RFM - Rotorcraft Flight Model

2.1.0

2.1.0

A big one. Most of it came out of building a tandem rotor conversion, so modders get a lot of new framework. Players get the engine keybinds back, a flight assist you can actually see, weight that follows people around the aircraft, a better Mi-8 rotor and a handful of fixes. Full notes: https://dice614.github.io/rfm-docs/release-notes/

FOR PLAYERS

New
- Engine keybinds work: hold R (gamepad: hold Y) starts, Ctrl+R stops, same as vanilla. The start/stop hints follow the real engine now. Holding R again while it runs no longer shuts it down.
- The vanilla autohover icon and hints work on RFM aircraft. The RFM HUD has a new ASSIST line: your control device, then AUTOHOVER, DRIFT HOLD, ALT and HDG.
- New setting: Hover drift damping (Settings > RFM). Gamepad, and HOTAS with the assist on. How hard the assist leans against drift when you let go of the stick at low speed. 0 just holds level.
- People standing on board get weighed where they stand (cabin, ramp, roof, skids). Walk to the back and the CG moves back. Getting out or falling off takes the weight off within a second.
- SHS Drive By riders are weighed at their actual position (they used to weigh nothing). No dependency.
- Swapping seats, taking a drive-by seat or standing up never counts anyone twice.
- Mi-8 rotor: the mast doesn't lean anymore. Each blade flaps on its own hinge like the real thing.

Changed
- Articulated rotors pass loads to the airframe like a real hinged rotor, so much less blade shake reaches the airframe (Mi-8).
- The settings tab says which devices each input setting is for.
- Fuel tanks get rechecked every few seconds, for fuel mods that add or swap tanks after spawn.

Fixed
- The rotor swirl could blow up at high speed and throw off fast forward flight. Fixed for every aircraft, hover unchanged.
- Someone standing inside the aircraft in flight could make it think it was on the ground.
- Your own riders, stores or people underneath could read as ground to the skids, wheels and rotor. Skids and wheels don't rest on people anymore.
- The Mi-8's blade strike check uses the real blade coning.
- Less log spam from the armed UH-1 and Mi-8.

FOR MODDERS
- Flight-control system: SAS channels, trim actuators, autopilot mode blocks (attitude, heading, speed, altitude, velocity, position, navigation), scheduled crossfeeds, sensor/power gates, FCS-driven surfaces, in-game panel, profile checker and bench. Off unless you give an aircraft a profile.
- Tandem/multi-rotor: LCT schedule on the control map, rotor phase lock, Rotor Zones damage for extra rotors (networked, with slot lookup), Rotor Id on signal bindings (smoothed per frame), Reverse Pedal Steer.
- Physics: Hinge Inertia Relief (on by default), Body Yaw Moment Incidence Shaped/Phase, Body Moment Reference Incidence (off by default).
- Visuals: BLADE_FLAP_DEG / BLADE_LAG_DEG signals with Smooth Blade Flap, Create If Missing works for graph variables, Spin Pivot, Spin Axis now tips the model onto the physics shaft, Draw Rotor Visual Axis, Hold Rotor Visuals.
- Diagnostics: Blade Motion Diagnostic + Draw Blade Motion, [RFM-BLADE-STN], [RFM-ROTOR-LOADS] with load rings, [RFM-YAW] + yaw sketch, [RFM-FLARE] per rotor, Dump Bones for child entities.

2.0.5

Cleaned up for modding release.

2.0.4

Fixed - Aircraft on multiplayer servers now retain engine state when entering the aircraft after leaving.

Added - Compat for MFD Framework and AHC Fuel Systems (W.I.P, untested)
Added - Support for multiple engine states on multiplayer servers

2.0.3

ENVIRONMENT OVERHAUL
- Wind now changes with height: slower near the ground, stronger higher up.
- The ground affects the wind: trees, towns and open ground give different wind and turbulence.
- Turbulence from wind over rough ground and from sun-heated ground (thermals).
- Rough air downwind of hills and in the wake of buildings and obstacles.
- Rain and wet ground are read from the game's weather.
- Fixed: wind direction was reversed. The wind now blows from the direction set in Game Master and shown on the map.

NEW KEYBOARD FLIGHT (Keyboard, Keyboard + Mouse and Gamepad)
- Flies like vanilla:
  - W/A/S/D: hold to keep pitching or banking, with no limit. Let go and it holds that angle. Tap for small corrections.
  - The aircraft no longer turns by itself when banked. Use Q/E to turn.
  - Shift/Ctrl: climb or descend. Let go and it holds that height.
- Autohover (C): off until you press it. It works from any speed:
  - slows to a hover at the height where you pressed it
  - holds the hover over that spot, even in wind
  - turns the nose into a strong wind
  - press C again, or use the cyclic, to take control back
- On the ground the cyclic sits at the hover position by itself, so the aircraft lifts straight up.
- The assist protects the rotor during hard manoeuvres. It keeps the UH-1's rotor from unloading and eases off near the mast stop. You can still bump the mast if you push hard enough.

FIXES
- Starting up in strong wind no longer causes small mast-bump damage while the rotor is still stopped.

2.0.2

Implemented potential fix for Live mass updates in multiplayer

2.0.1

Optimization update+new featuire in flightcomponent

2.0.0

First public testing release

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