On Monday 05 March 2012 02:53:59 Francesco Angelo Brisa wrote: > Hi > > I was going to take some time to put my hands on some aircraft, before > beginning I have some little questions: > > Aerostar 700: > * The airspeed indicator looks like to be a default one (With no colored > bars for velocities). is this due to the fact that it is as in the real > aircraft or just because nobody worked on it ? > > Generic questions... > * asi-300: > how was the asi-300.rgb (under Aircraft/Instruments-3d/asi300 folder) made > ? is it from some sort of svg ? if yes, where can I find it ?
Not the same one, but: http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp/asi001.ps http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp/asi001.xcf the postscript file can be edited for different scales... > * Analogic instruments: > I was looking at two amazing done aircrafts: the DR400 and the Cessna 337; > the DR400 has instruments with a glass reflection (Which is very nice and > realistic) the C337 does not have it. I personally slightly prefer the C337 > way, a little more clean, but it is just my feeling. the question: what > would you suggest to do, if I want to take an aircraft, add a instrument, > which type should I use ? i.e. if I want to add instruments to the C310. Personally, I hate the glass shaders covering instruments and windows. I want to actually fly these aircraft and not drool over how 'real' they look. Flying means I need to be able to actually read the instrument, so I often prefer larger fonts and bolder lines than perhaps the original had. > http://i41.tinypic.com/10huog1.jpg > > [image: Immagine in linea 1] > > http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/f/fd/Cessna337-avionics.png > [image: Immagine in linea 2] > > * I was looking on internet to some cockpit image of some FG aircraft. what > I have found is a lot of different custom instruments set of the same > aircraft model. If I want to take an empty cockpit aircraft and I want to > add instruments to it, can I just choose a "cockpit model" and use it as > reference ? or is some kind of basic instruments set for any aircraft type > ? I hope I explained myself well... The original idea to have a basic set of instruments in Instruments-3d hasn't always worked out so well because underlying concepts of how things should work varied from designer to designer. Its my opinion things bit-rot slower if the instrument lives in its own aircraft. Thanks, Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel