On mercredi 08 octobre 2008, gerard robin wrote: > On mercredi 08 octobre 2008, AJ MacLeod wrote: > > Hi all (aircraft developers in particular), > > > > As you might have noticed from the commits list, there was a "wrapper > > function" added to controls.nas last night for braking chutes. > > > > As things stand, it is practically impossible to asssign braking chute > > functions to a joystick or other controller because every aircraft model > > handles the chute in a different way (since the Lightning was the first > > one in FG to model a braking chute I take no blame for this - though > > perhaps if I'd done it in a sane way others would have copied it :-) ) > > > > PLEASE modify your aircraft to use the controls.chuteDeploy function - > > override it to your heart's content in your own model. All you need to > > ensure is that controls.chuteDeploy(1) deploys the chute and > > controls.chuteDeploy(-1) jettisons the chute (if appropriate). > > > > It only took a few minutes to convert the Lightning to use the wrapper > > (and the Lightning's chute control stuff is a real mess - well designed > > models will be even easier ;-) but it should make life a lot easier for > > people writing controller configs and avoid the need for clumsy > > aircraft-specific commands in controller config files. > > > > Cheers, > > > > AJ > > Hello AJ > Thanks > What about SpeedBrake, which could be used instead of it with some > particular Aircraft (BlackBird) won't it be better to have a wrapper too ? > > Cheers
AND i forgot to say, if there will be any wrapper with Air SpeedBrake, F-8E wants it with variable positions , like we have with Flaps. Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
