mutley 4,487 Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Today I have been testing out using FSX software with Prepar3D core product as essentially the ESP SDK is fairly common to both although LM are developing an extended SDK for their product. So today I have been flying Aerosoft's Catalina in Aerosoft's Tahiti X with Flight1's Flight Environment Xtreme with excellent results. In the case of scenery, it is just a case of pointing your Prepar3D scenery library to your existing FSX installation library. For the Catalina installation I created a FSX.exe dead file and saved it in the LM home folder so the installer would accept it as a home directory. It showed an error relating to a mission file but I carried on and it installed ok. For FEX, I set the target directory in the options screen and it just got on with it and installed ok. Looking good! Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 So we won't be hearing much from you, then - you're too busy?!? As the man said - "So much to do - so little time..." Just need some screen shots, now, Boss! Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
d9 0 Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 What I want more than anything is Vatsim to work - I understand SB4 can be used with Simconnect but I haven't got my head around it yet as Simconnect isn't my favourite subject... I installed photo scenery and VFR Airports successfully, but when I went back to FSX (on the same drive) all my Treescapes had vanished, so some investigation needed. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Have you tried Plan-G? I imagine you can use the same dead-file technique to set up the directories.. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted January 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 It's on my list Tim Link to post Share on other sites
d9 0 Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Plan-G connected to Prepar3D immediately. it's using the FSX database, which is what I want. I simply clicked 'connect' and the yellow aeroplane icon appeared, and it works perfectly. I haven't yet tried a database build from P3D. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 996 Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Ok... to build a P3D database you need a 'dead file' copy of fsx.exe in your main P3D folder. Then set up the file paths as follows: FSX Program: E:\Prepar3D (or wherever) FSX Scenery.cfg: C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D And it builds fine. Far as I can see the base data is the same as FSX (looking at Bristol's airspace as guidance, since that has changed greatly over the last few years)... Link to post Share on other sites
affonsoamerico 0 Posted February 17, 2013 Report Share Posted February 17, 2013 Does anyone knows if there's a way to instal Traffic X on Prepar3d? Do I need to buy another AI trafic software? Which one is the best to be used with P3D? Cheers Affonso Link to post Share on other sites
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