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Flight_model.cfg - Contact Points

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Hi All,
in MSFS Contact Points are in section [CONTACT_POINTS] of Flight_model.cfg.
How can I see their positions graphically using ModelConverterX?
Thanks
 
Hi,

At the moment MCX only reads the aircraft.cfg file. If the name has changed for MSFS I would have to update that.
 
Hi,

I had a look at the code now and it was relatively easy to add this. So the next development release will read the flight_model.cfg file as well and render the points defined in it.
 
arno said:
I had a look at the code now and it was relatively easy to add this. So the next development release will read the flight_model.cfg file as well and render the points defined in it.
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Great Arno, thanks a lot!
 
Hi Arno,
looking at changeLog.htlm I seen that from now MCX can read Flight_model.cfg, I clicked on "Show CFG points" icon but nothing happens and contact point are not shown.
Thanks.

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Hi,

I only tested with some default MSFS aircraft and there it worked. Is the flight_model.cfg file in the same folder as the aircraft.cfg file for this model?
 
Hi,

Which default aircraft did you test with? I tried the C208 (asobo-aircraft-208b-grand-caravan-ex) for example and that one works fine.

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Hi,

I did some more testing and I found out that reading the CFG points was not very robust. I have modified MCX now so that it should handle more situations correctly. MSFS is really more complex here with all the extra configuration files.

I will push a new development release later today, but I still think the read points are not always correct.
 
Hi,

I did a last check this evening and the model and the CFG points were not aligned correctly, they were rotated 180 degrees relative to each other. So I have fixed that as well now. The next development release with all these fixes should be online in around 30 minutes.
 
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