Re: [Flightgear-devel] Catalina- Water and Solid ground.

[gh.robin <gh....@la...>]

On sam 8 septembre 2007, Georg Vollnhals wrote:
> gh.robin schrieb:
> > Hello, Georg
> >
> > Thanks, you were right the .tar.gz was corrupted , sorry for it
> > I just rbuilt it , i hope it will be right.
> >
> > same link http://perso.orange.fr/GRTux/PBY-Catalina.tar.gz
> >
> > Sure,  You can do anything you wish, with the screenshots,
> > if that suit for your Forum.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
>
> Hi G=E9rard,
>
> wow, this is phantastic stuff :-)
>
> Beside the excellent 3D-work (I like the detailed engines) I never
> thought that FlightGear could show such nice water-effects (spray), when
> looking from behind the aircraft I really felt getting wet on my skin
> (FG OSG CVS).
>
Sure ,with osgviewer  i need to clean my glasses ,  we only missed the smel=
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of the spray from the sea :) .
Anyhow, i wrote the scripts osg "on the corner" their is a lot of work to d=
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on it before to get the best and realistic effects (osg particles is very=20
powerful)

> Now I had to stop the very enjoyable tests as I have to sleep very fast
> and get up to go to work in a few hours this Saturday.
>
> But I wanted to give you this feedback now. There are some questions
> left, but before I will do some further flights this evening.
> (I could solve some problems myself, ie. I learned to pitch the aircraft
> in the water a little on start-run, otherwise it won't get the speed to
> get out of the water)

Right,  there  is a "hardpoint" at 40 kts  which want  pitch to go on, may =
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i need to reduce that weak point.
I have introduced a combination of drag, lift, and pitch due to the hull  o=
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water , which depends on the speed, and the  effect is fully effective over=
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45 kts.


>
> Thank you once again
> Georg EDDW
>

I worry about the 2D panel, it is wrong, i am working on the Cockpit with 3=
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instruments, which will be at the right place.

And i forgot to tel you , the link is permanent, so it can be used without =
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problem, for instance on your German Forum
I do update it when i have made or updated some useful features , the=20
periodicity of update is shorter than cvs.

Cheers

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G=E9rard