I would like to ask a special favor....

[Brett_Henderson]

WOW  :)   This aircraft is gonna be special...  I just wish we had access to the source files to improve the VC. I'll be trying to contact the original designer soon.

Mean time..  I've been playing with the VC panel..  The DC-3 gauges look and work quite well. I'll have to modify some of the gauge bitmaps (for appropriate green-arcs and red-lines), and will make a new cab file, with just the used gauges.

The needed over-head panels pop up just fine from the VC (using .  ... but icons would be nice. Between the VC and the pop-ups, I'll be able to make it all, pilot-controlled, from cold start, to shut-down. The 2D panel is an afterthought (I never use them), so updating its gauges will come last.. I might even just get rid of it all together, on "my" edition.

[NickN]

[quote]WOW

[Brett_Henderson]

An "over-write" should be fine. (I wrote him too) (he's probably gonna get annoyed..lol).. It would be the whole aircraft, minus the model folder.

Wouldn't the old, "Copy and replace" work ?  It's all really just cfg file work.. right ?  Redundant or unused gauges and bitmaps would just sit there, harmlessly..

[Brett_Henderson]

Nick.. PM me an email, and I'll attach my cfg/air files...

[NickN]

Brett, are you modifying Jim's panel and improving on it or are you working from scratch?

Are we all using the same soundset?

The reason I ask is I know its possible to offer more than one panel/paint which may not be a bad but I was under the impression you and Jim were going back and forth with changes in that area.

So there is no confusion on my part.. are you working on one version of a panel and is Jim working on another?


Cant tell from the forum posts at this point..

[Brett_Henderson]

All I'm doing is playing with DC-3 gauges...  the panel, as Jim has worked it, is intact..

[NickN]

[quote]All I'm doing is playing with DC-3 gauges...

[Brett_Henderson]

This would be a good time for us all to get on the same page...

[NickN]

[quote]This would be a good time for us all to get on the same page...

[Brett_Henderson]

Brett I can move the lights if that value is critical to anything you have done. I should not have jumped the gun on that since you were still working out the geometry. Let me know if that is a problem.

Just subract 3 from all the longitudinal (first) number in the light coordinates. You could change the reference point back to 0,0,0

[Jim Hodkinson]

Hi

Before I get involved in a

[NickN]

[quote]Hi

Before I get involved in a

[Brett_Henderson]

It's funny... I've found that when you start with real-world geometry, and real world "power".. and real world weights..

[NickN]

I may be rusty with my physics but

oswald_efficiency_factor= 0.65

yep!

[Brett_Henderson]

Most of the photos showed the wing-floats well out of the water, .. that I had to make her sit a little high might be a modeling innacuracy. No biggie either way.. fine-tune the float points as you see fit.. just keep them relative to each other (same vertical difference between front/back).  If you get too low in the water, the wing-floats might drag (their float-points ARE model dependent).

When you get them where they work with your effects, just let me know the numbers and I'll incorporate them into the final cfg file (still gotta do the aircraft data and performance specs, and fine-tune short landing performance)..