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    MSFS24 Converting ktx2 textures

    Are we really still stuck with needing to use the entire f-ing SDK package build process just to convert a PNG to MSFS2024 KTX2? Huge credit to the developers of the 1000-line scripts to automate the entire process but isn't there a better way? For a livery mod of course the original KTX2/json...
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    MSFS20 Hijack input events using B:Vars!

    Sorry to necro/hijack this thread but the interwebs are full of the most complicated gobbledegook about MSFS 'input event' capturing which seem to bundle together lots of things including model interactions, tooltips and all sorts of stuff nothing really to do with the event capturing. How many...
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    MSFS20 Ambient Wind Direction

    As a late but significant addendum to this, it should be noted that AMBIENT WIND VELOCITY in MSFS isn't in practice what most people are used to from FSX. I.e. I suspect much programming (including windsocks?) takes AMBIENT WIND DIRECTION as the direction, and AMBIENT WIND VELOCITY as the speed...
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    Cockpit shadows

    We've been trying for months to work out why the shadows in our cockpit are low-res and cause a 'speckle' effect on the shadow when the sun is at an acute angle, and this info from @sal1800 TOTALLY NAILS IT. Many many thanks for this info, which I've already retro-fitted into each of our...
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    MSFS20 FILE ACCESS READ WRITE

    necro update here.... for the Steam edition the WASM /work folder is at %appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\<your package Community folder name>\work
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    is there a way not to get these speckly shadows on instrument dials?

    thanks for these clues - pls excuse my slow acknowledgement - I'm currently discussing with the actual modeller who's relatively inexperienced. I'm doing all the programming/configuring and have necessarily become quite adept at reading the gltf file but I need clarify with the modeller exactly...
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    is there a way not to get these speckly shadows on instrument dials?

    As picture above, it's common for our planes to have quite speckly shadows on the instrument dials - I've adjusted the time/clouds/sun to make this example as extreme a I can but the speckle is usually there if you look carefully enough. Anyone else seen this? Is there an obvious...
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    MSFS20 Slingsby T31 Manometer - cannot get vario code to work

    Klem sorry I haven't visited this site in a while and didn't see your post. I wrote the animation/instrument code in the K7 and will help you with the T31 if that's useful. If you PM me on here we'll be able to exchange email addresses or something.. B21
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    MSFS20 Can html/js gauge read package file from VFS but not html_ui ?

    Hi I'm able to 'fetch' files from within the gauge JS with a simple: fetch("/Pages/VCockpit/Instruments/JS3-18/b21_nav_lx/b21_leaflet_map/airports.json").then( ...) BUT this seems to expect "html_ui" to be at the root of the served content. I'd like to read e.g. flight_model.cfg under my...
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    MSFS20 Cockpit sounds

    IMHO WWise is more of a hindrance than an asset for custom in-cockpit sounds, as that forces you into a build process with that unique tool each time you add/change/reprogram some minor sound on a user interaction. A "wav" sound (in this case "cable_break.wav") can be connected to a model node...
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    FSX Bitmask checking in XML

    & is a BINARY operation. 16 is 000010000 (any number of bits will do for this example) So e.g. 110110110 & 00001000 is 000010000 and 000010000 == 16 is true
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    MSFS20 How to animate a continuous flap

    ASOBO_GT_Anim is needed for anything the stock templates don't do. It sounds like you have 3 things to do - animate the flaps and lever, add the interaction (drag?) to the lever, find a way to have MSFS understand continuous flaps. 1 & 2 are trivial, for 3 your fallback is to set 20 flap...
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    MSFS20 Getting temperature at a given location

    my simconnect code from a century ago: https://github.com/ijl20/msfs_probe/blob/main/Modules/sim_probe/sim_probe.cpp I'm wondering whether this could all be done from wasm in MSFS today.
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    MSFS20 Switch control for HTML element

    Top tip - L: vars are useful for seeing in the Behaviours "LocalVars" window, and required for Sounds interaction, but they are shared between ALL aircraft in your local sim which can have bizarre side effects when you're flying in multiplayer. The simple answer is to use Z: vars instead. It's...
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    MSFS20 Switch control for HTML element

    html 'visibility' is simply a case of flipping the style.display between "none" and ("block" or "flex"). You can flip that element property directly, or create two classnames with the alternative properties and update my_element.className rather than my_element.style.display. apologies if I've...
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