On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi All, > I just added some new code to src/Main/fg_init.cxx that allows FlightGear's > airport dynamics functions to give you a valid parking position without > having to bother about the details of whether the parking is of hte right > type, whether it is large enough, etc etc. To achieve this, the --parkpos > option recognizes the keyword AVAILABLE (in capitals). However, in order to > get it to work, you need to set some properties:
Hi Durk, This looks like a really nice feature. Thanks! However, I think that the properties you've defined have a use beyond just ATC, so hiding them under /sim/atc and only loading them as additional config feels like a bit of a wasted opportunity to me. > /sim/atc/radius: Surely this is simply a set property of an aircraft, and should be set in the aircraft-set.xml file itself, rather than in some additional Startup XML fragment? I'd say it doesn't really belong under /sim/atc as it's a general physical property of the aircraft. /sim/dimensions/radius-m perhaps? (I'm thinking that there are other physical attributes of the aircraft that might be of interest in the future - wing-span, length, door location for animated jetways/stairs, nosewheel location for towing). Similarly, /sim/atc/flight-type seems like it should be a more generic aircraft class property and should also be in the -set.xml file. It could be used by launchers and web pages to filter the various types of aircraft, as well as by ATC code. How about /sim/aircraft-class ? It might be worth having this multi-valued, so classes such as WWII fighter can be identified bit as mil-combat, and WWII. I'm think of this from the perspective of an idea I had a long time ago to allow users to filter the visible aircraft. So, for example someone might want to take part in a WWII fly-in and only see WWII era aircraft by default. Equally, being able to filter the aircraft in FGRun or the website so you only see the civilian airliners would seem to be a good idea. I'd hope that neither of these of these changes would make much difference from the AI/ATC perspective, but they open up some interesting new features. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
