Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-Swift (VATSIM) connection

[Isaak D. <isa...@kl...>]

Hi Lars,

I cannot answer your technical questions, but I really cannot wait for swift to be launched: this looks sooo much better than the curren VATSIM solution! Thanks a lot for your work, really looking forward to see it in action!

One thing I 've noticed: when on the ground with the current solution, most of the AI traffic is taxiing about 30-50 feet above the run-/taxiway due to scenery mismatches with other sims. Do you use some sort of ground clipping for traffic on the ground? I do see the AI planes standing on the ground in your video, but I thought it was useful to ask if you had a foolproof solution for that. I do like that finally we see some correct model matching instead of the default Lufthansa A320 that is shown for any aircraft at the moment. Great work!

Thanks a lot!

Isaak

Van: Lars Toenning <de...@lt...>
Verzonden: woensdag 6 maart 2019 9:27
Aan: fli...@li...
Onderwerp: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-Swift (VATSIM) connection

Hi all,
as mentioned some time ago I have now finished the connection module to swift (WIP VATSIM client) and created merge requests:

  *   https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/merge-requests/154/
  *   https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/merge-requests/136/

To show the features I created a small video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5O3tRobYPY

One thing I'm unsure of are the dependencies needed. Currently dbus, libevent and libexpat are needed. Should I put this somewhere in thirdparty repo?


Best regards
Lars