I’m so excited for this update! AA is an amazing utility and easily one of my favorite add-ons, but it’s always disappointing when I think “oooh, it would be cool to do a formation screenshot of every plane I have with Blue Angels liveries,” only to discover a couple of them aren’t there after the scan.
Really appreciate your continued development, and looking forward to the scanning update.
Not sure that “state” issue could be addressed in a future update. If you look closely at the AA-5 Cheetah (the civilian plane) in my shots, you’ll notice it’s showing the chocks.
(And the G-44 Widgeon and Grumman Goose didn’t show up as options to choose due to the current scanning peculiarities.)
Not complaining, just flagging for future enhancements!
Yea that’s a weird thing. I didn’t fool around with it much. The several times I tried to pull up Wildcats they worked fine. Never gave it a thought. Then I tried pulling up a Hellcat at some point later, and it’s wings were folded. Then the Wildcats were folded. Then the Hellcat was fine. It seems random.
A thought has occurred to me in this moment though. I wonder if they are fine if you are flying an aircraft with folding wings that are OUT when you spawn them.
Tried flying the Hellcat with the wings unfolded, and the Wildcat and Avenger still had folded wings though my Hellcat wingman did indeed have his wings spread.
(Also my engine quit after starting in-flight in FS2024, but that’s a different topic. Just explaining the location of the screenshot. )
Realized how many Grummans I have for the family shot once the scanning gets worked out, especially if the wing fold issue can be addressed too. F3F, F4F, F6F, F7F, F9F, F-14, HU-16/G111, F-14, AA-5…
@thealx2901 Hi! Just curious if you had a rough idea when we might see the scan script updated for FS2024. Absolutely love Airshow Assistant, but it’s oddly random in which planes and liveries it picks up and I’m looking forward to hopefully being able to bring in any aircraft I have enabled in the sim for a formation shot.
Currently we are focused on the finishing aerial refueling capabilities and fixing major issue with FS24/Xbox compatibility (because there are no debug tools available for 3rd party devs it takes huge amount of time for trial and errors). You can expect updated liveries scan feature until end of the year, along with better helicopters support.
Missing pilots indeed is an issue of the sim itself, but I can try to use other ways of the AI aircraft insertion in case it will give different result.
Important notice for FS24 users - due to technical issue with FS24/Xbox specifically (WASM script crashes on game load) latest Airshow update will be delayed. It supposed to add new Aerial Refuellers Pack update support (new tankers models and liveries) so you will not have them available yet, if such purchased.
Next week update is posted for the pre-release test and result will be known in 3-4 days - if issue fixed, it will be published next Thursday.