Model Matching Magic is a program that can scan your MSFS2020 Community folder for aircraft liveries, and generate a custom .VMR file for use in vPilot's custom model matching setup. It can also handle creating model matching rules that allow a number of callsigns to match to a set of liveries (eg. BAW and SHT callsigns match to a set of British Airways liveries) and creates rules to match aircraft types that have specific liveries to another type (eg. A319, A320, A321 matching rules to match to a common A20N livery). The application has a number of configuration options that should allow to craft a setup to your particular liking, but also comes with a set of defaults that should generate a reasonable VMR file for those that don't want to tweak too much.

Installation

• Download the latest release .zip file
• Extract the ModelMatchingMagic folder to a location of your choice (or if upgrading, just extract the individual files over the top of a previous install, to keep all your settings)
• Run the ModelMatchingMagic.exe file from the installed location (and optionally, create a shortcut to this .exe file)

Operation

• (First run only) Locate your Community folder in the input box at the top of the screen
• Press the "Scan" button to start scanning your community folder
• Review the scanned results, by default, only liveries that have a valid airline code and aircraft type will be included in the generated .vmr file
  • Click on the column header for "Aircraft Type" to sort, and review entries that are blank or invalid. The value can be entered/edited if need be.
  • Click on the column header for "Airline ICAO" to sort, adn review entries that are blank or invalid. Again, values can be entered/edited here. For some models/liveries, such as GA aircraft, you may leave this field blank and just untick the "Excluded" column, if it doesn't make sense to match it based on an airline code.
• Press the "Generate VMR" button to create your custom .vmr file. It will be called ModelMatchingMagic.vmr and it will be saved in the same directory as the .exe file is located.
• Go to your vPilot settings and either replace your other custom .vmr files or add your new ModelMatchingMagic.vmr to the list of custom rule sets.
• Enjoy (hopefully) a better model matching experience in MSFS2020 (note: that at this only generates the matching rules file, the result may not be 100% in the sim, if there are issues with liveries not loading properly, etc)

Check out the YouTube video above or use the link below for a great explanation of the above operation and for further customization that is possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cvfG5Sh06U

Credits

A big thanks to British Avgeek and his channel members for the motivation to create this, and for all the effort in testing, providing feedback and comments to help develop this to where it is today.

Feedback

If you have any feedback or experience issues with this, please don't hestitate to comment below.

Enjoy!