After the installation completed, swiftlauncher will launch together with the initial configuration wizard. If you un-selected to launch swift from the installer, it is possible to run the same init mode any time later by using the command line arguments
swiftlauncher -i --bootstrapurl https://datastore.swift-project.org/shared/
The rest of the section will guide you through the different wizards.
The first wizard page deals with the necessary legal bits. It will explain in detail all the licenses involved in the swift project including 3rd party software. It also provides links to data protection policies. It is necessary to accept license and data protection policy to proceed. This page also asks for your agreement to submit crash reports to our crash report collection server. In case any swift application crashed, a crash report will be generated with information which line of code caused it to abort. With your agreement, the report will be uploaded to our server and helps the developers to diagnose and fix the cause. This agreement can be changed anytime later in the advanced settings (link tbd). Read more about crash reports (link tbd) and how they look like.
The next wizard will download all data, required by swift to be fully functional. This includes aircraft and airline ICAO data, model strings (no models itself), etc. It is not necessary to click any of the load buttons. The download will start automatically from randomly one of the shared mirror servers in the background. The button can be used to reload in case there was an update meanwhile. You can either wait for the download to finish (several seconds depending on your internet bandwidth) or continue, since it will continue in the background. The wizard indicates that all data finished loading by
If you had a previous version of swift installed already, then this wizard will help you to migrate your existing model cache and model set.
Read more about the meaning of model set (link tbd) and model cache (link tbd).
If you had a previous version of swift installed already, then this wizard will help you to migrate your settings.
Read more about settings (link tbd).
This page allows you to configure which simulators you want swift to work with. If you have multiple simulators installed and use them regularly, select all of those in the first group box. swift will detect if any of those configured simulators is running and connect to it. It will ignore the ones that have not been selected.
In the group box below, you are able to configure the simulator path and any additional model directories. swift will try to detect as much as possible automatically and use it as default. The default is listed in light grey. In order to configure the directories, first select the respective simulator from the radio boxes at the bottom
...
button to select/add more directoriesadjust
button to remove redundant directories, fix file
path etc.SimObjects
folder you can add multiple other directories here.This wizard will help you to create a first model set for each of your simulators in use. A model set is a subset of the AI models installed on your machine, which are considered for model mapping and model matching. Without any model set, swift will not run properly.
Create
to create a model set.The last wizard allows you to configure hotkeys. Use this to configure your PTT key.
Your swift suite is now configured and ready to go. Use the launcher
to launch the different swift applications in different flavors and
modes. For first time users, it is recommended to start swift in
standalone mode. * In the core tab, select Core Mode Standalone
*
Click on the blue swift icon named GUI
to start swift in standalone
mode.
swift is now running on your machine and you are ready to setup everything else for your first connection to the network.
Something didnt work?
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ask for help in the usual channels.swift - in contrast to other X-Plane clients - is running outside of
the X-Plane process. In order to communicate with the X-Plane process
and render AI aircraft, a small plugin called XSwiftBus is necessary. It
needs to be installed into X-Plane/Resources/plugins
. This wizard will
download and install it for you.
download
.Ok
in the dialog to extract and install the package
directly into X-Plane.Read more about
Installing and updating XSwiftBus <xswiftbusinstallation>
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