Re: [Flightgear-devel] Include local Aircraft/ folder in fgdata/AI and fgdata/FlightPlan scenario search

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

On 10/24/2017 10:10 AM, James Turner wrote:
> BTW, this is all modulo the fact, that the AI system has pretty low 
> overhead (ignore the traffic system which does a lot of work), whereas 
> hundreds more Nasal objects, could have quite a serious impact. My 
> preference there would be to add a Nasal-C++ object analogous to AIbase 
> which Nasal can control (set motion parameters, etc) but which does its 
> per-frame updates in C++ with no timers or update loops on the Nasal 
> side. (Or even via some PID controllers, so Nasal could set heading / 
> speed / rate-of-climb infrequently but have a ‘NasalAIAircraft’ then run 
> the PIDs and motion updates in C++.

This is why I started the AISim FDM (found under src/FDM/SP for now) but 
unfortunately I did not have time to finish it. Also there is a 
generic-ish autopilot developed which could be used to fill in the 
missing gaps.

Erik


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