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Delta2k5 asked FlyingsCool answered

Ground Services on passive aircraft (aka "AI traffic/live traffic")

Hello folks,


I first may introduce myself - I'm Markus, a real life QA test manager who currently is creating configs to be used by AIG on the legacy mdlx aircraft models.

By now I managed to get jetways and pushback working just fine on these models which don't feature nodes, still there seems to be something magic happening on "generic" models which also is not working on custom gltf models.

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I included the following lines on each aircraft with different coordinates:

aircraft.cfg:

[SERVICES]
FUELTRUCK=1
BAGGAGE_LOADER=1
CATERING_TRUCK=1
BOARDING_RAMP=1
GROUND_POWER_UNIT=1
PUSHBACK=1
SMALL_PUSHBACK=0
MARSHALLER=1
JETWAY=1

flight_model.cfg:

[INTERACTIVE POINTS]
number_of_interactive_points=6
interactive_point.0=0, 37.93, -6.05, 0.02, 0, 0, 0, -86, 72, 16, 85, 3, -2, 33
interactive_point.1=0, -43, 5.2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 103, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
interactive_point.2=0, -19.5, 2, -4.8, 1, 0, 0, 90, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
interactive_point.3=0, 28, 1.93, -4.9, 1, 0, 0, 90, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
interactive_point.4=0, 46.3, 10.78, -8.18, 4, 0, 0, 45, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
interactive_point.5=0, -10, -54.59, -10.57, 3, 0, 0, -90, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

systems.cfg:

[electrical]
max_battery_voltage = 24.0
generator_alternator_voltage = 30.0
max_generator_alternator_amps = 400.0

It somehow seems like the GPU is the first service to be triggered to get the others working, so I included the simplified electrical section used on mdlx too.

AIGs custom gltf aircraft got a modern, more in depth electrical section which unfortunately does not work for lights when spawning in midair. Also on these ones ground services are not triggered.

On UI / as an user aircraft all services work just fine.

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What could be missing here? I'd appreciate any answer.

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FlyingRaccoon answered Kaiii3 commented

Hello Markus and thank you for the detailed question.

Did you specify something for the externalpower.N parameter?
https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Content_Configuration/SimObjects/Aircraft_SimO/Systems_Config_Definitions.htm#ExternalPower

What are the external power simvars reading?

Regards,
Sylvain

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Kaiii3 avatar image Kaiii3 commented ·

Hey Sylvain,

we at AIG had to "revert" back from the modern FDE to the very basic lagacy FDE (see the above values) to get lights working with the MDLX airplanes in SU6.

The native MSFS Models (glTF and modern FDE) have been designed by our guys with these settings.

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[ELECTRICAL]
bus.1 = Name:AC_BUS_1
bus.2 = Connections:bus.1#Name:AC_ESS_BUS
bus.3 = Name:AC_BUS_2
bus.4 = Connections:bus.1#Name:DC_BUS_1
bus.5 = Connections:bus.3#Name:DC_BUS_2
bus.6 = Connections:bus.4, bus.5#Name:DC_BAT_BUS
bus.7 = Connections:bus.4#Name:DC_ESS_BUS
bus.8 = Connections:bus.1, bus.3#Name:AC_CROSS_BUS
bus.9 = Connections:bus.10, bus.11#Name:HOT_BAT_BUS
bus.10 = Connections:bus.6#Name:MAIN_BAT_BUS
bus.11 = Connections:bus.6#Name:ALT_BAT_BUS
battery.1 = Connections:bus.9,bus.10#Capacity:28#Voltage:curve.1#Name:Battery_1 ; Battery_1
battery.2 = Connections:bus.9,bus.11#Capacity:28#Voltage:curve.1#Name:Battery_2 ; Battery_2
alternator.1 = Connections:bus.1#iEng:0#RatedVoltage:28.5#Load:curve.2
alternator.2 = Connections:bus.3#iEng:1#RatedVoltage:28.5#Load:curve.2
alternator.3 = Connections:bus.8#IsOnAPU:True#RatedVoltage:28.5#Load:curve.2#Voltage:curve.3
externalpower.1 = Connections:bus.8#RatedVoltage:28.5#Load:400

.......

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In one of the olders versions (we are not fully sure whiche one, but I guess it was before SU5), the same settings worked just fine.


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Kaiii3 answered

FLTSIM.N Entry found that seems to be the issue:

ui_typerole seems to be required for AI airplanes (tested with glTF).

Tested with = "Commercial Airliner" -> worked

Tested with = AI Traffic -> did not worked

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FlyingRaccoon answered Kaiii3 commented

Hello

I'll have this dependency between services and typerole reviewed by developers.
It will be documented if it makes sense and modified otherwise.

Thank you for reporting the issue.

Regards,
Sylvain

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Kaiii3 avatar image Kaiii3 commented ·
For your information I have not tested the other common values for ui_typerole that MSFS uses, they might work as well.
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FlyingsCool answered

I like to create my own custom typeroles for planes. Please make sure to include the ability to do this. As I approach a hundred or more of airplane choices, I really need to use this field to help me find the planes I want to fly (especially how poorly the hangar plane choice menu is implemented, where only 3 of 4 rows capable of being visible are actually visible (and please stop automatically jumping the selected plane to the top of the screen. I get all confused.)).

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