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F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:52 am

Hi,

I have been busy updating the F-16 flight computer lately which turned out the have quite some problems. After extensive (and many, many hours of) work I'm pleased to announce it is finished now. I know others have been using this FDM to model other aircraft, so I've added a bit of documentation in the file itself to explain what everything does.

This might be a good time to upgrade the old F-16 based FDMs. The changes are mainly in the flight_control section, except for the addition of the CmDh table to the Pitch axis.

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby Natovr » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:58 am

Thanks! :D

One thing I encountered was, when I co past Mach, the F16 starts shaking like mad o.O I'll see if this is updated, or I can solve it with new knowledge...
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:12 am

ah yes, now that you mention it. I want to take a look at it some time, but... this is already past the limits of the real aircraft anyhow. If you see that happen you ar flying too fast :)

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby Natovr » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:20 am

ooh... i see :) thanks!
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby DELTA » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:31 am

have you got a downloadable copy please
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:17 pm

ok, you can find it here
I think it will also work for FlightGear 1.0

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby DAWUSS » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:08 pm

erik wrote:ok, you can find it here
I think it will also work for FlightGear 1.0

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:50 pm

hmm, maybe ot works if you remove the following section from f16-set.xml

<instrumentation>
<path>Aircraft/Lightning/Systems/lightning-instrumentation.xml</path>
</instrumentation>

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby Hello » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:17 pm

erik wrote:hmm, maybe ot works if you remove the following section from f16-set.xml

<instrumentation>
<path>Aircraft/Lightning/Systems/lightning-instrumentation.xml</path>
</instrumentation>


Doesn't work. I'm getiing a missing texture error ("Models/../Panels/Textures/Instruments.rgb").
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby Gijs » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:29 pm

Is it correct that the texture is missing?
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:52 pm

Allright, I've uploaded a new version here.
This one is tested locally so I'm reasonably sure this will work for others too.

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:29 pm

I'm so pleased with the progress that I had to place a picture:

Image

Next step would be to make it more interactive.

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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby Gijs » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:35 pm

Wonderfully looking cockpit!
Would be very nice with all those lights on and working screens!

GOod luck!
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby flyer5 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:31 pm

There's a problem with this aircraft. The only version that works is the very last one. I keep getting a message that says acces in violation of #######. Is this one meant for CVS, or what?
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Re: F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

Postby erik » Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:51 pm

I'm not aware of any such limitations but it might be.. I do intend to introduce the pick animation in the future which I think is an osg only animation.

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