July 2, 2025Jul 2 It used to be that simobject items in the Community folder would overwrite other simobjects in the sim.. but now it seems possible to provide a "Hint" that impacts the loading order. I discovered the hard way that the new Carenado C210 is designated as a "CUSTOM SIMOBJECT", at a higher priority than the Community folder objects, which makes it hard to fix things... Then I found that editing my Manifest file and adding a line "package_order_hint": "SIMOBJECTS_PATCH" puts my mod at a higher level, but is there a list in the SDK that tells me what the actual levels are? If the vendors keep increasing the priority of their "Simobjects", can we, the "modders" keep up? Confused.. 🫢 Update... I also had to lower the priority of the C182 airplane, using the Package Reorder Tool, before my mod would work. **IGNORE** Second update... Changing to "CUSTOM_SIMOBJECTS_PATCH" was actually enough Edited July 2, 2025Jul 2 by Bert Pieke Bert
July 2, 2025Jul 2 32 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said: Then I found that editing my Manifest file and adding a line "package_order_hint": "SIMOBJECTS_PATCH" puts my mod at a higher level, but is there a list in the SDK that tells me what the actual levels are? How did you find out about “package_order_hint”? From the Carenado manifest? If so, how did Carenado find out about them if they aren’t in the SDK? Or is this part of the “who you know” SDK 😉 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
July 2, 2025Jul 2 Author 3 minutes ago, SayAgain said: How did you find out about “package_order_hint”? From the Carenado manifest? If so, how did Carenado find out about them if they aren’t in the SDK? Or is this part of the “who you know” SDK 😉 It is in the SDK.. Look under "Package Reorder Tool" Bert
July 2, 2025Jul 2 Interesting … but no enumerations of values in the SDK? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
July 2, 2025Jul 2 Author 13 minutes ago, SayAgain said: Interesting … but no enumerations of values in the SDK? Not that I have found.. Bert
July 2, 2025Jul 2 Author 1 hour ago, SayAgain said: Interesting … but no enumerations of values in the SDK? Read this for a more up to date account.. See https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/flighting/html/8_SDK_Tools/Package_Tool/Package_Tool_XML_Properties.htm 🙂 Bert
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