paint schemes

[fruitfly]

Not really, there's no cheating;
In FSP we will be able to start our company - weather from scratch - (saving and investing what we earn by flying -say an old cessna ) and
slowly enlarging our fleet, or we can skip that painstaking beginning and take a multimillion $ loan to buy our fleet immediately.
Either way you will soon (hopefully) have more than one aircraft. The aircraft you'll be flying will be the only real aircraft. Hehe: 'real'! Hehehe!
The others will be 'ghost' aircrafts. They won't be flying, but their carachteristics - plus the quality of your flying will be used to contribute
your income. Otherwise - what's the point in earning money to buy more planes if they won't participate the growthof the income? For instance:
After a while you earn enough money to buy another cessna. That new cessna of yours will increase your income AS IF someone is flying
it, proportionaly to its 'kind' - single prop piston GA (and in accord to your flying)
So you see..... there are no other planes. Your income will progress AS IF it's been operated. You won't see it, but she will be fully functionall,
so to say.
However, if you WANT to see it - you will have to create it. In order to see an AI plane, it has to have a model, livery and flight plan/schedule.
You will be able download the model. The livery too unless you want something specific, hand-made. But flight plan is something you will have to do yourself. I tryed to briefly explain the basics here:

fruitfly wrote:
In matter of fact this is a cool idea. And it's not hard at all to do it yourself! It will take you one, maybe two days (and that only if you loose your
nerves and decide you better continue tomorrow. )


First read the TTools readme file. Notice the following::
1. time is UTC
2. CODE:
AC#57,9A-CTN,50%,4Hr,IFR,00:34:59,01:09:08,090,R,0000,LDSP, 04:00:00,05:34:09,100,R,0000,LDSH

...is explained:
- plane number 57 (C172R in my case)
- with tail number 9A-CTN
- activates as soon as the traffic setting is at least 50%
- the plan repeats every 4 hours
- the flight is IFR
- the first takeoff is at 00:35 at LDSH and arrives to LDSP at 1:09,
- flies at 9.000 ft
- ATC calls using the tail number
- the flight number is 0000 and it doesn't matter since we are contacted using the tail number
- leaves LDSP at 4:00 and arrives LDSH at 4:34
- flies at 10.000 ft
- using the tail number as a callsign, too

When it comes to the airliners, things are a bit different:

CODE:

AC#9606,9A-CTJ,1%,WEEK,IFR,1/05:25,@1/06:10,230,F,0650,LDSP,1/06:50,@1/07:35,220,F,0653,LDZA,
1/08:55,@1/10:30,340,F,0416,EDDF,1/11:20,@1/12:55,330,F,0413,LDSP,1/13:40,@1/15:30,340,F,0412,EDDF,
1/16:20,@1/17:45,330,F,0411,LDZA,1/20:10,@1/21:05,290,F,0664,LDDU,2/05:40,@2/06:35,300,F,0661,LDZA,
2/08:55,@2/10:30,300,F,0416,EDDF,2/11:20,@2/12:55,310,F,0413,LDSP,2/13:40,@2/15:30,340,F,0412,EDDF,
2/16:20,@2/17:45,290,F,0411,LDZA,2/20:10,@2/21:05,290,F,0664,LDDU,3/05:40,@3/06:35,300,F,0661,LDZA,
3/08:55,@3/10:30,300,F,0416,EDDF,3/11:20,@3/12:55,310,F,0413,LDSP,3/13:40,@3/15:30,320,F,0412,EDDF,
3/16:20,@3/17:45,310,F,0411,LDZA,3/20:10,@3/21:05,290,F,0664,LDDU,4/05:40,@4/06:35,300,F,0661,LDZA,
4/07:25,@4/09:30,300,F,0450,EHAM,4/10:20,@4/12:10,330,F,0451,LDZA,4/20:10,@4/21:05,290,F,0664,LDDU,
5/05:40,@5/06:35,300,F,0661,LDZA,5/08:55,@5/10:30,360,F,0416,EDDF,5/11:20,@5/12:55,310,F,0413,LDSP,
5/13:40,@5/15:30,360,F,0412,EDDF,5/16:20,@5/17:45,330,F,0411,LDZA,5/20:10,@5/21:05,290,F,0664,LDDU,
6/05:40,@6/06:35,300,F,0661,LDZA,6/08:15,@6/10:20,340,F,0470,LFPG,6/11:15,@6/13:10,290,F,0471,LDZA,
0/08:15,@0/10:20,340,F,0470,LFPG,0/11:15,@0/13:10,330,F,0471,LDZA,0/15:40,@0/16:40,320,F,0436,EDDM,
0/17:40,@0/18:45,310,F,0437,LDZA



@ means the flight ends more or less on time.
Here you can notice tdifferent format of departure and arrival, for instance: 4/20:10,@4/21:05, means thursday, departure at 20:10 and
arrival at 21:05 sharp.
The first day is Sundayj - 0 and the last is saturday - 6.

And once again, time is UTC and the time of the arrival should be realistic for the particular kind of plane!

As far as the repains are concerned, I won't be able to help you except to direct you to a nice step-by-step tutorial:

http://www.gjsmith.net/Tutorial/tutorials.htm

(you'll have to register and send your email to receive the download link)

So basically, it's just a visualisation of something thet will take place deep down in FSP code. Seeing your planes take off or land won't help you to fly better nor will you be able to influence their flying. So, there's really no cheating. Just an eye candy!
... and for more about TTools read its manual thoroughly!



Post Edited ( 05-26-05 16:59 )