reported LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD exports CPG monitors, not pilot's

[Saruman]

CPG and Pilot share same LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD ids for monitors and CPG id always overwrite the pilot one, regardless of the seat the player chose.

To export pilot monitor, player therefore needs to modify .lua files under the AH64 mod folder, which breaks integrity check for multiplayer.

ED should give different ids to monitor (it's a 5 minute bugfix) and/or leave the default ids but let player export the monitor for the chosen seat.

 

Edited March 26, 2022 by Saruman

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

The team are looking  at export issues and I have shared your post with them, 

thanks

[Saruman]

On 3/26/2022 at 3:16 PM, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

The team are looking  at export issues and I have shared your post with them, 

thanks

Sorry to up this, but after 3 months it's still an issue.

It really can be solved by the team only changing last line of MFD_plt_left_init.lua and MFD_plt_right_init.lua, by replacing "LEFT_MFCD" and "RIGHT_MFCD" with something else like "PLT_LEFT_MFCD" and "PLT_RIGHT_MFCD".

I can see team busy on a lot of other things, but it's truely a very quick modification...

Edited June 24, 2022 by Saruman

[Bunny Clark]

10 hours ago, Saruman said:

It really can be solved by the team only changing last line of MFD_plt_left_init.lua and MFD_plt_right_init.lua, by replacing "LEFT_MFCD" and "RIGHT_MFCD" with something else like "PLT_LEFT_MFCD" and "PLT_RIGHT_MFCD".

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Even if you change those lines, the Apache still exports displays to LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD in addition to the newly configured viewports. It'll work so long as you don't define LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD anywhere in your config, but if you use those viewports for other modules, it'll break the Apache.

See: 

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[Saruman]

It does not break anything if you use different LUAs for different aircraft frameworks. Yes, you have to restart when you select a different LUA to use in settings page, but it's a minor issue. 

For example, I use one LUA for F16/A10/F18 (they all share LEFT_MFCD and RIGHT_MFCD), one LUA for F14 and one LUA for AH64D.

And for AH64D I only had to change last line of aforementioned files. But I cannot now fly in multiplayer servers, not being able to pass integrity check. That's why team should officially modify those two lines.

Edited June 25, 2022 by Saruman