by Rogermilne » Sun Oct 30, 2016 2:01 am
I had not found that tool on my own - Thanks for the tip! I spent the day tuning up 3 of my favorite planes with this tool and it has significantly improved my experience using FlyInside!
If this tool has documentation somewhere, please let me know where it is. I've not found it yet. I also don't know of any documentation that mentioned the tools' existence either.
What I've figured out so far (which may help others get started too if there's no documentation yet):
- The tool is in your FSX folder, and is called FlyInsideAnnotator
- Choose an aircraft to edit from the aircraft drop-down. In this example, I chose the "Flight Test Aircraft E4" which in my case, is the VRS F-18 Superbug.
- Drive around the cockpit by holding down the Left Mouse Button and pressing W,A,S,D.
- Select elements of the cockpit to modify by left clicking on them. Sometimes, I find that the object I am clicking on is made of several sub-components, and maybe the handle (not the knob on the end) is the actual object that needs to be modified.
- I was able to fix the "Hook" handle and several other buttons (which were all using inverted gestures) by using the "Reverse Direction" check-box.
- It is necessary to click the "Save" button towards the lower right hand corner of the app, in order for the change that was just made to stick. Do this after editing each and every button. If you navigate away (eg. to examine another button) without first saving, then your changes to that previous button are instantly lost.
- The actual save-data is stored in your FSX folder, under DCOC/Annotations/<aircraft-name>.xml (if you wish to share the file, or make a backup copy of it).
I have not been able to figure out what the Event Types do yet (eg. Wheel, LClick/RClick, or LClick/LClick). They don't seem to help in any of the above situations, unless I'm using them wrong. Or maybe it's expected on account of still being in Preview? Any tips?
All 3 airplanes I worked on, have very much improved cockpit controls now - Thanks!
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4ghz, 16gb ram, Windows 10 64bit
GPU: Nvidia GTX 970
FSX: Steam Edition, TacPack, Superbug, ActiveSky, RAAS, Accufeel