Hello,

I am new to this forum so please apologize if I use the Topic.

Currently I am a user of XPlane11 but I would like to switch to P3D due to the better planes and so on...

So I've build a small button box for flight sim and wrote a Fly with Lua assignment script so I can use all my buttons, switches, rotary encoders properly.

I am wondering if it is possible to write a similar script for P3D?

Does someone have some experience with it?

 

I really appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance!

Grizzly

 

The script shall have some features like shown below:

        

dataref("heading", "the_dataref_of_heading", "writeable")        

function do_hdg_up()

i = 1

   if button(1781) then

    i = 10

   end

heading = heading + i

end

create_command("script/doHeading, "heading up","do_hdg_up()", "", "")

set_button_assignment(1783, "script/doHeading")

I don't know if it helps you but there is software already for lua scripts called LINDA to setup controllers etc.

https://www.avsim.com/forums/forum/424-linda/

Thank you for your reply @rob0203!

I will take a look at it.

1 hour ago, Grizzly_ said:

Thank you for your reply @rob0203!

I will take a look at it.

There is also Air Manager: https://siminnovations.com/wiki/index.php?title=I/O_Connection_examples

And with Arduino there is Mobiflight: https://www.mobiflight.com/en/index.html

What's wrong with good old FSUIPC and macros ?

Thanks again for all your help!

16 hours ago, rob0203 said:

And with Arduino there is Mobiflight: https://www.mobiflight.com/en/index.html

I already have a "joystick" board so I won't switch to an Arduino at the moment unless it is necessary

 

5 hours ago, Freo said:

What's wrong with good old FSUIPC and macros ?

Well, first of all thanks for this idea. I haven't taken a look at it but I surly will!

Now I have an another question because I have see that FSUIPC needs a license. So is there also a free method to do my plans?

Thanks for the help

There is a free basic version of FSUIPC, but it has limited capability. Not sure if it will do macros, as I have never used it, only the paid full version.