From: Georg V. <hel...@ar...> - 2006-01-21 22:38:38
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Paul Surgeon schrieb: > > What we really need are more aircraft developers who are willing to get > together and tackle a single aircraft like the MSFS guys do. They typically > work on an aircraft for about 1 to 1.5 years with a core team of about 4 to 6 > people. I know that the development time of the FLY!II Dauphin helicopter was one year+ despite there was a team of several specialists working nearly each day on the aircraft. When we did testing the last 6 months we worked nearly every evening for some hours only for optimizing the stuff which already was finished. This is only possible if you have people who like to do *specialised* work - one doing the flight-modell, one the 3D-stuff, one the art-work (photo and paint) one for the handbook, dokumentation, etc. I learned a lot about "the other world" of FlightGear, there is another structure, not bad, but "alternative" - at least now. And I understand that it is a lot more satisfying to develop the whole stuff yourself, your "professional" work for money already is shared into many specialized tasks, so one does not want that in his free-time. > > However I think it's more to do with the fact that there aren't enough addon > developers in the FG circle mainly due to FG's lack of visual appeal. > X-Plane didn't have much of a following either until the graphics started > improving a lot. Once the eye candy started appearing the addon developers > started arriving in droves. > > Paul > You are right and wrong. One other very lucky thing was that Austin M. gave simple to use tools to the users from the very beginning - Airfoil-maker, Plane-maker, World-maker and simple Briefer tools (at least from version 5.x). User could "click" their own aircraft designs and panels without big technical background. And one other big step forward was the "plug-in-system", very open for developers. I hope that having more simple to use tools might increase user interest and development - but the masses will run into another direction because of more eye-candy and comfort, let them go! Regards Georg EDDW > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Fli...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > |