Hampster Posted January 26, 2013 Report Posted January 26, 2013 (edited) I am currently making an *unnamed* and *awesome* speed record sailboat for X-Plane, but I have hit a few problems! I would like to be able to adjust the wind DIRECTION and SPEED from inside my cockpit. I know I can do this by applying a dataref to a generic rheostat (like some can effect the POV or time) but I can only find datarefs that display the data, not change it... Help? Edited January 26, 2013 by Hampster
Ben Russell Posted January 26, 2013 Report Posted January 26, 2013 Last time I checked the datarefs for wx were writable, but they had strange naming conventions. Can you post the names of the drefs you've already looked at?
Hampster Posted January 28, 2013 Author Report Posted January 28, 2013 Sure, I hope these will do, I do not know much about this stuff! To display the wind speed I used: sim/weather/wind_speed_kt To display the wind direction i used: sim/weather/wind_direction_degt
Ben Russell Posted January 28, 2013 Report Posted January 28, 2013 X-Planes weather is controlled by three layers of values. The dataref's you're trying to use are an "aircraft local" interpretation of the layers. Use these to "set" the weather: sim/weather/wind_altitude_msl_m[0]wind_direction_degt[0]wind_speed_kt[0]shear_direction_degt[0]shear_speed_kt[0]turbulence[0] You will notices that the dataref names contain what looks like array specifiers. These datarefs are definitely NOT arrays, they just have poorly selected names that are a historical artifact of X-Plane. I'm fairly sure the lowest weather layer is controlled by the datarefs that end in [0]. If not, try the others in the set. ([1] and [2]) Hope that helps.
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