Engine Fail Plugin

Engine Fail Plugin can we make a plugin that fails an engine if temp. reaches XX.XX Degre

#1 David -X-

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Post icon Posted 28 December 2006 - 08:04 AM

i wonder if tthere is a setting in x-plane that says "Fail engine if temp reaches XX.XX Degrees." maybe a plugin? i couldnt find one so who wants to create a plugin. i dont know how but im willing to help in any way. i am a very quick learner to. let me hear what you guys think and if you would like to help just write it down here.http://forums.x-plane.org/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 06:03 AM

QUOTE(David -X- @ Dec 28 2006, 02:04 PM)

I had a quick look at Xplane.
This looks like it would have to be a plugin.

Are you a programmer?

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 04:21 PM

I did an example plugin for you. This is a proof of concept and please tell me if this is what you wanted.
Two plugins are included but you only need the RealEngineMac.xpl.. I put a private plugin in the zip for educational purposes where you can watch some temperature datarefs while testing the plugin.

From the readme.txt:

RealEngine v0.2 TEST
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This is a proof of concept plugin that will fail your engines if you go too
high on different temperatures. Like cylinder and oiltemperature.

Features:
Right before and slightly after reaching max temperature the engine may if you
are lucky warn you that something bad is going to happen by acting weird.
This is done by letting the plugin temporarily tamper with the fuelflow.
If you are lucky and get this warning you can now cool your engine in different
ways. Like lower the throttle.

If you keep on pushing the engine it will eventually break in several different
ways. You might even experience enginefires.

The plugin supports up to eight engines and is totally randomized for realism.

New in 0.2 TEST:
* Optimized the random logic.

RefScan
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This is really a personal plugin to quickly monitor datarefs with ease.
No need to restart x-plane if you wan't to check a dataref. Just edit the file
and disable/enable the plugin in the pluginmanager and the new refs will show.
I put this in for the purpose of watching the temperatures.

Features:
* No need to restart X-Plane each time.
* It knows by itself what kind of ref you are looking at. (read the inifile)

Mac universal: removed
Mac universal 0.2 TEST: removed
Mac universal & Windows 0.2 TEST:

RealEngine0.2TESTWinMac.zip (119.48K)
Number of downloads: 428

Refscan and the inifile is NOT needed to run realengine.

This post has been edited by snailpup: 20 May 2007 - 09:33 AM

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 05:15 PM

Thanks for looking at this Peter.
I just don't have time for any extra plugins at the moment.
Its also too close to the New Year.

#5 David -X-

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 02:40 PM

thank you very much. i will take a look at this later as right now i am finishing up hw. sandy it depends what you mean by "Programmer". i consider myself one in the way that i know HTML and PHP but i never made a plugin. thank you anyway.

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 02:50 PM

So. You are still alive. I thought you were wen't on a around the world tour.
I have done a few optimizations since I uploaded the plugin. I'll upload a 0.2 later this evening.

#7 David -X-

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 03:29 PM

yah i guess so. srry about that. i was babysitting for my twin cousins for the past four days. i will wait for you to update this plugin before i try it. also do you know of any good x-plane plugin tutorial? i looked on the org but i couldnt find a good one. if you know of one send me the link.the only one i found when googling it was for 6.xx. ty and this could be great. also i really like simple pushback.

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 05:57 PM

So.. There you go. This plugin should be what you are looking for. Let me know if it is and I will evolve it to something even better.

#9 David -X-

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 07:21 PM

ok i will do that. i wasnt able to get around to it today but i might be able to do it tomorrow. who knows maybe you can add another plugin to your signature. ty very much for your help on this.