Can confirm. It seems the fallback model matching for HighDefinition MM we had in .29 has been reverted back to being invisible.
Not going to lie though, I prefer invisible (with tag showing) over taildragging 747’s. But I wonder if it could be made smoother by “borrowing” the model and livery from the connected clients with the model and livery in question for it to show the actual model. That would of course require reading permissions to a folder on someones computer, which will not sit well with people…
And ICAO code table for every plane is stupidly long. So ModelMatching picks a model a “partial or complete” match according to the patch notes a few beta patches back…
What WOULD be awesome is if our local client could expand the same code search to the marketplace and “borrow” the model and livery from there for the duration of the session. Just the external model, no need for internal models like cockpit and cabin. Of course, it has to be fair to plane devs, and secure…
That said, a start would be to display at least the default livery of an aircraft model we own if the livery is custom! Right now this will be the equivalent to not owning the plane at all, meaning atm it’s invisible.
I guess we can’t have it all at once. Hopefully there’ll be a fix in the pipes at some point.
Heck, if they can get some AI to ID the plane model (Taildragger, airliner, balloon, dual prop, single prop, small jet, sailplane) from the provided ICAO code, it could pick the closest Asobo Passive from that, with the official ICAO code list as reference, and not just a plain folder search algo. (Or whatever they use now for simplified (and HighDef fallback, which currently is out of order))
@partywithrossco what are you flying right now? I didn’t get photo or video, but looks like you’re in a bizjet but flying around like you’re in a helicopter
Is this what you’re flying? Flight characteristics surely didn’t look like it when you came in. (Wait, I see the “H160” now. Why would they use an E140 as a model match?)
This one is peculiar (not multiplayer, I think). Visible model is a TBM930, and ATC was even giving me traffic alerts of a TBM930, yet the name plate said C172, and it was certainly flying like a C172, considering I was able to catch up to it and pass it at 117 knots in a H500C.
HIGH FIDELITY: Will try to match the exact package and show the correct plane if the user owns it.
SIMPLIFIED: Will try to match the exact or similar planetype via the icao_type_designator metadata in aircraft.cfg (analog to live traffic matching). Some planes have this metadata wrong or a passive model simply doesn’t exist so no match can be made and will pick a seemingly random aircraft.
that “ random “ thing should be improved like they said in the last livestreams , example, we are flying jets , if i don t own the other model . at least should be another fighter jet displayed instead of airbus a320 at 500 kts lmao .
At the very least, make sure helicopters are matched up with some kind of helicopter. Seeing a Longitude come in to hover and then land is quite bizarre.
I was playing today and player traffic was so terrible wrong an A20N showing as shown as an ATR 72-600. I was so bad, its a default plane from the game. Is there a workaround for this?
I joined a multiplayer fly-in from one of the helicopter enthusiasts on YouTube.
From my cockpit, his H130 looked like a 737, which was amazing to watch hover and maneuver. Half the helicopters there were showing as something wrong, so it wasn’t even close.
So the first level of matching is wrong: choosing an appropriate replacement model.
But MSFS has the technology to stream models of aircraft you don’t have. The could capture a low resolution LOD for any given aircraft and pass it along to others nearby, probably gated by a performance setting of some sort.
We have a small group which fly togehter! We fly only helicopters and its a amazing mess! The most time the helicopters which you dont own are shown as Airliners! I have no idea of programming and so on but i think it must be not a big deal to show a generic helicopter if the other player have choosen a helicopter!
Somebody else have this issue? Or did maybe somebody have a solution for this?
