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DaveH
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L:Variables wish list
May 8th, 2013 at 3:37pm
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but here goes.

I have only recently purchased FSX Weapon, but already love it  Grin. Best fun I have had in years with FS. I only build military a/c and I like to make them at least look as if the weapons work, so up until now I have been using the trick of adding droppable objects to saved missions to drop bombs and see explosion effects, and also adding gun effects. Various combinations of external stores are built into my models, bombs are animated to drop away from the a/c but are only visible for a few seconds.
Having shot down several AI, and blown up more on the ground, I have started to look to modify CSWeapon for use on my other models. But most of these carry external stores and are pre-HUD, having simple gyro gunsight and/or radar only.

I am very much hoping that there are some L: variables available, that are not defined in the SDK manual, but that could be used to link my external stores visibility coding to store release/firing - so that the external store of the model disappears when the CSWeapon controlled store appears.
The VC models also have weapon selection controls built-in and animated, and again it would be great to be able to link these to the CSWeapon control commands.

The variables that I think are needed to make my dream come true are:

       <Action name="nextWeapon" control="Ctrl+Shift+7" />
       <!-- weapon subtype selector switch --> (>L:xxxxxx, position) ?

       <Action name="nextWeaponMode" control="Ctrl+Shift+8" />
       <!-- weapon type fire mode selector switch --> (>L:xxxxxx, position) ?

     "Weapon Station fire/launch, bool" ? The trigger to fire the selected weapon from the next station

     "Weapon Mode HudString" ?  Used to drive an indicator/lamp and to check things are working as expected
     "Gun Type HudString" ?     As above
     "Gun Shell HudString" ?    As above

Here's hoping!

BTW I did try the "contact a developer" link on the SDK manual, but it seemed to take me to a trouble reporting menu which did not seem appropriate as CSWeapon is working fine.

DaveH
  
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Re: L:Variables wish list
Reply #1 - Jan 29th, 2014 at 7:59am
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Hi,

Nobody to answer ? That's exactly my demand too !!!!

Dan
  
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Re: L:Variables wish list
Reply #2 - Jan 29th, 2014 at 9:48am
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Only Captain Sim can answer this one. Those codes are probably in the CSWeapon.dll gauge found in the FSX\Gauges folder.
  

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