FC3 Avionics pre-load for 3rd party mods

[Nightstorm]

@BIGNEWY

Good morning ED!

I don't know if anyone has officially asked or not, so I figured I would.  Doesn't hurt to ask right?

As you know, there are many 3rd party mods out there that use or reference the avionics from FC3 based aircraft such as the F-15C and Su-27.

With the changes over the last year, that's become more tediious.

There is a way to do it, but it currently breaks IC as it requires a change to the entry.lua for those aircraft to load their DLL's on startup.

I would like to propose that those changes be incorporated into the default entry.lua files so that IC would not be affected.

F-15C as an example:

------------------

binaries =
{
'F15CCWS',
'F15'
},
load_immediately = true,  --<------ADD THIS FOR FC3/4 AVIONICS

------------------

This would make the modding community VERY happy

 

Thank you for your time.

[Spino]

Agreed.  This issue has been a thorn in the collective side of the modding community ever since the release of FC2024.  I'm not for bringing back SFM or anything, but just allowing FC-based mods to work without having to first spawn in the plane that they are based on would be greatly appreciated.

[BIGNEWY]

5 minutes ago, Nightstorm said:

@BIGNEWY

Good morning ED!

I don't know if anyone has officially asked or not, so I figured I would.  Doesn't hurt to ask right?

As you know, there are many 3rd party mods out there that use or reference the avionics from FC3 based aircraft such as the F-15C and Su-27.

With the changes over the last year, that's become more tediious.

There is a way to do it, but it currently breaks IC as it requires a change to the entry.lua for those aircraft to load their DLL's on startup.

I would like to propose that those changes be incorporated into the default entry.lua files so that IC would not be affected.

F-15C as an example:

------------------

binaries =
{
'F15CCWS',
'F15'
},
load_immediately = true,  --<------ADD THIS FOR FC3/4 AVIONICS

------------------

This would make the modding community VERY happy

 

Thank you for your time.

Hi, 

at the moment its not something we can do, the IC is there for a reason, to make sure the clients are not tainted and are vanilla, the servers can decide if they want to disable IC to allow mods. 

In the future we may see better ways to support unofficial mods, its something the team have discussed, but at the moment the teams are very busy. I hope at some point in the future we can share some news. 

best regards

bignewy 

[Spino]

What @Nightstorm is asking is for is for ED to include those few lines of code by default - in the vanilla client.  Would that somehow interfere with how integrity check works?  Perhaps it could be added in a different LUA file that could be encrypted to prevent end-user modification?

Edited May 23 by Spino