AI2UTL Injector - Public Beta

[Egbert Drenth 250]

Hi,

I have decided to release "AI2UTL Injector" as a public beta.
It has been tested in a small group, but I don't want it to release it as RTM version yet.

AI2UTL is a tool with which you automagically can replace Ultimate Traffic Live repaints with FLAi repaints and/or individual repaints of Alpha-India, WoA, etc.
During the replacement process the aircraft model is validated/checked for usage in P3D V4 (MDLX & PV20 models)

For your own pleasure (and mine), please read the whole manual, since AI2UTL will not run out-of-the-box.
To state the obvious: You need a copy of Flight1 Ultimate Traffic Live (pay-ware)

You can get it here:
Microsoft OneDrive

Any remarks about issues etc, ventilate here please.

For more information:

 

 

 

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Jim Young
Link to Microsoft OneDrive updated.

[Skywolf 992]

Thank you!!!!

[pmb 5,137]

Thanks a lot, Egbert, looking forward to trying this. From what I learned, this will be a highly appreciated tool. As I said, F1 (of rather the UTL developer) should pay you royalties...

Kind regards, Michael

[vbazillio 2,226]

Thank you for releasing this Public Beta. I just made a quick test. First, I got through the manual. If you provide the source doc I may try to correct some minor typos. Then, I edited the dhq.ai2utl.settings.json. The content didn't look like the default one described in the manual. Finally, I get inspired by a screen shot in the manual and set modification according to my setup... and launched it (forget several times the // ;)) And it worked great ! I only have FLAi installed. Here are some changes in my sim. Thank you again.

Transavia and EasyJet at Nantes (LFRS, France)

Transavia and EasyJet at Nantes (LFRS, France)

American and Virgin America at San Francisco

United at San Francisco

The Air France A380 at San Francisco

Some A380 at Los Angeles

Some static and UTL/FLai aircrafts at San Diego

You know you're in south California 😉

Edited November 17, 2018 by vbazillio

[pscharff 56]

Hello Egbert,

Thanks for releasing this tool as public beta.

My first test looks really promising.

[Egbert Drenth 250]

44 minutes ago, vbazillio said:

Transavia and EasyJet at Nantes (LFRS, France)

Can you verify in the log file that the Transavia model has been replaced?
It looks like an old repaint, I think FLAi contains a new livery (not sure though)
In the dhq.ai2utl.log.txt file, search for "Carrier: TRA"

[DaveCT2003 1,820]

Excellent idea! Thanks so very much!

 

[KL Oo 695]

Great work mate - UTL needs as much ongoing support as it can given we're not going to get any from the official developer. 

 

[simbio 56]

Thank you for share this work, for better and easy implementation I would create two or three field with a puch button to choose the UTLand FLAI folder to eliminate the editing of jason file for noob people.

In my side the test works weell I injected some 747 cargo complately missing from UTL

I also add this for airframe selection where I know that Flai have some MD11 cargo repaint

  {
    "UtlCode": "M11",
    "AiCode": "MD11",
    "SearchIn": "FLai;MISC"
  },
  {
    "UtlCode": "M1F",
    "AiCode": "MD11",
    "SearchIn": "FLai;MISC"
  },

But unfortunately it didn't give me any new replacement

On the result of repaint no FLAI mention on the repaint.xml just the dedalus

    <repaint_fleet>
      <equip>M11</equip>
      <car>SBO</car>
      <oper>SBO</oper>
      <vis>
        <repaint_visual>
          <title>UTLive_M11_Daedalus</title>
          <val>100</val>
          <useOnce>false</useOnce>
        </repaint_visual>
      </vis>
    </repaint_fleet>.

Any hint how can I fix that ?

 

[edpatino 1,960]

Thanks from my side, too!. Tomorrow will be a busy sunday.

Cheers, Ed

[Egbert Drenth 250]

4 hours ago, simbio said:

Any hint how can I fix that ?

Check the log file and search for "Carrier: SBO"
My guess you will find something like:
2018-11-11 11:58:17 Info: Processing Utl Aircraft: M11 | Carrier: SBO | Operator: SBO 
... 
C:\FS Apps\FLAI\SimObjects\Airplanes\FLAi_MD11\aircraft.cfg 
2018-11-11 11:58:17 Info: No matching repaints found, proceeding with next Utl aircraft

So you need to find a repaint from another AI package.

[vbazillio 2,226]

12 hours ago, Egbert Drenth said:

Can you verify in the log file that the Transavia model has been replaced?
It looks like an old repaint, I think FLAi contains a new livery (not sure though)
In the dhq.ai2utl.log.txt file, search for "Carrier: TRA"

Here is the dhq.ai2utl.log.txt for Carrier: TRA

2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing Utl Aircraft: 73H | Carrier: TRA | Operator: TRA 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing: H:\P3Dv4\SimObjects\FLAI\SimObjects\Airplanes 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing: 
H:\P3Dv4\SimObjects\FLAI\SimObjects\Airplanes\FLAi_B738\aircraft.cfg 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: 1 replacement aircraft found 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Utl repaint:
** UTLive_73H.TRA.TRA
replaced by new model(s): 
** FLAi_FAIB_B738_TRA-Transavia
 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing Utl Aircraft: 73W | Carrier: TRA | Operator: TRA 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing: H:\P3Dv4\SimObjects\FLAI\SimObjects\Airplanes 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: No matching repaints found, proceeding with next Utl aircraft
 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing Utl Aircraft: 73G | Carrier: TRA | Operator: JAA 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing: H:\P3Dv4\SimObjects\FLAI\SimObjects\Airplanes 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Processing: 
H:\P3Dv4\SimObjects\FLAI\SimObjects\Airplanes\FLAi_B737\aircraft.cfg 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: 1 replacement aircraft found 
2018-11-18 07:40:07 Info: Utl repaint:
** UTLive_73G_Daedalus
replaced by new model(s): 
** FLAi_FAIB_B737_TRA-Transavia

Isn't there something wrong with the last one where "Carrier: TRA" and "Operator: JAA" ?

Let me know how I can help...

Edited November 18, 2018 by vbazillio

[Egbert Drenth 250]

49 minutes ago, vbazillio said:

Isn't there something wrong with the last one where "Carrier: TRA" and "Operator: JAA" ?

JAA is Japan Asia Airways and that indeed seems wrong.
It is an error in UTL, the repaints.xml. 
      <equip>73G</equip>
      <car>TRA</car>
      <oper>JAA</oper>

You/we have to correct that manually, however only when using the AI2UTL 'Operater' mode'.
Currently it is matched on Carrier code, so that is OK.

About the 'old' Transavia livery.
It seems indeed FLAi has an old livery. In my tests I also used a few other B738 repaints of other developers.
The new livery must have come from one of those. (Check the pictures in the manual)

Edited November 18, 2018 by Egbert Drenth

[HighTowers 1,434]

Thanks for your work on this project.  Looks like a handy utility. Will go thru it.

 

[flyblueskies 142]

Question, at this time, I only want to use FLAI to replace UTL liveries. I don't plan to fly online with Vatsim, etc. I've installed FLAI and when I run P3DV4, it asks to activate the Addon XML for FLAI. Do I need to do this if only using to  update UTL?