How to make aircraft more buoyant...

[dave3cu]

The thread is here: http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1298860700/0#0

Shows a Tweato landing made possible by the tundra tire bouyancy feature of the A2A Cub.

[Strawberry Yogurt]

That's the one... How does it work? Does anyone know?

[Capt.Propwash]

inside your (aircraft).cfg look for section

[EFFECTS]
wake=fx_wake
water=fx_spray
dirt=fx_tchdrt
concrete=fx_sparks
touchdown=fx_tchdwn_s, 1


change the contact points as described in the first few replies, then DELETE these effects from the aircraft.cfg file.

[Daube]

I'm not so sure about the consequences of deleting those effects.
Those effects will just impact the graphical effects, not the behavior of the sim/plane/crash detection etc...
The A2A Accusim Cub with tundra tires can land on the water but I don't know if it's handled by the contact points or by the Accusim module....

[Capt.Propwash]

if it is handled by the contact points, once you turn the tires into "floats", and remove the fx_sparks, fx_spray, fx_wake .... then you should have a tundra tire craft that is amphibian.



or look at the DHC2 Beaver contact points and see what they are and change the contact points on the cub to match.