On Wednesday 02 November 2005 01:53, Innis Cunningham wrote: > Now that I have been converted to 3D instrument making > I am wundering if we should start an instrument repository > like we have for the Aircraft and Scenery. I do quite like the idea in some respects, but to be honest I don't think it's really necessary...
> For this to work each instrument would have to be totally > self contained like the instruments in the 747 and hunter > and a few others that don't come to mind. And that's why I don't think it's necessary - for my Lightning cockpit, I've been able to make use of the Hunter instruments (which I'm guessing have family ties with the p51 instruments?) to get me started. Because I have a strange attraction to dials and gauges, and a plentiful supply of cockpit photos I took for the purpose, I've made a fairly complete set of my own, but I could equally just have borrowed any or all of the Hunter ones. Although Syd's work on the b1900, citiation and beaver cockpits is exemplary (and I'm never likely to equal it) I do think it's a good idea for people to make instruments self contained if they don't mind working that way for the reasons you suggest. > Anyway thems is my thoughts what do you think I don't think there's really a need to maintain a special repository as such - since they're all GPL'd one can easily just use any suitable instrument from an existing FG aircraft. Having said that, if someone did go ahead with the idea, I'd be very happy to submit all the ones I've done. Cheers, AJ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
