posted 10-12- 05:32 PM               

Ok man how the hell did you do that?

Isn't that what people have been trying to do forever?

Doesn't that make breaking controlsurfaces possible without all that extra work?

posted 10-12- 05:36 PM               

Go to the Tech section and see the basic implementation.

I believe this opens up a whole new area for damage modeling of control surfaces, wing damage, sluggish planes when damaged etc...

I havent tried to activate it with a Function yet... But Ive gotten this far, and if that doesnt work the easy way, I'll keep at it and make it work!

P.S. I think what people were trying to do is change an existing airfoil properties in mid-air.

posted 10-13- 03:25 AM               

I have some ideas as to what I could use this for already. The ability to control airfoil objects through a function or keypress has lots of uses.

First thing I want to do is to model drag when wings get damaged. rotate out small drag airfoils on damage levels. The key to this breakthrough is that the airfoils do nothing UNTIL ACTIVATED! That is the real breakthrough here. No impact to FM until it should happen!

posted 10-13- 08:00 AM               

cheers

posted 10-13- 11:57 AM               

With the engine damage I just got working( see tech talk) and this awesome revelation, I am almost speechless! Send me that sm file please!

Condor out

posted 10-13- 01:51 PM               

Bjorn has told me a much more effiecent way to activate airfoils on a damage level (See the Tech section post), BUT you cannot deactivate them in that way unless they detach. For instance, lets say on damage level 2 an airfoil is activated using bjorns method... If on another damage level you want another airfoil to activate, you cannot deactivate the previous airfoil. With the DOF method of activation you can! (Also, the airfoils DONT need to move... DOFs normally imply the MOVING of something. With the method I have discovered, the airfoil does NOT need to move inorder to be activated/deactivated even tho they use DOFs)

If you choose, you could have an airfoil that causes the plane to roll straight on the ground, and when you press the G key, its deactivated. But I dont know the parameters of that airfoil AND I dont know how much a ground drag airfoil would affect the FM when you drop your gear in flight.

Also, lets say you want to model drag that doesnt occur on a damage level. You can do this with my system! Lets say you want to model a very effective speed brake... You can do this currently, but it might affect the FM when its not deployed. With my method, you dont need to worry about how it will affect the FM as it wont activate until you press the SpeedBrake key.

Another thing, Im sure you could implement this somehow to enable WEP. A propeller has an airsection just like an airfoil. Lets say you attach another hidden propeller that doesnt run off the engine to the existing propeller, and use my method of airfoil activation and deactivation. Then when you press the WEP key, that propeller object with its airsection and propeller properties are activated and thus cause more thrust! (Any takers on this?)

There are sooo many uses for them my head hurts for thinking about them all.

Condor, enlighten me on how you could use this for engine damage? The SM files are on the way!

posted 10-13- 02:11 PM               

Sorry, what I meant was the engine damage senerio I got working is another separate piece of good news for the sdoe community in addition to yours. Your method does not have any obvious uses for engine damage...yet..that I can think of.

Condor out

posted 10-13- 06:15 PM               

Argon about the Wep thing, Could you make it time limited and could you shut it off and turn it back on repeatedly?