What are you doing for real weather and ai?

[RWFeldman 159]

I have REX Essentials - they should have stayed with textures..

LOl. Tru. I find their weather engine, networked using simconnect, almost not useablel. AS2012 is a breeze.

[gandy 18]

The issue i have is not one single weather engine can do what i want it to and they never will due to poor metars being incomplete or they cant be reached or out of date..

 

What we need is a cloud engine that can take a satellite image of cloud cover and translate that in to the sim and then deal with the winds secondary to that, i would rather have 80 to 90% correct global cloud cover than 100% correct wind speed but no one wants to do that :(

[timest 472]

Just make sure you don't install any of the REXe water textures, they KILL performance.

Philip, this is why we have included the DXT1 option for water.

 

 

What we need is a cloud engine that can take a satellite image of cloud cover and translate that in to the sim

We are already experimenting with this.

[twasono 3]

Hi,

 

Just curious, is the AI Aircrafts that running in FSX, fully compatible with Prepar3D?

I read a post in this AVSIM forum, that you just have to copy the aircraft and the schedule (.bgl) file into the right folder..

and it works... Is that true?

 

BR.

Tri

[Mike_CFII_MEL 788]

Hi,

 

Not sure about that, but there is another option. I run MyTraffic, this program was specifically made for P3D. Would be nice if UT2 was made available for P3D, but my understanding is that will not happen.

 

Hi,

 

Just curious, is the AI Aircrafts that running in FSX, fully compatible with Prepar3D?

I read a post in this AVSIM forum, that you just have to copy the aircraft and the schedule (.bgl) file into the right folder..

and it works... Is that true?

 

BR.

Tri

[Bobu 0]

Hi,

 

Yep, I'm also using AS2012 via network and My Traffic as well.

 

Mike, what did you have to do to get AS2012 working? I would like to get it installed on a networked pc as well.

[Mike_CFII_MEL 788]

Hi,

 

This is how I setup my network.

 

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Configuring Simconnect

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1.Folders to share:

 

A. D:\P3D (This is your Prepar3D Main folder, your drive and folder may be different than mine)

 

B. C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D (Mike shown in the path statement will change to the user name your using)

 

C. C:\Users\Mike\My Documents\Prepar3D Files (Mike shown in the path statement will change to the user name your using)

 

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The folders shown above should be shared with read/write permissions

Once the Read/Write is setup, all that's left is to map the drives on the

client computer.

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2. Your P3D Computer is the server computer (Copy WideServer.dll & WideServer.ini into P3D's "MODULES" folder).

 

3. Your networked computer is the client.

 

4. Your firewall software must be configured to allow SimConnect communications on port xxx, You can pick a port (I use 500), just make sure the

port you select is the same in all config files, this includes windows firewall and applies to all computers, both SERVER and CLIENT(s).

 

5. There are two files which must be configured on the server, they are:

 

A. SimConnect.xml | Location - C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D (Mike shown in the path statement will change to the user name your using)

B. SimConnect.ini | Location - C:\Users\Mike\My Documents\Prepar3D Files (Mike shown in the path statement will change to the user name your using)

 

Note: If your unable to see the AppData folder, you must allow hidden files and folders to be shown from within Windows

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NOTE: AS2012 use with Prepar3D: You MUST copy an fsx.cfg file into your Servers C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D

Folder (Mike shown in the path statement will change to the user name your using)

 

This is a required config file for AS2012. If you do not have an fsx.cfg file, just make a copy of your prepar3d.cfg and rename it fsx.cfg

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All you need to do is just change the IP Address to yours and select a port

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SimConnect.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>

- <SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">

<Descr>SimConnect</Descr>

<Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>

<Disabled>False</Disabled>

- <SimConnect.Comm>

<Disabled>False</Disabled>

<Protocol>IPv4</Protocol>

<Scope>global</Scope>

<Address>192.168.0.40</Address>

<MaxClients>64</MaxClients>

<Port>500</Port>

<MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize>

<DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle>

</SimConnect.Comm>

- <SimConnect.Comm>

<Disabled>False</Disabled>

<Protocol>Auto</Protocol>

<Scope>local</Scope>

</SimConnect.Comm>

</SimBase.Document>

 

 

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SimConnect.ini

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[simConnect]

level=verbose

console=0

;RedirectStdOutToConsole=1

;OutputDebugString=1

;file=c:\simconnect%03u.log

;file_next_index=0

;file_max_index=9

 

 

10. Copy the simconnect.msi to all client computers and run the file.

 

11. Copy the SimConnect.cfg file into the following folder on all client computers.

 

A. C:\Users\Michael\My Documents (Michael shown in the path statement will change to the user name your using)

 

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SimConnect.cfg

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[simConnect]

Protocol=IPv4

Address=192.168.0.40

Port=500

MaxReceiveSize=4096

DisableNagle=0

 

 

Hope this helps

[RWFeldman 159]

Copy the simconnect.msi

 

What Simconnect.msi or where do you find it? If you do not have the FSX SDK installed you wont have one? What is the P3D equivalent of the Simconnect.msi in their SDK package.

[Bobu 0]

You are the man, Mike! Thank you.

[Bigmack 23]

Hi,

 

Just curious, is the AI Aircrafts that running in FSX, fully compatible with Prepar3D?

I read a post in this AVSIM forum, that you just have to copy the aircraft and the schedule (.bgl) file into the right folder..

and it works... Is that true?

 

BR.

Tri

 

I use WOAI BGL's and AI from various AI makers, they all work fine. Even older PAI AI.. I made a separate folder in my simobjets folder. Named it "AI Aircraft". I install all my AI into that folder. You need to add an entry to the P3D cfg file to activate the folder. All my traffic bgl's go to Scenery \world\scenery file.

[Mike_CFII_MEL 788]

Hi,

 

Here is a link to the SimConnect.msi file. http://www.positiong.../SimConnect.msi

 

Since this file is not under my direct control, make sure you check the download with a virus program.

 

 

What Simconnect.msi or where do you find it? If you do not have the FSX SDK installed you wont have one? What is the P3D equivalent of the Simconnect.msi in their SDK package.

[RWFeldman 159]

Thanks Mike. I have it the FSX and P3D SDK installed but it may be helpful for others. Prepar3D simconnect doesnt use the MSI installer on the client and thats why its not included or doesn't exsist in their SDK. (I dont think but I dont know and don't care ! that the MSI can be distrubuted outside a software title).LM has come up with another way of doing it. That doesnt mean its not backwards compat so no one get confused. Im trying to readup and study how they are implementing SC. They've actually taken it to a new level.

[twasono 3]

I use WOAI BGL's and AI from various AI makers, they all work fine. Even older PAI AI.. I made a separate folder in my simobjets folder. Named it "AI Aircraft". I install all my AI into that folder. You need to add an entry to the P3D cfg file to activate the folder. All my traffic bgl's go to Scenery \world\scenery file.

 

Fantastic! So, It's definitely compatible with FSX AI Traffic. Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

BR.

Tri

[styckx 1,869]

I've also used FS GA-Traffic to create AI using planes in my hanger instead of the generic AI planes.. The program is a bit finicky to use but it generates good AI

[Mike_CFII_MEL 788]

Hi,

 

Don't know myself, I'm not hosting the link. That's why I told anyone who is looking to download this file to check it with virus software, just to be on the safe side. If its not required, that's even better, one less step to perform to get the network setup. When I ran my setup it was required, that's why I included it in the instructions.

 

 

(I dont think but I dont know and don't care ! that the MSI can be distrubuted outside a software title).