Add-ons

What is installed

WhereAdd-ons button in the toolbar, then the Add-ons tab.

• Aircraft and Plugins, with a count of how many are on, off, and have an update. Search by name or folder path.
• Each aircraft card shows its version when the add-on ships one (including per-model files such as version-777.txt), its liveries, and a View liveries button that opens them in their own dialog.
• Plugins with a Scripts folder, such as FlyWithLua, get a Manage Lua scripts button for the scripts inside.
• Windows .lnk shortcuts, symlinks and junctions are followed during scans, so add-ons on another drive show up.
• Open X-Plane Folder and Rescan files sit in the header.

Install from a download

WhereInstaller tab, or drop files anywhere on the add-on manager.

1. 01

   Drop what you downloaded onto the manager, or click the drop zone to browse: a .zip, .7z or .rar, a split download (.7z.001, .part1.rar), an archive with another archive inside, a password-protected archive, or a plain folder. Several files dropped together are read as one drop.

2. 02

   X-Dispatch looks inside and lists every add-on it found, each with a tick box: an aircraft, its plugins and a scenery in one package, or a livery pack with several paints, come up as separate entries. Archives laid out like the X-Plane folder (Aircraft/..., Resources/plugins/...) are understood too.

3. 03

   Keep the ticks you want and press Install. Progress runs from start to finish, in the manager and on the Windows taskbar icon.

4. 04

   For scenery, start X-Plane once afterwards so it adds the pack to scenery_packs.ini. X-Dispatch only changes that file when you ask it to from the Scenery tab.

• An add-on that is already installed shows the installed version next to the new one (or the navdata cycle). Choose Overwrite, which keeps files the new version does not replace, or Clean install, which removes the old folder first, backs up your liveries and settings and puts them back. The result tells you where the backup went.
• Liveries go to the right aircraft. A livery for the Zibo 737, ToLiss, FlightFactor 777, LevelUp, X-Crafts, Felis or Rotate aircraft, or for any aircraft whose livery ships its icon, is installed into that aircraft's liveries folder. The installer says which aircraft it is for and warns when that aircraft is not installed.
• Navdata is read before it is installed: the provider and cycle are shown, and GNS430, UFMC and FlightFactor 777 data go to their own folders under Custom Data.
• A scenery whose tiles use objects from a library you do not have is flagged before you install it, with the library named and a link to its download page.
• A password-protected archive asks for the password. A missing part of a split download names the missing file; a damaged archive says to download it again; a folder X-Dispatch cannot write to points at the folder's permissions.
• xdispatch://addon/install?url=https://... links install straight from a download link, after you confirm.

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1. 1Drop zone: archives, split downloads or a folder
2. 2Or browse for files
3. 3What was detected, and its size
4. 4One entry per add-on, with its type
5. 5Clear all
6. 6Install

Scenery priority

WhereScenery tab.

Packs are grouped the way X-Plane loads them, top overriding bottom: System Libraries, Custom Airports, Default Airports, Scenery Libraries, Overlays, Airport Mesh, Terrain Mesh, Other, and Unrecognized for anything the manager could not classify.

1. 01

   Drag a pack to a new position inside its group. Safe mode keeps drags within the same group, which is what you want almost always.

2. 02

   Switch on Move across tiers to drag a pack into another group, for example a library the manager put in the wrong place. Auto-Sort puts every pack in its standard group.

3. 03

   The header shows Unsaved until you press Save, which writes scenery_packs.ini. Discard throws the pending order away.

• Every save makes a backup of scenery_packs.ini. Backups lists them with a Restore button, so a bad order is one click away from undone.
• The enable switch on a pack turns it off in scenery_packs.ini without deleting anything.
• Close X-Plane before saving. It reads scenery_packs.ini at startup and locks files while it runs.

Updates, locks and delete

WhereButtons on each entry; right-click an entry for the same menu.

• Check Updates asks each aircraft and plugin that ships an update URL in its config for its latest version, and marks the ones with something newer, with the version jump on the badge. Add-ons without an update URL are skipped.
• Lock an aircraft or plugin to prevent changes, so a drop or a rescan cannot touch it. Unlock to edit again.
• Open folder shows the add-on in Finder or Explorer.
• Delete removes the aircraft, plugin, scenery pack, livery or script from disk after a confirmation. There is no undo. Delete from the add-on manager rather than by hand so the cache stays in step.