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    TrackIR detection

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Sure I can spend some time testing if it's usefull for you but..."test it with multiple faces in the picture"

    is something I simply don't catch,you'll need to re-tell this with other words (I'm french, sorry, poor english)

    EDIT : I guess I got it while writing this : you mean : "with several person in the camera field of view" don't you ?

  3. Propellers no longer move - anyone got a clue?

    in Help!?!

    Posted

    That's really annoying! Just to be clear - if plane A overrides the prop disk and planes B and C do not, if you load A then B then C, B won't have prop disks but C will (or is more likely to)?

    Exactly.

    There's a plugin I've been meaning to write for a while now, to assign key commands to load two or more specified aircraft. This would speed up the time I spend developing other plugins, where I have to switch from one aircraft to another every time I want to replace an aircraft's plugin. Stalled while I summon the effort to learn an interface for using .ini files which, long-term, would be used to record (or store) which aircraft are to be swapped. But if swapping or repeatedly reloading several aircraft can restore the propdisk, then my unwritten test-tool plugin could be used or adapted to load a dummy aircraft on T-28 exit, and immediately afterwards the aircraft requested by the user.

    This was my primary option. A fake aircraft only intended to load a plugin that would reset Xplane in it's ideal state. But I gave up the idea for two main reasons :

    1) Much too long a work for a side-effect of a flaw of the sim we're not responsible of, specially considering restarting xplane is a matter of minutes but testing each potentially unreseted dataref is a matter of weeks

    2) doing it would induce the feeling that the "good" aircarft are not so good and need some kind of side-fix not to spoil the sim.

    I guess in this particular case, the cure is worse than the illness.

  4. Propellers no longer move - anyone got a clue?

    in Help!?!

    Posted

    I'm affraid no : the plane goes with Gizmo and not SDK C+. The release of the ovverides is actually done when unloading Gizmo, it's just that Xplane ignores it. The same applies for lots of dr, sliced-drag, min/max thro, etc etc...

    It's to the point we make sure to load each airplane twice before any measurement, and preferably restarting xplane meanwhile.

  5. Question for upcoming aircraft developers

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Well, I guess there is a huge misunderstanding here.

    - Users don't want to pay twice, be it justify or not, be it childish or not, be it stupid or not, that's just the way it is. You can argue until the end of times, users are the ones who pay eventually, so they are right - denying this simply denying reality.

    - Users are too often stupid. Sorry to say so, non-polically correct, insensitive, but that's a fact as well. Whatever the size of the fonts, even the clearest warning will simply be ignored. Denying this is, too, denying reality.

    For instance, go on the org and lookf for the B17G download. Size32, Red, high-case warning, first of all, top of page : "doesn't work with engine running on load". "Needs RTFM, absolutely".

    5000 downloads : a rough 500mails+PM+comments (I don't exagerate, that's the actual value) saying "That's buggy, when I want to formation-fly, it falls like a brick".

    Nobody is going to change users. Setting warnings gives the devs some sense of responsability, but eventually it will NOT change the feeling the users have BUT it will make sells drop.

    One can deny this, and endlessly argue about is a "fair approach", there's no avoiding that users pay, users want, users decide.

    And I'm pretty sure they will decide (have decided) it's the devs' problem to get rid off any nagware or whatever. So, want it or not, devs have to find a way to achieve this : mine was to go through XA for sells.  Others will choose other ways.

    But explaining a user he's wrong to think what he thinks is just as useful as a safety belt in an jetliner. Specially when the user owns the jetliner.

    Flying From Nimitz

    in USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier

    Posted

    Hi JMD,

    you need to load the situation "carrier catshot" (file/load situation/carrier catshot).

    Alternatively, you may land onto the nimitz, then "save situation", and later on use the situation you have created. Unfortunately, this solution often gives poor results, that bursts some xplane limitations...

    Hope this helps.

  8. Propellers no longer move - anyone got a clue?

    in Help!?!

    Posted

    Hey Nicolas.

    actually very few planes use the volumetric propeller that xplane offers (it's more usually the flat png disc)

    Unfortunately, to use it, we have to write a particular dataref, and this dr doesn't reset properly when you load a new plane... it's not the only one in this case, this is a known issue of xp. It often makes a plane carry variables from the previous ones  >;)

    Not much we can do about it, except : load the plane you want to fly THEN restart xplane.

    it doesn't come neither from dash/trojan nor any other plane, that's a xp issue...

    gizmo timers

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    "don't disagree" :-) I love the formula :-D but you're perfectly right

    I'm not too fond of such workarounds when utility functions exists to keep from having to do these workaround
    this is probably something I should pay much attention to...

    gizmo timers

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Obviously I don't have Ben's skills, but maybe I can be of some help on this one as I encountered a similar problem when trying to count cycles and sub-cycles for failure systems.

    Here is what I eventually came with : 

            function menuauto()
            comptearebours = comptearebours - 1
            return comptearebours
            end
            if timer_menuauto==nil then
            timer_menuauto = timer.newTimer( "menuauto", 1 )
            end

    now the variable comptearebours decreases by 1 every second (from 30s as set onBoot)

    But how to stop and restart on demand ?

    Complex problem, simple solution....

    if comptearebours < 0 then comptearebours = 30 end

    yes, but how to prevent the timer from runing on start ?

    Complex problem, simple solution....

    if comptearebours == 31 then comptearebours = 999999 end

    Now to lauch and stop the timer I just have to set comptearebours to either 30s or 0s through  a different call of function to have it circling around. The timer ACTUALLY runs but I inject a "marker value" that set it to a state where it has no use (31->999999) or to a state where it circles or reset (0).

    Hope this helps...

  12. Question for upcoming aircraft developers

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Probably devs should privately discuss this with Ben to find a workaround, because today, from the end-user point of view, a Gizmo-enhanced plane is MAYBE a better plane but is DEFINITELY a tricky purchase.

    When a guy buys a plane, he wants it 100% featured and does not care HOW it works nor WHO did each part of the job.

    Whinning that this is not fair will not change the speed the Earth spins : that's just the way it is.

    This can do no good to devs, neither to Ben, nor to end-users. We all need to work together so that the end-users won't be concerned with a "double-purchase".

    Right now I have no good idea what to suggest to achieve this, but this doesn't mean there is no way to satisfy a customer AND to be paid for the work.

  13. Question for upcoming aircraft developers

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I guess there is another option...

    Devs could buy a lot of serials on their own, and supply each unit with a dedicated serial, on demand.

    Then, they COULD propose their product "$40 with serial and no nagware, $35 without serial and with nagware", so that each customer can have a fair choice depending of their own beliefs.

    my 2 cents...

    EDIT : to be clear, this way Ben's work would be rewarded AND customers out of XA have a fair choice. Sounds like win-win to me.

    V1.1[SOLVED] Fuel Shut Off Sound

    in North American T-28 Trojan

    Posted

    Hello,

    The relative gains of the sounds are quite realistic.

    To deal with this issue, we ensured the gain of the fuelpump sound lowers as the gain of the engine increases - when the engine run over 2400rpm, the fuelpump sound is close to mute.

    Nonetheless, and in an attempt to satisfy our customer, you will find enclosed a new set of files with lowered gain (-10db => gain /2,5).

    Locate the sounds/fx/ folder, and replace with the 4 files supplied within the zip.

    Hope this fits your request.

    fx.zip

    [T28-C] V1.1 is ready

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi gentlemen (and ladies?)

    The V1.1 version of the Trojan is now ready and should be released within the Week-end.

    Here is the definitive changelog, of interest for users and new customers :

    [24/6/2011]-[V1.1.d]

    FIXED :

    - Fixed bug "Perpetuum mobile"

    - Fixed bug "dead generator"

    - Fixed Drain Manifold Button

    IMPROVED :

    - Avionics are now "off" by default

    - Corrected textures and animations for gears lock indicators

    - Mixture handle now sticks to "full rich", "normal", "cut-off" with no intermediate setting.

    - Sounds stop when Xplane enters pause mode

    - All sounds are now "spacialized"

    - Improved electrical consumptions calculations

    - Fuel Boost Pump and Fuel Valve are now linked as in the real stuff

    - High altitude power and ceilings tuned

    NEW :

    - New Livery : VF84

    - New sound : fuel boost pump.

    - New sound : rotating beacons engines. (Thanks to GregHoward for his inputs about this.)

    - Volumetric propeller

    - Version displays on the low-left corner of the screen for 10 seconds

    - One can switch back to learning mode without reloading the plane : menu/plugin/Gizmo/scripts/Virtual Flight Instructor

    - DEBBUG MODE "BLACKBOX" for better customer support can be enabled or disabled on demand (generates a log.file that logs all flight-related data --- NB : ~1Ko per monitored second)

    .25 vs .12 : sound issues

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm quite perplexe...

    Whereas the sounds functions are 100% perfectly working when using .12 gizmo release, it turns out that when I use .25 there is no way to have sounds playing.

    As the Trojan was developped on .12 but released .25-enhanced AND nobody seems to have flawed sounds (except for the known issues which are obviously my bad), I tend to think this comes from MY own hardware-settings.

    I thought it might be related to non-activated version of the plugin, but  now (thks Ben) I have it activated - and yet no sound.

    So I have, to date, 2 different xplane folders, for use of two different version of Gizmo - works for what I need to do, but it's not very convenient nor comfortable.

    Running on Windows XP SP3... I have absolutely NO IDEA where to grab this trouble to begin with, so any kind of suggestion would be very much appreciated... As it sounds like I'm the ONLY user of the T28C who cannot have it working!  ;D Weird situation I must say !

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