----- Original Message ----- From: "VS Renganathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Urgent: Network and external flight model
> Roman, > > >but I think that for IGs - best is multicast (no delays between channels) > > Theoretically speaking, yes. But practically what delays are we talking > about even with a 10 Mbps dedicated network. We will be fast enough for > realtime. Synchronisation problems would not happen at the network level but > could happen at the tile-loading/culling/rendering stages of each IG **if** > no. of polygons/textures are different for each IG (or view). > Yes multicast can certainly be useful, like httpd, for remote IGs but not > for local IGs around a dedicated network. With it I could perhaps join your > multicast group half way round the globe and watch you fly, bandwidth > permitting. > > Regards > Ranga Ranga, implement multicast it's no problem and it will better then simple udp connection of cause number of poligon affected on framerate but if you implement blocking multicast udp connection all IG waits until packet arrived and we have practically comstant frame rate > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan > > Polley > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:16 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Urgent: Network and external flight > > model > > > > > > David, > > > > At work, I run a proprietary FDM on a Sun Workstation and feed the > > data to FlightGear. I use the '--fdm=external' and '--native_fdm=...' > > options (--native_fmd= uses the same parameters as --native). I did > > make some changes to Network/native_fdm.cxx to properly manage the > > byte-order issues, but it works like a champ. IMHO, --native_fdm= has a > > cleaner interface than does --native=. To see the data structure that > > the FDM needs to generate, look in Network/raw_fdm.hxx. > > > > Jonathan Polley > > > > p.s. I have submitted my edits. > > > > On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 06:37 PM, David Findlay wrote: > > > > > Just checking a couple of details - you can run an external flight > > > model on a > > > machine other than the one running FGFS right? Thanks, > > > > > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
