X Plane to MSFS2020 Bridge Released

[Mike_CFII_MEL]

Hi Everybody,

You can now use tXPlane12 while enjoying the amazing views of MS2020, this is done via sim connect bridge. A link is provided in the video description. 
If this is not permitted, please remove.

There are a couple of issues that still need to be worked out.
 

 

[scotchegg]

An elegant pathway to sim harmony!

[jcomm]

The Best of two Worlds ?

Maybe !

[blingthinger]

51 minutes ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

There are a couple of issues that still need to be worked out.

This is pretty slick. Do the plugins talk with each other using the same number of digits of precision (i.e. both float or double float)?

[Mike_CFII_MEL]

4 hours ago, blingthinger said:

This is pretty slick. Do the plugins talk with each other using the same number of digits of precision (i.e. both float or double float)?

Hi,

That would be a question for the creator, I just had the opportunity to test the bridge. Right now ongoing development has been shelved, he's working on Device Interface Manager (DIM) that will allow Flightdeck Solutions hardware to interface with MS2020 via PMDG 738 airliner.

He has a discord channel for his DIM project if you'd like to shoot him a text, here is the link. https://discord.gg/MRR9zUMQhM

I also believe if this works, it will be the best of both worlds.

[mSparks]

12.06 has initial support for Chroma key

pretty sure that will be an infinitely better solution once it's up and running.

[turbomax]

15 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

You can now use tXPlane12 while enjoying the amazing views of MS2020

why use xplane in the first place when you prefer MSFS scenery and graphics?

[filou]

30 minutes ago, turbomax said:

why use xplane in the first place when you prefer MSFS scenery and graphics?

May be because the XP12 rendering of light it's amazing ! I much prefer it to that of MSFS. In some scenarios I have much less the feeling of flying in a coloring book.

[turbomax]

19 minutes ago, filou said:

May be because the XP12 rendering of light it's amazing ! 

how do you benefit from XP12's "amazing" light when you use the MSFS scenery and graphics instead?

[jcomm]

It's an interesting plugin to try out, although I am a bit skeptical about the end result of such solutions since I tried Aerowinx PSX with XP11 and XP12 as well as with P3D.

There was always a discrepancy / out of sync effect on the most critical phases of hand flying for instance an approach & landing with nasty weather. I ended up using Aerowinx standalone.

In the case of MFS and XP12, I'll probably give it a try if it get's available in free demonstration mode.

Edited June 23, 2023 by jcomm

[blingthinger]

1 hour ago, jcomm said:

There was always a discrepancy / out of sync effect

This is why I was curious about the digits of precision. I wondered if there's some round-off error during the data transfer to explain the jumpiness. Would think that there's enough that this wouldn't be a problem like I thought yesterday.

And better hope the runway terrain is the same. Even flat runways can have unexpected quirks when ortho is in the mix.

[mSparks]

25 minutes ago, blingthinger said:

I wondered if there's some round-off error during the data transfer to explain the jumpiness.

That'll likely just be the windows borken and aging network stack. Especially if it's on a machine that came loaded with bloatware from the factory sending network activity data to random US/Chinese/Russian webservers.

Edited June 23, 2023 by mSparks

[brinx]

1 hour ago, mSparks said:

That'll likely just be the windows borken and aging network stack. Especially if it's on a machine that came loaded with bloatware from the factory sending network activity data to random US/Chinese/Russian webservers.

Here we go. 😀

14 hours ago, Mike_CFII_MEL said:

That would be a question for the creator, I just had the opportunity to test the bridge. Right now ongoing development has been shelved, he's working on Device Interface Manager (DIM) that will allow Flightdeck Solutions hardware to interface with MS2020 via PMDG 738 airliner.

So is Device Interface Manager meant to interface your hardware directly to MSFS and PMDG? Or would the Zibo still be in the mix?

[blingthinger]

1 hour ago, mSparks said:

aging network stack

I can see that causing the general pauses, but at the start of takeoff roll there's sideways jitter too. Almost like a precision cutoff or digit rounding effect. Only network issues that might cause that is if windows is mangling the packets (and therefore digits) and it's a UDP connection that isn't error correcting. I'm guessing, that is.

 

5 hours ago, turbomax said:

why use xplane in the first place when you prefer MSFS scenery and graphics?

Aside from the FM/zibo, it's probably because the XP SDK is much more amenable to cockpits like this. Also likely is that the infrastructure is already built up to talk w/ XP. 

Edited June 23, 2023 by blingthinger

[Mike_CFII_MEL]

15 minutes ago, brinx said:

Here we go. 😀

So is Device Interface Manager meant to interface your hardware directly to MSFS and PMDG? Or would the Zibo still be in the mix?

Hi,

Device Interface Manager will be a direct link to MS2020 via PMDG for my hardware, X-Plane would no longer be needed. It will work along the same lines as Prosim minus the glass display screens. I would hope they would be available one day by PMDG via cockpit payware addon package or Air Manager. Right now the pop out screens put a heavy demand on the system but they do work. A friend is having dinner with Mr. Randazzo this weekend and will be asking him some glass screen questions directly. 

Right now Nils is working on a profile creator where you can create your own profiles. For instance I can create a profile for my Flightdeck Solutions Aft. Ovrhd, Fwd Ovrhd, MIP and so on. These will then be shareable to others that use the same hardware. Same holds true for profiles created for other hardware. He is working on both USB and ethernet connections.