• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSX Programming

M

Mathias2767

Messages
1
Country
austria
Hi all.
I have a question:
Is there a FSX developer who wants to introduce me to Programming aircraft relatet things in FSX. I am able to programm things in C++.
I know there is a documentation from the FSX-SDK online, but that didn't helped me.
Thanks
Mathias
 
Hi,

The best way is to just try it. And when you get stuck ask very specific questions in the aircraft development forum. There are enough people around to answer you questions.
 
I highly recommend downloading and close study of Dai Griffiths' most excellent book: sd2gau31.zip available from AVSIM or Flightsim.com.
 
Hey Mathias,

I feel your pain. I remember not being able to work in XML code. I finaly broke down and learned it and I am so glad I did.

In the mean time though, I work with people like Dwight, my gauge guy (guru) and Doug Dawson who loves C++ more then XML. Doug does side work and is a brain at coming up with getting through barriers in the programming area of FS. Dwight is pretty much an XML programmer.


But... back to learning it. Start with one, single gauge. Change it, redo settings, change it from metric to SAE or vice versa. Learn how the primary codes (A:var, L:var, etc) work, get copies of the listings, etc, and check it out.

And again, not everyone does code, so maybe you might find a good gauge maker that can just do these projects for you. They are out there. Finding them is difficult.




Bill
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top