[Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs apt.dat 850 runway support

[Christian S. <ch...@il...>]

Hi there,

i just want to announce that I added support for the 850 apt.dat runways to 
genapts. This work is thought as a compliment to the currently ongoing 
development towards curved taxiways.
The current state is that genapts reads runways and creates them 
accordingly.

Features:
-different designations for both runway ends
-different runway markings for both ends
-all kinds of lights (different where possible in the 850 format)

I was very glad to find already existing definitions for all kinds of new 
approach lights in the source.
Also, the possibility to assign different runway markings to both ends make 
it possible to finally create runways visually correct that are only used 
into one direction (RW 18/36 in EDDF is one example).

I'm currently working on the missing objects like PAPIs/VASIs.

As this is my first programming project, I hope I didn't mess up something 
too bad. The source is available here:
https://gitorious.org/papillon81/terragear-cs/commits/850

I cleaned up quite a bit of the runway markings code and made it more 
flexible. So it should be easier to add a wider variety of runway types in 
the future.

Cheers,
Chris / papillon81