Modify carb heat calculation in a payware ac (P3DV4.5)
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:10 pm
I have a payware aircraft with a carb heat gauge in the vc which is calibrated 32 - 160 deg.F and the needle never moves. Hovering over the gauge gives a tooltip showing that the carb heat is being calculated in deg.C so that even with carb heat applied it is rarely going above 32 (typically 2 deg.C with no heat and 29 deg.C with heat on in a 10 deg.C ambient at tickover). I have submitted a support request to the supplier a couple of times but they never seem to release updates other than just after a new model has been launched. ( I'll let you guess which supplier I'm talking about!).
I'd like to modify the ac model so that carb heat is converted to deg.F and hence shows on the gauge. (I'm assuming this is easier than changing the gauge to read in deg.C over a suitable range.)
The gauge does not seem to be referenced in any of the .CAB files pointed to by panel.cfg so I guess its code is in a DLL somewhere.
I have never used the P3D SDK, but I have developed real-time s/w professionally in the past (40 years ago!), so I might be able to reactivate my very rusty coding skills. Can anyone (a) tell me if what I want to do is feasible with a bought-out aircraft model, and (b) give tips, advice, things to avoid for a newbie?
Many thanks
Mark
I'd like to modify the ac model so that carb heat is converted to deg.F and hence shows on the gauge. (I'm assuming this is easier than changing the gauge to read in deg.C over a suitable range.)
The gauge does not seem to be referenced in any of the .CAB files pointed to by panel.cfg so I guess its code is in a DLL somewhere.
I have never used the P3D SDK, but I have developed real-time s/w professionally in the past (40 years ago!), so I might be able to reactivate my very rusty coding skills. Can anyone (a) tell me if what I want to do is feasible with a bought-out aircraft model, and (b) give tips, advice, things to avoid for a newbie?
Many thanks
Mark