They still keep in their own tree their own altimeter.xml file due the lighting specific colors.
A few other instrument shared the textures with the altimeter, fixed by adding numbers.png
Next step: improve the generic instrument to display negative altitudes.
Add all hot spots to right side electrical panel. Some systems not implemented yet.
Position lights working.
Signal lights working.
Add more range animations.
Added light animations to pilot.
Restructured pilot xml files.
Added xml files for SCR-522C, A14A and AN/APS-13
Added AN/APS-13 rear warning radar control unit.
Add induction air controls.
Added framing to right cockpit wall.
Improved the modeling of both cockpit walls.
Improved cockpit light animation.
Add A-14A Ox regulator
Resize and reposition electrical switch panel
Add circuit breaker push to reset panel to electrical panel
Make adjustments to right cockpit wall
locked' diamond symbol doesn't show outside a not centered HUD. No
change to the default behaviour.
New property: /instrumentation/radar2/hud-vertical-offset-m
Over Christmas week, I did a significant update to the pa24.
1. made interior 3d with wall thickness variation to match real geometry..
2. added cabin door and baggage door automation.
3. moved the instrument panel to the "right" x and z location.
4. replaced all the pa24-panel.xml automations with pick automations so that file can be removed from cvs.
5. mixture, throttle, prop control automations that were in pa24-panel.xml now done with mouse wheel.
6. flapTrim.ac better matches real geometry and added picks.
7. glareshield better matches real geometry (now has correct width).
8. kr87 (adf) panel animation replaced with pick animation as in pa28.
The Instruments-3d patch adds picks for the asi-pa24 and makes minor tweaks to the pa24 and pa28 fuel-oil-amps gauges.
Changes deflection input variables to match nasal lowpass filter
output for cdi and gs needle deflections. I did a search of the
data/Aircraft to make sure this will not break other ac.
The zkv500 is now repaired (see attached patch) at least for turnpoint mode.
I'm quite sure there will have problem some problems with route management,
I haven't tested yet, but I'll do this week-end.
I've also fixed the screen refresh frequency, which is now more regular.
Added GS out of range flag to Instruments-3d/vor.
Century III upgrades
1. Implemented the two 20 sec checks for GS arm documented in the autopilot POH page 30.
2. Fixed bug that made GS capture not work if the ALT switch was turned off for a few moments to do a step-down approach.
plugin changed on 3rd of october.
This means, textures without a "texrep" value will not repeat any more.
This might affect texture animations, such as in the case of kx165
This patch for the 3d artificial horizon enables the movement of the
reference bar like the 2d instrument and corrects the wrong display of
pitch.
The original version already has a reference bar object in the .ac file
called bezel, but it is not bound to a animation. And the pitch is
indicated approx. 25% low so a pitch of +10deg is indicated as approx.
7deg.
"For more than a month, I have been working with Torsten Dryer to model
these three autopilots that are very common in aircraft manufactured in
the 1960s through the late 1980s. The Altimatic IIIc in the SenecaII is
a variation on the Century III and uses the same nasal model."
Updated electrical system ...instrument light output normalized
Added OSG hotspots to most instruments ... more to go yet
PLIB hotspots temporarily broken ..need to resize panel to avoid whiteouts...
(a waste of time ) but some still use PLIB , so needs to be fixed ... ;)
Updated KFC200 ALTITUDE mode ... sets pitch hold until selected altitude is captured ... pitch controlled by switch on controller...
KNS 80 nav radio can store 1 selected radial per stored frequency ... stored distance will come when I understand RNAV better...
More instruments underway....
Aligned hotspots...
Moved kfc200.nas to Instruments-3d where it belongs...
Redoing the kfc200 flightdirector with newer functions (setlisteners) ...still in progress
Updated radios to change standby frequencies instead of selected frequencies....
Updated CitationX autopilot....
Autopilot is in flightdirector mode by default...
Until instruments are created , enable autopilot by setting "/autopilot/locks/passive-mode" to false
This patch makes the pa24 changes to use the mag.sw from Instruments 3d.
Changed the mag_switch.ac to include the pick rectangles and the
mags.xml to use the pick automation. Also includes the edits to
pa28-161.xml and pa28-161-set.xml to use the 3d radio stack.
Changes:
1. remove typo from all the /Systems/KAP140.xml files
2. changes to put radio_stack in Instruments-3d
3. Add "pick" to vor, alt, hi, in Instruments-3d
4. changes to pa24-250 and pa28-161 to use 2 and 3.
5. add "pick" and "2d text in window" in 3d OAT in pa24-250
I did some more work on the pa24-250 over the holidays.
1. Used nasal to emulate egt performance very similar to the real AC.
2. Changed the airspeed so the pressure altitude/temperature correction
ring for true airspeed works.
3. Modeled the OAT after the battery powered OAT in the real AC.
one left click on the "hot spot" displays OAT in C
2nd left click displacs OAT in F
3rd left click is off
times out after 5 min and turns off (to save battery)
4. Other 3d clean-up
I missed a few things in the last patch.
1. prop size did not match prop disc size.
2. rescaled yoke to match measured yoke.
3. messed up hot spots for heading indicator knobs when I tweaked the
panel last patch.
The fix that could not wait was #3, so I also re-textured the pilot head
with outdoor face photos. Yep, that's my face. The hair is now
textured also which looks better close up.
1. Added a pilot.
2. Cleaned up the panel, added a working park brake lever, added the
remaining placards, added "materials lighting for the remaining
switches and knobs tied to the nave light switch.
3. Doubled the resolution of the transparent rgb, added propdisc spin,
and realigned all in the ac file so the spin was concentric.
I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear.
The MK VIII is an Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System aimed at
regional turboprop and small turbofan aircrafts such as the Citation,
Citation Bravo, B1900D, Beechcraft 99 and L410.
Frederic Bouvier:
make the MSVC compilation possible. Rearrange base package directories.
I put 3 patches and a sound file in this tar. The c172p... patch
removes an unnecessary patch I submitted to the c172p. It has no affect
on performance. The Instruments-3d... patch adds a working skid ball to
the tc and switches the vor xmls to using params so it is easier to
edit. It also constrains the glide-slope needle to -32 to 32 degrees.
The pa24-250... patch fixes an edit error (corrects a misnamed switch
"click", no change in performance) and adds a "squish" sound to the
primer pump action.
Here is a patch that included the changes in my 2/22/06 posting plus the
3d-instrument light "emission" animations. I also added a magnetic
compas mount and moved it forward and down to better match the real ac
and make it easier to read when adjusting the hi. Ignore the "?" flaged
files at the beginning. none are required. I noticed that there is a
backup copy of pa24-250.ac in the pa24-250 folder in cvs. It can be
deleted. The only copy of that file required is in pa24-25/Models.
I "flew" a shake down instrument XC from 2v2 (Longmont, CO) to KLVN
(Airlake, just south of Minneapolis, MN). Even the fuel management is
realistic. The autopilot on the menu bar works well. Give the changes
a try and enjoy!
Here are the latest updates.
- Most of the changes involve moving instruments / animation / hotspot files
to instruments-3d.
- Some re-texturing.
- Finished Aerostar gear animation.
- I tried adding a LONG variable to the nav radio property tree,
but the conversion kept coming out wrong. Multiplying frequencies
by 100 and outputing that to another DOUBLE worked, but I cant find
the Comm frequencies property updating for the life of me ..... oh
well Nasal works.
I made a minor change to one file in the c172p that accommodates a
feature I added to the navcom-kx155.xml and the dme.xml in the
Instruments folder. I wanted to leave the frequencies, etc. on these
dark until there was voltage applied to
/systems/electrical/outputs/nav. This was accomplished by adding a
param and property alias pointing to the appropriate value. Since the
c172p "always" applies 28 volts, this made no change in the c172p, but
allowed me to model the avionics master and battery master realisticly
in pa24-electrical.nas. I put in comments explaining this at the change
points.
There is a useful "help > aircraft help" that walks you through the
start procedure and lists the key bindings as well as the key to "light
up" the hot spots.
feature I added to the navcom-kx155.xml and the dme.xml in the
Instruments folder. I wanted to leave the frequencies, etc. on these
dark until there was voltage applied to
/systems/electrical/outputs/nav. This was accomplished by adding a
param and property alias pointing to the appropriate value. Since the
c172p "always" applies 28 volts, this made no change in the c172p, but
allowed me to model the avionics master and battery master realisticly
in pa24-electrical.nas. I put in comments explaining this at the change
points.
There is a useful "help > aircraft help" that walks you through the
start procedure and lists the key bindings as well as the key to "light
up" the hot spots.
I made a minor change to one file in the c172p that accommodates a
feature I added to the navcom-kx155.xml and the dme.xml in the
Instruments folder. I wanted to leave the frequencies, etc. on these
dark until there was voltage applied to
/systems/electrical/outputs/nav. This was accomplished by adding a
param and property alias pointing to the appropriate value. Since the
c172p "always" applies 28 volts, this made no change in the c172p, but
allowed me to model the avionics master and battery master realisticly
in pa24-electrical.nas. I put in comments explaining this at the
change points.
There is a useful "help > aircraft help" that walks you through the
start procedure and lists the key bindings as well as the key to "light
up" the hot spots.
I have modeled N7764P, the comanche 250 I co-own with 2 other Seagate engineers.
In the process of doing this model, I have also improved, worked on, or added
instruments, etc. to Instruments-3d.
* I fixed the adf so the azimuth card is tied to the correct property
* Added TO, From, and out-of range indicators to the 3d vor.
* Also added a manifold pressure gage and a pa24-250 asi (using digital photos
of the actual asi as the starting textures.
Affects on other AC. As far as I know, this will add to-from to the vor and
correct the adf behavior for pa28-161. It would be a trivial edit to the
pa28-161.xml to give the same vor performance to that AC.
Now both VORs act as one.
I've finished the emigration of the radiostack, and I've also removed it
completely. It turned out that the comm radio is completely implemented in
the ATC subsystem. I've changed the affected ATC files to point
to /instrumentation/com, but I guess that the maintainer of the ATC code
should decide wether to make it configureable, and how.
I also had to change some files in Network and Main. The changes in network
should be obvious, but the changes in Main were a bit suspect. The files
included radiostack.hxx, but they weren't directly depending on
radiostack-hxx. They were depending on other files that were included by
radiostack.hxx. I got it to compile, but I'm not sure if I included the
correct directly depending file.
For the data directory I changed every occurrence of /radios/
with /instrumentation/ with this simple one-liner that I found on the net:
find -name '*.xml' -type f | xargs perl -pi -e
's/\/radios\//\/instrumentation\//g'
Instead of me sending all the files that got changed by this I suggest that
you execute the one-liner yourself. Of course I can not guarantee that this
will work perfectly, but I considered hand editing to be not an option (I'm
lazy). I don't want to test every aircraft to see if everything still works,
I think it's better to wait and see if anyone complaints about broken nav
radios/instruments.
