HOW TO GUIDE | MSFS | Installing Add-On Software
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- The first in a series of videos designed to provide essential and useful information to Microsoft Flight Simulation users.In this video we look at how to install add-on software into the simulator and locate the elusive community folder. We also take a look at a few sites offering a selection of freeware and payware scenery, aircraft and plugins. We also install Machmell Fisheries airport a small dirt strip in British Columbia, Canada.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:40 MSFS Marketplace
02:46 MSFSaddons.com
03:23 MSFSaddons.org
04:14 Download files
05:17 The community folder
08:01 Installing files
08:59 Machmell Fisheries
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COMMUNITY FOLDER LOCATIONS:
If you used the default location for your installation, then you can find it here:
For the Windows Store install:
C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\ Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\
For the Steam install:
C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Local\Packages\
Microsoft.FlightDashboard_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\
Important: Windows 10 by default hides the “AppData” folder, so you will have to go to “View” in the menu of File Explorer, and select “Hidden items” so as to see it.
For the Custom install:
If you happened to use a custom location for your Flight Simulator installation, then proceed there.
Typically it will be: (Your Drive):\Flight Simulator\Community\
LINKS
Microsoft Flight Simulator: www.flightsimulator.com/
MSFSaddons.org: www.msfsaddons.org/
MSFSaddons.com: msfsaddons.com/
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Correction to DLC Location on Custom Install in your video notes above. You need it in the HLM_Packages Directory: "Typically it will be: (Your Drive):\Flight Simulator\HLM_Packages\Community\"
Mark, you are awesome.
Thanks for taking 10 minutes to explain something that couldve been done in 1 minute
literally all the plane mods i installed have this engine problem, i am very sick and tired of it. when i select an add on plane and fly it the engines are not started and when i try to start it it wouldnt, if any of you guys know the problem and know how to fix it please let me know
@@ImmortalWombat wow what a prick of a comment to leave
I whole heartedly agree with your statement about the speed of add-on development. I'm an old-time simmer and can remember just how long it took to develop scenery, even if you had a suitable buildings pack available. Now with Google Map scraping, getting the maps looks so easy that perhaps even I might try my hand at it. Thank you for this video, it's just what I need right now.
Thank you very much for this Vid! I could not find my Community file for love nor money, this made it simple.
Maddog 2064 , glad it helped 😁
As usual from you, loud and clear Mark well done again 👍🏻
Thank you Mark as always professional and informative well done keep them coming 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you very much. Like so many out here in the real world, locating the community folder was a headscratcher. Your guide made is simple. Thank you so much. I will be looking into your web site a lot from now on.
Many Thanks. Gary. UK
Thanks a million. Finally found the community folder. 10 minutes later - a thunderous take off in a Spitfire. Stunning!
Brilliant 👍
Thank you so much for such a detailed view of something I have been suffering with all week
Thank you again Mark for your clear and precise videos.
Fantastic. You just explained what no one else would or could!
Thank you ,this video is very helpful. I just started the msfs2020 and was looking to add on and your video looks pretty easy .I will try it. I'm not to good at this but again you described it perfectly, thanks, joe
Hi love the videos very helpful, i`m running msfs on the steam platform and i followed your steps from going into fs then developer mode from there everything else just went smoothly, the add on was then found in msfs and all works well. thank you .
Thanks, I was soooo confused till I saw this video. Great job!
Hi Mark, thanks for a great year in simming, your wise counsel has helped a lot.
Thanks Mark, appreciated as always.
At last someone that knows what they are doing. Thank you.
This was helpful and enjoyable. Thank you.
this is the best tutorial for FS2020 :-) great VDO and thank you for sharing your knowledge
Awsome Instructions Mark!!! Well Done!! Thank you.👌👍
Cheers Mark. Good stuff!
You absolute legend! Never would have found the community folder.
Expected, but still amazing, that this sims free addons are looking better than payware, in some cases. The superior quality of assets seems to be key, here.
Thank you very much for your video. Very informative. Greetings from Portugal.
Thank you for this Mark, great video....looking to get some of the dlc and this will help!!
Thank you, much appreciated
Great instructional video. Thanks.
Yes good stuff Mark.
Thanks so much I had no clue on how to download mods but now I do! Thanks 😊
Excellent tutorial sir. Thank you.
Mark....don't stop what your doing (-:
dude seriously your a life saver on this for this info i bought the game hoping to install addons as such but made a custom install onto my ssd for faster loading and every otehr video instruction does not hae this info on this matter
Along with the others here, I thank you heartily for this vid.
I ama pilot of full-size aircraft since my fist lesson in 1961and I have been flight simming since 1985. I have probably installed and flown every flight simulator available since then.
That said, MSFS2020 is by far the most advanced one yet. The scenery and weather are incredibly realistic. I should think it reasonable to expect that the combined expert brains that put this sim together might have taken all of the prior available sim experience and knowledge and use such to make user interface with this sim as advanced, simple, easy and intuitive as possible. In some areas they have, but in others they definitely and inexplicitly have not.
Finding the Community File is just one of these inexplicably complicated and arcane things. If it was not necessary to find and use it whenever updating or installing software that does not have a self-installer, this might be forgiven. However, many of the addons offered, even those offered by the sim itself require hand installation into the Community File.
So, is there a clearly visible "Community File" box on the main menu to click to do this? No. Are there any internal instructions as to how to find the Community File? No.
But for sites like yours here it would be impossible or nearly so to find it. As it is, even once the long path is known there are so many counterintuitive steps to it that I suspect that the FS2020 sim developers did not really want us to find it. Why the secret, eh?
If it were not for the amazing scenery and all and there being no other like simulator to replace it (for now), I would return it and damn it to hell for this.
Thank you again or this vid.
Cheers.
Very well done, glad I found your channel! An enthusiastic subscription. 👍🏼
Thank you, happy holidays. 😁
Great info! Thank you!
thanks for the update....will give it a try
Thank you very much, your channel has helped me immensely! Subbed!
Thank you.
Thanks to you i finally found my community folder! Thank you sir
Happy days 👍
Great video mate.
Thanks a lot great demo
Thanks, Mark for all your help. It appears you are the only one that has an interest in all of us enjoying MSFS 2020. I do have a problem I have been working on for months. I followed your instructions and my mod shows in the content manager, however, it does not show in the hanger. I have tried many aircraft and none work. I purchased this game through Steam and it is on a pc.
Check the notes relating to steam in the video description. Make sure you are putting the correct folder in the community folder
great video, thank you
Thanks for the help and advice.
Your welcome 😁
thank you for the tutorial
Thank you so much from BERLIN..
Super video Mark thankyou
VR Flight Sim Guy , thanks Steve.
Superb tutorial thank you
THANK YOU SOO MUCH :)
Thank you very much. I have been trying for days to find the community folder path.
I should hopefully be able to find the camera config file also and get some wing views.
Thanks, that gave me a idea of how to do it. Thanks
I think I figured out where I've messed up. I didn't turn developer mode off (not sure if that actually affects anything in the game) and I dragged everything from the opened file (not the readme or anything like that, but specifically what's in the download folder for the F22 Raptor) and not just the folder itself. Again, not sure if that has affected anything, but I can tell you that I didn't have the F22 available, so it's obviously done something to hinder me.
Thank you for this video. It was very helpful and informative.
can't thank you enough sir!
Thx helped immensely
Thank you!
Thank you Sir!
Lovely video
Thank you.
Argh so that's where the Community Folder is! Sounds quite complicated to add third party freeware, but I guess I will be watching your vid a fair few times! Thanks....
Very nice
very Very VERY well done! !! !!! I don't see how there are (at this time) 9 lug nuts that gave this video a thumbs down. The video title could not have been explained any better.
Thanks 😁
super video
Thx 😃👍
idk why but i find it adorable to see old people talk about games and technology
Less of the old and more of the adorable 😂🤣😂
You sound like Korg from Thor Ragnarock and I love it
thanks very very much
Thanks for your presentation Mark. I get the impression that all add on software from third-party providers should be in the Community folder, however my only third party purchase so far is the Carenado Mooney M20R; for various reasons I have had to re-load it a few times and it always installs in the Official/One Store folder way down below all the Asobo stuff. Should I move it to the Community folder ??
No, keep it there. Any program installed via the marketplace in sim will install to one-store. This is separate and allows the program to be updated when a new version comes out.
Thanks pal
Excellent clear and concise and very enjoyable. Your videos are very helpful and save a lot of time which can be put to better use like trouble free flying.
I just wondered if you have had anything to do with Airbus H145 and the others in that series. It does not appear that MS have provided anything especially for helicopters unlike X-plane 11 where controls specific to these are recognised. I would like to map the collective to some control other than specified by design. I would ideally like to use the flap control on the Thrustmaster quadrant instead of the throttle. This is possible in X-Plane 11 but they don't have a great selection of Helicopters.
I mapped it to my prop axis. I think this was default.
Thank you
Thanks!
Welcome!
Thank you, Mark, for another superb video.
I have one problem with assigning my brake pedals (not covered in this video for obvious reasons). There don't appear to be enough choices available for the brake pedals without straying into already assigned ones or by choosing anything which has plus or minus attached, which causes a warning that this is not recommended.
Examples are Right Brake Axis L-Axis Y+ or Left Brake Axis R-Axis Z-.
There must be a way round this, I hope. Any help would be gratefully received.
thank you
Thanks Mark! I looked at a couple other UA-cam videos and they did not lead me to my "Community Folder!" (They said to go to Options>General>Data>Rolling Cache Settings> and copy the path in the box). That Path did not show the Community Folder (for me).
Yours Did! Options>General> "Develops"! >Turn "ON" Developer Mode>very upper top left...Click TOOLS> Click Virtual File System. After that, my path diverted from yours...
My Path is simpler: C:\Users\(my name)\AppData\Local\MSFSPackages\Community.
I hope other viewers see this and can figure out the right Path for them! Seems like everyone of us is on a slightly different Path! but like "THEY" say ... All Roads Lead To Rome".
thanks for the info, I been adding Aircraft into the community folder and been working great , but have to watch or get updates time to time when MSFS has one.. So question here , on updates thru MSFS and you added scenery should I leave it alone, or down it from the folder, rerun your MSFS 2020 "to set it back to org, take the update after you restart you MSFS 2020 . agn thanks
To update through MSFS, go to profile and then content manager. All available updates are shown there. Click download to update.
merci super
thank you I just subscribe to your Channel.
Thanks, very well explained, very useful. And works.
Question: when you installed de Machmell Fisheries airport in FS MS you then showed the forest and surroundings of the airfield.
How did You do that? A camera option in FS MS? How to handle that? Thxs
Hi, used the drone camera option from the pull down menu bar (under camera) I think they call it showcase
@@SimHangerFS Thxs! 🙂
What if you want to have only the sim on c drive and addons on another drive is that possible or will that cause conflict.?
Hi David, the download can be anywhere you like, but the add on must be installed (copy) to the community folder. Regards
How come that comes up at Bailey’s heliport near Edmonton ?
Thanks for this tutorial. But I have one issue, I have all the addons in the community folder but they don´t appear in the flight sim. Thanks.
Hi
I used a paid subscription via the xbox game store for PC, everytime i download a plane and save to the community folder it never arrives in the as closing / resetting, really confused as i followed your instructions all that way, any advice would be great
I notice that there are no Piper Aircraft. Thought A2A may have been a bit quicker to come on board. Here’s hoping they are not too far away.
Brett Nicholls , Brett, A2A are working on a new aircraft for MSFS. Check their site for more details. Regards
There is no "Watched Bases" in the current version of MSFS.
Mark Thank you. Don't know if you can advise in the future. I would like to remote the instruments on a Cessna to a I pad or small monitor as on my gaming laptop the compass is very small. Would that be possible and easy to do.
Al Watt , have a look through this site www.msfsaddons.org/plugins
@@SimHangerFS Thank you Mark... I had a look at the site....I was not sure if "Splashtop " was what I was after... I really would like to know what others have used to remote instruments to a monitor or Ipad? Do you think Microsoft sim will do a mod for this?
Great vid, how do you pan around to check it out?
Leo , use the camera controls to pan around. Controls depend on what your using. Go to controller menu to see. Regards
Hi mark. I’ve just bought & download North Sea from Aerosoft one. It shows up in my content manager on the sim but how to I actually open it to play the game. Any help would be appreciated
It is scenery, look on the world map, North Sea and you will see all the available helipads etc. if you can’t see them check your legend settings for the map.
thq bro. Can check with anyone I do not like the view commands in the new MSFS...Is there anywhere to make it similar to the P3D or FSX?
This may help you configure it ua-cam.com/video/l-jJ84klwLg/v-deo.html
How we toggle to say fly from the righ seat...in P3D it`s keyboard "A"...In MS Flightsim 2020?I have no idea how to do this....
@@darrenliewweiyao check out my channel and my MSFS how to series (playlist). The answer is in the one on cameras. Link below this video.
But does this in any way reduce the loading time of the Sim if you have multiple addons in the Community Folder??
The short answer is no. Not for the initial boot into MSFS. However if you are loading a flight that uses an add on then yes it will take more time to load that scenery. Also if an add on is not updated to keep up with the core updates this can have quite an impact on loading times etc. Regards
Must the community folder be sited on the C-drive, can I move it my D-drive where I have much more space??
No you can have it on an alternative drive. Best to set this when installing the sim. Just moving it will not work. There is a way to do it. Various UA-cam videos on the subject on line.
Thank you very much but why do I feel like a school principal is giving me a speech😂
I am bit concerned about the risks these manual addons brings with em. At present it may be that only enthusiasts generate freeware/payware and get it on these sites. Over time some bad guys will may discover that entry without controls/scans and use it to bring harmful software on our systems. How is the experience on the other simulator platforms and their according addon websites? Would it not be better to get MS to look at freeware addons at first? e.g. virus scan, code checks for potential performance issues etc.
Ra Kon , hi, you make an interesting point. There is not really a history of problems of deliberate malware with add ons, and your first line of defence has to be your antivirus software on your machine. The threat however is there. Regards
Sir, I did install Msfs on my I drive and copied an add-on (livery) in the community folder in the I drive but sadly the livery did not load when I launched Msfs. Any tips that you could share? Thanks
Do a restart of your pc. If no luck try download again. Following the recent update not all add on software is fully compatible. Regards
Installation Location and procedure may be different on latest version but this procedure will get you to the proper place. I tried to install in the USER package location for 2 days to no avail followed this video and found a Package Folders (menu item) and Open Community Folder clicking on that opens a (MSFS Packages folder with sub folder Community put addon here it will work ( If you check in the USER package location the addon will be there now) hope this helps some poor soul to keep some Hair left on His/her head.
💥💥💥You will now see a Community fold link in the drop down. Microsoft has helped us out now.
hey man, i installed a mod (a320neo mod) and it shows up in content manager, but it isn't in my hangar. how do i select the plane so i can fly it?
I haven’t used this mod, but I would guess it is a mod to the default 320 and not a separate one. Regards
I am looking for boats $ yachts addons, because I am using my small float plane to sail on the waters.
Hi when i put the salty 747 in community folder dont work but the liveries work why is that not working can you help me but i extract it with the win rar and it wont work
Thanks I did everything as follows but my 3rd party aircraft is not showing up. Note that the game is installed on the d drive (ssd drive) and running from steam.
Hi check via the developer mode the location of your community folder. Make sure you are putting the right directory into the folder. It should be the aircraft folder and not any higher directories. MSFS does not support non-MSFS aircraft. Regards
Do you know if MSFS 2020 puts the community folder in drive C no matter wat drive you install MSFS 2020? This is important if you like to only install the OS in drive C and put your applications on another much larger drive.
Also does MSFS 2020 allow you to nest folders in the Community Folder? I'd like to set my scenery folder up as Community Folder/Scenery/Country/State/City/File. I did this in earlier versions of Flight Sim to keep the scenery folder from getting congested. I also did this with the Aircraft folder. Since it looks like MSFS 2020 likes to keep everything in the Community Folder, I'd like someway of keeping the scenery, aircraft, and utilities separate.
Hi Mike, MSFS is very fussy about file structure and location unfortunately. Little room to manoeuvre I’m afraid.
@@SimHangerFS Thanks - I figured that may be the case. I'm probably not going to buy MSFS 2020 for another year as I'm still waiting for available hardware (Ryzen 5800 and RTX 3080), and I'm waiting for all of the bugs to get worked out of MSFS 2020. I appreciate the work you folks are doing as beta testers.
I'm worried that there's so much 3rd party development on a sim that is still very much in flux. Big patches are still going to be coming that will probably break all the 3rd party add-ons - especially the planes. I just want the SDK to solidify enough for scenery development tools like AFCAD and AI traffic development/support like Ttools, but that seems a long ways off.
So why did MS put the Community folder in a different file location depending on the FS2020 purchase source?
Your guess is as good as mine….no idea.
Need some help I downloaded a free AS 430 Nav Unit and have in the Community folder but cannot figure out how to bring it up in the aircraft in MSFS 2020
I don’t know the add-on. Check dev’s documentation for details