Hello All, I think I've found a bit of a problem with the way that u/c gear is being defined.
In the preferences file there's a single gear entry with three wheel entries to handle the brakes. While this is fine for light a/c with fixed gear, it doesn't work right with larger a/c with retractable gear. To model independent suspension we need to specify a gear entry for each gear leg so we can get the individual compression for each one. We can then specify each of the wheels on each of the legs and specify the brakes for each wheel. While I can do this in the a/c config files, the brake settings in preferences.xml seem to take precidence so I only end up with three brakes working. While this is ok on tricycles and tail draggers, it's not good for a/c such as the 747 and b52, which both have four main gear legs, with four and two brakes respectively, on each leg. The AN225 I'm working on has 14 main gear legs (each with two wheels) + two nose gear legs (again, two wheels each), so I'm seeing a few problems ahead;) It seems to me that we may need to update the a/c configs that use a single gear entry with multiple wheels to use individual gear entries for each leg and then update the supporting files, such as preferences.xml, keyboard.xml and the joystick configs to use the proper structure, allowing for up to six wheels/brakes for each leg. One benefit from getting everything set up like this is that it should make it possible to model gear failures, from entire leg failures, through tyre blow-outs, to individual brake failures. Could someone check that I have actually got this right and I've not missed something here? If I haven't made a boo-boo, what is going to be the best way to deal with it? LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
