Georg Vollnhals
> Hi,
> 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.
> But either I am blind *or* any "unknown" aircraft has no visible
> counterpart in FlightGear. I even switched to the outside view when
> flying (what I avoid when seriously flying) but could not identify the
> other a/c though Pigeon's map showed me nearby.
>
> My question is whether there is any display of a "generic" aircraft in
> FlightGear when someones logs into multiplayer with an unknown aircraft
> name? If you fly a new added aircraft in multiplayer (ie as the F80
> Shooting Star) can other user with older versions of CVS or the Win
> binaries of 0.9.9 see you ("placeholder a/c"?).
>
> Otherwise it should be added that an unknown aircraft ("name") is
> displayed by a default visible model in multiplayer mode.
>
> Or should I buy new glasses?
>
> D-CROW, could *you* see *me* (Bo105 helicopter, morning of 7.1.2006,
> east of EDDW)?
>
Right now if there isn't the correct aircraft in your local inventory,
nothing is displayed. This might not be the best way of doing it, but for
now that's the way it is.
Mind you - I can't see the point of using MP with an aircraft which is not
generally available i.e. in cvs. In general to use mp successfully you need
the complete download from cvs
Vivian
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