Roberto Inzerillo > Sent: 20 June 2007 10:00 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] new pseudo FDM for vehicles > (osg branch) > > > Anders Gidenstam ha scritto: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: > > > >>> attached is a patch for the osg-branch, which will > introduce a new > >>> pseudo FDM for ground vehicles and (large) ships. The FDM isn't > >>> perfect, but good enough to allow driving vehicles. > >> That's interesting. I had thoughts about towing aircrafts > inside an > >> airport once. Can you please post a preview about the movement > >> capabilities of such a vehicles FDM? > > > > Hi, > > > > One can already tow YASim aircraft using the air tow > capability. It is > > also fairly easy to make liftless aircraft FDM configs for ground > > vehicles in JSBSim - I made a simple one for a mule / small > tow truck > > yesterday. You can get it here: > > > > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/towtruck_fgfs.tar.gz > > > > Note: it is not particularly well tuned yet.. :) > > Use } } space to start the engine. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Anders > > Interesting, but ... it doesn't start. I copyed the towtruck > dir inside > the Aircraft folder, started FGFS, the mule-22.ac model > appears on the > screen, I press } two times and then I press the space bar but the > engine does not start and the truck does not move using Pag/Up and > Pag/down buttons. > It just moves slightly as avery aircraft does even with > engine stopped > (maybe because of a minimal slope on the terrain). > Maybe I'm missing something? >
Works here. But JSBsim starts with engines running - so perhaps you are switching it off, not on? The steering is far too sensitive, and it rolls like a pig on wet grass, but it's an interesting exercise. Not one I intend to pursue. The patch includes cvs data - not good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
