One of the users of my freeware scenery asked me a question I have no answer.
It’s related to a FranceVFR addon that grouped several airports into one single product. This product has been acquired by my fellow user via the MSFS Market Place. FranceVFR Paris - VFR Airport. It’s kind-of streamed compared to as if it was acquired via external market place and installed manually or via the developper’s installer.
My freeware airport is Toussus - LFPN. If you own the FranceVFR Paris package installed manually, you just have to remove .BGL files to avoid having the 2 airports activated at the same time : \francevfr-800-parisvfrairports\scenery\lfpn-airport.bgl et \francevfr-800-parisvfrairports\scenery\lfpn-poly.bgl
How removing this specific files only - and not the whole package - when the product is streamed and acquired via the MSFS Market Place ?
So, your idea is to use the download “the whole product”. You thing the content will be available for removing the same exact 2 .BGL files as if it was installed? I can’t test and I suspect that the download feature of MSFS2024 doesn’t copy files as if they were installed by an installer but certainly into a cache format. Isn’t it?
I’m not 100% sure as I haven’t tried it, but my understanding is that you can download it and save
the file on your device, so I would think you should have access to it, not just in a cache.
I can’t test it as well, as I don’t have Market Place product. But the download features, if designed as you suggest would be a gift for pirates. And considering that the download feature has only feature to… cache on local vs streamed, I see no reason Asobo wouldn’t have put it has a cache-like file.
See the folder StreamedPackages full of _______.fsarchive files.
Another option is to ask the user to check in “My Library” how comes the FranceVFR Paris - VFR Airport packages. In some cases airport can be individually disabled.
Example: I own France-VFR “Airports France 1”, “Airports France 2”, “Airports France 3”.
I cannot disable individually the airport part “Airports France 1” & “Airports France 2” but I can for airport part of “Airports France 3”. I guess there is like a flag that drives this kind of setup and that needs to be checked by France-VFR team when submitting a package to Marketplace:
