On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:37:15 -0700 dave perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just noticed that the recent electrical updates to the kt170.xml > submitted by Ron Jenson make the kt70 bright white if the instrument > light are turned on in the pa24-250 and the pa28-161. This is because > the material animation factor should be between 0 and 1 and this change > makes it equal to the output voltage from the buss (usually either 14 or > 28 volts in most light AC). > <factor-prop>systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights</factor-prop> > This saturates the material red, green, blue values. > > Several of the aircraft are expecting this to be controlled by > <factor-prop>systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights</factor-prop> > since they are assuming a rotating dimmer controls the intensity, not > the bus voltage turned on by the switch. > > Many other objects in Instruments-3d have a material animation tied to > <factor-prop>systems/electrical/outputs/instrument-lights</factor-prop> > to simulate variable instrument light intensity. > > Ron, is there a reason this needed to be changed for the kt70? > Im having some difficulty myself trying to come up with a standard method of setting instrument light dimming, that everyone would be happy with ... I prefer normalizing the instrument-light voltage to 1 in systems/electrical/outputs so that different voltage systems dont affect the light intensity ...just my 2 cents worth ... Cheers -- Syd&Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
