Nice work! On 8/5/07, Dave Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I submitted 3 patches via Melchior today. > > pa28-161 update > > Last year after I "completed" the pa24, David Megginson sent me all the > detail pictures he had taken of his Piper Warrior II and indicated that > I should "finish" up the details on the pa28-161 in FlightGear. I spent > the last three weeks, evenings and weekends (other than 4 days at > Oshkosh) finally doing just that. Since the next release will still be > in plib, I did hot spots with panels (arg!). Many hot spots also have > "picks" in osg. This update took the pa28 past the level of detail in > the pa24, so I made several updates to the pa24 so they are at the same > level now. > > You will notice that the aircraft now starts with all switches off and > the fuel selector on "off". As in the pa24, the clicking on "help" and > then "aircraft help" will give you the "keyboard" keys for all the > switches as well as a start sequence. > > There are now "hot spots" for all the switches, etc., including the flap > lever, the rudder trim, and the elevator trim. The panel lights now are > on a dimmer switch. Did the same for the pa24 via rotation of the nav > light switch (as in the real pa24). > > Added nasal electrical system, the kt70 transponder, an AMP meter, > magneto switch and key, flight com (texture only), vacuum gage, hobbs > meter (texture only), carb heat, primer, and nasal simulated egt and > stall warning that recognizes accelerated stall conditions, throttle and > mixture on the power quadrant, rudder pedals with brakes, hand brake, > yokes,and fuel valve and appropriate animations. Used several parts from > Torsten Dreyer's fine SenecaII. > > 2. pa24-250 updates - added the kt70 transponder and dimming instrument > lights as well as elevator trim hot spots on the overhead console. > > Changes to 3D instruments > > There are several changes to 3D instruments that might be noticed by > other AC. > > 1. Rescaled the radio_stack slightly to match the real dimensions of > the radios. Adding the kt70 made this dimension error obvious. > > 2. Shortened the RadioStack.ac rectangle so the extra space below the > kap140 is gone. Without this change, it would have over lapped the pa28 > switch panel. > > 3. Added a "select" animation to the kt70.xml file to only display the > id_code (digit1 thru digit4) when the transponder has power. This > should not negatively impact any other users as all the other features > don't work without transponder power. > > 4. Changes to other 3D instruments: > a. shortened the asi.ac needle so it stays within the instrument. > b. added material animation to the pa28-fuel-oil.xml controlled > by the panel light dimmer. > c. added "click" groups and resized the pick rectangles to just > slightly larger than the knobs they control in osg for alt.ac, hi.ac, > and vor.ac. This was an attempt to make the pick rectangles less > intrusive in plib. > > Let me know if any of these changes have a negative impact on any other > AC. > > Enjoy a night approach in the Warrior II! > > Dave > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel >
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