AIG OCI Lessons Learned

[psolk 3,146]

OK, here are my own lessons learned and how I got things working.  

In Sim Settings:

Aircraft Vehicle Type:  Off

AI Aircraft Traffic Density Slider: 0

Airport Vehicle Density: 0

Ground Aircraft Density: 0

Generic Plane Models Off and Off

Issues:

1.   if you have random traffic at the gates:

The random aircraft I have pinpointed to Ground Traffic Density not being at 0 

Apparently MSFS is using the AIG AI as Ground Traffic randomly.  Hence the random liveries.  

**Setting Ground Traffic Density to Zero resolves this issue

2.  "MY" issue is when I set that to 0 I have no traffic what-so-ever.  AIG TC shows connected, shows the UTC time, centers on my plane but won't inject anything.  

***Make sure AIGTC is properly pointing to your Community directory.  Mine "looked" like it was in the abbreviated path withing AIGTC settings but it was actually pointing the the AIGTC install folder on my O: drive.  My Community folder is on my J: Drive  

Pointing to the AIG directory within the Community Folder resolves this.  

Just my own findings and how I got things to work.  Also, once I did get it working it took a little bit (seconds) for the traffic to inject.  It appeared on the map before it appeared in the sim.  

Following the process above I got everything working.  

Hope it helps someone else! 

[bobcat999 8,548]

Excellent Paul.  This needs to be pinned in the Tips and Tricks section after a few other useful replies maybe, if anyone else has any additional tips to add.

[Drumcode 1,915]

Paul, are these tips for the Offline traffic, or online, or both?

[DylanM 1,069]

48 minutes ago, Drumcode said:

are these tips for the Offline traffic, or online, or both?

Right - what are the in-sim and AI Manager settings to run either the static flightplans or the online traffic?

[Kaiii3 1,983]

Online AI:

Do not start AIGTC, enable online AI in the Sim

[Phantoms 800]

1 hour ago, Kaiii3 said:

Online AI:

Do not start AIGTC, enable online AI in the Sim

Thank you, I haven't seen this explained anywhere else.

[GEKtheReaper 375]

1 hour ago, Kaiii3 said:

Online AI:

Do not start AIGTC, enable online AI in the Sim

Just to be sure...

Under AVIATION TRAFFIC there is the first option AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC TYPE with 3 choiches: OFF / REAL-TIME ONLINE / AI OFFLINE.

Is the following correct?

1. OFF is OFF so nothing will be shown (neither MSFS traffic nor AIG)

2. AI OFFLINE with DENSITY 0 --> AIG planes are there and the density is controlled through AIGTC

3. REAL-TIME ONLINE --> MSFS AI kicks in

[psolk 3,146]

1 minute ago, GEKtheReaper said:

Just to be sure...

Under AVIATION TRAFFIC there is the first option AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC TYPE with 3 choiches: OFF / REAL-TIME ONLINE / AI OFFLINE.

Is the following correct?

1. OFF is OFF so nothing will be shown (neither MSFS traffic nor AIG)

2. AI OFFLINE with DENSITY 0 --> AIG planes are there and the density is controlled through AIGTC

3. REAL-TIME ONLINE --> MSFS AI kicks in

Not quite.  See my first post:

1 Aircraft Traffic: OFF  is off, nothing will be displayed until you run AIGTC and inject traffic.  This is the correct setting.  

2.  Unnecessary for AIGTC, see above

3.  Correct

[DylanM 1,069]

1 minute ago, psolk said:

Not quite.  See my first post:

1 Aircraft Traffic: OFF  is off, nothing will be displayed until you run AIGTC and inject traffic.  This is the correct setting.  

2.  Unnecessary for AIGTC, see above

3.  Correct

Nice and clear. This would be handy to include in the next version of the guide.

[BIGSKY 317]

Is there a manual for MS 2020 install? I downloaded and ran the exe,and chose MS 2020 option,I see the progress bar,but no files accumulating in my community folder.Is everything automatic?

Thanks

[GEKtheReaper 375]

1 minute ago, psolk said:

Not quite.  See my first post:

I was intrigued because if I set Traffic to OFF then I can't do anything with the traffic density Slider (the slider can be set to 0 only if I select AI OFFLINE...).

Basicaly refering to your first 2 settings...

[psolk 3,146]

29 minutes ago, GEKtheReaper said:

I was intrigued because if I set Traffic to OFF then I can't do anything with the traffic density Slider (the slider can be set to 0 only if I select AI OFFLINE...).

Basicaly refering to your first 2 settings...

Correct because once it is off the AI traffic density is handled by the density slider in AIGTC no in the sim  

[desbean 357]

8 hours ago, psolk said:

1.   if you have random traffic at the gates:

The random aircraft I have pinpointed to Ground Traffic Density not being at 0 

Apparently MSFS is using the AIG AI as Ground Traffic randomly.  Hence the random liveries.  

**Setting Ground Traffic Density to Zero resolves this issue

2.  "MY" issue is when I set that to 0 I have no traffic what-so-ever.  AIG TC shows connected, shows the UTC time, centers on my plane but won't inject anything. 

MSFS is definitely using AIG as ground AC. For me setting Ground Traffic Density to anything but 0 results in some AC that have no flightplans (and some models with no paint) and if set to 100% fills up every gate. At KRIC I set back from 5% to 0% and went from quite a few AC to just one, but that was accurate for where I was at that time of day.

Edited November 10, 2021 by desbean

[BIGSKY 317]

5 hours ago, BIGSKY said:

Is there a manual for MS 2020 install? I downloaded and ran the exe,and chose MS 2020 option,I see the progress bar,but no files accumulating in my community folder.Is everything automatic?

Thanks

Just got home from work,6 hours later progress bar still going???

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

28 minutes ago, BIGSKY said:

Just got home from work,6 hours later progress bar still going???

Took me 7 hours in total for a full install of all flight plans.