On 01/08/2007 12:44 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > OK - I'll probably leave this as a general emissive light. Where is the > switch located? On the ceiling?
Multiple switches. Perhaps the most relevant to the model are the two dimmer knobs (commonly but improperly called rheostats) located just to port of the electrical rocker switches, just to starboard and a little down from the magneto/start switch. One of them controls the post lights, while the other controls the internal illumination in the radios. The brightness and the red-versus-white of the dome light is controlled overhead. Not terribly convenient for the model. A generic nondescript "area lighting" controlled by one of the dimmer knobs would be just fine IMHO. > I can see the switches on the bottom right, and I think there are five, > reading from L-R: > > NAV, BEACON, STROBE, TAXI, LANDING. OK. > The problem is where the other light switches are located. I think we've covered all the important ones. > The easiest way to solve this is to provide an option to make the yokes > invisible. ... I think that should be fine. That sounds good. It's expedient, and it solves the problem. Maybe only 90% invisible, like Casper the ghost???? > As some people have their own CH Products Yokes, Or Saitek yokes. I have a Saitek X52 (yoke and throttle) which has 8 axes and 33 switches. Cheap and good enough. And even for those who don't have hardware yokes, a keystroke to make the yokes /temporarily/ invisible sounds like a fine solution, especially in the short-to-medium term. ======================= Don't take the following too seriously: In the long term, I have fantasies about allowing the point of view to change ... not just changing the tilt/pan/zoom from a fixed point, but actually moving the pilot's *point* of view. That would allow peering around the yoke to see switches ... and perhaps more importantly, it would allow moving the PoV to the side to peer around the cowling to better see what's going on during landing. I reckon this would be a royal pain to implement, and inconvenient to use in practice, but it would be the bees' knees in terms of realism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
