Download-Center

"All files at one place at a glance" (AFOPAG)

ACVacars, Main menu, open Download-Center (DC)

General

ACVacars' Download-Center (DC), accessible by the Main's menu, offers different categories of downloadable ACV-files to ACV-members. The listed files can be downloaded by either double-clicking them or with right-click for opening the context menu of each and then by clicking the download-entry. Do not forget to execute installer-files after downloading them. ACV flights can only be flown with ACV aircraft. Therefore, you have to install the respective ACV aircraft livery either by semi-automated FanMod installer or by manual installation.

ACVacars, Download-Center, tab "Checklists"

Sections Overview

The main sections of this window are:

• DC Settings/Exe-Parameters / [Open folder-path] button / [Livery Manual Installation] button
• Server Modi (Server/Local, Server only, Local only) regarding FSim selection
• Categories section, listing the specific files
• Colorous legend, self-explaining what color of the listed files in the category-listbox does mean.
• Download-buttons for semi-automized downloads, be aware, downloading all flightplans at once can take several minutes.

Categories

The following file categories are available:

• Checklists, look at this category to find ACV-checklists to the specific aircraft. For most but not (yet) for all ACV aircraft do checklists exist.
• Aircraft, clicking that tab lists the available "FanMod Installers". FanMod installers contain ACV livery files and sometimes additional modification files. See the change-log files of the respective FanMod installer to get more information what will be installed.
• Sceneries, here are FanMod installers listed which contain scenery modification files to mod specific airports. See the specific change-log for further details.
• Flightplans, this category lists all flightplan files containing waypoint-routes to many of the available ACV bids/flights. These flightplans are optional. Be aware, the contained waypoints are not always up to date. Use tools like Simbrief to get individual flightplans with updated waypoint-routes.
• Miscellaneous, herein are downloadable files listed not matching the other categories.

DC, right-click, context menu

Context menu

Right-click to open the context menu of each file, e.g. for re-install an installer or to view the changelog of an installed installer. The context menu contains the following entries:

• (Re)Download, click to download the marked/selected file
• (Re)Install, click to install the downloaded installer exe file (only FanMod installer)

• (Re)Download and (Re)Install, click to perform both steps in this sequence (only FanMod installer)

• Delete, click to delete the marked/selected file
• Uninstall, click to uninstall the marked/selected FanMod installation (only FanMod installer)
• Delete and Uninstall, click to perform both steps in this sequence (only FanMod installer)
• View ChangeLog, click to view the ChangeLog file of a FanMod installer after its installation (only FanMod installer)

Sections

section DC Settings & Installer exe-parameters

DC Settings / Exe-Parameters

DC Settings

Depending on the pre-given VA rules, some of these DC settings can be changed and some not. The not changeable ones are greyed out and not clickable.

• Check new files during startup, if activated, ACVacars checks the ACV server for new files while start-up process of ACVacars.
• Show Download-Center if new files, if checked, the Download-Center is being shown automatically after the start-up of ACVacars if any new files on the ACV server have been found.
• Auto-Download new files, if checked, any new files on the ACV server will be downloaded automatically at the end of ACVacars's start-up process.
• Auto-Install downloaded files, if activated, any downloaded installer are being executed automatically after its download completion.
• Auto-Copy new Flightplan to FSim, if checked, any downloaded flightplan-files are being copied to the flightplan folder of the selected flight simulation.

Exe-Parameters

• This section part lists important FanMod installer exe-parameters (also known as "console exe-parameters"). Any ACV FanMod installer will respect these exe-parameters during its installer execution (but only if a parameter is of relevance for the installation at all). Depending on the pre-given VA rules, some of these „ExeParam“ can be changed and some not. The not changeable ones are greyed out and not clickable. The following installer-exe parameters are available:

• ExeParam0 (Password), containing the password to the FanMod installer, not changeable
• ExeParam1 (FSimDeleteFolderShader), if activated, the FanMod installer deletes the temporary shader folder of the selected flight simulation at the end of the FanMod installation process.
• ExeParam2 (2DGaugesAs3DRender), if checked, the FanMod installer modifies the specific cfg file to achieve the rendering of the 2D gauges as 3D render (legacy, only FSX).
• ExeParam3 (Activate TCAS), if set, the FanMod installer activates the TCAS entry in the specific cfg file if available (legacy, only FSX).
• ExeParam4 (Activate Liveries), if checked, the newly installed ACV liveries of this FanMod installer are set to active.
• ExeParam5 (DeactivateStdLiveries), if checked, all other ACV liveries of the aircraft installation are set to inactive after installation of the new ACV liveries. Purpose: To make sure that only ACV liveries are being loaded by the flight simulation during the FSim start-up process.
• ExeParam6 (InstallEmptyFolderOK), legacy, only FSX.

As of now, only the following exe parameters are still of relevance (P3Dv5, XP11/12, MSFS): ExeParam0, ExeParam1, ExeParam4, ExeParam5.

Server Modi (Server/Local, Server only, Local only) regarding FSim selection

Button [Server/Local], if activated, the content of the listed files per categories does reflect the locally existing/installed files and the online available files.

Button [Server only], if checked, the content of the listed files per categories does only show the locally existing/installed files.

Button [Local only], if set, the content of the listed files per categories does only show the online available files.