One of the nicer new features in the MSFS2024 is the separate livery and variant tabs. Shame the execution of them is poor.
It appears both the tabs are controlled by one field - ui_variation. As a result there is no clear way to control if a variant or livery appears under the correct tab.. and there are numerous examples of the current system getting it wrong.
This has been discussed in length elsewhere:
But there’s been no official guidance or response and none of the various workarounds that have been devised & suggested resolve this perfectly.
So.. let’s do this correctly and add a new field for ui_livery.
That way ui_variation controls variant and ui_livery controls livery and ambiguity is gone. Problem solved.