Liveries - New Sub Categories - Suggestions

Mike Geise · 2026-09-11T01:46:28.534135+00:00

For any new sub categories under Liveries, list them in this topic. Example: - FlyByWire - Airbus A32NX - FlyByWire - Airbus A380X

JviationRegular

Sep 15, 2026, 2:03 AM

I think it could become a little cumbersome to have every individual variant listed separately. Perhaps, and this is just an open question for discussion, instead of having “PMDG 737-600, -700, -800, etc.,” we could simply have a broader “PMDG 737NG” category. Then, within that category, creators could apply a label or filter indicating something more specific, such as “-700” or “HDU.”

That way, things may be a little cleaner and easier to sort without creating an excessive number of categories. Though I’m not entirely sure how well that approach would translate to something like the Fenix A32X family, where the variants are a little more distinct.

Mike GeiseAdminContributor

Sep 15, 2026, 3:22 AM · edited

That is a solid suggestion and now I am wondering maybe having an actual tree structure for the categories since this would allow you to drill down into categories as I could refactor categories to be a true parent/child/tree relationship. Easy to model using a binary tree.

The parent category Liveries would show everything and as you drilled down into the sub categories the result set would become more refined. The sub categories would not display on the left in the filter until you filtered by the parent category as well which would solve the issue of having information overload with sub categories.

Example

Liveries (Parent)

Boeing (Child of Liveries)
- Boeing 737 (Child of Boeing)
  - PMDG 737 (Child of Boeing 737)
    - PMDG 737-600 (Child of PMDG 737)
Airbus (Child of Liveries)
- Airbus A320neo (Child of Airbus)
  - FlyByWire A320neo (Child of Airbus A320neo)

FlakAdminRegular

Sep 15, 2026, 9:16 AM · edited

Yes I like this approach. One small wrinkle to consider is some sim aircraft aren't officially licensed by the real aircraft manufacturer. For example the Contrail FA50, which is definitely not the Dassault Aviation Falcon 50 😉!

EDIT: The fact that they share the same ICAO designator could suggest you go with the official manufacturer which corresponds to ICAO designator of FA50. It could all be driven by the livery creator adding the ICAO designator to their aircraft which may offer them a very small choice to make if multiple sim aircraft exist per ICAO designnator. Not sure if there's a way to query or (legally) scrape their database though. Assuming there is a solution, maybe it could look like this:

Liveries

Manufacturer (official ICAO name)
- Aircraft (official ICAO designation)
  - Sim aircraft from developer ABC
  - Sim aircraft from developer XYZ

Liveries

DASSAULT
- Falcon 50 (FA50)
  - Contrail FA50
  - <Hypothetical other dev who make an FA50 aircraft in the future>

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