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Immersion Manager: User Manual

This document provides instructions for using Immersion Manager to customize visual effects packages for Prepar3D flight simulators. It describes installing Immersion Manager, the user interface, adjusting effect settings, and minimum system requirements. Key files and folders related to Immersion Manager installations and user preferences are also outlined.

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Immersion Manager: User Manual

This document provides instructions for using Immersion Manager to customize visual effects packages for Prepar3D flight simulators. It describes installing Immersion Manager, the user interface, adjusting effect settings, and minimum system requirements. Key files and folders related to Immersion Manager installations and user preferences are also outlined.

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Immersion

Manager
User Manual
Last updated on October 6, 2018
2

Introduction
First and foremost, thank you for purchasing one or many of
our Immersion Packages. Lots of passion and hardship went
into making those with, as a goal, to develop a one-of-a-kind
series of products.

We hope you will have as much amazement and fun using


them as we have developing them. What follows is a
comprehensive explanation guide on how to use Immersion
Manager to customize your experience with the effects
provided by your Immersion Packages(s).
3 Table of contents
2 Introduction
3 Table of contents
4 Minimum requirements
5 Supported simulators
6 Support
7 Installation
8 Installed Files
9 Things we recommend
10 Immersion Manager User Interface
11 Effect Settings
12 Sharing your effects settings
4

Minimum
requirements
As a baseline, Immersion Manager and Immersion Packages
requires the following items. While the product might work on
systems below these requirements, we will not offer support on
those systems.

• Lockheed Martin Prepar3D v4 or newer;


• Windows 7 or newer (64 bits);
• Quad Core, 3.0 GHz processor or faster, at least 4 GB of RAM;
• Active Internet Connection is required to install
and activate the software;
• VFXCentral (You can get it at oldprop.com/vfx);
• An OldProp account (Create one at oldprop.com/create);
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer
5

Supported
simulators
Unless stated otherwise, Immersion Manager and every
Immersion Package it contains supports every Prepar3D
simulator after v4.2.
6

Support
If you need help at anytime, you can always get assistance
through the following channels:

• User-to-user AVSIM forum section


avsim.com/forums/forum/723-fsfx-packages-support-forum
• Facebook Group
fb.com/groups/fsfxsupport
• Frequent issues, solution & direct support
oldprop.com/help
7

Installation
Immersion Manager will to be installed when you install at least
one Immersion Package product through VFXCentral. You can
get VFXCentral from the OldProp website at oldprop.com/vfx.

Once you have VFXCentral installed and running, make sure you
account contains at least one Immersion Package. It will appears
under YOUR PRODUCTS. If you do not see your Immersion Package
product in this section, please go through the activation process to
add your product to your account. You can follow the steps listed
at oldprop.com/install

We are now ready to install! Press DIRECT INSTALL under your


Immersion Package and choose where you want to install
Immersion Manager. If you already have one or more Immersion
product installed, you will not be allowed to change the location
of the Manager. We recommend leaving the path as is so that
it remains easy to find. Press APPLY to install your Immersion
Package and Immersion Manager. After this process, your
Immersion product and Immersion Manager are installed, you can
now close VFXCentral.

You will be asked to activate the Immersion Manager add-on the


next time you launch Prepar3D.

You’re done and ready to go!


8

Installed Files
Here is a list and explanation of what constitute the Immersion
Manager installation.

In the Immersion Manager install directory


(%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\OldProp Solutions Inc\Immersion
Manager)

• Effects folder serves as a working directory when Immersion


Manager is running.
• Libraries folder includes the various moduels required for
Immersion Manager to work.
• Immersion Manager.exe file is the main executable of
Immersion Manager. This is the executable that will run when
starting your simulator.
• log.txt file contains details about the last execution of the
Manager. This file might be useful for our support team.
• Logs folder will include log files if a crash happens.

In the Immersion Manager AppData folder


(%APPDATA%\OldProp Solutions inc\Immersion Manager)

• *_Prefs.json file contains user preferences for the various


effects contained in an Immersion Package.

In the Immersion Manager Add-on folder


(%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons)

• add-on.xml file contains the required structure for Prepar3D


load the Manager and its components.
9

Things we
recommend
1. Immersion products work best when HDR is enabled
in Prepar3D’s Lighting settings.

2. We recommend using FSX/P3D with your framerate locked


at 30 or 60 fps for a better experience.

3. We recommend setting Special Effects Details to the highest


setting in your Prepar3D’s Special Effects options

4. Anti-aliasing and screen resolution can seriously affect the


performance of your simulator when effects are displayed.
We recommend testing any configuration changes with wing
condensation or Volumetric Lighting visible.
10 Immersion
Manager
User Interface
1 2

At the top, you will find the On the right, 2 indicators to let
1 name of the aircraft currently you know if there are effects
loaded. being sent or removed to the
simulator.
11 Effect Settings
1 4
3

5 6

The 2 Settings button will You can quickly learn about the
expand this panel, revealing conditions required for an effect
effect options among other to show by reading the
things. 5 short description in every
effect section.
The 2 Preview button enables
you to preview effects in the Some effects have various
simulator even if they don’t 6 options to play with.
meet the right conditions. From brightness to thickness of
This is useful to adjust contrails or simple performance
preferences or take screenshots. slider, they can vastly affect your
experience with the effects.
The 3 Status indicator will tell
you if the effects is visible in the Any change needs to be saved
simulator (green) or if the effect before it is reflected in the sim.
is in preview mode (blue).

The 4 Toggle allows you


to quickly enable/disable
an effect.
12

Sharing your
effects settings
If you wish to share your effects options with friends or
community, you can do so by sharing the .json files located
in %appdata%\OldProp Solutions inc\Immersion Manager

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