On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:35 -0500, Peter Brown wrote: > Hey all. > > Does anyone know of a way to provide more realistic braking power? > The deceleration rate seems to be an across-the-board-standard between > all aircraft, and from a user point of view I'm not sure it takes > weight, mass, or any other physical attribute into account. All I > know is if you pushed your toes into the firewall hard enough to slow > down that fast, the tires would either shred or catch on fire. I've > looked around for a way to apply partial brakes, even such as bindings > for "b" to apply 50% brakes, and Ctrl b can apply 100% brakes. But > with my limited knowledge I can't find what provides the brakes to > begin with. > > Has this been discussed before? > > Thanks, > Peter > > > Peter Brown > FG "Farmboy" >
Peter, Brakes are applied (like most controls) by setting the correct properties in /controls, in this case controls/gear/brake-left controls/gear/brake-right and controls/gear/brake-parking. Most of these properties are "normalized" so 0.0 = 0% braking and 1.0 = 100% braking. The keyboard "b" key sets both brakes to 1.0 in 1/2 second. The "," and "." keys individually set left or right brakes to 1.0 in 1/2 second. This 1/2 second value may be changed by editing $FG_ROOT/Nasal/controls.nas. Look for, and edit, the line that says var fullBrakeTime = 0.5; See also: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Property_browser http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Property_Tree The amount of braking force per wheel can be adjusted per aircraft in the flight dynamics model (FDM) for that aircraft. This is a deep and complex subject, though. Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
