Luke Kolin Posted May 10, 2019 Report Posted May 10, 2019 An enhancement request - would it be possible to add offset 05B0 back into FSUIPC5? I believe there's a simconnect structure that allows one to read the position of the viewpoint, and it would be quite helpful to me. Cheers! Luke
John Dowson Posted May 10, 2019 Report Posted May 10, 2019 Hi Luke, I currently don't have any visibility of what was at that offset, and it is currently used/assigned internally. I'll talk to Pete next week when he's back to get more details, but I don't see a problem if the info is available from SimConnect (or the PDK), but it may have to be at a different offset. I'll get back to you. Cheers, John
John Dowson Posted May 10, 2019 Report Posted May 10, 2019 Would this be for read or read/write? I can see that 05B0 was duplicated at 83BC (read only), so maybe I could use that offset.
Luke Kolin Posted May 11, 2019 Author Report Posted May 11, 2019 Just for read, please - I believe the offset was used for this purpose before, it's just not available post-FS9. IIRC the data is available via SimConnect. Cheers! Luke
Luke Kolin Posted June 3, 2019 Author Report Posted June 3, 2019 Just a friendly bump so that we don't lose visibility of this. Is there anything else I can do to help with this? Cheers!
Pete Dowson Posted June 3, 2019 Report Posted June 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Luke Kolin said: Just a friendly bump so that we don't lose visibility of this. Is there anything else I can do to help with this? I think John needs more information about exactly what viewpoint it is. I think he asked me about this because there are several alternatives available in the SimConnect interface. What did that offset use to be in the 'old days' when is was an original FS value (FS9 days or before?). Pete
Luke Kolin Posted June 4, 2019 Author Report Posted June 4, 2019 16 hours ago, Pete Dowson said: I think John needs more information about exactly what viewpoint it is. I think he asked me about this because there are several alternatives available in the SimConnect interface. What did that offset use to be in the 'old days' when is was an original FS value (FS9 days or before?). I believe I'm looking for the SimConnnect variable "EYEPOINT POSITION" - not sure if that is equivalent to what it was in FS9. Cheers! Luke
Pete Dowson Posted June 4, 2019 Report Posted June 4, 2019 9 minutes ago, Luke Kolin said: I believe I'm looking for the SimConnnect variable "EYEPOINT POSITION" - not sure if that is equivalent to what it was in FS9. Nor are we. but perhaps John can populate the offsets from that variable and you can then check. I'll have to leave it to him. Pete
John Dowson Posted June 5, 2019 Report Posted June 5, 2019 Hi Luke, this is next on my list, after we have got to the bottom of the current problems with AI Traffic/Radar Contact crashing P3d/FSUIPC. I'll get back to you on this once I've had some time to look into it in detail. Cheers, John
John Dowson Posted June 28, 2019 Report Posted June 28, 2019 Hi Luke, are you sure that its the 'EYEPOINT POSITION' that you require? This is defined as the 'eyepoint position relative to the reference datum position for the aircraft', and is in feet. Previously this was a latitude/longitude/altitude, so the reference frame (and units) for this is quite different from FS2004. Is this ok?
John Dowson Posted June 28, 2019 Report Posted June 28, 2019 That last post was not correct - I don't know what the reference frame was in FS2004, so it may be the same! I'll add and post a version here when available for you to test.
Luke Kolin Posted June 29, 2019 Author Report Posted June 29, 2019 23 hours ago, John Dowson said: That last post was not correct - I don't know what the reference frame was in FS2004, so it may be the same! I'll add and post a version here when available for you to test. Thanks. What (I think) I'm looking for is the Lat/Long/Alt of the eyepoint itself, rather than relative to the reference frame. Cheers!
John Dowson Posted July 23, 2019 Report Posted July 23, 2019 Hi Luke, I was investigating this for you, but unfortunately I broke my foot (3 metatarsals) around 5 weeks ago so things have been moving along quite slowly. Its not a problem extracting the viewpoint for you, and then changing this to the correct reference frame, but in my investigations so far I'm only getting the initial viewpoint value from P3D and this doesn't seem to be updated when you change the viewpoint (with the standard P3D key controls). I therefore need to investigate more and possibly raise with LM, so this may take a while. I'll keep you informed. Cheers, John
John Dowson Posted February 17, 2020 Report Posted February 17, 2020 Hi Luke, first, apologies for the long (!) delay with this... Took another look and found that there is a simvar called ACTIVE EYEPOINT LLA which I've now added to populate offset 83BC. Please try the attached dll below and let me know. Thanks, John FSUIPC5.dll
Luke Kolin Posted February 17, 2020 Author Report Posted February 17, 2020 Many thanks! I'll give this a test over the next few days. Cheers Luke
Luke Kolin Posted February 17, 2020 Author Report Posted February 17, 2020 The numbers seem a little unusual, but it could be on my end. Can I assume that the lat/long are in the same format as 05B0 and 05B8? Cheers! Luke
John Dowson Posted February 18, 2020 Report Posted February 18, 2020 Hi Luke, sorry, you are correct - the numbers were strange as they were written as 32bit floats instead of 64 (and some conversion was applied). Please try the attached dll where this has been corrected. The lat/long/alt are in the format as received from P3D with no conversion, which is lat/lon in degrees and alt in feet. Not sure what the format of 05B0 and 05B8 was at the moment- I'll check this. Cheers, John FSUIPC5.dll
Luke Kolin Posted February 19, 2020 Author Report Posted February 19, 2020 The offsets look fine, now that I have the correct format. Thanks! Cheers! Luke
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