peterj Posted October 12, 2005 Posted October 12, 2005 Is it possible to build stand-alone planes for lock on in similar ways that ED do, or is the physics formats etc hardcoded/unkown? The reason i ask i because some (potentially high quality) fighter planes are built for Xplane and MSFS, lock on would obviously be a much better platform.
SuperKungFu Posted October 12, 2005 Posted October 12, 2005 Yea that is the same question i been asking for several months. However, the 3rd party cannot add their own planes into lomac like MSFS. If a person creates a new model, it has to go through ED first and they will add it in if they want to. ED did not provide a kit for us to do that, otherwise me might have several new flyables and improved models by now. So all the physics formats are done by them. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
moonbeast Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 yes! it seems that everyone wants more/improved/different flyables, if ED supplied the info it would make a good simulation far better as peolpe could put the planes they want, realistic of course and in the correct time frame I.E. NO F 22's or SR-71's U-2's etc etc im sure people know what i mean moonbeast
britgliderpilot Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 The community can create external 3D models in a format that ED can read, and convert into a Lomac shape file. This conveniently ignores the problems of cockpit 3D modelling, textures, dials, gauges, avionics, weapons packages, accurate performance modelling (where such information is available), damage modelling, flight modelling (oh christ, flight modelling), high alpha stall modelling and any one of a hundred different ideas that MSFS just doesn't worry about. All of that is hardcoded, by the way. Which means you can't do it without access to the source code, and understanding how it works. I expect someone is now going to say what a brilliant idea it would be to release the source code to the community. . . . . It isn't a brilliant idea. ED know their code, they modify it for a living, they are dedicated to improving their software. Releasing the code for a current project which you are modifying for future projects is commercial suicide, and Just Isn't Going To Happen. Plus the difficulties of actually finding out the information . . . . somewhere there's a current thread which describes the difficulties of getting the information that ED need to model an aircraft as flyable. One key one you may be interested in is that ALL USN flight manuals are classified. Will hunt the thread. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
britgliderpilot Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=10961&page=1&pp=10 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
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