MAIW NBAI A400M Atlas Conversion Support

[Greg]

Post support related comments for the MAIW NBAI A400M Atlas Conversion package in this thread.

[pennkiwi]

Beautiful job of the Atlas... Thanks so much for all your work. Did a flight at Brize Norton last night and the RAF A400s looked absolutely stunning as they taxied out to the runway

[DMdoc]

At which airports is it likely for me to see the A400Ms?

[MelvinLeroy]

Hello all,.

I've recently downloaded both the C-130 and A-400 to use in p3d v4.4. The downloads worked great, and I believe I've copied the correct files into the correct folders, but I don't see the aircraft listed when I restart the sim.

I've added many aircraft before, but they've always had some sort of installer. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong and was wondering if there was a support thread that could help. I really am excited to climb into these birds.

Thanks in advance

[hschuit]

Melvin, these are AI traffic only aircraft, you will not see them in the (flyable) aircraft selection listing of your sim and you cannot "climb into these birds" to fly them yourself. AI traffic is computer controlled, part of the sim "living world" system. If you have the correct AI traffic flight plans installed, you will encounter the AI aircraft doing their thing at airfields or enroute while you are in a flight.

Henk.

[f16jockey]

I have a problem using this package in FSX:SE.
I did some (very basic) repaints for the Belgian 15th Wing, and used them in some home brewed flight plans, and had problems making these repaints to show up.

The only way I could make the repaints work was to use only original Title= statements from the original package, and to modify the other lines to my needs.

For example, the following did work:

[fltsim.0]
title=NBAI_A400M_ATLAS_RAF_ZM401 (this is an existing title from the RAF section)
sim=NBAI_Airbus_400M_Atlas_AI_ONLY
model=
texture=BAF CT-01 //this is my repaint
atc_airline=
atc_parking_codes=BAF
atc_parking_types=MIL_CARGO
atc_heavy=1
prop_anim_ratio=1.3
ui_manufacturer=Airbus
ui_type=A400M Atlas
ui_variation=BAF CT-01
description=Airbus A400M Atlas by Nick Black - Repaint By Ray Parker - FOR AI USE ONLY
ui_createdby=MAIW & Nick Black
ui_typerole=Military AI


The following section, with a custom title in the same flight plan, didn't work. It compiled OK, but the aircraft didn't show.

[fltsim.1]
title=NBAI_A400M_ATLAS_BELGIUM CT-02 (a title that reflects the actual repaint)
sim=NBAI_Airbus_400M_Atlas_AI_ONLY
model=
texture=BAF CT-02
atc_airline=
atc_parking_codes=BAF
atc_parking_types=MIL_CARGO
atc_heavy=1
prop_anim_ratio=1.3
ui_manufacturer=Airbus
ui_type=A400M Atlas
ui_variation=BAF CT-02
description=Airbus A400M Atlas by Nick Black - Repaint By Ray Parker - FOR AI USE ONLY
ui_createdby=MAIW & Nick Black
ui_typerole=Military AI


Before you ask, there were no errors shown (red lines) in AIFP.

I why I'm not allowed to randomly change the Title= line? Is there some undocumented lock?


Wim

[gavinc]

Hi,
there is no reason that this shouldn't work that I can think of.

If you can upload one of your repaints - I can do some tests on my end.

Gavin

[f16jockey]

I have no idea wso why it doesn't work either.
It's not like I'm making my first AI traffic btw.

Attached are 2 textures.

Wim

[gavinc]

thanks,
I'll try to look at it this weekend

[gavinc]

I just installed your repaints in my FSX-SE install and tested the aircraft visibility with my normal AI test flight

I didn't have any issues using your aircraft.cfg entries (that I copied out of what you pasted in the forum). This is what I used

[fltsim.41]
title=NBAI_A400M_ATLAS_BELGIUM CT-02
sim=NBAI_Airbus_400M_Atlas_AI_ONLY
model=
texture=BAF CT-02
atc_airline=
atc_parking_codes=BAF
atc_parking_types=MIL_CARGO
atc_heavy=1
prop_anim_ratio=1.3
ui_manufacturer=Airbus
ui_type=A400M Atlas
ui_variation=BAF CT-02
description=Airbus A400M Atlas by Nick Black - Repaint By Ray Parker - FOR AI USE ONLY
ui_createdby=MAIW & Nick Black
ui_typerole=Military AI

so I'm not sure what problem you are hitting.

I tried both CT-01 and CT-02
Nice looking repaints btw.

[Firebird]

If those entries work on one persons system and not on anothers then it could be that the title or texture line has non-visible characters at the end of those lines. Can happen depending upon your editor or editor settings.

Put you cursor to the end of the each line and see if there is a blank space of the last character. If there is remove it/them and resave the text file. Please take into account that the issue could be in your flightplan txt files so check those as well.

[f16jockey]

Hi again,

as could be expected, I got my flightplan working.
No idea what went wrong last week, I suspect I was fooled by a too low AI setting in FSX.

Thanks for testing the repaints.
Just in case someone is interested, I added the whole Belgian (and Luxembourgish) A-400M fleet.
Eight (8) aircraft in total!

Best regards,
Wim

[Firebird]

I thank you.