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Mar 31^st, 2006 at 4:22pm

vololiberista Offline
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The nose wheel on one of my a/c is linked to the rudder. On my system I let FS9 control it. Is it possible to assign the nosewheel to the joystick ailerons?
Any ideas gratefully received.
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Reply #1 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 4:54pm

jimcooper1 Ex Member

Nose Wheel Position is not listed in the Software Development Kit (SDK) as a variable, Therefore I don't see an easy way of controlling nose wheel steering.

The only way I can think of creating your own steering mechanism is by differential braking of the left and right brakes. As you apply left aileron you could increase left brake pressure and decrease right brake pressure and vice versa

Jim

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Reply #2 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 5:00pm

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If you're talking about how your nosewheel is linked on a compiled model, then you're pretty much tied to that.

If it's to a model you're building, you can tie it in to the ailerons, by tagging the moving parent part as "lever_stick_l_r"

Remember, your visual animations have nothing to do with how the model "works"

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #3 - Mar 31^st, 2006 at 11:10pm

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Go check out this handy little utility. Its a script plugin for Gmax, that has every single tag recognized by MakeMDL for FS2k2 and FS2k4. All the little tags have a small rollout that appears when you hover the mouse over the button, telling you what each one does, what aircraft its used on in the stock models, and the conditions it uses.

See, there's a few things you could do here (all of this assuming you are creating this in Gmax)! There's a tag called R_Aileron_Key (and L_Aileron_Key) that allows you to set a keyframe motion for the ailerons, a keyframe for the rudders (I think Tongue

) and several others that I've never heard of, nor used.

And you wouldn't believe the stuff in the cockpit! That list is longer than the one for the external model . . . Shocked