Well FlightGear 1.0.0 is finally out. I built 1.0.0 with no problems on Ubuntu 7.10. I also built FGRUN 1.0.0 with no problems. Generally flying is the typical FlightGear flying, unfortunately I am not experienced in real aircraft so I can't tell if theres any improvement in the actual takeoff, landing and flying. I did notice that the Golden Gate bridge is lit up, was it not lit in 0.9.10, I thought it looked cool at night. Good job on the Golden Gate and other bridges. I also enjoyed the many new objects near KSFO. Such as the weird looking ground fans spinning on the ground, exhaust of some sort? Downtown San Fransisco looked great in the daytime. I also noticed that different aircraft start up on different runways nows.
Some bugs I noticed! The default HUD is fine but the alternate civilian HUD has weird characters where it should be giving the field of view and the frame rate. You can see an example here with the Avro Vulcan B2 but it happens on all aircraft: http://nathaniel.homier.googlepages.com/fgfs-screen-001.png One exception is that sometimes there are no weird characters and that area is just blank. http://nathaniel.homier.googlepages.com/ufo-hud.png Also I noticed that sometimes on Windows selecting the alternate civilian HUD when flying Gerards SR-71-A Blackbird cause FlightGear to crash and cmd saying something about HUD.cxx or something like that. I'm at my apartment now so I can't test the windows computer for the exact message. Also on a resolution of 1680x1050 the default HUD is clipped at the top so you can't see the headings numbers. This happens with 1.0.0 and 0.9.10. Just got this monitor and thats why I did not submit bug report for 0.9.10 Sound can be very distorted sometimes. Sounds like gravel sometimes. This sound is on top of the normal engine sound. AN2 is good example, happens with many other aircraft too. On some aircraft from the aircraft download page and not the default I noticed that in windows on my moms computer that the aircraft have normal frame rates but on my Ubuntu 7.10 computer I have frame rate of 1 fps or less. My moms computer is Windows SP2 at 1024x768 and 2.66Ghz with Geforce 5700 and 1GB of ram and on mine it's Ubuntu 7.10 at 1680x1050 with 3.2Ghz with Geforce 6600GT and 2GB of ram. So you can see I have higher rez but that don't explain it completely and the 1 fps only happen with some aircraft. I suspect that this has to do with the binary nvidia blob somewhat. In order to get good fps with troublesome aircraft I have to setup nvidia-settings for the highest fps which make the image look like crap as shown here: http://nathaniel.homier.googlepages.com/wierd-clouds-heli.png So this has to do more with the higher rez but mostly with nvidia binary blob. Heres my nvidia settings and my xorg. http://nathaniel.homier.googlepages.com/nvidia-settings-rc http://nathaniel.homier.googlepages.com/xorg.conf Overall impressions. Overall It don't feel or look to different from 0.9.10. there are a few nice little touches here and there. The new aircraft are what really floats my boat. I think that you would have to be a real pilot or very experienced virtual pilot to notice the fdm improvements. Basically all I notice are the slight visual improvements in the default scenery and aircraft. The new menu options are pretty good such as chat and my favorite new one view selector. Overall visually it's a very slight improvement over 0.9.10 and yes I am aware of the fact to make it visually like X-Plane 9 or MFSX would be a absolute fps killer, which is what I don't want. Sound wise it's no improvement and in my personal experience it's degraded compared with 0.9.10. The HUD is degraded compared with 0.9.10. loading times are the same. The chat and updated joystick XML are nice touches though. Under the hood I have no comment on that as I don't know anything about under the hood. Anyway a lukewarm congratulation on a somewhat disappointing buggy 1.0.0 release. Nate ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
