Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) - Experimental plug-in v0.10

Dirty updated Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) - Experimental plug-in with a new update entry:

GameDash and GameVibe support.

Read the rest of this update entry...

@Dirty, you did an excellent job with this plugin. Thanks a lot!
Now that I got wind and vibrations working, DCS finally feels really alive.

Today I spent some more time with configuring DCS for Game Dash and Game Vibe, and the result is absolutely amazing for me. Maybe the following is also of interest for someone else.

As @Dirty already wrote in the plugin description, you can configure the plugin with the lua file in the "SavedGames/DCS/Scripts/Hooks" folder.

In the middle of this lua file you find the slots for Game Vibe and Game Dash that you can initialize with your favorite values.
@Dirty has already provided two great functions which are WheelSpin() and Windiness(). You are now free to modify these functions or add new ones.

Note that many input parameters depend on the plane you are using.

At the moment I am only flying the TF-51D, and what I always wanted to have was wind that increases together with the engine's RPM and that is also dependent on the opening status of the canopy.
That means, closing the canopy shall incrementally reduce the windiness, which shall still increase when pushing the throttle forward.
So the wind is strongest with high RPM and open canopy.

I found all required parameters in the file "mainpanel_init.lua" that is located in the folder "...SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\Mods\aircraft\TF-51D\Cockpit\Scripts".

The parameters are available via the main panel:

mainPanel = Export.GetDevice(0)​

The parameters I needed were:

engineRPM = mainPanel:get_argument_value(23)
canopyValue = mainPanel:get_argument_value(162)​

Here is the function that calculates my canopy- and RPM-dependent windiness for Game Dash:

function WindInsideCockpit()

return engineRPM * (0.7 + canopyValue * 0.7)​

end​

Now about the vibrations. I have configured three Game Vibe slots:

• One slot gets the engine's RPM value
• One slot gets the value 1 when the landing gear is extracting or retracting, and otherwise 0
• One slot gets the value 1 when the plane's power is on, and otherwise 0

About the landing gear: Unfortunately the function "LoGetMechInfo" does not work for the TF-51D, so that I had to find something else.
I ended up reading the status of a red warning LED that indicates an "unsafe state" of the landing gear. This LED is on when the gear is extracting or retracting.
The parameter I found is:

landingGearRedLightOn = mainPanel:get_argument_value(82)​

And this is the corresponding function for initializing the Game Vibe slot:

function LandingGearExtractingOrRetracting()

if (OnGround == 1) then

return 0​

else

return landingGearRedLightOn​

end​

end​

(The variable 'OnGound' had already been defined by @Dirty.)

Finally about the plane's power: When turned on I wanted to get a slight humming vibration.
For this one I am checking the cockpit light, which is automatically turned on when I turn on the battery power:

leftCockpitLight = mainPanel:get_argument_value(185)​

And here's the function:

function ElectricalPowerOn()

if (leftCockpitLight > 0) then

return 1​

else

return 0​

end​

end​

I have attached my modified LUA file, just in case anyone is interested.

Yeah really nice! I will check the new plugin today. I'm not quite sure yet, what the pencil values for wind speed should look like. But i'll look at it later.

Hey, wind speed worked on first try! WOW! But, gamevibe don't receive any values from dcs world (i use beta). Just search the reason for that. at the moment.

Edit: Dirty helped me out. It works just fine now. Now i hope some guys with experience, will bring us a good lua file, for the jets and helicopters. I will also try my hand at it, but i do not expect much success.

Dirty updated Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) - Experimental plug-in with a new update entry:

v0.10 brings some improvemens for inexperienced users during patching.

Read the rest of this update entry...

Why I can not download 0.10?

Go here: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...ombat-simulator-dcs-experimental-plug-in.239/

...and then...

...or get it from here:
https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...s-plugin-ready-for-testing.13560/#post-181051

Hi Dirty,
I am trying to patch my DCS.openbeta with your plugin vo.10 but always get an message "patching problem?"
I tried also in admin mode. Patching the original DCS plugin works with no problems.
Do you have any suggestion what else could cause this issue?
Tom

Hi Thomas,

no worries, we'll get this sorted.
1. Where does the message "patching problem?" come from?
2. When does it pop up?
3. Do you have a screenshot?
4. Is there a .lua file in "SavedGames/DCS.openbeta/Scripts/Hooks/"?

Hi Dirty, many thanks for your quick reply!
There was no folder called Hooks in the scrips folder. I added it and ran the patch again....and it works

Here is the screenshot from what I got before I added the Hooks folder

Hmmm,.... that's strange.

The patching routine should've created that folder. I guess for some reason it didn't and then the routine threw an exception. *scratching head*
I will try to replicate it to find the source....

Good to see it finally worked.

Cheers,... Dirty

Sounds great! Many thanks

User/savedgames/dcs.openbeta

Hi, did you try to replicate the issue already? I think I found one more little problem.
I got Game Engine to receive the motion data as we can see on the screenshot but no vibes input. I had a look at the SimTools_DCS_Exp_Hook_v010.lua and found the vibe slots all set to zero. For testing I copied the arguments from GameEngine slots to the Vibes slots and could see the input on vibes tuning Input. Now...I just need to find the right data for vibe slots.
I found these here in one of your posts but they dont work on my machine
local slot_GV_01 = "RPM," & vibe1.ToString
local slot_GV_02 = "RPM," & vibe2.ToString
local slot_GV_03 = "Weapon1," & vibe3.ToString
local slot_GV_04 = "Weapon2," & vibe4.ToString
local slot_GV_05 = "Landing Gear," & vibe5.ToString
local slot_GV_06 = "Flaps," & vibe6.ToString
local slot_GV_07 = "Turbulence," & vibe7.ToString
local slot_GV_08 = 0
Am I missing something else?
thx Tom