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NAVData asked Darwikey answered

Re-ordering/prioritization of MarketPlace sceneries doesn´t work

Hi,

one question, I have tried now the new content.xml file structure to re-order packages but it looks like, that MarketPlace packages (Official family), can´t be re-ordered because they will be loaded automatically? Is this correct?

As an example:

The airport icao code MPTO isn´t in the stock scenery of the sim. Now we create this airport with the runways in our navdata-base package. All user can use the MPTO airport now, all runways are correct.

Now a user buy the MPTO 3rd party scenery from VPilot via the Marketplace. When the user now look on the MPTO airport he/she see´s multiple runways because the runways come from two packages (our base-package and the 3rd party package).

Ok, I try to re-order the packages, via the re-ordering tool:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Priorities>
  <Package name="fs-base-nav" priority="1"/>
  <Package name="navigraph-navdata-base" priority="2"/>
  <Package name="vpilotdesigns-scenery-mpto" priority="3"/>  
  <Package name="navigraph-navdata" priority="4"/>
</Priorities>

That would mean, load the navdata-base first (which includes the MPTO airport and runways), than load the 3rd party MPTO scenery next and last load the navdata-package. I thought, now that the VPilot 3rd party scenery overwrite our base-package but no ... still the same issue with the multiple runways.

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So, how can I re-order/prioritize MarketPlace sceneries as in this case, the navdata-base package must be loaded BEFORE the VPILOT-package to overwrite the runways (according the screenshot, the delete runways cmd is set in the 3rd party scenery)?

Thank you,

Richard

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NAVData avatar image NAVData commented ·

... additional to the posting above and why I´m pretty sure that this is a bug now - when you move the MarketPlace 3rd party scenery from the Official/OneStore folder to the Community folder, the prioritization works as expected.

According my content.xml file example from the first posting:

1. the navigraph-navdata-base package will be loaded

2. the 3rd party VPilot MPTO scenery will be loaded

3. the navigraph-navdata package will be loaded

Result - the 3rd party scenery "overwrite" our base package (which also include the MPTO airport) and you see the correct runways:

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... als here - you see, comparing to the same screenshot above, that the packages will now be loaded in the correct order, according the content.xml file.

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So, it looks really that scenery-packages from the Official and Offical/OneStore folder CAN´T be prioritized


Cheers,

Richard

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Darwikey answered NAVData commented

Hi Richard,

Actually it's not a bug, we are sorting package inside each package family:

"Package Families rules: TiedToExe => Mandatory => Local => Official => Community => Edition"

https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/articles/9407/changes-on-contentxml-behavior.html

It's still a WIP feature, in the future we will probably allow to prioritize across package family

Regards,

Xavier

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NAVData avatar image NAVData commented ·

Thanks Xavier, yes I know that ... but you offer all packages in the "re-order tool" and that´s very confusing for us and also for the end user. There is nowhere any information, that the content.xml file is now ONLY for the Community-Folder - In the past, there were all packages included and also you have the possibility to sort all packages.

The automatic sorting order is one thing but the manual prioritization another one because you have now no possibility to "overwrite" sceneries from the MarketPlace. Sorry, but that´s a step backward as forward.


Cheers,

Richard

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vpilot avatar image vpilot NAVData commented ·

Another option could be to take the lines containing apx26280.bgl out of the layout.json in the navigraph-navdata-base folder.

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vpilot avatar image vpilot NAVData commented ·

NavData Seems like Asobo added MPTO by default and the double runway issue is happening even without our airport. Would you be able to remove the airport from your package now that it is included with the sim?

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tamalien answered

I am curious @NAVData if this scenario would work if the following entry was omitted altogether from content.xml?

 <Package name="fs-base-nav" priority="1"/>
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cptalpdeniz answered FlyingRaccoon edited

Is there any improvement regarding this matter? The double runway issue is still happening with multiple airports and 3rd party addons.

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FlyingRaccoon avatar image FlyingRaccoon ♦♦ commented ·

Hello @cptalpdeniz

I'm afraid we haven't moved forward on this subject.

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Darwikey answered

Hello,

For Su12, we have changed a bit the way packages are sorted, we will go more in details in the release notes. But to sumarize:

The package order system is now only based on package dependency, priority and alphabetically order.

To respect package family precedence rules, we set by default package TiedToExe to -500, Mandatory to -400, Local to -300, Platform to -200, and package from Official to -100.

But the package order tool (and the content.xml) can now change any package priority and so bypass the family rules.

Regards,
Xavier

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