Melchior FRANZ wrote: > You find it strange that you are put into a machine positioned on > RWY28R? In your dhc2 water plane, or the bo105 helicopter? No more! > > Here's a small Nasal script that allows to save the parking position > and overall state (parking brake, doors, beacons) on a per-aircraft > basis. This encourages you to always leave the aircraft in a sane > state on a sane place. Because next time you start fgfs with it, > you'll have to deal with it! > > > HOTWO > ===== > > (1) download http://members.aon.at/mfranz/flightgear/state.nas [2.8 kB] > (2) set FG_HOME on top of the file to a writable directory > (3) add key binding to your keyboard.xml (see top of script) > > -- first run -- > > (4) start fgfs with your favorite aircraft > (5) you'll end up on 28R as always; nothing to see here :-/ > (6) whenever you feel like it, press the `-key to save the state; > ideally when you've parked the aircraft and are about to exit > from fgfs > > -- next run -- > > (7) start fgfs with same aircraft and find yourself parked where > you left > > > > You can set the default in the script file (whether states should be > retstored or not), and can always override with --prop:state=0. > > The script stores position, heading, controls, and /sim/model/<aircraft>. > Not all aircraft have their private settings in /sim/model/<aircraft>. > The bo105 and a few others have. That means, that you'll even find > the bo105 doors open when you left them open. :-) > > The script does not autosave a state on exit. This would be possible > with a few changes, but I thought that it's probably not such a good > idea. Saving should be done when leaving the aircraft and locking the > door. Not when you crashed it somewhere in the woods. Note: don't park > on houses! The FDMs don't recognize that and put the aircraft *into* > the house on ground. > > m. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >
Cool. Now when do we get to see Robin Peel's startup points in FlightGear? I'm sure that a lot of airports have them, I know I put a bunch into KADW which should be in the next release in all it's taxiway-encrusted splendor. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
