Newbie to FSUIPC. Who creates presets for the FSS B727-200?

[Lord Farringdon]

As the title says I'm still fumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch. In the meantime I've managed understand from the documentation and various forum discussions how to apply presets to the PMDG B737-700.

It does not appear as though the community has created any presets for the FSS-B727-200 as of yet, (I need to get the three fuel cut-off levers working). I figure these fuel cut-off levers should be easy to start with but I probably need someone to suggest to me where I should focus my learning to get to this point? As I have moved around this dark room looking for the light switch, I have come across LVAR's, SIMVARS, Lua scripts and SDK's, and I assume knowledge of all or some of these will presumably be required to create these presets or make these switches work in some other way. I have read the whole FSUIPC advanced users document and while I can see how useful the commands are,  I guess I'm not really sure what I am supposed to do with them...(write a Lua Script presumably?). As you can see, I'm floundering, so if someone could shine a torchlight on the important bit I should focus on that would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.  

Cheers

Terry

[John Dowson]

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Who creates presets for the FSS B727-200?

It is the people who have an use an aircraft that create the presets, and MobiFlight host this community-driven effort to discover presets via the HubHob site (https://hubhop.mobiflight.com/presets/). You can also use the MSFS2020 channel on MobiFlight's discord server to ask and discuss about presets. I can also help with presets for aircraft that I have own or have access to, but I don't have the B727 so cannot help with this aircraft.

2 hours ago, Lord Farringdon said:

As I have moved around this dark room looking for the light switch, I have come across LVAR's, SIMVARS, Lua scripts and SDK's, and I assume knowledge of all or some of these will presumably be required to create these presets or make these switches work in some other way. I have read the whole FSUIPC advanced users document and while I can see how useful the commands are,  I guess I'm not really sure what I am supposed to do with them...(write a Lua Script presumably?). As you can see, I'm floundering, so if someone could shine a torchlight on the important bit I should focus on that would be really helpful.

Forget about lua for the time being - you shouldn't need lua as you should be able to implement most things via presets. Presets can also be used to control/set  lvars and hvars.
To determine what controls a switchm toy can use FSUIPC's logging facilities. Logging of Events and Axes Controls should reveal any standard FS controls used, and toy can use logging/listing of Input Events and lvars to see changes for these. You can also use the MSFS behavior debugging facilities to inspect the code that is used to control a button/switch - see https://www.badcasserole.com/uncovering-input-events-using-the-msfs2020-model-behavior-dialog/.

I will see if I can get gold of the B727 and if so will take a look at the fuel cut-off switches to get you started.

[Lord Farringdon]

Fantastic. Thank you John. That's great info to get me started especially remaining focused on presets which at least I have a marginal understanding of. Also a good steer regarding how to find the control codes in MSFS and the FSUIPC event logging.  Hope you can get hold of the B727 since I suspect I won't be the only one in this bind...(if you'll excuse the pun haha). 

Thanks again

Cheers

Terry

[John Dowson]

Still not got hold of the B727, but another user has posted the following presets for the cut-off levers - add them to your myevents.txt file (create this file if you don't have it):

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//FlightSim Studios/B727/Fuel
B727 Fuel Control 1 Run#1 (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_1,number)
B727 Fuel Control 1 Cutoff#0 (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_1,number)
B727 Fuel Control 1 Toggle#(>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_1) ! (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_1)
B727 Fuel Control 2 Run#1 (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_2,number)
B727 Fuel Control 2 Cutoff#0 (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_2,number)
B727 Fuel Control 2 Toggle#(>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_2) ! (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_2)
B727 Fuel Control 3 Run#1 (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_3,number)
B727 Fuel Control 3 Cutoff#0 (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_3,number)
B727 Fuel Control 3 Toggle#(>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_3) ! (>L:FSS_B727_PDSTL_FUEL_CUT_OFF_3)

You can then assign to these by checking Select For Preset, click the Find Preset... button and they will be available under Personal-> FlightSim Studios -> B727 -> Fuel.