The Kodiak 100 comes with about 160 liveries. I fly, at most, a couple.

There are 4 aircraft variants & each has around 40 liveries.

If I go into MSFS Scenario Set Up:  Profile/Content Manager/Installed, I find 1 entry for the whole Kodiak package.

I only fly the Tundra/Cargo Box so is there any way to remove/disable  the other 3 variants & thereby disable around 120 liveries, I don't use?

T45

 

Just remove the variation(s) you don't want from the community folder:
"Community\sws-aircraft-kodiak-wheels\SimObjects\Airplanes"

(Best to copy them somewhere safe and put them back if you wanna fly them again.)

Its not that simple. The different variants use the same liveries, models, sounds etc from the SWS_Kodiak_gear folder so you could delete one and then mess up a lot of others. I wanted to get rid of quite a few of them and probably still will but you have to go through the different aircraft.cfg files with a fine toothcomb  to make sure you don't remove the wrong line. 

2 minutes ago, 6297J said:

Its not that simple. The different variants use the same liveries, models, sounds etc from the SWS_Kodiak_gear folder so you could delete one and then mess up a lot of others. I wanted to get rid of quite a few of them and probably still will but you have to go through the different aircraft.cfg files with a fine toothcomb  to make sure you don't remove the wrong line. 

We are not talking about liveries here, we are talking about the variant(s) (Cargo, Tundra, ...):

"... so is there any way to remove/disable  the other 3 variants & thereby disable around 120 liveries ..."

But if you only want to keep the Tundra and Cargo models you are going to have to move some files around or edit the aircraft.cfg files. Otherwise if you delete the main folder you won't have anything to refer to! 

I see what you mean. My bad ....

Plus you have to regenerate the layout.json if the top directory ; the planes likely won't be available any more (or will crash MSFS) if the layout.json file references non-existing files.

What is the purpose of deleting the variants, you don't have hard drive space?

I've decided that my hard drive is big enough to keep all of these so it is easier to just leave it as it is. Plus when and if there is an update it will overwrite everything anyway and you'll have to do it all again. I could lose those Safari liveries but for now I will learn to ignore them. 

@Treetops45, if you still have an interest in disabling the variants you don't use for your convenience, I've had a look and I think the easiest thing to do would be to back up the layout.json then editing it to remove or rename the aircraft.cfg entries for the three variants you don't want.   This will keep them from being loaded without actually removing any resources from the package itself.

Restoring them would be a simple matter of putting your backup file in place or changing the names back if you just edit them in the original.

6 hours ago, Treetops45 said:

I only fly the Tundra/Cargo Box so is there any way to remove/disable  the other 3 variants & thereby disable around 120 liveries, I don't use?

T45

YES there is.  And it is quite simple to accomplish.  Allow me about 30 minutes to verify and write it up.  Then I will edit it in here.

Others. Please stop posting about why would anyone want to do it.  I have done this for years in FS9 and FSX to cull down the number of liveries that show so it is less work to pick through them to make a selection.   I normally only fly one or two liveries of any specific model so I decided long ago to just show those that I plan to use.  This Kodiak has (4) variants, each with I believe up to (40) or so exterior/interior livery combinations.  That is just too many to suit me.

OK here is the method I used successfully this afternoon.  You can see the results.  Open the hidden contents box below.

Spoiler

There are four Kodiak variants at this point.

SWS_Kodiak_gear
SWS_Kodiak_gear_CP (cargo pod)
SWS_Kodiak_tundra
SWS_Kodiak_tundra_CP (cargo pod)

Each of those have their own individual folders in the Kodiak's installed location.

Each variant's folder contains an "aircraft.cfg" file that is unique to that variant.

Make a backup copy of the aircraft.cfg file from each folder, taking care to name it clearly enough to identify it later.  I also copy and paste the aircraft.cfg file back into the folder, which creates a copy there with the name "aircraft - Copy.cfg"

Make a list of the livery/interior combinations you wish to have MSFS show you.

In each of those aircraft.cfg files there will be a long list of sections, each section sequenced in numbers

[fltSIM.0]
...
[fltSIM.1]
...
[fltSIM.2]
...
[fltSIM.3]

For my Kodiak it runs from [fltSIM.0] to [fltSIM.40] in each of the aircraft.cfg files.  I will use the "SWS_Kodiak_gear variant" as my example.  From the liveries images in MSFS I chose to weed what MSFS shows me to just two liveries.

Kodiak 100 Safari, Summit interior
.and.
Kodiak 100 Factory A4, Summit interior

Open the SWS_Kodiak_gear's aircraft.cfg file with Notepad.  Choose Edit, Replace.  In the text to replace box type "[flt" (exclude my quote characters).  In the Replace With box type "//[flt" and click Replace All.  That adds the // characters to the front of the section names, and effectively hides all of the (41) sections from MSFS. Now the last step is to unhide any livery/interior combinations you want to show.  I chose only the the two I use below and found them as [fltSIM.3] and [fltSIM.8]

//[fltSIM.3]
Title="Kodiak 100 Factory paint A4"
Model="summit"

//[fltSIM.8]
Title="Kodiak 100 Factory paint A4"
Model="summit"

This last step is to remove the "//" hash marks from those two and renumber them so they look like this (in this example they will be the only two that are live so are numbered 0 and 1 respectivly):

[fltSIM.0]
Title="Kodiak 100 Factory paint A4"
Model="summit"

[fltSIM.1]
Title="Kodiak 100 Factory paint A4"
Model="summit"

That allows MSFS to see those two again and still be blind to the others.

Save the file.  Make sure it is saved as a text only, but as a .cfg file.  aircraft.cfg

Now let's say you plan to fly only the Tundra variants with cargo pod.  If so, edit the aircraft.cfg files for the other (3) variants and leave all of the livery/interior combinations in them with the preceding "//" slash marks. You will then only see the tundra CP model in MSFS.  And using the method described above you can limit the tundra CP liveries you see.

This will only work to trim down the liveries in the Kodiak's installation itself.  However if you completely hide a Kodiak variant this way it will also prevent you from seeing any addon liveries for that completely hidden variant.

Here is how it looks when down to two variants and down to two liveries of each,,,

 

Edited January 19, 20224 yr by fppilot

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