On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 08:39, Erik Hofman wrote: > Josh Babcock wrote: > > > possibly the Colditz glider to follow it. BTW, how come the Colditz > > never made it into CVS, IIRC it's GPL, and I personally thought it was a > > pretty neat little project. Anyway... > > The last message I saw about this subject indicated it wasn't ready for > inclusion. After that it became silent. >
That's because I (the FDM writer) suddenly had to learn how to write Windoze device drivers and ran out of free time! Josh did a great job of the 3D model. The whole thing looks good and flies OK. I wasn't totally sure about the alignment of the 3D model with the reference points for the FDM, but hey, it may not be perfect but it's perfectly usable. I'll be quite happy for the Colditz Glider to be part of 0.9.9 It will benefit from a catapult launch system (apparently the aircraft carriers have such a thing now?). I tried using a short-duration low-powered rocket in the FDM to achieve a similar effect, but never managed to get the coefficients right. Help yourselves at ftp://tallyho.bc.nu/pub/steve/flightgear/colditz_20050908.tgz I can't put in CVS myself: (no permission). If it does go into CVS (or anywhere else) please delete the subdirectories 'Docs/' and 'Images/' because they contain all the research materials I pulled together in order to build the thing in the first place and are not GPL. Similarly, "thumbnail.jpg" in the top directory isn't mine either. Everything else is by me or Josh Babcock and we're both happy that it's GPL. FYI: The 'Images/' directory is every photo of Colditz Castle that I could find on the web. I was wondering if there was enough information there to do a reasonable 3D scenery mockup of the castle to be added to the default FGFS scenery of that corner of Saxony. Never got past the first stages though. Steve. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
