Simviation Forum - adding fuel points

Dec 11^th, 2010 at 4:56pm

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In my FS9 - F14D REV 3, i have a fuel gauge for 5 points of fuel, yet, the gauge only shows 3.

A L C R A. Auxiliary Left, Left, Center, Right, Auxiliary Right. are the 5 points.

the 2 Auxiliary points are never full.

In the .cfg, you can see that only 3 places are used. can I make auxiliary tanks on this bird and them show and actually empty like the Right and Left tanks do?

[fuel]
Center1= 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 2440.000, 0.000
LeftMain= 0.000, -2.000, 0.000, 280.000, 0.000
RightMain= 0.000, 2.000, 0.000, 280.000, 0.000
fuel_type=2.000000
number_of_tank_selectors=1
electric_pump=0

Example:
LeftAuxiliary=0.000, -4.000, 0.000, 140.000, 0.000
RightAuxiliary=0.000, 4.000, 0.000, 140.000, 0.000

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Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2010 at 2:59pm

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are there any designers that know if this is possible????

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Reply #2 - Dec 19^th, 2010 at 9:15am

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I'm no 'designer', but have dabbled in such things Cheesy

Should be possible. You have to use the proper 'labels' from this list, taken from the 'aircraft container sdk'. Keep in mind that adding the additional fuel weight may alter the flight dynamics/performance.

center1
center2
center3
leftmain
leftaux
lefttip
rightmain
rightaux
righttip
external1
external2

You may have to experiment with the labels to find the ones the gauge is monitoring, i.e; *aux, *tip, external*, though *aux seems a good bet.

Dave

« Last Edit: Dec 19^th, 2010 at 7:53pm by dave3cu »

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Reply #3 - Dec 21^st, 2010 at 6:02pm

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LeftAux
RightAux

did the trick, I now have fuel in the wings.

before, there was nothing showing in the A columns. now, as you can tell, there is.

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