Erik Hofman wrote:
T J wrote:
Is it possible to download aircraft models designed for use with
X-Plane (any version) and use them in FlightGear? It would be good if
you could do this. If somebody knows how to add X-Plane Aircraft to
FlightGear, could they please tell me what to do.
No this isn't possible. While it might be possible to convert the 3d
model to a FlightGear supported format, the X-Plane flight model is
not like anything FlightGear supports. YASim might be the closest
match, but as far as I know it's still not close enough to be able to
convert it go YASim properly.
It might be a fun project for someone, if they can get their hands on
the x-plane format spec. You could write an offline converter that
loads an x-plane aircraft and then spits out a yasim config file. You'd
have to prompt for the approach/cruise configuration numbers which the
yasim solver needs so it can match published performance *exactly*
(hehe, just playing the marketing hype game here a little.) :-) Then
you could also extract the 3d model information and you could convert it
to a .ac file with .xml animation wrappers for FlightGear. That sounds
like a good medium-difficulty project if anyone out there has nothing
better to do. :-)
Curt.
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