Is there a way to have AI Controller scan your scenery with everything enabled and then turn on and off various sceneries without having the program conduct a full scan every time you start up.  I generally only have the two airports I am flying to/from turned on and find that AI Controller takes so long to rescan what is essentially no change in where I am actually flying. 

 

I guess another way to say this is how can I control the scenery database scan manually and just start the controller right away.

 

 

thanks,

I have followed the read me and YouTube tutorial for installing the program and have followed what the video said. I get an error about the scenery.cfg file when inputting the data to the program. It first says (problem reading scenery.cfg error. Ensure the path to this file is valid. Ensure FSX isn't running) (which it's not). Then when I press force update of runway and taxi data, I get the same message along with (problem enumerating aircraft config files at path= SimObjects\). The final message I then get is ( Problem reading scenery file = scenery\0102\scenery\APX15170.bgl. Ensure this file exists at the specified path and is not open by some other process. Also optionally ensure FSX isn't running.) It then says if this is a networked computer and the file path listed in the error message is the local path of the FSX computer rather than the network drive path of the networked computer ensure the scenery.cfg on the FSX computer does not specify an absolute local path for the file. It says the scenery.cfg file can be edited so that all scenery paths are relative to the FSX installation directory. So what should I do to get this up and running? I'm confused on what the solution is but I feel it has something to do with the scenery.cfg file. Thanks.

Hi AP1

 

I did exactly the same like you... same error. I can see you wait for over 3 days to get some kind help. Perhaps one day we both get it.

 

Tom Link

Any news on the new version, Roland?

 

Cheers

 

 

I noticed that many airplanes arrive at a STAR waypoint, then don't fly to intercept the localizer but take another direction and they keep being managed by FSX and not by AIController

 

So these AI are never under the control of AIController?  It could be they're being spawned by UT2 so close to the airport that they are not receiving STAR vectors (i.e., not being put under control of AIController).  This parameter can be adjusted up or down in AIMonitor.

 

 

Is there a way to have AI Controller scan your scenery with everything enabled and then turn on and off various sceneries without having the program conduct a full scan every time you start up.  I generally only have the two airports I am flying to/from turned on and find that AI Controller takes so long to rescan what is essentially no change in where I am actually flying. 

 

I'm probably missing the issue, you can choose "no" when prompted for a scan. 

 

 

I did exactly the same like you... same error. I can see you wait for over 3 days to get some kind help. Perhaps one day we both get it.

 

Are you guys running AIController on a networked computer?

 

 

Any news on the new version, Roland?

 

It is coming along slowly.  About 4 versions into alpha, but I'm still getting show-stopper type bugs reported to me.  It takes time to debug often because I have to trap a bug to a specific flight scenario that sometimes takes up to a half-hour to develop.

 

-Roland

Roland, I also have the same problems with the scenery.cfg error during AIC  scanning of all files.

I do not use network drives, but I do have a dedicated hard drive for the FSX installation.

FSX is installed to E:\FSX and the scenery.cfg is located in the main FSX directory.

AIC is located at E:\AIController14B The E:\FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery folder is empty,

 

I also have scenery,cfg files in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX and at C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX

The one that is being used by FSX seems to be the one in ProgramData.

 

So the problems is likely that AIC/AIM expects to find the scenery,cfg in \FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery

while actual location (on windows 7) is the programData folder

 

I think you have to allow us to manually change the scenery.cfg or if you can instruct AIC/AIM to search in the the programData folder as well.

Roland, thanks for reply. No network cinfiguration, however it is P3D v3.4

 

Tom

Bubo,

 

 

 

The one that is being used by FSX seems to be the one in ProgramData.

 

Yes, seems like it isn't finding the scenery.cfg file.  In Settings/Program Config Paths, what is listed in the "Windows ProgramData Path for FSX"?  Should be a valid program data path statement, for example:  C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\  

 

 

Roland, thanks for reply. No network cinfiguration, however it is P3D v3.4

 

Tomi, similar question....except for P3D....in Settings/Program Config Paths, what is listed in the "Windows ProgramData Path for P3D"?  Should be a valid program data path statement, for example:  C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\

 

-Roland

Bubo,

 

 

Yes, seems like it isn't finding the scenery.cfg file.  In Settings/Program Config Paths, what is listed in the "Windows ProgramData Path for FSX"?  

Should be a valid program data path statement, for example:  C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\  

-Roland

 

Yes I know and the path is correct in the settings but I still get the error, so why is AIM looking in the FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery folder then?

However as far as I can see AIC/AIM still works as it should, more or less.

Actually AIM does find and read the scenery.cfg file, but AIM claims that there is a file missing that is supposed to be at \FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery.

However, I have scrolled through the entire scenery.cfg file and there is no references to \FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery.

 

 

Actually AIM does find and read the scenery.cfg file, but AIM claims that there is a file missing that is supposed to be at \FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery.
However, I have scrolled through the entire scenery.cfg file and there is no references to \FSX\Addon Scenery\scenery.

 

Hmm...do you have the addon scenery path "checked" in FSX?  If so, AIM will try to read files from that path.

 

-Roland

 

 

I'm probably missing the issue, you can choose "no" when prompted for a scan. 

 

OK thanks, I just assumed it would not work properly if you did that.  I will turn on all of my payware sceneries, run the scan and then in  future just say "no" .  Excellent, thanks.

Hmm...do you have the addon scenery path "checked" in FSX?  If so, AIM will try to read files from that path.

 

-Roland

 

I found "addon scenery" checked in FSX scenery library manager. I unchecked it, clicked ok and closed FSX.

I then ran the AIM Force updater again but the error message still happens.

Hi Roland, on mine I do have a networked computer. Any solutions to solve this? Thanks.

OK thanks, I just assumed it would not work properly if you did that.  I will turn on all of my payware sceneries, run the scan and then in  future just say "no" .  Excellent, thanks.

Does that work? I also only activate the sceneries I am using for the flight at hand. If, before the flight, I open AIMonitor, choose "SIDs, STARs, Approaches and Finals (Nav Data Required)", select the appropriate paths and say "Apply", I get prompted whether or not to update the Taxi_graph.txt file. If I don't, the file isn't updated (duh). If I do, it takes a while. I think I know the answer, but: Is there a way around this?