Prepar3D Tips, Tricks and How To's

Maule M7 260C Paint 1, aircraft lights not working as installed in P3D v4.5. I'm surprised that P3Dv5 failed to fix this. Find your Aircraft.cfg file in your P3d installation directory and open it with text document editor. Scroll to near bottom of file and look for [Lights] which will look like this: [LIGHTS] //Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=Landing, 6=taxi //light.0 = 3, -1.23, -16.61, 3.08, fx_navred //light.1 = 3, -1.23, 16.61, 3.08, fx_navgre //light.2 = 3, -17.05, 0.00, 4.85, fx_navwhi //light.3 = 2, -1.23, -16.61, 3.08, fx_strobe //light.4 = 2, -1.23, 16.61, 3.08, fx_strobe //light.5 = 4, -2.24, 0.00…

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Where to set Tesselation Factor with high end sceneries. I test Tesselation factor from low to ultra with UHD Mesh and...

Hello, I'm a hugh fan of AI. It makes my sim always looking much more realistic. In this topic I provide (for beginners) the necessary thing (in my eyes) for an good AI-Traffic System (what I use - what I think). This can be used of course for your flying experiences also for spotting. A lot of you guys like Aircraft's and like spotting on airports, but with an good AI System you can do this also from your PC at home. Main Package (AI-Aircraft, Sounds, Flightplans): the AIG AIM (OCI) Link: https://www.alpha-india.net/forums/index.php?topic=28686.0 ---> this link will maybe change when V1 is released Flightplans: They use sched…

When on the "Select Vehicle" screen, you'll notice a column entitled "Favorite". This is handy for many reasons, not to mention simply hiding those that are not frequently used. Ever notice the jumping / scrolling that occurs when marking a vehicle as 'favorite' , causing you to have to re-locate the group of aircraft you were at ? I just discovered that by holding down <shift> while clicking your favorite, causes the screen / column to stay put, avoiding the need to re-scroll for the next selection. cheers,

Hi! Just wanted to share a problem I came across and the solution I found. When flying using Oculus Rift VR headset, sometimes when you activate the ATC window it does not appear on the screen. Sometimes it just dissapear and it's difficult to bring it back. Sometimes you bring it back by press a lot of times the key for activation/desactivation. Sometimes that doesn't work either. So my workaround is to change the view, let's say to the Aircraft's tail, then activate the ATC window there. It almost always work! Then you can change the view to Virtual Cockpit again and your ATC window will still be there for you. These seems to be a problem related to the …

This video may be helpful if you are confused how to update your navigational data in p3d and in your addons.

This free donation-ware, https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/xmousebuttoncontrol.htm resurrected my Microsoft Trackball Explorer in Windows 10 (now $500+ on Amazon). The only issue is the scroll function stops working after 5 minutes or so. A game saver,for VC panning!

Hello, i've noticed that from the virtual cockpit the ground shadows suffer of a big degradation (see picture) I found a way to fix it. Here it is: Go in C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4 Make a backup copy of your prepar3d.cfg and cameras.cfg Open cameras.cfg and find the Virtual Cockpit one. It is the [CameraDefinition.xxx] with the entry "Origin=Virtual Cockpit". If you don't use any camera addon, it should be the first or second one. If you use ChasePlane it is the one with the entry "Description=ChasePlane Virtual Cockpit Camera". Any other camera addon could have different description. Anyways usually it is…

Hi all! I've made some guides to help newcomers familiarize themselves with some of the popular aircraft add-ons for P3D and I thought I'd share them here with you. I don't pretend to be an expert, so keep in mind that these guides aren't perfect and may simplify some things. I tried to cross-check as much as possible most of the procedures with real aircraft manuals and online pilot tutorials, so if you spot any mistakes, feel free to send me a private message and I'll have them fixed when I can. Library http://www.mudspike.com/chucks-guides-fsx-p3d/ Boeing 737-800 NG (PMDG) http://www.mudspike.com/chucks-guides-fsx-pmdg-737-ng/ Ai…

I found out that GSYNC is the problem of the stutter, Its the best to stay with Vsync ON with Triple Buffering in P3D Settings. My spec: i7 4750HQ 3.2Ghz GTX980M 4GB 8GB of RAM Windows 10 x64 Professional

Suggest five main points that were taken FPS from highest to lowest My list; 1) SSAA 2) Autogen and scenery draw distance 3) Traffic 4) Dynamic reflections 5) Autogen building density

Was just updating a list of my callsigns in the airline.cfg and thought "might" be useful for someone else as well (airline/callsign) Air France/AIRFRANS Air Wisconsin/WISCONSIN Airwave/AIRWAVE Alaska Airlines/ALASKA Allegiant Air/ALLEGIANT American Airlines/AMERICAN American Pacific/AMERICAN PACIFIC ANA All Nippon/ALL NIPPON Avianca Brazil/OCEANAIR Blue One (1)/BLUEFIN British Airways Plc/SPEEDBIRD Cape Air/CAIR Cathay Pacific/CATHAY CityJet/CITY IRELAND CommutAir/COMMUTAIR Compass Airlines/COMPASS ROSE Delta Air Lines/DELTA Delta Private Jets/JET CARD Emerald Harbor Air/GEMSTONE Endeavor Air/FLA…

Introduction Mini YouTube Tutorials for Prepar3D v3 & v4 I will Add to this list as time goes on INDEX 1) Malformed XML file error (default scenario is corrupt) 2) Visualization only mode error 3) Turning Off Default AI Aircraft Traffic 4) Prepar3D v4 New Client updating feature (Not deactivating the License) 5) Prepar3D v4 "Delete generated files" 6) Black Clouds Corrupt ShadersHLSL folder 7) "Prepar3D v4 Content requires Prepar3D v4 to be Installed" Error 8 Scenery.cfg error "Prepar3D requires at least one each of t…

This might be a little bios but i really recommend these courses if you have the slightest intention of becomming a pro simmer with PMDG etc. . Its also a reminder to the owner that you did a fantastic job and your job is truly worth our sim in the future . :-) Thanks Michael Moe

One of the changes in V4 is that LM changed the simulators CFG files to Unicode to support universal character sets in the future. This will present problems to any program that modifies the sim cfg files. There is potential to destroy the formatting which will destroy such configuration files requiring a complete uninstall/flush/reinstall of P3Dv4. Any product that does the following could potentially destroy your configuration files. This includes things like: Add, edit or delete texture or autogen entries to TERRAIN.CFG Add, edit or delete scenery layers for you Edit simulator settings settings outside of the simulator (like traffic, graph…

A case study on setting up a view group. Due credit to Mark Hargrove's (written) tutorial for pointing the way.

Just though I'd repost this information from the A2A forums in case it's helpful to A2A Simulations customers who rarely visit their forums. The release of Prepar3D v4.2 yesterday seems to have thrown up an issue affecting some A2A customers. The Problem A2A aircraft installed to a custom directory such as "F:/Prepar3D v4 Add-Ons/A2A" no longer appear in the list of vehicles in Prepar3D v4.2. The Cause The A2A installers command the Prepar3D.exe to write the custom installation path to an "add-ons.cfg" files stored in the user's "ProgramData" directory. In Prepar3D v4.0 and v4.1, this path supported a trailing backslash, but in Prepar3D v4.2 it appears this is …

G'day All Thought I would pass on my experience in resolving some issues I've had since upgrading to P3Dv4, particularly for those that are not 'code' savvy when it comes to IT. I know my way around a PC but I don't write code and only have a very basic understanding of what I am looking at when it comes to .cfg and .xml. For five months I found it difficult to get a straight answer to my issues having spent many hours searching different FS forums. My issues included: Not being able to Model Match MT6 to Vpilot Aivlasoft EFB showing default airports for 3rd Party add-ons (3PAO) GSX not working properly at 3PAO airports In almost every case…

Having fruitlessly searched the forums for some kind of detailled, worked examples of how to tackle the new system, literally fell off my revolving chair when I discovered the instructions linked to below, hot off the press from New Zealand .... http://www.nzfsim.org/index.php?dsp=P3D my problem will be which plane should be first on the list! Alan

Here are all the steps you need to take to get REX Sky Force 3D and the three most popular combinations with other related addons working in your sim. All the numbered steps only have to be done once: after that you only have to actually do something in REX Sky Force 3D or ASCA or ENVTEX when you want to install new textures. REX Sky Force 3D only 1. Start REX Sky Force 3D 2. Set all options to your liking 3. Install all the textures you want When you want to fly: - start REX Sky Force 3D - start your sim REX Sky Force 3D and Active Sky 1. Start REX Sky Force 3D 2. Go to Global Settings > Engine and disable all options on that page to dis…

Hello, The terms "FPS Limiter" and "Fiber Frame Time Fraction" pop up in FSX/P3D forums every now and then, so I wanted to dig deeper and find how it affects FPS and scenery loading. I have demonstrated the effects in this video using different values and explained the trade-offs. If you limit the frame rate in your simulator, I highly recommend to watch it.

Updated 23 \ 01 \ 18 ---------------------------------------- Prepar3D v4 user's Please Note: The guys form the Return to Misty Moorings Team RTMM has identified four TFX AI Airplanes and one Rotorcraft AI that are not completely compatible with Prepar3D v4 now that Lockheed Martin has removed the SimObjects backwards compatibility for AI models constructed under the FS8 and FS9 SDKs After installing Tongass Fjords X into Prepar3D v4, in order to avoid random CTDs (Crash to Desktop) with Incompatible AI Simobjects you should immediately update these by following the Instructions in the link below Special Tha…

I believe this should be stickied or pinned. There are several threads going on about people trying to copy over existing add on airports to P3D v4 with success. But there seems to be a fair amount of confusion on a few others, including me on how to properly do this. Currently I am manually adding the scenery from P3D v4's World > Scenery Library manual and that for the most part has worked. But I also see people manually editing xml files such as add-on.xml, and addon.cfg and such. Is this really necessary? And then again, some add-ons include more than just a scenery and textures folder but also install files into Effects, Sound, and sometimes Scenery/World/Sce…