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FSXA Make changes to the Visual Model?

ZG862

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Hi chaps.

How does one go about this via SimConnect?

What I'm contemplating is making a visual model of a user aircraft that includes things like access panels which I want to open and close with my client application. I've seen some examples of how to do this for AI aircraft using XML and learned from this that I'm going to have to have named parts in the aircraft visual model, but I'm afraid I don't know where begin when it comes to triggering appropriate events in FSX. Am I able to define custom events and have the visual model catch them? If so, how? Just picked up a copy of FSDS 3.5 which I was thinking of using for prototyping.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Z
 
I don't think SimConnect is the right place, as you mention user aircraft...

of course custom, L:var driven animations exist in FSX and L:vars are also pretty simple to code in gauges... or VC...
 
pfabian said:
I don't think SimConnect is the right place, as you mention user aircraft...

of course custom, L:var driven animations exist in FSX and L:vars are also pretty simple to code in gauges... or VC...
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Thanks for your thoughts Peter.

Pretty simple when you know how...

May I prevail on you to suggest where I should post if not here? I'm clearly doing something wrong as other things I have posted in this section have not had much attention. I've made a fair bit of progress on my own but feel pretty sure I'm not the first to drag myself ineptly up this learning curve. Searching the site for the information I seek seems to turn up issues that seem very different to mine or nothing at all.

Z
 
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