Hi Chris, Flightgear will already visualize external data, I've done it, just not that often or recently and I can't remember the steps. Have a look at Docs/readme.IO and Docs/readme.protocol and look at the prewritten protocol files in Protocol/
Ron On Wednesday 17 April 2013 02:31:21 Christopher Fourie wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > My name is Chris Fourie - I'm a master's student in control engineering. My > work is in control systems for the autonomous flight of aircraft (primarily > helicopters). > > We do most of our simulations in MATLAB and a few other things, and I'm > looking for a good way to visualize the data that I generate in simulation. > I'm hoping to use flight gear - I have the source code but I'm struggling > to work out how everything fits together without detailed documentation. > > I'm looking to modify flightgear so that I'm able to set up a simulation > environment (using UDP for online simulation) as well as use it for offline > simulation (watching trajectories and motion using offline data that I've > generated). I need to set up environments with static landing points as > well as with moving platforms (eg. aircraft carriers) to ensure that the > systems we design work. > > I'm a bit at a loss as to where to start - I don't have that much > experience in graphics programming (not that I'm unwilling to learn though, > its really interesting) and I can't seem to find detailed information on > how everything in the code fits together. > > Is there any one that may have the time to help me or point me in the right > direction? > > Many thanks, > > Chris Fourie > ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies > and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at > http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 > 21 650 9111. This e-mail is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is > addressed. If the e-mail has reached you in error, please notify the > author. If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail you may not > use, disclose, copy, redirect or print the content. If this e-mail is not > related to the business of UCT it is sent by the sender in the sender's > individual capacity. ### ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
