Assign Variables procedure
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2022 8:18 pm
Hi Peter,
Thanks for such a fantastic program!
A friend and I are looking in to shared cockpit online with Xplane 11.5x.
We're using the default Boeing 738 for now but will want to use addon aircraft later with custom datarefs.
At the moment we're exploring the built-in capabilities such as Plane.txt. We note that for the B738 the files already assigned were Plane.txt and SingleProp.txt - is that right? We played around with adding our own .txt file to see what we could synchronise, but to be honest we were not sure of the procedure. So a couple of questions:
1) Is there a recommended order to start JoinFS on the two aircraft? We know there has to be a flight active.
2) Does the .txt file have to be assigned to both aircraft? For instance the "co-pilot" aircraft also had Plane.txt and SingleProp.txt assigned.
3) Is there a recommended procedure for assigning the text files to the aircraft?
4) What is the separator character now? In the manual it shows a pipe (|) character, but in the release notes for version 3.0.3 it says "Fixed issue with variables file for models containing the character symbol '|'. Changed the separator to '[+]'"
We set up a single-line file called General.txt for both aircraft which has:
FLOAT|laminar/B738/electrical/gpu_pos||
... and tried the following
1) Both aircraft have the file assigned and separator = |
2) as above with separator [+]
3 each aircraft in turn as the only one with the file assigned, firstly with | separator and then with [+] separator
In all circumstances when it responded, the ground power was cycling on both aircraft, as if it was not possible for them to synchronise - Schroedinger's GPU, lol, both on and off at the same time! My guess is that we were using the wrong dataref, or that we needed to synchronise more than one for the GPU to be fully active on in both aircraft.
Sorry for the long post, just trying to give you as much info as possible.
Many thanks,
Roger.
Thanks for such a fantastic program!
A friend and I are looking in to shared cockpit online with Xplane 11.5x.
We're using the default Boeing 738 for now but will want to use addon aircraft later with custom datarefs.
At the moment we're exploring the built-in capabilities such as Plane.txt. We note that for the B738 the files already assigned were Plane.txt and SingleProp.txt - is that right? We played around with adding our own .txt file to see what we could synchronise, but to be honest we were not sure of the procedure. So a couple of questions:
1) Is there a recommended order to start JoinFS on the two aircraft? We know there has to be a flight active.
2) Does the .txt file have to be assigned to both aircraft? For instance the "co-pilot" aircraft also had Plane.txt and SingleProp.txt assigned.
3) Is there a recommended procedure for assigning the text files to the aircraft?
4) What is the separator character now? In the manual it shows a pipe (|) character, but in the release notes for version 3.0.3 it says "Fixed issue with variables file for models containing the character symbol '|'. Changed the separator to '[+]'"
We set up a single-line file called General.txt for both aircraft which has:
FLOAT|laminar/B738/electrical/gpu_pos||
... and tried the following
1) Both aircraft have the file assigned and separator = |
2) as above with separator [+]
3 each aircraft in turn as the only one with the file assigned, firstly with | separator and then with [+] separator
In all circumstances when it responded, the ground power was cycling on both aircraft, as if it was not possible for them to synchronise - Schroedinger's GPU, lol, both on and off at the same time! My guess is that we were using the wrong dataref, or that we needed to synchronise more than one for the GPU to be fully active on in both aircraft.
Sorry for the long post, just trying to give you as much info as possible.
Many thanks,
Roger.