Any questions, please leaveĪ comment below and I will endeavor to answer it. Third party add-ons you'll encounter in X-Plane. So, in this short tutorial, we've covered the three main types of
It should create a new folder and install the plugin contents into it. You should be able to simply unzip the new plugin into the location. Main X-Plane Folder > Resources > Plugins Plugins are installed in the following location: Plugins provide a smart way of achieving many new and excitingįeatures, such as additional weather effects, moving vehicles and even This, he or she must first write the instructions for X-Plane to Plugin allows a developer to enhance X-Plane's capabilities, but to do Our final category of add-on types in this guide is 'plugins'. Main X-Plane Folder > Custom Scenery Plugins
Such as Stuart McGregor (author of The Handy Object Library), addsĪdditional objects, you will need to update it. That packages tend to be a lot larger in size.Ģ) If third party library objects are not included, the sceneryĭeveloper will list them in the file description. Also, apartįrom moving the package to X-Plane's Custom Scenery directory, no One advantage of this method, is that the package is usually fullyĬontained and requires no other third part dependencies.
Main X-Plane Folder > Custom Scenery > Our Scenery > Objects Of obtaining the required objects for their scenery packages.ġ) Many scenery developers simply include the required objects To deal with this issue, developers use one of two different ways Failure to have these installed, will result in anĮrror message, informing you that a certain object cannot be X-Plane, is to make sure you have all the library objects required by One very important thing to remember when adding a new scenery to Unzipped, it is then placed in X-Plane's Custom Scenery directory: Then packaged up and added to the file library. In and adds additional objects so as to make it more authentic. This is where the scenery developer comes X-Plane divides the world into equally sized tiles, each of whichĬontains the following: airports, roads, railways and geographicalĮven though many X-Plane airports are now populated with 3Dīuildings, there are still quite a large number where there is nothingīut a flat representation. We will now look at an extremely popular and important element of Then placing it in predefined categories. Sim does a great job of searching for a particular aircraft type and With the release of X-Plane 11 however, the Sub folders so as to be more accurate with aircraft placement - forĮxample, 'Microlights'. Regarding the main Aircraft folder in X-Plane, you can create extra You should be able to see the path there. If you don't know where your main X-Plane folder is, right click on the X-Plane shortcut on your desktop and view properties. Main X-Plane Folder > Aircraft Folder > Add-on Aircraft Main X-Plane Folder > Aircraft Folder > Type Of Aircraft Afterĭownloading and unzipping the aircraft, simply place it in its Installation of an aircraft in X-Plane is simplicity itself.
You'll be eager to download them (I don't blame you). With all the many quality freeware aircraft available for X-Plane,