NZFF

It's been a long-time thought, as NZ has some excellent gliding sites.
I've had a look at NZLX, after Snowman tactfully pointed out that there is an active gliding club at the scenery he just finished for Alexandra.
There are some issues, like gliders making engine noise (This may not be solvable, but if it does get fixed, it'll be a flightsim first).
And the invisible tow rope acts a little bit like a bungy cord...
But there will have to be some imagination in play, whatever the final outcome.
Here's a little preview of the WIP. Bear in mind, it's all AI, and recorded in real time.

Top stuff- was that just a duplicated flight path, minus a time offset for the takeoff, or did you combine the tug with the glider somehow?

Charl , i wonder .. can you copy the sailplane sound effect from FSX ?

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jun 30 2008, 07:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Top stuff- was that just a duplicated flight path, minus a time offset for the takeoff, or did you combine the tug with the glider somehow?

They actually are taking off from two different airports, co-located, with a 2-second delay, and appropriate taxi paths to separate them.

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 30 2008, 07:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Charl , i wonder .. can you copy the sailplane sound effect from FSX ?

Dunno...thing is AI sound is not mapped to the aircraft, but to the engine type.
The sound resides in the main sound folder, and is used by all.
If I alter that, all the HTAI Cessna's will sound like sailplanes!

So do the gliders and planes just do a cercuit and land at the same airport or....

How do you get the plane and glider to go their different ways?

Very smart Charl!

Yea nice stuff! - AI gliders an FS first?

NZ255 wrote:

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Jun 30 2008, 11:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So do the gliders and planes just do a cercuit and land at the same airport or....

Some do...but the party piece is the yellow one in the clip - it finds a "thermal" and then circles up, up, to 3,000ft pretty much like the real thing.