FLAi2UTL - Anyone?

[Egbert Drenth 250]

I have enough testers now.

[pmb 5,137]

I hope F1 will pay you (and FLAI) well, you would deserve it.🤣

Kind regards, Michael

[Egbert Drenth 250]

38 minutes ago, pmb said:

I hope F1 will pay you (and FLAI) well, you would deserve it.🤣

Thanks 😉

But first let us await the beta test results 🕔

[mwilk 1,104]

Egbert,

             I gave FLAi2UTL a quick run. I replaced all of the models with FLAi. Just doing a quick check, all of the United Airlines Tulip repaints are gone and replaced with the current livery. I'll give it a more thorough look later to day but it seems to have worked very well. Thanks very much for this.

[edpatino 1,960]

10 hours ago, Egbert Drenth said:

The application itself runs independently of any simulator, it only requires UTL and FLAi installed.
The output of the application is an XML file.

I have P3D V4.3 and I assume that UTL/FLAi have exact the same structure/files in other P3DV1/2/3/FSX versions.
If so, it most likely also will work for those versions

 

Thanks for clarifying.

Now, talking about FLAi, I've found the following statement at the FLAi website (FAQ's):

"Why does [aircraft] appear messed up in Prepar3d V4?
Prepar3d V4 is a 64bit application and it does not support FS9 native models. Although we’re doing our best to make sure all of the models are at least FSX native and work in P3D4, we can’t guarantee full compatibility."

Does this still apply?.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Dave_YVR 968]

Yes, not all of the aircraft included with the FLAI package have been converted for P3d V4. 

[Egbert Drenth 250]

1 hour ago, Dave_YVR said:

Yes, not all of the aircraft included with the FLAI package have been converted for P3d V4. 

Is there a list which models/aircraft those are?
FLAi2UTL is configurable which FLAi models are included.

[mwilk 1,104]

I was just setting up a flight when P3Dv4 crashed. The event viewer gave the reason as NTDLL . I wonder if this could have been caused by an old AI model that's not compatible with P3D?

[ScottB2 6]

I chose the "only add missing" option for my first test. I'm loading various airports to see the new FLAi models. No issues or crashes as of yet.

mwilk, which airports did you select when P3Dv4 crashed? I'll try to reproduce on my end.

[mwilk 1,104]

39 minutes ago, ScottB2 said:

I chose the "only add missing" option for my first test. I'm loading various airports to see the new FLAi models. No issues or crashes as of yet.

mwilk, which airports did you select when P3Dv4 crashed? I'll try to reproduce on my end.

Scott, I was at EDDM. I'm using Taxi2Gate's addon airport, if that matters. I had loaded it earlier and didn't have a problem. This time was at 1600L time so maybe a model loaded that crashed it.

[duckbilled 310]

3 hours ago, Egbert Drenth said:

Is there a list which models/aircraft those are?
FLAi2UTL is configurable which FLAi models are included.

I went through the mdls and came up with this list of included aircraft that are not compatible with P3DV4. These are listed by folder name.

FLAi_A10

FLAi_A140

FLAi_A148

FLAi_A158

FLAi_AN72

FLAi_B462

FLAi_B463

FLAi_B703

FLAi_C140

FLAi_C17

FLAi_C46

FLAi_C5

FLAi_C510

FLAi_C550

FLAi_CRJ2

FLAi_DC10-10

FLAi_DC10-30

FLAi_DC87

FLAi_E140

FLAi_E145

FLAi_E45X

FLAi_E50P

FLAi_F15D

FLAi_F16D

FLAi_GL5T

FLAi_GLEX

FLAi_IL86

FLAi_IL96

FLAi_JS41

FLAi_K35R

FLAi_KC10

FLAi_L1011

FLAi_PA31

FLAi_SR22

FLAi_SW4

FLAi_T134

[duckbilled 310]

This sounds really interesting. A couple questions:

If I have already modified assigned aircraft, will it ignore my new assignments? In other words, is it just searching for default textures in the assignments and re assigning them with FLAI paints when the paint matches the assignment? If so, will it include FLAI paints were no default paint is currently assigned?

While it only works with FLAI aircraft, what if I install a new texture within the FLAI folders? Will it pick those up or ignore them?

 

[edpatino 1,960]

48 minutes ago, duckbilled said:

I went through the mdls and came up with this list of included aircraft that are not compatible with P3DV4. These are listed by folder name

I don't have FLAi installed. Approximately that list represents which % of the total of the aircraft models?.

Cheers, Ed

 

[Dave_YVR 968]

13 minutes ago, edpatino said:

I don't have FLAi installed. Approximately that list represents which % of the total of the aircraft models?.

 Well just look at the list and try to think of what traffic you have or need that use those aircraft. It's mostly the fairly obscure and military models. Remove those ones that aren't p3d v4 ready and you lose I'd guess less than 1% of your traffic.

[mwilk 1,104]

7 minutes ago, Dave_YVR said:

 Well just look at the list and try to think of what traffic you have or need that use those aircraft. It's mostly the fairly obscure and military models. Remove those ones that aren't p3d v4 ready and you lose I'd guess less than 1% of your traffic.

Dave, is it just as easy as deleting those folders of those aircraft in the FLAi directory?