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3D gauges?

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gilbauer

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Hi,

I am a long time xplane developer, dealing primarily with complex avionics implementations and specifically 2d rendering on gauges of 3d gauge data (for example, a glass gauge showing a 3d movable representation of the aircraft exterior). I’ve used OpenGL along with shaders to accomplish this in xplane.

I am experimenting with implementing a similar idea - a cockpit gauge which shows a 3d rendered scene. Read through the SDK docs (which I understand are still very premature), but already confusion arises regarding certain elements. I am not sure whether my confusion is due to the infancy of the MSFS2020 SDK and it’s documentation, or my lack of experience in MSFS development in general.

I can see that the nanovg library is available, allowing me to draw in 2d. How would one go about doing 3d rendering (into a bitmap, for example)?

Technically, this is also possible with webgl/ other html5 technologies but i am struggling to understand what is available to you as a developer writing code in c++ or js which gets compiled to a web assembly module.

Thanks!
 
Vitus

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The way this is done is by using the behavior .xml file of the model to either define your own animation templates, or use the default ones that come with the sim. Unfortunately, the animation templates are not at all explained in the SDK yet, so we're all still in the figuring-out-process of that journey. It is definitely possible but will take some digging.
 
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gilbauer said:
I am experimenting with implementing a similar idea - a cockpit gauge which shows a 3d rendered scene. Read through the SDK docs (which I understand are still very premature), but already confusion arises regarding certain elements. I am not sure whether my confusion is due to the infancy of the MSFS2020 SDK and it’s documentation, or my lack of experience in MSFS development in general.
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That might be possible later, but in the current state of the SDK I do not believe it's possible as you would need to use WebAssembly and that is still going through development.
 
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