Thanks!

3 hours ago, Mace said:

ScruffyDuck (Jon) has written the freeware Simple Airport Scanner utility which will find duplicates...it is available at ScruffyDuck Software under the "other software" page.

As far as I know it only works with P3D v3.x. There isn’t a version available for P3D v4.x.

8 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

As far as I know it only works with P3D v3.x. There isn’t a version available for P3D v4.x.

Ah ok.  Well, I could swear i used it recently with 4.4, but I guess it didn't do what I thought it was doing.

11 minutes ago, Mace said:

Ah ok.  Well, I could swear i used it recently with 4.4, but I guess it didn't do what I thought it was doing.

It looks for a scenery.cfg in the P3D v3 folder so unless you move the one from v4 into it then it won’t work.

Also, the drop down has no v4 entry.

11 minutes ago, Mace said:

Ah ok.  Well, I could swear i used it recently with 4.4, but I guess it didn't do what I thought it was doing.

It "works" with P3d4. As Ray alluded to, it just doesn't find any scenery installed with the add-on.xml method. It also CTDs with some airports that have been compiled with the P3d4 SDK. One can make it sort of work by using Lorby's freeware scenery exporter:

http://www.lorby-si.com/downloads.html

This tool creates a temporary "unified" scenery.cfg.

 

 

1 minute ago, jabloomf1230 said:

It "works" with P3d4. As Ray alluded to, it just doesn't find any scenery installed with the add-on.xml method. It also CTDs with some airports that have been compiled with the P3d4 SDK. One can make it sort of work by using Lorby's freeware scenery exporter:

http://www.lorby-si.com/downloads.html

This tool creates a temporary "unified" scenery.cfg.

I do use Lorby’s Addon Organiser to generate a temporary scenery.cfg. Still can’t get a v4 available in the dropdown. 

What specifically do you do to get it to work?

5 hours ago, newtie said:

Hi Jay-

While I don’t think I have multiple versions of airports installed, how would you determine if you had parts of multiple versions installed, or is this even possible?

Thanks,

Mark

A way of searching for multiple versions is to assume that most of the airport scenery files are located in subfolders beneath the P3d4 main folder. Open the Windows file explorer in the P3d4 main folder and search for the ICAO code like this:

*KLAX*

One can also search the My Traffic 6 folder in a similar fashion, if one has that installed.

2 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I do use Lorby’s Addon Organiser to generate a temporary scenery.cfg. Still can’t get a v4 available in the dropdown. 

What specifically do you do to get it to work?

There was a working beta for P3d4, but I think it was pulled from the downloads since it was unsupported. I think that ADE still has it's "File Priority Analyzer" enabled in the most recent versions like 1.76. It suffers the same problem though, with airports installed via add-on.xml.

Another problem is that an airport preload stub file is often added to the folder ../scenery/world/scenery in order to modify the airport's elevation and/or name. These BGL files are commonly identified by the string ALT in the file name.

18 minutes ago, jabloomf1230 said:

Another problem is that an airport preload stub file is often added to the folder ../scenery/world/scenery in order to modify the airport's elevation and/or name. These BGL files are commonly identified by the string ALT in the file name.

I've heard that elevation preload stubs no longer need to be in /scenery/world/scenery -- that due to the advent of the xml method, they can be located anywhere.  Do you know if this is true?

I hadn't read that but maybe if they are designated as type WORLD in add-on.xml they might be considered as a preload file.