i would like to ask if it were possible to offer all 320nx liveries in a single download file, i would like to have all, and dont want to download ever livery by itself.
thank you
i would like to ask if it were possible to offer all 320nx liveries in a single download file, i would like to have all, and dont want to download ever livery by itself.
thank you
I'm not the person to answer this, but knowing how this site works suggests to me that the answer is probably - no. The problem is the number of people creating liveries. All of the addons hosted here have either been created by individuals, or by groups that have chosen to publish together as if they were an individual. So, you would find it easiest to either download all liveries from the Aircraft Liveries section of the site, or pick up all the changes in your My Uploads tab.
NO....for many reasons. There are soooooo many authors as stated above. Also, it seems they are not ONLY repaints but in some cases rewrites of code in other aspects of the livery. Some liveries work differently then the actual A32NX. Also, and really, this is the BIG one. I would think, with all the information I have seen from MS that if you were to have a library of liveries that big your sim probably wouldn't even run or you would have so much trouble you would wish it didn't. As your community folder grows, as does the degradation to the sim. What is the breaking point, I don't know, but there is one. It's always better to keep your sim as "vanilla" as you can if you want it to work correctly and give you the very best experience. Have what you "need" and not so much what you "think" you need.
I mean to be fair, downloading all the liveries in one download isn't the same as adding them all to your sim.
It would be useful to download all liveries and then whenever you load up the sim, add liveries you want for that session.
However, because of sheer number, I don't think it'll be easy to combine all of them together, including the one point rickie72 mentioned that some liveries has code-related changes.
NO....for many reasons. There are soooooo many authors as stated above. Also, it seems they are not ONLY repaints but in some cases rewrites of code in other aspects of the livery. Some liveries work differently then the actual A32NX. Also, and really, this is the BIG one. I would think, with all the information I have seen from MS that if you were to have a library of liveries that big your sim probably wouldn't even run or you would have so much trouble you would wish it didn't. As your community folder grows, as does the degradation to the sim. What is the breaking point, I don't know, but there is one. It's always better to keep your sim as "vanilla" as you can if you want it to work correctly and give you the very best experience. Have what you "need" and not so much what you "think" you need.
There are a number of questions in there. I'll try to address as many as I can pick out:
First, the easiest way to see which mods have been updated is to use your My Downloads tab under your avatar, top RH corner of the website screen.
The page shown to you will show all the addons that you have downloaded that have outstanding downloads. These you should download first thing.
Once you have downloaded all the new versions, refresh the screen (should me no new versions outstanding if you did the lot), and click on the Sorting tab, and sort the addons by "Recently Downloaded".
Next click on the "Up To Date" button, and scroll down until you reach the last one that was updated SINCE the release of FU5. From here on down are the ones that haven't been updated to FU5.
Oh, and you should remove ALL the mods that are earlier dated than FU5, because the sim is likely to crash otherwise.
The easiest way to find your "breaking point" is to use a mod manager. MFS Addon Collector allows you to "test" each of your mods against the running sim, and will mark all those that won't run. I understand that the restricting figure is the amount of free RAM you have after flight sim is loaded. For instance, with 64 gig of RAM, you can probably load upwards of 59 gig of addons for a normal installation, but that would be subject to change depending on your installation.
The other feature of MFS Addon Collector that would help you here is a feature that lets you decide just what you want to load for a particular FS session, which will tell you if you have too many in your load to be able to run the sim.
This is another reason why your liveries are better off installed as individual mods, so that you can select the one you want to use BEFORE you start up the sim, leaving space for other mods for you to enjoy.