Cessna 210 "Centurion" family development topic

[TheEagle]

I should use modifiers more often … the Weighted Normals modifier with Face Area as weighting source corrected all of my shading problems out of the box !

From now on I'll occasionally live stream my working on the 210, because I thought it might be interesting / helpful, especially for those new to FG aircraft development, to watch how i am doing it. So, if anyone is interested and you have a YouTube account, subscribe to my channel Eagle flying so that you'll be notified when I start a stream. I can also answer a few questions during the stream, if you have any !

[TheEagle]

Finally ! I got commit access to FGAddon today and pushed the 1.0.0 release from GitHub to the trunk hangar, so all next users from now on can now download the most recent stable version (without major bugs / errors) through the launcher !

[Volador]

Nice work Eagle, congratulations

[southside]

I just pulled this from Github, fired up FG and selected "Silver Eagle"

I consistently get a fatal exception error dialog box "FGPropertyValue::GetValue() The property fcs/aileron-pos-rad does not exist."

and this in the console

In file /fgfs/Aircraft/c210-family/Systems/silver-eagle-fdm.xml: line 845
Engine location ignored, only thruster location is used.

In file /fgfs/Aircraft/c210-family/Systems/silver-eagle-fdm.xml: line 850
Engine orientation ignored, only thruster orientation is used.
78.89 [ALRT]:autopilot DigitalFilter: unknown config node: gain
87.37 [ALRT]:io Failed to load file: "Instruments/ifcs/ifcs.xml"
89.01 [ALRT]:io Failed to load file: "Avionics/ap-control/ap-control.xml"
90.04 [ALRT]:io Failed to load file: "Controls/fuel-select/fuel-select.xml"
91.57 [INFO]:nasal Failed to find view-number-raw=nil
91.95 [INFO]:nasal initialising the mp lag system
91.97 [ALRT]:nasal Nasal module gui present in FGDATA/Nasal but not configured in defaults.xml. Please add an entry to defaults.xml, and set /nasal[0]/gui[0]/enabled[0]=true to load the module on-demand at runtime when required.
92.10 [INFO]:nasal towing is active!
FGPropertyManager::GetNode() No node found for fcs/aileron-pos-rad
FGPropertyManager::GetNode() No node found for fcs/aileron-pos-rad
Running FlightGear's terminate handler. The program is going to exit due to a fatal error condition, sorry.
Aborted (core dumped)

I'm running 2020.4.0 nightlies from saiarcott's PPA. Ubuntu 22.04 GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

[cgdae]

I just pulled this from Github, fired up FG and selected "Silver Eagle"

I consistently get a fatal exception error dialog box "FGPropertyValue::GetValue() The property fcs/aileron-pos-rad does not exist."

In flightgear/ and fgdata/ there are occurrences of these property paths:

fcs/left-aileron-pos-rad
fcs/right-aileron-pos-rad
fcs/aileron-pos-rad-avgd

But no occurrences of:

fcs/aileron-pos-rad

So maybe some code in c210-family that is using fcs/aileron-pos-rad should instead be using fcs/aileron-pos-rad-avgd?

- Jules

[TheEagle]

@cgdae: no, fcs/aileron-pos-rad is a custom property created by the FCS.
@southside: Thanks for reporting, but I am aware of this issue - the Silver Eagle variant should currently be considered non-working at the moment, as my main focus was on some scenery work in the last weeks. I should be done with that soon, and after that I'll continue work on the 210 ! In the meantime, I recommend either downloading the 1.0.0 release from GitHub, or installing that same release via the launcher (only possible with FG git next), or cloning the git repo and then within it doing:

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git checkout v1.0.0


and only using the P210N, not the Silver Eagle.

[southside]

Thank you.

It would have helped if I had read the release notes.....

It was hard work, but I enjoyed it and learned very much along the way: the Cessna 210 finally is ready to have it's first release ! smiley
Included variants are the P210N and it's turboprop conversion the "Silver Eagle", though the latter one is not fully working yet. The P210N is fully working, though !

Looking forward to seeing this aircraft getting completed but still fun to fly as it is now

[TheEagle]

IDK if anyone is interested, but I've set up a Discord server for all my projects - you can join here: https://discord.gg/QF2DjutFD7 then go to the Cessna 210 category !

[merspieler]

nooooooooooo

why don't you make a matrix room instead? free and open communication for a free and open source project?
instead of forcing people into proprietary slavery
oh... also, it's false advertising, it's not a server, it's an instance, they don't run a dedicated server just for you.