Nick Cooper
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Hello,
there is now an aircraft operating manual to be found at the “User Guide” tab on the Orbx Central Blackwing product page.
Please have a read through that and I think that you will find answers to your questions.
I have answered your support ticket too.-
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Hello Rodger,
as Doug says, short answer, you can either go with the flow, or put up with the inconvenience.
I am only a mere 70 year old and I do remember what seems to have been a simpler time in the late
50's and 60's, but without the rose-tinted glasses, life may have been more simple but it was not
as easy as it is now, as I am sure we all remember.
My grandfather and his peers lived through two world wars and numerous local ones, not to mention
TB outbreaks, influenza that killed and so on. Very few families of his generation did not lose someone to one of those
and I guess that it is much the same over there.
My father's generation had it easier and mine, easier still.
My youngest daughter is just turned 24 and is a nurse.
She works a strange shift pattern but for 37 1/2 hours a week and considers that to be long hours.
She didn't get much sympathy from me, when I was her age, I was working between 60 and 70 hours
every week, driving a lorry, or truck, as you may have it.
I have a smart phone because I need one for other things, but I honestly have no idea how to pay for anything with it.
When I do finally need to, I will ask my daughter to set it up, using the skill set that her generation has, that mine and yours do not have.-
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Hello,
it can't be done, they are two entirely separate entities.
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Hello,
it doesn't matter, orbx_cpl_HFVR.xml is an Orbx Central control panel and does not need to be anywhere but in the Orbx Central LIbrary.-
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Hello,
by default, it is set to create and restore from a backup.
You will see the backup in the same location as the scenery.cfg file
and it is named scenery.cfg.sce-
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Hello,
as you might imagine, over the last sixteen years or so, the subject of VAS has been both discussed and addressed at some length.
The definitive guide is indeed the one by PMDG.
I expect that you have already read it carefully, but in case you have not, you can do so here: PMDG VAS Guide
You can note that the reference to disabling unused scenery resulting in a saving of VAS, refers to photoscenery, something that is readily available, but not from Orbx.
It is no coincidence that Orbx photoscenery products were never released for FSX or 32-bit versions of P3D, which suffer from the same limitations.
As you suggest, FSX uses the highest resolution of mesh that is installed for a given area.
I have not seen any evidence, or suggestion, that having multiple versions of mesh for the same area adds to VAS consumption.
Orbx regions, except in Ireland and Northern Ireland, all include mesh that has been painstakingly tailored to produce the best results and they do not require any addon mesh.
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Hello,
the Scenery Config Editor is both free and effective to achieve what you want.
There is a Manual too.One of the most useful things in your context, is that, just as in Windows File Explorer,
if you select an entry and then press the Shift key, it will select all of the entries between
the first selection and the second and they can be enabled or disabled in a block.If you only enable the scenery that you need for a given flight, you will find that the FSX
loading time is much shorter.
You may well not find that the VAS usage is any less.
Because FSX is unchanged since 2009, developers have wrung every ounce of performance
out of it and enhanced it all the way up to and sometimes beyond its limit as a 32-bit application.
Sometimes, the combination of a highly detailed airport and a highly detailed aircraft model is
simply too much and you will not be able to fly.-
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Hello,
it looks like the static aircraft are an integral part of the airport model.
Without disabling most of the rest of the airport model, there is not a
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Hello,
all of the Support Forums were made read-only some time ago, when they were replaced by a Support Ticket system.
Instead, there are the "Community Help Forums" where you can sometimes find peer to peer support.
I am sure that the Orbx Products Reviews forum has always been only for Orbx staff to post into.
It was never intended to be an opportunity for customers to post their own reviews.
Customers can indeed post comments into existing posts in that forum.-
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Hello,
we discourage debate over which simulator is best but I must add that I fall exactly into your bracket of someone who wantsexactly this:
QuoteIt looks beautiful, It's user friendly, the aircraft are more forgiving and yet it maintains enough (barely) of the main capabilities of a flight simulator product.
I must quickly add that I also have two versions of FSX, two versions of P3D and two versions of X Plane and that there is not really any competition between them, For me, they each serve a different purpose.
I am not a pilot by any means but to be able to travel the world and see pictures of what was there when the pictures were taken, without leaving my seat, is an experience that is confined to MSFS.
If you see something that looks interesting from the virtual air, using Google Earth Street View, you can walk around virtually and look at places that you, or at least I, will never be able to visit.
For me, that is priceless.-
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Hello,
if it says P3D v4+ then that means P3D v4 and P3D v5. -
3 minutes ago, Zylx said:
My question is if I buy scenery from the website, will it then show up on Central so I can install it via Central
Hello,
the short answer is "Yes".Orbx Central is the app that installs and manages products bought from Orbx Direct.
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Hello,
if you installed them into your simulator, open P3D and go to the scenery library.If an Orbx product line includes an exclamation mark (!) it is a True Earth product.
Untick those entries that you want to disable.
Each TE region will have four lines to untick:
If you installed them into an Orbx Central Library, untick the two California entries.
I don't have NCA installed but you will get the idea, I am sure.
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Hello,
this product has been produced by Beautiful Model of the World.For Beautiful Model of the World product support, please go to:
https://beautifulmodelworld.com/
My own personal suggestion:
Looking at the jetway model, the jetway seems to have a fixed height.
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I have replied to your support ticket. -
Hello,
you can do as you suggest, if you wish to.-
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Hello,
welcome to the forums.
You need only to enter your email address and password and you can log on.
You will also need to respond to the forum registration email.
It may be in your "Junk" folder. -
...and as quickly as that, he has replied.
He is very busy with something else for a short while, but he will take a look at this after the something else is finished. -
I can ask Marcus to take a look at this topic.
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2 hours ago, gpxe said:
@Nick Cooper Thanks for confirming. Again, without ESSB installed, I have a big checkered box
I am sure that the guid is the issue and from your posts, it seems that the big house does not appear
unless the chequered board does first, otherwise, I would also see it.
At least you now know which airport to disable if you want to visit MYNN and it does seem to be a long way
from there to ESGG.7,658 km
Distance from Lynden Pindling International Airport to Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport (GOT) -
Hello,
I see no anomalies at all at the default MYNN, probably because I use the MSFS Addons LInker to remove
all but the addons that are required for the flight in question.
Here it is with Orbx ESSB installed:
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Hello,
CYEG is a Partner product and not an Orbx product.
It is therefore not included in the Orbx sale. -
Hello,
please try this one.
It should go into C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5
Addon Linker
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Hello Bob,
there are very few MSFS addons that need their files to be in the Community folder.
The Addons Linker is the best way to keep your addons away from the Community folder.
This has two advantages:
One, which has now been shown to have been redundant, is to
protect addons from being deleted when MSFS is updated.
In fact, this has only ever happened due to user error.
The other is the ability to switch addons on and off at will.
MSFS can only see Community addons when they are in the Community folder.
If you think of the Community folder as the switch, then
ON = in the Community folder
OFF = not in the Community folder.
The Addons Linker will work best with Orbx Central if you do not move any files.
If you do move files and folders that were placed by Orbx Central, it will no longer be able to work with those files.
The Addons Linker can see an Orbx Central Library, so if you have installed into one of those, you need only to tell the Addons Linker where it is.
The easiest way to organise your other addon files is into categories, as chosen by you.
They might be by region, aircraft type or any other parameter that suits you and makes them easy to find and identify.
This is my way, there is no right way or wrong way, once it is understood that the files outside the Community folder
are the storage and the links, inside the Community folder, are the place where MSFS can see and use the files.