Gene Buckle wrote: > My thought is that a real-time "model wrench" might make it easier for > people to develop or improve aircraft models. > > I imagine it would save a _lot_ of time if the "edit parameter file, > run fgfs, test, re-edit" cycle could be reduced to "run fgfs, tweak > in-flight, dump new parameter file".
Ah, got it. Actually, that feature could be expressed as simply as "make YASim load its configuration out of the property tree like everything else does". Then you'd just change the properties using whatever interface you want and select "reset" from the menu. This is definitely the way it should work. I've been slow to do it only out of laziness. Re-writing the existing aircraft definitions in "property XML" would be a pain. You're right, the N second pause for the solver would be just fine for this application. I was thinking you wanted to do something like variable-camber wings or whatnot and needed realtime control over things that are currently constants to the solver. Although it's worth pointing out that the command line "yasim" program goes a long way toward reducing the tedium involved with getting an aircraft in the air. Most of the big configuration bugs can be found and fixed before you ever run fgfs, although admittedly interpreting the solution report takes a little practice. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
