Sling wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:26 am
Hi Detlef,
This particular guideline was introduced because several submissions were made that relied on using the Mobiflight wasm for access to LVAR’s back in the early days of MSFS. The good news is AM doesn’t require that now. AM community instruments can’t be reliant on other software for various reasons. I don’t know if there is a way for AM to better interface with this type of arrangement. I do not have the PMDG 737 and so I have no way of looking at this in any detail but if those vars you are accessing fall into the BIO var group then there is hope that Asobo may improve access to those because they affect not just the PMDG but also every other aircraft. PMDG are unfortunately not helpful towards cockpit builders and have so far not made it easy to interface to their aircraft. Even prior to FS2020. If it is related to the BIO vars the aircraft dev can easily provide LVAR hooks that we can use and many devs provide this but sadly many of these var types are hidden away from external control. There is a votable wishlist item on the MSFS forum that covers a lot of the BIO var stuff. Please vote if you haven’t already.
Hi Sling and all,
thank you for comments, explanation (and in some parts speculation I guess). I have opened a ticket with PMDG today and will see what comes from it.
But, I don't like waiting and just hope for times getting better. Here is a proposal:
When I create an instrument and submit it, I tag "3rd party tool required". As a result from that:
- A preview of the instrument will not show up, unless a user imports the instrument and untags "3rd party tool required"
- The instrument information will say (fix text, no change possible): "This instrument requires 3rd party software for full operation. Click on "Folder" and read the documentation for further instructions."
- Siminnovations provides the instrument but cannot support this instrument because it requires 3rd party tools.
The words should be chosen more elegantly, I am native German language, so cant do better.
Apart from that (different topic actually), I would appriciate if I could provide a PDF file with an instrument, explaining how to use its features, for example illumination options.
Thank you
Detlef