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At Long Last... It's Done! "Midnight Fun" my P-51-D Racer - Includes In-Flight Configurable Speedo: TAS/IAS/GS+MPH/KPH/Knots

4,167 Formula350  2.4 years ago

Yes, this is "based on Jundroo's", but I've spent so much time improving upon it, and then modifying it, that I am excited with how it turned out, and so I actually don't take any shame in making an announcement for it.

https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/PU6Qk8/P-51-D-Racer-Midnight-Fun

I made a detailed description, so there's not much that needs to be included here. This post is mostly for the In-Flight switchable Speedo Readouts that thankfully a bunch of you provided feedback on, which justified my motivations for wanting to make it.

Now you don't have to modify the code on the speedo (not that cycling through the presets was necessarily "hard" lol). So now anyone can add it if they want, and users only have to push a few buttons from inside the cockpit in order to get the reading they want on the gauge.

I'm SURE there's a much better, less convoluted way, to have coded that... But I'm a pleb that doesn't know how to code, so I made do with the Inception-Meme-Worthy "Code-Ception" IF?THEN:ELSE statement monstrosity I cooked up.

I still plan to incorporate custom variables for it, mostly to free up the 4 Action Groups they currently require. I just have to figure out how to make custom Action Groups.... once I find where that one guy's Variables Guide Post is again.

Had to hold off on that, and another big engine-related feature, in order to squeak this online before the VR Version went live. I don't expect it will meet curation standards either way, or that it'd get seen in time, but this ate up all my time to do any other build! lol I enjoyed it either way!

(I'll add some more pics to this post in a moment, since everyone likes those heh)

Unused Label Art - Mirroring would have been too much work.


Surprised the Checkered trick didnt Z-Fight. Click to embiggen.


My rather period-correct instrument panel, but modernized. Click for fuller-size.