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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
