January 2, 20188 yr Hi Folks, Anyone else going through the effort to find better models and replace them in UTL ? All was working well - started making improvements by swapping out better AI models - then on one start of P3Dv4/UTL - the little "Ultimate Traffic Initializing" flashes - then comes back every 5 seconds or so and my traffic never appears... Tried the restart/reboot routine - then tried deleting many of the new AI models I added - no joy... I found a post on F1 where someone mentioned similar - one suggestion stated the "repaint.xml" file gets mangled - just wondering how prevalent this problem is - and if there is a work around... Thanks... Regards, Scott
January 2, 20188 yr Commercial Member 29 minutes ago, scottb613 said: Hi Folks, Anyone else going through the effort to find better models and replace them in UTL ? All was working well - started making improvements by swapping out better AI models - then on one start of P3Dv4/UTL - the little "Ultimate Traffic Initializing" flashes - then comes back every 5 seconds or so and my traffic never appears... Tried the restart/reboot routine - then tried deleting many of the new AI models I added - no joy... I found a post on F1 where someone mentioned similar - one suggestion stated the "repaint.xml" file gets mangled - just wondering how prevalent this problem is - and if there is a work around... Thanks... Regards, Scott To confirm your theory do the following: 1) Backup your current repaint.xml. 2) Delete it. 3) Launch UTL, if it works fine it means something is happening to repaint.xml. 4) restore your repaint.xml, confirm the bug is there. 5) Open repaint.xml with notepad++, check if the encoding is correct, try to save it again with notepad++ to see if it corrects the encoding. 6) Launch UTL. Let's start with these first, if we confirm the bug I will try to email the beta team of ULT to see if we can replicate the problem and try to see if we can get this sorted quickly. Best Regards, Simbol Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
January 2, 20188 yr Author 45 minutes ago, simbol said: Simbol Hi Simbol, As always - thanks so much for the help... Yeah - I'm not the greatest example for troubleshooting a problem - I travel during the week and only have limited access on the weekends... I will gladly do all you suggested next weekend when I get in - then report back... One minor change - I never saved the default "repaint.xml" - so I'll save the suspected problem I have now - then reinstall UTL saving the default "repaint.xml" to compare... Yep - use Notepad++ and will check the encoding... I did a quick cursory look for "repaint.xml" last night and I couldn't find it - it was late... I looked in the UTL dir in appdata, the UTL install dir, the UTL dir in P3D, and my Documents dir... Would you happen to know where it's located ? Thanks... Regards, Scott
January 2, 20188 yr Commercial Member 6 minutes ago, scottb613 said: Hi Simbol, As always - thanks so much for the help... Yeah - I'm not the greatest example for troubleshooting a problem - I travel during the week and only have limited access on the weekends... I will gladly do all you suggested next weekend when I get in - then report back... One minor change - I never saved the default "repaint.xml" - so I'll save the suspected problem I have now - then reinstall UTL saving the default "repaint.xml" to compare... Yep - use Notepad++ and will check the encoding... I did a quick cursory look for "repaint.xml" last night and I couldn't find it - it was late... I looked in the UTL dir in appdata, the UTL install dir, the UTL dir in P3D, and my Documents dir... Would you happen to know where it's located ? Thanks... Regards, Scott I will let you know where the file is located when I get to my PC, do your tests when you have time don't worry. Regards, Simbol Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
January 2, 20188 yr 35 minutes ago, scottb613 said: I did a quick cursory look for "repaint.xml" last night and I couldn't find it - it was late... I looked in the UTL dir in appdata, the UTL install dir, the UTL dir in P3D, and my Documents dir... Would you happen to know where it's located ? Thanks... Regards, Scott It is in C:\Users\ ... \AppData\Roaming\Flight One Software\utLive\Data - Harry 9800x3D (Strix x870e-E) - 64GB RAM (DDR5 6000, CL 30) - RTX 5090, 34'' 1440p OLED HDR - Windows 11 Pro (1TB M.2) - MSFS 2024 (MS Store, 4TB M.2).
January 2, 20188 yr Author 1 minute ago, Nemo said: It is in C:\Users\ ... \AppData\Roaming\Flight One Software\utLive\Data Thanks Harry... I could have sworn I looked there - LOL - maybe that's my problem - it vanished... I'll double check when I get in and I'm not tired... Regards, Scott
January 6, 20188 yr Author On 1/2/2018 at 0:13 PM, simbol said: I will let you know where the file is located when I get to my PC, do your tests when you have time don't worry. Regards, Simbol Hi Folks, RE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/82sj55ct1wz8v8g/UTL Report.zip?dl=0 Encoding looks good Saved orginal BAD repaints.xml Installed UTL again - it didn't update repaints.xml Completely removed and installed UTL again - working repaints.xml Started adding repaints again - broke within about 15 minutes of mods Replaced the repaints.xml with the virgin copy - worked again without installing Seems repaints.xml is the culprit - all xml files in attached... Regards, Scott
January 7, 20188 yr Commercial Member On 1/6/2018 at 5:40 AM, scottb613 said: Hi Folks, RE: https://www.dropbox.com/s/82sj55ct1wz8v8g/UTL Report.zip?dl=0 Encoding looks good Saved orginal BAD repaints.xml Installed UTL again - it didn't update repaints.xml Completely removed and installed UTL again - working repaints.xml Started adding repaints again - broke within about 15 minutes of mods Replaced the repaints.xml with the virgin copy - worked again without installing Seems repaints.xml is the culprit - all xml files in attached... Regards, Scott I am unable to replicate the issue but I emailed the original Beta team to see if they can. Regards, Simbol Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
January 7, 20188 yr Author 24 minutes ago, simbol said: I am unable to replicate the issue but I emailed the original Beta team to see if they can. Regards, Simbol Hi Simbol, Well thanks for looking - much appreciated - I have a parallel thread on the UTL support forum - others have seen their repaints.xml mangled as well losing all their work... Regards, Scott
January 7, 20188 yr Commercial Member 4 minutes ago, scottb613 said: Hi Simbol, Well thanks for looking - much appreciated - I have a parallel thread on the UTL support forum - others have seen their repaints.xml mangled as well losing all their work... Regards, Scott Ok, as a interest how many repaints you added? S. Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
January 7, 20188 yr Author Hi Simbol, Not many - I'd say a dozen models or so - with around 5 paints each - the last repaints.xml (the one named with a two) managed to kill UTL after only about 10 to 15 minutes worth of changes... The failure reoccurred quick after the fresh install... Regards, Scott
January 7, 20188 yr Author 4 minutes ago, simbol said: Ok, as a interest how many repaints you added? S.
January 7, 20188 yr Commercial Member 2 hours ago, scottb613 said: Hi Simbol, Not many - I'd say a dozen models or so - with around 5 paints each - the last repaints.xml (the one named with a two) managed to kill UTL after only about 10 to 15 minutes worth of changes... The failure reoccurred quick after the fresh install... Regards, Scott Scott, Answer directly from the developer: Hi All, Nothing code wise that will cause corruption after adding repaints. XML files can get picky though if they try adding repaints who have invalid characters in the title= line. Backslashes, *, etc can cause issues in Windows and reading of xml. Best, Tom Can you check that the models you are adding don't have any special characters on the title?. Best Regards, Simbol Oficial Website: https://www.FSReborn.com Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3
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