Tools and Files

Tools

• DCS World\bin\ModelViewer2.exe lets you explore the cockpit and all the controls. It is with this tool you get the argument_id for a control. Once the tools is running you open the cockpit edm file which is located in DCS World\Mods\aircraft\<airplane>\Cockpit\Shape\.
• You need a good program for searching files. You are going to have to search multiple cockpit files a lot in the folder mentioned below.

Files

You are going to need to search for information in lua files located here DCS World\Mods\aircraft\<airplane>\Cockpit\Scripts.

• devices.lua contains information about device categories
• mainpanel_init.lua, information on main panel controls
• command_defs.lua, command id definitions
• clickabledata.lua, here the controls are composed

There are other files too, it depends on the developer of the DCS model.

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