SimLink server setup

[ATC_ROO]

That's great thanks Waterman.
We now know that the four major sims can connect and fly with each other.
I have a windows and a Linux server running at the moment connected together and can't remember which one my aircraft is connected to which may make a difference?
Anybody connecting from outside of my network will connect to the Linux server.
Where you have connected with localhost are you able to manually input an ip/hostname?
If you can input roo.servebeer.com into the server field and don't run the proxy program does that work?
Gamer tags can be seen if using FSX or P3D.
FSX and P3D can also connect using FSINN, this is a better pilot client in my opinion although tricky to setup.
Using Vpilot won't allow you to use the real weather from the server, where as FSINN and squawk box will.

[Waterman981]

Shortly after posting Europe finished downloading... I was able to follow you around. Seemed a little jerky, not super smooth, but I had no problem flying in formation with you.

I have to admit the big thing I miss is gamertags... (However the roads and traffic in X-Plane were awesome! I may have to invest more time in it!)

[Waterman981]

So far we have had FSX Steam, FSX Boxed and P3D all connect so all looks good.
If anybody that has Xplane would like to try it that would be appreciated.

Connected tonight in X-Plane. To install XSquawkBox you copy the extracted directory (XSquawkBox) to X-Plane 10\Resources\plugins. Then it appears on the plugins menu. I only had NA installed so couldn't verify if you were there.

I set it up in game as follows:

[N404]

Roo would it be possible to upload the client to onedrive, or some other file sharing site? I can not download it from your site for some reason.

or this
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...BFSG%20FSD.zip

[Razor]

Try this. https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Gc&usp=sharing

Thanks

[Karl]

Roo would it be possible to upload the client to onedrive, or some other file sharing site? I can not download it from your site for some reason.

Try this. https://drive.google.com/folderview?...Gc&usp=sharing

[Razor]

Roo would it be possible to upload the client to onedrive, or some other file sharing site? I can not download it from your site for some reason.

[ATC_ROO]

For anybody interested in this test I will plan and arrange a group flight in order to find any problems and will post the group flight in the usual place on our forums.

Some issues have already arisen which include users of Avast having problems installing some parts of the client software and aircraft positions not being totally accurate to all players.

In the meantime feel free to try it with other members of MSFLIGHTS so you will know how to connect easily on the day.

I will try my best to point people in the right direction to solve problems they may find, but as I am also new to this software I can only advise on what I have found out myself.

Keep an eye on the group flights section.

[FLTBUFF71]

Sorry, new at this, this reply was supposed to be to ATC_ROO

Just to let you know I had no takers for my testing scenario last night at 7pm, so I cancelled my test.

[FLTBUFF71]

Just to let you know I had no takers for my testing scenario last night at 7pm, so I cancelled my test.

[Karl]

Better to know than hope: http://msflights.net/forum/showthrea...les-Guidelines

[FLTBUFF71]

I am trying to set up a 7pm flight room A test scenario this evening and I included your link to install vpilot etc on steam channel and flight a channel chat changd my nickname to "FLTBuff71 test vpilot 7pm"

I hope I am not breaking any msflight rules by doing this.

[FLTBUFF71]

Thanks for your quick response

Thank you,

If anyone you see posts a group flight in the events log I would try to join if I know about ahead of time....

No that sounds about right.

I am no Vpilot expert but have found that what ever you set in Vpilot will be what the other users see you as, regardless of what you are actually flying.

If the other users do not have the aircraft type you have set in Vpilot, then they will see you in which ever aircraft they have set as their default.

Although I have not tried, you can apparently change any users aircraft on your screen to show as anything you have installed.

So if a pilot is flying an A400 and you only have a C130 you could change them to that as it is a similar aircraft instead of seeing them in a Cessna 172.

I don't see this as a problem as in FSX how many times have you been substituted by an aircraft which is nothing like what you are flying?

There is no flight sim that I know of that would actually show a user in an aircraft that you do not have yourself.

[ATC_ROO]

Running (2) steam fsx to test out what my aircraft looks like on other user.
Model match must have aircraft I am running installed on OTHER user's machine. This seems to be quite a restriction if I want to run a plane and the other players don't have that installed?

Am I missing something here?????

No that sounds about right.

I am no Vpilot expert but have found that what ever you set in Vpilot will be what the other users see you as, regardless of what you are actually flying.

If the other users do not have the aircraft type you have set in Vpilot, then they will see you in which ever aircraft they have set as their default.

Although I have not tried, you can apparently change any users aircraft on your screen to show as anything you have installed.

So if a pilot is flying an A400 and you only have a C130 you could change them to that as it is a similar aircraft instead of seeing them in a Cessna 172.

I don't see this as a problem as in FSX how many times have you been substituted by an aircraft which is nothing like what you are flying?

There is no flight sim that I know of that would actually show a user in an aircraft that you do not have yourself.

[FLTBUFF71]

Follow-up testing with model matching

Running (2) steam fsx to test out what my aircraft looks like on other user.
Model match must have aircraft I am running installed on OTHER user's machine. This seems to be quite a restriction if I want to run a plane and the other players don't have that installed?

Am I missing something here?????

I tested yesterday with 1 other user we both were on Windows10, STEAM. ....some set up issues and model matching questions but were able to use.
Aircraft seen by other user was determined by what I set in my 'connect' aircraft type (which it matches to a xxx.vmr file), i.e., if I select 737 on freeflight but used 172 as aircraft type in vpilot, he saw Cessna. So it appears that we have to set aircraft in 2 places for others to properly see what we are flying. I researched and found lots of vpilot doc and, a vmr free generator, which is when I learned that the 1st 3 chars of call sign, if it has a matching entry in the xxx.vmr file, determines the livery.

Maybe we were doing something wrong but it clearly seems to be that when you set your aircraft in freeflight, vpilot does not use that ... you have to set proper match in the 'connect' callsign and aircraft type... no biggie...