In addition to the regular Developer Q&A, there will be an SDK Q&A once per quarter of the year, taking guided as well as live questions.

The time and date of the first SDK Q&A will be announced soon, but you can now post your questions in here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sdk-q-a-guided-question/387481

Edited April 5, 20215 yr by ChaoticBeauty

Thanks Chaotic Beauty.

Can we get some specifics on the following:

1) Collision detection.  What is the "official" way to make a surface collidable for landings - especially for a more complex surface like a clifftop that has been modelled as geo instead of terrain mesh?  I've seen various discussions that vary between turning on the "collision" flag vs making a surface a "road" material.  And experimentally there seems to be a limit to the number of polygons in a collision object.  If so, what is that number?  And finally, any other caveats such as the angle of the surface normal of a polygon from a completely flat surface (e.g. nearly vertical faces)?

2) The "Fake Terrain" material type.  The docs mention that this makes a surface behave like the sims "terrain" shaders.  What exactly does this mean? Should it cause the generation of grass? allow snow accumulation?  I've experimented with this as well, but its only seemed to behave exactly like the "standard" material type.

Thanks so much!

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Posted in the MSFS forums as well.

@RXP maybe is your chance to hammer them with questions related to limitations you have?

Now is the time for all those ‘SDK is very limited’ experts to step up. 

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Edited April 6, 20215 yr by Noooch

Hope they include Matt from Working Title in the Q&A segment.

 

Any Blender support?

Edited April 7, 20215 yr by OSM

13 hours ago, OSM said:

Any Blender support?

Are you asking in general? Because that is already there with the Blender plugin. I've put several of my Blender models into MSFS.

On 4/7/2021 at 5:30 PM, MDFlier said:

Are you asking in general? Because that is already there with the Blender plugin. I've put several of my Blender models into MSFS.

Blender plugin not from MS/Asobo.

Well that is true, but what is wrong with that? It works great. 

A lot of people seem to have missed the primary purpose of this Q&A - 2/3rds devoted to Xbox ....

"We are excited to announce that in addition to the regular live Dev Q&As, we will be having a separate live Q&A just for the SDK once a quarter!

The first 1/3rd of the stream, Asobo will present a roadmap for the SDK plus demo the new documentation platform.

The rest will be open for a Q&A session themed to a specific topic. this first will be about **XBOX support for 3rd parties.** In other words, any questions related to, "How can I adapt my content for Xbox?"

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sdk-q-a-guided-question/387481?

Edited April 9, 20215 yr by SierraDelta

I have to say that I find the initial emphasis on Xbox disappointing given how much work still exists in the PC domain.

 

1 hour ago, MDFlier said:

Well that is true, but what is wrong with that? It works great. 

Collision detection, bone and lights animation.

Edited April 9, 20215 yr by OSM

27 minutes ago, OSM said:

Collision detection, bone and lights animation.

Bone?

9 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Bone?

Bone.