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=== Multiplayer aircraft ===
=== Multiplayer aircraft ===
In Flightgear version 2020.3.1 and later, the aircraft-set.xml file is also used when showing [[Howto:Multiplayer|multiplayer]] aircraft, as part of the implementation of Multiplayer Views [http://wiki.flightgear.org/Changelog_2020.1#Multiplayer]. For historical reasons multiplayer packets contain only the path to the aircraft model (in essence the string in the <code>/sim/model/path</code> [[Property tree|property]]), not the -set.xml file. Internally Flightgear use a heuristic to find a corresponding -set.xml file.
In Flightgear version 2020.3.1 and later, the aircraft-set.xml file is also used when showing [[Howto:Multiplayer|multiplayer]] aircraft, as part of the implementation of [[Changelog 2020.1#Multiplayer|Multiplayer Views]]. For historical reasons multiplayer packets contain only the path to the aircraft model (in essence the string in the <code>/sim/model/path</code> [[Property tree|property]]), not the -set.xml file. Internally Flightgear use a heuristic to find a corresponding -set.xml file.


There is also a feature that will load an AI aircraft model if it shares the same path, in essence from
There is also a feature that will load an AI aircraft model if it shares the same path, in essence from

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