Why does FSP add thing to the aircraft.cfg and sometimes not

[littleMax]

I find out that FSP handels the aircraft.cfgs diffrent.

Look at this C172 cfg, FSP adds Station until 6

station_load.0 = "170, -3.0, -1.5, 0.0, Pilot" // Weight (lbs), longitudinal, lateral, vertical positions from datum (feet)
station_load.1 = "170, -3.0, 1.5, 0.0, Passagier vorne" // Weight (lbs), longitudinal, lateral, vertical positions from datum (feet)
station_load.2 = "0, -6.2, -1.5, 0.0, Passagier hinten" // Weight (lbs), longitudinal, lateral, vertical positions from datum (feet)
station_load.3 = "0, -6.2, 1.5, 0.0, Passagier hinten" // Weight (lbs), longitudinal, lateral, vertical positions from datum (feet)
station_load.4 = "0, -8.0, 0.0, 0.0, Gepäck" // Weight (lbs), longitudinal, lateral, vertical positions from datum (feet)
station_load.5 = "0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, FsStation"
station_load.6 = "0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, FsStation"

and here at this A320 cfg it didn't changed anything:

station_load.0 = "170.0, 41.91, 2.0, 1.64, Pilot"
station_load.1 = "170.0, 41.91, 2.0, 1.64, Co-Pilot"
station_load.2 = "11115.0, 18.9, 0.0, 1.64, Front cabin"
station_load.3 = "3505.0, 29.17, 0.0, -3.28, Front cargo"
station_load.4 = "4000.0, -18.49, 0.0, 3.05, Rear cargo"
station_load.5 = "11310.0, -18.49, 0.0, 1.64, Rear cabin"

but it only has the stations 0 to 5?
and i flied both plane with FSP

[DanSteph]

FsP don't care a cents about the station load in the aircraft.cfg FsP modify directly the weight and position
in memory. Unfortunately FsP use of course a workaround to do that (FsP is the only "runtime loader" existing)
and if a station declaration is missing in memory FsP simply can't access to it.
Now this is trivial: I wasn't able to declare myself a missing station as this is a very complicated process
so FsP only need them in aircraft.cfg so they exist also in memory.

Depend the aircraft and the ini file FsP need beetween 3 and 6 station load, if a station is missing it ask to correct
the aircraft.cfg with EMPTY station load. This change nothing to the aircraft without FsP.

Hope this explain ?

Dan

[littleMax]

So do FSP not use the added Stations?
This means FSP needs to add them becaus of the payload model which does not match the cfg?
And it adds them only to have them in Memory as a space holder (don't kow the right word for it, in GER: Variablen)?

So if i install a payload model matching the ori. C172 aircraft.cfg FSP will not change it?

Am i right with that??



Post Edited ( 10-31-05 04:13 )

[Dutch64]

The aircraft.cfg can not be altered when the plane is loaded in fs9. Well, correction, it can but won't be of any use because after the plane has
loaded, FS9 won't read the aircraft.cfg at all anymore. It only does so at initial start up.
(Or when you would use "reset aircraft" but that is not used as far as i know but anyone correct me if i'm wrong)

[DanSteph]

littleMax wrote:
So if i install a payload madel matching the ori. C172 aircraft.cfg FSP will not change it?

Yes, but as the added payload station does stricly nothing when you don't fly with FsP
I don't see the point to not add them.
(as you said they are just meant so those payload station exist in memory.)

Notice you can modify yourself the aircraft.cfg if you don't want to let this job to FsP
simply add the missing payload point with zero weight and position as in this example:
...
station_load.5 = "0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, FsStation"
station_load.6 = "0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, FsStation"

Dan