Request Attachment Point Revealer

[DaveS]

Can someone make a attachment point revealer similar to Artlav's Docking Point Revealer add-on? It would be useful in debugging attachment points especially the direction and rotation vectors.

 

[SiameseCat]

In C++ code, you can call

oapiSetShowGrapplePoints(true);

and it will show all the attachment points defined. I don't know if there's a Lua equivalent for this command.

 

[DaveS]

In C++ code, you can call

oapiSetShowGrapplePoints(true);

and it will show all the attachment points defined. I don't know if there's a Lua equivalent for this command.

Well, it isn't in Lua and I'm not a C++ coder. So someone else will have to make this utility.

 

[jedidia]

What? Now someone tells me? I can't find that function anywhere in the API doc, is it just undocumented or is it only available in the beta?

 

[DaveS]

What? Now someone tells me? I can't find that function anywhere in the API doc, is it just undocumented or is it only available in the beta?

Only undocumented. It's available in 2010-P1.

 

[Cras]

this would be very very useful indeed

 

[jedidia]

Just tried it out...

I assume red arrows are attachments to children, blue to parents?
Shame there is no indexing. This function does not accidentally exist for docking ports too, does it?

 

[gattispilot]

I use Attachment Manager to see the point info.
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3058"]http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3058[/ame]

 

[DaveS]

I use Attachment Manager to see the point info.
http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3058

I was thinking of actually seeing it visually than just a bunch of numbers which you can get from the ini/cfg file or the sources if they're available.

 

[gattispilot]

ok. I think MeshWizard can show the points if in a ini/cfg

 

[Loru]

you can always attach big red arrow mesh to attachment point

 

[DaveS]

you can always attach big red arrow mesh to attachment point

:facepalm: Not going to work if you're debugging it! I need a tool to show me the position, direction and rotation of attachment points.

 

[SiameseCat]

Here's a plugin which toggles oapiSetShowGrapplePoints.

 

[DaveS]

Here's a plugin which toggles oapiSetShowGrapplePoints.

Thanks. Exactly what I need!

 

[gattispilot]

I installed this. but I don't see it when I press CTRL and 4

But I have this and I dont see them either.
Could it be a d3d9 setting?
if (key == OAPI_KEY_F5 && !KEYMOD_SHIFT(kstate) && !KEYMOD_CONTROL(kstate) && !KEYMOD_ALT(kstate)) { oapiSetShowGrapplePoints(true); return 1; }

 

[DaveS]

I installed this. but I don't see it when I press CTRL and 4

But I have this and I dont see them either.
Could it be a d3d9 setting?
if (key == OAPI_KEY_F5 && !KEYMOD_SHIFT(kstate) && !KEYMOD_CONTROL(kstate) && !KEYMOD_ALT(kstate)) { oapiSetShowGrapplePoints(true); return 1; }

It isn't compatible with Orbiter 2016 out of the box. But a quick recompile with 2016 SDK fixes this.