1 hour ago, DJJose said:

Today I tried it and it works perfectly. Not only do you see the livery images, but after it creates the folder, only the liveries you chose to install, show up in MSFS 2020.

Hi Jose - 

I'll give it another go. I did exactly the same steps. Downloaded the allinone zip, downloaded the manager, created a livery folder and an install folder. Extracted allinone to Livery, extracted manager to desktop, ran manager, selected Livery as input and install as output. Clicked Read ( i think it was) and no a/c showed in the list.   I'll give it another go tonight. Maybe there's some screwy windows permissions thing going on.

I'll redownload everything JIC.

Thanx,

 

Vic

Any quick way to get the liveries showing on AI?

6 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

'll give it another go. I did exactly the same steps. Downloaded the allinone zip, downloaded the manager, created a livery folder and an install folder. Extracted allinone to Livery, extracted manager to desktop, ran manager, selected Livery as input and install as output. Clicked Read ( i think it was) and no a/c showed in the list.   I'll give it another go tonight. Maybe there's some screwy windows permissions thing going on.

I'll redownload everything JIC.

Been through the same hoops.  No Joy!  BUT THEN.......

Unzip the Liveries into a folder.  Then put the FlightSimulatorLiveriesManager.exe into that same folder and run it from there.  

I know, I know.  It asks you for the path to the folder doesn't it?  But for some reason that was not working for me until I ran the .exe from that folder.  And also pointed it of  course to that folder.  Then it worked famously!

Edited September 15, 20205 yr by fppilot

Just now, fppilot said:

Been through the same hoops.  No Joy!  BUT THEN.......

Unzip the Liveries into a folder.  Then put the FlightSimulatorLiveriesManager.exe into that same folder and run it from there.  

I know, I know.  It asks you for the path to the folder doesn't it?  But for some reason that was not working for me until I ran the .exe from that folder.  Then it worked famously!

As I was typing my previous post, that exact thought hit me. Asking for input folder to me says it doesn't matter where exe is. I'll give it a shot tonight. Have a good feeling about that. 🙂 

Thanx!

Vic

This is all good but what if you want to uninstall it after - all set I will use drag and drop method

We dont have much control over this sim so thats the safest way of doing it really 

1 minute ago, vgbaron said:

As I was typing my previous post, that exact thought hit me. Asking for input folder to me says it doesn't matter where exe is. I'll give it a shot tonight. Have a good feeling about that. 🙂 

Thanx!

Vic

I love the effort to provide tools like this, but I detest when they arrive with no documentation.  I also tried in vain to manually extract the two DA62 red liveries and manually add them to the gold and gray liveries I had already installed.  Add them within the same liveries-da62 folder set already in place in my Community folder.  Just would not work.  And yes, please don't ask if I edited the aircraft.cfg file.  Of course I did.  Both showed up in MSFS in DA62 liveries, but as vague options with question mark watermark. 

They loaded, but only as white textures.  So when I finally figured out how to get the livery manager to work I extracted one red livery, then the other.  But then found that they had to be placed into Community as separate folders.  So I went back to the livery manager and selected all four liveries I wanted and let it create them as a set.  Then I was able to remove the earlier separate folders and replace them with the new folder set.  Worked great!  So if you are adding liveries for a model to some you already have from the earlier livery pack, take my advice and build a new set that includes all you wish to choose.

21 minutes ago, Richard Sennett said:

This is all good but what if you want to uninstall it after - all set I will use drag and drop method

We dont have much control over this sim so thats the safest way of doing it really 

Not true.  You can eliminate any liveries you wish.  Read my more recent message just posted.  I do not have the livery manager placing them into Community for me.  I let it build the folder set in a working folder outside of MSFS and then drag  and drop into Community.  You can easily drag folders out of Community as well.  Just take care to make sure MSFS is not running.

Edited September 15, 20205 yr by fppilot

31 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Not true.  You can eliminate any liveries you wish.  Read my more recent message just posted.  I do not have the livery manager placing them into Community for me.  I let it build the folder set in a working folder outside of MSFS and then drag  and drop into Community.  You can easily drag folders out of Community as well.  Just take care to make sure MSFS is not running.

 

Ooops sorry you are correct I forgot it places the needed files to drag and drop - thanks - was a long night 😞 

Edited September 15, 20205 yr by Richard Sennett

This afternoon I determined that the tail numbers for livery instances can be edited in the aircraft.cfg file of the model's livery selections inside the Community folder.  So was able to change ASXGS on this livery to N266SP, a USA format.  I posted how in the MSFS Tricks and Tips forum.  Still poking around trying to change the tail number color, and or font.  There are references to both in the .cfg file but so far no joy.

This will be my default color for the DA62 as it is Hoosier Red (Indiana University Hoosiers, my alma mater).

 

Edited September 15, 20205 yr by fppilot

Hoosier daddy?

Well, no joy on this. Redownloaded both pack and manager. Tried all sorts of permissions. RunAs - tried the C,D and E drives. Nothing. When I click read it says found following aircraft - and nothing is there.

Really strange.

 

Vic

16 hours ago, fppilot said:

Been through the same hoops.  No Joy!  BUT THEN.......

Unzip the Liveries into a folder.  Then put the FlightSimulatorLiveriesManager.exe into that same folder and run it from there.  

I know, I know.  It asks you for the path to the folder doesn't it?  But for some reason that was not working for me until I ran the .exe from that folder.  And also pointed it of  course to that folder.  Then it worked famously!

I think you may be on to something.

I put the manager and liveries folder in the downloads folder and created the Livery folder in the downloads folder. All folders stayed in the Downloads folder until I moved the finished packs. I'll post some pics later.

11 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Well, no joy on this. Redownloaded both pack and manager. Tried all sorts of permissions. RunAs - tried the C,D and E drives. Nothing. When I click read it says found following aircraft - and nothing is there.

Really strange.

 

Vic

Did you put the FlightSimulatorLiveriesManager.exe into the same folder as the unzipped livery folders?  Then appears you still need to put the path to that folder into the "select input path" bar of the program.  That is when I turned the corner.

 

 

4 hours ago, fppilot said:

Did you put the FlightSimulatorLiveriesManager.exe into the same folder as the unzipped livery folders?  Then appears you still need to put the path to that folder into the "select input path" bar of the program.  That is when I turned the corner.

 

 

Yes I did all that. Are you using the "allinone.zip" pack from the link in the post above? The program is reading the proper folder but it doesn't see what's there. If I empty out the extracted files, it will give an error message.

51 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

Are you using the "allinone.zip" pack from the link in the post above?

I am using the liveriesmegapack.  All I can guess is that the folder structure used by the pack you have is different.  Here is what this pack's structure looks like.  The individual livery folders are in the liveriesmegapack folder that you see and the .exe is also in that liveriesmegapack folder.  Each livery then has this structure beneath it.  Does yours have the same number of folder levels?
 

Edited September 16, 20205 yr by fppilot