exe .

That should open a new Explorer window, but is now “elevated”. The “.” is not a typo, it just tells Explorer to open at the current location. Then try copying the relevant files from that window.

As I say, I’ll play with this tomorrow, and take some notes.

[Jigsaw407]

Don’t delete anything. Just copy the files from either the “Clean” or “Default” cockpit folder and paste them into the subfolder:

Community\justflight-aircraft-pa28-arrow-iii\SimObjects\Airplanes\JF_PA28_Arrow\TEXTURE.VC

Overwrite when prompted. That’s it. If you deleted files, you may have to reinstall.

[PhantomStreak]

In addition, there is a mod that cleans up even more than these two files do at Piper PA28R Arrow III (JustFlight) - Clean Interior » Microsoft Flight Simulator
You can use both together to (the included JF clean textures and the mod). The mod does clean things the JF texture doesn’t. The mod does not clean the windshield like the JF textures do. So it may be preferable to use both if you want a really clean interior.

[ThreeNote425397]

Good morning Guys! I’d like to respond to all of you helpful guys to my original post. I suppose that i screwed up by deleting the “default” files from the folder, and trying to paste the “clean” file; but i reread the manual this morning and it says “replace the files in the texture.vc folder”. Maybe replace in england means something else, but to me it sounded like I needed to delete them. So this morning I am going to uninstall and reinstall the Arrow, then take it for a spin around the pattern at KRDU; btw we had a 4 hour storm last night north of RDU and I have some yard cleanup to do. But I’ll be back here later today and see what the consensus is. Thanks all!!

[Jigsaw407]

It depends on if you deleted all files in the TEXTURE.VC folder or only the ones that you would have overwritten anyway, because there are 97 files in that folder while only 14 will get replaced when you switch out the dirty/default textures.

If you deleted all files in that folder, most of the required files will be missing.

[ThreeNote425397]

Yep, I deleted all of the files. Now finishing up a reinstall. So I think the main problem is that I can copy the “clean” file, but my computer will not let me paste it into the TEXTURE.VC folder. Waiting for suggestions!!

[meh1951]

You should have a folder called justflight-aircraft-pa28-arrow-iii_cleaninterior that you put in your Community folder.

[hobanagerik]

I had a play around with a couple of scripts to make it easy to switch between the two texture sets.

I dropped these into the following folder, just above where the two texture sets sit:

Each DOS script has the following line, one for the “clean” version, and one for the “default” worn one:

xcopy .\Clean\* ..\SimObjects\Airplanes\JF_PA28_Arrow\TEXTURE.VC\

xcopy .\Default\* ..\SimObjects\Airplanes\JF_PA28_Arrow\TEXTURE.VC\

Do not put both lines in the same script, one goes in one, one goes in the other. If they are both there it will simply ensure the last line is the one that “wins” as it were, but wouldn’t actually break anything.

The script assumes it will be in this location, and expecting the two folders to be in the same folder as the script itself. It then goes one folder up, the two “…”, and then back down to the folder where the textures are.

I left the option to automate the “do you want to overwrite this file” off so you can see what it does. It should ask you this:

Pressing “Y” will overwrite all 14 files. I played around with this in the developer mode, and one annoyance I found was simply reloading the aircraft doesn’t actually load the plane with the new texture set. To do that I had to switch to a different plane, then back again. Then it would show me whatever script I last ran.

I made a backup copy of the plane in case, but I have the original installer anyway.

If you do play around with this in the Developer mode. even opening it, and closing it while flying is enough to ensure that flight will not be logged. So if you want to avoid that, make sure you load a new flight with Developer mode off. Something else I noticed that is likely a bug is that closing the developer mode via the menu at the top left will still leave developer mode on the next time the sim launches. To turn it off for the next session, go to the General menu, and turn it off there.

If you still have permissions problems, you can run the script with “admin” rights. I did not have to do this with the MS Store version.

[WeptBurrito2749]

Before you start the sim…

Copy these

Goto the texture.vc folder and right click somewhere and select paste

Select replace the files in the destination, should be 14 files

[ThreeNote425397]

Good morning! Thanks to all you guys for the inputs and suggestions! My son will be here in a week or two and rebuild my machine with a new CPU - MOBO - and water cooler! Then maybe i can move settings up a bit from medium. I’ll have him read this thread and get me a new Arrow III.