How to get a custom pilot model to show in cockpit view?

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Howdy! :cowboy_hat_face:

Working on a custom pilot model, and I am unsure of how to make it always show-even in cockpit view.

I know there is a way to do it in individual aircraft.cfg files for the specific aircraft, but is there a way to make it show without modifying individual files?

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Many thanks :smiley:

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Pilot and Copilot are attached to PILOT_0 and PILOT_1 nodes,
If they are not in the relevant glTF (LOD0 for the cockpit view) they won’t show, unless you hack the glTF itself
It easy somewhat easy to do (a couple of line in notepad), but it will be for your personal use only unless you have the permission from aircraft creator to share his own model files

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I’m a little unclear is the PILOT_0 node identifier required to be exactly “PILOT_0” or can it be any valid node id as set in the model and referenced in the CFG file? The reason I ask is to see if I can retrofit a pilot model into an existing aircraft that has plenty of nodes I could use in the cockpit but not a “PILOT_0” node. I’m already aware the pilot placement can have offsets from the node.

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Node name can be any, yes. But injected pilot model will have same position, rotation, and scale values. Using random node very likely will not bring positive results.

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The node name relationship is controlled here:

aircraft.cfg

[PILOT]
...
copilot_attach_node = "PILOT_1"
pilot_attach_node = "PILOT_0"
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thanks - I’ve got the hang of hand-editing the gltf entry for nodes so I can adjust that node and hence the pilot position. We’ve got a great set of freeware gliders in the sim but almost all of them are 3D modelled by first-time devs who aren’t aware of the long list of things still to do after the model looks ok so there’s a substantial element of text-file hackery involved.

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Hello, my friend, I now want to make a market content that changes the character model and the co-pilot model, just like the dog in your picture. I am very happy that someone has the same idea as me. Do you have any contact information? I would like to ask you some questions. Thank you again.