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How to trigger smoke in AI plane

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apollon01

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Hello all,

Since you all "play" with AI traffic hopefully somebody could help me with this:

Is there any way how to trigger a smoke effect for the default FSX Extra 300 used as an AI traffic once it descends below a certain altitude?

If I am on a wrong forum, any suggestions where to ask this question?

Thank you
Milan
 
Hi,

Well, the best forum for that question, i think would be the "SimConnect" forum which is a bit above of this one, hehehe. Anyways i will tell you that you can do that with these:


1) TRIGGERING THE EFFECT FROM CODE:

Go to the "Events IDs" section in your FSX SDK, and checkout the "SMOKE_TOGGLE" key, which allows you to turn on and off the smoke system in the AI aircraft. Now, you will need a function to transmit that event to a specified AI aircraft, for do that you need to take a look at the "SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent" function in your FSX SDK, which basicly lets you specify the target AI aircraft's ID, and the event to send, which is the "SMOKE_TOGGLE". This is a small sample code given in the FSX SDK:

Code: 
// 2. Setting an event value in Flight Simulator
hr = SimConnect_MapClientEventToSimEvent(hSimConnect, EVENT_DME, "DME_SELECT");
// Set the selected DME to 2
SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent(hSimConnect, 0, EVENT_DME, 2, SIMCONNECT_GROUP_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, SIMCONNECT_EVENT_FLAG_GROUPID_IS_PRIORITY);

In that sample it's used the "DME_SELECT" event and sent to the aircraft using the "SimConnect_TransmitClientEvent" function.


2) TRIGGERING THE EFFECT USING TRAFFIC TOOLBOX:

In your FSX SDK, go to the "Traffic ToolBox" section, and check it out. The "Send Key Event..." option, does exactly what im decribing above, the only difference is that you dont need to make a program.


Hope this helps...


Best Regards,


Manuel
 
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