Wohoo. I’m getting cockpit telemetry of Ace Combat 7 in LUA.
Edit: There be demo video now: https://makertube.net/w/cbXJAveVgVTGVEi58akVTA
Starting poking around UE4SS mod for Ace Combat and slammed rocks together for 2 hours and it started chirping altitude, speed and health 🤓
Just a proof of concept so far but this looks promising.
More proof of concept. I found some pre-compiled lua socket lib (could not for my life generate a static cross compiled version using mingw from Linux that would actually load) and managed to sideload it with UE4SS where I can now raise a UDP (or TCP) socket and rapid fire a demo event with a timestamp. Doesn’t even sweat with messages every ~250ms so I guess that works.
Somehow the message segmentation doesn’t work though and I have to take care of this manually and reassemble the message later. That was quite frustrating. Not sure if this is a 🐛 in the DLL that was fixed later or not but… good enough 🤷
I also managed to assemble some cockpit and target telemetry before but I still have quite some trouble finding the right time to access the actual player plane. When I try to read this to early it crashes and won’t recover. In theory I can use hooks for this but I never get notified when objects that should be of interest are created. I may be doing something wrong here. Ah well, another day 🤓
Success!
Figured out how to detect if the player is actually in the game. Happily spewing cockpit telemetry to the UDP socket firehose style!