Krishty’s Sim Forums

The terrain extension example is not loading for me, although the solution as downloaded from the link in the tutorial builds fine. The earlier 'Sample Extension' example loads OK, so I think my Registry values are correct. Sorry for the late response; I had to fix up other stuff before looking at ...

New flight model has landed . Joystick controls should be a lot more responsive now. The old flight model moved into any position infinitely quick, and its characteristic “feel” came only from some hard-coded guardrails that protected the FCS from generating more than a few dozen g. And they were us...

Fix has landed.

Note that the player plane now occludes its own wingtip vortices. This is what happens in the D3D9 world when you fix one thing – you break another. But the cockpit being actually solid now is really worth this!

Fix has landed . Binding an HID axis to a game axis now allows to specify the ramp. I do explicitly not allow it for keys and buttons, as ramps make little sense with them and “linear” always feels best so far. This was critical for the new flight model because the legacy TAW guardrails have been re...

We can remap controls, but only via registry – and there is absolutely zero reference on how you do this.

I must write documentation and provide an example!

Fix has landed.

Feature has landed . I had a look at braking + rolling resistance and it is a mystery to me. My suspicion is, the discrete calculation introduces some error that approaches zero as time steps become infinitely small. And for some reason, rolling resistance depends on that very error. Getting it out ...

The repository has been force-pushed to a new version. git pull --rebase is required. DID F22: Flight Model Overhaul   GUI: Fix Rendering Order; Simplify Rendering   144 Hz Physics   Code: Remove Unused Credits; Consistent File Names; Isolate Classes Major cleanup that I had deferred for long becaus...

The icon on the minimap does not scale with DPI.

Now that an official build was released and there will be breaking changes to the API, the API version should change. This prevents accidental loading of old extensions into the new version.

Will be in the next version.

The problem wasn’t specific to Imagineer, though. Download any of the official ADF patches and you see: uteForGroup Return: n/a Parameters: n/a Description: --------------------------------------------------------------------- */ char GetRouteForGroup(short group_ID) { int mapposx; int mapposz; long...

TAW patches did not come with installers; they were just ZIP files. The Japanese TAW CD-ROM uses InstallShield. There is one file in its root directory that wasn’t intended for shipping – langdef.h  – but it is not giving away much: /* ================================================================...

I opened the patches for the Japanese ADF version (the ones listed/linked here ) in a hex editor (to find out how patch files are compressed) and was quite surprised to find source code in there. mov [esi],ax ;convert from 68000 format push esi call [fixroute] pop esi mov ax,[esi] cmp ax,7fffh ;clos...

TFXplorer 2024.04.20 released successfully . New roadmap to come; here is a backup of the old roadmap: The focus is making F22’s Arcade and EF2000’s levels (+ hidden levels) accessible via GUI; no more text file hacking like in 2017. Critical bugfixes/features for the next release ✔️ NEW FEATURE: I...

The next version will feature a flight model update that ties visuals of control surfaces to physics. TAW’s control surfaces jump into place immediately, without any inertia at all. I did my best to actually make surfaces inert, and I think it came out pretty cool. There is now an “eagle’s feathers”...

Will be “fixed” in the next version.

I’ll also throw in an optimization where I implemented two almost identical tile collection algorithms a few years apart, but needed only one of them.

Fixed view interpolation; my expf() was wrong on overflow/underflow.

Will be in the next version, although I still need to figure out the wheel brakes.

Nobody complained, so I regard this complete.

… and exactly that it is. Wheels are mostly fine, except for braking. The brakes are now muuuch more powerful than before. View smoothing is implemented and feels great, but the screen goes blank if you set a breakpoint or hibernate the system for more than 30 seconds between two frames. It seems th...