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Tutorial/Rules for installing downloaded aircraft ?
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| Is there a tutorial for installing new aircraft ? - not anyone one in
particular - but just the rules. Which folders go where etc etc.
I would estimate only 30 to 50 percent of the aircraft I download install
correctly. If they are .exe's and do all the work for you, no problems, but
frequently you have to install it yourself. And not infrequently the
instructions are poor (if you don't know what end result your supposed to
end up with). Mostly my problems are with gauges. There's a gauge folder
in the main FS2004 directory, but in it sometimes I see not just .gau files,
but zips. Am I supposed to decompress these ? And I also find folders with
aircraft names in my gauge folder. Are there supposed to be any subfolders
in the gauge directory ? I say directory when I should say directories.
In the individual airplane folders I sometimes (but not always) find a gauge
folder as well. Is that supposed to be there ? Should I have copied it to
'master' gauge folder.
As I said, if I knew what the structure of the files/folders is supposed
to be , I might have more luck installing these (freeware) aircraft.
TIA for any pointers.
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| Melissa 2005-01-27, 12:53 pm |
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Hi hb,
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:30:45 GMT, you wrote:
quote:
> Is there a tutorial for installing new aircraft ? - not anyone one
> in particular - but just the rules. Which folders go where etc
> etc.
I haven't read all of these; just collected them after a bit of
googling (there are many more; this is just a sampling of the google
results):
http://www.simviation.com/acinstall.htm
http://www.fsnordic.net/
(see the "Tutorials" pages at this site)
http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/fs2004air/fs2004ai.htm
Direct link to downloadable .zip file that supposedly includes an
aircraft installation tutorial for fs2004:
http://tinyurl.com/5lf3p
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Melissa
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| Carl Frisk 2005-01-27, 12:53 pm |
| You can start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flig...dk_overview.asp
Look at the Aircraft Container SDK first.
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....Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com
"hb" <benben@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:90%Jd.136333$K7.47659@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
quote:
> Is there a tutorial for installing new aircraft ? - not anyone one in
> particular - but just the rules. Which folders go where etc etc.
>
> I would estimate only 30 to 50 percent of the aircraft I download install
> correctly. If they are .exe's and do all the work for you, no problems, but
> frequently you have to install it yourself. And not infrequently the
> instructions are poor (if you don't know what end result your supposed to
> end up with). Mostly my problems are with gauges. There's a gauge folder
> in the main FS2004 directory, but in it sometimes I see not just .gau files,
> but zips. Am I supposed to decompress these ? And I also find folders with
> aircraft names in my gauge folder. Are there supposed to be any subfolders
> in the gauge directory ? I say directory when I should say directories.
> In the individual airplane folders I sometimes (but not always) find a gauge
> folder as well. Is that supposed to be there ? Should I have copied it to
> 'master' gauge folder.
>
> As I said, if I knew what the structure of the files/folders is supposed
> to be , I might have more luck installing these (freeware) aircraft.
>
> TIA for any pointers.
>
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