Comments on: X-Plane 11: All Aircraft Must Live in…Aircraft

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:10:14 +0000

In reply to DE Neely.

Hi,

You can’t reorganize the LR-provided resources -at all- – this never worked well and is not going to work well in the future. The situation is no better or worse than in v10 – if you move our planes out of our scheme, the installer installs a new copy.

What I have tried to do in all cases is give you ways to cope with our content without moving it. That’s why you can disable and re-prioritize scenery packs, and you can search and filter the airplanes.

In the case of by-manufacturer, there is a manufacturer tab right in the UI – if you want to see boeings, pick “Boeing”. 🙂

By: DE Neely

DE Neely — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:57:11 +0000

Well there goes organizing them by manufacture. if I’m understanding right now I’ll have aircraft/laminar/boeing/737-80o. Vice Aircraft Boeing/737-800 LR. With the way the installer is insistent on things being installed in the stock fashion and only the stock fashion this just made things, worse. I realize that right now it will be hard to do but can we please at least look at making the installer more flexible when it comes to name conventions

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:09:20 +0000

Just wondering if there is a chance to try the betas before final release? But this would need a v11 installer which cannot be bought yet. So I guess the answer is no.

By: Jörg Hermann

Jörg Hermann — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:13:26 +0000

In the video “This one goes up to 11” Austin said end of this year – and he is the boss.
Knowing all problems associated with a major release, I expect the downoads are available December 42rd – the usual interpretations about 42 are allowed.
Rest assured, every second wait is worth it.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:56:14 +0000

In reply to Ulrich.

It’s _not_ a flat system – it’s still a hierarchy. Here’s the situation:
– The file system on disk for airplanes is a hierarchy.
– It starts at ‘aircraft’ – the motivation is to not have to search the entire x-plane folder and it’s extra 40,000 files for airplanes put in silly locations.
– The UI presents a flat grid of airplanes with filters.
– When you use search to filter the grid, typing a file path will filter, so if you have a folder called “cool stuff” WITHIN aircraft, typing “cool” will pull just that stuff, plus any airplane with “cool” in its title, plus any airplane with “cool” in it’s authors name, etc.

By: Steve.Wilson

Steve.Wilson — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:31:28 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Symlinks work fine on Mac and dynamic links work fine on Windows (mklink). Haven't checked Linux yet, but the X-Plane 11 Dev Beta has been luvvin' my X-Plane 10 Global Scenery where I've been using a just one Global and one Custom scenery folder for all my X-Plane installs.

By: x-system

x-system — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:58:04 +0000

Ben: Is there an official release date yet.

There are only 7 days left in Nov, Website still says Nov.

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:06:58 +0000

I wonder whether the reason of merging all aircraft subdirectories in one folder (this is how I interpret the message) was due to the fact that the structure was too complicated, or (what I think) navigation with the X-Plane UI was too complicated.
For a flat structure, I’d wish an additional mechanism like adding user-definable tags or maybe even a “star rating” to the planes for quick access to what you want. I don’t know yet how many planes X-Plane 11 will ship, but I have a quite big collection of planes going back to older X-Planes. I like some of them a lot, while I don’t like some of the recent additions.
So please let the user decide how to locate the planes he/she wants. Of course it’s not very much an issue if you only have a hand-full of planes to choose from…

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:59:40 +0000

In reply to Austin. The FMC does a lot more than v10 - see Philipp's video from the Cosford show for some examples of what it can do.

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:58:47 +0000

In reply to Carsten. YEs.