On Saturday 27 May 2006 10:16, Geoff wrote: > I wrote a post ages ago begging for one. Glad you're getting some fun out of it - I must admit I don't recall seeing your request. Feel free to comment on things that are wrong with it too... the version in CVS has some improvements over the one on the download page. You can downlod the whole Lightning directory from the cvs viewer on the flightgear webpage.
Actually I did the Lightning as a an intended practice run before starting work on a Bucc (my main interest). Three things happened - I got interested in Lightnings and discovered exactly how much work was involved in modelling; also I realised my skills are very patchy to be charitable and the great curves of a Bucc would be likely beyond me. > Somewhere I have a > photo of my brother in cockpit at an RAF Finningley > Open Day in the early 1960s - for some reason I did not get > a go and I have envied him ever since. If you're ever in the Highlands you can sit in the cockpit of the first F.1A built and play with things to your heart's content... sadly it's only a nose section now but still an great experience. You wouldn't believe how "cosy" it is, even without flying gear on. The Highland Aviation Museum is right next to Inverness Airport and has Lightning, Bucc S.2, Vampire, JP, HP Herald(IIRC) and Valiant nose sections as well as a complete Bucc S.1 and a Tornado(!). Very "hands on" place, and has a nice indoors display too. > (1) I know how much work goes into these models (so I won't > hold my breath), but if we can have a Lightning, how about > a Vulcan? At that same Finningley display they put on a > Vulcan squadron scramble. It was the most memorable thing > I have ever seen in aviation. I (and I know a few others) would also love to have a Vulcan in FG, it would make a particularly nice tanker for the Lightning and other planes of that vintage. I'm not going to be working on one though; aside from having precious little time to continue to fill out the Lightning, Vivian and I have been working on a new Camel model for some time and I feel bad that I've not done anything on that for a month now :-( > (2) Maybe this is already a feature of FG that I have > missed, but is it / would it be, possible to have > a command to illuminate the instruments in daytime? As Vivian said, several planes in FG have this option but unfortunately the Lightning is not one of them. The Lightning panels were "flood" lit by two main lamps rather than instruments being backlit individually. I did play with the technique used to quite good effect on the Seahawk, Spit etc but I wasn't able to get a result I was entirely happy with. I therefore left it for the time being - waiting for the famous developer called "someone" to implement "proper" OpenGL lights for landing lights, cockpit lights etc. Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
