I’ve installed a ton of liveries for the A320, and all of them have in the aircraft.cfg a part which sets the ICAO code and aiTraffic=1 (which means it can be picked by the AI traffic)
But when i turn off the general ai traffic models, the live ai traffic still doesnt use the installed liveries.
I saw that it uses the ‘Asobo Generic Airliner TwinEngines’ model. There the ICAO code and aiTraffic settings work, because there is a United Airlines livery by default in this model’s directory.
So question: is my game broken and it doesnt turn off the generic AI traffic, or those ICAO codes and aiTraffic settings in the custom liveries not doing anything?
It certainly doesn’t seem to be working as intended but I’ve found I can work around it to get live traffic wearing appropriate A320 liveries. Here’s what I’ve done:
Open folder…\Official\OneStore\asobo-aircraft-a320-neo\SimObjects\AirPlanes\Asobo_A320_NEO
Open aircraft.cfg with notepad or your favourite text editor
under [General] add the line icao_generic=1
Save the file & close
To get rid of the generic airlines open
…\Official\OneStore\asobo-aircraft-generic-airliner-quadengines &
…\Official\OneStore\asobo-aircraft-generic-airliner-twinengines
and edit those aircraft.cfg’s from icao_generic=1 to icao_generic=0
You’ve now tricked the sim into thinking the A320 is generic & it will now pick it up for live flights. The sim only seems to pick generic models for live traffic. It wont usually be the right aircraft model but there’s a good chance it will be the right airline if you’ve installed all the A320 liveries from the latest megapack. ie instead of a Delta B737 you’ll get a Delta A320N
Bear in mind that using the A320N instead of the generic models will possibly have an impact on your FPS but for me it hasn’t been noticeable
I’ve also messed around converting IVAO & FLAi traffic models to get some variety at the gates & occasionally these show up as live traffic as well but the sim really does seem to prefer the A320N.
Obviously this is just a kludge until we get some proper AI traffic packages but for me it’s better than the vanilla setup
Note this only works for live traffic. No idea how to get it to work for AI offline traffic.
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Dude, this worked! Thank you so much!
This workaround doesnt work anymore with the new patch 
All AI planes turne into generic turboprops if I add icao_generic=0 to those files, even the airliners.
Did you add icao_generic=1 to the A320 aircraft.cfg? It was overwritten by the update but the generic airliners were untouched. Working fine for me.
Ok, I managed to make it work. The issue (and solution) was related to the livery loading problem introduced with the newest patch.
If anyone is having problems, workaround is here: https://flightsim.to/blog/workaround-patch-1-10-7-0-unable-to-select-liveries/
Basically all liveries have to have a model.cfg with this content:
[model.options]
withExterior_showInterior=TRUE
withExterior_showInterior_hideFirstLod=TRUE
withInterior_forceFirstLod=TRUE
withInterior_showExterior=TRUE
[models]
normal=…/…/Asobo_A320_NEO/model.AirTraffic/A320_NEO_AIRTRAFFIC.xml
And of course the model directory set in the aircraft.cfg file.
It’s not working again… I hate that with every update I need to figure out what is the problem.
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