User:Zakharov/zkv1000 installation guide

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Get the sources

the whole zkv1000 can be retrieved from https://sebmarque.hd.free.fr/git/seb/zkv1000. You will have the choice with different ways (git, zip or tar.gz).

You have the choice of the destination of the source (in order of recommandation)

  1. in $FGHOME/Aircraft/Instruments-3d
  2. in your aircraft directory
  3. in $FGDATA/Aircraft/Instruments-3d

We'll refer to the zkv1000 installation directory as $ZKV1000 later in this document

Installation in the cockpit

The glass cockpit and the material around are included in the sources, but you can provide yours. Please see the advanced installation below.

The zkv1000 provides files in order to let you choose if you want a PFD, a MFP, both of them, or two PFDs and one PFD.

So the installation depends on what you want. Place in your cockpit the following files in the XML definition files of your aircraft

Configuration Files needed
PFD only $ZKV1000/pfd-pilot.xml
MFD only $ZKV1000/mfd.xml
1 PFD + 1 MFD $ZKV1000/pfd-pilot.xml + $ZKV1000/mfd.xml
2 PFD + 1 MFD $ZKV1000/pfd-pilot.xml + $ZKV1000/pfd-copilot.xml + $ZKV1000/mfd.xml

Here's an example from the Lancair 235, configuration with a PFD in front of the pilot's seat and a MFD between the pilot's seat and the copilot's seat, a bit inclinated in direction of the pilot. These lines take place in the dedicated file about the cockpit definition.

  <model>
    <path>Aircraft/Instruments-3d/zkv1000/pfd-pilot.xml</path>
    <offsets>
      <x-m> -0.023 </x-m>
      <y-m> -0.235 </y-m>
      <z-m> -0.028 </z-m>
    </offsets>
  </model>
  <model>
    <path>Aircraft/Instruments-3d/zkv1000/mfd.xml</path>
    <offsets>
      <x-m> 0.03 </x-m>
      <y-m>  0.06 </y-m>
      <z-m> -0.028 </z-m>
      <heading-deg> -15 </heading-deg>
    </offsets>
  </model>

make it work

Once your device is installed in your cockpit you may tell FligthGear where to find the underlying Nasal code. This is done in the <nasal> section of your aircraft definition. Obviously this is one of the manadatory step and value, the Nasal namespace must be zkv1000.

    <zkv1000>
      <file>Aircraft/Instruments-3d/zkv1000/zkv1000.nas</file>
    </zkv1000>

You have other options you can pass to the device in the <instrumentation> section of your aircraft definition

  <instrumentation>
...
    <zkv1000>
      <alerts>
        <Vx>15</Vx>
        <Vy>110</Vy>
        <Vr>65</Vr>
        <Vglide>80</Vglide>
        <stall-aoa>12</stall-aoa>
        <approach-aoa>4</approach-aoa>
      </alerts>
      <eis>
        <type>single-prop</type>
      </eis>
    </zkv1000>
...
  </instrumentation>

The available options are

Category Option Meaning Values
alerts Vx default Vx speed, displayed with a mark in the PFD's speed tape, may be modified by user, no default value a number in knots, it can be modified by user using zkv1000 UI, no default value
Vy default Vy speed, displayed with a mark in the PFD's speed tape
Vr default Vr speed, displayed with a mark in the PFD's speed tape
Vglide default Vglide speed, displayed with a mark in the PFD's speed tape
stall-aoa The stalling angle of attack, if defined it is displayed in AOA widget a number in degrees
approach-aoa The expected angle of attack at approach phase, if defined it is displayed in AOA widget
eis type or file the type of EIS on MFD only, defaults to none "none" means... none, the other possible values are the nasal definitions of file as in $ZKV1000/Nasal/eis (without the .nas extension) or the relative path to your definition specific to your aircarft

More options to come...

The zkv1000 Nasal code is loaded at the end of the FDM initialization. Knowing that if you want to automagically switch on the zkv1000 there is a function named zkv1000.powerOn(), otherwise there is a predefined multikey :zo witch will call the powerOn() function.

This should work and you and your aircraft's users should enjoy the instrument :)

Advanced installation

You may want to use your own 3D objects, this is not a problem.

Each component of the zkv1000 is created at the power on if a property exists : /instruments/zkv1000/<NAME>/status in wich NAME is a string with the pattern: (MFD|PFD)[optional identifier]

So there are 3 optional properties useful to create your own device (only screen-object is available for now)

Property Role
/instruments/zkv1000/<NAME>/screen-object The name of the 3D object
/instruments/zkv1000/<NAME>/screen-view N/A The size of the view in Canvas context (defaults to [1024, 768])
/instruments/zkv1000/<NAME>/screen-size N/A The value of the Canvas size (defaults to [1280, 1280]), this value should be a square and large enough to allow rotation of the view without a not included pixel

In the zkv1000 namespace API specific for one component will be available by the NAME:

zkv1000.flightdeck['PFD-example'].knobs.FmsInner(...)

API

softkeys

buttons

knobs