Re: Converting MSFS Models to FGFS...

Lee Elliott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.flightmodel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:24, David Culp wrote:
> On Sunday 29 August 2004 06:53 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> > I downloaded an archive containing a Harrier VTOL craft, but I don;t know
> > how to convert it to load into Flightgear. Can anyone help me out?
>
> FlightGear can handle MS' MDL format, but you lose the animations.  To get
> the animations back you have to convert it to AC3D format and do a lot of
> CAD work on it.
>
> As for the flight dynamics, you'll have to make a new configuration file
> for this.  As a start you can just copy one from an existing aircraft
> (isn't there already a harrier in the base package?).
>
>
> Dave

Yes, there is.  I think Andy Ross did the YASim config for it and I recall 
reading some posts about it a year or two ago.

LeeE

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