Hi, ..in http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/ you state: "Everyone is encouraged to send me any feedback or point out my stupid mistakes via email."
..on your stupid mistakes: ;-) ..a: Below "2. Tutorials and Other Documents", you link to "2. FlightGear Display Module - Initial Analysis 3. How-to: Adding 3D Aircraft Models into FlightGear, by Rick George and Stephen Burns 4. How-to: Adding static objects (buildings) into FlightGear scenery 5. Simple user input configuration in FlightGear 6. How to add your own flight dynamics model (FDM) to control an aircraft, by Clarence Bakirtzidis 7. Documentation for a aircraft configuration frontend tool for FlightGear 8. The team's final report: Contains all the findings on FlightGear" ...in an unreadable-for-web-browsers doc format, and... "9. Team presentation slides" in an unreadable-for-web-browsers ppt file format. I believe these files can be easily converted to html and png or jpg format. Please elevate these files to the same high web site standard as in beautiful http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/ . :-) ..b: You started from our 0.7.10 tarballs instead of our cvs trees. Our cvs trees gives full access to our development code and docs, as soon as it is (re)written and committed to cvs. Your choise effectively denied yourselves easy access to FG improvements. ..imho, the _only_ _good_ reason to start from a FG tarball, is to _fork_ FG, because you _disagree_ with the development going on in cvs, and _instead_ want to do something _else_, working from the FG codebase in the tarball you _choose_ to start from. This is a perfectly legal option under the GPL and a perfectly valid reason to fork. ..and, we get to pick the very best parts of your fork, back into FG, just like you think you did from 0.7.10 into your fork. ;-) We of course are interested in your FG modifications, url? :-) ..(my own first script bit of FG code is going to be an automagic install-or-update-everything-in-FG-from-cvs, unless someone beats me to it. Naw, first get that damned vpn server out the door and set up in my client's net, then do my about-damned-time thing.) ..1: Feedback on http://www.dlsproductions.com/fg/#results : I don't understand your reflections nor your conclusions below: "However, the extensiveness of FlightGear's features is also its downside. " ..??? Why? How? "Some aspects of the system are poorly documented, and the supporting tools need a lot more improvement (for example, the terrain editors)." ..FG _is_ under development. ;-) 0.7.10 is history, try our cvs. "Like in many open-sourced projects, the source code for FlightGear takes quite a bit of effort to understand, and it shows the fact that apart from the developers themselves very few people would be able to spend the time to do any extensive modification." ..this can of course be improved, this is a product of your own background and that of whoever wrote the piece of code you read, and try to understand how it works if it does, and how the coder meant it to work (regardless of how it actually works), and of course a good choise of coding style, philosophy and strategy, tools etc, helps, and vice versa. ;-) "In conclusion, the FlightGear flight simulator is a very nice flight sim package that offers great features (for free), but very poor extensibility "... ..??? We network, we have several fdm's, ok, we don't shoot yet, so Michael Selig networked with one sim that does shoot, for this TV show: http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsolvedhistory/redbaron/redbaron.html ...what extensibility is missing??? ..." with very few user-friendly tools and source code that is geared towards a particular operating system (Linux) instead of being truly cross-platform." ..chances are people tend to go for the superior tool setup, basing their choise on each systems merits. ;-) Ok, I like it, but, _how_ is our source code geared towards linux??? "For the purposes of modifying FlightGear for other types of simulations or for virtual prototyping, I recommend choosing a different software package." ..??? Which software package _did_ you use, and why and what do you ask for from a better software package to modify FG??? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
