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Jetways Help

Postby Captain97 » Mon Oct 22, 2018 11:48 pm

I need help. I am trying to use the animated jetways, but I keep getting an error message. "your aircraft does not define the location of door one". That happens with every aircraft except for the Boeing 777, the Airbus A380 plus, and the E-jet family. So, I have two questions.

Question One: Why does the jetway work for the 777, the A380, and the E-jets, but none of the other aircraft?

Question Two: Is there a way for me to define the door locations for the other aircraft even though I'm not the one who made the aircraft?


Edit: I just realized I forgot to mention my OS and flightgear version

I am on MacOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

My Flightgear version is 2018.2.2

Edit: I just checked, and it also works with the 747.
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby wkitty42 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:18 pm

it should also work properly for the UFO as there was work done specifically for this to ease working with the jetways and the UFO...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby Captain97 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:23 pm

I have not yet checked with the UFO. Mainly because I never fly with the UFO. However, back to my question, why do the jetways work with some aircraft not not work with others?
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby wkitty42 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:44 pm

your error message tells you why... specifically, the craft does not define the position for the door...

each craft is designed, built and maintained by individuals or groups of individuals... they can design it how ever they want... some may not even yet know about this need for using their craft with the jetways... it is not mandatory to support all features the simulator offers...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby Captain97 » Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:29 pm

And the 2nd part to my question? Is there a way for me to define the door locations for the other aircraft even though I'm not the one who made the aircraft?
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby wkitty42 » Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:51 am

yes there is but i do not know the details... you'd have to look at the code for craft that do define the location and figure out how to add it to the craft you desire it to be in... i'm sure the maintainers of those craft would appreciate patches to provide the feature... you might want to check with them first, though, and see if the feature is already available in a dev version of the craft or not :)
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby Captain97 » Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:47 pm

Can anyone give me details on how I can fix it?
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby WoodSTokk » Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:55 am

A quick look in the 777-200-set.xml shows under sim/model the following records:
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            <door>
                <position-x-m type="float">-18.30</position-x-m>
                <position-y-m type="float"> -2.95</position-y-m>
                <position-z-m type="float"> -0.42</position-z-m>
                <jetway-hood-deg type="float">3</jetway-hood-deg>
            </door>
            <door>
                <position-x-m type="float">-7.67</position-x-m>
                <position-y-m type="float"> -2.95</position-y-m>
                <position-z-m type="float"> -0.42</position-z-m>
                <jetway-hood-deg type="float">3</jetway-hood-deg>
            </door>

It look easy to define doors on a airplain.
But there should also be a article in the wiki.

EDIT:
Yes, there is a wiki page: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Animated_jetways
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby Captain97 » Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:56 am

That article just tells you how to use the jetways with an aircraft which has the doors already defined. I’ve searched through the wiki, but I can’t find anything about being able to define the doors on an aircraft.
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Re: Jetways Help

Postby WoodSTokk » Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:46 am

Look closer and you will find http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Animated_jetways#Adding_support_in_aircraft.
In short, the lines i have posted are one part. The second part are 9 lines in the model xml file.
You need only the correct x/y/z coordinate and the angle.
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