SimTools v3 Alpha (Questions, Answers, Fixes, Show & Tell)

AMC-AASD15A Interface config app now posted to the repo.

Update Pushed...
Fixed - A copied profile now copies the Max/Min file correctly

Updated the Generic 2D Standard Axis plugin.
Fixed - Reset now clears the filters also.

The Motion, Dash, Vibe and Crash per-game-settings get copied over with a custom game plugin.
After the setup is run, your interfaces should be all setup and the axis plugin you have chosen should be selected. But no settings are there yet, as they will all get loaded when you install a custom game plugin.

It's intended with v3, for the repo's setup the users completely without you needing to do anything, except posting the inital setup file. But this is the problem I was mentioning in PM, that the system is setup to correct one com port per interface. So your second jrk com port for each interface will not be corrected during install.
I have a couple of ideas thou, but let me think this over a bit...

I'll take a look.

Everything seemed to work in my last test, but I will take another look for a bug.

I probably need an auto-save before the export, I'll will take a look.

The profiles you make in game manager are only for the given game also.
It works the same if that's what your asking?

Thanks for the testing!
Chat soon

Just trying to explain a bit of how it should work is all, so you know what to expect and get the feedback strait so I can get the bugs fixed. It sounds like the setup worked, but some game plugin specific settings are missing after the plugin was installed. I'll run some checks tomorrow and get anything I find fixed!

You can configure the global settings (once i get it right anyway) and it will get copied for each plugin installed as its default profile. If one is a problem (something reversed), simply configure the plugin and export it and load it to your repo for people to use. (they will even get a new plugin is repo alert)

When using a custom plugin from you repo, if a user told you pitch was reversed in dirt rally, all that needs to be done is for it to be corrected, exported and loaded to your repo as an update.
The fix would then be sent out to everyone using the plugin on your repo.

If I wrote the plugin, you can give me a should and I can straiten out the flipped axis too.

Oh, presets are what I think your talking about?
We don't have presets in v3 as all the settings get contained in the custom plugin.
But what i was touching on above is that any game plugin that the global settings don't work for, can easily be wrapped into a custom plugin and loaded to the repo, for a instant fix for all users.

Hope this makes sense, thanks for the feedback.
Chat soon!

If your talking about coping profiles (by hand) from one custom plugin to the next custom plugin, sure you can do this. But when you make a profile under dirt3 in simtools itself, it will not be under dirt2, as its a dirt3 profile. We would not want all the profiles for all games to be mixed or we would have a mess is all.

But then your depending on them knowing what to do is all. Where loading a plugin allows it to work for everyone with no prior knowledge of how it works. For instance, Dirt 3 comes out. You install Dirt 3 from SimTools : PC repo and export it with your global settings. (Now if you want to you can copy the profiles & maxmin settings from the dirt 2 plugin to the dirt 3 plugin.) Then you upload it to your repo and its immediately usable by all users. Seems a lot easier than writing manuals and helping people per-user is all.

We created a way to manage all users in a single location, without having to help each individual person. This includes all setup, plugins, configuration, updates and all else.
You can also easily copy any profile from a game to another by simply saving it as global and then changing to the game / profile you want and loading it back. Like a 'clipboard' if you will.
I really don't believe you will find anything v3 does not do better than v2 after a bit of testing, and of course me getting the bugs out.
Chat soon!

Generic 2D Basic & Standard axis plugins updates pushed.
- Fixed Global Profile saving and reloading.

I see now you are talking about using v2 profiles in v3. I'm afraid this will not work as the files it saves are not compatible.

In v2 this is true, that it always uses the default profile.
However in v3, it simply tests whatever profile you currently have selected.
So you can select any profile for any game and test it to make sure its what you want.

Your not doing anything wrong, In v2, the interface plugin needs to center the sim before and after a run.
In v3, SimTools fully controls the location of everything.
I simply forgot to edit the 'centers' out when i updated your interface.
I get it fixed and send a new one over.

Once i get your interface plugin fixed up, i think the easiest thing to do is to goto the parking location and change them temporarily and hit 'Save & Park' and the sim will move so you can work on it.

We can directly test the default profile for any game we want by selecting the game, select the default profile, and hit test settings.
Also, If we goto any game, we can click Copy in the upper right corner and make a new profile called test.
Now click Load Global and hit Save.
And when our testing is done, we can just delete the profile.
Should we need a testing plugin thou, it could be done.

For configurations that require no second com port, they will work automatically with no extra info from you. For the interfaces that require 2 com ports set up, they will only need instructions on how to setup the second com port. (unless we come up with something else. Seeing exactly what the settings look like for each configuration may help. you can Pm the setup screen shots if you want too.)

Nope!

I'll send you an updated interface plugin shortly,
Take care!

All Axis Plugin Updated!
New Advanced Axis Plugin Available which has native support for Seat Belts and G-Seat platforms. (Axis Type)

The Advanced Axis plugin allows the user to put an Axis in Normal. Gain Only, or Decrees Only mode. When in Gain Only, or Decrees Only mode, the full range of the axis is used with only the positive inputs from a given DOF. Gain Only mode moves the axis from negative to positive (usually extending an actuator), where Decrees Only mode moves the axis from positive to negative (usually collapsing an actuator).



Please let me know how it goes!
yobuddy

It has been member's like you creating these types of projects that drive enhancements to subsequent SimTools versions.

Testing aside, Game Engine crashing can be settings, but is most commonly hardware related, often USB, and should be resolved: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/simtools-usb-issues-can-cause-crashes.313/