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Title: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: ralfy124 on August 21, 2022, 11:43:42 am
After logging enabled I realized that Couatl only finds the airports in the Official folder (which are the default ones) not the 3rd party airports in the Community folder. Any help?

Log attached

Regards
Ralf
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: SK10 on August 21, 2022, 12:21:53 pm
Seeing exactly the same, only stock airports are loaded. If I like to use a airport modification, its only possible after placing the BGL of that airport into the GSX/MSFS folder.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: zannu on August 21, 2022, 12:37:48 pm
The same for me.
Example i have digitalò design Lyon LFLL but GSX read the afcad (bgl) of the stock one the the official folder and not the digital design one.
Another strange problem persist, on this custom airport i don't deactivate the BGL of the jetway and in the map view inside MS2020 i can see all 2 afcd take in count (double white point of parking is present). When i disable the jetway bgl i see only 1 parking correctly. It seems something is wrong...
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: virtuali on August 21, 2022, 12:44:36 pm
Can you post a screenshot of the content of this folder ?

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages

@ralfy124

in your case, you should post a screen with the content of this:

F:\FSX
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: zannu on August 21, 2022, 12:48:14 pm
this is mine.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: SK10 on August 21, 2022, 01:07:53 pm
Here are mine...
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: c912039 on August 21, 2022, 01:30:13 pm
I have exactly the same problem.

I have MSStore Premium Deluxe version of MSFS, and it is not installed in the default location.
I selected to install MSFS in D:\SIM\MSFS

GSX Pro with logging turned on, logs that its reading all the default airport directories from
D:\SIM\MSFS\Official\OneStore\.....
but never logs any of the sceneries I have installed in Community, which is located at D:\SIM\MSFS\Community


%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages
shows 2 directories (on C Drive)
Community
Official

but if I use explorer to go into those, both are empty.

D:\SIM\MSFS has directories
Community
Official
and both of those have lots of sim packages in them.

Customizing any airport locations in GSX Pro for Community installed sceneries shows that GSX Pro is reading the airport data from the default official scenery path, and not the airport BGL files in Community

Regards
David


Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: zannu on August 21, 2022, 01:54:18 pm
This is exactly my situation fs2020 installed in no default path and comunity is empty.
What is strange is inside the installer the path is seems correct.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: ralfy124 on August 21, 2022, 04:24:04 pm
Can you post a screenshot of the content of this folder ?

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages

@ralfy124

in your case, you should post a screen with the content of this:

F:\FSX

pic attached
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: virtuali on August 21, 2022, 04:30:51 pm
Is it possible your Community folder name includes extra spaces, at the end perhaps ? If not, I would like a screenshot of what's *inside* of it.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: zannu on August 21, 2022, 07:15:12 pm
inside this comunity folder mine is empty  ;D
attache the line of LIRF by MKStudios gsx take the default one and not the scenery on on the community folder.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: Dave_YVR on August 21, 2022, 11:16:29 pm
 Same issue here for me. Community folder located in K:\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community
 Screenshot from the first part of the folder, I have over 330 addons inside the community.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: fearlessfrog on August 22, 2022, 01:24:22 am
I think I see this as well, and would explain why when I use a downloaded shared profile I need to edit it to point it at a path in the Official/OneStore when I have the airport stored correctly in my Community folder.

I do use MS Add On Linker - could it be the fact that the airport scenery (e.g. c:/MSFS/Community/fsimstudios-airport-cyvr-vancouver) is using NTFS Junctions? I might try moving one and experiment, but just an idea of what it might be? Is anyone else using links/junctions for this?

The FSDT Installer lists my install location correctly as C:/MSFS/Community
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: virtuali on August 22, 2022, 01:30:53 am
We have a new version of the Couatl engine to test:

http://update.virtualisoftware.com/couatl64_MSFS.exe (http://update.virtualisoftware.com/couatl64_MSFS.exe)

- First remove the airport cache folder:

%PROGRAMDATA%\Virtuali

- Then place the new .EXE in the \Addon Manager\Couatl64 folder, and start it from its desktop icon. It will regenerate the cache on its first run, and hopefully will find files in the Community folder.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: fearlessfrog on August 22, 2022, 02:34:29 am
That exe worked for me. I now see

afcad_path = \\?\C:\MSFS\Community\fsimstudios-airport-cyvr-vancouver\scenery\global\scenery\objects.bgl

..which is correct.

Thank you for the quick fix. Will this get rolled into an update soon?
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: c912039 on August 22, 2022, 02:40:30 am
Hi,

This did not work for me. I downloaded and replaced original EXE. I checked %PROGRAMDATA%\Virtuali directory and it was empty already.
It did not pick up any BGLs in my community folder

D:\SIM\MSFS\Community

I am using MSStore version, and I use Addon Linker, which means that all of my scenery folders are actually symlink/junctions to other folders and drives on my PC.
MSFS correctly reads all of the addon scenery via the links created in the Community folder, so I know that the links work and the scenery BGLs are valid.

Regards
David
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: virtuali on August 22, 2022, 02:47:10 am
You should have posted your log, after removing the %PROGRAMDATA%\Virtuali folder again. Instruction how to create a log in the Sticky thread of this section.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: c912039 on August 22, 2022, 03:00:53 am
Logfile attached
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: fearlessfrog on August 22, 2022, 03:10:22 am
c912039 - do check you overwrote the exe in the right location, as my log shows

couatl v4.8 (build 4811)

..while yours is

couatl v4.8 (build 4801)

For me I overwrote the file in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Addon Manager\couatl64' directory.
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: nomad71 on August 22, 2022, 03:18:21 am
This worked like a charm for me.  I was having the default jetway message in every 3rd party airport.

Thanks Umberto!
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: c912039 on August 22, 2022, 03:20:49 am
Hi,

Double checked and original version was still in place, it seems Security got in the way and decided not to replace/override (possibly because I downloaded on  another PC and stored this version on my file server.

Anyway I have forced a replacement, checked the version number of the exe  via properties to confirm I now have 4811.
I deleted the log file, and the cache directory, and restarted Couatl for GSX from the desktop icon.

Log file is now 350k in size and lists all of my scenery found in Community, so it has worked.

Many thanks
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: Dave_YVR on August 22, 2022, 04:27:23 am
  Umberto,  4811 is working so far for me as well. I'll let you know if anything further comes up. Cheers!

  And a huge thank you to the team!
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: AUA9085 on August 22, 2022, 07:25:14 am
+1 works fine with all non Marketplace Scenery :)
Thanks Umberto!
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: ralfy124 on August 22, 2022, 09:22:37 am
+2 that worked for me too :-)
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: zannu on August 22, 2022, 03:58:01 pm
seems working for me too but now every time that i call the GSX icon he tell me that the coutle engine is not running so i need to launch manually and made a restart gracefully option.
some airport in community he read but for the example the LIRN by RD Preset no.
thanks
Title: Re: Couatl only finds Airport in Official folder not the airports in Community
Post by: virtuali on August 23, 2022, 02:17:34 am
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,26826.0.html