• There seems to be an up tick in Political commentary in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site we know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religiours commentary out of the fourms.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politicion will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment amoung members. It is a poison to the community. We apprciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Question about floatplane "bobbing" in water

Bushi

Bushi

Charter Member
I've been playing around with the contact points on my Jet Ranger on floats. The dodosim model from Owen Hewitt's 'skids' model , and now have the floats realistically sitting IN the water rather than on top of it.

The heli looks great, but I wanted to see if I could minimize the amount of 'bob' the floats have. In order to make them look like they are actually supporting some weight at the high point, they are practically submerged at the low point .. Realistic for a good ocean swell.. but on rivers, in what would be calmer waters, a bit too much.

I can't seem to find a way to edit this parameter in the aircraft cfg. and am wondering if it's "HARD CODED" into flightsim itself (cfg. file)

Anyone have an idea?
thanks
Dave

two screenshots showing upper limit ..and lower limit of floats bobbing in the water.. to illustrate what I'm on about! :)

attachment.php
attachment.php
 

Attachments

  • bell 206 high bob.jpg
    bell 206 high bob.jpg
    39.5 KB · Views: 2
  • bell 206 low bob.jpg
    bell 206 low bob.jpg
    40.3 KB · Views: 2
Bushi,

In the contact points for the floats, the Static compression number should be decreased, and max-static ratio around 2.5. Then set damping to 1.0.... like so ...

0.25, 2.50, 1.00

You can try lowing static compression further but it may make your landings harder.

Also, you may have to adjust vertical distance after adjusting static compression and max-static ratio, as usual.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top