Comments on: Liveries vs. Configurations /2008/12/liveries-vs-configurations/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:10:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Benjamin Supnik /2008/12/liveries-vs-configurations/#comment-872 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:14:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=269#comment-872 Hi Cormac,

Hrm – it seems to me that ATC callsign should:

– Not be in the ACF
– Not be in the livery

In that I could take a United gray & white livery of B738 and go fly and take on the callsigns UAL2828 an then UAL301 in two consecutive flights.

In particular, tail number is only callsign for GA…hence the tail number decal on the panel to help forgetful pilots (at least, I guess that's what it's for) which is how liveries leak into the ACF file.

To me, the callsign would be picked when you file a FP or call in for flight following.

]]> By: Benjamin Supnik /2008/12/liveries-vs-configurations/#comment-873 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:14:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=269#comment-873 Hi Cormac,

Hrm – it seems to me that ATC callsign should:

– Not be in the ACF
– Not be in the livery

In that I could take a United gray & white livery of B738 and go fly and take on the callsigns UAL2828 an then UAL301 in two consecutive flights.

In particular, tail number is only callsign for GA…hence the tail number decal on the panel to help forgetful pilots (at least, I guess that's what it's for) which is how liveries leak into the ACF file.

To me, the callsign would be picked when you file a FP or call in for flight following.

]]> By: Cormac Shaw /2008/12/liveries-vs-configurations/#comment-874 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:08:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=269#comment-874 Hi Ben,
I would suggest that if an exception is being considered (with good reason) for Tail Numbers, then ATC Callsign should be treated similarly for the same reasons.
– Cormac

]]> By: Benjamin Supnik /2008/12/liveries-vs-configurations/#comment-875 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:29:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=269#comment-875 Hi Jan,

First…time to move this to the Wiki. 🙂

http://wiki.x-plane.com/Next-Gen_Liveries_RFC

Second…yes – we are indeed missing the ability for plugins to be livery aware. I was thinking of solving this problem with a very simple mechanism: a dataref that indicates (by name or number or both) the current livery. 🙂 That this dataref is not in 921 is actually an omission on my part.

]]> By: Anonymous /2008/12/liveries-vs-configurations/#comment-876 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:56:00 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=269#comment-876 Hi Ben,

as you mentioned the tail number issue I would like to expand it to livery specific configurations files for plugins, this would allow to have different options for your acf when loading another livery, like tail number or loading configuration. Only problem here is for the plugin to find out which livery is used, or even better, which livery folder is currently used. Any solutions for this in the future ?

Regards
Jan
(twinpropflyer)

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