Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, Hi ! First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:49:33AM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: I think it is *theoretically* possible, basically one would need to disable the standard FDMs (flight dynamic models) and let PS1 export the corresponding values via some simple IPC/sockets mechanism - how is this currently done ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:49:33AM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: My current impression is that this might not even be SUCH a big issue, but I may very well be wrong :-) If FG would have a socket somewhere that will eat control data for the position, attitude, and maybe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: If FG would have a socket somewhere that will eat control data for the position, attitude, and maybe some other variables to steer the virtual windshield camera around, this certainly should be easy. We don't want any panel in view, just the forward view (and some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:14:41AM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. You need the airport runway and navaid database to match between FlightGear and PS1. Been there, done that... the major alignment problems between the PS1 database and the MSFS as real as it gets stuff are well-known. We have

[Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-29 Thread Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
Hi guys, First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator (www.aerowinx.com). This is an extremely