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Attach effects to a certain key

dtdb

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Is there any way you can possibly attach an effect for an aircraft to a key that isn't used by it, or make a completely new keyboard shortcut so you can assign a certain effect to be triggered by it. I added some colored smoke effects to the fa-18 but I have it turned on by pressing the strobe light key. Which gets annoying in multiplayer when people are on the ground and turn all their lights on. Could you some how assign the smoke effects to something like extending and retracting the hoist on the EH101. The fa-18 doesn't use this.
 
I the case of smoke effects on an aircraft, isn't there already the "I" key set up for smoke on/off?
 
Smoke

There is but I want to be able to turn on the colored smoke separate of the white smoke for the f-18.
 
Remapping keys

Hi DTDB,

(I've also posted this up on the "Unofficial F/A-18 Acceleration Pack" board where you also asked the question, just in case you see it there first).

There is a degree of key mapping that can be done via the standard.xml files in FSX.

I experimentally mapped the SHIFT+Z key by putting the following code into my "subset" standard.xml file (file can be found in c:/documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Microsoft/FSX/Controls, but don't confuse the "subset" standard.xml file with the "master" standard.xml file in your FSX root directory).

It worked fine with both the Acceleration Pack F18 and a 3rd-party add-on aircraft, and I also tried the same edit with TOGGLE_TAXI_LIGHTS, and that worked successfully too.

<Entry>
<Key>SHIFT+Z</Key>
<Down>TOGGLE_NAV_LIGHTS</Down>
</Entry>

It does seem that many of the Event ID's listed in the SDK documentation might be keymapped simply in this way.

For your specific case (that you talked about on the Acceleration Pack board), use light types 8 and 9 instead of type 2 (since Wing and Logo lights don't exist on the F/A-18 so they won't clash with anything) and use the Event ID's, TOGGLE_LOGO_LIGHTS and TOGGLE_WING_LIGHTS with whatever keys you want to remap.

Hope this helps. And let us know how you get on.

Best regards,

-Voodoo
 
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