Thanx for the comprehensive overview. I am able to choose different aircraft now. I haven't yet changed NONE to NOSE but there's a problem with the mouse controls: yes, I can control the rudder with holding mouse button down, but now the regular mouse won't control the airplane! Yes, I've got the crosshairs. For some reason the mouse doesn't work to control the airplane anymore. What did I do wrong? I can't get my mouse back.
(On the Mac CTl-click or OPTION-click is the substitute for right-click on a 2 button mouse.) Ken >Ken Spiker writes: > > > 1. I can fly okay with the mouse, but there's a problem steering on the > > ground. I have only the rudder controls the keypad 0 and . keys. The period > > (.) key seems to have an exaggerated effect on steering while the 0 key has > > mimimal effect. I'm not talking here about the additional torque of the > > prop, this is more than that. And sometimes the mouse control seems to get > > out of whack, how do I center it? Are there ways to change the keyboard > > mapping? > >By default, ',' and '.' control differential braking, not the rudder >and nosewheel. When you push '.' you're slamming on the right brake, >so you can expect a significant effect. > >Rudder control of the nosewheel was broken until a day or two ago. If >you don't want to move to the current CVS of everything, open >Aircraft/c172/c172.xml in the base package and look for the line > > AC_GEAR NOSE -6.8 0.0 -20.0 1800 600 0.5 0.8 0.02 >STEERABLE NONE 20 FIXED > >change "NONE" to "NOSE" and nosewheel steering should start working. > >Finally, you can use the mouse as well as the keypad to control the >rudder pedals. Right click once to get the crosshairs (can you right >click in OSX?), then hold down the left button and move the mouse >sideways to control the rudder. > > > > > 2. I'm a little confused about selecting an aircraft. Seems some of them > > work and some of them don't. Or most of them don't. I add the aircraft name > > to the .fgfsrc file and most of the time the app just won't load. I don't > > know if I'm supposed to call the aircraft by the name on the Folder > > containing the aircraft, or if there's a certain file the name of which > > defines the name to input in the aircraft option. And what does aero option > > mean? > >Ignore the --aero option. Here are the planes that (mostly) work: > >--aircraft=747-yasim >--aircraft=X15 >--aircraft=a4-yasim >--aircraft=c172-3d >--aircraft=c172-3d-yasim >--aircraft=c172-ifr >--aircraft=c172 >--aircraft=c172-yasim >--aircraft=c172p-3d >--aircraft=c172p >--aircraft=c182 (actually, I haven't tested this recently) >--aircraft=c310 >--aircraft=c310-yasim >--aircraft=c310u3a-3d >--aircraft=c310u3a >--aircraft=dc3-yasim >--aircraft=harrier-yasim >--aircraft=j3cub-yasim >--aircraft=ufo > >Try the j3cub -- it's a lot of fun. > > >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
