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I have created stationary simobject vehicles that are spawned with SimConnect_AICreateSimulatedObject. These objects are not meant to move and have no animations. I used simobject category StaticObject but the vehicles will not orient themselves to the terrain (partially buried/floating). If I use GroundVehicle they will align to terrain but move away in fwd/rev. Is there a way to park a spawned GroundVehicle or preferably have StaticObject "snap to normal" with Simconnect?
Any help appreciated
Give it a parking break and set it via SimConnect, that should stop if from moving.
Thanks, that sounds logical.
Can someone point me in the right direction for adding a parking brake to GroundVehicle simobject? I've looked through sdk documentation for Ground Vehicle config definitions/examples but don't see anything for parking brake. Is this something that needs to go in the model .xml?
Thanks in advance
If the vehicles are not meant to move, send their variable "SIM DISABLED" to 1, so you'll turn off their internal simulation, which will be better for fps compared to set their brakes.
In addition to that, unless you have specific reasons to create them through Simconnect, it's definitely easier to just add them to the scenery with the Scenery Editor, which DOES allow SimObjects to be placed as "static", with no need to use Simconnect, as it was with FSX/P3D.
Just set the "snapToGround" to TRUE, with an altitude of 0, so they'll stay on terrain.
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