On Thursday 24 July 2003 22:15, Lee Elliott wrote: > 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
Well, I've got all four brakes working on all four main gear legs, and the brakes apply at the gear level, not the wheel level:( However, I think this still leaves an issue with the settings in the joysticks and keyboard, which still refer to multiple wheels on a single gear element. Any comments anyone? LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
