----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] ACScript RFC (or FGScript ??)
> John Barrett writes: > > And I envision a "client" that handles multiple AI aircraft on behalf of a > > server thats plenty busy enuf handling message passing and other management > > functionality (this "client" really it could be considered part of the > > server, but so much of the code is the same compared to a client, there > > really isnt a reason not to leverage the existing client code and distribute > > the processing to other machines, and the same code will be in the server so > > if the requirements are light enough, the server could be instancing the > > planes) > > Just asking questions here ... let's say that 10 people want to meet > up and fly around a particular airport, and each of those 10 > interactive sessions by default generates 10 AI aircraft each to make > the skies interesting, things could get quite busy. It seems like > you'd have to come up with some protocol to arbitrate who instantiates > and controls which aircraft distributed accross all the different > clients. That sounds like it could get really complex in order to do > correctly with out any goof ups. I'm not saying it can't be done, > just that it seems like this could quickly grown into an extremly > complex system. > Why is an interactive session "by default" generating AI aircraft without a loaded scenario to control those aircraft ?? The "server" should be loading the scenario. Having an airport spawn aircraft just because someone is close by the airport should not be a default behavior of the simulator. Similarly, if a client is acting as a adjunct to a server, it will need a scenario loaded from the command line, or provided by the server to control its spawning and behavior of AI planes. Without a scenario loaded, or a connection to a server, its just you all by your lonesome (which I had thought was the situation given my experience loading up FG and flying around with the default settings) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
