aircraft.cfg / sim.cfg ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This page lists certain information that will be off help to you when creating either an aircraft.cfg file or a sim.cfg file.

 

 

Generated Character Profiles

When you setup your aircraft.cfg file, you can use the generated_copilot parameter to set whether their should be another person with the pilot in the main cabin, either as a copilot, or a passenger, or as an instructor, etc... This parameter requires a "profile" string which tells the simulation which kind of character to generate for the flight. Below you can find a list of all the available profiles along with an example of what they may look like in the simulation (the images may not be the exact same as most characters are generated procedurally).

 

 

Profile Name	Airrescue	Boatrescue	Businessman	Copilot	Cplexaminer
Example
Profile Name	Firerescue	GroundRescue	Helicopterinstructor	HLOworker	Medic
Example
Profile Name	Militarypilot	Passenger	Pilot	Racepilot	Rescuepilot
Example
Profile Name	Searescue	Skydiver	Snowrescue	Swimsuit	Tarmacworker
Example

 

 

List Of Included Pilot/Copilot/Instructor SimObjects

The following is a list of titles that can be used in the pilot, copilot and instructor parameters for the [PILOT] section of the aircraft.cfg file or as the title and model parameter in the [Pilot.N] section of the sim.cfg file.

 

If you use these titles, you will have no need for further files to define the human model or SimObject to be used as the pilot/copilot/instructor, as these all relate to default characters that are already available.

 

Also note that the list shows the corresponding relative path for the appropriate image to show in the image parameter of the [Pilot.N] section:

 

• "Pilot_Male_Casual" - images\Pilot_Male_Casual.png
• "Pilot_Female_Casual"- images\Pilot_Female_Casual.png
• "Pilot_Male_Uniform"- images\Pilot_Male_Uniform.png
• "Pilot_Female_Uniform"- images\Pilot_Female_Uniform.png
• "Pilot_Male_African"- images\Pilot_Male_African.png
• "Pilot_Female_African"- images\Pilot_Female_African.png
• "Pilot_Male_Uniform_African"- images\Pilot_Male_Uniform_African.png
• "Pilot_Female_Uniform_African"- images\Pilot_Female_Uniform_African.png
• "Pilot_Male_Arab"- images\Pilot_Male_Arab.png
• "Pilot_Female_Arab"- images\Pilot_Female_Arab.png
• "Pilot_Male_Uniform_Arab"- images\Pilot_Male_Uniform_Arab.png
• "Pilot_Female_Uniform_Arab"- images\Pilot_Female_Uniform_Arab.png
• "Pilot_Male_Asian"- images\Pilot_Male_Asian.png
• "Pilot_Female_Asian"- images\Pilot_Female_Asian.png
• "Pilot_Male_Uniform_Asian"- images\Pilot_Male_Uniform_Asian.png
• "Pilot_Female_Uniform_Asian"- images\Pilot_Female_Uniform_Asian.png
• "Pilot_Male_Hispanic"- images\Pilot_Male_Hispanic.png
• "Pilot_Female_Hispanic"- images\Pilot_Female_Hispanic.png
• "Pilot_Male_Uniform_Hispanic"- images\Pilot_Male_Uniform_Hispanic.png
• "Pilot_Female_Uniform_Hispanic"- images\Pilot_Female_Uniform_Hispanic.png
• "Pilot_Male_Indian"- images\Pilot_Male_Indian.png
• "Pilot_Female_Indian"- images\Pilot_Female_Indian.png
• "Pilot_Male_Uniform_Indian"- images\Pilot_Male_Uniform_Indian.png
• "Pilot_Female_Uniform_India"- images\Pilot_Female_Uniform_India.png

 

 

Simple Sim Objects

A "simple" SimObject is one which has no physics attached to it, but it will react to the physics around it. This means that it doesn't generate any forces or impulsion by itself, but it will move with gravity and other relative forces applied to it. This kind of object is used mainly for the following types of thing:

• Aircraft seats that have interactions
• Aircraft seatbelts
• Cargo loads, particularly those that are going to be used for helicopter cargo missions using the hoist.

 

These objects have minimum setup requirements for the sim.cfg, consisting of the following parameters:

[VERSION]
Major=1
Minor=0
 
[fltsim.0]
title=Pallet
 
[General]
category=SimpleObjectSim

 

Additionally, you can include the following if the object has interactions and requires a navigation graph:

[InteractionMgr.0]
graph=navigation_graph_liftplate.cfg
spawnTag=LIFTPLATE

 

Finally, if the object is to be used as cargo and you want to control how it interacts with the world based on the type of cargo (for example, a pallet with boxes will react differently to some heavy machinery):

[stability coefficients]
ground translational damping=-0.4, -0.4, -0.2
ground rotational damping=-200.0, -200.0, -200.0
ground rotational stability=-150.0, -40.0, 0.0
air translational damping=-0.2, -0.2, -0.1
air rotational damping=-100.0, -100.0, -100.0
air rotational stability=-75.0, -20.0, 0.0,