Howto:Adding Bombable to FlightGear Aircraft: Difference between revisions

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  * A bunch of other Bombable messages showing the aircraft initializing (I have Bombable menu/Debug turned on, which is helpful at this stage)
  * A bunch of other Bombable messages showing the aircraft initializing (I have Bombable menu/Debug turned on, which is helpful at this stage)
  * A bunch of error messages showing various animations and systems not load (ahhh . . . that's why we create stripped-down versions of aircraft in the AI/Aircraft directory--a completely separate and even longer article).
  * A bunch of error messages showing various animations and systems not load (ahhh . . . that's why we create stripped-down versions of aircraft in the AI/Aircraft directory--a completely separate and even longer article).
I open Equipment/Maps, click "traffic", see the two aircraft "Jones" and "Cooper", track them down with the UFO, they show proper smoke trails, I shoot at them, I shoot them down. It works!


Success!
Success!


--success!
Well, except . . . are they flying realistically?  Climbing, turning, diving, shooting?  Are they taking damage realistically?  Does it work properly under Multiplayer?
 
Here is where you spend hours researching real F-15s, flying against the AI models with the UFO and other aircraft, tweaking parameters in the -bombableinclude.xml file, and so on and on.
 
You're just getting started. 
 
Good luck!


===Testing/parsing XML files===
===Testing/parsing XML files===
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