Hi guys, just for clarification: is it safe (like e.g. thread-safe) to perform tasks unrelated to the actual rendering in the Render or PreRender methods? Which are thus called at the pace of the framerate? Like an IBaseObject's GetPosition() or GetProperty() methods? Maybe this might put a strain o...

Hi Reyad,

I assume you have P3D Professional Plus? As it states *Professional Plus Only* in the SDK.

All the best, Benny

Hi Fredo,

I guess this is indeed what he meant...easiest way would be to just try it out...pass in a nullptr as szFileName and see what happens :).

Greets,

Benny

Hi,

I don't know exactly what you want to achieve or what this DIS weapon stuff is about, but maybe the IObjectRendererV440 from the PDK would do you something good? It can render primitives into the P3D world and has a DrawLine() method. Maybe take a look at it?

All the best,

Benny

Hi guys, I got further with this...regarding the render-to-texture functionality: As I said, I am fairly new to using DirectX, the render pipeline and everything related. However, I can now render into a texture which is referenced in a .mdl. So far, so good, but now, I ran into the following issue ...

Hi, well...there is a managed layer available that lets you use C# as the language of your choice. Basically, just reference LockheedMartin.Prepar3D.SimConnect in your project and you are ready to interface with P3D via SimConnect. However, this is limited to an external program. So, if you wanted t...

Thanks Clifton for the quick reply. Indeed, it is working as you described. Maybe you can update the documentation on this matter, as there is only a notice on the SDK page, that P3D::IGlobalDataV430 inherits IGlobalDataV400, but not what IGlobalDataV400 exactly entails :). Thanks for your help. All...

Hi guys, can the variable "E:TIME OF DAY" which is referenced here: https://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv4/sdk/references/variables/environment_variables.html , be retrieved via PDK's GlobalDataService, like the other time variables on that page? Didn't find a way to do so, so I am currently using...

Hi Jean Luc, just chiming in to say that I am not seeing something like this. I've just upgraded from 4.3 Client and Content to 4.5 Client and Content and things are working out as before on my side with a debugger attached to my PDK dll. So maybe you can elaborate more on what you are doing and exp...

Hi guys, for experimentation I tried to create a SimObject via the SimObjectManagers' CreateObject() method WITHOUT my own ISimObject implementation as I would rather want to avoid forcing the user to write my ISimObject implementations' GUID into every aircraft oder sim.cfg they intend to use my .d...

Hi guys,

it is now working on my side with 4.5. Thanks for the fix.

All the best,

Benny

So, unfortunately this still produces the above mentioned error in 4.5 on my side. Not able to add a menu item to the Addon submenu.

All the best,

Benny

I came to the conclusion that what I am trying to achieve doesn't seem to be possible, at the moment, as the rendered texture is limited to be referencable externally only via the the panel.cfg like in the Mooney's example. Thinking further, maybe the ObjectRenderer could be expanded in the future t...

Thanks Beau for your reply and the hint for the defines.

SCENARIO_ITEM_ID or ANALYSIS_ITEM_ID are working fine as parent MenuID. ADDON_ITEM_ID doesn't work, though. Produces a HRESULT of E_FAIL.

Greets, Benny

Hi guys, I am adding a menu item to P3Ds menu. With SimConnect, this is automatically added to P3Ds Add-Ons menu item as a child. But now, with the PDK method, the menu item is placed directly in the main menu bar, which I don't want. So, is it somehow possible to retrieve the MenuID of an existing ...