[question about non-aircraft simobj cameras]

The presence of the aircraft.cfg file is a possibility I also considered after I left the computer yesterday, and is worth looking into...especially since that file and the sim.cfg files are so similar. I might just need to rename the sim.cfg files. My experiments thus far had been with making the innards of the sim.cfg files look somewhat like the innards of the aircraft.cfg files.

I wasn't aware of the 'air' file, and will certainly look into that too.

Thank you for your help :D

--Jack

[question about non-aircraft simobj cameras]

Hopefully, it would operate the same way the AI traffic does...where, while flying my aircraft, I can get a spot plane's view for each member of an airports air traffic by selecting them in the views menu. Instead of a spot plane view, I'd rather config for a cockpit's view of a non-aircraft ground object.

Hmmm...maybe, then, you have some idea of what the key elements are in the aircraft.cfg file that I might include in sim.cfg files so that the non-aircraft objects might fool the system into thinking they are aircraft.

[question about non-aircraft simobj cameras]

Tx,

The question was not so much in regards to the cameras or views of the aircraft I'm flying, but of those other objects on the ground. I'm able to get access to various runway, tower, and AI aircraft cameras, but not the cameras I've put into orcas or jet trucks.

Do you have any idea where I might look for an answer to my dilemma?

[question about non-aircraft simobj cameras]

I'm able to add cameras to non-aircraft simobjects and put those objects into an airfield via simconnect, but I don't see the cameras in the 'Views' menu when I'm flying my plane over the airfield, so I can't use them...or can I?

If there is a way to use them, please let me know.

[Getting Serial Port Data Into FSX]

Thank you so much, that helped tremendously.

[Getting Serial Port Data Into FSX]

Hi,

I'm a clueless noob to SimConnect, and I've been banging my head against the SimConnect API for days trying to get integer values from a non-keyboard-mouse-joystick serial device into FSX to control the yoke of an aircraft. I've got some code in C++ that reads the values into a console as FSX runs my client, but I'm at a loss as to how I can affect the yoke.

Is doing this even possible using SimConnect (if so, please tell how or where I can find the solution), and if not, will FSUIPC solve my problem? The device

doesn't come with Windows drivers. :(