- merge into single 3d model with texture atlas
- add and texture engine tailpipe
- add A6-D lowpoly model (without tanker items) for use as fallback model.
- increase size to be even larger - now it is somewhere between a fighter and a 737 which seems to be reasonable.
- rework geometry, it wasn't quite centered and it was inconsistent; so now both the wings and tail share surfaces.
- change the shape a little to make it a bit more aircraft like.
* new textures for EarthView ( https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=29780&p=289106#p289106 )
* change location of earthview textures to Models/Astro/Textures/*
* change pale_blue_aug_??.png world tiles to Textures/world_??.png
* change clouds_??.png to Textures/clouds_??.png
* change corresponding xml accordingly
Emesary is a simple and efficient class based interobject communcation system to allow decoupled disparate parts of a system to function together without knowing about each. It allows decoupling and removal of dependencies by using notifications to cause actions or to query values.
Emesary is all about decoupling and removing dependecies, and improving the structure of code. Using Emesary you can more easily define the what rather than the how. By using what is essential an event driven system it is easy to add or remove modules, and also for extra modules to be inserted that the rest of the aircraft knows nothing about (e.g. FGCamera or the Walker).
see: http://chateau-logic.com/content/emesary-nasal-implementation-flightgear
Emesary Multiplayer Bridge
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There is also support for transmitting messages over MP which allows models to communicate with each other in a decoupled method using notifications. What happens is that bridged messags simply arrive at the Receive method of recipients in other models on other running instances without the need to do anything special.
see: http://chateau-logic.com/content/emesary-multiplayer-bridge-flightgear
AN/SPN-46 ACLS
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The AN/SPN-46 is an ACLS implementation using Emesary. ACLS is the Navy's version of ILS.
The carriers have all been modified to have an AN/SPN-46 transmitter. The F-14 will be revised shortly to support this; for the F-14 it is a non-breaking change as the F-14 currently uses the TACAN channel and does it's own ACLS calculations. When the F-14 is revised it will mean that when approaching any carrier it is not necessary to retune the TACAN to get ACLS.
The AN/SPN-46 and ARA-63 (receiver) implementations both support the use of channels; but for the moment this is preset to use channel 2.
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