On dimanche 30 novembre 2008, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Durk Talsma wrote: > > I just placed the sources and base package for the pending FlightGear 1.9 > > release on my webserver: > > > > http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/SimGear-1.99.5.tar.gz > > http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/FlightGear-1.99.5.tar.gz > > http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/FlightGear-data-1.99.5.tar.bz2 > > Thanks! > > > Please note that I made an aircraft selection that was based on various > > suggestions made on the list, but that -as far as I'm concerned - this > > selection is not yet final. I've been trying to cut down the total number > > of aircraft in the base package, yet preserve the variety in feature > > richness that we originally had. Based on this, I came to the following > > list: > > > > 777ER : Fairly Complete Airliner > > B1900d : Very complete Commuter jet, Twin Turbo Prop. > > bocian : Our most complete SailPlane > > c17p : Light Single GA; our default aircraft > > dhc2 : Versatile Tail Dagger, with Aerotowing Capability > > Concorde : Supersonic Transport > > Dragonfly : Nice ultralight. > > F14 : Omnipowerful Jet Fighter; has so many features, it is > > very well capable of representing the category "Fighter Jet" > > CitationX : Small Commuter Jet > > SopwithCamel : Historic Aircraft > > UFO : Classified > > Zeppelin NT : Airship > > Zero : WW-II Fighter > > The lack of a helicopter seems like an omission. > > I note that the base package size above is 200MB. > > I did a quick look at the (uncompressed) size in KB of > each of these aircraft, excluding the CVS directories. > > 5564 777-200 > 6208 b1900d > 13528 bocian > 17708 c172p > 6752 dhc2 > 20656 Concorde > 876 Dragonfly > 29428 f-14b > 4360 CitationX > 14464 sopwithCamel > 232 ufo > 2148 ZLT-NT > 3968 A6M2 > > As can be seen, there is a huge variation, and some pretty huge planes. I > would suggest: - Dropping Concorde It is very nice, but also very advanced > for new users. - Replace the Sopwith Camel with the Stampe. The Stampe is > much easier to fly, and saves us 6.5MB - Look at reducing the size of the > c172p. The Liveries directory is 9MB, and each tailplane texture is > currently 1MB. - Adding the bo105. This means we have a helicopter, and the > aircraft is only 3MB in size. > > -Stuart > >
The size and the easy to fly is a question :) Since the models are more and more accurate, since FlightGear is more and more realistic, don't we must answer to the quality first, before to answer to some "game" specifications. For instance, yes, the Stampe is easy to fly but not realistic regarding the FDM. Don't forget we don't make a Game. Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
