* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Basler) [2002.06.01 10:44]: > Dear developers, > > I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE > <snip/> > > This issue has a one page review on Flightgear written by a Marc Stoering > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who seems to belong to the editors (not sure about > that). The test was done under Suse Linux 8.0 (which btw., gets good marks.)
What version of FG did he review? > Unfortunately the review on FG as such is negative. This are the main > points: > > - Old-fashioned overall appearance (4 screenshots delivered, including KSFO > + C172 panel), not to be compared with state-of-the art simulators > > - Very few functions compared to other simulators > > - Cockpits "from yesterday" > > - Some good 3D effects (sunset...) > > - Bad flight characteristics (sometimes planes react too sensitive, > sometimes too sluggish), much worse than X-Plane > > - comparatively good frame rates > > - Weather + Scenery disappointing > > To be fair, they refer to the project as being free, open-source, multi > platform and sketch the way development is done. > > Their summary: FlightGear is for a minority of technically advanced simmers > who are prepared to go into programming only, but not for the normal simmer. I think this is a fair characterization of FlightGear relative to the commercial PC flight sim offerings. We all know the shortcomings of the current state of FG, and we're working to remove them -- all of the points listed above are being worked on. The main difference between FG and most other flight sims is that we're cross-platform, which takes a fair amount of work that these commercial outfits don't have to deal with. I hope the review made note of that. But anyway, no press is bad press, IMO. Maybe some people will read the review and want to help out -- I'm pretty sure the commercial flight sims can't say that. ;-) -- Cameron Moore / Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the \ \ same time. I think I've forgotten this before. / _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
