Marketplace package name: indiafoxtecho F-35 and other of our products (but it may be a general issue)
Context: indiafoxtecho F-35 and other, streamed or installed
Bug description:
In the aircraft selection menu, the livery is reported correctly (for example AF-01 Prototype is the correct description for the blue tail with red lighting livery). Previously it was messed up.
In the configuration menu, the livery name is correct below the livery icons, but the variant name appears to be the Norwegian livery (5146 Kongelike Norkse Lufyforsvaret).
Note that now the livery icons seem to be in the “correct” order (same as MSFS2020, following the aircraft.cfg numbering), while previously it was messed up - and for some reason previously the Norwegian livery was the default pick in MSFS2024 (for reasons which we never understood).
This is an MSFS2020 package so folders have the same structure as a MSFS2020 package.
To be clear, the issue is that the name of one of the liveries (and it is consistently the Norwegian 5146) is used as the aircraft “modular” variant name - and the aircraft is not modular (being a MSFS2020).
I think that if the airplane is not modular and has no “variants”, the variant description should be blank.
On the good side, the order of the liveries is now correct (and it was not at launch for MSFS2024).
The order of the liveries is now the same as is it is in MSFS2020 and follows the order in the aircraft.cfg.
Note that in previous version of MSFS2024, the order was messed up and the Norwegian livery showed as first (default) livery.
…nothing against the Norwegian livery BTW - it is just a special plane since it has the drag chute package (others do not)
I confirm the problem is fixed. Variant name appear as “-” on the F-35 now.
It would be cool to have some way (like an additional parameter) to add the missing descriptions on MSFS2020 planes, but at least now there is no confusion.
A potential improvement:
An interesting case is our Tornado - unlike the F-35 variants (which have different ICAO models hence are different “aircraft”) - the Tornado variants have the same manufacturers and ICAO codes…so they fall in the same “aircraft”. Variants are separated correctly and the desciptions are correct - but in the VARIANT tab, the variant appears correctly, but in the icons/tiles on the bottom of the screen the livery name is reported. It would make more sense if the variant name is reported in those cases IMHO.
One example to clarify what I mean:
In the screen below “Panavia Tornado IDS MLU” is the CORRECT description for the selected variants… and the variants below are correctly separated, but have the livery name as description. But since this is the VARIANT selection, it would be clearer if instead “6-07 Italian Air Force” (which is the default livery for the variant) the tile would read “Panavia Tornado IDS MLU”.
