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I was one going to ask, than I just had a second thought....

Hi Ben, From what I could understand about Cekko's issue, he would like to have Gizmo running without the control window or with the window popping in from a different screen position. Cheers Alberto

Great move, Ben. Thank you. Alberto

Amazing, I'll give it a try when I am done with my main project! Good job.

At post #539 the Gizmo.plugin folder is clearly there Can we see a screenshot of what actually is INSIDE that folder? EDIT: OK, the folder contains what is expected to be there....

I can confirm that. Within FreeTrackNoIR main window, select "Fake TrackIR" in the Game protocol combo. Then install Sandy Barbours' Pilot view and enable Track IR support. You will get a nice and smooth handling of all 6 degrees of freedom for you point of view.

>The only shortcoming seems to be that FaceTrackNoIR cannot do sideways movement. Typical example when landing K&A's T-28 on the Nimitz as mentioned in Chip&Simon's blog, you need to be able to move sideways so you can see along the side of the nose. I haven't found a way to get FaceTrackNoIR to do this. Even though it has a "Roll" axis this is far from easy to get any satisfactory results from, and I've left Roll axis disabled. I really have to check that again (I am not currently on my gaming pc) but as far as I can remember you get the most out of FTNoIR by simulating the Track IR protocol and coupling it with Sandy's Pilot view.

OK, registration is back! Ciao Alberto

I see your point, Ben. Also, Pete's approach looks nice to me so I will be just fine. Cheers

I see a lot of cases for this, but why not just making "inElapsedSinceLastCall" available to the script? Cheers x-a

Hi Ben, Gizmo would not load in Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit this is what I got from the log Loaded: /media/STORAGE/X-Plane 9/Resources/plugins/PluginAdmin/lin.xpl. Loaded: /media/STORAGE/X-Plane 9/Resources/plugins/DataRefEditor/lin.xpl. dlerror:/media/STORAGE/X-Plane 9/Resources/plugins/Gizmo.plugin/lin.xpl: undefined symbol: luagl_get_enum Loaded: /media/STORAGE/X-Plane 9/Resources/plugins/MyPlugin/lin.xpl. Found stats plugin: 2 OpenAL version : 1.1 OpenAL hardware : PulseAudio Software OpenAL extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_disconnect ALC_EXT_EFX ALC_EXT_thread_local_context It is a fresh ubuntu installation , so I might have forgotten some key piece...

Thank you for the linux build! Going to check it later today.

Good. Those A/P flights can get really boring...

Thank you, Ben!

Four! :-) EDIT: ok, so we have the source code, we are mighty linux users... we should really go on and get the plugin built on our own effort... shouldn't we? too bad I failed already :-[ but I will not give up

Cool!

Hi Ben, may I ask you what a "hooked dataref" is? - or I could just wait and inspect your code...

Hi Lightner, I am not really able to perform any test today, but please note that the tape masking fuction is supposed to work based on "panel coordinates", that you get with: XPLMGetWindowGeometry(gMainWindow, &PanelWindowLeft, &PanelWindowTop, &PanelWindowRight, &PanelWindowBottom); Not sure how they relate to screen coordinates. Will follow up when possible.

Hi, Lightner not sure about the impacts, but the C code I use (ported into gizmo by Ben) works from a drawing callback, registered for the "xplm_Phase_Gauges" phase. You probably need to call this from a draw_2D_panel function. I will check later. Ciao A.

got it for some reason that I did not investigate (I can get lazy, I know) the shell was not working on my pc before. It works fine now. Thanks Ben! Alberto

About the first pic: now I know what I would be doing if I was born before the silicon age...

Hi Pete-SMS I will look at that, but let me first suggest you to try hooking on the ..._OnHold() trigger. I suspect that a few x-plane commands might not issue the expected OnStart and OnStop events Ciao Alberto

...that you do not have to reload x-plane to see your changes when you correct your script (*)... is it about time to say goodbye to my C development suite? (* and I even discovered this accidentally... I should start reading manuals... or at least understanding what I am doing...)

Hi Lightner, this version of the path indicator scripts works fine unless you have cross wind (we need to figure out what the path indicator shows, may be side accelerations?) I see no more "lag" of sort... You were almost there, you just did not compensate for fov as you (correctly) did for the horizon example...and a couple of math.tan went missing as well.... xpdr_alpha = xp.getDataref("sim/flightmodel/position/alpha") xpdr_beta = xp.getDataref("sim/flightmodel/position/beta") function OnDraw_Windows() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[CONSTANTS] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[get screen resolution] local sw, sh = gfx.getScreenSize() --[set FPV circle radius] local m_radius = 14 --[GET HORIZONTAL FOV IN DEG & RAD] local HFOV_deg = camera.getFOV() local HFOV_rad = math.rad(HFOV_deg) --[CALCULATE VERTICAL FOV IN DEG & RAD] local VFOV_rad = 2 * math.atan( math.tan(HFOV_rad/2) * (sh/sw) ) local VFOV_deg = math.deg(VFOV_rad) local vfov_factor = (sh/2) / math.tan((VFOV_rad/2)) local hfov_factor = (sw/2) / math.tan((HFOV_rad/2)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[DRAW FLIGHT PATH VECTOR] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- gfx.texOff() gl.PushMatrix(); --move draw cursor to screen center gl.Translate( sw/2, sh/2, 0 ) gl.PushMatrix() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[CALCULATE SCREEN POSITION TO DRAW FLIGHT PATH VECTOR] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- gl.Translate(- math.tan(math.rad(xp.getFloat(xpdr_beta))) * hfov_factor , -math.tan(math.rad(xp.getFloat(xpdr_alpha))) * vfov_factor , 0 ) --[set double line width and red color] gl.LineWidth(2.0) gfx.setColor(1,0,0,1) --[DRAW FPV circle with m_radius made of 40 line segments] gfx.drawCircle(m_radius,40) --[draw left wing] gl.Begin('LINES') gl.Vertex(m_radius, 0) gl.Vertex(m_radius + 10, 0) gl.End() --[draw right wing] gl.Begin('LINES') gl.Vertex(-m_radius,0) gl.Vertex(-m_radius - 10, 0) gl.End(); --[draw tailfin] gl.Begin('LINES') gl.Vertex(0, m_radius) gl.Vertex(0, m_radius + 8) gl.End(); gl.PopMatrix() gl.PopMatrix() gfx.texOn() end ciao alberto EDIT: given how painful it had to be to cope with field of view compensation, I would suggest to have this script promoted in the tutorial section...

Ok, I _was_ horribly wrong, after all. When in "HUD view", VFOV and HVOF are correctly calculated by you... (I had a chance to give it a quick try) Let me look at it more carefully... :o