On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Curtis Olson wrote: > Now on to my hairbrained idea ... (?) I wonder if this MP model could > communicate new locations through the generic MP fields, such that everyone > could pick up the changes. Perhaps we would have a nasal script that > watches when specific fields change and launch a new chunk of fire at that > location? This way the MP forest fire object could (hopefully?) change and > expand dynamically and everyone would see the same view. I'm envisioning > some sort of dynamic communication protocol that might even be able to > delete or move portions of the fire as the fire progresses. > Would any of this be doable in our OSG version? Would anyone want to mess > with it? Maybe the machine that hosts the source version of the fire could > have a dialog box where you could control the fire ... maybe specify > direction of wind or movement, aggressiveness of the fire, maybe even > someday get smarter about terrain, etc.?
I thought about making a cellular automata model of a forest fire some time back, but never got around to actually implement anything. At that point I was thinking about using the OSG fire object from the payen-pa100 aircraft. For communication I was considering sending the start event over MP and then hope that identical propagation rules would lead to nearly identical states (that is a bit optimistic, though :). I might take a second look at this. In any case it is fairly easy to send object creation events over MP - the latest version of my Submarine Scout blimp exports submodel impacts over MP. (http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/JSBSim-LTA) Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam mail: anders(at)gidenstam.org WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
