Hi, I created an aircraft in MSFS2020 and for MSFS2024 I am not just porting it but instead re-designing it natively from scratch.
My understanding is, that in MSFS2024 you can use empties in Blender to mark the position for the display and then state somewhere that it should merge the Asobo avionics into the aircraft. I have seen the Blender model from the DA62 example which has some empties attached to each G1000 display.
Now I am stuck, because I don’t know the correct name for the G3X-Touch and the G5 backup display for the empty and also in which file and how I can define and merge the displays.
I don’t think the name of the empty is the key (someone correct me if wrong!), but instead you tell the sim in the SimObject Editor that “hey, I want to attach this premade thingy to my node called MyNodeInBlenderThatIsEmpty”. Like in my plane, in the attached_objects.cfg I have
[SIM_ATTACHMENT.1]
attachment_root = simattachments\instruments\asobo_extinguisher
attachment_file = model/asobo_extinguisher.xml
attach_to_model = interior
attach_to_node = ATTACH_POINT_FIRE_EXTINGUISHER
alias = Fire extinguisher
and in my model I have the two empties named ATTACH_POINT_XXXX which just says, attach the asobo_tablet_generic_10_9 to the ATTACH_POINT_EFB and the extinguisher model to the other attach point (both Empties in Blender). Reread through the DA62 SDK model files and see how they link the premade models to the empties.
One thing was before I got the attachment working for my plane was that I had to make a Preset for it in the SimObject editor. But, this could just be me not knowing what I’m doing.