Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Model for the X15

[Curtis L. O. <cu...@fl...>]

It sounds like --config= is expecting an xml formated file.  David
should be able to clarify this for sure.

Regards,

Curt.


Wolfram Kuss writes:
> Curt wrote:
> 
> >Looks like the help message wasn't updated, but the actual option is
> >
> >    --config=file.name
> 
> Good. [time passes] Argl?!? Now it says:
> ---- snip ------------
> Reading properties from x15.cfg
> readProperties: FATAL: not well-formed at line 7, column 1
> --config: failed to read properties from x15.cfg
> ---- snip ------------
> 
> Here is the contents of my x15.cfg:
> 
> ---- snip ------------
> --prop:/sim/model/path=Models/geometry/x15.ac
> --prop:/sim/model/r-rotation=-7
> --prop:/sim/model/z-offset=0.288
> ---- snip ------------
> 
> It doesn't have 7 lines, do I need Unix line endings?
> [time passes] No, that doesn't help either.
> Ok, I will go on looking.
> 
> >> 2) I would suggest we have two X-15s, one with extended gear
> >> and one without. This will only increase the size of the base 
> >> package by 11 kB or less.
> >
> >Would be nice to get the gear / flaps / control surface animation
> >going at some point, although we don't really have support for
> >retractable gear yet since our fixed gear c172 has been the default
> >aircraft.
> 
> It is clear to me that we are not able to implement animation now.
> Therefore I would have two different models and the user would have to
> choose one, for example in x15afterdrop.cfg we could use the one
> without gear and in x15ground.cfg and x15final.cfg we could use the
> one with gear. Like I said, its only 11kB (packed), after my
> optimizations probably less.
> 
> >0.7.7 will still officially support plib-1.2.0, but after this release
> >we will start adding in code that will require 1.3.x / 1.4.0.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> >Curt.
> 
> Bye bye,
> Wolfram.
> 
> 
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