On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:29 +0100, AJ MacLeod wrote:
> 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.  
Yep.. I'm using 0.9.10 ... I actually never thought about trying CVS
yet.. :o .. I'm checking it out a copy as I type.. :-)


> 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.
Ah.. I see.. sounds simple enough..

> 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.
Doesn't seem to exist in 0.9.10 .. least ways I can't find the option..


> In addition, there is working MP radio communcation in the pipeline 
> (http://squonk.abacab.org/dokuwiki/fg_sqawk)
Hmm.. that sounds pretty neat!


> 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/ 
I'll try that.. I am also going to try the CVS version out..


Thanks for the info!

Cheers,

Daniel Pekelharing


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