Cameron,
> What version of FG did he review?
That's (unfortunately) not explicitly stated, but from the screenshots I
suppose (based on the panels and the yellow/blue glider) it's 0.7.9. Someone
with Suse 8.0 might want to check what comes bundled.
> I think this is a fair characterization of FlightGear relative to the
> commercial PC flight sim offerings. We all know the shortcomings of the
> current state of FG, and we're working to remove them -- all of the
> points listed above are being worked on.
:-)
For me as a mostly VFR pilot, the worst field at present is scenery (which
with elevated mesh did pioneer work once). Even a few airports/cities (KSFO,
LAX...) with proper buildings and trees would make a huge difference. I
regret this even more, as a few people started promising work into that
direction and got reasonable results, thus there doesn't seem to be a no-go.
> The main difference between FG and most other flight sims is that we're
> cross-platform, which takes a fair amount of work that these commercial
> outfits don't have to deal with. I hope the review made note of that.
Yes, this point is clearly stated.
> But anyway, no press is bad press, IMO. Maybe some people will read the
> review and want to help out -- I'm pretty sure the commercial flight
> sims can't say that. ;-)
Unfortunately, this is only half true. The number of add-on developers is
strongly dependent on the potential of a simulator. With FS2000, which was
horrible performace-wise, the numer of add-ons considerably dropped over
time.
FS2002 has such a potential that scenery/aircraft designers etc. are legion
now. Some people even have the opinion the add-ons make most of the value of
it. This includes developments like Pete Dawson's FSUIPC.dll which go pretty
deep into the base software. I still think it would be cool if we could find
a way to build a bridge for those guys to make their work available to us
(while I agree we should be careful to avoid licence conflicts).
Sincerely, Michael
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Michael Basler, Jena, Germany
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