Posts by larrylynx

Is there a maximum file size as the C130 in development is 112MB. Livery packs are 133Mb and 80Mb, paintkits would be 60MB ish.

I would anticipate quite a bit of interest in the old girl so traffic may be substantial.

Steve

Thanks for the info guys as I want to add a hard landing callout in the C130

Steve

As Michael has pointed out, take a look at the real aircraft systems, be it fuel, electrics, hydraulics or even the toilet system (which is a suction system) and build it all as per the real aircraft. FS4 is great in that respect as it does give you the chance to do it. To a former simpit builder this sim would be a gold mine, but sadly that's where it also fails as it doesn't support such ideas.

Steve

Welcome to the coding madness and we all learn to bow down when Master Jan Kenobi is in the room, he is the TMD god

Analog....ya can't beat it

I have to admit much of the delay is my fault. When I code a tmd file its a mess. My moto was, if it works then OK but the structure was worse than spaghetti on a bad day. Michael has taken apart the file and is rebuilding it like a coder would, organised. We have also learned much whilst doing it. It's a necessary evil we had to go through and it will help no end with the next project which is ?????????????????? and bug fixing the C-130.

You didn't seriously think I was going to tell you what is next from the OAP modelling club did you

Steve

at least you get something to look at, I just get a black square again and again and again

it seems the non developers amongst us, (most users) have no idea just how long it takes to develop an aircraft, we are talking 12 to24 months depending on model type and how in depth the simulation of that aircraft goes.

Give the guys time and hopefully they will deliver, start asking stupid questions or give negative comments and perhaps the eventual answer will be, NEVER

That's an impressive list of failures and I'm glad I don't fly a scarebus

So if its possible to do this sort of thing how come IPACS has not implemented it yet. Me thinks its all to do with mobile users, would want to upset the little darlings.

I agree with my TMD god Michael, option 1 is the best way to go. AI seems pretty useless and just gives you the obvious things you already know. It is also very happy to please you to the point of telling porkies....lies to those who don't know Cockney Rhyming slang.

Steve

This is way above my paygrade but the sim does output both GPS plus lat and long data in the tmd file

GPS.OutputPosition and InertialReferenceSystem.OutputPosition plus InertialReferenceSystem.OutputLatitude and InertialReferenceSystem.OutputLongitude

Maybe this can help but like I said, mind blowing stuff for me

Just to let you all know we haven't given up on the old bird, far from it.

She has however been causing a lot of head scratching with a bug that took a lot of time to find. Apfelflieger has been working miracles and we now think that one is firmly crushed, which of course now means, we have another one that causes the APU to shutdown when we move No3 condition lever. Quite frustrating but that's par for the course with something this complex and it is complex.

Will keep you all updated, Steve

Looks very good and a big improvement to the sim,

Steve

Hopefully a fix. Just extract the tmq file and replace the one in the current Apache

Evening Master

The error I get is

WARNING: property 'InputAutoThrottle' is not a member of type 'display_f18_hud' hash=17233017296030073548.

I copied a lot of details I didn't need when I created the Apache, I have learnt much since then Master and realise the error of my ways . If I comment out that line in the F18 HUD in my tmd I can get the Apache into the sim no problems. Unfortunately I don't have the files to create an intermediate directory so I am unable to create a tmq file. I will continue to look for the files of course. Michael has suggested using a folder and I assume a system.tmd file but no luck on my part so far.

Happy New year to all the team

Steve

It would seem the last update has crippled my Apache. I can easily rectify the problem on my un-encrypted tmd file but I have no way of producing a TMQ file as I do not have the original files anymore. If Master Jan can produce a TMQ from my TMD file we are all good to go again else its curtains for the poor old Apache. No I can't up-load a TMD file before anyone asks, its simply not allowed for helicopters

Steve

Another solar flare perhaps

I have a radical idea.....how about IPACS supporting there OWN simulator with their OWN site....

Hope so but where to host it is a problem.

Of course you can, the paintkit will also be released so you can do whatever you wish, the sky is the limit... even I can do them

Seriously guys its quite easy. Paintkit (free), photo editing software (free), how to get it all in the sim (free). It just takes a little time and some basic knowledge.

Steve