New Load System 'Photos' not working

[MSFS 2020] Questions & Community Discussions SDK: Tools/Samples/Documentation
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Hello Team Asobo and Developers, MSFS has a new system where we can show
Images (JPG’s, PNG’s) that are custom that load up or show like wallpaper when
the plane is loading into a flight. But Some of us trying to get this to work,
cannot get it to work… I found what might be a bug. The Compiler re-writes
the Definition ‘plane’ XML which needs to list all exported items, extra’s, so
that they will export into the planes package. I did have success in getting
the images to export into the Package, but the images refuse to show in the
sim when loading a flight in that particular plane. Sample; How its entered in
the XML for the images to export;

            SimObject
            
                false
            
            PackageSources\SimObjects\Airplanes\LHC_Bellanca_Super_Viking\
            SimObjects\Airplanes\LHC_Bellanca_Super_Viking\
            
                
                    Manual\SV_300_Super_Viking_POH_V2.pdf
                    ImageName0.jpg
                    ImageName1.jpg
                    ImageName2.jpg
                    ImageName3.jpg
                    ImageName4.jpg
                
            
        


Then you have the Aircraft Config entries; LOAD section; 

[LOADING]
ImageName.0 = "ImageName0.jpg"
ImageName.1 = "ImageName1.jpg"
ImageName.2 = "ImageName2.jpg"
ImageName.3 = "ImageName3.jpg"
ImageName.4 = "ImageName4.jpg"
Tips0 = "Maximum Cruise speed of the Bellanca Super Viking is 190 Knots at 75% Power"

When I ‘Build’ the package, it renames the files in the Definition to;

                    ImageName.0
                    ImageName.1
                    ImageName.2
                    ImageName.3
                    ImageName.4

I was able to get them exporting at one point last night, but couldnt get the
system (MSFS) to show these images on flight loading. Might be a bug. Looks
like a bug. And, any advice would be so gratefully welcomed. I and others
would love to get this working. Would make the sim experience better. This is
a cool feature. Also, this is from the SDK on how it is written;

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Kind regards, Bill Lionheart
Creations

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Following…

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interested too

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Following this!

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I was able to make this work … kinda. I did not run into the rename issue
with the project. However the sim has the files in the folder:
Official\OneStore\fs-base\missions\Common\LOADING\FreeFlight If you add a copy
asset to your project then you can make it read your images. BUT … you
have to compete with all the existing images in that folder. (And you can’t
remove … or should not remove the sim ones) They randomly show up. your
aircraft.cfg file uses the default [LOADING] ImageName = LOADING_FREEFLIGHT
The is a json file in the freeflight folder that point to a js file.
coui://html_ui/VFS/components/LoadingMappingMinimal/LoadingMappingMinimal.js
This is not what we want, but the basic system works. ASOBO, please fix. Add
this to your project and add your images.

Copy

false

PackageSources\Missions\
Missions\

your images go into PackageSources\Missions\Common\LOADING\FreeFlight

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Nice find, Ron! Many thanks. Bills LHC

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Hi, where did you find that documenation ? In the latest online SDK documentation the text is slightly different (only just one seems to be allowed)

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