Auto Addons not working in v5

[reecemj]

No Addons airports are unchecked in v5 Hotfix 1. The white globe is there and no scenery is disable in p3d. I follow the instructions in the help section and went back to our old tread viewtopic.php?f=4&t=745&hilit=auto.
Can you check this Steve?

[Steve Waite]

Thanks,

I'll be checking it all through and get back to you soon.

Steve

[Steve Waite]

Actually, I realise now that the auto-scenery function was only designed to work in FSX and originally was not supposed to be a feature surfaced in P3D versions of Ideal Flight since the P3D methods of setting up scenery changed how things worked. The popup menu item for auto-scenery should have been invisible and unavailable in the P3D versions of Ideal Flight but was left intact by mistake.

However, I think it would be good to have the function available for P3D and so I am presently working to enable it.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[Steve Waite]

I now have that working with all P3D scenery installation methods and will be available in the next build.

Thanks again for the notice.

Steve


Remember with this auto-addons feature enabled the active Prepar3D add-ons scenery configuration is changed when we build a flight. The changes turn off all add-ons containing airports that do not appear in the plan and only keep active those sceneries containing our airports in the plan. So we must have Prepar3D closed before building a flight or setting auto-addons features so that the changes take effect when we next start Prepar3D.

Therefore, if we have been using the auto-addons feature, then we must remember that before making changes to Prepar3D scenery and add-ons we must close Prepar3D and disable the feature in Ideal Flight, which will enable all the addons ready to accept changes to the scenery.

[reecemj]

Thanks for updating IF... Ill check back later for the new update.

[Steve Waite]

Thanks, It will be a few weeks yet.

[Steve Waite]

I have uploaded preview build 17 which I hope is working OK regarding Auto Addon masking in P3D. Thanks for taking the time to let me know about the omission.

[reecemj]

Got 17 loaded hope I get a chance to check it out soon.Thanks.

[Steve Waite]

I am very grateful and really appreciate your valuable feedback.
Later...

[reecemj]

Auto Addons always disable the same airports no matter where am flying. I have test it with with several flight plans for a couple of weeks. I activate all addon airports before loading each plan and making sure p3d v5.2 scenery file is all check.
I don't like using those scenery configuration managers. I mess up a couple of times. It took a couple of weekends to restore it.