Problem SC3 VC MFD and HUD problem

[n0mad23]

I've been banging my head against proverbial bricks on this, and after spending a day and a half on it, I thought I might see if anyone else has had this problem.

Here's the section from my cfg file:

[VC]
MESHNAME=ztc-Icarus
MFD_LEFT=108
MFD_RIGHT=107
HUD=88
HUD_SIZE=0.55
HUD_CENTER=(0.0,0.44,3.34)

In the attached pic, you can see the problem - nothing is aligned! I thought it might be because I have the displays tilted, but have done a test with just the MFDs and stood the meshes perfectly upright with exactly the same result. The MFD and HUD meshes are single surfaces, and textured with a simple white bmp. I have tried various tweaks on the x-axis, but none seem to change anything whatsoever.

I have gone through ar81's tutorial, the Spacecraft doc, and Orbiter SDK and can't find anything addressing this particular problem. I did find that you making the material about .6 emmisive does make the MFDs visible when the cockpit is in deep shadow which is pretty neat.

Anyone have any ideas how I can get this working?

Great thanks in advance

 

[Donamy]

The numbers in red correspond to the corners of the MFD in the mesh.

GEOM 4 2 ; LeftMFD
-0.39456 0.837864 0.449437 0.438371 0 -0.898794 [COLOR="Red"]0 0[/COLOR]
-0.39456 0.634295 0.449437 0.438371 0 -0.898794 [COLOR="red"]0 1[/COLOR]
-0.178112 0.634295 0.555006 0.438371 0 -0.898794 [COLOR="red"]1 1[/COLOR]
-0.178112 0.837864 0.555006 0.438371 0 -0.898794 [COLOR="red"]1 0[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Red"]2 1 3
0 3 1[/COLOR]

 

[n0mad23]

Thanks! I wondered if it wasn't a problem with the meshes. From Orbiter SDK, it was the only passage that seemed to be applicable. I've never played with meshes in a text editor, and suspected that it would be necessary at some point.

I'll be back with an update as soon as I get it working.

Thanks again, Donamy.

 

[n0mad23]

Solved

I've finally had success, and once again "Thank You!" to all the archival thread posters whose individual bits and pieces lead to the final solution. Donamy, your mesh key was the final piece of the puzzle, though I had to do it slightly differently.

Here's the code for one of the MFDs:

GEOM 4 2 ;Group 107 z-mfd.dds mfd1
-.174047  .5067943  3.275524  0 -.6156282 -.7880366  0  0
-.174047  .4358714  3.33093  0 -.6156282 -.7880366  0  1
-.084047  .5067943  3.275524  0 -.6156282 -.7880366  1  0
-.084047  .4358714  3.33093  0 -.6156282 -.7880366  1  1
 3  1  0
 2  3  0

Spacecraft3 VCs really are better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but it's obvious C++ is the way to go. Too bad I dropped coding when it went Turbo way back when. I've got one too many other interests to go down that road now.

The discovery about setting the "emissive" levels to about .7 is certainly one for people who choose to go down this path to know about.

 

[Donamy]

It's still not a science for me either. :lol: