On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:37 -0700, dave perry wrote: > I just noticed that the recent electrical updates to the kt170.xml > submitted by Ron Jenson make the kt70 bright white if the instrument > light are turned on in the pa24-250 and the pa28-161. This is because > the material animation factor should be between 0 and 1 and this change > makes it equal to the output voltage from the buss (usually either 14 or > 28 volts in most light AC). > <factor-prop>systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights</factor-prop> > This saturates the material red, green, blue values. > > Several of the aircraft are expecting this to be controlled by > <factor-prop>systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights</factor-prop> > since they are assuming a rotating dimmer controls the intensity, not > the bus voltage turned on by the switch. > > Many other objects in Instruments-3d have a material animation tied to > <factor-prop>systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights</factor-prop> > to simulate variable instrument light intensity. > > Ron, is there a reason this needed to be changed for the kt70?
Hi Dave, The change was to make the KT-70 only work when the electrical system was turned on. The old setting of /controls/lighting/panel-norm was wrong, and needed to be changed to something based on the electical system. The electrical systems I use normalize the property systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights. I didn't realize you were using the KT70 or I would have verifed it worked on your planes, too. I don't like the property /sim/model/material/instruments/factor. I feel its in the wrong place, and isn't well named, and using both systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights and sim/model/material/instruments/factor is redundant. A grep thru CVS show there are only 5 aircraft using /sim/model/material/instruments/factor now. Most aircraft are using some variant of systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights. I'd like to use that as a normalized value to allow instruments to just work regardless of the system voltage modelled. What should be the standard for instrument lighting properties? Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
