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Does anyone know of a really nice set of jetways for fs9/X. Preferably animated on call? And/Or, does anyone know of a nice (again, preferably animated) set of large aircraft jetways, with the dual walkways for 2 door operation?

Any help greatly appreciated...

- Greg
 
Hi Greg,

For this it will matter a lot which FS version is your target. For FSX it is relatively easy to make a jetway to automatically docks to the door, if you are using the skin and bones techniques. For FS2004 this is not possible, so a nice animated jetway needs to have the different aircraft positions sort of hard coded.

Having set that, I haven't seen my jetway objects for download for both versions :). For the Schiphol project I worked on we made them specially for each gate position. This limits reuse as well. I guess many developers are in that situation.
 
Thanks Arno,
I currently only use FSX...and am currently only designing for FSX. So that is my big want... :)

I figured the nice ones would be scenery specific...and that sucks for those of us that are not model makers and don't have one available.. Trust me, if I were one, I would be modeling every single part of my airports myself... There would be no stock or 3rd party parts. But alas, that is not the case.

When you say yours and others are created specifically for each gate position, what do you mean by that, if I may ask? With numbers and such? Because that is what I would love to have. Or do you mean size specific for only certain planes? Because that would not pose a problem either.. I guess what I am saying, is I would love to have anything you have created if it is not ONLY allowed to be in that other software... :)

- Greg
 
Hi Greg,

SpectroPro said:
When you say yours and others are created specifically for each gate position, what do you mean by that, if I may ask? With numbers and such? Because that is what I would love to have. Or do you mean size specific for only certain planes? Because that would not pose a problem either.. I guess what I am saying, is I would love to have anything you have created if it is not ONLY allowed to be in that other software... :)
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The ones I made were for FS2004 (I still need to update them for FSX). In FS2004 each gate position had a specific MDL object with the animation tuned so that it would line up exactly with an airport parked at that position. So for example the stop distance for the nose wheel was taken into account. So these gates can basically only be used at that position.

For FSX it should be better though, as the IK animation will handle most of these variables, so the gates can be more general.

I guess it would be a good idea if I released my gates as a library after I do the update :).
 
That would be very cool Arno!!!!

I was just looking at Google Earth of Charles De Gualle airport... I must say, they have some really odd looking ones. Many are doubles, but then some actually connect to ones at the next gate..or two!!!! Very interesting to look at. Now I get to go navigate them in person. hehe

- Greg

Oh... one more thing.. Is it possible in FSX to have the gates turn to either direction? Or do they only always go the one direction? I ask become in some areas and for several reasons, it would be better to have them connect to the starboard side of the plane instead of the normal port side.
 
I think you can setup the IK animation to do both directions, but I never tried.
 
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