Major A wrote: > There is another issue with the A4 though -- pressing shift-KP8 gives > a default view which is nicely out of the window, but the instruments > are no longer on the screen.
You mean that the view is looking too far up, above the level of the instruments, right? Not that there's a rendering error preventing them from being drawn? > This is probably a simple bug in the xml files, but I don't have the > time to dig into it and fix it. It's actually a little deeper than that. The keypad "8" view control sets the view straight ahead. But that's too high for a typical fighter panel. For visibility reasons, military jets essentially put the panel in the pilots lap. The a4-set.xml file defines the default configuration for view 0 as looking down by 17° to give a better default view. But it's only a default startup setting -- the keypad bindings change the current values. There's no "return to default" binding anywhere. This can be fixed in XML; but it requires defining a place to put "default" settings for the view, getting all the aircraft to adhere to them and rebinding a key or button to copy these values. That kind of consensus is hard to come by, so no one's done it. :) FWIW, I have a joystick hat mapped to pan the view and use that exclusively. Once you get used to the 3D cockpit, you really don't mind the lack of a default. If I want to look down, I just look down. 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
