What does animation source "aoa"?

[[frl]myke 14]

Hi folks,

while equipping the F-16 with working gauges, i've encountered a "problem". Well, nothing serious (but i'm bleeding badly...), it's just, there is a gauge for AOA (angle of attack) in the cockpit and for ArmA (2) there was/is an animation source aoa.

I've already equipped the gauge with the corresponding animations (class, axis and so on) but ingame, nothing happens.

As i'm not a FlightSim pro, what is this gauge supposed to show? Is the source "aoa" obsolete or broken? What are correct settings to make it work?

For completeness, here the model.cfg entry for the respective anim:

class aoaMeter: Rotation {
source="aoa";
selection="aoa_meter";
type="translation";
axis="axis_aoa_dive";
offset0=-1;
offset1=1;
minValue=-30.000000;
maxValue=30.000000;
};

:EDITH:

In Buldozer, anim is done correctly as far it concerns definitions/settings.

[soul_assassin 1750]

type="translation"; ?

shouldn't it be rotation?

Besides angle of attack correctly speaking would be hard to test for in game. You have to understand that the aoa is the angle of pitch RELATIVE to the direction of motion (where as pure angle of pitch is to the horizontal). Try stalling the aircraft and pointing nose up. Then ur motion is down and aoa would be quite large. Also ur offset and Value numbers seem quite weird. Offset is as far as I know is in meters.

[[frl]myke 14]

it is translation because it is not a round gouge but a slidertype...sort of...well, i bet you get the point.

Basically the anim works, at least it does in Buldozer. What it lacks is probably proper and usable settings. But now at least i understand what AOA means. Makes it easier to test it. Kinda hard if you don't know what you have to force to happen. Testing speed gauge...easy, step on the gas.... ;)

Thx Soul Assassin.

[soul_assassin 1750]

This picture illustrates it better:

The dashed line (velocity) is the actual direction the aircraft is moving and the pitch angle where its poiting. The difference is aoa or alpha.