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Hello everyone. Thank you Jesus for the admirable work you have put into this, and also to everyone else supporting it. I successfully installed WoA, and the SMS file generated by the SMS generator. I installed it in SB4 and it works great.

Problem:
It took 55 seconds for FSX to start up without the WoA folder in \simobjects (35 secs until progress bar, another 20 seconds until aircraft displayed in fsx)
It now takes 4 minutes for FSX to start up with the WoA folder in \simobjects (3 minutes until progress bar, another minute until aircraft is displayed)

There is about 1GB of data in the WOA folder.

Is there a way around this? Is FSX loading every item in the simobjects folder during startup? If it turns out WoA doesn't work on my system, what other package do you recommend for just displaying models in SB4 ?

Any help appreciated. Many thanks,
Antonio

I moved the new sms file to >simobjects>airplanes>squakbox after creating this same file within the UT2 folder that was moved to the desktop. I moved this file back to >simobjects<

That left me with the step, "If using FSX make sure a Simobjects.x=SimObjects\YYY line exists pointing tomthe directory where the script modifed you AI folders!" Where should this line be?

Thanks,

PS: My SMS file is 98KB. Does this seem correct?

Edit: Sorted my problem out.

Just to confirm this will work in a networked set up whereas SB4 is running on a different computer than FSX. If so where might I install My Traffic X to - the FSX computer or the SB4 computer?

Thanks,

Ken

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I am having a problem with my UT2 traffic. The sms generator seems to have worked however in FSX the models are not appearing. So, I went to my UT2 folder and saw that in the aircraft.cfg entries (and backups), for the majority, there is only 1 [fltsim.xx] entry so that only one livery is available. Anyway to fix this?

Edit: Silly me. Same problem as previously discussed here ages ago. Remainder to the next 'me' looking for the fix to this problem:

1. Turn UAC off.
2. Fresh SB4 Install is a good idea
3. Everything run as admin etc.

Is there anyway, so that I can see the wheels when landing, and retracted on cruise???

No. I do not think it is possible.

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Anyone as tried this in Prepar3D? I done the steps and if i run the command .cheat model i see the ut2 traffic in the lines displayed. But i can't see any traffic,
the planes near me are set as unknown(paper planes).
Anyone had this problem?

regards,
Galaio

See below

I just had a problem with trafficX, I ran the script and when it gets to the A330 it says that the ICAO code is invalid and asks you to put the correct one in or select cancel...I tried selecting cancel and putting in just "330" but both times it came up with the runtime error message

Script: C:\FSX\Simobject\Charles\sms_creator.vbs
Line: 123
Char: 4
Error: Type mismatch: 'basic_array(...)'
Code: 800A000D
Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error

Then I checked and all airplanes alphabetically down to the A330 have the 3 letters appended, after that there are no 3 letters appended. The "contact-points" section of the A330 is as follows (all commas seeme to be there), pls let us know what to do:

[contact_points]

// 0 Class <0=none,1=wheel, 2=scrape, 3=float>
// 1 Longitudinal Position (feet)
// 2 Lateral Position (feet)
// 3 Vertical Position (feet)
// 4 Impact Damage Threshold (Feet Per Minute)
// 5 Brake Map (0=None, 1=Left, 2=Right)
// 6 Wheel Radius (feet)
// 7 Steer Angle (degrees)
// 8 Static Compression (feet) (0 if rigid)
// 9 Max/Static Compression Ratio
// 10 Damping Ratio (0=Undamped, 1=Critically Damped)
// 11 Extension Time (seconds)
// 12 Retraction Time (seconds)
// 13 Sound Type
// 14 Airspeed limit for retraction (KIAS)
// 15 Airspeed that gear gets damage at (KIAS)

point.0=1, 78.349, 0.00, -18.4, 1181.1, 0, 1.442, 55.92, 0.8, 2.5, 0.9, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0
point.1=1, -3.809, -17.278, -18.4, 1574.8, 1, 1.442, 0.00, 1.0, 2.5, 0.9, 6.9, 6.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -3.809 17.278, -18.4, 1574.8, 2, 1.442, 0.00, 1.0, 2.5, 0.9, 7.1, 7.1, 3, 0.0, 0.0
point.3=2, -14.17, -47.33, 0.0, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 5, 0.0, 0.0
point.4=2, -14.17, 47.33, 0.0, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6, 0.0, 0.0
point.5=2, -54.00, 0.00, 2.83, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 9, 0.0, 0.0
point.6=2, 42.67, 0.00, -3.75, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 4, 0.0, 0.0

max_number_of_points=21
static_pitch=0.2 //degrees, pitch when at rest on the ground (+=Up, -=Dn)
static_cg_height=15 //feet, altitude of CG when at rest on the ground
gear_system_type=0

Ok, I think I have resolved the issue re the runtime error I was having on TrafficX (thanks to the posts from Rog and Jesus above). You have to correct 2 missing commas:

(a) In the A330 aircraft.cfg file "Point.2 = 1, -3,809,
(b) In the A340 aircraft.cfg file "Point.5 = 2,

Then run the script and correct ICAO codes using this site http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/table_accodes_en.php#A or select cancel if you don't know

The script then just fails at the end after all the cfg's have been appropriately amended (with a runtime error code that ends with "35"), because the folder "JFA1-AllAircraft" does not have a cfg file, so that is nothing to worry about. Just check all your other aircraft.cfg files and they should have your 3 letter code added to the title (except I think for the ones where you selected cancel)

I just bought MyTraffic 5.4... so I attempted to use this sms creator and it had the error like a few others have been getting. It seems to run through all the creation even after I corrected a few ICAO issues...

The part that confuses me in the readme is how to make sure the simobjects folder points to my new directory.. how do I do that?

The path where my AI traffic (and this sms creator program) reside is:

B:\Flight Simulator X\MyTraffic\Aircraft

If you can work out where it failes it is normally there that the problem lies...you can do this as the script seems to go through the aircraft in alphabetical order, so with me for example I saw that it had changed the title in the aircraft.cfg down to the A380 and not thereafter, then I went into the A380 aircraft.cfg and under "control points" you can find the missing comma....or it fails because there is no aircraft.cfg file in that folder. Look at what error code you get and it will determine which of these it is (see in the forum)

"The part that confuses me in the readme is how to make sure the simobjects folder points to my new directory.. how do I do that?"

Go into your fsx.cfg and try

"SimObjectPaths.6 [or next no in the list]=MyTraffic\Aircraft"

My cfg is as follows:

[Main]
User Objects=Airplane, Helicopter
SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\Airplanes
SimObjectPaths.1=SimObjects\Rotorcraft
SimObjectPaths.2=SimObjects\GroundVehicles
SimObjectPaths.3=SimObjects\Boats
SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\Animals
SimObjectPaths.5=SimObjects\Misc
ProcSpeed=9788
PerfBucket=7
HideMenuNormal=0
HideMenuFullscreen=1
Location=3,0,1295,768,\\.\DISPLAY1
Maximized=0
SimObjectPaths.6=SimObjects\TrafficX

I looked under the MAIN section and the entry is actually there...

What I don't understand is that in this AI folder...this sms generator makes a few new text files... but my SB4 folder for vatsim is in a completely different area. How does SB4 know to use the .txt files and .spb files in this AI directory?

Looks like I missed a step... actually it was worded oddly in the readme... apparently I must copy the new .sms file into SB 4 folder? Where does it go? Here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\SquawkBox_VATSIM\aircraft

??

How does SB4 know to use it over the two others listed (vip.sms and sbx.sms)

I thought I had it but nope... still seeing VIP models on vatsim argh

edit: Now I see no models even though there are users at the airport... hmmm what could be wrong?

Here is my .sms file... it appears its missing a lot of planes... perhaps the SMS Generator really did not finish?
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=4 ... v2mh01p-3E

Edit again... Ya the thing isn't nearly complete... I'm getting an error right after it asks for ICAO code for C12...

There should be a squawkbox folder in programs folder, copy the new sms file to programs\squawkbox\aircraft, you should see there are already 2 other sms files there, sbx.sms and vip.sms

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Check the forum but I seem to remember that error code 800A0035 was when it encountered a folder that did not have an aircraft.cfg file, in which case I think the user just deleted that folder

Then open the aircraft.cfg of all your AI after you run the script and you should have the 3 letters you selected appended to the title