Simviation Forum - How to make aircraft more buoyant...

Reply #15 - Mar 5^th, 2011 at 12:33pm

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The thread is here: http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1298860700/0#0

Shows a Tweato landing made possible by the tundra tire bouyancy feature of the A2A Cub.

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Reply #16 - Mar 5^th, 2011 at 12:40pm

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That's the one... How does it work? Does anyone know?

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Reply #17 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 11:31pm

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inside your (aircraft).cfg look for section

[EFFECTS]
wake=fx_wake
water=fx_spray
dirt=fx_tchdrt
concrete=fx_sparks
touchdown=fx_tchdwn_s, 1

change the contact points as described in the first few replies, then DELETE these effects from the aircraft.cfg file. you will land on water like it is a SOLID (land), but you will NOT get the spray or wake like it is an amphibian.

hope this helps.

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Reply #18 - Mar 9^th, 2011 at 5:32am

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I'm not so sure about the consequences of deleting those effects.
Those effects will just impact the graphical effects, not the behavior of the sim/plane/crash detection etc...
The A2A Accusim Cub with tundra tires can land on the water but I don't know if it's handled by the contact points or by the Accusim module....

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Reply #19 - Mar 12^th, 2011 at 10:00am

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if it is handled by the contact points, once you turn the tires into "floats", and remove the fx_sparks, fx_spray, fx_wake .... then you should have a tundra tire craft that is amphibian.

or look at the DHC2 Beaver contact points and see what they are and change the contact points on the cub to match.

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