On Sunday 26 December 2004 07:14, Paul Surgeon wrote: > How does it work? > Do the aircraft follow taxiways and park at gates or ramp designations?
That's the ultimate goal. For the current code, ie. for testing, I created an xml file containing parking location and orientation information, which I converted from MS FlightSim (from project afcaddata) , using an exsiting bgl decompiler. Since the decompiler output was in xml format, reading it in to FlightGear was pretty trivial. I haven't implimented taxiway routing yet, so right now, each aircraft taxies straight from the gate to the active runway. I bet you can guess what my next logical move will be. :-) I still need to update the gate assignment and release logic a bit more, and also need to split the flight plan generation code, so that parking spots are not assigned until at the last minute. > > BTW : I see that the X-plane apt.dat file allows startup locations (for > things like gate numbers, ramps, helipads) as of version 7.01 and up. > Ah, that's good news. I didn't know yet, but it sounds like we should use this info in the future. Cheers, Durk _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
