Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-06 Thread Francesco Angelo Brisa
Thanks for the answers; based on you suggestions I think I will add instruments in the C337 way (With a little thin glass in front of them with almost no reflection effect). Cheers Francesco -- Keep Your Developer Skills

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-06 Thread syd adams
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 ? Looks like an oversight on my part. The instruments for the Aerostar are in its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-06 Thread TDO Brandano
a transparent cockpit. In any case, textured reflections here generally do a very poor job. Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 05:56:31 -0700 From: adams@gmail.com To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question... Aerostar 700

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tuesday 06 March 2012 03:33:55 Francesco Angelo Brisa wrote: Thanks for the answers; based on you suggestions I think I will add instruments in the C337 way (With a little thin glass in front of them with almost no reflection effect). Cheers Francesco I thought the overwhelming

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-06 Thread Alexis Bory
Le 06/03/2012 00:05, Ron Jensen a écrit : 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-05 Thread Ron Jensen
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-05 Thread Gary Neely
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com wrote: On Monday 05 March 2012 02:53:59 Francesco Angelo Brisa wrote: * 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-05 Thread Gene Buckle
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Gary Neely wrote: 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. +1 I'd think that real aircraft engineers would seek to minimize these effects, and that they would manifest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-05 Thread dave perry
On 03/05/2012 06:40 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Gary Neely wrote: 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. +1 I'd think that real aircraft engineers would seek to minimize