Advanced Mod: Mirage 2000C01

The Mirage 2000 will be modified in this project to add the following features: This page hopes to document the process so that it can be carried out for other aircraft.

• Transparent canopy

• Pilot and seat

• Air Force Markings

• Retracting Landing gear

First Step - Copying the existing stock aircraft.

First I made a copy of the Mirage original Mirage 2000 and pasted it to a folder called user/ysg2000/mirage200c_v002. All files will use this tag at the end to differentiate it from the previous versions.

Next I changed the dat file to identify this Mirage 2000. Check if it loads into YSFlight without problems.

REM Original Default Mirage2000 YSFlight aircraft 12 Jun 2022

REM Modified by YSG2000

IDENTIFY "[YSG2000] Mirage 2000C Version002"

Edited the aircraft lst

user/ysg2000/mirage200c_v002/mrg2000.dat user/ysg2000/mirage200c_v002/mrg2000.dnm user/ysg2000/mirage200c_v002/mrg2000coll.srf user/ysg2000/mirage200c_v002/mrg2000cockpit.srf user/ysg2000/mirage200c_v002/mrg2000_coarse.dnm

The aircraft loads and flies.

Next add landing gear.

The landing gear was exported in Wings 3D from an lwo file. The landing gear object is centred at the origin.

Below are the settings for the left landing gear.

POS: the position of the landing gear. If the X coordinate is changed, for example, the landing gear moves along the x-axis

vis: click this to make the object visible in that state. If this is unchecked, the object disappears when it reaches that position

We can see everything else is blank except the

POS/H parameter which is 179.8 almost 180 degrees. This rotates the wheel about its vertical axis, makes it inwards instead of outwards

STA1/R which is 79.81 which rotates the wheel about its nose to tail axis here named "Z"

So lets add an object and apply the same settings to that object to make it work.

The landing gear instead of retracting can be made to disappear in position 2 which looks like retraction