OK, there's another release ready that should fix most (all?) of the bugs reported so far. This time, it's just a tarball of the files that have changed. Drop them into your FDM/YASim directory. There are some aircraft changes as well, most of which are required for the newest code. Be sure to get both.
http://12.232.180.89/andy/yasim-0.1.3.tar.gz Source code http://12.232.180.89/andy/yasim-planes-0.1.3.tar.gz XML files Stuff that got fixed: Fixed (well, unstubbed) calculation of equivalent airspeed. The vertical autopilot should work now. I'm not an autopilot expert, though, so hopefully others can test more rigorously. Fixed the handling of the weight-on-wheels flag. Ground rumble and tire squeals work properly now. A random nit: the rumble sound is extraordinarily loud, especially with the jets. Even with the cessnas, it overpowers the engines by quite a bit. I didn't look at the code to see how the volume is arrived at, but simply rescaling the sample shouldn't be hard. The compiler complaints about the pow() function on SGI should be fixed now. No need for casts, I just yanked the float variant. The simulator freezes on (simulated) crashes now, rather than actually crashing. Resets after the fact appear to work; I'm actually not sure what else I'm supposed to test with this. Oh, and another nit: doing a reset forgets any settings for --time-offset that had been made and uses system time again. The calculation of AGL is now made from ground to the tip of the lowest gear, to facilitate the "50 feet... 40 feet..." automated countdown in big jet cockpits. It used to be defined as the distance from ground to the aircraft coordinate origin, which is arbitrary and invisible. Alas, it turns out that the HUD code doesn't use the AGL altitude for its "radar" altimeter (it subtracts ground from aircraft altitude), so you can't see it yet. MUCH better handling of the propeller governor. No more wild seeking around and yawing as the 310's engines try to find the right RPM. It's rock solid now. I was really pleased by this fix. :) The "rolling backwards" bug is fixed. I was wrong, this wasn't an initialization interaction; it was a real bug in the gear code. But the drop-the-aircraft-on-its-gear "feature" was retained because I like it. Folks should complain if they want the gear initialization done in secret. I remembered to set the cranking flag to false on all the engines. No more cranking forever at startup (YASim doesn't have any engine start code yet). Have fun, Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
