PART 14: Making the Cockpit Interactive

So last we left off we had a cockpit and a shiny cockpit control class that didn't actually do anything. Now it's time to do stuff.

VC displays and user inputs are handled by "Active areas" that are registered when the VC is loaded. To generate these active area s I have created a function called "RegisterActiveAreas" in our cockpit control class. (See part 13) this function is a void and takes a single VECTOR3...

I've been putting of writing this part because it's complicated and it involves a bunch of programming that does not directly apply to Orbiter. That said I really need to post something before my "in-progress point" goes too much further, so without further ado...

PART 13: Classes and Objects
In C++ a class is an expanded concept of a data structure that can hold both data and functions. An object is specific instance of a class. In terms of variables, a class would...

So guys, this is my very first post to my newly created blog, for a not so-new project for Orbiter !
Basically here I will put some updates on the state of the project, like right now:

I am doing some "decleaning" on the textures, just a Ambiant Occlusion pass here to avoid the "totally blank" textures. Here is a result:


Soon magically converted...

So let's add a virtual cockpit.

Virtual cockpits can dramatically increase the immersion factor of a simulation and a custom cockpit and/or 2d panel is an absolute ust for any vessel that with advanced subsystem modeling. The historical LM had over 160 switches and displays spread across 14 panels and we've only got so many keyboard commands to work with.

PART 12: Adding a virtual cockpit.

First thing first, we need to declare a mesh for our VC....

This will be quick and simple, I just want to get it out of the way.

PART 11: OrbiterSound Support

Step 1 is obviously to install Dan Steph's OrbiterSound.

NOTE: my code uses v 4.0

Dan already included an excellent tutorial in his own documentation so I will only touch upon the basics. Once Orbitersound has been installed go to the sound/OrbiterSound_SDK folder in your Orbiter root directory and find the following files "OrbiterSoundSDK40.h"...