Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mentioned in The Register - MSFS Add-on makers looking elsewhere

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:10 AM, LeeE <le...@sp...> wrote:

> Most of the tools required are already built in to FG; it just lacks
> a suitable model animation development UI.  FG obviously can load
> an animate the models, once in an acceptable format, so it's more a
> case of either adding an FG mode and a UI that doesn't require the
> simulation stuff or creating a model animation utility using the
> model handling code already in FG and adding an interface to it.
> Not a trivial job, in terms of time required, but all the model
> loading, visualisation & presentation and animation code already
> exists.



This might be a perfect time for someone to start assembling and developing
a set of tools and instructions for migrating MSFS aircraft over to
FlightGear.  We still don't know for sure what MSFS will ultimately do, but
if someone developed a way to ease the migration of MSFS aircraft over to
FlightGear, I'm sure there would be a tremendous interest right now.

Regards,

Curt.
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