On Thursday 05 January 2006 01:54, Christian Mayer wrote: > The school works by simulating an instructor who speaks (via voice and > text) to the "student". He first flys a lesson and then let the student > fly exactly the same commenting everything that goes well and that goes > bad.
That's exactly what I started doing but ... Problem 1 (external app) : Having the training session as a separate network app instead of being integrated into FG is going to put off a lot of less technically minded people. It requires that the user first install Python + pyao + pyogg + pyvorvis. Then they have to install the training packages and try to start FG together with the simulator. I'd much rather code it in Nasal have it part of the FG package itself or as an addon that can be unzipped into the FG tree and run as is. Problem 2 (Nasal approach) : I'd really like to use Nasal but there is no sane way to play audio files via Nasal. Creating hundreds of properties in the property tree tied to audio files isn't a nice solution. Also FlightGear doesn't support Ogg Vorbis files as far as I know and having a lot of audio feedback from the instructor is vital and certainly makes the whole process a lot more realistic and enjoyable. I'm getting a 10:1 reduction in file size using the Ogg Vorbis format on my instructor recordings. Files that are 0.5MB in WAV format compress down to about 35KB in Ogg Vorbis format and I can't tell the difference in quality. At the moment I'm at a standstill trying to figure out what to do. This external app thing is going to become a problem and I don't want to invest a lot of time into it and then have to recode everything in Nasal later. Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
