Hi guys I'm busy creating a variometer for FlightGear.
My instrument needs to be able to : 1. Display total energy (using some maths I haven't figured out yet) 2. Play sounds (audio cue) 3. Accept user input to its 2 knobs and 3 toggle switches. From what I've seen in FG I would have to generate the total energy property from a nasal script, play the sounds from the aircraft XML file and accept the user input through the panel hot spot (actions) config file. I have one short word to describe this affair : "Mess!" :) Most of the instrument has to be coded into the aircraft config files (although none of it is aircraft model specific) and for every aircraft that I want to install the instrument in I would have to duplicate the sound, hot spots and nasal code. Is there not a better way of doing it? Also is there not a way to accept user input on a 3D instrument? I don't see the logic behind specifying hot spots using 2D panel *pixel* locations for a 3D model which is placed using 3D coordinates. Not to mention that as soon as I move my 3D instrument around in the cockpit the input is "lost". Surely the input should be part and parcel of the instrument? The way I see it is an instrument should be able to have it's own set of animation, input and sound config files as well as nasal scripts. Then only a single include has to be done in an aircraft config file to load the instrument at the right location. Thanks Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
