PSX + X-Plane for scenery

[Hardy Heinlin]

At that point during takeoff your customers should have a pitch attitude greater than 10° and should see more sky than land :-)

[matchball]

Has anyone been able to fly online using X-Plane? As I tried yesterday VATSIM and had the same problem as in IVAO. No GS data and also no FL data (altitude data is transferred though).

[mikeindevon]

I believe that X-Plane itself should work ok via XSquawkbox.  This latter software must take internals from X-Plane to provide GS and FL.  My problem is that I am unable to set these internal variables via the SDK.

If the guys at IVAO could expose a set of datarefs for these variables, then I could easily write to them.

Mike

[matchball]

What I have found out is that for some reason FL data is not transfferred to the networks but altitude data is? I tried to use the data source to see what alt data does x-plane have but all those figures were frozen.

I am also quite certain that (at least IVAO) plugin takes it data for GS, FL and V/S from the same source as the X-Plane's VC's PFD. As the figures match every single flight.

Please let me know if I can help. I am still trying to find a person who knows about X-IvAp but for now it seems like the person who made the plugin has left the developing department.

Ps. I just wrote again to the software department. I will let you know if I find any info.

[Greg Hateley]

Hi Mike, thankyou for your excellent product, I use it on a daily basis.

So in summary, XView uses the PSX elevation when flying and the XP scenery elevation when on or very near (< 0.5m) the ground. These slight jumps or early landings are a side effect of XView swapping between the two modes.

Would it be possible to blend the transition between modes?
I am sure you have thought about it, and it may be very complex, I have no idea on that part. It would however, make a great addition to not have the jumping.

Regards
Greg

[Stephane LI]

Hi, Mike and Matchball,

I have found this topic in the X-plane.org forum :
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=52138

Maybe it could help to calculate the groundspeed in XPX to be used by XView and X-Ivap ?

and there are some VARs in section "sim/flightmodel/position/" from this link :
http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/docs/DataRefs.html

I am not an expert in XPX datarefs. I hope it could help. I really wish we could fly correctly on IVAO with PSX and XView.

Stephane

[Steve_Beckett]

Hi Mike

I've read with interest you post on PSX + X-plane for scenery. Unfortunately Im running PSX on an iMac and I note it's windows based. Are their any plans to make an IOS version?

Thanks in advance

Steve Beckett

[mikeindevon]

You will find an OS X version at:

ftp://larkshayes.com/Release 1.2/mac.xpl

Access to this site is explained in a previous post.

I would be interested to know if that works for you.  It was compiled using the OS X c++ library, which doesn't seem to be available on some user systems.  If it doesn't work I will produce a build with the library linked in if I can work out how to get XCode to do that.

Mike

[mikeindevon]

... specifically it needs "libc++"

[Berndo]

Mike,

some months ago I posted about not having the strobe and beacon lights working on your model.

Yesterday I started to debug crash issues with X-Plane and installed a second copy without any addons besides xView. I found at least one error in my sceneries and, purely by accident, found out the following:

If I have a PSX Plane loaded (with the xView plugin) and I change the aircraft to PSX Plane (causing X-Plane to reload the aircraft) the strobes and beacons start working.
Weird, huh?

Now I just have to remember to load the plane twice before starting the APU.

Cheers,
Bernd

[mikeindevon]

Glad it seems to work now.  Perhaps now that PSX Plane is properly reloaded it will remember it.  Mike

[Stephane LI]

Hello,

any news regarding the Ground Speed and Flight Data injection from PSX in XPX and X-IVAP ?
Any contact from IVAO developpers ?
I really like XPX as a scenery generator for PSX but actually cannot do any IVAO's tour as GS and altitude reads Zero and legs cannot be validated.

Stephane

[Berndo]

Mike,

after my backup disk is no longer readable I tried to download XView from your FTP-Server.
I get the username/password prompt, but nothing afterwards.

Could you verify if it is a problem on my end or if the server isn't working?

Thanks,
Bernd

[Zangdaarr]

Hi,

I am really interested in XView, but the ftp provided at the first page does not accept the credential. Did they change or did the soft location change ?

Thanks

[airbusguy320]

I also want to install Xview for Mac but the login does not work.

[Chris Kilroy]

The FTP login details from the first page are working fine here. Do note that they're case sensitive.

[airbusguy320]

Just to confirm: in the e-mail address there are no capital letters and in the password only the "P" in 747Pilot?

[Stephane LI]

Hello,

what about using this variable :

groundspeed   float   660+   no   meters/sec   The ground speed of the aircraft

in sim/flightmodel/position/

to get access to the groundspeed of the aircraft in XPX and in XView ?

Still no solution to be able to fly on IVAO with PSX+XView ? (Ground Speed and Flight Level read zero when flying online)...!!!

If you have access to X-Plane.org forums, here is an old topic talking about Groudspeed in XPX :
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=52138

If you don't have access, some quotes :

XPLMDataRef DR_LocalVX = XPLMFindDataRef("sim/flightmodel/position/local_vx");
   XPLMDataRef DR_LocalVY = XPLMFindDataRef("sim/flightmodel/position/local_vy");
   XPLMDataRef DR_LocalVZ = XPLMFindDataRef("sim/flightmodel/position/local_vz");

   XPLMDataRef DR_GroundSpeed = XPLMFindDataRef("sim/flightmodel/position/groundspeed");
      
   float VX = XPLMGetDataf(DR_LocalVX);
   float VY = XPLMGetDataf(DR_LocalVY);
   float VZ = XPLMGetDataf(DR_LocalVZ);

   float GroundSpeedCalculated = sqrt((VX * VX) + (VY * VY) + (VZ * VZ));
   float GroundSpeedDR = XPLMGetDataf(DR_GroundSpeed);

[Hardy Heinlin]

Hi, why is VZ included in groundspeed?

[Stephane LI]

Hi, I have no idea. You should better ask directly in the topic... But I am sure a good programmer (don't look at me !) will be able to retrieve the groundspeed from PSX an inject it in XPX and X-Ivap..