• 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.

MSFS Controlling AI traffic

E

eric_marciano

Messages
527
Country
france
Hi experts,

I would like to create AI traffic that I fully control with an external app. For example, I would like to program a light aircraft to fly a pattern infinitely, landing and going around.
I saw that SimConnect lets you create AI traffic, giving you the control over the flight plan you want the aircraft to fly, but this is not exactly what I want. I would like to be able to exactly position the aircraft (with lat, long and altitude) so that I can manage the exact trajectory in my app and decide how I want the aircraft to move precisely, even during taxi.
Do you know if this is possible?

I think it is possible because BeyondATC claim they will provide this feature in their next release, but I have no idea how they do this.
Any clue?

Thanks,
Eric
 
DragonflightDesign

DragonflightDesign

Resource contributor
Messages
1,003
Country
northernireland
Hi Eric

See 'AIObjectsAndWaypoints' (C++) and/or 'Managed_AI_Waypoints' (C#) in the P3D SDK. If BeyondATC say they are going to introduce that feature into MSFS then IMO it has to be based on setting up fine-grained waypoints and directing the vehicle along them in a similar fashion to the P3D SDK sample.
 
E

eric_marciano

Messages
527
Country
france
I already had a look at the 'AI Objects and waypoints' sample in the MSFS SDK documentation but I couldn't find what I was looking for, which is the ability to set a lat/long/alt position for any AI aircraft. But I may have missed something, the SimConnect_SetDataOnSimObject function might do the trick, I have to test this.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top