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Hello @ll, LLTX version 1.07 has just been released. Starting with this version, you can assign multiple real world aircraft codes to the same AI model in the sim. This makes it possible for example to handle an E190/195, fleet of the same airline where you usually only have one AI model of the Embraer. The app will now automatically create an additional mapping when you are using the "Change Model" option in the context menu of the main list Connection handling to ADSB-Ex has been improved. As usual, the app is available for download on the Lorby-SI website. Best regards improves the connection handling to ADSB-Ex…

Hello @ll, Lorby Live Traffic 1.06 now integrates the excellent BVAI model library. Many thanks to Boston Virtual for creating it! You can get the library here: http://bvai.bvartcc.com/ As usual, LLTX 1.06 is available for download on the Lorby-SI website. Best regards

Hi Oliver, First of all, thanks a lot for the latest addition to the group feature. After using it a bit, I've discovered three issues: Deleting a group sometimes deletes another group, this seems random, I cannot find a logic to it as sometimes it works correctly If you change the name of the "group B" which is inside another "group A", activating the "group A" will triger an unhandled exception as the name of the "group B" name wasn't updated in the assignments of "group A" Restoring a backup doesn't bring back the groups (I'm not sure it is supposed to) As for my previous request, it would still be convenient to be able to disable…

Hello ! I'm using Addon organizer and really like it, that said I'm still using scenery config editor alongide P4AO for its group management which is still better in my opinion. Of course, I know this tool is freeware and is already a very nice and powerful one, but I think a few things could be enhanced on the group management: It would be great to be able to enable/disable some entries inside a group, without enabling/disabling all of the sceneries of the group. In the group page, being able to see which scenery entry is not assigned to any group would be very useful to build groups and/or update them, the current view is also good if you want to add …

Im trying to create a backup of the scenery configuration using 'create backup' on the backup/restore page. The ZIP file is created but it is empty. This was fine in previous versions. (running P4AO as administrator)

Hello @ll, P4AO 1.31 b04 is available for download. This is a small bugfix version, it keeps separate databases for the scenery groups now in P3D V3 and V4. In the versions before you would lose the groups when switching between P3D V3 and V4 mode and the scenery wouldn't be present in both simulators. Best regards

Good Afternoon. Having Trouble with Addon Organizer today. I keep getting and unhandled exception when trying to export scenery for external tool. Export aircraft is working just fine just can't get Export Library for External Tool to work. The Exception naturally creates a blank Scenery file however it does go through the steps of saving the current scenery file before the Null Object happens. Any Help would be great. ********* Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at P3DV4AddonOrganizer.SceneryElement.ExportToSceneryCfg(StreamWriter writer, Int32 index) at P3DV4Ad…

Hi Oliver; First, let me start with profuse thanks for one of the most useful tools in my P3D toolbox. One idea for you...I think it would be very helpful to add the terrain.cfg file to the files backed up and restored by the Create Backup feature...it's in the same directory as the scenery.cfg file, and if it gets corrupted or deleted, it often takes a reinstall of the sim and all addon scenery to get things back in order. Since some addons modify this file (ORBX, Ultimate Terrain, photoscenery packages etc) providing a safety net to recover it might be a life-saver for some folks. Cheers

Hi, I enjoy the product and it's now a "must-use" tool during all my IFR flights :) It's a good thing to have traffic following real SID/STAR & routes. However on ground or at low altitude, as known, the tool is not able to provide traffic due to the source technology limitation. Then I usually start my flights with classic MT6 traffic injected by P3D to have ground, landing and departing traffic during flight preparation, taxi and takeoff. Once I'm in airborne, after the climb checklist, I usually switch off P3D traffic (slider to 0%) then start the tool to inject real traffic. I make the same change the other way during approach. So the simple idea is…

Hello @ll, the P4AO has been updated to version 1.30. New in this version is the "Sim-Diff" feature on the "Backup/Restore" tab: with this you can create checkpoints containing basic information about the core simulator files. The app then allows you to compare two of these checkpoints to detect changes to those files (New, Changed, Touched, Deleted). You would typically use this if you are often installing a lot of legacy content (=from before P3D V4) and are unsure about what happened to your core simulator files if you wanted to remove that content again. Note that this scan doesn't include external addons - I feel that it would just take too much time t…

Hello @ll, the P4AO has been updated to version 1.31. New in this version are: - a dialog to edit addon package definitions - an option to ignore the ORBX subfolders of the sim when creating checkpoints (to speed up the operation) The tool is available on the DOWNLOADS page of the Lorby-SI website Best regards

Hi All Has been OK since day one, but now for some strange reason, start the .exe and nothing happens. Not sure what has changed. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but still the same issue.File does not even appear in Task Manager Any pointer would be good Using latest version Thanks Clive

Hello @ll, P4AO has been updated to 1.28 b03. 1. This version will now show the entries of "dll.xml" and "exe.xml" on the "other addons" tab too. Be mindful that, generally speaking, there should not be a DLL.XML or EXE.XML in "\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D V3/4\". Those files have been moved to "C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D V3/4" a long time ago. 2. Starting with this version, the uninstaller will remove the local property files, to avoid P4AO getting stuck and not starting any more. Once you have installed 1.28 b03, if P4AO refuses to open, just uninstall then reinstall. Best regards

i have noticed the tool doesn't find/discover/display any scenery (add-on.xml) that was placed under '%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Prepar3d v4 Files\add-ons' or '%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons' based on the LM documentation (Add-on Instructions for Developers / Creating an Add-on Package) the SIM should autodiscover those that were placed under that path (Prepar3D's default add-on discovery folder) . e.g. FSDG P3Dv4 installation take use of it and place the addon xml under "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSDG-xxxxx-xxxxx" leveraging the autodiscover feature, even though the data files themselves are located at a custom/different directory/drive, …

Hello @ll, the P4AO addon organizer version 1.28 has been released. Starting with this version the P4AO will also show other addons that are installed only in the various .cfg files of the simulator. This is limited to pure .cfg based content currently, exe.xml and dll.xml programmatic content will be added at a later date. As usual the app is available for download on the Lorby-SI website http://www.lorby-si.com , section \Downloads Best regards

Hi, after playing around with the tool more and understanding better how the P3D v4 addons flow works, this tool is a must have and is so so so amazing. I want to thank you very much for creating us such a necessity tool. I got few Questions. 1. on Groups TAB, what is the sort order? is it possible to sort them Alphabetically? 2. how do I select multiple entries using the SHIFT key? , using the built in multi selection function means i need to click each and every one (let's say i got 20 in a row, how can i SHIFT/CTRL them? 3. where can i find the What's New / change log of each new version release of the tool? 4. same as the above, but in the docu…

I have just updated P3Dv4.1 to P3dv4.2 and my P4AO 1.27 will not open. I installed an old version 1.08 and it opens, except i get the Utlive encoding error Anyone else having a problem? Regards Brian

Hello there, I have tried to move my AI aircraft out of the main P3Dv4 folder but when I try to add a component to the Other addons tab I get this See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at P3DV4AddonOrganizer.MainDialog.PopulateAddonView() at P3DV4AddonOrganizer.MainDialog.AddComponent_FormClosed(Object sender, FormClosedEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnFormClosed(FormClosedEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmClose(Me…

Morning Oliver, Get this when importing external cfg Also, I've taken the scenery.cfg from the backup.zip and overwritten the one in Program Data. How can I get the program to see the 'new' scenery.cfg. (Refresh)? Thanks

Hi Oliver, I may be wrong, but I think I might have found a bug with the P4AO (I'm on 1.20, I think): Several of my add-on.xmls point to a scenery and e.g. an effects folder. Since I'm consolidating, the effects go into a central folder and I delete the effects component. This should leave the entries to the scenery itself, but instead, the entire add-on.xml ist deleted. I reproduced this in several cases. Or am I doing something wrong...? Regards, Dimitrios

Hi All, Just wondering if this is 'good' practice to have more than one airport in the same add-on.xml. Also, what is the maximum add-on.xml's you can have? thanks

Hello Oliver, Sorry, again me ;) I just installed (with the supplied installer) FSDG-Cape Verde FREE to take a look. It uses the AddOn organisation recommanded by LM. It creates 3 folders in My Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons - FSDG - FSDG Capo Verde Free - FSDG Capo Verde Library each one with an apparently correctly formed addon.xml. The scenery is recognized by Prepar3D and LittleNavMap, but don't appears in the scenery list nor the packages list of AddOn Organizer (I have updated to the last version 1.26 b01 - was true also in 1.19 and 1.25) Let me know if you want to "see" some files. Thanks - Regards - Gérard

Hi I am running LorbyLiveTraffic V4 on a networked PC with real traffic and have no issues with traffic which works very well. However every time I start up LorbyLiveTraffic and after selecting the cameras.cfg I get this error message. "Could not find a part of the path Z:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\SimObjects\Airplanes\PMDG 747-400F\sim.cfg" I've searched for sim.cfg but haven't found any. PMDG 747 is installed and working. Be grateful to know why this happens to avoid this error. Thanks for such a great program

Oliver, I would like to post on this forum an issue that I am having on P3D V4.1. Although I don' t think the issue is related to your Addon Organizer (I have posted it also on other forums), the reason I am posting here is because the problem started to appear immediately after I update the Addon Organizer to the latest version (1_26_b01 ) and seems to be related to scenery so I would like also to hear your thoughts and hopefully have some troubleshooting suggestions here. I am running P3D V4.1 on Win10 Home (without the latest Meltdown patches as I have disabled WIndows update) and the problem appears with any addon aircraft loaded at an addon airport. When I…

Hello @ll, after discovering the next violation of the XML spec by a well-known product, I have decided to add an XML sanitizer process to the P4AO. This process will take a look at all the XML files that are supposed to represent addons, and it will correct all XML tags that are not as required by the specification. This is done to the best of its abilities, and there are still options to screw an add-on.xml up. I can only urge everyone not to handle these files like simple textfiles, be it manually or programmatically. Use proper XML serializers, obey the encoding rules and make absolutely sure that your tag names are as they should be according to the P…