Hi Pads. In my experience an FS2002 floatplane should "float" on the CFS2 water. Floats are defined in the [contact_points] section of Aircraft.cfg. If it's an amphibian it should have 2 sets of gear points. Class 1 is wheels & Class 4 is floats, both in CFS2 & FS2002.

Some  textures of FS2002 aircraft might need converting to a different format to display properly in CFS2. Try converting them to "DXT1 Opaque" with DXTBmp.

PS. Internal views, either of the interior or external parts of the aircraft will depend on whether it has a DVC. Many FS2002 aircraft don't have this feature.

If you have problems tell me exactly where to get the aircraft. I'll try it myself.

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Aha. That explains it. FS2000 aircraft won't have those extra Aircraft.cfg float entries.

PS. If someone's already converted it that will save me the trouble.

PPS. Very few FS2000 aircraft have any sort of VC.

Oops, silly me. I missed the link in Pads' original topic.

I'l download it & check it out when I get a moment. It's a very long time since I messed around with this stuff.

~S~ all

Thanks for the interest in this - it has been a fascinating (if occasionally frustrating ) journey for me.

I've tried the texture conversion, but to no avail - I think I will have to live with that. It still looks great from the outside anyway - it really is a lovely looking aircraft!

I've been experimenting with adding float entries to the aircraft.cfg file, taking some from a Catalina that I know works and adapting them to fit the dimensions of the model.

The aircraft will now float for a while (an improvement) but then slowly sinks and explodes... Dang! I'll try with a Sunderland (bigger!) and see if that does the trick...

I'll also look further into the Simviation Out House fora for info on the conversion and see what I can come up with. We may have to live with the ground take -off using the virtual gear...

BTW - I've tried to contact the original creator (Aidan R McCaffrey) for permission to make the conversion available via my squad web site, but have not heard anything. It's a couple of years since he created it, so maybe he's moved on, but if you or anyone else knows how to contact him, I would appreciate the info.

Thanks and all the best

Pads

PS - my current version with my new float contact points can be found here if you are interested to see what I've done so far: http://www.caw15.com/downloads/aircraft/H8K2_Emily.zip

- sound aliased to the A6M2 & no gauges to save file size.

I'll not keep it there long because, as I mentioned, I have no permission yet and this is just to make it available to other developers for their interest.

Pads. I checked out your Aircraft.cfg & to be honest it looks a bit of a mess. I don't know what you need all those float points for. I had a punt round & found an FS2002 Sunderland. I pinched the [contact_points] entries out of it & they seem to fit quite well. This was a rush job so I didn't have time to tweak it. Try substituting your entries with these. Copy/paste them direct from my post. I've simplified them a bit to make it easier to understand. You will see there's only 4 float points. The rest are scrape points (Class 2).

[contact_points]
point.0=4,   2.000, -36.000, -6.987, 4000.504, 0, 0.654, 48.240, 1.271, 2.500, 0.299, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 //Left Pontoon
point.1=4,   2.000,  36.000, -6.987, 4000.504, 0, 0.654, 48.240, 1.271, 2.500, 0.299, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 //Right Pontoon
point.2=4,  32.000,   0.000, -8.597, 4000.504, 0, 0.654, 48.240, 1.271, 2.500, 0.299, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 //Nose
point.3=4, -24.750,   0.000, -6.397, 4000.504, 0, 0.654, 48.240, 1.271, 2.500, 0.299, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 //Rear

point.4=2,   1.417, -59.417,  6.917, 1574.803, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000,  0.000, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0
point.5=2,   1.417,  59.417,  6.917, 1574.803, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000,  0.000, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0
point.6=2, -30.583,   0.000, -4.917, 1574.803, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000,  0.000, 0, 0, 9, 0, 0
point.7=2,  31.750,   0.000, -4.917, 1574.803, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000,  0.000, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0

static_pitch=0.000
static_cg_height=6.918

[Views]
eyepoint=21.8, -1.8, 2.588788

Here's what it looks like in CFS2.


Nothing I can do about the VC I'm afraid. That's defined in the model itself. I did tweak the viewpoint to put you in the captain's seat. The flight dynamics could do with looking at. She seems to float a lot on landing.

Hi Pads. You can add further float points as you wish. These are often used on FS2002/FS9 floatplanes to give splash effects. The CFS2 water shows no wake like it does in FS & I don't think anyone fixed that. I'm not sure about splash effects.

Sorry but this is the limit of my capabilities. I'm useless at FS flight dynamics & leave that to the experts.

PS. If I'd read your original topic properly in the first place I would have spotted the link & soon found out it was for FS2000. This would have saved both of us a lot of time. LOL

~S~ Stratobat

I will certainly do so - thanks a lot! I set up a dp based on a B-24 example and, because the aircraft's model is visible (Hurray!) in DpEd this proved to be fairly easy, if time-consuming...

I'd be very interested to see the files you mention in anycase, I'm sure they did a better job than me!



Cheers,

Pads