Peruvian Air Force part 1 package by MAIW

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 31 May 2007, 04:27

please use this thread to provide feedback and ask questions about this package

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 31 May 2007, 11:15

link to the file:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=103999

Tupolev 144 · Post by **Tupolev 144** » 31 May 2007, 13:49

There seems to be an error in the installer regarding the Boeing 737-200, it removes the complete Aircraft.cfg of the 732 and replaces it with a complete new one. So I now have to remake it for over 60 repaints

Please do something about it....

Thanks in advance,
Peter

BTW, I just discovered the same happened with the Boeing 737-500...

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 31 May 2007, 14:12

scratch that, hmmm, I'll bring this up with Peter

Tupolev 144 · Post by **Tupolev 144** » 31 May 2007, 14:15

Yes it really did, could it have happened because I've added some entries by myself for manually installed airlines. This isn't however a problem with the 'regular' packages of WoA.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 31 May 2007, 14:21

One thing I always do is to change the folder names for the previously installed AI aircraft that I don't want the WoAI installer to mess with. This way each new package creates a new folder which I use to temporarily store the new AI models and paints until I incorporate them into my own folder naming convention.

hermit · Post by **hermit** » 31 May 2007, 17:18

How about adding an extra column to the table on the downloads page detailing any known issues, workarounds and the status of a permanent fix, i.e. none, pending, in progress, completed?

Saves having to search all the package support threads, it keeps a record of all the maintenance details in one place and should prevent repeat questions requiring repeat answers.

john.

mikewmac · Post by **mikewmac** » 31 May 2007, 18:38

I'm "old school", some might even say "very old school", so I always do any package installations manually. I'm too bald already to tear out my few remaining hairs over completely unnecessary and very frustrating problems like these.

Mike

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 31 May 2007, 18:56

hermit wrote:How about adding an extra column to the table on the downloads page detailing any known issues, workarounds and the status of a permanent fix, i.e. none, pending, in progress, completed?

Saves having to search all the package support threads, it keeps a record of all the maintenance details in one place and should prevent repeat questions requiring repeat answers.

john.

This is what the general package questions thread is for yet we still get guys opening threads for the same questions over and over again

This has been an ongoing issue with the installer for a while now, neither MAIW or WOAI has gotten to the bottom of it yet, for right now, it leaves us with two choices instead of pushing forward...neither I'd think the community would be too happy with, once this is finally sorted out we'll go from there until then we appologize for any current or future problems with this issue

Joseph29 · Post by **Joseph29** » 31 May 2007, 19:12

I don't have a problem with the package (avsim doesn't seem to be working right now so I can not go to the site to download it

) but how many parts will the Peruvian Air Force have?

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 31 May 2007, 19:16

Joseph29 wrote:I don't have a problem with the package (avsim doesn't seem to be working right now so I can not go to the site to download it ) but how many parts will the Peruvian Air Force have?

depends on how many Dan has planned, right now this was an intial release using the models currently avaliable, who knows what the future holds, I'm sure Dan will elaborate once he's avaliable

delta b · Post by **delta b** » 02 Jun 2007, 02:11

First, I'm sorry so many are experiencing problems with files after installing the package. We do our best to test and test and test to make sure this doesn't happen, but it does sometimes for reasons unknown.

Des is right about future Peruvian packs. I basically did about everything that can be done with existing AI models for the moment. MiG-29s, Su-22s, Su-25s, early Mirages, Canberras and An-32s are still missing from the AI inventory. We'll see what the future holds.

Dan

Garfield_x · Post by **Garfield_x** » 03 Jun 2007, 18:43

Tupolev 144 wrote:Yes it really did, could it have happened because I've added some entries by myself for manually installed airlines. This isn't however a problem with the 'regular' packages of WoA.

No that can't be the reason.
But it is very strange indeed. I've been throught that part of the code and i cannot find any reason why the aircraft.cfg file is being overwritten.

How many people have reported this?

Can one give me some information which packages are overwriten by this one?

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 03 Jun 2007, 18:48

Hey Peter, it seems that this one overwrote the aircraft.cfg files for the El Salvador A-37s, and the configs of the AIA 737-200 and -500. Also some have experience this issue with some of the herk packages

Psuls · Post by **Psuls** » 03 Jun 2007, 18:53

Peter, this is what happened to me:

First the package installed perfectly when I got it from the ftp as beta.

Then, when the final package was released, I deleted the beta package using the remove airline feature of the woai installer.

the package I downloaded then from avsim got me into troubles : aircraft.cfg for b732, b735 and dc8 were only showing the peruvian texture

More strange for the A37 : salvadorian entries were replaced by double peruvian entries !

Mirage's were installed correctly because completely new.

More problematic again : I tried to delete again the peruvian package (to wait to another corected version) using the WOAI installer : it deleted THE WHOLE FOLDERS of b732, b735, mirages, dc8, and A37.

So I had to install back the packages containing those aircraft...

Hope it helps you understanding

Garfield_x · Post by **Garfield_x** » 03 Jun 2007, 19:14

Do you still have the beta maybe somewhere? So i can look at it?

The problem is that at the moment i cannot repeat it here

If i can then in could see what is going wrong.

As for the deleting of the whole folders is due to the fact that there where no fltsim section left after removing that package. The installer looks for that (countng the fltsim sections) If that reached zero than it will also delete the aircraft folder (because it thinks no fltsim sections = no textures installed)

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 03 Jun 2007, 19:18

neg, I remove the old betas and only keep the preliminary(pre package) beta packages and final packages for backups. Tom should have it on his computer, he made the intial package

BadPvtDan · Post by **BadPvtDan** » 03 Jun 2007, 19:21

My AIA B735 entries were overwritten as were the B732 entries. I know my C-130 folders are crap but haven't started to fix those yet.

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 03 Jun 2007, 19:22

Danny, your herk files should be fine, Dan used the L-100 model for this package, and that brings up something else, I've NEVER had any of the herks issues that have been mentioned

BadPvtDan · Post by **BadPvtDan** » 03 Jun 2007, 19:43

I'm talking about the earlier issues.