Prepar3D V3 Installation Guide

[Rolfspan]

Hi all, If it is going to be a few weeks only, I would rather wait for the new P3D V3 installers from your team. That way it will be done right.
Thanks,
Rolf

[Avidean]

Sure, Added the the library folder to the scenery library and the ramp agents are now there.
As I see it with FT Toronto you have to install it in in its own folder and the Run
Prepar3D.exe "-Configure: File=Effects, Operation=Add, Path=D:\FlyTampa-Install\effects\"
Install the latest FT library in the same folder. Then add to the scenery library:
FlyTampa-Toronto
FlyTampa-Toronto LC
and LIbrarys

I don't see any other files that need to be added in Command prompt

I sellected everything in FlyTampa Configurator and it seems that almost everything is in the Sim.
However, there is still no power plant smoke or blowing snow.

From the above can anyone point out if I mist something?

[hawx2k]

The smoke should work the way you have done it. The snow effects are IMHO FSX only... ?

But wait... the effects folder should not go into the FlyTampa folder, but rather in the root folder of your newly created "Prepar3D Add-on" folder or whichever you have called it. Something like F:\Prepar3D Add-Ons\Effects

[Avidean]

I called the newly created folder FlyTampa-Install as per Martins original post.
Anyway not that I have it working the way I want it to work. I have nearly all the eye candy turned off
in the configurator for optimal performance.

I did have the blowing snow working in V2.5 but it took a little work.

Anyway I happy with it now and in fact just landed the NGX there for the first time and taxied to the gate without
an OOM

Moving on to installing the classic VHHX

Thanks for the help

[hawx2k]

Interesting re the snow effect. Didn't even try since it said "FSX only" . How did you get them to work in v2.5?

[Avidean]

Here is the thread: viewtopic.php?t=7377

Don't know if it is very helpful since I deleted the Videos from my YouTube account

Blowing Snow worked right out of the box for me in V2.5 except there where some corruption.

I believe the Deactivating the effect in the Fly Tampa Configurator then running the sim and exiting
and the reactivation of the effect fixed it but cant remember for sure.

[hawx2k]

Thanks. I couldn't get it to work, but then - it's not super important. Would be a nice to have, but perhaps FT is going to make it P3D native at some point .

[martin[flytampa]]

However, there is still no power plant smoke or blowing snow.

The problem with Effects not showing up is likely related to some effects wanting a default texture. For example the Refinery Smoke, we have our own .FX file, but within this file, we call "Texture=fx_1.bmp:" which is a generic smoke texture. We don't ship this texture with the Addon because it isn't ours and it is normally present in any default FSX/P3D install. I think if the Addon Effects folder now get registered separately but the dev did not provide textures of his own for some Effects, they will fail to render.

Solutions would be:
Don't keep Addon Effects separate and just dump them into root/effects every time or....
Keep them separate, but always copy the whole root/effects/texture/ folder to Addon/effects/texture to insure the Addons' FX files have access to default FX-textures if needed.

Probably half of Addon FX I have ever seen made use of a default texture instead of its own.

[hawx2k]

Don't keep Addon Effects separate and just dump them into root/effects every time or....
Keep them separate, but always copy the whole root/effects/texture/ folder to Addon/effects/texture to insure the Addons' FX files have access to default FX-textures if needed.

Probably half of Addon FX I have ever seen made use of a default texture instead of its own.

...only that I haven't done either and I do see the smoke...

[Gerardius]

Hi Martin,

I installed my airpots following this guide and while OMDB runs great, VHHX and TNCM can't load because Prepar3D has a problem (windows message) and must be closed. The error comes when loading traffic (about 90%), after scenery has been loaded.

I installed both, TNCM and VHHX with all the options, and in the case of VHHX with conservative mode.

What's the problem?

Thanks in advance!

Gerard Cabezon

[martin[flytampa]]

delete the following files:

TNCM: Traffic_flytampa_aiship_22FJ****bgl
VHHX: Traffic_flytampa_aiship_2HHX***bgl

[Rolfspan]

I did install CYUL as per the guidelines and all worked well until yesterday. Now parts of the airport are missing. Specifically the second area which is located in front of the main area and includes gates 23, 25 etc.
The only thing I did different is installed ORBX PNW scenery. I though I would reinstall it as per instructions but I can not locate my Registration key. I suppose I can get that support and will contact them separately.
Maybe I should have waited
Rolf

[PatrickM]

What I am saying is that it is not possible for us to dish out new Installers quickly at this moment.

That means that you want to support P3Dv3 in the future? Will you also update/upgrade your older airports?

[martin[flytampa]]

What I am saying is that it is not possible for us to dish out new Installers quickly at this moment.

That means that you want to support P3Dv3 in the future? Will you also update/upgrade your older airports?

Except for very old Legacy products, yes.