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virtuali:

--- Quote from: SKYGODDESS on January 24, 2010, 07:40:15 am ---Thank you sticky1202 that is exactly what I am trying to explain in my post.
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I've understood exactly what you were trying to explain but, keep in mind that:

Our airports are designed for FSX, so we have animated jetways there.

On FS9, since there are not animated jetways by the program, we modeled as static, because most of user would prefer to use AES.

We used to have animated jetways in FS9 as well, way before anyone else. But this took a lot of work, because we also had airplane detection and different animations based on that. You can see an example of them at Cloud9 EHAM. But this was 4 years ago.

Today, since there's FSX, we have to do a different modeling for it, which doesn't apply to FS9, and lots of users asked to have AES support instead so, it doesn't make any sense to do a lot of additional work for FS9, that most user wouldn't use anyway, because they rather use AES.

SKYGODDESS:
Thanks for the reply an explanation but my concern isn't animation, its jetway positioning . :-[ :'(

virtuali:

--- Quote from: SKYGODDESS on January 31, 2010, 09:43:46 am ---Thanks for the reply an explanation but my concern isn't animation, its jetway positioning . :-[ :'(
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I just don't agree with the suggestion they should be placed extended. This because it will be always wrong, except for a specific airplane type that happens to have the correct door height.

And of course, which happens to also have a matching body width because, if we choose a position that would be good for, let's say, a 737, if you park lined up with the docking system with a 747, you'll see the jetway *inside* the airplane fuselage. And the opposite would be true: if we modeled to accomodate even a 747, there will be a large gap between the jetway and the fuselage, when parking with a smaller plane.

And, they will look wrong when there's no airplane either, because that's not how they look like in real life when the parking stand is empty so, there's no other solution than to model them in the retracted position, at least they'll not get in the way of anything.

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