FSUIPC for cockpit builders

[GINO]

Hi Pete,

I'm going to build a home cockpit based on a third party add-on aircraft.

As is known, third party add-ons use much more then predefined FSUIPC variables, so there is a problem to get a full functionality cockpit.

I’ve examined the SDK offsets, there are Project Magenta and some reserved ranges.

Are there plans for mapping any add-on aircrafts?

How about Aerosoft ones?

Best regards,

Gino

[Pete Dowson]

I’ve examined the SDK offsets, there are Project Magenta and some reserved ranges.

Those add-on aircraft which use FSUIPC often have their own offsets which I assign to them on request, but how they then use them is their business. Project Magenta openly publish their offset usage so every user can interface stuff to it. So does FlightDeckSoftware. The FS9 Level-D 767 usage is published in an SDK I think, and Nico Kaan has written interface software for them. The FS9 PMDG range uses FSUIPC offsets but they are kept confidential and you have to negotiate with them for support of specific hardware. I don't think it comes cheap.

As for all of the others, some may use FSUIPC, some not. On FSX not many do as they can interface to FS using SimConnect.

Of course, most add-on aircraft do not extend the subsystems beyond what FS offers in any case, so for those the existing FSUIPC offsets, and, in fact, the FS and FSUIPC assignable controls, normally do everything you might need.

Are there plans for mapping any add-on aircrafts?

How about Aerosoft ones?

I think you misunderstand. "Mapping" is the job FSUIPC does in relating older (FS98) GLOBALS.DLL internal FS values ("offsets") to the same values in later versions of FS, to provide compatibility for add-ons. That's been added to with more data as FS develops, but there's no way I am going to buy every add-on aircraft there is, and hack into it with disassemblers and debuggers to see if I can ferret out where they keep things and find ways of fiddling them. In fact it isn't feasible nor right for me to do it even for one.

For any add-on aircraft you are considering using when building a cockpit you will have to investigate the possibilities specifically for that aircraft, via the makers or their documents. Personally I tend to use only the visual models and air files I like, and have all of the subsystems and controls added by the likes of Project Magenta or FlightDeckSoftware. i.e. No FS panels nor gauges.

Regards

Pete