At 12/18/02, you wrote:
First, I'm glad they did decided to go w/ some of the FlightGear footage. I used that to show the effect of the gyroscopic forces on the aircraft motions.> Just a quick update. I watched this at 8pm local time and it was > really well done. Michael got a lot of face time and there were quite > a few quick snippets showing FlightGear in the background (good job > Michael) :-) The actual simulation run for the test was done in a > different sim, so I guess we'll have to shoot for next time to get > more graphics from FlightGear shown. :-) > I'm watching it right now and it's cool to see them showing FlightGear. It's nice to see something like this done in a non-tabloid fashion.What software was used for the combat?
The flight sim software used for combat (Capt Brown, Manfred von Richthofen, and "Wop" May) was written by Brian Fuesz. It runs under Windows using OpenGL. Where it goes from here, nobody knows. It's code that he has been writing for years, and that's likely to continue. The 3D aircraft models w/ movable surfaces, pilot's heads and rotating rotary engines were done by his 16-yr old son Matthew. A screen grab showing the Red Baron in pursuit of "Wop" May is here: http://aa10.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig
The day of the filming, I had FGFS running on a linux computer. Then there were three more for flying the combat scenario, and three more were used for the display in a dome at Frasca. In other words, the combat simulation was a network-based sim that included the two Sopwith Camels and Fokker Dr.1 as well as the bullets/tracers and collision detection. The dome part (on the show it looks like we are facing a projector screen w/ a fisheye lens) was really neat because with the wideangle view it's like flying in an IMAX Theater where the pilot is at the "focal point". This part of the work is not mentioned on the show.
After working on this project for a good six months, it's finally a relief to see it looking good on TV. It shows again this coming Saturday (Dec 21) and then again on Jan 18 - both around 12 noon.
Regards,
Michael
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