> All people need to know that 60% (or more... it's approximate) of > aircraft available for flightgear are created by helijah. > More than 80% of them are totaly crappy ! They aren't a good point for > FlightGear project !
I think you're mistaking Flightgear for a commercial project here. Sure, in an ideal world, people would make very realistic aircraft models, combine them with well-researched FDMs and then use all the available technology to model systems. Problem is, very few people combine all these skills (I for instance am not a 3d modeller - while I can see myself coming up with an FDM, I can't see myself do a cockpit). This is where the beauty of open source and a repository comes in - someone can make an aircraft model and commit that without doing much FDM work. It now belongs to the project under GPL. I can use the model in an AI scenario. Someone else can simplify the model and use it to populate an airport with parked aircraft. Yet someone else can pick it up and make an FDM for it. Which we couldn't if it wouldn't have been created and released before. There is no real problem if unfinished work appears in the devel version of Flightgear - that's part of what it's for. I have, on occasion, even asked aircraft modellers if I could have their unfinished work, because I was interested but it wasn't on GIT yet. If you want to blame someone, you have to blame the people who made the decision to make all aircraft in the repository available to the end user as well. But that point has been made a while ago, it has led to discussions about a formalized rating scheme for aircraft, that scheme exists and is being implemented, more and more aircraft are rated, so now the end user is getting a fair chance of knowing in advance if the aircraft he is about to try is finished work or not. > Imagines > a man who don't know FlightGear project : he test 1, 2 ,3 aircrafts by > helijah then he says "pfff all these aircraft are unusable. I leave > FlightGear and I go buy MSFS !" *shrugs* I would assume that the average user is capable of some rational thought. The FG base package comes with hand-picked aircraft, so on your first contact with FG you learn how well they can be made. From there, it's a realization that in open source not every work is equally well done, and a quest looking for the aircraft you like. Which the rating scheme makes a lot easier now. > I'm really convinced the work made by helijah is bad for FlightGear > project. Aircrafts created by helijah aren't realist. So he's a 3d modeller, not an FDM specialist - so what? Does that mean that 3d models are worthless for the project because of that? > It will be good if FlightGear community take conscious of this ! Do you honestly believe that you're the only one who has realized that there's unfinished work in the repository? I mean, seriously? Please, seriously change your perspective in this discussion. Things may have their use even if you can't see that - just try go looking for it then. Cheers, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
