> I have two questions for you. First one is what is the differance > between the Yasim engine and what you have here? Like I said, only been > diving into this a week and am still figuring things out, so a simple > answer would be best. ;)
Hi Rob, As Syd said, a YASim aircraft doesn't use the YASim fixed-wing engine declarations, but uses a different set of specifications for the rotor and its drive train. I'm not a helicopter developer, so I can't help with details of rotor stuff, but maybe Heiko other helicopter gurus will drop in with comments. What I can say is that you don't have to rely on the YASim FDM to do all the simulation and in some cases you're better off not using YASim's results. For my own projects (fixed-wings), I'm increasingly taking engine parameters into my own hands, crafting my own code (nasal scripts) to supplement, modify, or replace the engine parameters YASim provides. If you want to simulate a helicopter engine you could write your own routines to manage the engine itself; temperatures, pressures, RPMs, start-up, shut-down, fuel, that sort of thing. Some things might link to YASim's rotor outputs, like RPMs etc. Others might be managed separately with no FDM dependencies. Since you're fairly new to Flightgear it may take a little while to get comfortable with all this. If you study the configuration files of many planes and helicopters, you'll encounter a lot of clever ideas and solutions. There really aren't many restrictions other than what you are willing to do. That's kinda the cool thing about Flightgear. -Gary, aka Buckaroo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
