Tom Stian Bjerk 853618 Posted January 18, 2017 at 10:36 PM Posted January 18, 2017 at 10:36 PM Hi, im flying an aircraft with the possibility to see traffic +/- 9900ft. It works as expected with AI traffic, but when flying online at VATSIM the traffic disappears at 5000ft. Is it any TCAS altitude limitations with X-Plane 10/11 and flying online at VATSIM ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Sutcliffe Posted January 19, 2017 at 03:42 PM Posted January 19, 2017 at 03:42 PM This is a limitation set in the open source library that XSquawkBox uses for rendering traffic: // Maximum altitude difference in feet for TCAS blips #define MAX_TCAS_ALTDIFF 5000 swift - Developer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Stian Bjerk 853618 Posted January 19, 2017 at 04:30 PM Author Posted January 19, 2017 at 04:30 PM (edited) Thanks for your reply. Is it possible for me to change that ? Edited January 19, 2017 at 05:59 PM by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Grafelman Posted January 19, 2017 at 04:33 PM Posted January 19, 2017 at 04:33 PM Is it possible for me to change that ? Yes, as long as you're comfortable with recompiling the software (looks like they're using CMake). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Stian Bjerk 853618 Posted January 19, 2017 at 04:53 PM Author Posted January 19, 2017 at 04:53 PM Is it possible for me to change that ? Yes, as long as you're comfortable with recompiling the software (looks like they're using CMake). Well.. Its been a long time since I was compiling stuff.. I guess I need the sourcecode for xSquawkbox to do this recompile. http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xsb/faq/ (at bottom) Dont think they will give me that But it would be nice to increase the ALTDIFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Grafelman Posted January 19, 2017 at 05:23 PM Posted January 19, 2017 at 05:23 PM I guess I need the sourcecode for xSquawkbox to do this recompile. Why would you guess that? The library referenced is (at least, at first glance it is) completely independent of XSB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Sutcliffe Posted January 19, 2017 at 05:52 PM Posted January 19, 2017 at 05:52 PM It is statically linked, so you would indeed need the XSB source. swift - Developer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Grafelman Posted January 19, 2017 at 05:55 PM Posted January 19, 2017 at 05:55 PM It is statically linked Ah. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Stian Bjerk 853618 Posted January 19, 2017 at 06:04 PM Author Posted January 19, 2017 at 06:04 PM Thank you both Mathew and Bradley for the information. @Mathew, will swift support a greater MAX_TCAS_ALTDIFF ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Sutcliffe Posted January 19, 2017 at 06:54 PM Posted January 19, 2017 at 06:54 PM We use a fork of the same library, so yes we could just change that value. swift - Developer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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