Hi guys, I am working on my ai and I have downloaded the megapack 12 with many liveries. The trouble is that to have them as an ai  I have to change the 0 to a 1 under "is aircraft for ai". There are over 300 liveries that have to be changed and that's a heck of a lot of work. I am not computer savy, so I am wondering if there is an easier way to change everything at once. Possibly a cut and paste for the ai entry or some sort of grouping, I don't really know, so if anyone knows a better way I would be very thankful. Thank you.

On a unix system it would be easy - a simple shell script using sed.

Never tried it on Windows to be frank, but apparently with PowerShell you can do something similar:

get-content somefile.txt | %{$_ -replace "expression","replace"}

Source:  windows - Is there any sed like utility for cmd.exe? - Stack Overflow

 

 

If your talking about changing the line "isAirTraffic=0" to "isAirTraffic=1" in each of your desired AI livery "aircraft.cfg" file, this can easily be accomplished using Notepad++, the indispensable "go to" advanced text editor for most techies for years. It can quickly find and replace a single word, phrase, or line of code in multiple files (even thousands) in just a few seconds. And it's totally FREE.

You can download it here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

Just Install Notepad++, then just temporarily move all the livery folders you want to use for AI into a single folder for bulk processing. I used "C:\Liveries-For-AI"  in the image example below.

Then start Notepad++ and choose the Search>Find in Files tab, and set your fields as shown in the image below, (with the Directory: field pointing to wherever you temporarily moved the livery folders). Make sure that "In all sub-folders" is checked, and then hit the "Replace in Files" button. It'll process hundreds in just a matter of seconds. Then move the livery folders back into the MSFS Community folder and your good to go. Done!

Edited March 26, 20215 yr by Truthan
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Edited March 26, 20215 yr by bobcat999

I'm sure someone could write a BAT file or something to do this automatically, make backups and remove any risk of error.

Not easy for most of us mere mortals, but a 5 minute job for a techie I would think.

19 hours ago, Truthan said:

If your talking about changing the line "isAirTraffic=0" to "isAirTraffic=1" in each of your desired AI livery "aircraft.cfg" file, this can easily be accomplished using Notepad++, the indispensable "go to" advanced text editor for most techies for years. It can quickly find and replace a single word, phrase, or line of code in multiple files (even thousands) in just a few seconds. And it's totally FREE.

You can download it here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

Just Install Notepad++, then just temporarily move all the livery folders you want to use for AI into a single folder for bulk processing. I used "C:\Liveries-For-AI"  in the image example below.

Then start Notepad++ and choose the Search>Find in Files tab, and set your fields as shown in the image below, (with the Directory: field pointing to wherever you temporarily moved the livery folders). Make sure that "In all sub-folders" is checked, and then hit the "Replace in Files" button. It'll process hundreds in just a matter of seconds. Then move the livery folders back into the MSFS Community folder and your good to go. Done!

I will try it, thank you very much.