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Micro Flight supports several types of vehicles, the following sections show the detailes of the various formats of
these vehicles and gives instructions for creating them.All of these vehicles have intrument panels which share the
same format and are documented in the following sections.
The land
vehicles are the simplest vehicles in
Micro-Flight, they include a two , three and four
weel land vehicles. They are based upon
a 3D mesh file for the vehicle body, for the
steering wheel and for each of the wheels.
A
configuration files defines the number of wheels
and vehicle characteristics.
The
aircraft directory inside the MicroFlight
directory containes the available vehicles, each
vehicle is placed inside a directory inside the
MicroFlight\aircraft directory.
Inside
each vehicle directory are the following files:
| Car.cfg | |
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This
file containes the characteristecs of the vehicle
and a short description for it.
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sample structure of the car.cfg file
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1000.0
[mass]
2.0 [sur]
0.3 [cd0]
0.01 [cf0]
80.0 [hp]
3600.0 [fuel_time]
500.0 [rpm_min]
5000.0 [rpm_max]
4 [n_wheels]
-1.72 [x_wh]
1.2 [y_wh]
8.479 [z_wh]
1 [s_wh]
1.82 [x_wh]
1.2 [y_wh]
8.479 [z_wh]
1 [s_wh]
-1.72 [x_wh]
1.2 [y_wh]
0.0 [z_wh]
0 [s_wh]
1.82 [x_wh]
1.2 [y_wh]
0.0 [z_wh]
0 [s_wh]
-1.1 [x_st]
2.45 [y_st]
6.0 [z_st]
0.0 [dx_st]
-0.3 [dy_st]
0.95 [dz_st]
0.0 [ux_st]
0.95 [uy_st]
0.3 [uz_st]
-1.069 [camera_x]
3.40 [camera_y]
4.00 [camera_z]
panel_1 [panel]
-1.1 [xp]
2.78 [yp]
5.76 [zp]
@
Stylish sports car:
A classic and fashionable sports car with
exceptional acceleration and response.
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Explanation:
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This file is composed of two sections:
1.the vehicle
data:sur - the cross section
surface of the vehicle in (m^2)
cd0 - the drag coefficient of the vehicle
hp - engine horsepower of the
vehicle
fuel_time - fuel capacity in seconds.
rpm_min - minimal rpm for engine.
rpm_max - maximal rpm for engine.
n_wheels - number of wheels.
x_wh - x position of wheel. (repeated
for each wheel)
y_wh - y position of wheel. (repeated
for each wheel)
z_wh - z position of wheel. (repeated
for each wheel)
s_wh - 1 wheel is steerable, 0 not
steerable. (repeated
for each wheel)
x_st - x position of steering wheel.
y_st - y position of steering wheel.
z_st - z position of steering wheel.
dx_st - x dir of steering wheel.
dy_st - y dir of steering wheel.
dz_st - z dir of steering wheel.
ux_st - x up of steering wheel.
uy_st - y up of steering wheel.
uz_st - z up of steering wheel.
camera_x - x position of camera.
camera_y - y position of camera.
camera_z - z position of camera.
panel - panel name.
xp - x position of panel.
yp - y position of panel.
zp - z position of panel.
2. The vehicle
description :
this part is a
simple text only section that must begin
with @ and endes when the file ends.
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| Body.x | |
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This
is the 3D model file for the body of the vehicle
without wheels and steering wheel.
This
is a simple one
frame hirarchy
mesh file, it can be created by
converting a 3DS file into an X file by using the
command "conv3ds -m
[filename.3ds]" , conv3ds.exe is
a small freeware converter written by Microsoft.
| Stwheel.x | |
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This
is the 3D model file for the steering wheel of
the vehicle .
This
is a simple one
frame hirarchy
mesh file, it can be created by
converting a 3DS file into an X file by using the
command "conv3ds -m
[filename.3ds]" , conv3ds.exe is
a small freeware converter written by Microsoft.
| Wheel1.x | |
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This
is the 3D model file for one of the vehicle
wheels, for each wheel a different model must be
created and named as wheel1.x , wheel2.x,
wheel3.x etc..
This
is a simple one
frame hirarchy
mesh file, it can be created by
converting a 3DS file into an X file by using the
command "conv3ds -m
[filename.3ds]" , conv3ds.exe is
a small freeware converter written by Microsoft.
Download
sample source files for a car and conv3ds
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