Making blades/rotor disk more visible

[paolofcantoni]

I'm a newbie to RC helis and to Heli-X in particular.

I'm having difficulty (because I'm an "old fart" , seeing the rotor disk in hover training.

Is there any way to make the rotor disk more visible?

TIA,
Paolo

[ThomasC]

Look for a model with rotor blades that have good visibility, e.g. one of the nightflight-models like HELIX600Night. Can be found in <path>\resources\models\helicopter\HELIX600Night - where <path> is the path to your Heli-X installation.
Take the files Mainrotor.mtl and Mainrotor.obj and copy them into the directory of your preferred model.
Start Heli-X and load your preferred model - you're done.

But keep in mind: you will run into the same problem again when flying real models. So it might be a good idea to train what we call "Lageerkennung" (don't know the english word for that) without a look at the rotating blades.

Have fun

ThomasC

[paolofcantoni]

Hi THomas,

thanks for that... Seemed simple enough, but when I moved the Helix600Night files to the Logo600 folder, the blade disk ended up in the middle of the helicopter.

Is it possible to adjust?

Paolo

[ThomasC]

Havent't tried this I must admit. File copy worked for the KDS 450SV and the Blade 130x, others I did not test. Maybe the file copy method is not the perfect solution. So probably Michael can help us out - let's wait for his comment...

[Michael]

The way of Thomas is correct. You have then to adjust th second value of

MainrotorPosition

in the xml file of the helicopter.

Michael

[paolofcantoni]

Hi Michael,

I changed the MainRotorPosition Value from "0,1,0" to "0,2,0" then to "0,10,0" all with NO effect. Am I changing the right thing?

Paolo

[paolofcantoni]

BUMP!

Can anyone show me what I'm doing wrong?

TIA,
Paolo

[paolofcantoni]

2nd BUMP!

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Michael?

Paolo

[ThomasC]

Had the time and tried it myself with the Logo600. Setting MainrotorPosition to 0,100,0 solved the problem. Small values have almost no visible effect. Please try 0,100,0 for the Logo600.

Have fun

Thomas

[paolofcantoni]

Thanks, Thomas!

Worked a treat!

Now I have a "real" heli to play with in the simulator, not some "science fiction" thing with blades rotating about the main fuselage...

Paolo