[NonWonderDog]

Someone tell me if this is wrong:


From left to right:
Full (306 gal), 75% (230 gal), 50% (153 gal), 25% (76 gal), Empty

EDIT: Whoops, P-38L and J hold 416 gallons, not 306, and that matches with the IL-2 fuel weight of 1164 kg. Did they have gauges for the leading edge tanks? In any case, I'll just assume fuel is drawn from the leading edge tanks first, so the fuel gauges will start moving at about 74% fuel.

[JAMF]

Yeah! That's the ticket!

[Guest]

Slightky OT, but as i'm spending a fair bit of time in this cockpit now :wink: , i've noticed that my cannon sounds for the P38 are really soft, like a distant 'poof-poof' sound, compared to the lovely chatter of the MG's. Any of you guys know which sound files i should look at to try and fix it up? :?:

[JAMF]

I saw this thread a while back, so maybe it'll have what you're looking for:
viewtopic.php?t=16364&highlight=hispano

[JAMF]

It shouldn't be too hard to recalibrate the gauges. From a quick look, it seems that the fuel gauges need a couple quick edits in hier.him and the java class.

A couple of the other gauges seem to be slightly off, too. I'll see if I can give them a good going over and PM you the results. Maybe I'll try to make the temperature gauges more useful, too, although I really don't know what temperature level should correspond to the overheat message.

[EDIT] Yuck, the fuel gauges were all screwed up even before this mod. Instead of having the zero point at -60 degrees, they had the zero point at -49.5 degrees and were scaled up 32%. To top it all off, the gauges went from 0 to 1250 kg of fuel, when the flight model data says that the P-38 only carries 1164 kg of fuel (which, combined with the screwup in the zero level, made the gauge point to 100% when full).

I think I'll try to do this the right way and give them nonlinear scales and make the main tank needle move to zero before the reserve tank needle moves. I take back what I said about "quick edits."

Just read your edit. LOL With the texture TLC and your java TLC, we'll have the fuel gauges "juuuust right".

[NonWonderDog]

Yep, but howsabout the oil temp gauges? I set them up to read the reported temperature in degrees Celsius (I also fixed a bug that had both gauges reporting the temperature of the left engine :roll, but the temps reported by the engine model don't have much relation to the markings on the gauge. In game, the temperature hovers around 90-100

[Slikk]

Should I just make the gauge show degrees as reported by the game, or should I scale it to match the redline?

In the heat of battle, sometimes all you have time to do is glance down at the gages, so my vote is to scale it to match the redline.

Slikk

[JAMF]

Yeah, that sound right. Or I could move the colour bands to the area you mentioned?

[JAMF]

Whoops, P-38L and J hold 416 gallons, not 306, and that matches with the IL-2 fuel weight of 1164 kg. Did they have gauges for the leading edge tanks? In any case, I'll just assume fuel is drawn from the leading edge tanks first, so the fuel gauges will start moving at about 74% fuel.

I don't know, but this is the tank layout anyway (p.35 of the manual):

[NonWonderDog]

I found a manual here, and here's what it says about it:

On all airplanes equipped with outer wing tanks,
two low level warning lights are installed on the for-
ward left-hand side of the cockpit. These lights auto-
matically come on when fuel for approximately 5 or 6
minutes of engine operation remains in the tank.

I'm not sure it's very important, since we don't actually have to do any fuel management ourselves. I have no idea where those lights are mounted, either.

[NonWonderDog]

After digging through that manual and taking a closer look at the temperature readings, it looks like whoever programmed the P-38 engines got the temperature ranges for the oil and coolant backwards.

In game:
[code] Normal Range Overheat
oil 95-115

[Slikk]

@ NonWonderDog

Take your time bro. It's better to have it right, than to have it quick.

Slikk

[JAMF]

That's just like it is, fix one thing and another thing pops up.

Don't tie yourself up by going too deep into the matter, as engine management is so basic anyway that one doesn't really need highly accurate temperatures. As long as the manifold, speed and altitude are close.

I'll see that you get a link to a 30+MB pdf of the 38's manual too, when I get home.

[JAMF]

It's on the air!!! Check 1st post.

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Thank you sir! Great job and it's appreciated!!!