Global AI Ship Traffic V1 for FSX and P3D News and Support

[YoYo]

It works great in v5. I had it installed as a package outside P3D in v4.5 so a simple addon.cfg entry pointing to it brought everything in v5 at once.

Can you give your xml code? It will be quicker for me .

[gary20]

Forgive my confusion ... will the Falklans 82 ships be a seperate package or a future update for Global AI Ship Traffic ?

Best wishes

Gary

[kl791]

Forgive my confusion ... will the Falklans 82 ships be a seperate package or a future update for Global AI Ship Traffic ?

Best wishes

Gary

Good question... I wish I could answer, but currently I am producing a lot of classic ships, so odds are that I will do a separate package which will draw on both the classic ships already included and add a bunch of new ships including Falklands and a completely new set of routes for the classic ships, so there will be at least two but maybe three different periods - 1960-1970, 1975-1985 and then the modern package which will continue to be the most complete with over 1150 ships. For the 75-85 period I guess I have around 200-250 ships - for 1960-1970 maybe around 150 at this point, but speaking with the rest of the team the number might increase significantly.

[gary20]

Good question... I wish I could answer, but currently I am producing a lot of classic ships, so odds are that I will do a separate package which will draw on both the classic ships already included and add a bunch of new ships including Falklands and a completely new set of routes for the classic ships, so there will be at least two but maybe three different periods - 1960-1970, 1975-1985 and then the modern package which will continue to be the most complete with over 1150 ships. For the 75-85 period I guess I have around 200-250 ships - for 1960-1970 maybe around 150 at this point, but speaking with the rest of the team the number might increase significantly.

WOW !!!! .. Now that is exciting news.
Really looking forward to this.

Many Thanks

Gary

[Dimus]

Can you give your xml code? It will be quicker for me .

Actually I have created myself a "package" of all files needed in a folder and wrote an xml for it so it is not that simple. I will PM you later when I'm home.

[YoYo]

Actually I have created myself a "package" of all files needed in a folder and wrote an xml for it so it is not that simple. I will PM you later when I'm home.

it was long time , I created my own, works great, thx!

[Dimus]

it was long time , I created my own, works great, thx!

Great! I’ve been too busy... apologies.

[kl791]

A few screenies from the sea trials today. All classic ships built between 1950 and 1965.

[jagl04]

Very beautiful. If you need very old ships...

[kl791]

Very beautiful. If you need very old ships...

Very interesting model. It must be the Dedalo - I just found her in this link with a quite interesting picture of a rotorcraft taking of from her in 1934: https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/spain/armada It is a bit before the period I'm working on but sometime I will move back in time...

[kl791]

Another shot from the testing...



And the next variant of the Supramar PT50 hydrofoil - Flyvefisken which served the route from Copenhagen to Malmö

[delta_lima]

Henrik, these look superb.

The period bracket you cite would be perfect - I had your ships instalalled in FSX, but haven't yet in P3D, because I wanted to limit my shipping environment to primarily the classic period.

If it's possible for the ships from the period of 1950-1970 to be segregated, that would be superb, because then I can create a "classic period" shipping install separate from a "modern period" install and one or the other.

Anyway - looking forward to these.

dl

[kl791]

Henrik, these look superb.

The period bracket you cite would be perfect - I had your ships instalalled in FSX, but haven't yet in P3D, because I wanted to limit my shipping environment to primarily the classic period.

If it's possible for the ships from the period of 1950-1970 to be segregated, that would be superb, because then I can create a "classic period" shipping install separate from a "modern period" install and one or the other.

Anyway - looking forward to these.

dl

Thanks It will be two completely different set of routes. I want to recreate a realistic shipping from the time, and then there shouldn't come a 400 metres long container giant spoiling the nostalgia... I won't be able to cover the whole globe - at least not in one go, so wishes to focus areas are welcome - and better if some classic sceneries exist for the area.

[delta_lima]

Thanks It will be two completely different set of routes. I want to recreate a realistic shipping from the time, and then there shouldn't come a 400 metres long container giant spoiling the nostalgia... I won't be able to cover the whole globe - at least not in one go, so wishes to focus areas are welcome - and better if some classic sceneries exist for the area.

Hi Henrik,

My suggestion would be where there’s already some good FSX compatible Calclassic scenery. So nodes I’d consider:

New York
Miami
Havana
Beirut
Hong Kong
Calcutta
Seattle
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Lisbon
Nice

As examples. Excited for this package, whatever you decide.

Many kind thanks.

DL

[kl791]

Thanks for the suggestions I will have a look at the Calclassic sceneries.

[kl791]

Ships for Hong Kong 1962... I am getting to the point where I have enough models to start doing the first routes

[awstub]

Ships for Hong Kong 1962... I am getting to the point where I have enough models to start doing the first routes

Very, very nice!

I am correct in assuming that you will be including routes within the South China Sea (and Haiphong Harbor prior to Operation Pocket Money)?

[kl791]

Very, very nice!

I am correct in assuming that you will be including routes within the South China Sea (and Haiphong Harbor prior to Operation Pocket Money)?

Yes, that is the intention. Several of the new models I can document have been to Vietnam during the conflict, so besides all the new carriers coming along at the moment you will also have the civil traffic.

[kl791]

Today was spent building and testing routes - below screenshots taken in FSX between Buenos AIres and Montevideo:

[JosefK]

Sorry for the annoying question in advance but P3Dv4 does accept FSX boat/ferry routes as-is or?

Thanks! Just bought P3Dv4 like a few weeks before it got upgraded - sigh, but happy I did.

[kl791]

Sorry for the annoying question in advance but P3Dv4 does accept FSX boat/ferry routes as-is or?

Thanks! Just bought P3Dv4 like a few weeks before it got upgraded - sigh, but happy I did.

This will work in FSX and all P3D versions released so far - I just do my initial testing with a default version of FSX to check the routes compared to default coastlines.

[Ganter]

This is a wonderful collection that has breathed new life in to FSX for me. Thank you.I have one question; I fly mainly in the south of England and have HMS Illustrious and her Type 45 destroyers and HMS Ocean in convoy. As they sail in to Portsmouth they are colliding with a Solent fort which is constructed on spit of land and piling up on each other. Is there a way to slightly alter their course as the convoy heads towards Portsmouth harbour?I have tried using AIFP but although it loads the traffic file it shows nothing. I have tried BGLAnalyze as well and it says it cannot read the file either.I would really like to get the RN back to port!Thank you.

[gp183601]

This is a wonderful collection that has breathed new life in to FSX for me. Thank you.I have one question; I fly mainly in the south of England and have HMS Illustrious and her Type 45 destroyers and HMS Ocean in convoy. As they sail in to Portsmouth they are colliding with a Solent fort which is constructed on spit of land and piling up on each other. Is there a way to slightly alter their course as the convoy heads towards Portsmouth harbour?I have tried using AIFP but although it loads the traffic file it shows nothing. I have tried BGLAnalyze as well and it says it cannot read the file either.I would really like to get the RN back to port!Thank you.

Why not use AIBTC instead?
AIBTC.exe http://lc0277.gratisim.fr/boat/

Decompile the traffic file that’s crashing into Solent fort, re-map out your route using google earth and use the above tool to recompile. That’s what I do anyway and find it easy to add new routes.....I’ve got type 21s and 22s sailing out of Guz and Ark Royal with destroyer escort sailing out of Pompey.

[Ganter]

Thanks for that link.
Unfortunately I can't decompile the .bgl file in order to use it.

[gp183601]

Out of curiosity do you know where the bgl came from in the first instance/what tool was used to create it? As I’ve yet to come across a boat traffic bgl that couldn’t be decompiled using AIBTC so assuming it’s been compiled using that method I stumbled across ages ago (creating water “taxiways” and having ships “taxi” along it using an aircraft flight plan tool.... ‘orrible!)



cheers
Gary