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Slayer:
Anyone customise GSX for this yet? The jetways go into the aircraft and need some tweaking. I've never tried editing these before but if no one else has done it I can give it a shot.

virtuali:

--- Quote from: Slayer on December 06, 2014, 02:53:54 am ---Anyone customise GSX for this yet? The jetways go into the aircraft and need some tweaking.
--- End quote ---

As explained many times on the forum, and of course on the GSX manual, NOTHING in GSX is related to jetways. GSX doesn't control, affects or is affected by, anything related to jetways. They will continue to work (or not) as they were, regardless if GSX is installed or not.

And, nothing in the GSX airplane configuration utility has any relationship or any effect on jetways.

Jetways are configured using the [Exits] section in the AIRPLANE.CFG, and are animated by FSX itself. Nothing in GSX affects or change this.

boilerbill:
I believe I have worked out the internal names of the important doors from the iFly 744's .MDL files. The exact positions and angles may not be perfect, but they looked good to me. That goes for the de-icing paths as well. While the default keystrokes Shift-E, 1 open the Main Door (1R), you must use the open/close commands found in the SIMU > DOORS page of the CDU for all of the other doors, including the cargo holds.

The gsx.cfg file is attached; copy it to your %AppData%\Roaming\Virtuali\Airplanes\iFly 744 directory. Here are its contents if you'd like to study them...

[aircraft]
nosegear = 23.57
refueling = 0
wingrootpos = 5.47 6.43 0.83
wingtippos = 28.51 -13.51 0.82

[exit1]
pos = -2.86 21.83 0.95 5.00
code = (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Entry1_L_VAL,bool)
name = Door 1L

[exit2]
pos = -3.06 12.49 0.95 0.00
code = 0

[exit3]
pos = -3.18 -9.50 0.93 0.00
code = 0

[exit4]
pos = -2.30 -23.80 0.96 -10.00
code = (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Entry5_L_VAL,bool)
name = Door 5L

[service1]
pos = 2.86 21.84 0.97 -5.00
code = (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Entry1_R_VAL,bool)
name = Door 1R

[service2]
flip = 4
code = (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Entry5_R_VAL,bool)
name = Door 5R

[cargo1]
pos = 1.40 18.02 -1.32 0.00
code = (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Cargo_FWD_VAL,bool)
name = Forward Cargo Hold
uldcode = AKC

[cargo2]
pos = 1.40 -13.78 -1.32 0.00
code = (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Cargo_AFT_VAL,bool)
name = Aft Cargo Hold
uldcode = AKC


EDIT: The last line in the [cargo1] and [cargo2] sections have been changed per Umberto's suggestion. The attached gsx.cfg file has also been updated with the same changes.

virtuali:
Very good, thanks for sharing it.  It would be perfect with the ULD Code set as AKC, which is the typical ULD used on 747s.

boilerbill:
Thanks for the suggestion, Umberto. I've made the changes in my post above and in the attached gsx.cfg file.

I do have one question about the process. In the .MDL files for the iFly 747-400, the variables assigned to each door are defined as 'number'-type variables instead of 'bool'. For example, (L:iFly_744_Animation_Door_Cargo_AFT_VAL,number). From my previous programming experience, I assume that a 'number'-type variable can have any integer value within some predefined range, while 'bool'-type variables can only be 0 or 1. As I looked at other gsx.cfg files that are available on this web site, I noticed that a couple of gsx.cfg files used 'bool' instead of 'number', so I did that myself. Does it make any difference whether I had used 'number' instead of 'bool' since the bool variables (0 and 1) are a subset of the set of values a number variable can have?

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