FSLabs A320

[Chock 17,769]

I'd tend to agree that as good as the FSL A320 is, it's a right bloody faff to install liveries, it's actually quicker and easier to paint a real A320 than it is to get hold of a repaint for the FSL one. 

[SquadronLeader 61]

This is absolutely madness - so after some searching - FSLabs wants me to change my display name and enter proof of purchase - I have NO problem doing that - well actually I do because they make it so difficult to do so. I went to my account settings - but could not see the option to change my display name to my real name - never got beyond that. Never had such an issue.  My recommendation to the team at FSLabs - wtach what the likes of PMDG and Orbx do and follow suit - it works!

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19 minutes ago, SquadronLeader said:

My recommendation to the team at FSLabs - wtach what the likes of PMDG and Orbx do and follow suit

PMDG require your real name just like FSLabs.
Additionally ORBX requires your purchase ID shown in the forums.
So look like FSLabs are not that bad...

19 minutes ago, SquadronLeader said:

I went to my account settings - but could not see the option to change my display name to my real name

There is no special option like this. Just go to your Profile settings and change your current forum name to your real name, e.g. John Doe (if it happenes to be yours).
If you have a problem with it, just make a post about it at the FSLabs forum and one of their moderators will do it for you in a heartbeat.

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23 minutes ago, Chock said:

it's a right bloody faff to install liveries

C'mon, Alan! I installed 12 liveries yesterday and each was a matter of a click?

[Chock 17,769]

4 minutes ago, Rafal said:

C'mon, Alan! I installed 12 liveries yesterday and each was a matter of a click?

Well, to be fair to FSL, their support is good when you email them, that I can confirm, but even finding where you download the files is a bit of a search if you ever want to do a reinstall (which is why I've had cause to use their support). Now admittedly, once you do suss out how to add liveries it is not too bad, but the process of getting to that point is far more convoluted than it needs to be. They really could make things a bit easier.

[tutmeister 710]

7 minutes ago, Rafal said:

PMDG require your real name just like FSLabs.
Additionally ORBX requires your purchase ID shown in the forums.
So look like FSLabs are not that bad...

Pmdg and orbx do not require any of that faff to download liveries or products is what he means. You do not have to mess about in forums, they have a nice UI driven app to do everything for you. That is the difference between great developers and everyone else. Yes fslabs product is great but the user experience could use some polish - more to greatness that just the end product.

Chris

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Okay, gentlemen, I take your point, though still my forum/download/install experiece with FSLabs is positive, easy and hassle-free.
I do respect the fact some other folks had different experiences for certain reasons which did not occur to me.

[YukonPete 586]

4 hours ago, SquadronLeader said:

My apologies if I should not be bringing these queries here - but I find this forum much more intuitive than the one on Fslabs website. In fact I am not finding a lot about Fslabs intuitive - their installation process is far more complicated than anything I have experienced from PMDG , Aerosoft or Orbx to name a few.

Now having found out I need to run P3D in admin mode to see the A320 in the vehicle listing - I read further through the tutorial and headed over to the Fslabs website to the link they gave to download liveries. Am I alone in thinking there would be a section named Liveries? The only one I have found so far is a Ryannair livery - downloaded the file - and its not executable. 

Can someone please show me the link to the liveries that are available for the latest version of A320 and as to how to install them.

Hopefully one day they will build a simple installer and updater similar to the one PMDG have created

 

 

How is it any harder to install? Wow

[Matt Webb 171]

I think he's referring to the PMDG Operations Centre, Orbx's FTX Central, etc where you find, click and install.

But at least we are not editing CFG files, placing files in Effects folders, creating texture folders, etc like the old days!!  

 

 

 

[Jon Fubar 3]

The files he refers to that just have textures etc are USER submitted files. ALL FSL repaints done by themselves are in installer packages.

[Zimmerbz 168]

I am not why some people are having issues.  I ran the installer for the Bus, clicked "next", and it was installed.  Same thing goes for the liveries.  The challenge might be the user created liveries being more of a manual install but I think they are building installers for those. 

Regarding the performance, I can't complain either.  2 flights in so far and everything was very smooth (KLAS-KSFO and KORD-CYYZ) with payware airports (not ORD), ORBX (minus vector), Black marble, active sky, asca and PTA.  It is a fantastic plane!

[Nyxx 6,993]

3 hours ago, Ebs said:

Guys, come on. 

He found it a little less intuitive than dealing with PMDGs Operations Centre (which, let's be honest, is great and I'm sure I read FSL are also working on a similar app) a couple of liveries that I downloaded were not installers (just raw texture folders which involved editing the aircraft.cfg manually) 

@SquadronLeader. Just take your time with the install. Register your product on the forums and visit the links provided for the liveries. The FSL forums are also full of useful info once you get your bearings! 

New liveries available 1.3 for people having trouble like yourself.

[Epikk 62]

People want every addon to be like PMDG... if not, they're lost. Then they complain. Too difficult they say... 

[tutmeister 710]

Not necessarily a case of it’s not like pmdg, more a case of, for the most expensive home sim add on aircraft ever you have to mess about registering on a forum and then confirming your purchase before being able to download liveries.

Just as an aside, do the liveries also reconfigure the aircraft options to be accurate to those carriers or is it a generic a320 with a skin slapped on it?

Chris

[swiesma 625]

I bought the A320 yesterday and had no problems to get the liveries. You just have to READ what they provide. Pretty simple. 

You gotta register your product in the forum. Then you can download the liveries and simply install them by a double click. 

I needed about two hours from buying it to setting it up and do the first flight. Not so complicated at all.