On 2/3/04 at 11:33 PM Matthew Law wrote:
>I checked out the traffic at KEMT last weekend. Good job, Dave! > Thanks! >I went for a ride toward the mountains and came back a while later. It >was just like a busy Sunday at EGNF - I couldn't squeeze into the circuit >anywhere. In real life you don't get away with flying through the other >guys to land where you please ;-) They're not meant to be that dense, honest :-) I think the problem with KEMT is that it's the only airport with proper exits and taxiways defined, but these are defined for the ends of the runway only. In real life one can apparently turn off the runway at any point (avoiding lights) as soon as the landing roll is finished (and indeed is encouraged to), but I didn't realise that at the time. Hence the AI aircraft taxi to the end of the runway bl&%dy slowly, and all the other traffic winds up going around and flying the circuit before eventually getting to do their own slow march down the track, thus perpetuating the situation. At the other airports AI traffic is removed at the end of the landing roll, thus largly avoiding queueing and going around. There could be some screwy stuff going on with the random number generation though - Melchior has reported a whole convoy of aircraft near KCCR in the bay area before, but I've not been able to reproduce it yet. FWIW, --prop:"/sim/ai-traffic/level"=1 will drop the traffic level. (1 = light, 2 = default, 3 = dense). >I'm sure a simple collision detection >(i.e. two aircraft models touch in flight) would be beneficial here >enabled via the properties or something..? > I've got a horrible feeling that there's nothing simple about collision detection ;-) The current code is *very* beta. My current feeling is that the best thing to tune first is better in-air separation - getting the AI planes to extend the downwind to avoid the user and other AI on straight-in's, and varying speed on straight-in and circuit to avoid overtaking the user, and to gradually open up over-small separations. Also traffic warnings from tower to user. Collision detection between 3D models isn't really my thing! > >PS: I've already ordered a new Radeon 9600XT card. Then I read the >problems some people are having on linux with them so I'd better cross my >fingers. > I would be *extremely* interested in your experiences on Linux with this card. They really look to be the best bang for the buck at the moment, but the uncertaintly over reliable ATI drivers on Linux is putting me off. Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
