Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Basically, this just won't work. Sorry. The idea of switching from a > sliding friction model to a static spring at low speeds is probably as > good as we're going to get. But quite honestly, it's been my > experience that almost all of the YASim aircraft I have worked on can > be made to sit still with a little gear tuning. I'm not convinced > that this is a critical feature. >
Just to explain this a little further...if the balance of the aircraft and/or the position of the gear is incorrect, the aircraft will slide around. Last I knew the helicopter used some very large ballasts. An extremely small movement of this weight would affect the balance and gear tuning. IIRC the "skids" on the bo105 are modeled as four wheel points, but it should i think be possible to set the fricition high enough on the gear to be similar to a skid. Might it be useful to have some arbitrary mulitplier that affects the way in which forces or friction are scaled as zero velocity is approached? This still should be added _after_ the aircraft pretty much just sits there on it's own. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
