Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some new AI screenshots

[Darko T. <td...@pt...>]

Hi all,

What is the main goal of AI subsystem traffic pattern, do you plan the
traffic pattern to be the realistic one, or random airliner flights to
random destinaton?

Google Earth and TaxiDraw connection is a jackpot :)

Regards,
Darko T.

Durk Talsma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In keeping with my tradition of tracking the AI developments in screenshots, 
> I've just added a few new ones to the gallery.
>
> The new section starts here:
> http://durktalsma.xs4all.nl/FlightGear/web/59.html
>
> I've been working on building ground networks for a number of major airports, 
> and have been improving the existing AI code in FlightGear. Some of the new 
> ground network have been pretty tough on the AI code. Especially those for 
> KATL (Atlanta Harstfield) and LFPG (Paris, Charles de Gaulle; no screenshots 
> yet btw) have put the route tracing algorithm pretty heavily to the test, 
> I've modified the flightgear code (not yet committed) to strike a balance 
> between finding the perfect route and limiting execution time. The heaviest 
> searches still result in noticeable pauses though, so I'm thinking about 
> alternative approaches (either caching the results, or going multithreading, 
> or some thing along those lines). 
>
> I'm currently also testing improved versions of the ATC "Hold Position" and 
> "Adjust Speed" instructions that I had committed earlier, in a rather rough 
> format. The normal development cycle was interrupted due to the need to fix a 
> rather urgent memory problem, which also sneaked in some code that (in 
> retrospect) wasn't quite ready yet. As far as I can tell, most of the 
> outstanding issues that should have been addressed in my previous commit are 
> fixed now. I'm testing the code a bit more and try to commit it to CVS around 
> the end of the week.
>
> As for the ground networks, I'm probably going to release the intermediate 
> versions on my own AI page, but will hold back on an official release until 
> I'm a bit further down the line.
>
> Cheers,
> Durk
>
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