[Flightgear-devel] Coordinate system in multiplayer protocol

2003-08-03 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
Hi I am trying to use Flightgear as a GUI for an air traffic simulator. I use the CVS head and the multiplayer mode (--multiplay=in,10,,5500) on a gnu/linux intel box. I though the positions were in meters in a geocentric frame. When i start in the default position KSFO:28L (-122.358,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Networking

2003-08-03 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
Is UDP good enough for network gaming? Absolutely. IMO, UDP is the only thing good enough for online, real time gaming. To answer a few questions, the --multiplay code uses only UDP. I believe there is another effort going on that uses TCP and a central server to provide multiplay

[Flightgear-devel] RE: Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-06 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
Hey all, Sorry for coming in late on this, but I can clear a few things up. Regarding multiplay, even though my lan's 100mb and the lan loading is pretty light, the 'other' a/c jump around a lot when I get close them. What is the most likely cause of this? Yep, this is simply an artifact

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer

2003-03-20 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
I don't know that network-olk ever really worked, so if this new multiplayer code has any sort of basic functionality we could probably just remove the olk code. If any one needs it for anything, it will always be available in past versions. Regards, Curt. We actually did manage to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer code download

2003-03-04 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
If it's larger than, say, 10Kb we prefer an URL to download it ourselves. Ok, I've put a tgz file and some basic instructions at http://flightgear.tysonfamily.net/ If there is a Sim Gear guru looking for something to do, our loading/unloading multiplayer models needs attention. Our unload

RE: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-04 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
From memory, a 747-400, on a long haul flight would typically climb initially to somewhere around FL290-FL350. After a couple of hours of burning fuel, they would probably request somewhere from FL350-FL410. Reported cruise speed of anywhere from M.82 - M.86. Of course it's all highly variable