Hi to all! I'm using Kubuntu 10.04 and I've installed Flightgear downloading and compiling the latest git code as suggested here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Scripted_Compilation_on_Linux_Debian/Ubuntu
I would like to use Flightgear as an "Image generator" to visualize the flight data generated by an external simulation. The external simulation will take input data from the joystick and will send to Flightgear the latitude, longitude, altitude above MSL, roll, pitch and heading angles to flight gear and will receive back the altitude above terrain from Flightgear so that to be able to detect ground collision and to perform landing and take offs. As a second phase of the interfacing project I would like to be able to send to flight gear the status and positions of landing gears, control surfaces and so on only to achieve a better visual representation. Moreover I would like to send out from flight gear the multiplayer packet so that to simulate more than an airplane using more computer connected via LAN (each pc will have a running instance of the external simulation and Flightgear and will send multiplayer data to the others). Finally I would like to be able to represent additional "objects" in the scenery like missiles and gun tracers whose position and orientation will be calculated by a function included in each external simulation which however may need to have the return of the altitude above terrain of each sent object. So, I suppose that it should be possible to fix the --fdm option to external (or null?) and send an udp packet to Flightgear containing the needed data, but I don't know: 1) if I have/it's better to use the net_fdm protocol sending all the data or to create a specific protocol 2) how to get back the altitude above terrain from Flightgear 3) how to activate the multiplayer to send data from Flightgear to other "LAN players" 4) how to mange the additional objects (maybe I can send from the each simulation an UDP packet "formatted" like a multiplayer one so that to avoid the necessity to have too much running Flightgear instances. The only problems may be related with time alignment since mpmessanges.hxx require to specify the time and lag and it may be difficult to align the external simulation time with the Flightgear one/ones). Can you help me and give me some hint on how to proceed? Thank you, Xwang PS for the time "issue" is it sufficient to use the time() linux function to populate the time attribute of the mpmessanges.hxx structure? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
