Custom plane crashes Aircraft capture tool to desktop

[MSFS 2024] Bug Reports SDK: Tools/Samples/Documentation
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Version: 1.6.19.0

Frequency: Consistently

Severity: High

Context: What package? When editing or mounted from Community? In main menu or in flight? etc…

Custom plane, devmode project and dump provided via @PrivateContent

Bug description:

My custom plane loads into the world fine, be it on runway or at a gate. But, when I try to take the EFB layout image, I’m having issues. When I start the Aircraft capture tool, my plane isn’t loaded into the capture environment.

Then, if I select it from the menu and click Spawn Object, the plane still never loads and the “Loading Aircraft…” stays there forever. Only hint of issues is that in the console it says “AircraftSpawningEnd | We are still waiting for aircraft to finish loading”.

Then, if I go into Aicraft capture tool tab, load a preset like TopLeftOutline and press Capture the folder selection box pops up normally. But, after selecting a folder like C:\Temp the game crashes to desktop.

So obviously something is wrong with my plane, as I can take captures from other planes , but I really can’t even begin to debug it when there are so few console messages to go off of. So if anyone could help me out and maybe even fix the game crashing in this particular instance, would be great.

Repro steps:

Load provided devmode project into Aircraft capture tool and try to capture images.

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Hello @RJiiFIN ,

Can you open your [common] model.cfg and add this :

[model.options]
withExterior_showInterior=true

Let me know if after a build the aircraft capture tool is now loading your aircraft.
As withExterior_showInterior is mentioned as optional in the documentation, I logged this and I will let you know when I have some news to share.

Regards,
Boris

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Thank you @Boris , this works! Is there some issue with my model or config setup if I need this?

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In your case, no.
With this option enabled, your aircraft’s interior will be visible even when you are in the exterior view.

You can check the DA62 SDK sample to see how we have set up the parameters.

If you really need this option to be set to false, as a workaround, you can temporarily add it in your model.cfg before opening the Aircraft Capture Tool and remove it afterward.

Also be sure to check the documentation here about the model.options part.

Regards,
Boris

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