p3dv4 frustrations

[thomas]

Well, I only have one frustration with P3Dv4 and that is the difficulty in adding 3rd party aircraft via an external location. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. For instance I can add Manfred Jahn's Douglas C-117D (filename Douglas_C-117D_V3.zip) but I am unsuccessful witzh the Douglas C-47 (Douglas_C-47_Beta_V3_1405.zip). Likewise two Airbus A320s, both freeware: p3dv4 sees one but not the other.
I have found a lot of info on Adam Breed's site www.nzfsim.org/fsx-p3d-tweaks/add-ons-outside-p3d-root/ but I have a less than 50% successrate. I copy/paste the file names where required so it is definitely not a typo-problem.

I have also tried the Lorbi-si addonn tool but it only works for sceneries. I can't get it to work with aircraft.

so... all advice will be taken to heart!

regards

Thomas

[abbotsford]

I cannot answer your concern but am grateful for the link which I never knew existed. Am trying to get to grips with the issue myself.

[dutch]

I have added a number of these add-ons manually, and done an installer for them, and written code that tracks down the files through the whole scheme. It works and it's a far better way to do it than adding them into the simulator's folder as in the past -- but Prepar3d REALLY needs a graphical tool that will automate most of this. Doing it by hand by editing the text and XML files is so typo error prone that's surely what's going wrong when you say "sometimes it doesn't work".

It does work when you get all the little details right. When your add-on doesn't show, carefully check each file in each step and odds are you'll find a tiny typo somewhere.

Either LM or a third party will surely produce a tool soon enough, I hope.

Dutch

Mar 24, 2019 10:43:48 GMT -5 thomas said:

Well, I only have one frustration with P3Dv4 and that is the difficulty in adding 3rd party aircraft via an external location. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. For instance I can add Manfred Jahn's Douglas C-117D (filename Douglas_C-117D_V3.zip) but I am unsuccessful witzh the Douglas C-47 (Douglas_C-47_Beta_V3_1405.zip). Likewise two Airbus A320s, both freeware: p3dv4 sees one but not the other.
I have found a lot of info on Adam Breed's site www.nzfsim.org/fsx-p3d-tweaks/add-ons-outside-p3d-root/ but I have a less than 50% successrate. I copy/paste the file names where required so it is definitely not a typo-problem.

I have also tried the Lorbi-si addonn tool but it only works for sceneries. I can't get it to work with aircraft.

so... all advice will be taken to heart!

regards

Thomas

[jacklyon]

Normally you got that in your computer:

C:\Users\<your_user>\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons

In this case, the example is Restauravia MirageIIIC for Prepar3DV4.


If you not want to use the "add-on" new method:

go to MirageIIIC folder, and you copy all that on your main PrePar3DV4 folder

(see my pictures)

also if you see the "add-on.xml", you see that talking about That
the .xml, just declare on Prepar3DV4, the directorys



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SimBase.Document Type="AddOnXml" version="4,0" id="add-on">
<AddOn.Name>MirageIIIC</AddOn.Name>
<AddOn.Description>MirageIIIC by Restauravia</AddOn.Description>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>SimObjects</Category>
<Path>SimObjects\Airplanes</Path>
<Name>MirageIIIC</Name>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>Effects</Category>
<Path>Effects</Path>
<Name>MirageIIIC_effects</Name>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>Gauges</Category>
<Path>Gauges</Path>
<Name>MirageIIIC_gauges</Name>
</AddOn.Component>
</SimBase.Document>

Hope is clear

If not, if you want an excellent tool (payware), you can use (i bought it), Simstarter NG, it's support Prepar3DV4 (and all other versions from FSX), and it's allow you, to manage all configurations
in one friendly place.


www.aerosoft.com/en/flight-simulation/flight-simulator-x-steam/tools-missions/1428/simstarter-ng

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