On dimanche 15 février 2009, Nicolas Quijano wrote: > Gerard, you're not getting it : if I want wildfire to spread when I crash a > Crusader, you shouldn't have a say in it, period. > Let me try to explain it from the user's perspective : a user of both the > dev's creation, the simulation, and in this case, your a/c. > > I'm the one piloting the Crusader, and running Flight Gear on my machine. > I do no want you or anyone else to make a sneaky change to a global pref, > be it wildfire or anything else. > If I don't want wildfire, I'll turn it off in the global prefs (and > incidentally, if anyone is counting, it's off ;)) > > It simply makes no sense for you to change my global prefs in one a/c : how > do you know my next session is not wildfire training ? Or that I'm not > going to be filming a bunch of firefighters in the simulation ? > > What's next ? Saving and archiving failures in a an a/c with system wide > effects ? > If I understand this correctly, that means the next time I start the sim, > the fire is off, without any means for me to know so unless I had read > about this here : I'm not your typical user, in that I'm also a > professional software developer and I'm used to fighting with my computer > to get things done, whatever platform I'm using atm. > So I'd look for a solution... > > Imagine how "hiding" a global prefs like that in a a/c FDM config files is > going to make it hard for the average user to know what the hell is going > on with his sim : Flight Gear is already very complex, no need to go out of > our way to make it hard for people to use it. > > I really don't care for the wildfire feature at this time, because it > doesn't align with my current interests, and I have a problem with > uncontrolled eye candy (the game dev with 5 shipped and 10+ cancelled > projects talks here), but that's another story, and it has more to do with > uncontrolled triangle and texture usage... > But that is one of the great things with FGFS : you can still run in MP > while flying in your own instance of the world, with its own particular > config. > It's important to realize that making that kind of change within the a/c > has farther ranging effects than you seem to realize. > > First impressions are often the only impression (don't I know it ;)), and > this doesn't help a new user to truly gauge the possibilities of the > program if there are plenty of little sneaky settings like that. > It makes FGFS look messy to the outsider, and consumed by petty bickering. > > If it's a problem of language, I'll be happy to write this in my native > French :) > > Cheers, and keep working on the beautiful Crusader, > Nic
Thanks for your mail, i have just sent to you a French private mail. -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
