Greetings, I aim to use X-Plane 11 to simulate multiple vehicles on one computer. But according to my researches, it does not seem easy to simulate multiple vehicles on one screen. I found the following solutions:

1. Multiplayer mode

2. Virtual Machine method

3. FlywithLua SDK

 

If I understood true, the first method is available for multiple computers. But I can simulate on one computer with multiplayer method by using second method. And there is a third method which is a little bit confusing for me.

Could you tell me which method is best option for me and how I can use it effectively? Is there any option that I can use? 

Thank you in advance for your help. 

What exactly do you want to do?

 

Also, this is not the best place to ask such technical questions for a lack of developers and development related sections. You're better off asking in the biggest XP forum: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/

Edited September 6, 20241 yr by Bjoern

12 hours ago, Bjoern said:

What exactly do you want to do?

 

Also, this is not the best place to ask such technical questions for a lack of developers and development related sections. You're better off asking in the biggest XP forum: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/

I want to fly at least 4 airplane at the same time automatically. But sometimes, I want to control an airplane manually to make a specific move. 

In a summary, I want to simulate multiple airplanes on one computer and want to have control of all airplanes.

 

Also, I asked same question to the XP forum you suggested, but I haven't take an answer yet. I hope you can help me, thanks.

3 hours ago, Ahmet Ali said:

I want to fly at least 4 airplane at the same time automatically. But sometimes, I want to control an airplane manually to make a specific move. 

In a summary, I want to simulate multiple airplanes on one computer and want to have control of all airplanes.

 

Also, I asked same question to the XP forum you suggested, but I haven't take an answer yet. I hope you can help me, thanks.

Thats because there is no such programme to do that

19 minutes ago, mjrhealth said:

Thats because there is no such programme to do that

So, can I do that with the help of FlyWithLua or Lua scripting? Do you know this? 

I remembered this script :

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/50534-formation-flying-flywithlua-script/

 

I am not sure this is what you are looking for.

5 hours ago, Ahmet Ali said:

I want to fly at least 4 airplane at the same time automatically. But sometimes, I want to control an airplane manually to make a specific move. 

In a summary, I want to simulate multiple airplanes on one computer and want to have control of all airplanes.

This is not possible with X-Plane's plugin API.

7 hours ago, Ahmet Ali said:

In a summary, I want to simulate multiple airplanes on one computer and want to have control of all airplanes.

You can start multiple instances of XP on the same system. Can even be from the same install folder as long as you don't mind some writable files being clobbered by all the instances (e.g. Log.txt). Obviously you could get around that by creating multiple copies of the XP install folder and linking scenery packages/acft as needed.

Each instance can be controlled independently as long as only 1 is using the joystick. Or have multiple joysticks each with different axis assignments in each instance. Or use mouse/keyboard.

What you won't be able to do is network them together with the default multiplayer functionality. I suppose one could create some plugins to do that but be prepared for a lot of programming work.

An alternative is to start a bunch of virtual machines each running a XP instance.

29 minutes ago, blingthinger said:

What you won't be able to do is network them together with the default multiplayer functionality. I suppose one could create some plugins to do that but be prepared for a lot of programming work.

you can get that with autoatc mmo, vatsim or ivao

there is also a lot of boilerplate for a lot of the "extras" that might be desired (e.g. drone/ai companions) in the autoatc lua.

But for much more it would need a lot more detailed specification on how the system would actually work. e.g. Xplane default ai has a fair chunk of autonony baked in, and each ai aircraft runs on a full flight model.