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:
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.
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
… 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:
… 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.
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” /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
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
/users/241/navdata.html 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?
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
Hi, so i did not find any guide or tutorial how to include the scenery priority with an airport project. My issue is that in MS Marketplace the microsoft airport and my airport scenery have the same Offical -100 priority and as my scenery start with the letter “h” and the airport of mircosoft with “m” the exclusion zones i have defined have no effect and so my scenery is not working correctly.
How can i solve this issue for PC Marketplace and Xbox users that the priority is set below -100 ?
The reoder tool works only on user side, as a developer you can’t do nothing about that (unless changing the package name…but… package name start with company name
So the only viable option are ask your Marketplace team to validate the package with a name not starting with with your company name
The other option is a reorder tool to be available on Xbox too
Then i need somebody from Asobo that can help me. On PC Release it would be possible to that with the package order tool, but as on xbox the dev options are not available, i can not release this.
I talked to the Marketplace team and there is (atm) nothing they can do about it…
Package name doesn’t have to start with company name. You can name it whatever you want. In fact I rename all my packages by type first, company second. For instance, aircraft-company-etc, scenery-state-company-etc, objlib-company-etc, liveries-aircraft-company-etc, and so on. Lots of people start their packages with z- and 00- as well. Now, those are the package names. I’ll also rename the package contents directory as well, mostly for liveries, so I can put my favorite liveries up front in the list. And aircraft I purchase too, I edit the aircraft.cfg so they are all sorted by manufacturer. Fortunately, by properly naming my liveries, I can rename Marketplace products as well so they are properly sorted. I hate it when developers make the manufacturer their own name.
Now, what I hope what they do with 2024 is allow us to create whatever ui_typrole’s we want to make, instead of restricting the list to the few they’ve chosen, like we used to be able to do in prior versions… and add a new feature, allow us to make as many ui_typrole references we want so aircraft can be sorted in different ways, just like atc_parking_types can be several; something like: ui_typerole=Amphibious, Twin Engine Prop, Mil_Cargo and so on…
When you’ve got 150 or more planes, sorting and filtering becomes really important.
Thats exactly my issue… Community Folder is not the issue… its the marketplace release @Asobo We need a SDK update here to be able to set the priority so that World updates or POI updates don’t interfere with our products, at least do this for the 2024 version…
Hi there,
May I suggest creating a new topic in Ideas for this and then vote for your own idea. I’ll vote for it, too. (Unfortunately, though, I do wonder if the reason that this isn’t implemented is due to some technical limitation on Xbox.)
Hi Diego (@vpilotfs),
Thanks for the report. I´m currently preparing a new revision for the current cycle that should fix this. The issue was that, as you know, this airport is encrypted so that I couldn´t identify it in our merger/parser from the MSFS bgls. This should be fixed now, and you can expect a new revision within the next couple of hours.
