Announcing the next big update to the 777, just committed to
FGaddon:- Add functional ground services: chocks, external power, fuel truck, baggage truck, stairs, catering truck.
- Add realistic (de)boarding and (un)loading logic, pui menu for the moment, but I will port to a canvas menu once I get more familiar with that.
- Improve refueling logic
- All ground equipment is clickable to disable it.
- Clicking on the catering truck box raises/lowers it. Clicking on the catering truck itself disables it.
- Clicking on one of the power cables disables the respective power cable. Clicking on the power box disables the power box.
- Disabled the old fuel and payload dialog, because it conflicts with the new weight & payload dialog (see 777 menu). All functionality has been ported.
- Add static friction to the gears (doesn't give issues with 2018.3.2, but will only have effect in 2019.1.1+)
- Add new KLM-300-series liveries by Lars0817
- Update checklists for ground services
Please give me any feedback you want, it helps me a lot to improve my work.
Everything has been tested and retested and should come without any bugs. If you do encounter an issue though, please post it here so I can look into it. I've modified a lot of files and made sure I kept track of everything I touched, but I also am a human and can make mistakes.
I have one question: I wanted to get a nicer solution to select the appearance of the stairs (777 menu > weight & payload > stairs appearance), but I didn't know how to start this. If anyone can point me in the right direction of getting a nicer dialog without the ugly .png's in the name, please do!
Still on my todo-list:
- 200F: model real freight loader, at the moment the normal baggage truck connect in the wrong place.
- improve strobe & beacon lights rhythm
- add de-icing (both the truck, animation and impact on flight characteristics)
- add state system (cold & dark, ready for boarding, ready to taxi, ready for takeoff...)
and still further down on the list:
- model opening passenger/cargo doors
- implement influence on C/G
- improve fuel dump logic
I hope you enjoy my work!