Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up - aircraft reorg

[JD Fenech]

I know this is slightly off topic, but what is the possibility of having 
a "one aircraft, one file" type configuration. The idea is basically to 
put all of the requisite files for a particular aircraft into some kind 
of archive file, such as a tarball, and then drop the archives into one 
directory.  Of course, each archive would need some kind of .info file 
in it to tell fg what the aircraft name is, etc. Optimally, a command 
line option would override any faults set in the archive.

Matevz Jekovec wrote:
Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote:

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:29:48 +0200
Matevz Jekovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

For modern military aircrafts, I would make the following hierarchy:
- Fighter (most of F-xx, Rafale, MiG-s, Sukhoi-s)
- Attack (A-10, Harrier, Tornado, Mirage 2000, my J-22, Su-25)
- Bomber (F-117, B-1, B-2, B-52, Iljusin-s)
- Transport-Support (Hercules, Galaxy, KC-10, KC-135, Antonov-s)
- EWS (EC-3? AWACS, Prowler)
- Recon (light, fast, reconaissance aircrafts)
- Trainee (light military aircrafts developed specially for teaching)
   

hum...

The Mirage 2000C is definitely a fighter, whereas the Mirage 2000D would
be a fighter-bomber (is that what you call attack aircraft?), as it does
have air-to-air capacity.
The Mirage F1C was a fighter (no longer in service in France), the F1CT is
an attack aircraft, and the F1CR a reconnaissance aircraft. All of them
can act as fighters as well.
And the Rafale was designed to be a multirole aircraft as well.

Maybe you could make some distinctions among MiG and Sukhoi aircraft...
For instance, the Su-27 was mainly a fighter, until more recent versions
gained air-to-ground capacity, whereas the Su-25 is just an attack
aircraft.
I'm not really criticizing, but I'm saying it's going to be more and more
difficult to sort all these modern aircraft in categories.
 

Yes, of course. I was just giving examples of generaly, which aircrafts 
to put it to folders (why they are there). I think  overall it's not 
hard to categorize aircrafts, but I is no doubtly a must, cause the 
available aircrafts number is drasticly growing. My J-22 A is a version 
which is most widely spread - Fighter-Bomber role aircraft (therefore 
let's say J-22 is an attack aircraft), although variant B is a double 
seater (trainee or a better close air support) and an R variant for 
recon. Anyway, every aircaft does a description of it, usually commented 
in xml wrapper files (what type, how old, development, who uses it, 
history, armement etc.), which should some day be showed in game too (I 
had in mind a "technical library" accessible from the game menu, which 
will show a 3D model of an aircraft, a tree structure data, a 
description, radar symbols etc.)

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