Compatibility with P3D V5?

[Emile 28]

Hello, 

Are some updates planned?

I can only select V4

[albar965 1,040]

I guess there is no difference between v4 and v5. Select the base path and scenery.cfg manually in the load scenery database dialog and try it out.
Let me know if this helps since I don't have P3D.

Update is planned but far from finished yet.

Alex

[TonyD 131]

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[Vindeballe 60]

15 hours ago, albar965 said:

I guess there is no difference between v4 and v5. Select the base path and scenery.cfg manually in the load scenery database dialog and try it out.
Let me know if this helps since I don't have P3D.

Update is planned but far from finished yet.

Alex

I have tried that, but as the only sims I have installed is x-plane11 and P3Dv5, v4 is uninstalled, then the dialog only shows x-plane. Untill now I have not found a way to load the v5 scenery. 

Of course I could try to install v4 again. 😀

[Emile 28]

Hello, 

Same but I have only P3d V5 when I request to load Scenery DB LNM show only X-plane 11 .

FYI When on TOP i select Scenery Library it shows 

1 Prepare3D v3

2 . Prepare 3D V4

 

[albar965 1,040]

You can try to use this file here: https://www.littlenavmap.org/downloads/Other/P3DV4 fake installation.zip

From the included readme:

Quote

This file fakes a Prepar3D v4 installation which allows LNM to read the
scenery library on computers that have only Prepar3D v5 installed.

Be aware that this will also affect installation programs for add-ons which
will offer a Prepar3D v4 install. Obviously do not install into the fake v4.

Open the included file "P3DV4.reg" and check if the installation path is correct.
Note that the file uses UTF-16 encoding. Thefore, use the default Windows
text editor. Third party editors might not work or corrupt the file.

If the installation path is ok, simply double click the file to import it
into the registry.

I have to dig through the P3D v5 SDK documentation and check how much effort it is to adapt LNM. Gotta see if I can make a small release which adds only v5 compatibility (i.e. 2.4.5) or if I  include it in the next big release 2.6 (there is no 2.5 - odd numbers are only internal releases). No idea. Currently buried in other tasks.

Alex

[Vindeballe 60]

That made it possible to compile the database, but the format of the scenery appears to be different. 

I will try to send you the log files, but I can live with the v4 database, I use my backup.

And thank you for your help.

[DrumsArt 270]

I had the pleasant surprise of seeing my plane on a P3Dv5 flight in LNP. I specify that P3Dv4 is still installed. In any case the P3Dv5/LNM communication works.

Richard.

[somiller 694]

I wonder if this is causing a problem trying to load P3Dv5 library in LNM?

 

[albar965 1,040]

7 hours ago, DrumsArt said:

I had the pleasant surprise of seeing my plane on a P3Dv5 flight in LNP. I specify that P3Dv4 is still installed. In any case the P3Dv5/LNM communication works.

Thank you for the confirmation. At least one thing less to fix.

5 hours ago, somiller said:

I wonder if this is causing a problem trying to load P3Dv5 library in LNM?

Thanks for the link. I still have to check how deep the change goes. There were small changes to the BGL format in the past too but these were no problem to adapt.
The biggest nuisance is that the scenery library format of P3D is not officially documented and not open at all compared to e.g. X-Plane or FlightGear.

I have to finish some other work on LNM before and will look at this as next.

Alex

[Emile 28]

Hello, 

I did as proposed

"

This file fakes a Prepar3D v4 installation which allows LNM to read the
scenery library on computers that have only Prepar3D v5 installed.

Be aware that this will also affect installation programs for add-ons which
will offer a Prepar3D v4 install. Obviously do not install into the fake v4.

Open the included file "P3DV4.reg" and check if the installation path is correct.
Note that the file uses UTF-16 encoding. Thefore, use the default Windows
text editor. Third party editors might not work or corrupt the file.

If the installation path is ok, simply double click the file to import it
into the registry."

BUT negative result LNM generates a popup

"Cannot read Base path "" reason Directory does not exist" 

[albar965 1,040]

14 minutes ago, Emile said:

"Cannot read Base path "" reason Directory does not exist" 

Hi Emile,

you have to create the path manually.

But you cannot read the scenery library anyway since LM changed something in the BGL format. See above. But you can still connect and use your P3D v4 scenery database.

Alex

[Emile 28]

OK Thanks SOLVED.. 

[bd515 3]

Wondering how to get it to load the scenery for the new P3DV6 sim  Doesn't seem to show up is there something I can do to get it to point to the sim only showing MFS2020 

[albar965 1,040]

2 hours ago, bd515 said:

Wondering how to get it to load the scenery for the new P3DV6 sim  Doesn't seem to show up is there something I can do to get it to point to the sim only showing MFS2020 

See your other thread or here:

Alex