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taguilo said:
Personally I use my own LVars logger, which will be included in XMLTool, a module I'll be releasing soon.
As it is in fact a 2D subpanel, it can be added to any aircraft panel:


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Tom
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Tom ,

I keep looking at the parameters in the above 4 shots .

With your instrument would it be possible to view the parameters / L:Vars of ships operating
near to your aircraft ?

The reason that I ask is a gent recently at this forum did a Radar specifically for ship detection ,
we struck problems getting data returns on the ships displayed .
Presumably all the data resides in the ship model .

The sort of data that would ideally be required is:-
Ship ID , Ship title , Ship class , Length , Weight , current heading and speed .

I notice that similar parameters show above in your instrument .

Cheers
Karol
 
Building on that, do boats have to be defined as AI traffic in order to return hdg & speed information? Then, I presume, ITrafficInfo variables, not L:Vars, can provide some of the info above. I don't know ... just questions. Bob
 
I use ITraffic to get a whole range of specific data on AI aircraft in my Radar.

Unfortunately ITraffic does not apply to ships .
He did manage to get them showing on the Radar with speed/direction ,
however often he had several ships , possibly some were a Carrier escorts , but he
was unable to discriminate which ship was the Carrier.

Cheers
Karol
PS :
Post #59 at following link refers to the subject,
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/need-help-with-radar-gauge.428217/page-3
 
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COBS said:
Unfortunately ITraffic does not apply to ships .
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My point is that it might if ships are AI traffic ... but I've never made or edited AI aircraft, et al, so it's just a question.

Have you ever created AI Traffic? Its an interesting area I think.

Perhaps good to bump this into a new topic ...
 
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Bob ,

I think the ships are AI traffic , but they appear to be in a different category to AI aircraft ,
and the ITraffic parameters only apply to AI aircraft , (unfortunately) .

Further to the above Ship data that I mentioned , there is one other Ship item ,
when you set ships to show up in the Sim there are two "sets" ,
small ships and large ships.
This parameter would be nice to get access to , as well.

What I was hoping for was that Tom's instrument/utility might list the various
ship parameters , an important starting point .
Where to go after that .. ? I have no idea !!!
But with everything you have to start somewhere ....

What surprises me is that after all these years of FSX existence no one has come up
with a " Ship Module " that declares the various ship parameters to L:Vars that could
then be used in various xml based instruments such as the aforementioned radar.
This has been a concern for me for quite some time as I would love to add ships as
a special search category to my radar .
Please forgive my rambling .

Cheers
Karol
PS : I only created one AI package , that was to dramatically boost F-111 AI
activity level at Amberley (YAMB) and East coast of Australia , to me it was
the bees knees , really cool , a gent in Sth Africa helped me with that one.
 
Karol,
Just had a quick look at the SimConnect SDK. We can certainly retrieve information on watercraft through SimConnect. I then looked through the sim.cfg files for a number of stock water craft, and they are all of category "boat." You may have to infer the type of ship from its displacement alone. I'll see if I can come up with something.

Doug
 
COBS said:
With your instrument would it be possible to view the parameters / L:Vars of ships operating
near to your aircraft ?
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Karol,

L:Vars are only available to the user aircraft, they are not instantiated in Multiplayer or AI objects afaik.

I think Doug gives an answer to what can be made to detect AI ship's parameters.

Tom
 
Tom ,

Thanks , I thought it was worth asking .

Doug ,

I looked in the boat section of FSX , not a lot of information , and some of it odd .
One ship had a Cg at 40 ft , while a Nimitz carrier had a cg at 0 ft , rather odd .

What I find interesting is that with the 2 TACAN frequencies they can derive ILS guidance
data to the deck , that indicated that Carrier deck height and BRC - Base Recovery Course
are available from the AI model (possibly).

I am trying to get some information from Ship AI developers at the moment , if successful will post
that information on references in model/FDE .

Cheers
Karol
 
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