Jordan Munt 1333221 Posted October 20, 2015 at 09:00 AM Posted October 20, 2015 at 09:00 AM (edited) Is there a way to see other peoples aircraft without it being made one of the defaults? I always get a white a321 for other people online. Edited October 20, 2015 at 01:02 PM by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Board of Governors Don Desfosse Posted October 20, 2015 at 12:44 PM Board of Governors Posted October 20, 2015 at 12:44 PM Of course. Did you follow the section in the Docomeentation on model matching? Are you having specific problems, or was that just a general question. Suggest you read the product docomeentation and the Tips, Tricks, FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide. Don Desfosse Vice President, Operations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Campbell 1339829 Posted November 6, 2015 at 08:08 AM Posted November 6, 2015 at 08:08 AM As a newbee and having done all the reading and much time researching feel I'm now entitled to seek help under this heading. From my research now appreciate that the FSX default aircraft include a Piper PA28 Cherokee 180 "AI Only" instance. Have successfully added to FSX a Piper PA28 Warrior II. Running a test to add this aircraft produced the following error message "Failed to create test aircraft with model "Piper Cherokee 180" from rule set "FSX Default Aircraft". The message repeated three times. Accordingly set about creating my own Model Matching Set Rule using the template provided: <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”utf-8”?> Pressing the Add Custom Files button produces the error message that there is an error (3, 2) in the file. Will you please clarify the error which this code signifies? Can confirm that FSX was running at the time with said Warrior II active and parked at the YSCB General Aviation area. Connection to the simulator was confirmed. Will appreciate your [Mod - Happy Thoughts]istance. Ian Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted November 6, 2015 at 03:25 PM Posted November 6, 2015 at 03:25 PM When I copied and pasted your file contents into a .vmr file on my machine, it loaded into vPilot without a problem. I did have to convert the "fancy" double quotes into regular double quotes, but that's most likely just a result of copying and pasting from the forum page. You could try emailing the file to me at vatsim \at\ metacraft /dotcom/ Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Campbell 1339829 Posted November 6, 2015 at 08:53 PM Posted November 6, 2015 at 08:53 PM Thank you Ross. Changed the fancy parenthesis as you suggested. Used Wordpad. Big mistake. Couldn't for the life of me save the file as anything but "vmr.txt" despite being the "All files" type. Finally changed to Notepad and in the "All files" type saved the file as .vmr. Successfully added my custom file. Then ran the test and got this result: [07:35:11.046] Model matching rule set test started [07:35:11.734] Failed to create test aircraft with model "Piper Cherokee 180" from rule set "FSX Default Aircraft.vmr" [07:35:11.810] Failed to create test aircraft with model "Piper Cherokee 180 Paint1" from rule set "FSX Default Aircraft.vmr" [07:35:11.846] Failed to create test aircraft with model "Piper Cherokee 180 Paint2" from rule set "FSX Default Aircraft.vmr" [07:35:20.752] Failed to create test aircraft with model "PA28-161 Warrior II" from rule set "PA28-161 Warrior II.vmr" Whereto next? Cheers, Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted November 6, 2015 at 09:07 PM Posted November 6, 2015 at 09:07 PM Those errors mean that the sim was not able to create the aircraft for some reason. Unfortunately, the sim only tells vPilot that it failed to create the object ... it doesn't say why. Could be that you have a typo in the model name, or the model isn't installed correctly for some reason, or it has a missing texture or panel file, etc. Are you 100% sure that you have the model name correct, and that the aircraft is actually installed in a folder that the sim is loading objects from? Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Campbell 1339829 Posted November 6, 2015 at 09:34 PM Posted November 6, 2015 at 09:34 PM Emailing the aircraft config file. Somewhere in my travels this morning I pulled up an expanded XML file for my aircraft. Would email this if I knew where to find it. Your last paragraph: All I can say is that I just installed the aircraft and it became available in FSX. Which folder it is actually in I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Campbell 1339829 Posted November 14, 2015 at 01:06 AM Posted November 14, 2015 at 01:06 AM Seems my undoing was confusion between similar file and model names. Left it all behind for a couple of days away and on return did a complete audit. Having validated the names issue could still not p[Mod - Happy Thoughts] the test sequence. Came down to my editor in portrait mode inserting an unprintable character at line end while entering the ModelName field. Switched the editor to landscape mode and got the field entered correctly. So now I'm ready to fly. Thank you Ross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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