[Flightgear-devel] Keyboard braking power

[Julian Foad]

It seems silly to have the "brake" key slam on full braking power, if it is to be used on the runway. No wonder the aircraft tend to tip over or burst their tyres. Can I recommend this patch which sets the "all brakes" strength to 0.5 and the individual left/right to 0.7?

Personally I do the same for my joystick configuration, but since we've got so many joystick config files, we really need to separate the joystick configurations from the commands that they control in order to be able to change things like this consistently.

- Julian

Index: keyboard.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvsroot/FlightGear/FlightGear/keyboard.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -3 -p -d -r1.37 keyboard.xml
--- keyboard.xml        2002/11/07 16:30:39     1.37
+++ keyboard.xml        2002/11/10 04:29:52
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ calculated by adding 256 to the GLUT key
   <binding>
    <command>property-assign</command>
    <property>/controls/brakes[0]</property>
-   <value type="double">1.0</value>
+   <value type="double">0.7</value>
   </binding>
   <mod-up>
    <binding>
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ calculated by adding 256 to the GLUT key
   <binding>
    <command>property-assign</command>
    <property>/controls/brakes[1]</property>
-   <value type="double">1.0</value>
+   <value type="double">0.7</value>
   </binding>
   <mod-up>
    <binding>
@@ -678,17 +678,17 @@ calculated by adding 256 to the GLUT key
   <binding>
    <command>property-assign</command>
    <property>/controls/brakes[0]</property>
-   <value type="double">1.0</value>
+   <value type="double">0.5</value>
   </binding>
   <binding>
    <command>property-assign</command>
    <property>/controls/brakes[1]</property>
-   <value type="double">1.0</value>
+   <value type="double">0.5</value>
   </binding>
   <binding>
    <command>property-assign</command>
    <property>/controls/brakes[2]</property>
-   <value type="double">1.0</value>
+   <value type="double">0.5</value>
   </binding>
   <mod-up>
    <desc>Release all brakes.</desc>