Issue with FlyTampa StMaarten on v4.3

[ideoplastic 86]

P3Dv4.3 on Win10 Professional -

Installed version 1.9 which automatically placed the folders and the Libraries in the FlyTampa folder in the sim root directory. Inside each folders there is an addon.xml file, that covers folders such as AI ships, World, Effects, etc.

Then created 2 folders one for Libraries and another for StMaarten in the Documents\Prepar3D Addon folder and moved  each addon.xml to the respective folder.. After starting the sim and selecting StMaarten it loads up to 100% then the sim just disappears, with no error messages. Seeing that the scenery and Library are being read by the sim on start up when it requests permission to load, what could be causing the problem. All other sceneries seem to work fine.

Also rather confused about the different ways some developers ask you to activate xml file, some using command line and others by dropping the addon.xml in the Documents\P3D addon folder. If anyone can point me in the direction of a clear tutorial about  how to use the xml files in P3D and how to layer the order of the entries, would be most appreciated.

thanks

[edpatino 1,964]

Please check for an utility all FT (or almost all) installers have as a separate file inside the original FT files, that you should run inmediately after moving the respective scenery folders to their desired location in your system.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Bob Marton 39]

this post is interesting to me, because I too installed TNCM to P3D v4.2 with update 1.9.  I did not do anything else regarding the installation, and TNCM works perfectly on my installation.

So is this xml entries really needed  (by my actions), or does FlyTampa and other develops do this automatically?

[ideoplastic 86]

Thanks for the replies.  I'll have to find a full tutorial on xml and then how to use it correctly on P3D.  I don't really like this way of doing things, seems more complicated and prone to errors unless one learns how to correctly write xml files.

[pete_auau 1,159]

had  no issues  in installing  all  of  my  ftampa,airports  all I  done was  to  run the  installer using  p3dv4