RE: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...
Lee Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the shower, thinking about various aspects of FG when I thought, while doing some logical toppling: wouldn't it be fun in multi-player if there was a mode where instead of one player to one aircraft we could have many people to one aircraft, so that several people could crew a single aircraft... Some sort of voice comms would be a must but then think of the tutorial possibilities... It's not too difficult to imagine several people occupying different roles on larger aircraft i.e first second pilot, navigator, flight engineer etc. not to mention the possibilities in combat related simulation. ...anyway, just something to think about. Those busy working on MP are already thinking about this idea. It ought to be possible, although we would have to live with the inherent network latencies involved. We also have a controllable wingman in mind. All this after getting MP working properly, and then comes getting the carrier into MP ... Vivian --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...
Lee Elliott wrote: Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the shower, [...] I know this phenomenon. You typically get the best ideas while being at places where there's no chance to write them down: In the shower, on a boring ride with the car or on the toilet :-) Once you left the very place you have to realize that so many great ideas occurred in the meantime that you can't remember them all :-/ It's not too difficult to imagine several people occupying different roles on larger aircraft i.e first second pilot, navigator, flight engineer etc. Instructor and student !! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...
Martin Spott wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the shower, [...] I know this phenomenon. You typically get the best ideas while being at places where there's no chance to write them down: In the shower, on a boring ride with the car or on the toilet :-) You don't have toilet paper? Once you left the very place you have to realize that so many great ideas occurred in the meantime that you can't remember them all :-/ It's not too difficult to imagine several people occupying different roles on larger aircraft i.e first second pilot, navigator, flight engineer etc. Instructor and student !! Martin. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future feature proposal to think about...
Lee Elliott wrote: Funny where you are sometimes, when ideas occur to you. I was in the shower, thinking about various aspects of FG when I thought, while doing some logical toppling: wouldn't it be fun in multi-player if there was a mode where instead of one player to one aircraft we could have many people to one aircraft, so that several people could crew a single aircraft... Some sort of voice comms would be a must but then think of the tutorial possibilities... It's not too difficult to imagine several people occupying different roles on larger aircraft i.e first second pilot, navigator, flight engineer etc. not to mention the possibilities in combat related simulation. ...anyway, just something to think about. LeeE --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel What would be useful for tutorials is if you could see where the other user is looking, where their mouse pointer is, when they click with what buttons, and where their joystick axises are. Josh --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
