Maybe I was the only one to miss this?

[PWJT8D 446]

That is some great news! I hope more developers will follow suit. 

[signmanbob 592]

This is something that I've basically done already.  My Orbx hasn't been in my P3Dv4 folder for quite some time.  I have it on a completely different drive.

[Skywolf 992]

6 minutes ago, signmanbob said:

This is something that I've basically done already.  My Orbx hasn't been in my P3Dv4 folder for quite some time.  I have it on a completely different drive.

I assume you are symlinking...but Orbx puts files every else in the sim - including the Scenery/world directories....pretty much owns the sim.  I have always wanted all third - every single file outside the sim.  So when updates to the sim come, sim gets updated and doesn't break sceneries.  I am quite a pro with symlink and Lorby's tool immensely helps.  

Finally Orbx is moving to the new method; they do have giant library of addons.

[WillsB3 1]

I’d love to join the discussion on this however someone “helpfully” removed the link in the OPs initial post so I’ve absolutely no idea where to go to read more about what this topic is supposed to be discussing… 🙄

[ideoplastic 86]

14 hours ago, SunDevil56 said:

Thanks.

Sounds simple enough..😎

I recently did a clean reinstall of v4.4 and ORBX (FTX, Vectors, All available landclass, All North American regions, All European Regions, Australia and NZ plus all the many airports for all the previously mentioned regions. Easy? Well yes FTX Central managed all downloads but it took a hell of a long time to get it all installed. Ideally perhaps Orbx ought to create ready made editable xmls  so that we can transfer all the files out of the sim without having to re-download everything.

regards

[Bigt 192]

8 hours ago, Skywolf said:

I assume you are symlinking...but Orbx puts files every else in the sim - including the Scenery/world directories....pretty much owns the sim.  I have always wanted all third - every single file outside the sim.  So when updates to the sim come, sim gets updated and doesn't break sceneries.  I am quite a pro with symlink and Lorby's tool immensely helps.  

Finally Orbx is moving to the new method; they do have giant library of addons.

And so modest as well......

[Skywolf 992]

1 hour ago, Bigt said:

And so modest as well......

Lol...ya.....I should have put some emojis in the thread.  It is hard to interject emotions into the thread....have a great day

[ninerwhiskey9W 19]

Can someone pm me the link to the orbx thread ? I cant see any threads related to an announcement regarding the move to addon.xml ? This is a very welcome announcement, and the only remaining scenery that is still in the root P3D folder.

[Starlifter60 83]

Silly question but that's never stopped me before...what exactly is the advantage to installing addons outside the sim using xml? Does this affect performance? Thanks!

Brian

[macwino 14]

2 hours ago, ninerwhiskey9W said:

Can someone pm me the link to the orbx thread ? I cant see any threads related to an announcement regarding the move to addon.xml ? This is a very welcome announcement, and the only remaining scenery that is still in the root P3D folder.

I'd appreciate this link too. Thanks,  Robert

[Mace 1,902]

2 hours ago, Starlifter60 said:

Silly question but that's never stopped me before...what exactly is the advantage to installing addons outside the sim using xml? Does this affect performance? Thanks!

Brian

1) Reduces the chance of breaking an add-on every time you update P3D.  2) Keeps your sim install nice and tidy.  You will want it that way if you ever troubleshoot an add-on.  If you never do that, you must not fly P3D  :)     As for performance, short answer is my opinion of "no, it will not impact performance" given today's era of SSD's and fast cpu's and file ops -- the sim is already pegging files all across its own folder structure anyway. 

[slait 169]

If it takes a reinstall, as I assume it would for existing installations, I'll wait until I really need to do that for some other pressing reason. A reinstall so that you can configure it so you don't have to reinstall seems like a poor reason to do it without another motivation.

[Bruce Nicholson KMFR 20]

I was thinking yesterday how Orbx did a grand Twitch presentation of their 2019 product roadmap and no mention whatsoever of updating Orbx Central to handle xml installs. Today we get the news that handling xml is coming.

It can't arrive too soon as I'm sick of the symlink juggling needed to fool Central into think it has complete control of the P3D folder.