On 12/13/2009 11:29 PM, Durk Talsma wrote: > FWIW, as per previous agreement, I've started investigating how much effort > it > is going to cost to remove the ai-code altogether. There are a few places > where the existing code depends on ATCDCL functions. Isolating these > shouldn't > be too hard.
ATIS, as currently implemented, is in the ATCDCL directory. Having some sort of ATIS is important. I don't mind if the existing code goes away, so long as the feature doesn't go away. =============== As previously discussed, this is part of a bigger issue, namely Airport, Facility, and Environment Services (AFES). For example: -- If two different radios are tuned to the same frequency, we want them to hear exactly the same ATIS, exactly the same IDENT codes, exactly the same ATC chatter, et cetera. Synchronizing this is not too tricky for multiple radios in a given aircraft, but gets tricker for multiple aircraft in the MP environment. -- There are other Airport/Facility features, functions, and services that require consistency, such as the choice of active runway, the decision to turn on runway lighting (including pilot-controlled lighting), the decision to reverse a reversible ILS, et cetera. These decisions affect the ATIS, AI traffic, AI ATC chatter, et cetera. -- Of course we want AI traffic itself to be consistent across the MP environment. -- The same goes for clouds and weather. If there is a wisp of scud over the middle of the airport, all aircraft in the MP environment should see the same wisp of scud. The common thread here is that there is a lot of stuff that happens outside the aircraft. FGFS began life as an aircraft simulator. Some ideas (such as generating IDENT codes from inside navradio.cxx) that made sense in a single, simple aircraft don't make sense in a complex aircraft, let alone a multiplayer environment. I don't expect all this to get sorted all at once ... but it would be nice to have some sort of strategy so that every time this-or-that piece gets upgraded it moves us closer to the goal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
