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P3D v4 Doug Dawson's xml2ipc gauge
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Hi Dave,
If I may ask: is this for use with any of my VTOL addon versions, or for another application ??
Rob
Hi Doug (and Dave),That is going to be a non-trivial exercise - more a like a complete re-write, actually. I will put it on the list of things to do, but it won't be this week or next...
Doug
To eleborate on the post above by Kalong (Maryadi).
A bit of history:
As you know, I always relied on your xml2ipc for all my VTOL stuff since 2004 or so.
Without it, none of this work would have been possible; So thanks again for that, and all you other valuable stuff.
However, on P3Dv2/3 , xml2ipc gave problems occasionally on some user systems; causing the longitudinal speed forcing to fail suddenly. Especially in combination with the installation of Tacpac.
I never could get a grip on that, since I was,'t able to pinpoint it to xml2ipc, FSUIPC or SimConnect (or Tacpac, for that matter; which also uses SimConnect as far as I know).
Also because I don;t use P3D myself.
Now, during my V22 project with Maryadi, he built a replacement for xml2ipc from scratch with VisualStudio, which directly interfaces with SimConnect. Problem gone, and no more FSUIPC requirement ..
This new module (AVM.dll) has exactly the same Lvar interface, so it can be used as one-to-one replacement for xml2ipc.dll with FSX and P3Dv2/3 (it contains a few more functions too that I use).
Maryadi also compiled a 64-bit version of AVM.dll, which is currently under test.
When it's confirmed to work on P3Dv4, with Maryadi's permission I will upload these 32bit and 64bit versions of AVM.dll here at FS-DEV, as freeware, for anyone to use.
Although I'm not sure that xml2ipc is used for other application then my VTOL implementations. I'm not aware of any....
So maybe this saves you the efffort of making a 64-bit version of xml2ipc.dll.
Best regards,
Rob Barendregt
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Maryadi and Rob, a big thank you for your work! I just did a quick test with the 64bit AVM module + Rob's VTOL gauge installed into the Wilco Harrier in P3Dv4 and things are looking GOOD. Will do more testing tomorrow.
Good to hear; I'll upload the module (32 and 64 bit versions) sometime next week.
@Dave:
One thing you can do in anticipation:
Since this module is built with Visual Studio 2015, it requires the presence of the "Visual C++ Redistributable VS2015" on your PC.
If you don't have that yet, you can download it here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
For WindowsXP-SP3 upto Windows10.
It's best to install both the .x86 and .x64 versions .
Rob
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I have done more flying in P3Dv4 today, no problems found. There only was a minor issue when I applied the AVM module + RCB VTOL gauge on a different Harrier model: With engine running and parking brake engaged, the jet started rocking along the pitch axis, the tail struck the ground. The good news is that this was solved by reducing the aircraft.cfg [brakes] toe_brakes_scale from 2.0 to 0.75.
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Maryadi thanks! I do not think the RCB Harrier VTOL gauge v20.7 needs to be updated for the parking brake pitch rocking. I did some tests on a AI carrier with 3 different Harriers (Wilco, Razbam, UKMIL). With the reduced toe_brakes_scale= 0.75 there is no rocking on the carrier deck.
OK, enough test results.
I also Emailed with Doug about this.
Sometime next week, I'll upload a file with the 32bit and 64bit versions of the AVM module, with a description on how to use/install it.
And of course with all thanks and credits to Maryadi and Doug.
I'll announce that in a seperate thread in this "gauges" forum.
Cheers, Rob
I also Emailed with Doug about this.
Sometime next week, I'll upload a file with the 32bit and 64bit versions of the AVM module, with a description on how to use/install it.
And of course with all thanks and credits to Maryadi and Doug.
I'll announce that in a seperate thread in this "gauges" forum.
Cheers, Rob