On Friday 30 March 2007 11:10, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > It seems that the multiplayer system only shares info about the physical > position of the planes and not much else.. I notice for example that > other players aircraft tend to either have their landing gear > permanently up or down whether on the runway or in the air.. of course > I've seen that AI aircraft don't tend to have control over this either > so maybe it's more a handicap with the AI system than the multiplayer > protocol? It's not very noticeable all the time though.. only really > with things like > the helicopter which flies whilst its blades are standing still. The MP system shares quite a bit more information than position, including gear position, engine speeds etc. I'm guessing from what you're saying here that you're using 0.9.10 - a lot (though almost certainly not all) of these issues have been tidied up in CVS.
Most of these problems have a very simple cause - leading slashes in the relevant animation xml (e.g. /gear/gear[0]/position-norm instead of gear/gear[0]/position-norm). This means that rather than reading the gear position of that particular MP a/c, the animation code is reading your own gear state. > Other than that the system is great.. the only thing I think it really > needs is some kind of in game chat-box to talk to other players.. would > be great if one could try doing some formation flying or something. :-) That already exists (in CVS at least, can't remember whether it's in 0.9.10). You should enable "show chat messages" on the Rendering Options dialogue and then you can send messages from View/Chat. In addition, there is working MP radio communcation in the pipeline (http://squonk.abacab.org/dokuwiki/fg_sqawk) > Well.. I was more wanting to share my positive experiences on the > multiplayer mode than any negative ones.. :-) Yeah, MP certainly adds a new dimension to FG and I've got so used to it now that I'd really miss it if I had to discontinue using it for whatever reason... If you can't test a CVS build of flightgear, it would be very helpful to take a note of all the aircraft you see gear/control surface problems with, and checking whether they've been fixed in CVS (by removing the leading slash in the relevant animation section.) You can look at the current files here http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/data/Aircraft/ Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
