Issue with FSLABS A320 on P3DV4

[Steve Waite]

You sure you got the right file locations, not mixed up with onedrive locations?

OK from the ground up you should have:


C:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs

and a file "add-on.xml" contains a section something like so:

<AddOn.Name>FSLabs</AddOn.Name>
<AddOn.Description>FSLabs Aircraft</AddOn.Description>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>SimObjects</Category>
<Path>C:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs\SimObjects\Airplanes</Path>
</AddOn.Component>

what have you got in there?

[Ptimat31]

This is the addon.xml from FSL :
<SimBase.Document Type="AddOnXml" version="4,0" id="add-on">
<AddOn.Name>Flight Sim Labs Products</AddOn.Name>
<AddOn.Description>FSLabs Product Family. Publisher: Flight Sim Labs, Ltd.</AddOn.Description>
<!-->Libraries Components</-->
<AddOn.Component>
<Name>FSLabs Sounds Module</Name>
<Category>DLL</Category>
<Path>Libraries\FSLSounds.dll</Path>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Name>FSLabs Events Module</Name>
<Category>DLL</Category>
<Path>Libraries\FSLEvents.dll</Path>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Name>FSLabs Options Module</Name>
<Category>DLL</Category>
<Path>Libraries\FSLOptions.dll</Path>
<DLLType>PDK</DLLType>
<DLLStartName>PDKDLLStart</DLLStartName>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>SimObjects</Category>
<Path>SimObjects/Airplanes</Path>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>Effects</Category>
<Path>Effects</Path>
</AddOn.Component>
<AddOn.Component>
<Category>EXE</Category>
<Path>Libraries\FSL_Configurator.exe</Path>
<CommandLine>..\SimObjects\Airplanes</CommandLine>
</AddOn.Component>
</SimBase.Document>

[Steve Waite]

I thought something looked odd:

<AddOn.Component>
<Category>SimObjects</Category>
<Path>SimObjects/Airplanes</Path>
</AddOn.Component>


That's a foreslash, used in internet paths, Windows folders should be separated with backslash:

<Path>SimObjects\Airplanes</Path>

you do have the folder with the A320 subfolders:
C:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs\SimObjects\Airplanes

and the file is: C:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs\add-on.xml

[Ptimat31]

Yes, I've tried to change it but it doesn't change anything.

[Ptimat31]

Thanks a lot for your help Steve, I've given up for now and maybe I'll give another go at this software in the future.

Kind regards,
Mathieu

[Steve Waite]

Yes something very odd is up with your FSLabs install since you must have that folder in place and findable, a foreslash means the path is wrong and can't be resolved. Have you tried removing it then re-installing, then run P3D, then run IF.

[Steve Waite]

...so from the top...


In the add-on.xml:

C:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs\add-on.xml

see the line:

<Path>SimObjects/Airplanes</Path>

must point to the folder with the aircraft

so it should look like this

<Path>SimObjects\Airplanes</Path>

with the backslash becdause it is this folder:

C:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs\SimObjects\Airplanes


as you can see the backslash between SimObjects\Airplanes is how things should look.

then you run P3D and it makes an entry in:

C:\Users\ptima\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\add-ons.cfg

the entry looks like this, may be a different package number:

[Package.3]
PATH=:\Users\ptima\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons\FSLabs\SimObjects\Airplanes
ACTIVE=true
REQUIRED=false


If you don't have that then it won't work properly.

It's not straightforward and I see a lot of confusion and errors in installs around this area. I have dozens of aircraft installed like that all work great, like your A2A.

About that foreslash, did the FSLabs installer do that or have you edited that? If it's the installer makes that line then you need to report the problem to FSLabs.