----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Command Options
> John Wojnaroski writes: > > Just uploaded the latest FG 09.3 -- quite a step from 0.7.9 !! > > > > When setting up multiple machines on a network what are the new command line > > parameters to connect master and slave FG machines to generate multiple > > external views? > > > > Which protocol should one use? 'native-ctrls=' or 'native-fdm=' or 'native=' > > ? > > Did a portion of the howto docs on using and specifying the network > > parameters get lost? > > The two protocols compliment each other. Originally they were > designed to communicate with an external FDM. FlightGear would send > native-ctrls to the remote FDM module, and it would reply with > native-fdm data. > > You can sync up visuals by only using native-fdm= since that contains > all the position and orientation information. > > If you also want to syncronize the control inputs (i.e. for animating > the external model) you can add that. This comes in really handy if > you are running the wright flyer on a 5 projector wrap around visual > system. You want to see that big elevator waggling in front of you as > you struggle to stay alive for just a few more seconds. > > > Should the slaves specify --fdm=external or --fdm=null? > > The slaves should use --fdm=null so they don't try to compute their > own positional information. > Okay, that got everything working except.... the command to offset the views left and right. Tried things like: --offset-view=LEFT , offset-view=-50.0, offset-view=RIGHT, offset-view=50.0 and every screen is looking down the runway centerline. Is there an enabling parameter or something required in the preferences.xml file? Works with a very old version of FG but not the latest. The out-the-window view consists of three screens, left, center, and right each with a 50 degree FOV. Is something missing? running the released version of FG-0.9.3 under debian with Nvidia drivers Regards John W _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
