SimAttachments and Their Usage On Preexisting Aircraft

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Howdy all,

Are there certain requirements/workflows for properly using the Sim Attachment Editor and/or related tools in DevMode?

Myself and a few others that I know of are attempting/have attempted to try and play around with the new included SimAttachments on default aircraft. However, I can’t seem to figure out how to “view” them and their position live within the sim for the purpose of adjusting their offset/PBH/scale. I thought I had seen something in the SDK about this ability, is anyone able to confirm if that is possible and/or how to go about that on a preexisting aircraft?

Understandably, there is the route of an additional model with attachment nodes, but that seems to still create a need to see the SimAttachment itself live in the sim for positioning.

Thank you,
Zach

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The workaround I’ve been using is to create a box around the node I’m attaching the sim attachment to, then adjust the size of the box and export until I have a model/empty combination in Blender showing where they will go, isn’t tooo painful as the export only take about 20sec to show up in the sim.

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Thanks @kcgb! That is a great idea — I will have to give that a try.

I’m thinking I misread the SDK in that there was a way to “live view” and “live position” an included SimAttachment. @FlyingRaccoon, by chance would you be able to confirm that?

Thank you,
Zach

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Hello @ZachB

If you can find where you read that, I’m interested.

This is not available yet, but editing attachments position/rotation live in the Editor is being worked on as we speak.

Regards,
Sylvain

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Hi Sylvain,

Thank you very much for the confirmation. My misunderstanding was when reading the Sim Attachment Editor docs in the SDK.

Thank you again,
Zach