I am attaching 40 or so airplanes to the deck of an AI aircraft carrier using SimConnect_AttachSimObjectToSimObject(). It works reasonably well, however the planes appear to oscillate up and down considerably (in perfect unison) as the deck pitches and rolls - they are not in sync with the deck of t...

Hey there, a question about the streaming interface supported by SimConnect_BeginVideoStream(). I got it working fine, I can create and control two aircraft carrier PLATS/ILARTS cameras using the PDK, and view the streams in VLC. When I view them in sim, I can also overlay the appropriate text using...

Hi all, We are trying to make a VC lighting system by placing lights dynamically using the PDK. So far we are able to place lights using the IObjectRendererV400::AddLight() function. However, whenever the camera is closer than 1 meter from a light, that light is clipped out of view and disappears. C...

Hi folks, I have a wee bug report/feature request: The virtual cockpit camera moves due to acceleration in the sim, which is great. However, it does not take into account acceleration/velocity values that I set through SimConnect. So when I'm attached to my custom catapult/holdback/tiedown and the v...

Ah, that's perfect. Thank you sir!

Farley

Hi Beau,

On a related note, would you consider adding an interface to the PDK at some point to query ocean/wave information? Specifically, I'd really like to be able to call Triton's GetHeight() function, it would be extremely useful.

Thanks,
Farley

Hi Doug, Thanks so much for your reply. Unfortunately, I'm extremely reluctant to suspect the calls to register_named_variable(), as they weren't in my original code. I originally was doing it the normal way, i.e. calling register_named_variable() only in the constructor, at the same time as I set t...

No joy. I dumped the strings to a text file before aircraft reload (while it was working normally), and a few seconds after aircraft reload (when it's broken), compared the two files, and according to my hex editor, they are identical on a binary level.

I will try dumping all the string names before and after aircraft load.

CarrierConfig::CarrierConfig(){ Init(); } void CarrierConfig::Init(){ strings[0] = "cv41_genvis1"; strings[1] = "cv41_genvis2"; strings[2] = "cv41_genvis3"; strings[3] = "cv41_genvis4"; //etc... all the way to: strings[109] = "cv43_deck_lights"; } Cl...

Hi, What I'm doing is running a 6hz simconnect update, and in that callback function, doing the following: double oldVals[110]; std::string strings[110]; void On6hzUpdate(){ for (int i = 0; i < 110; i++){ set_named_variable_value(register_named_variable(strings[i].c_str()), oldVals[i]); } } Where th...

Hi, We are building an aircraft carrier for P3Dv3 and 4, and it has static aircraft who's visibility is controlled by L:vars which I'm setting through a DLL, which is being loaded by the sim through dll.xml. The issue I'm having is that it all works fine when the ship is loaded after the airplane, b...

Hi Beau, Thanks so much for your response. After going through the PDK docs, it certainly looks like it can provide exactly what I am after. But given that we are for the moment still developing aircraft for FSXA/FSX:SE in parallel, it would be tremendously helpful if there is a way to attach to the...

Hi folks, My question is: is it possible to get the camera relative 6DOF data in realtime, like is possible for the "dynamic eyepoint position". Is there a way to get this data delivered automatically every frame? It seems like the only way I've discovered is to keep calling SimConnect_Req...