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DirectX can load HLSL shader from a plain text file and compile during the runtime of the program.Maybe this is just more convenient during development, and in the final product shaders are precompiled (and thus uneditible), but this is just my guess.

FS9 had 5 seasons already.

Hi Vorlin,good find on the quaternions for AnimationKey type 0.Transforming a transformation matrix into a quaternion is somewhat involved. I could scan the pages from my math book and send you per mail if you are interested.But browsing in the Blender Python API I found, that a Python Matrix object has indeed a method toQuat(), which returns a Quaternion for the rotation matrix. Also you can extract the scale part of a matrix (as a vector) with scalePart() and the translate part with the method translationPart().Maybe you can upgrade the blender DirectX exporter script using these methods.Good luck

Hello Vorlin,I've looked at your examples in your blog.It looks like blender is exporting rotation matrices (hence 16 values) while gmax is exporting something like an axis (3 element vector) and an angle in radians.The first seems to be the identity matrix and also you don't rotate around the x axis in th gmax code.The second and third appear to have the form( cos x -sin x 0 0 )( sin x cos x 0 0 )( 0 0 1 0 )( 0 0 0 1 )which describes a rotation around the z axis with angle x. I don't know why they should both rotate around the z axis.However this is all assumptions. I cannot confirm all this because I don't have gmax or Blender installed just now. But it might be an indication that Bill is on the right track. Or you have to change the way in which blender exports rotational animations.Hope it helps,

I am really hoping for Ghana tonight, because they are accomodated in my hometown W

Hi JakeI think you have to engage the second autopilot (A or B whichever was not active for your cruise) after selecting the APP mode. Then the 737 has indeed autoland and does flare.If i remember correctly, the PMDG 737 doesn't have the rollout mode modelled, so you have to kepp it on the runway after touchdown, but then again my memory could just fool me.Have funMichael

Boaz, RandyYou wont believe it. I updated the drivers for my (crappy onboard) sound card and the click sound are there. Easily to be heard at normal volume. Still no battery and electrical sounds though.I didn't believe there would be any driver updates since my computer is 3 years old, but alas there were several driver and bios updates on the manufactorers homepage.So Randy gave the right tip to update the drivers. Thank you very much.

HelloI thought I reply here as I have the same problem. No click sounds and no sound from battery and other electrics (like you get when turning Battery ON first in cold and dark cockpit). Soundfiles are all there (in the %FS9 root%soundPMDG directory) and sounds ARE played in the pax versions as well as the pack sounds in both versions.After some investigation (and reinstalling the update issued today) I can say that on my system the click sounds ARE played in the freighter but the volume is so low you can hardly hear them. So in a cold and dark cockpit with no engine sound and no pack sound I turned up the volume and could indeed hear some very faint click sounds when toggling the switches and pressing buttons. But with this volume level there is no way I can start the engines without risking my sense of hearing ;-).Maybe this is a sound driver issue but I wonder why with the pax sound all is normal ut with the freighter not. Anyway just a minor issue that doesn't distract (me) from having fun with this magnificent plane.

HiI also experienced this when loading a saved situation in mid-flight. Reselecting a thrust mode like SPD or VNAV (despite the fact that the VNAV pitch mode was active) seemed to help the autothrottle to regain control.Hope it helpsEDIT: I see you got the same idea, but were typing faster than me ;-)

Hias the manual states, do NOT use the FS fuel menu as this leads to problems. Use the PMDG load manager or the PMDG menu in FS.

Hellothere is a dedicated PMDG Support Forum here on AVSIM. Have a look there:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=136But as stated on the PMDG order page You must have a internet connection for installing and registering this plane, though You don't need it later on for flying.Have fun with this beauty.Cheers

Hello StephanI headed to www.myfonts.com, clicked on WhatTheFont and uploaded a logo image from the easyJet main webpage.Try it yourself it is easy ;-) and the result is quite convincing.It seemy that the font is called Cooper Black or something like that.Cheers

Hello FitzThere are three rotary switches associated with L,C and R IRS with positions OFF, ALIGN, NAV and ATT. They are positioned on the overhead panel on the left side above the electrical panel. You can see them on some screenshots on the PMDG page featuring the VC.Happy waiting ;-)Michael Jost

Jan, thank you for your help.That would indeed do the trick. I'll try that later.

Sorry, maybe I said it wrong. It does not work for me ;-)Here is a code snippetABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXI have a screenshot attached of the result. the first two lines are the text elements and this is how i want it to look. The last two lines are the FormattedText.I deliberately used no Fontsize attribute since the text element sorts this out automagically and it is probably not a whole number.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/120533.jpg

Hello NickYes i have, unfortunately it does not work. It will not strech over the complete width. I tried with and without specifying a FontSize. Also tried WidthFit, no success :-(

HelloFirst thanks to all previous posters in this forum. I've learned a lot from all of you.Nonetheless I still got a question for all the XML gurus here.I've seen in the Microsoft gps gauge that you can do all fancy sort of things like change text size/color and use tabs when you put your string into a FormattedText element.However I cannot get the FormattedText to behave like the normal Text which scales/streches the string so it fits into the size I provide.(Like I want to display a string with small font size to have exactly the same width as a string with big font size, given same characters)Is this possible at all? I've found no options yet.Thank you.