Hello,I´m currently installing my PMDG Aircrafts and all paints. Just for example: The PMDG MD-11 has about 100 paints included on the DVD. For every installer you need 4 or 5 clicks, I think. That are about 400-500 clicks for all paints for ONE Airplane. Okay, the 747 doesn´t have so much paints. But anyway: Is there a way to install all paints with a few clicks? Maybe with an repaint manager (I think the LevelD 767 has one)?I´d appreciate it if PMDG would publish a repaint Manager for their Aircrafts.Best regards,NilsP.S: I´m sorry for my bad english, but I hope you understood me ;)

That is just outlandishly lazy

That is just outlandishly lazy

Really making some friends here... :( I wondered the same thing but the JS41 only has a few paints I wanted anyway...

That is just outlandishly lazy

He actually has a point. I have been in the position of having to install all of my addons at once (and I have a lot) and it certainly is a chore. The king of click has got to be FSgeneisis mesh, but I am not complaining, it is a top notch product.

I'm pleased someone else has finally brought this up again. I mentioned this some time ago and was 'lept upon' from a great height :((by users). Some folk seemed so outraged that I'd raised such a 'trivial' matter, the thread ended up being deleted or locked as i recall.It has nothing whatsoever to do with being lazy. It has much more to do with time & frustration.I have all bar one of the PMDG collection (i think), and multitudes of repaints for each.Due to the way I use both FSX and my PC, I reinstall Windows and FSX on a regular basis. Sometimes every couple of months, usually quarterly (causes probs for reactivations I can tell you).I find that not only is the installer package cumbersome in it's use, but also that it's problematic in opperation with Windows7x64, when trying to UNinstall. Because of the way the installer seems to work, it's not possible to reinstall repaints, without FIRST having correctly uninstalled each one separately. You cannot just uninstall the aircraft - each liverery must be indidvidually uninstalled.I find that about 50% of the time, the applet 'hangs' when uninstalling paints. Add that up for 40-50 liveries and believe me, it get a bit tedious.The previous PMDG installer did not seem to be this way.This is NOT a crit of PMDG. They probably didn't even create the installer. It is simply my observations and report of how it works (or not) on my PC.

I admit I did come across as 'unfriendly'But seriously...300-400 clicks to install liverys....Can you imagine how many clicks or hours the developers spent on developing their aircraft? So saying we want repaints installers as the other way is 'too many clicks' could be a bit....hmmm, taking the biscuit, so to speak?...But you have a point also!! But sometimes, if you want good repaints, that's a price you will have to pay! It's a pain isn't it?? However.. I actually think that a PMDG repaint manger would be a neat program, a nice preview of your new NGX repaint before you install, so you can spot anything wrong before loading up excited for your first flight to notice someone spelled BRITISH wrong in BRITISH AIRWAYS! But even still.....click to load up the manager.....click to load the repaint.......click install.......exit manager......repaint done......same amount of clicks! Unless you install 100 at once with just 4 clicks! Then that's progress :( If you come up with something similar - tell Airbus to install it on all of the Airbuses in BA's fleet please - would make my job a lot easier, not that there's much to be pressing anyway Sorry for sounding brutish!! :( (I've got my standby month coming soon...a little grumpy :( )

What you can do is install all of the paints once and then make a back-up of the texture folders and that portion of the aircraft .cfg file. I did this before my last rebuild and it only took me 20 mins to install all of the paints for the 747-400/F, MD11/F, and the J41.What I did makes life easier but I would still welcome an LDS style paint manager with open arms.

I tried that once, but for some reason it caused problems with the J41 display.Maybe i'll try again - see what i was doing wrong...

@ SamuelIf you want to install all repaints (and i think everybody want to fly different paints) you´ve to click 4 times. Start Repaint Manager, Select all, Install,Close. 4 Clicks for all paints, that would be very nice.But in general, I think that life would be easier with an Repaint Manager. If PMDG have the possibility( (and I bet they have them) to create a Repaint manager, why don´t try it?

And where is the assumption that there's not a lot of clicks involved in using a repaint manager coming from? You have to download each file, extract them, then go through the process of adding them all in the manager, which usually requires at least two clicks in the manager per livery, plus whatever info you have to type in like the variation's name etc. I really don't think it's any more involved...

And where is the assumption that there's not a lot of clicks involved in using a repaint manager coming from? You have to download each file, extract them, then go through the process of adding them all in the manager, which usually requires at least two clicks in the manager per livery, plus whatever info you have to type in like the variation's name etc. I really don't think it's any more involved...

Installing multiple liveries at once kind of makes that a moot point... I reckon that's where the assumption comes from. That and personal experience.Have you ever used the Level-D repaint manager? It's fantastic. And your assumption that you have to type every variation's name is incorrect as far as that manager goes... You're probably unaware also, then, that they use proprietary files (one part files) that are easily placed in the 'downloads' folder and easily installed with three (3) clicks... Three. That's all of my repaints... In three clicks.Having all of the livery uninstalls in my control panel is irritating too, but I'll live with it.

And where is the assumption that there's not a lot of clicks involved in using a repaint manager coming from? You have to download each file, extract them, then go through the process of adding them all in the manager, which usually requires at least two clicks in the manager per livery, plus whatever info you have to type in like the variation's name etc. I really don't think it's any more involved...

Well that's what I said, till I thought that unless you install 100 at a time with those 4 clicks then you're not making any progress.

And where is the assumption that there's not a lot of clicks involved in using a repaint manager coming from? You have to download each file, extract them, then go through the process of adding them all in the manager, which usually requires at least two clicks in the manager per livery, plus whatever info you have to type in like the variation's name etc. I really don't think it's any more involved...

Have you actually tried the Level-D installer meathod - come on Ryan, of course you have. Unzip all the livieries to a download folder, fire up their installer, check all the ones you want, hit install and your done. Simple as that. I have raised this issue more than once and Robert (a while back) confirmed his disdane for the over-population of liveries in the Add/Remove programs list as well. At the time we discussed, he hadn't come up with a solution that he likes - enough to warrent the deployment of an alternative. I've truely hoped this would be solved for the NGX. There has to be a better way - especially for rebuilding a rig, the worst is reinstalling all the PMDG liveries collected over the years.