Hello, First i want to thank you for your great work. Flightgear has made substantial progress in the last months, especially the gui menu, very nice done keep up the good work.
But now i have some questions: 1. I read in the mailinglist devel archive from last month and found a link to a screenshot of Flightgear that had real world buildings from San Francisco. Here's the screenshot of those buildings i am talking about: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/fgfs-emb-02.png Now my question is, what do i need to do to be able to see those buildings in Flightgear (at the moment i use the last stable version 0.9.2). When this feature is only in the cvs version available, what cities with real world buildings can i expect to see in the next stable version (or the one that has that feature)? Is it only San Francicso or are there more cities (that will have real world buildings) in development at the moment? (For example what about Chicago?) 2. As far as i know at the moment i can fly in Flightgear airplanes with piston or jet engines and blimbs. What about helicopters and airships? Will those be supported soon? 3. What about AI controlled airplanes AND ships? It would be great to see some airplanes in the air and ships on the sea in flighgear that fly/drive their routes. Is such a dynamic scenery feature in development? If yes, how long do you expect (in months) will it take to see such feature in a stable version? Will this feature be scalable? In other words, the faster my computer the more ships and airplanes i will be able to see? 4. Citys at night seem to be a problem. Last week i flew over Los Angelas by night in flightgear, but the city was very very dark by night. In realitiy Los Angelas is extremly bright at night. So the question is, is someone working on this? Are their any night city scenery textures in the work including support for brighter ambient light (-> like bright clouds and yellow/orange looking fog and things like that)? 5. The last question is about the gui menu. Flightgear is using the current computer time or the time which is set in the configuration file by default but sometimes i want to change it in flightgear during flight. I know that it is possible to change the day time in the "browse internal properties" menu but it would be great if this feature (selecting the time) is a little better accessible and has its own menu (like the weather menu). Could you change that? Another problem is the Location menu (airport menu). It would be a lot easier if it is possible to choose the airport in a list of airports instead entering its airport id name in a field. But you maybe allready know a huge list of airports isn't better eighter, right, so here's my idea: How would it be when this task is divided into small steps like this example: First you select the continent of a list of all continents. After that you will see a list of countries of that continent where you choose one country. After you have choosen the country you will see a list of city names where you choose one city. And after that you will see a list of available airports that belong to that city. Then you choose the airport you like. So 4 steps to choose an airport of many thousands available: continent -> country -> city -> airport-id or for big countries (like USA): continent -> country -> federal state -> city -> airport-id This way you don't have to know the airport ID and people who just want to fly a little bit around at their home location will have it very easy to find an airport near their home location. So could someone add such an airport selection feature? It would also be nice to choose the starting position (including the high of your airplane) by the degree of latitude and longitude in the location menu. The last thing i found missing in the GUI menu was a menu for selecting another airplane. Changing such things really shouldn't be only possible in the "internal properties" menu. Maybe you could change that too. I would change it on my own but i am not experienced enough to do so, so i can only help with my opinion as a user at the moment. It would be great to here your opinion about those 5 points, especially the airport selection menu i proposed above, thanks. Best Regards, Oliver C. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
