> I would like to request your ideas and wishes for an aircraft AI scripting
> language sufficiently generic in scope to handle piloting any aircraft
> running on FG.
My generalized AI airplanes were originally going to be defined in
preferences.xml (like the ai-tanker), something like this for each instance
desired:
<ai-plane>
<type>prop-transport</type>
<model>Aircraft/DC6/Models/DC6-model.xml</model>
<start-time>2.00</start-time>
<script>Scripts/ai_script01.xml</script>
</ai-plane>
The above would instantiate the plane (or truck, boat), assign it a visual
model, indicate how many minutes into the sim session it should appear, and
indicate the path to this object's script. The script would look like:
<script>
<entry>
<on>
<type>elapsed-time</type>
<value>0.50</value>
</on>
<lat>35.35628</lat>
<lon>125.573899</lon>
<elev>369.5</elev>
<heading>350.0</heading>
</entry>
<entry>
<on>
<type>message</type>
<value>takeoff-you-hoser</value>
</on>
<task>
<type>takeoff</type>
<altitude>5000.0</altitude>
</task>
</entry>
....... and so forth.
The "waypoints" could be triggered by elapsed time, UTC time, reaching a
waypoint, or message. The details of the takeoff would be handled by the
FDM, knowing what speeds and climb rate are suitable for a "prop-transport".
Dave
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