September 12, 201114 yr Wating for answer last 4 DAYs: If I re-download 737-800 GTX from PMDG site, Will I still experience liveries installation problems? or Do I have to go through Rayn's "How to fix any issues you may be having with the liveries and the Livery Manager":?Thanks Ahmet Sanal "Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted"
September 14, 201114 yr Wating for answer last 4 DAYs: If I re-download 737-800 GTX from PMDG site, Will I still experience liveries installation problems? or Do I have to go through Rayn's "How to fix any issues you may be having with the liveries and the Livery Manager":?Thanks Problem solved by Ryan, PMDG Support . It was very simple. I forgot to check FSX airplanes "show all variations" box. . Ahmet Sanal "Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted"
October 4, 201114 yr This post describes how to fix any issues you may be having with the liveries and the Livery Manager: The initial release of the plane on Thursday 8/4 went out with a mistake in the aircraft.cfg files that set them to read-only during the install. This can cause issues where the files get corrupted after the Livery Manager tries to write to them and fails. The installer was corrected late on Friday 8/5 - if you purchased after this date or if you've installed the new hotfix from 8/11 you likely do not have any read-only issues. aircraft.cfg corruption is the source of numerous problems with the livery manager including liveries not installing correctly, the livery manager crashing, etc. Here's how to start over completely clean with your livery situation: 1. Go to your FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes folder - you'll see the four NGX folders there: PMDG 737-800NGXPMDG 737-800NGX WLPMDG 737-900NGXPMDG 737-900NGX WL 2. Open the folders in sequence and do the following: a. Delete every texture.xxx folder *except for texture.pmdg, texture.common, texture.vc and texture.900*. DO NOT delete those folders or you're going to need to reinstall the airplane. b. Delete the aircraft.cfg file and any aircraft.cfg_old file that might be there in the folder. It's important to delete both. 3. Download this zip file and copy the clean aircraft.cfg for each variant into its appropriate folder within SimObjects\Airplanes:http://downloads.pre...rcraft_cfgs.zip 4. You're now back to a completely clean configuration as if the product was just installed, now sans any read-only files. To install liveries: 1. Create a folder somewhere, such as your desktop or inside the FSX\PMDG folder and call it "Liveries." 2. Download any liveries you want from the PMDG site to the folder location from step 1:http://www.precision...s/liveries.html 3. Unzip the .ptp file that's inside each .zip file. (We wanted to do just the ptp files by themselves, but Internet Explorer doesn't play well with files that it doesn't have a definition for - all the more reason to use Chrome or Firefox folks!) I recommend that you redownload any livery zips/ptps that you might already have. Many of them have been updated over the last couple days as issues were found. The latest batch just went up minutes before this post and all known issues are now corrected. 4. Run the Livery Manager with the Right Click\Run as Administrator command. 5. Click the aircraft type on the left that you're trying to install. 6. Press the "Select Livery to Install" button. This will pop open a standard Windows file management dialog. Navigate to the folder from step 1 that has your ptp files in it. 7. Choose the livery ptp files you want to install - you can use shift and control click to select multiple files and install them all at once. 8. Press OK and the liveries should install. Let us know if there's still any issues after going through those steps. EDIT - the original version of this post had a mistake - if you deleted texture.common and texture.vc please uninstall the NGX from control panel and then reinstall it from the installer (download a new copy if you like from your purchase email, it has the read-only CFGs fixed already). Really sorry about that if you were affected. RyanI extracted the downloaded Zipped livery file and extracted them. It of course was then listed as a file (not zipped). Then right clicked on the un-zipped file, properties_ and clicked the "Blocked" button to "Unblocked". Ended up with two files, one zipped and one not zipped.Using the Livery applet I then saw the aircraft (Continental) listed in FSX's-PMDG-Aircrafts along with all the rest of the 747's, MD11's etc.The problem is when I click to fly it I get the activation Dialog Box but it tells me my order ID: is invalid? I presume the activation code is the Order ID:. Afraid to tell it how old I am! Buck
October 4, 201114 yr I got all the NGX aircraft into FSX that I want for now.The problem is activation of the individual aircraft, Why do we need to ACTIVATE every single plane.Does this have to be done every time you load an aircraft???Don't work anyhow, so what the heck??? Buck
October 8, 201114 yr Hey guys, can anyone help me here. How do I make a PPT file for a livery I have created? Thanks! Peter
October 8, 201114 yr If the livery is properly set up in FSX so it can be flown: Go to livery manager, select livery, right click, export, done.
October 8, 201114 yr If the livery is properly set up in FSX so it can be flown: Go to livery manager, select livery, right click, export, done. I really can not get that export funcion. I only can install :)
October 8, 201114 yr Erm, did you get the livery manager update? Check the product page download section, or the paintkit download, not sure. Somewhere around there. Should be version 1.05 as of current. Then as said, right click on the livery you need (there's no button for that, so you need to select it in the list and right click on it), and then there should be two options, namely remove and export. You choose export and specify a location and filename for your PTP. Then it takes a couple seconds to compress, and you'd be good.
October 8, 201114 yr Erm, did you get the livery manager update? Check the product page download section, or the paintkit download, not sure. Somewhere around there. Should be version 1.05 as of current. Then as said, right click on the livery you need (there's no button for that, so you need to select it in the list and right click on it), and then there should be two options, namely remove and export. You choose export and specify a location and filename for your PTP. Then it takes a couple seconds to compress, and you'd be good. Thank you very much! Any Idea where it should be uploaded?
October 21, 201411 yr Hi, I didn't know how to install the liveries on the PMDG 737 ngx. I forgot this. Please help. Best regards, Musa
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