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

[Lars T. <de...@lt...>]

@Isaak: There is a ground clipping so the aircrafts should normally on the
ground. As it seems that some AI aircraft models in FGData has their origin
not near the wheels they stuck inside the ground but I already thinking
about a solution.

 

@James: Dbus is used for connection to swift (perhaps used differently than
normal but this is the same architecture they are using for their Xplane
plugin). I already added the libevent and dbus to FG cmake and for me it
worked well (tested on win only so far). The swift team has included the
header files and precompiled libs/dlls for dbus. Maybe this would be a
possibility?

 

Best regards

Lars

 

 

Von: Isaak Dieleman <isa...@kl...> 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. März 2019 10:12
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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 < <mailto:de...@lt...> de...@lt...> 
Verzonden: woensdag 6 maart 2019 9:27
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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/flightgear/merge-requests/154/
*	 <https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/merge-requests/136/>
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>
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