AnMaster > Sent: 08 December 2007 11:55 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiplayer generic properties > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Yes, I already made a patch (see "[Flightgear-devel] Patch > for Harrier: making it's thrust vector work over mp") for the > harrier that makes use of this :) > > And I can think of several other aircrafts that could make > use of this. For example position lights/anti-collision > lights of some aircrafts. Would make formation flying in the > dark over mp simpler. > > Regards, > > Arvid Norlander > > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > After Maik has clued me up about multiplayer properties -- > that only > > those are transmitted, which actually exist at init time > (which is why > > they need to be defined in the *-set.xml file), it was time to add > > some generic properties for "internal communication". That is: > > properties which aren't dedicated to a particular function, > but can be > > used by an aircraft to send data to its mirror instances over MP. > > > > There are for now: > > /sim/multiplay/generic/string[0-9] > > /sim/multiplay/generic/float[0-9] > > /sim/multiplay/generic/int[0-9] > > > > Of course, this should be used sparingly. If you need to transmit a > > path, don't transmit the full path, but only the parts that > are really > > necessary. For example, the bo105 will only transmit "foo", when it > > actually means "Aircraft/bo105/Models/Variants/foo.xml". > > The prefix and the ".xml" postfix will be stripped. There's > still the > > possibility to transmit "../../foo" if for some reason I > want to refer > > to a file elsewhere. (I didn't add double/long/bool, as > they would be > > transmitted as float/int/int, anyway.) > > > > In one of the next protocol revisions, we won't have to > transmit these > > "single-shot" properties in every package (, I hope :-). > > > > m.
Anders has a really neat bit-mask utility which allows the transmission of up to 32 bools in one int property - much neater for light switches and the like. Vivian P.S. - by tradition we bottom-post on the devel list ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
