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Purchased today, 12/29/2018, to understand it for the possibility to turn it into a hardware simulator for an A-4.
It is commercially licenseable for $750 which can make it FAA certifiable, but that is not our current intent.
| Manual | https://www.x-plane.com/manuals/desktop/#advancedsimulationinx-plane |
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| OBJ File Format | This is the format that aircraft, panels, buildings, etc., are in https://developer.x-plane.com/article/obj8-file-format-specification/ |
Since I recently paid for one month of a Navigraph subscription, I downloaded the Nav Data for X-Plane 11 as well and placed it in Xplane→Custom Data as earth-awy.dat, eath_fix.dat, earth_nav.dat, and CIFP directory of SID/STAR info per airport. Also downloaded a file from the FAA - *FAACIFP18* and placed it in the same directory.
Right now, thinking of doing hardware work with a A-4 simulator, turning it into a very fancy Joystick, using Raspberry Pi with a possible servo controller board. X-Plane can communicate via UDP with it.
- 12/29/2018
Tried this procedure to fix a frame rate which is about 17 - 19.
https://www.x-plane.com/kb/frame-rate-issues-windows-10/
Purchased new GTX1060, now rates are closer to 30 even with features turned on, second monitor.
1/1/2019
Downloaded improved B737 from here: https://forum.thresholdx.net/topic/201-download-links-license/
Sim reported CORRUPTED NAVDATA. Found solution here: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/167034-latest-navigraph-airac-causes-error-in-zibo-mod/ (modified file at X-Plane 11/Aircraft/Extra Aircraft/B737-800X/plugins/xlua/scripts/B738.fms/B738.fms.lua, adding additional rows to the NavData date ranges, and changing to cycle_n = 31
To make a 3D Cockpit, you use blender to make a cube, with normals pointing in. Transparent places become windows. Then the cube needs to be exported using the Xplane2Blender plugin to make an OBJ file which X-Plane 11 can read.
It is possible that the layers in Blender cause different detail:
The purpose of layers 1-3 is LOD (Level of Detail). If you tap into LOD functionality, layer 1 will have full detail, layer two will contain medium detail (for medium distances from object), and layer 3 will have low detail. [Per YouTube video comment]
| LUA | A language which makes it easier to automate gauges, other purposes https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/35579-flywithlua-core-edition-for-x-plane-11-windows-linux-mac-os-x-version/ |
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| Air Manager | Payware functionality to make 2D Steam gauges and to host gauges in panels. Pi version available. https://www.siminnovations.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3 |
| Xplane2Blender | Python addon to Blender which can export in proper format for X-Plane (Apparently requires Blender 2.79 or earlier, docs say X-Plane 11 ready https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/127522-xplane2blender-v340-beta1-is-out/ Manual https://der-on.gitbooks.io/xplane2blender-docs/content/v3.4/34_installation.html Developer Info (Wiki): https://github.com/der-On/XPlane2Blender/wiki |
