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P3D "Front End" program

Clutch Cargo

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Looking for any developers/coders who want to bat around ideas for creating a front-end start page (think of how FSX starts), for Prepar3D. One of the most requested pieces of software from those simmers migrating from FSX.
This would be for payware. If interested, email or PM me on your thoughts.

Clutch
 
Honestly this is something I have been thinking about for a while.

This could be implemented fairly easily using flight files. The user decides what parameters he wants, the code spits out a .flt file, and then it is passed as a parameter to the Prepar3d executable. Simple as cake.

This could be developed really quickly and simply if you want an average-looking UI and no advanced selection features. Some more advanced features that could take some time would be querying the airport information from the BGL and code that shows the model. I do already have code that displays models from my MDLMagic project. This could also be cross-platform (meaning that it works in FSX too), since the file format and settings are for the most part identical. If it turns out to be much cooler than the default FSX menus, people could use also use it in place of the default.

Shoot me an email at sean.isom<removespam>@mavs.uta.edu if you want to talk about this further.
 
Yea, the more I tinker with P3D the more I see how simmers used to the MS Flightsim series through the years would miss this.

I've seen several innovative "front end" apps for FS9, some dealing with scenery, some with add-ons like panels, textures, aircraft, sounds, special settings like for the cfg. file, which in turn starts up FS9 just how the user likes it.

True, it could something quick & dirty or it could be a thought out interface where simmers could really have a nice graphical interface and take advantage of set-ups. Then again, a combo of both is possible (ala version 1.0, 2.0, etc). I'm leaning towards the nicer approach. Guess it all depends on what "quick & dirty" means, ha!

I didn't think there are any great mysteries that need to be solved in coding to create this as it appears to be so similar to FS9, but it still could/would take a good amount of time.
 
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