A visual Marker to help aid the creation of multiple stop positions

[sweet pike]

This will be hard to explain: I'll try my best:

When creating multiple stop positions, you have to look at the ruler. Everyone knows this, but the ruler is very hard to use. You have to get your camera in a perfect position. Then 50% it will still be wrong. So you for to restart the console, reposition you aircraft 3 times pre gate to get the right number

I good solution would be to create a visual Marker. After you edit the stop position (in the editor) you would click F4 to get to this new marker. It would act like a passenger waypoints in a way. You move the passenger waypoints up and down, to get the high for custom Jetways highes.

You would only be able to move the maker on the y axis. You would move it to the second stop positions. Above it would say X.XX (what ever number that would be on the ruler bellow) Then you write it down in your .py file. You move the marker to the next stop positions. Then it would give you the exact number on the ruler.

This is a 100% times easier that before, and would make profiles a lot for realistic, and would save us profile creaters alot of time!

Hope this makes scene...

[frank rock]

Why "50% it will be wrong?"

[sweet pike]

It always takes like 2 tries to get the stop positions correct. It's slot of trail and error for each gate

[narrow tundra]

if you use the A320 it seems pretty accurate, I did a whole 100 or so gates yesterday and only had to redo a handfull

[sweet pike]

Yea, i wouldn't say it full wrong. It would also have use so much time. You could have stop positions done for each gate on like 1 minutes with this

[frank rock]

It's never wrong, if you understand how it works and how it depends from the airplane used (which is completely unrelated to the various types that will then use the different stop positions).

The ideal editing airplane is one that has its main exit exactly lined up longitudinally to the front gear, because their offset is subtracted to the value saved in the .INI file, so the saved position would be "neutral" and, when it's used by other airplanes that will then add their own front gear/preferred exit offset, it will work as expected.

That's why it works reasonably well with the A320: the front gear is almost aligned to the fist exit, except a minor difference of about 0.25 mt, which could be added to the calculation in Python. Or, you can just edit the main exit of any airplane to be exactly at the same longitudinal position as the Pushback attach point, so you'll end up with an "ideal" editing aircraft, one where the front gear would 100% match the values on the ruler.

[sweet pike]

I didn't mean it was wrong, i meant it was hard to get the right data from it. The ruler is "fades", it had to see the ticks, ect. I see what your saying

[frank rock]

You said "it's 50% wrong", suggesting something random. It's not random, it might look it is, because if used different airplanes. If you use the same airplane each time, either the default A320 (possibly slightly modified to have the exit aligned perfectly with the front gear), you can be sure it's always 100% correct and repeatable.

[sweet pike]

Yea. I just had this though to make create multiple stop positions easier. If this is not added, I would like to see the ruler made brighter or something.