XWing

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Quick Installation Guide

Set the number of aircraft in "Aircraft and Situations" to one more than the number of wingman aircraft you need.
The default in the ini file is set to 8 aircraft, you will have to edit this if you want more than 8.
See this line in the INI file.

[CONFIG]
MaxAircraft = 8

When you download the ini file make sure that you right click and use save as.
If the plugin does not control the AI aircraft then make sure that the INI file is not named XWing.ini.txt.
To check this you need to set up file manager for the OS so that it shows the file extensions.

Also plugins like XSB that use the AI aircraft can cause problems with this plugin.
So remove these to see if they are causing a problem.

Version 0.02 Beta

NOTE
This version of the plugin needs the INI file otherwise it will not work properly.
Scroll down the page to get the link to the INI file.

Added X, Y and Z separation scrollers.
Added INI File and Log file.
Aircraft formation can now be set up in the INI file.
All data files now located in plugins/XWing.

Version 0.01 Beta

This allows the lag for the aircraft attitude to be enabled/disabled.
I find that with it disabled it looks better.

Plugin Description

This plugin allows you to fly in formation with the other aircraft in Xplane.
The other aircrafts gear, flaps and nav lights will also follow the user aircraft.

Quick Start Guide

Increase the total aircraft to match the setting in the INI file.
See the sample INI file below for settings.
In XPlane load the aircraft of your choice using the Situations and Aircraft screen.
Check the option save all craft in preferences.

Select the plugins menu and then select XWing and then select Start.
This will enable the other aircraft in the formation.
Select the plugins menu and then select XWing and then select Control Panel

This allows you to change the following.
X Separation - 0 to 100
Y Separation - 0 to 100
Z Separation - 0 to 100
Lag - 0 to 100
Aircraft 0 - Maximum defined in INI file
Att Lag checkbox - Enable this to introduce lag in the aircraft attitude.

Note - Separation and Lag values are variables that I use and are not units of distance and time.

Separation is how far the other aircraft are away from the user aircraft.
Lag is how long it takes for the other aircraft to respond to changes in attitude of the user aircraft
Aircraft is the number of other aircraft that will be displayed.

If you have settings that you are happy with then click on the save button.
When you first start up Xplane and use the plugin you will need to use the load button to get your saved settings.
The settings file is XWing.dat and is stored in the plugins/XWing directory..

To disable the other aircraft in the formation.
Select the plugins menu and then select XWing and then select Stop

Sample INI File

Settings are

[DEBUG]
LogFile = 1   
Enable/Disable the log file.

[CONFIG]
MaxAircraft = 8
Number of aircraft that XWing will handle, this is not the same as the number in Xplane.

[AIRCRAFT1]
Enabled = 1
Set this to 0 if you don't want the aircraft to be seen.
XOffset = 30
YOffset = 0
ZOffset = 30
The above determine where the aircraft will be positioned relative to the user aicraft.

[AIRCRAFT2]
Enabled = 1
XOffset = 0
YOffset = 0
ZOffset = 30

etc...

XWing.ini

Plugins

XWingVersionHistory.txt

Mac OSX

XWingMac.zip

Linux

XWingLin.tar.bz2 

Windows

XWingWin.zip

Movies

Quicktime

WMTest02s.mov   (6.79 MB)
An example with a large amount of lag

WMTest04s.mov   (5.66 MB)
An example with a small amount of lag