Vibrating cockpits - what a nusiance

Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:46 pm by Ro9ue

Why do cockpits vibrate, kind of jitter, when you are in cockpit view? I haven't played unmodded FL in so long that I can't remember whether or not they do this.

I have tweaked the engines to all ships in the game, and I notice it all over the place - it's annoying, too. The one and only "benefit," if you can call it that, is that it makes the ship look like it's gently (or violently, in LFs) rumbling/rattling from the engines.

Is there a way to correct this? I thought I remembered that it has to do with a smoothing engine or something that the game engine uses, and that modded engines send it out of rhythm ... or something like that. Does anyone know the reason? Thanks.
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Edited by - Ro9ue on 6/23/2005 8:19:50 PM

Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:20 pm by Ro9ue

Er, not to be a nusiance myself, but does anyone know about this?

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Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:30 pm by Argh

I know it's a nuisance, but I have no idea how to get rid of it, to be perfectly honest. It seems to be tied to acceleration somehow... maybe has to do with Linear_Drag ratios, or maybe... the amount. Hmm.

I'll do a practical experiment with this, and get back to you- I have a theory.

Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:21 am by Ro9ue

Ah, okay. Well, on that subject, I would conjecture that between the two, it is the ratio - as I never remember having it in regular FL. For my mod, I have left all the engine max_thrust values at default (48000), and all ship linear_drag at default (1). Then I just altered the linear drag of engines to get different speeds. So my engines look very much like default ones, except that thy all have different drag values, resulitng in several different divions of speed: 170-190 for LFs, 140-60 for HFs, 115-135 for VHFs, and 90-105 for freighers. Hey, lemme go check something - I bet that VHFs will have this less than the LFs do ... a larger ratio for LFs. Be back shortly.

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Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:08 pm by Ro9ue

Ah, okay, well I thought that testing different ships with different speeds (consequesntly different drag ratios) would make this more clear. But, strangely, even my zippy Patriot that had a crazy cokcpit (looked like I was being pounded by a capship gatling gun or something the other day!) was seemingly normal a little while ago. It wasn't vibrating like crazy or anything. I looked at a HF cockpit, and then a VHF cockpit - all of which look the same today ... Man, thought I made've had it pinned

Hmm, so it almost seems like it's random. The other day it was bad, then today it's almost unnoticable.

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