--- John Denker wrote: > I have been unable to find any way to turn on cockpit area lighting. > > I found nothing on the subject in the documentation. > > I tried looking around in the c172 and c182 aircraft models and > didn't find anything. > > I tried fiddling with some of the suggestively-named variables > without success. > > Is it possible that the aircraft models do not (yet) implement > this feature?
To give a quick bit of background, I believe OpenGL limitations mean that we cannot just stuff a light-source into the cockpit for this. Also, as you've probably already realized, this is a per-aircraft model issue, so it is up to the aircraft maintainer and any contributers to implement. Some models are quite advanced - the SenecaII and pa24-250 in particular have detailed cockpits in the GA fleet. However, some of the aircraft are a bit behind the times and have only rudimentary 3-D cockpits. I am the maintainer of the c182 and c310, which suffers from this in particular. Are you particularly interested in using the c182? If so, I'll spend some time this evenign adding some lighting. I have never actually been in one, let alone at night, so could you answer a couple of questions for me: 1) Presumably the panel itself is lit from behind as it is implemented currently. Is that correct? 2) Do you have any reference for where the nav, panel, landling light switches are located in the c182? 3) Am I correct in thinking that any light to see the flaps, yoke etc is a reflection of the panel light, and therefore very low intensity? The easiest way to implement this will be with a low-intensity emissive light source on the objects. 4) Is the flap indicator illuminated from behind like the instruments, or does it also rely on the panel light reflection? BTW, you should be aware that we currently don't have any landing light implementation, so I guess landing at night will be quite unrealistic. Finally, you are of course welcome to implement this yourself - the model readme should provide enough information to get you started. -Stuart Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
