planejamie From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2011, 367 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2583 times:
I need some help with this - I have bought and installed Keflavik X and Larnaca X (my first Aerosoft purchases) and installed the FSX versions of them, but the jetways won't move with Ctrl+J, yet at Manchester (UK2000 scenery), the jetways work fine, as well as default airports.
The aircraft I'm using are:
Project Airbus A319/20/21
Project Opensky 757-200/300 & 777-200
(testing for an upcoming Virtual Airline, I want them compatible with add-on scenery and FSX as much as possible).
Is there something missing or do I need to buy AES?
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2562 times:
Many add-on sceneries will not support default FSX jetways, I suppose Aerosoft sceneries might very well be among them.
I do wholeheartedly recommend you to get hold of AES and try it at least at free airports (there are several, mostly where freeware sceneries are available). It does far more than jetways.
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planejamie From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2011, 367 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (6 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2561 times:
It's really odd though, I can see the jetway modelled there, but it won't move, arrgh! I read somewhere I need to buy AES and use it with their add-on airports for the jetways to work! If so, robbing, thieving ba****ds... costs more on top of buying the scenery! I was hoping to wait for the FSDreamteam one to come out as it's a one-off payment and doesn't need one of those AES Config files (so they say).
I might ask a mate who's familiar with aerosoft what the deal is with jetways... he has FSX
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (6 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2560 times:
I dont see the problem. Can you imagine what kind of work it is to animate hundreds of jetways properly, with not-exactly-not-lacking documentation by MS? Think of it as an extra feature, economy and economy plus, if you will. And again, AES does more than that.
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planejamie From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2011, 367 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (6 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 2512 times:
Damn, then if UK2000 do it perfectly fine by remodelling the default FSX jetways, why didn't Aerosoft do this? Looks like I'm gonna have to fork out for AES... (grumble grumble grumble) - I'm basically calling Aerosoft every name under the sun right now (it'll be the last thing I buy from them...)
Burkhard From Germany, joined Nov 2006, 3977 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (6 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2394 times:
I experimented with the way Microsoft makes and moves jetways for quite some time, and it just is very limited result. So I can understand designer who give the optical realism of the jetway a hand over the logical function, whith options like AES in the back of their mind, while I myself would decide the other way, but in the end I do not make airports...
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 826 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (6 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 2390 times:
Quoting Burkhard (Reply 6): I experimented with the way Microsoft makes and moves jetways for quite some time
So did I, see my post up there.
Quoting Burkhard (Reply 6): whith options like AES in the back of their mind,
Especially since AES is your "in-house" development. Although I know developers that would stick with fully static, FS2004 way.
Another thing to consider might be a boost in sales that AES apparently gives. To me personally, major airport without AES support, is as if it did not exist.
Some developers choose to support both AES and default jetway movement, but then again, much work without tangible benefits, as many would argue.
Quoting irshava (Reply 4): You also need the "intelisense.cfg" file for each individual aircraft which can be found on flightsim or avsim
Many vendors already supply their aircraft with this cfg included, for many others it is easy to find on either avsim or their own forums (sometimes even Aerosoft themselves supply it)
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