10.08.2009, 22:58
I guess the problem with the donor gauges in the donor planes behaving differently could be fixed building cockpits for each particular plane, but instead of modeling stuff from scratch, the 'environment' from the best fitting cockpit could be used, with gauges modeled on whatever that particular country used... but as i said, it's a guess. Would that work?
So now the problem is more "how to build a cockpit", and if some of the "taboo" topics needs to be discussed, it would turn into "could someone please do that?"
I think that the "temporary cockpits" described in the first post would be a good idea, it would be nice if someone did that, or at least did it for one plane and published a tutorial (if no forbidden topics need to be discussed)
For discussing the gauges without entering into needles behavior, some modified gauge faces could be used, where lines and numbers are rearranged to match the existing needle behavior... but then we'd need a way to tell where to put those lines and numbers, like a "blackbox" software that monitors the aircraft performance. (FS~Pigeon at skiesoffire.org wrote something like that but I havent been able to test it, so far, because it uses .NET 3.5, which refuses to work under Linux+Wine)
So now the problem is more "how to build a cockpit", and if some of the "taboo" topics needs to be discussed, it would turn into "could someone please do that?"
I think that the "temporary cockpits" described in the first post would be a good idea, it would be nice if someone did that, or at least did it for one plane and published a tutorial (if no forbidden topics need to be discussed)
For discussing the gauges without entering into needles behavior, some modified gauge faces could be used, where lines and numbers are rearranged to match the existing needle behavior... but then we'd need a way to tell where to put those lines and numbers, like a "blackbox" software that monitors the aircraft performance. (FS~Pigeon at skiesoffire.org wrote something like that but I havent been able to test it, so far, because it uses .NET 3.5, which refuses to work under Linux+Wine)