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    Too Many addons !

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator

    Posted · Edited by bvdboomen

    Everything which goes in the Community folder can be handled by Addon Linker.
    If you setup AL, the program asks for your add-ons folder. These are the folders outside the Community folder where you install all add-ons.

     

    You are not limited to just one folder. I have two:

    A global one with Rex Accuseason, GAIST, FSLTL, libraries, Mamudesign freeware, etc. Pretty much everything which has global coverage in MSFS.

    Next, I have a folder with my airplanes, airfields, patches, mesh, plane-mods, etc.

     

    Each category has its own folder structure. For scenery, I have made folders by region and then sub-folders with countries.

    I then can easily disable or enable regions in which I fly. Pretty much like FTX Central worked when we had to switch regions. It is not mandatory but it helps loading the sim faster.

     

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    Too Many addons !

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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    37 minutes ago, mikee said:

    Place , Plane , Mesh , Season ( Rex accuseason ) etc. that i want to a flight at that particular area of the world ! 

    Then i want to fly somewhere else . Do i have to close my Simulator and do the same process again ?

     

    Yes. MSFS looks at the Community folder at startup. So, everytime a change is made MSFS needs to be restarted.

     

    39 minutes ago, mikee said:

    One more question : When there are Updates : either from Orbx or from let's say Simmarket or Aerosoft etc.

    Since all of my Addons are placed in the Addon Linker and in my Community folder it is just a shortcut , the Update will still be Succesful ?

     

    If you have Orbx Central to install directly in the Community folder, there is no further action needed. When installing outside the CF, no action is needed if the file/folder structure of the add-on is the same. Otherwise, Addon linker will notice the change and comes with a reload suggestion. Most of the time it's best to delete the installed older version and install the new version. I do not know how Simmarket is working with their app, btw.

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    Option to Remove Static Aircraft, any update?

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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    The easy way to remove static is, to have them in a separate BGL file.

    Having a separate BGL makes it possible to just disable them by removing/renaming that file.

     

    Since I only just begun learning the MSFS SDK, I do not know if it was possible to have multiple BGL packages besides the modellib, etc. in a project in the first iterations of the SDK. If you want to remove the static aircraft in a single BGL airport, then you need the uncompiled XML file which is never part of an airport package when released.

     

    At least, this is how I think it works. Still a novice at present. :)

     

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    Kors ramp texture problem (Parked Aircraft Ghost Shadows on the Ground)

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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    I just "purchased" KORS with my Orbs and I must say, it looks very rushed.

    The runway polygons seem to just smacked on the ground and there's a big, uncolorcorrected patch which covers planes parked in the grass with a forgotten part. See picture, left of the helicopter. This, and the apron indeed kills immersion and is not Orbx style at all. Is this getting fixed?

     

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    This is exactly why I do not buy Orbx airports at the moment. :(

     

    z_airport-nzmf

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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    The fact that the add-on filename starts with a 'z', tells me that the developer wants it on top of the rest of the scenery.

    But what it is, I do not know. My Milford Sound folder is named sdr-milford-nodem, so your folder is not the version for people without the Orbx mesh.

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