Aerofly FS 4 User Created Content

Quote from juan37

Good morning jetpack, I would like to know if all the scnery created by each user can be installed once we have the Aerofly fs4?

I actually don't know either. Once Aerofly FS 4 is released I expect there will be new SDK Tools and new converters but I can't promise that yet. I also can't existing scenery works out of the box. Some things may be broken or are incompatible, I'm an aircraft guy not scenery guy.

Many new features have been added to the scenery and it would be a shame if old airports are just left for dead and are not updated to the latest version by the users that created them. When it's not compatible out of the box they probably can be updated or converted to make full use of the latest features such as apron lighting without re-doing everything. Some user made airports also had animated air traffic which will now conflict with the new air-traffic simulation in Aerofly. And there is the usual inconsistency of file names being mixed upper and lower case which may prevent compatibility on Mac and Linux.

IMO it would be best if each user created scenery is checked for errors in the tm.log and can then be verified by other users. A clean and error free updated version of the user made airport or scenery could then be uploaded and it's not much work for everyone involved.

Quote from stavka

Hi, and about aircraft? I have some justflight addons. They will run directly on the new AFS4 or requires some updates? Its sad and a shame that many times when flightsims grows in version creating some incompatabilities, many devs because are in other projects, never update their addons to the new flight sim version.

Aircraft files changed significantly and old FS 2 aircraft are not compatible out of the box but can be converted within minutes. I've already converted the Just Flight add-on aircraft on my side and they now work in Aerofly FS 4. But I don't know if they plan on releasing it as an add-on for Aerofly FS 4, I hope they do.

We changed the aircraft files to make it easier for new developers to get started, we fixed inconsistencies in the parameter naming conventions, fixed mathematical inconsistencies (left hand rule vs. right hand rule) and added new aerodynamic wing and airfoil simulations. New features like the missions and flight log require more data from the aircraft, so additional sender objects are also required now to fully support these new features. There are also new files to set the correct gear and flap positions after using the new time-skip feature. And some very old user made add-on aircraft didn't yet have the cold and dark state option as well, so that might still be new for some devs.

We already mentioned in a previous thread that 3rd party sceneries and aircraft won't work out of the box. However 3rd party sceneries like airports and custom modelled scenery objects are not hard to convert, we will publish updated tools, once Aerofly FS 4 is out. Previous aerial images and elevation data is still compatible with Aerofly FS 4, so no conversion is required here.