Cannot customise MFD export viewports

[Loophole]

Because of the new way the MFD viewports are being handled, it seems to no longer be possible to redirect them to a custom viewport - they can only be displayed in "LEFT_MFCD" and "RIGHT_MFCD".

 

This is a problem when you are flying multiple aircraft that use LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD, but have displays that need to be in different locations or of different sizes. The most obvious culprit here is the Su-25T, which has a 4:3 aspect ratio RIGHT_MFCD.

 

All of the previous non-FC3 aircraft could be configured to look for a custom aircraft-specific viewport, and fall back to using LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD if a custom viewport was not defined. That approach no longer works with the new mechanism implemented for the F-16C:

 

Under the previous system, this would have worked:

 

--ViewportHandling

dofile(LockOn_Options.common_script_path.."ViewportHandling.lua")

update_screenspace_diplacement(1, true, 0)

try_find_assigned_viewport("LEFT_MFCD_F16", "LEFT_MFCD")

 

On a side issue, if you change the "USE_LCD_MFD" setting, then the above *kind* of works - the custom exports *do* appear, but totally fuzzed-out and unusable, and the standard LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD viewports are also still displayed as well.

 

It would be great if they adopted a standard of including the calls to check for both an aircraft-specific viewport, and (where appropriate) a generic viewport for every exportable display - would save me a lot of editing after each upgrade! :-)

[Animal451]

I couldn’t agree more, hopefully they change the export name to match the aircraft.