How to use the parachute animation in a plugin ?

[Emilio]

I\'m trying to do a paraglider, but I need the parachute system to work in the plugin. How do I code it ?

If I remember correctly, there is this line in the MechJeb Command Pod :

class MuMechUnmannedPod : CommandPod

so it works like a pod. So i maybe need to do this :

class Paraglider : Parachute

But does it works ? Will it use the normal parachute objects in Blender (Body, Cap, Canopy, etc..), the same variables in the CFG (plus my custom variables)?

?

[Tiberion]

Not sure on the class inheritance question; but before you get too far...

the parachute part module is 'Parachutes' with an S - I usually forget too

[Emilio]

I never noticed it was plurial....

Thanks for saying it, this is the last thing i would have checked if my code doesn\'t work....

[Emilio]

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Edited May 13, 2015 by Emilio

[Kreuzung]

Well it should behave like a chute except if you override functions that contain important \'things\' for the parachute (call base.FunctionYouHaveOverridden(Params) to avoid this).

No warranty, I\'m a noob coder...

[Emilio]

OK, thanks !

[Emilio]

Humm, is there an other way of doing that ? Withouth using the parachutes class ?

[Kreuzung]

If you know how to implement parachute-like behaviour, yes.

[Emilio]

... And how do you do this ?

[Kreuzung]

You want a parachute-like part but with lift instead of drag?

You could use MuMechToggle (from MechJeb) or derive from it...

[Emilio]

You\'ve just found the problem...

I tried something like this, using Parachutes class and a MuMech toggle-ish code. But the problem is that the code won\'t compile : deflectionLiftCoeff is specific to winglets, so it\'s not included in the parachute class...