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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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If you want to understand the Aircraft.cfg file

jmig

jmig

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Head over to the link below. It is a Microsoft ESP SKD site. The configuration page explains every line of the aircraft.cfg file. There are pages on the Panel file, Sound file, Camera, and much much more. (Golly that sounds like a commercial) But, since FSX and ESP went the way of the dinosaurs, it can't be a commercial. :d

I copied the entire thing into Onenote to save. No telling when MS will pull the plug on the site.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526949.aspx#mozTocId274992
 
.. and if you install the FSX SDK you get the same thing but with pretty colours :engel016:
 
meh. i dont want to understand the config file. i want to understand the air file, for which i have found no documentation in my almost four years of building fde's.
 
stiz said:
.. and if you install the FSX SDK you get the same thing but with pretty colours :engel016:
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I know. However, for some reason the layout of the web site seemed cleaner to me.

Also, I notice a few "additional" tags I have never seen in the FSX airfile. I wonder how many are in FSX and we just never knew they were there? We know that ESP was basically FSX, How much "additional" code was added?
 
Most helpful, thanks so much...

Still confused, but at least now I have a reference to be confused with.:isadizzy:
 
jmig said:
I know. However, for some reason the layout of the web site seemed cleaner to me.

Also, I notice a few "additional" tags I have never seen in the FSX airfile. I wonder how many are in FSX and we just never knew they were there? We know that ESP was basically FSX, How much "additional" code was added?
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Now there is an interesting thought....
 
warchild said:
meh. i dont want to understand the config file. i want to understand the air file, for which i have found no documentation in my almost four years of building fde's.
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Just dig a little deeper into the same Microsoft ESP SKD site, and you will find the air file documentation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526961.aspx

Pay particular attention to the sample air files.

Once you have this information, the main problem is going to be understanding the effect all these air file coefficients have on an FDE. What is CnB? (weather vane effect) or Which one is dihedral? (ClB) MS is assuming that if you're developing an FDE, you already know these things.
 
stiz said:
.. and if you install the FSX SDK you get the same thing but with pretty colours :engel016:
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The SDK surely has its surprises. Imagine my facial expression when I found out that the material setting image thingy in the SDK is actually interactive! :eek: :d
 
Ya know the more you read the better your understanding-duh! I wish I'd seen this before. The X-Plane folks apparantly did not understand how the airfile works in conjunction with config file. They have FSX all wrong. Blade element theory is not superior. This is actually more extensive just more work! (trial and error as well). I can see where if you understand C++ you could extend the capabilities of FSX to some very realistic parameters. This must be how A2A performs the miracles that they do.
 
txnetcop said:
I can see where if you understand C++ you could extend the capabilities of FSX to some very realistic parameters. This must be how A2A performs the miracles that they do.
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Yep. You can override values in the FDE via SimConnect and C++/XML gauges.
 
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