Hi guys,
I just received G2 for Xmas. I downloaded a few planes from the swap page. But, they don't look anything like they are supposed to. For instance, the Carabou looks like the Cessna 182. They are .exe files, so I just double clicked them to install. What am I doing wrong?

Hi!

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. When designing a new plane in G2, you have to start with one of the existing ones and modify it. You can change a lot of things, but not the way the plane looks (except for how it is painted). I have not seen the Carabou myself, but my guess is the designer based it on the Cessna 182 in G2, which is why it looks like one. The flight characteristics should be those a Carabou though.

Best regards / Krister

Right! You can't modify any of the polygons in G2. Like Krister said all planes will look like those in your aircraft list, even though they may fly different. The only other thing you can change, besides how it's painted, is how big they are overall.

Chuck

How do you change the colors? I downloaded from diffrent files and I can't get the colors to change although the plane is there with G2 colors.
V-Snap

If you look in the Aircraft Selection dialog in G2 there is a button called "Make New Scheme". Simply press that button and enter a name for your new color scheme. G2 will then create a Targa (.TGA) file which you can load in PhotoShop, PaintShop Pro or some similar program to edit the colors as you like.

To use the color scheme in G2 you then select it under "Color Scheme" in the Aircraft Selection dialog.

I hope that answers your question!

Best regards / Krister

hi krister

I downloaded the Carabou and installed. the wheels are below runway tried everything to correct that I can see might...no luck. tried great planes support to no avail they do not support or offer suggestions to planed added to gallelry. also some of the plane will vibrate and jump up and down. takeoff not possible most of the time and when successful after about 30 seconds plane goes crazy, loops, spins, dives and crashes.???? do you have suggestions?

many thanks
joe email [email protected]

Joe,
The proportions that you are using are causing the problems. If you take a stock airplane from G2 (the CAP 232 for example), and increase the size of the aiframe without changing the size of the landing gear and wheels proportionally (the same percentage you used for the rest of the plane) you wind up with the problem you describe. You will also need to move the gear and change the CG a little. Try increasing the wheel and gear size and see what that does and go from there.
Dan

The wheels will go below the runway if the visual scale is set too big for the plane's listed gear dimensions. It's easier to demonstrate than explain . Edit that caribou and change the visual scale to something like five (on the Plane Setup tab), you'll see the problem get worse. This means the author of that plane didn't bother to reset the height of the landing gear and just gave you a bigger look. Compare the gear height (that's on the fuselage tab) to that of the normal Cessna and you'll probably see they're the same.

At any rate, just make those numbers bigger (more negative) until your plane sits correctly on the runway. You can actually make the thing float in mid air if you wanted to. Again, you're looking to modify the Main Gear Location's "Up" value and the Steering Gear Location's "Up" value. It's hard to explain...just edit the thing and I think you'll see what I mean.

Chuck

hi

I downloaded the carabou I cannot get the wheels to sit on runway. they appear to be below the surface. Have tried everything to get it to look normal with no results. flys ok but looks wierd on runway. how to correct? no help from gp
also some will not perform at all. jumps around on runway and if you manage to get airborne will go crazy, looping, spinning and finally crashes, no control at all

thanks

joe

Well, curiousity got the best of me and I downloaded that plane. First of all, if you changed the visual scale to 1.0 instead of 2.0 it looks right. The guy made all his changes then just upped the visual scale, which tends to drive all dimensions outward from the middle of the plane. Most folks making a new plane and changing the size of the model make their other dimensions to match. This person didn't...in fact, they made them even smaller. According to the 48" wingspan they have, the visual scale should be set at 0.6. But then he uses a different ratio of gear height and the plane floats a little bit above the runway. So his dimensions no longer match the Cessna model. You're kind of out of luck to get everything perfect. I started messing with the gear heights, but that starts to become a mess and you've changed the landing characteristics. You could double all of the measurements and it would probably look ok, but then might not fly the same. I couldn't come up with a quick fix, and since I wasn't interested in the plane I decided to bag it, sorry. If I were you, I'd fly it at a normal 1.0 scale and just zoom in if you need to see it more closely. Good luck .

Chuck

hi

many thanks...your suggestion did the trick.

now what makes certain planes jump around on the runway and flip and turn over. absolutely no control. will not fly. these were downloaded from site. I have played around with various settings with no improvement. in reality I don't know what to change...strickly trial and error.

many thanks
joe