sentences, I was recommended to present the idea on a webpage and ask on the FlightGear mailing list for other opinions - and that's exactly what I am doing now. In short: I am thinking about the possibilites to create an interactive training/lesson addon for FlightGear to illustrate topics such as navigation concepts by using FlightGear as backend. You can find more details at http://flitetutor.sourceforge.net feedback for FlightGear based application concept required Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi ! I would like to have some feedback about an idea for a FlightGear based project that I recently came up with. As the idea is not that easy to describe with one or two sentences, I was recommended to present the idea on a webpage and ask for other opinions on the FlightGear mailing list - and that's exactly what I am doing now. In short: I am thinking about the possibilites to create an interactive training/lesson addon for FlightGear to provide on the one hand interactive help for FlightGear's most essential features but also -even more interesting: to interactively illustrate topics such as navigation concepts by using FlightGear as backend. This project should be based on two parts: a "player" (to be loaded/running within FlightGear) and also an authoring tool to enable easy creation of the training modules for the player. You can find more details at http://flitetutor.sourceforge.net I am currently mainly looking for answers to some of the following questions: - is there demand for an application like this ? - how many people would actually want to use it (if available) ? - how feasible would it be to implement such an application with FlightGear as backend ? and for the developers among you: - is there anything like a general API in order to interface with FlightGear (either externally or as a plugin) ? - has anybody experience with writing similar extensions for FlightGear ? - is there a way to directly access FlightGear's client area (e.g. via PSL) to display custom animations ? - and of course: would anybody like to join the attempt to turn that concept into something useful ? (it's gonna be a spare time project anyway) For simplicity reasons, and also in order not to disturb the mailing list that much, I did also set up a basic forum on the same webpage - just in case this should be more convenient for some of you (there is no need to register in order to post) Any feedback is appreciated - thanks in advance ! regards Boris _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel