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I have been running this post on on the P3d forum and someo0ne suggested may be worth posting on yours Oliver I have been using the xml method of adding scenery using Lorby Si tool . Have hit a problem installed last night orbx eu freeware airports last night and it crashed after the scenario window .Uninstalled and all worked reported on forum and no one has had an issue . Today I installed naples from aerosoft same issue . After hours of head scratching I disabled all xml add ons . Sim loaded fine. I found if I disabled any two xml add ons all was good in the world again. Added the disabled xml scenery's manually the old way and all scenery's . Almost as if there…

Hello, Win 10 X64 P3D 4 HF1 First try of the tool Unhandled exception has occurred in your application? If you click continue ..... Illegal characters in path. Recommendations? Thanks in advance

Hello @ll, I have updated the ThumbnailExporter X to handle the different file encodings that are floating around since P3D V4. It will now (try to) determine the encoding of the various cfg files and read them no matter what. There still can be the odd exception though, because generally speaking, unless there is a byte order mark, a program cannot determine the encoding of a text file (at all). Best regards

Hello @ll, LorbyLiveTraffic received an update today, fixing a bug where live weather would not be displayed correctly when in CAVOK conditions. Best regards

Hallo Oliver, first of all - thank you for this brilliant and very helpful piece of software ;-) Nevertheless I would have a small improvement suggestion: It would be nice to add the version of the simulator (p3dv3, p3dv4) to the name of the backup file, not only the date ! For example not only 'Addon_Configuration_Backup_20170705062151.zip' but something like 'Addon_Configuration_Backup_p3dv4_20170705062151.zip'. It would then be easier to distinguish the backups ! Thanks for your great work ggerolamo

Hi Oliver - Added a group of sceneries, one of which I wanted added BUT not active. All went well and the specific scenery was red as expected. However, when I saved it, it reverted to active. I edited - set inactive - submit - save - back to active again. Since I cannot manually edit it in the scenery library, my only option is to delete it. Thanx, Vic

Good evening, I was using Addon Organizer to add the VHHX airport to P3D v4. This airport consists of some BGL files, some textures, and one file that goes in the Effects folder. I added all following the instructions. I created one VHHX .xml file for the scenery and textures folders, and then I added "Other Addons" for the Effects file borrowing the same VHHX .xml file (I think this is what I was supposed to do). When I loaded up at the VHHX airport, I can confirm the new scenery was there, but the strange thing was that my controls for my aircraft seemed to be back at the default. ie. pushing my thrust lever forward caused my yoke to move. This situation was true f…

Hi Lorby, Nice utility, thank you. I have installed the Addon Organizer for use with P3D v3.4. I have a problem when trying to make a backup of my scenery configuration. The message displayed is "Error when trying to write the backup file. Could not find file 'C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\add-ons.cfg" But with v3.4 this file resides in C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3 I have selected the P3D v3.3+ option in the program v0.99. Any help appreciated, thanks.

Hello @ll, after using it myself for a while, I have decided to add a numerical control to the "Add Scenery" and "Edit Scenery" dialogs that lets you change the Layer number quickly instead of plodding though several dozen lines with the "up/down" buttons. http://lorby-si.weebly.com/downloads.html Best regards

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On the type column I have a lot of ???. Is there a way to assign a default model to them? It would be good to allow the ability to say I know XYZ airline mostly has 737, so I would assign a 737 to them.

Hello @ll, I have updated the Addon Organizer for P3D V4 to version 0.92 It still has beta status, so I suggest a frequent use of the backup feature. New functionality: It is now possible to edit scenery list entries. A Package view has been implemented, so you can see where your addons reside in terms of addon packages and change their loading sequence It is possible to import an existing scenery.cfg into an add-on.xml You can temporarily export the complete Scenery Library, for example to run yet another external tool that needs to discover all scenery BGLs, but hasn't been updated to P3D V4 specification yet (MakeRunways, flight…

Using .98 - if what I ask is there, I will have a red face (again). Considering when adding aircraft we usually have several folders for each a/c - Simobjects, Sound, Effects, Fonts... etc I find that on each entry, when I click Path I'm taken to the explorer root display and I have to drill down to my selected location. Possible in a version down the road to have last selected sticky? Really loving P4AO - it's made organizing my addons a snap. Thanx, Vic

Olliver, I was having trouble with Digital Design EDDP, with the Terrain not displaying correctly. I am so use to haveing Terrain below airport in scenery config, that I did the same with PAO. I swapped the order and all is fine. So, can I confirm, any airport terrain or landclass goes above airports ?

Hello @ll, The Prepar3D Addon Organizer 0.95 is ready for download on the Lorby website, section "Downloads": http://lorby-si.weebly.com/ New in this version: Prepar3D version 3.3 and later is supported too When packages are deleted, they are moved to the recycle bin Option to export all simobjects paths to a temporary file for other addons to parse As usual - be careful with beta software. Frequent use of the backup feature is highly recommended. Best regards

Hello @ll, due to the many issues related to incorrect encoding of the primary config files, I have decided to change the way the Addon Organizer handles them. All "*.cfg" files are read and written in the encoding that they currently have. If that encoding is not as per specification, it will still be that way when you save it with AO. The XML files are forced to be XML spec compliant (UTF-8 with BOM) when you save them with the AO V4 only: The AO compiles a list of all files that it is reading in normal operations where the encoding is not as it should be. You can call up the list with a button on the main dialog. BE CAREFUL in V4: if you just…

Last night I installed KMSP (using Flightbeam's new add-on manager) as well as udpdated all my FSDT airports (including the other Flightbeam airports still managed by virtuali's add-on manager. Everything seems to have worked as expected and I have opened both v3.4 and v4 to confirm KMSP is working. Now opening up this addon organizer (v0.96, I believe), I can see all the FSDT scenery in the add-on manager as well as the KMSP scenery when I view the 3.4 add-ons. However when I toggle to viewing the v4 add-on in the addon organizer everything is there EXCEPT KMSP. I noticed virtuali's add-on manager moved all the scenery outside P3D and from what I can tell follow…

Hi Oliver After much adding XML's today, everthing shos in the SIM as normal. Now when I go into the tool it show no XMLs at all, not even the FSDreamTeam one. All the tool shows is the scenery.cfg. Other addons blank Packages Blank. Not sure what to do now Thanks

Hi Oliver - Played around withP4AO and added about 8 Toposim mesh layers. Very easy to use, pretty intuitive. a couple of things just FYI - at first run after install, my first operation was a Backup - in program I browsed to my drive and created a specific folder - threw an exception. Didn't record it but tried again and browsed to the now existing folder - backup worked fine. Dow the road, it would sure be nice to have a way to hold down a key and have the added scenery move up/down without having to click each time. First time through, I inadvertently created a scenery layer that had the same name as an existing one - it created fine and the only w…

Hi @ll, here is a screenshot of LLTX in operation with P3D V3. I have injected real world weather with LLTX, and I must say, the new rain effects (and everything else) look really nice. Best regards

Hello @ll, the first Lorby-SI product that has been updated to x64 is LorbyLiveTraffic. You can get it on the downloads page of the main Lorby-SI website. http://lorby-si.weebly.com Note: this requires that you have at least one AI aircraft model package ready in P3D V4. Here is my description of how to add MyTraffic to P3D V4 the "proper way": Best regards

Hello @ll, Lorby Live Traffic has been updated today to version 1.02. There are two major changes: 1. The method that is querying the aircraft type online was moved to a separate thread, so the main window will not "hang" any more 2. You can now view the traffic situation in Google Earth - live... The app is available as a free download on the Lorby-SI website, section "DOWNLOADS" http://lorby-si.weebly.com/ Best regards Oliver Binder Lorby-SI

Oliver: Just installed your radar program. Got it working across my LAN. Very nice. Is there a way to make the radar screen fit the computer screen? I used the "larger" button selection to make the radar screen larger but, it doesn't cause the radar screen to fit to the computer screen. I am using the radar on a small netbook and would like the radar screen to fill the netbook screen. Danny

Hello @ll, Lorby Live Traffic has been updated to version 1.01 - It now includes a database with runways, generated from MakeRunways data. This will help the aircraft to find and actually land on the correct runway more reliably ("delete below..:" has to be set to 0). - The AI guidance model has been optimized to reduce the effect that AI are "catching up" to their real-world counterpart, and start hunting for the correct flight path. The update is available from the Lorby-SI website. Due to the size of the app, it had to be split into 4 packages to download - one for each simulator. Make sure that you download and install the correct version for your …

Hello @ll, follwing a hint from an AVSIM member (thank you Jay!) I have integrated a new data provider into my FREE LorbyLiveTraffic app (LLTX). This app was actually finished last year, but I shelved development due to the incredibly high cost for obtaining data from the known commercial online sources, and the prohibitive attitude of some of the free ones.. The LLTX was not made to be an AI traffic addon - you can use it like that, but it has it's limitations - it is geared towards the plane spotters among you (and the forgiving type at that). The data that is available for free just doesn't cover all locations on earth, nor is it of sufficient quality to be a…