Experimental DCS Plugin ready for testing

Sorry, I don't. Perhaps someone else does.

It's not that I couldn't just put something in there, but it would only be utter nonsense. The question for me would be what to put in there. Do you want to feel some vibration while the gear is in transit, or do you want to feel some vibration while it's extended?
Same for flaps.
With a little LUA you could create some vibrations at some points in time, but it would have nothing to do with what actually happens on the aircraft.

I'd be happy to see someone put some code in those slots, just like you, but I preferred to keep it empty before I put stuff in there that is completely arbitrary.

Dirty

Hi,
I have an issue and hope you guys can help. Let me first say that its been a while since I've had my motion rig operational so I'm re-learing all the ins and outs. I've done no changes to simtools though. For some reason pitch is reversed now. I use the same axis assign as on my other profiles (assetto corsa and other racing sims) where my motion rig behaves as expected. I guess I could just change the axis direction in axis assign, but it bugs me, not knowing what's going on.

What I've done:
Removed all patching done by Sim Racing Studio in DCS folders.
Checked tuning senter to see that I don't have reversed values (positive number where it should be negative etc.).
Re-installed the DCS experimental pluggin to the latest version.

Oh, and a follow up question. About heave. When output-testing. Positive value (moving heave right) should make the rig go up or down?

hi!

yea that is what I did. It was just that my sim wasn’t working as I remembered it and it bugs me that I can’t figure out why. Might be my memory that’s the issue though

Hi! As a YawVR1 owner I am eager to try out Simtools and this plugin. However when trying to patch the game, I always get a 'Game Did Not Patch?' error. I tried running as administrator but no dice. As a last resort I uninstalled DCS (beta) altogether and installed the regular DCS from scratch but I still get the same message. What am I missing here?

During the patching process you have to point to your "SavedGames/DCS/" folder. Sometimes people point to the installation folder (C://Program files/...)instead by mistake.

Can you post a screenshot of the error message? Also, what are the contents of "SavedGames/DCS(openbeta)/Scripts/Hooks/" after patching?

Sure! I did select the saved games folder as per the instructions popup before path selection. Attached are the error message and the 'C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS' folder contents after (failed) patching. Also I ran and closed DCS before patching, set the windows value seperator to a dot and have .NET 6.0.301 (x64) installed.

Hmmm,.... that message is not coming from the plugin itself, but from SimTools (I assume). I can't verify where exactly the patching process goes wrong, just that it does.

But no worries, there's a simple workaround:
All the patching routine really does is copy a little script to "C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS\Scripts\Hooks\'
If you are using the openbeta branch, then the path is "C:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Scripts\Hooks\'

I have attached a .zip fiile that contains a .lua script. Copy that script to the location described above. If the ..\Scripts\Hooks\" folder does not exist, just create it.
You will have to restart DCS from the desktop for the changes to take effect.

Let me know if that fixed it.

Thanks for your support! I just got it to patch after creating the Scripts/Hooks folders myself so I guess that's where the script breaks.

Looking at your script, perhaps a trailing slash is needed in the if statement?

if Not (IO.Directory.Exists(MyPath & "Scripts")) Then
if Not (IO.Directory.Exists(MyPath & "Scripts\")) Then

You might not even need those if statements as according to the docs Directory.CreateDirectory "Creates all directories and subdirectories in the specified path unless they already exist."

Anyways, just a wild guess. Thanks for this plugin!

That's odd, because the scrip should create those folders. It shouldn't crash just because they're not there :-/ At least that was my intention I would love to be able to recreate this. Do you have anything else called "Scripts" in that SavedGames/DCS folder?

Just out of curiosity: Where did you get this? I thought I hadn't published it anywhere. I will try out the change, see if it makes a difference.

Great you got it working through the workaround.

You posted a screenshot with that code in reply #256 of this topic.

Scripts/Hooks now contains a file 'SimTools_DCS_Exp_Hook_v010.lua'. No other content in there. You can find the content of 'Saved Games/DCS' in the screenshot I posted earlier (before patching). It's from a fresh DCS install if you want to replicate.

My guess is that without the trailing slash, the path is evaluated as a file (without an extension) causing the Directory methods to throw an exception and breaking out of your try block. I would log any errors in your catch to confirm this.

Edit: on a second thought, if that was the case it should be crashing for everyone so I guess I' m wrong there

Edit 2: maybe it has something to do with write privileges? On the DCS folder itself to create the directories

Edit 3: the docs are mentioning you should be using double backslashes in the path. Also, this might be worth investigating: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/F...orks-with-two-slashes-in-path?forum=aspcsharp

@Dirty , will you be able to update your script to SimTools V3?

Uhh,…. Good question! No idea…

Is V3 the current version?
Does the script not work with it?

I am a bit busy at the moment and already have a backlog of stuff on my to-do list, but I would sure like to do it. Are there any resources on the topic of what is different in V3?

Thanks @Dirty. V3 is in beta. The older scripts are not compatible, many have already been rewritten. I have not seen what the requirements are or a guide for it but presume its out there, given the number that have been created.

Thanks @noorbeast !