Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 schrieb tangyong: > ...(Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems)...
> A-SMGCS should manage all kinds of vehicles(including aircrafts and cars) > on airport.So I need to simulate more than twenty aircrafts moving on the > airport surface to test A-SMGCS. This sounds interesting and is something on my long term todo list, as it will also improve realistic looking AI traffic at airports. > FG multiplayer can support multi aircrafts > to fly together,but that means I need twenty persons to control twenty FG > instances. For display the Multiplayer module uses AI objects anyway. So it depends on what exactly (i.e. how smart) you want to make your moving objects. If you can program a reasonable behaviour the go with the AI module. If the planes need human control, well then you need 20 people anyway... > The flightplan can support multi aircrafts,but the scenario > is writed in the xml files initially. Well, TrafficManager based AI planes do quite 'intelligent' routing (taxi to/from runway) themselves. All that is specified in the XML there is departure/arrival airport and when to go. Ground vehicles like passenger busses may be done the same way, using a different routing network. I suppose its no big deal to improve support for that in TaxiDraw. > We can not modify the flightpalan when > the FG is running.Could anybody give me some design ideas?Should I use AI > module to do that,can FG been modified to support this? I think this quite doable using the AIModels module. What is needed is a way to reinitialize the user aircraft structure from the data of the FGAIAircraft. In essence this is online plane switching, which everyone wishes for but is not implemented yet. I can see some logical issues though switching to a MultiPlayer controlled aircraft, so this needs be sorted out. As far as I know a rough user interface for AI aircraft selection is implemented in the UFO (Melchior?). So as a summary: Every of your requirements except plane switching can be done quite easily using existing FG code. Online plane changing is a long wanted feature, so there is some chance to get it implemented in one of the next releases. HTH Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
