On Saturday 07 January 2006 11:30, Georg Vollnhals wrote:
> today there was D-CROW with a "Sunrise" (UL aircraft??? from the
> speeds) visible in Pigeon's map in the local area and I tried to "greet"
> the player and accompany him a short way with the helo.
Sounds like "Kraehe" from the IRC channel who is working on an aircraft of
that name IIRC...
> My question is whether there is any display of a "generic" aircraft in
> FlightGear when someones logs into multiplayer with an unknown aircraft
> name?
No. This was discussed, as I recall, but would be a hideously bad idea.
Either one uses the default yellow and blue "glider" and ruins the MP
experience that way, or some attempt is made to use a default a/c of roughly
the correct type. This adds yet more complexity to the code and would
require additional work for each a/c to add a category, and could still look
silly. Simply not displaying anything is a very sane idea - if one sees an
interesting model name on the MP map, they should check out the download page
or even CVS to get it for themselves.
Perhaps people testing their own as-yet unavailable models shouldn't use them
on the MP servers, but I'm not really advocating that either - currently the
more names on the map the better as I see it.
> Otherwise it should be added that an unknown aircraft ("name") is
> displayed by a default visible model in multiplayer mode.
Imagine I join up with my not-quite-ready Lightning and you see a Cessna 172
screaming past at mach 2.2... I don't think that could be classed as an
improvement on the current situation :-)
> D-CROW, could *you* see *me* (Bo105 helicopter, morning of 7.1.2006,
> east of EDDW)?
He would have been able to. By the way, I know that Kraehe's model is
available for download (it's under development) as he's posted the url on the
IRC channel a few times. If you are interested in using MP it would be worth
joining us there sometimes as a lot of testing and some (mostly :-)
interesting discussion goes on...
Cheers,
AJ
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