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3.3. SHAPING THE WINGS 27 Check each of the boxes for the control surfaces that a wing section has. (Note once again that these boxes will only actually do something to the wing if the control surfaces have been set up as described in the sections “Specifying Ailerons, Elevators, and Other Surfaces” and “Specifying Flaps and Slats” above.) It may be useful when deciding how many pieces of the wing section a given control surface takes up to use the “Show with still/moving controls” option from the Special menu, as shown in Figure 3.22. This will cause Plane Maker to move all the aircraft model’s control surfaces, so you can see immediately where the surface extends to. Adding Body-Mounted Speedbrakes Figure 3.22: Show the aircraft with moving control surfaces Speedbrakes may be added to an aircraft in one of two ways. The first, and most common, is to specify them in the Controls tab of the Control Geometry dialog box, as described in the section “Specifying Ailerons, Elevators, and Other Surfaces” above. However, you can also add them directly to an aircraft’s body (its fuselage, wings, etc.), placing them using the standard Plane Maker position controls. Body-mounted speedbrakes like these are created in the Speedbrakes tab of the Control Geometry dialog box. Once again, the Control Geometry dialog box is opened from the Standard menu. Up to four body-mounted speedbrakes can be added to an aircraft using this tab; there is one box per speedbrake, as seen in Figure 3.23. Since each speedbrake is created in the same way, we will look at the parameters for creating a single speedbrake. In the upper left of the speedbrake’s box is the “copy from” drop-down menu, labeled 1 in Figure 3.24. To copy the geometry, location, and texture from another body-mounted speedbrake to this one, just click the drop-down button here and click the number of the surface you want to copy from. (Note that for the purpose of copying, the speedbrakes are numbered beginning with 1 in the upper left box. Figure 3.23 shows the numbering for each of the boxes.)
28 3. SHAPING THE BODY OF AN AIRCRAFT Figure 3.23: The four boxes for creating body-mounted speedbrakes If you are not copying another object’s geometry, you must start by selecting the speedbrake’s type. The drop down box labeled 2 in Figure 3.24 selects a type of either “none” or ”body mounted.” Any speedbrake box that you are not using should have a type of “none” set for it. Likewise, if you do intend to use a body-mounted speedbrake, set its type to ”body mounted.” After turning on any body-mounted speedbrakes you want to use, it makes sense to jump down to the geometry box, labeled 6 in Figure 3.24. Speedbrakes in X-Plane are 2-dimensional, composed of up to four points. Click away from any existing points to create a new one, and click a point and drag it to change the speedbrake’s geometry. Note that the maximum width of the speedbrake geometry box here is the same as the maximum gear door size parameter, located in the Gear Data tab of the Landing Gear menu. For information on setting this, see the section “Adding Body-Mounted Speedbrakes” below. After creating at least a rough model of the speedbrake’s shape, you can position it on the aircraft and set its extended and retracted angles. To begin positioning a speedbrake, you can set its roll attitude. This is done using the axis of rotation parameter, located beneath the speedbrake type control and labeled 3 in Figure 3.24. A roll of 90 degrees makes the speedbrake point straight up, while a roll of 0 degrees makes it completely horizontal. Next are the standard location controls, labeled 4 in Figure 3.24. These are presented here in longitudinal-lateral-vertical order, from left to right. For information on using these controls, see the section “How Positions Are Set in Plane Maker” at the beginning of this chapter. Beneath the location controls are the speedbrake’s open and closed angles, labeled 5 in Figure 3.24. The parameter on the left is the angle of the speedbrake when it is retracted; the one on the right is its angle when extended. Positive values here will cause the speedbrake to hinge upward, while negative values cause it to hinge downward. The final settings in each speedbrake’s box (labeled 7 in Figure 3.24) are related to its paint textures. Information on working with the paint is found in Chapter 8, in the section “Creating a Basic Paint Job.”
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