Cockpit temperature as trigger or script variable

[Hypersteff]

Hello everyone,

 

 

I'm starting to look into mission editing for the Mi-8. What I would love to do is to use the temperature in the helicopter as a variable either in lua scripts or for a trigger.

 

Since there is a gauge for the air temperature in the helicopter my guess is there should be the possibility.

 

Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere what the cockpit parameter trigger arguments mean.

 

 

Thank you in advance.

[Hardcard]

I have bad news for you, I'm afraid.

 

Cockpit elements aren't accessible via scripting, only via ME triggers.

If you can't access the temperature gauge via ME cockpit argument, I'm afraid it can't be done.

[Weta43]

I haven't tried it for a gauge, but the door in the Ka-50 is a cockpit animation like the gauges, and I once set a trigger to have a fuel truck drive off 5 seconds after the door shut, so the value of those arguments is available for triggers.

 

Try going to the model viewer, opening the Mi-8 cockpit and trying the arguments until you find the temp gauge (or there's a list in a .lua, but I can't remember which one).

Run through the range of the argument until you get the temp you want, then set a trigger for "cockpit argument in range"

[Hypersteff]

Ok, will try that. Didn't know of the model viewer before.

 

 

 

Thank you very much :-)

[Hardcard]

You'll need to load all the relevant Mi-8 cockpit textures (gauge textures included) to see them in Model Viewer.

 

In order to do that, you'll need to copy/paste the files from gamedir to Model Viewer installation folder (using the same folder structure).

 

 

You'll likely find that the Mi-8's cockpit has thousands of arguments, it'll take you a while to find the arguments for the temperature gauges.

 

But, as I said, if you can't make those cockpit arguments work with ME triggers, it's all kind of pointless.

 

 

I attempted the same kind of thing last year (using the variometer of the F15C), but it didn't work.

 

Perhaps it'll work with a clickable cockpit module, I hope it does.

 

Good luck! :thumbup:

[Weta43]

Took about 3 minutes.

Mi-8 cabin temperature gauge is argument 63

 

temp appears to be 100 * argument value outside of -30 to 30, so

-60 is -0.6

-30 is -0.3

0 is 0

20 is 0.2

maybe the centre is a bit non-linear

 

I just used it to trigger an "it's cold" message when it was 10 degrees and "it's not cold" at 30

[Hypersteff]

Took about 3 minutes.

Mi-8 cabin temperature gauge is argument 63

 

temp appears to be 100 * argument value outside of -30 to 30, so

-60 is -0.6

-30 is -0.3

0 is 0

20 is 0.2

maybe the centre is a bit non-linear

 

I just used it to trigger an "it's cold" message when it was 10 degrees and "it's not cold" at 30

Fantastic, thank you so much! Being a beginner in DCS editing I guess this would have taken me much longer.

 

 

Thanks everyone.

[Hardcard]

Took about 3 minutes.

Mi-8 cabin temperature gauge is argument 63

 

You got lucky there ;)

 

Nicely done! :thumbup:

[[VEAW] Noiser]

Unfortunately using cockpit argument for trigger don't work in multiplayer.