Aircraft metadata checklist
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This list is various simple checks and modifications to improve user experience with aircraft.
(For each of these items, we need to show an example of the XML changes required)
Metadata / -set.xml
Checking / fixing these items should take about 30 minutes per aircraft (maybe a little longer the first time)
- Ensure the aircraft ratings are set and not wildly inaccurate.
- Ensure any tags are from the official list of tags (in fgmeta tags.py)
- Ensure the aircraft has a suitable name and description
- For multi-variant aircraft, ensure the primary aircraft is a sensible choice (eg not a copilot or floats/skis variant)
- Add new-style preview images
- Ensure the thumbnail is the correct size and follows the guidelines (not a logo, not a photograph)
- Set minimum-fg-version and compatible-fg-version values in the -set.xml if required
- Review the 'catalog generator' error messages for the aircraft (eg, XML formatting errors)
- Ensure any development files are excluded from the generated .zip (eg XCF or PSD files)
- Examine the console log and resolve any reported aircraft issues (e.g. PNG bad color profile, missing files, etc.)
[need to document options to do this]
- Add an appropriate MP fallback model
Code changes
- Ensure the aircraft uses the global property for enabling/disabling the pilot model.
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