--- John Denker wrote: > 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.
OK. I'll add a knob for dimming the general lights. > 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. Will do. > > 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???? <snip> > 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. It's trivial to make a key-assignment to toggle yoke visibilty on/off. 90% transparent is a bit more hassle. > ======================= > > 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. > Already available - hold down the right mouse-button when in tile/pan mode and drag the mouse around. BTW - you'll need OSG CVS FG to make use of most of my changes - there are dependencies on the new pick animation. -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
