[simpits-tech] [Flightgear-devel] IL2 Sturmovik and fligthgeargauges Panel (

[Jeroen Huijben]

I don't have any secret inside knowledge but what I know is that you can let 
FB open a port on which it will listen for requests.

FB will listen on an IP port of choice and will use the UDP protocol to send 
the data.
You can enable this and choose the port by adding some lines in the conf.ini 
file.

Other applications can ask for things like airspeed or pitch and FB will 
provide this data in a reply.
It is also possible to send input for some controls.
What the application does with this data is up to the designer.

The installation of the patch comes with a textfile (devicelink.txt) 
explaining how to talk to FB in detail.
here's a link: 
http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=400102&f=23110283&m=239101914

This looks like a good sign to me.
More developers are giving pitbuilders the tools to make a fully functional 
pit.

I'm thinking of making a 2D pit in VB6.
Instruments will be simple, just some lines and transparant .gif overlays 
and background.
The response from FB isn't usable as it comes in so there will be a module 
that cuts up the incoming strings and dispenses the data to the right 
instruments.

>From: Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com>
>
>Looks like IL2 just became the simpitters WWII platform of choice.  Anyone
>here have any more info on this?
>
>g.
>
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: Michael Stilmant <mstilmant at tiscalinet.be>
>>Subject: [Flightgear-devel] IL2 Sturmovik and fligthgear gauges Panel
>>
>>Hello all,
>>I'm novice with FlightGear. And Sorry for my English.
>>I'm used to play with IL2 Sturmovik (http://www.il2sturmovik.com/).
>>IL2 is not only a game, but also a good WWII simulator.
>>And since this 19 May with the New AEP Patch 2.01 we can now extract
>>data from fligth parameters like altitude, heading, speed etc.
>>The extraction of theses data is done By an UDP link protocol (DeviceLink)
>>The goal from the developper team (Maddox) was to provide data usefull
>>for poeple to build a Physical Cockpit for this Simulator.
>>
>>But Physical Gauges cost some bucks. So I'm looking to build a Virtual
>>Cockpit Like the 2D FlightGear Cockpit. The Idea is to make somethink
>>like this : http://www.projectmagenta.com/products/i/c.jpg
>>But with Historical Gauges.
>>
>>So I've look on the web and found the Magenta Project but this one is a
>>Commercial project but I want to make something completly free.
>>One other solution is http://www.opengc.org/ but I think it's not
>>exactly what I want.
>>
>>I'm actually looking in the FlightGear source code to be able to use
>>only the 2D cockpit Pannel, with the XML configuration possibilities.
>>(and cptf from the IRC chat show me this:
>>http://home.tiscali.be/mstilmant/divers/il2/IL2Panel/fgfs8.jpeg, and so
>>it's really a good start :-D just need to redisign gauge for an
>>historical aspect and remove modern ones.)
>>
>>Wath cptf has proposed to me is to make a FDM nearly empty with just
>>access to IL2 via UDP.
>>I'll need also to remove 3D environments and in fact almost everythings
>>except wath is needed to let 2D pannel run.
>>But perhaps there are other solutions, So if you have any idea, or tips
>>for me, you are welcome.
>>
>>Thanks All.

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