new aircraft fbi tags?

[GrOuNd_ZeRo]

Added new FBI tags to set the control variables for aircraft

What exactly is added?

[SJ]

"0.07", "UNITINFO\\WingDrag"); //drag caused by wings
"0.08", "UNITINFO\\WingAngle"); //angle between front and the wing plane
"0.005", "UNITINFO\\Drag"); //how fast the aircraft loses speed (see also below)
"0.1", "UNITINFO\\frontToSpeed"); //fudge factor for lining up speed and front of plane
"0.07", "UNITINFO\\speedToFront");//fudge factor for lining up speed and front of plane
"0.4", "UNITINFO\\myGravity"); //planes are slower than real airplanes so lower gravity to compensate

"0.8", "UNITINFO\\maxBank"); //max roll
"0.45", "UNITINFO\\maxPitch"); //max pitch this plane tries to keep
"500", "UNITINFO\\turnRadius"); //hint to the ai about how large turn radius this plane needs

"0.015", "UNITINFO\\maxAileron"); //turn speed around roll axis
"0.01", "UNITINFO\\maxElevator"); //turn speed around pitch axis
"0.004", "UNITINFO\\maxRudder"); //turn speed around yaw axis

Those where the ones added, dont really have any better descriptions of them than that. The numbers are the defaults.

[Kuroneko]

/me is in awe about what they all mean

That turn radius thing might be why one of my custom fighters can't attack for it's own life very well anymore.

[Pxtl]

So you're using a vaguely-realistic flight model, and unit developers have to tip off the AI as to how this plane actually handles? Yowza, that's tricky.

How does this affect gunships?

[SJ]

Gunships use an entirely movement model so these values doesnt affect them at all.

[GrOuNd_ZeRo]

That is some scary shit...

That could make flight models quite accurate, can't wait to test this out.

Too bad these things were implemented in the XTA units so I could have some examples, i'll take some extremes like the A-10 and the Mirage 2000 to mess around with.

by the time Spring reaches it's final version we will have realistic flight models, airfields aircraft land on and maybe even complete simulation capabilities lol.

[Kuroneko]

by the time Spring reaches it's final version we will have realistic flight models, airfields aircraft land on and maybe even complete simulation capabilities lol.

you mean, planes won't need to be VTOL? :D

[FireCrack]

Hmm... i think somthing to specify the amount of lift would be a more elegant system than specifing a modified gravity. I assume there is a reason it was done this way though.