[How To] Better organize planes in your hanger (rename, sort, set default liveries)

[ENON2058]

@Baracus250

So essentially if you find the livery you prefer to use and make that alphabetically first, then you don’t ever really need to select a livery as step two unless you want to change?

Correct. It will also show that livery on the plane selection view. The title might change though depending on how the livery maker filled out the ui info I mentioned, so you may have to fix.

And you only need to do it for ONE livery of each plane to have the initial sort order correct?

Right, as long as you can name that folder to sort before everything else. I suspect some less credulous livery makers already know this trick, to try to jump ahead in line

And it will only work if you do have at least 1 third party livery for the default planes I suppose - as you can’t touch the base game ones?

But then if you select a default encrypted livery, what happens to the sorting when you go back to the Aircraft page?

I guess a side-pain is you’ll have to redo that after any updates to said livery but that is a pretty rare occurrence. I might have to do this hahah

I believe we can access the aircraft.cfg files for most (maybe all) default planes and liveries now. The 3rd party planes available in the official marketplace are encrypted though, so you’ll have to have at least one 3rd party livery to do this.

And yeah, auto-updates or adding new liveries might make you have to fix again.