Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-26 Thread Dan Lyke
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:42:34 -0700, Maik Justus wrote: Is there any other helicopter (3D-model) in preparation? Just saying this publicly lest someone else start on it (or if someone else wants my Blender file thus far), I've got a good bit of the high struts version of a Bell 205 under way.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Melchior, thank you very much. It helps me much to find the correct input for the tail rotor. Is it possible to switch it to a air-speed-drift-indicator? Maik Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Maik Justus -- Friday 23 June 2006 23:42: @Melchior: is it possible to add an instrument, which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Maik Justus -- Sunday 25 June 2006 23:49: Is it possible to switch it to a air-speed-drift-indicator? Not the C++ instrument, because it's a GSDI and that's not how these work. But you can open $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/bo105/Instruments/gsdi/gsdi.xml and replace the two properties

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Melchior, Very good. Thank you. Maik Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Maik Justus -- Sunday 25 June 2006 23:49: Is it possible to switch it to a air-speed-drift-indicator? Not the C++ instrument, because it's a GSDI and that's not how these work. But you can open

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-25 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Saturday 24 June 2006 00:29, Maik Justus wrote: - ground effect Look into Mathias' ground cache. This should make it quite easy to get the necessary altitudes quickly. I will have a look on this. Is this used in yasim? Yes it is. There is an api in FGInterface which can be used to get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-24 Thread Maik Justus
Josh Babcock schrieb: Martin Spott wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: I like your todo list. I would just suggest one more thing. If you look at a helo from behind, the rotor disk will be canted slightly to one side in straight and level flight. The side force offsets the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-24 Thread Josh Babcock
Maik Justus wrote: OK, you are clearly way ahead of me on this. Everything you say makes perfect sense, so I retract my original request. The welcome back still stands though! Josh Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Maik Justus -- Friday 23 June 2006 23:42: @Melchior: is it possible to add an instrument, which shows the lateral movement of the helicopter or the direction of the translation? Done. There's a GSDI (Ground Speed Drift Indicator) on the right side, under the VSI. The implementation is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hello all, after a long period of absence on business and family I now want to fix some of the missings in the helicopter simulation. But first I have to say thank you to all of you, because of the great development of flightgear in the last three years. And a very big thank you to Melchior

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 24 June 2006 00:12: Yes, there is an R22, and Josh works on a CH53. Both not in CVS. )The R22 probably won't ever.) The R22 is available here: http://www.geocities.com/flightgearproject/ Don't know if it still works with current cvs, though. m. Using Tomcat but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Melchior, Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Maik Justus -- Friday 23 June 2006 23:42: Hello all, ... - ground effect Look into Mathias' ground cache. This should make it quite easy to get the necessary altitudes quickly. I will have a look on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Maik Justus -- Saturday 24 June 2006 00:29: Melchior FRANZ schrieb: Look into Mathias' ground cache. This should make it quite easy to get the necessary altitudes quickly. I will have a look on this. Is this used in yasim? Yes. It's use to get cheap terrain intersections for the gear.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Martin Spott wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: I like your todo list. I would just suggest one more thing. If you look at a helo from behind, the rotor disk will be canted slightly to one side in straight and level flight. The side force offsets the side force of the tail rotor to prevent