News 2007

What is Addit! Pro? It's is a comprehensive addon manager for Flight Simulator X. Easily install, manage and remove aircraft, adventures, flights, flight plans, gauges, missions, panels, A.I. airport and facilities data, scenery, sounds, textures, videos, weather and more! Archive add-ons to Addit! Pro's File Cabinet or recreate them in zip files. Modify your aircraft, panels and sounds. Automatically update FS's Scenery Library. 

Take advantage of Addit! Pro's new RAR file support to install from rar files just as you do with zip files. No outside program is required, everything is built into Addit! Pro! Nearly all WinRAR formats are supported. RAR support was also added to Windows Explorer’s content menu -- Just right click on a RAR file and pick “Install to FSX using Addit! Pro”.

Assigning pictures during installation is much improved. A new picture list replaces the Set Picture window. Simply select a picture from the picture list to assign it to the addon. You get faster selection since you no longer need to open and use a Set Picture screen, easier selection since there are fewer clicks and less guesswork, and you can quickly and easily see the images included with the addon (or tell if there are none at all).

Addon installation has improved for a number of addons to make installation faster, cleaner and easier so you can get up in the air faster with fewer “red dot” issues. Addit! Pro now automatically marks most duplicate files “do not install” for you, to save time and disk space and to avoid file conflicts. There is also improved picture assignment for aircraft and panel addons.

The Addon File lists in most Addon Installation Wizard windows gain a new Archive File column to reveal which zip or rar file contains the addon files. A new checkbox in the Select Installation Method box allows you to toggle installation of the current group of files with one click.

This release includes other changes and additions, updates to the Help system and bug fixes. Please see the Revision History for complete details.

Below are some screenshots. From left to right: new rar file support; integrated picture selection replaces the old Set Picture window; and a new checkbox to toggle file installation plus the new archive file column:

Addit! Pro is a comprehensive addon manager for Flight Simulator 2004. Easily install, manage and remove aircraft, adventures, flights, flight plans, panels, A.I. flight plans, A.I. airport and facilities data, scenery, sounds, textures, videos, weather and more! Archive add-ons to Addit! Pro's File Cabinet or recreate them in zip files. Modify your aircraft, panels and sounds. Automatically update FS's Scenery Library. Includes A.I. traffic manager, complete scenery library editor and more!

Use the new FS Configuration Manager to maintain a set of unique FS9.CFG files. Create one for daily flying, another to tackle demanding scenery and another for custom realism settings for rotorcraft. You can name the CFG files however you like and even include a description. Switch among them with ease.

Install an addon even faster by right-clicking on its zip file in Windows Explorer. Simply select "Install To FS 2004 using Addit! Pro" from the menu. Addit! Pro launches automatically and immediately opens an Addon Installation Wizard window where the addon is pre-selected for you. This makes for speedy installations!

Other changes include better naming of aircraft skin/repaints, use of thumbnail.jpg files in aircraft texture folders as aircraft pictures, improved automatic selection of aircraft and panel pictures, DDS and PNG image format support. Also, this release features the ability to save images as JPGs, improved handling of relative paths in configuration files, the option to change the font within Addit! Pro, and dynamic aircraft and panel picture resizing.

The Help system has been updated with all of the latest changes and a couple of bugs have been fixed. Addit! Pro is now fully compatible with Windows Vista. See the Revision History for complete details.

What is Addit! Pro? It's is a comprehensive addon manager for Flight Simulator X. Easily install, manage and remove aircraft, adventures, flights, flight plans, gauges, missions, panels, A.I. airport and facilities data, scenery, sounds, textures, videos, weather and more! Archive add-ons to Addit! Pro's File Cabinet or recreate them in zip files. Modify your aircraft, panels and sounds. Automatically update FS's Scenery Library. 

Use the new FS Configuration Manager to maintain a set of unique FSX.CFG files. Create one for daily flying, another to tackle demanding scenery and another for custom realism settings for rotorcraft. You can name the CFG files however you like and even include a description. Switch among them with ease.

Install an addon even faster by right-clicking on its zip file in Windows Explorer. Simply select "Install To FSX using Addit! Pro" from the menu. Addit! Pro launches automatically and immediately opens an Addon Installation Wizard window where the addon is pre-selected for you. This makes for speedy installations!

Tweak FSX missions during installation by opening the new Configure Missions window. Opt to install a mission to the folder chosen by Addit! Pro or to a folder of your choice. Quickly adjust the mission category (e.g. Pilot For Hire, Emergency, etc.) in just two clicks.

Addit! Pro takes on a new look-and-feel along with an enhanced Toolbar that is now fully customizable. You can turn the toolbar on and off, toggle captions, toggle the new submenus, change the overall style and choose which buttons are shown. Submenus are new and allow access to other features by clicking on the drop-down arrow on a button.

The Repair Addon feature found in the Edit Aircraft, Edit Panels and Edit Sounds windows now uses Flight Simulator 2004 files to help repair addons. This is very handy when using FS 2004 addons that assume you have FS 2004 effects, gauges, sounds, etc. If you lack such items the Repair feature can search FS 2004 and copy over any required files automatically.

Addit! Pro handles new FSX file types including missions, rewards files, texture configuration files, DLL panel gauge collection files and more. Aircraft, panel, scenery and sound thumbnail pictures can now be automatically limited in size to keep image sizes small. For aircraft thumbnails, this means Flight Simulator's aircraft list will display faster. The Configure Aircraft window gets a Change Category button so you can easily install an aircraft to any category (e.g. Airplanes, Rotorcraft, etc.) in just two clicks!

This release includes even more changes and additions, updates to the Help system and some bug fixes. Please see the Revision History for complete details. Here are some screenshots: