Rhysa Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Pete is it possible to get any of these from FS: - Tailhook available, ie configured in aircraft.cfg - Wing fold position? It would be handy to have this information for my program. Also I found another reason VB.NET is not a good language for interfacing with FS, there is no native signed byte data type. Can work around it by doing: If val >= 128 Then newval = -(255 - Value + 1) But it still caused a few hours of frustration :evil: Good news is this type is in .NET v2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Pete is it possible to get any of these from FS:- Tailhook available, ie configured in aircraft.cfg - Wing fold position? It would be handy to have this information for my program. I don't know. I would need to have some way to identify the data -- i.e. see it changing in FS - so I can find it. How is "wing fold" changed, for instance? There seems to be a couple of variables I should be able to map, if I can test them: LEFT_FOLDING_WING_PERCENT RIGHT_FOLDING_WING_PERCENT How quickly would they change and be needed to be checked. If I have to read them procedurally I don't want to have to do it on every frame if I can avoid it. It would be better if I can map them directly, but I'd need to see them changing for that. How do I do that? I can't find anything which is likely to tell me if there's a tailhook or not -- in FS2004, at least, I think those things which are present are present, and those things which are not, are not. I don't know if the existing mapped "tailhok position" at 3BA0 can tell you? Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhysa Posted January 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 It would be better if I can map them directly, but I'd need to see them changing for that. How do I do that? The wing fold is similar to the tailhook funtion - press a key and it animates. By default there is no key assigned,you have to set this up. Then you need an aircraft that uses it, Daisuke Yamamoto's F/A-18E Superhornet (http://flightinfo.ens.ne.jp/FS_KBT/dai.htm) has wing folding. How quickly would they change and be needed to be checked. If I have to read them procedurally I don't want to have to do it on every frame if I can avoid it. I would only need to know if they are fully folded, or unfolded. The rate of folding varies per aircraft and is specified in the aircraft.cfg. ie: [folding_wings] wing_fold_system_type=4 ;0=None fold_rates=0.12,0.11 ;Percent per second Its not a quick change, it could be read every second, there is no need for the position to be read at every interval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 The wing fold is similar to the tailhook funtion - press a key and it animates. By default there is no key assigned,you have to set this up. Then you need an aircraft that uses it, Daisuke Yamamoto's F/A-18E Superhornet (http://flightinfo.ens.ne.jp/FS_KBT/dai.htm) has wing folding. ... Its not a quick change, it could be read every second, there is no need for the position to be read at every interval. I'll have a look. Regards, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhysa Posted January 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Much appreciated Pete :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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