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%% getstart.tex -- Flight Gear documentation: Installation and Getting Started
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%% Chapter file
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%% Written by Michael Basler, started September 1998.
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%% Copyright (C) 1999 Michael Basler (pmb@knUUt.de)
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%% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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%% modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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%% published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
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%% License, or (at your option) any later version.
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%% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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%% WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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%% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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%% General Public License for more details.
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%% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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%% along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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%% Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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%% $Id: getstart.tex,v 0.12 1999/03/07 michael
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%% (Log is kept at end of this file)
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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\chapter{Landing: Some further thoughts before leaving the plane\label{landing}}
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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\markboth{\thechapter.\hspace*{1mm}
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LANDING}{\thesection\hspace*{1mm} THOSE, WHO DID THE WORK}
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\section{Those, who did the work}
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Did you enjoy the flight? In case you did, don't forget those who devoted hundreds of
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hours to that project. All of this work is done on a voluntary basis within spare time,
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thus bare with the \Index{programmers} in case something does not work the way you want
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it to. Instead, sit down and write them a kind (!) letter proposing what to change.
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Alternatively, you can subscribe to the \FlightGear \Index{mailing lists} and contribute
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your thoughts there. Instructions to do so can be found under
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\web{http://www.flightgear.org/mail.html}.
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Essentially there are two lists, one of which being mainly for the developers and the
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other one for users.
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\noindent
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These are the people who did the job (This information was
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essentially taken from the file \texttt{Thanks} accompanying the
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code):
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\medskip
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\noindent Raul Alonzo\index{Alonzo, Raul} (\mail{amil@las.es})\\ Author of Ssystem and
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moon texture.
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\medskip
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\noindent Michele America\index{America, Michele}
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(\mail{nomimarketing@mail.telepac.pt})\\
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Contributed to the \Index{HUD} code.
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\medskip
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\noindent Steve Baker\index{Baker, Steve} (\mail{sjbaker@hti.com})\\
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Author of \Index{PUI} (a graphical interface written entirely on top of
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\Index{OpenGL}/\-\Index{GLUT}). Author of the basic
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\Index{audio library} used in \FlightGear. An immense amount of coaching and tutelage,
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both on the subjects of flight simulation and \Index{OpenGL}. It has been
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his comments and thoughts that have prompted the implementation of
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most of the more sophisticated features of \FlightGear{\hspace{-2mm}}.
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\medskip
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\noindent Michael Basler\index{Basler, Michael} (\mail{pmb@knUUt.de})\\
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Coauthor of Installation and Getting Started (together with Bernhard
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Buckel).
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\medskip
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\noindent John S. Berndt\index{Berndt, John, S.} (\mail{jsb@hal-pc.org})\\
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Working on a complete C++rewrite/reimplimentation of the core FDM.
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Initially he is using X15 data to test his code, but once things are
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all in place we should be able to simulator arbitrary aircraft.
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\medskip
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\noindent Paul Bleisch\index{Bleisch, Paul} (\mail{pbleisch@acm.org})\\
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Paul redid the debug system so that it would be much more
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flexible, so it could be easily disabled for production system, and
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so that messages for certain subsystems could be selectively
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enabled.
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Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
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system.
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\medskip
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\noindent Jim Brennan\index{Brennan, Jim} (\mail{jjb@foothill.net})\\
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Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear.
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\medskip
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\noindent Bernie Bright\index{Bright, Bernie} (\mail{bbright@c031.aone.net.au})\\
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Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements, STL
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portability and much, much more.
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\medskip
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\noindent Bernhard H. Buckel\index{Buckel, Bernhard H.}
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(\mail{buckel@wmad95.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de})\\
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Contributed the README.Linux. Coauthor of Installation
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and Getting Started (together with Michael Basler).
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\noindent Gene Buckle\index{Buckle, Gene} (\mail{geneb@nwlink.com})\\
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Gene has done a lot of work getting \FlightGear to compile with the \Index{MSVC}++
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compiler. Numerous hints on detailed improvements.
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\noindent Didier Chauveau\index{Chauveau, Didier} (\mail{chauveau@math.univ-mlv.fr})\\
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Provided some initial code to parse the 30 arcsec DEM files found at:
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\web{http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html}.
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\noindent Jean-Francois Doue\index{Doue, Jean-Francois}\\
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Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
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Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
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\href{http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html}{http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public\_html/topics/developers.html}.
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\noindent Francine Evans\index{Evans, Francine} (\mail{evans@cs.sunysb.edu})
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\href{http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~evans/stripe.html}{http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/\~{}evans/stripe.html}
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\noindent
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Wrote the GPL'd tri-striper.
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\noindent Oscar Everitt\index{Everitt, Oscar} (\mail{bigoc@premier.net})\\
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Created single engine piston engine sounds as part of an F4U package
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for \Index{FS98}. They are pretty cool and Oscar was happy to contribute
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them to our little project.
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\noindent Jean-loup Gailly\index{Gailly, Jean-loup} and Mark Adler\index{Adler, Mark}
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(\mail{zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov})\\
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Authors of the \Index{zlib library}. Used for on-the-fly compression and
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decompression routines,
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\web{http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/}.
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\noindent Thomas Gellekum\index{Gellekum, Thomas} (\mail{tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de})\\
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Changes and updates for compiling on \Index{FreeBSD}.
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\noindent Jeff Goeke-Smith\index{Goeke-Smith, Jeff} (\mail{jgoeke@voyager.net})\\
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Contributed our first \Index{autopilot} (Heading Hold).
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Better autoconf check for external timezone/daylight variables.
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\noindent Michael I. Gold\index{Gold, Michael, I.} (\mail{gold@puck.asd.sgi.com})\\
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Patiently answered questions on \Index{OpenGL}.
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\noindent Charlie Hotchkiss\index{Hotchkiss, Charlie}
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(\mail{chotchkiss@namg.us.anritsu.com})\\ Worked on improving and enhancing the
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\Index{HUD} code. Lots of code style tips and code tweaks\ldots
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\noindent Bruce Jackson\index{Jackson, Bruce} (NASA) (\mail{e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov})
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\web{http://agcbwww.larc.nasa.gov/People/ebj.html}
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Developed the \Index{LaRCsim} code under funding by NASA which we use to provide the
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flight model. Bruce has patiently answered many, many questions.
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\noindent Tom Knienieder\index{Knienieder, Tom} (\mail{knienieder@ms.netwing.at})\\
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Ported Steve Bakers's audio library\index{audio library} to Win32.
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\noindent Reto Koradi\index{Koradi, Reto} (\mail{kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch})
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\href{\web{http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor}}{\web{http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/\~{}kor}}
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Helped with setting up \Index{fog effects}.
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\noindent Bob Kuehne\index{Kuehne, Bob} (\mail{rpk@sgi.com})\\
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Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
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\noindent Vasily Lewis\index{Lewis, Vasily} (\mail{vlewis@woodsoup.org})
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\web{http://www.woodsoup.org}
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Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
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project could have real home. This includes web services, ftp
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services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
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\noindent Eric Mitchell\index{Mitchell, Eric} (\mail{mitchell@mars.ark.com})\\
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Contributed some topnotch scenery \Index{textures}.
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\noindent Anders Morken\index{Morken, Anders} (\mail{amrken@online.no})\\
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Maintains the European mirror of the \FlightGear web pages.
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\noindent Alan Murta\index{Murta, Alan} (\mail{amurta@cs.man.ac.uk})
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\web{http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/}
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Created the Generic Polygon Clipping library.
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\noindent Curt Olson\index{Olson, Curt} (\mail{curt@flightgear.org})\\
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Primary organization of the project. First implementation
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and modifications based on \Index{LaRCsim}. Besides putting together all
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the pieces provided by others mainly concentrating on the \Index{scenery
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engine} as well as the graphics stuff.
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\noindent Friedemann Reinhard\index{Reinhard, Friedemann}
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(\mail{mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de})\\
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Development of textured instrument \Index{panel}.
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\noindent Petter Reinholdtsen\index{Reinholdtsen, Petter} (\mail{pere@games.no})\\
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Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
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This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
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UNIX-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
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environments since they don't use the UNIX make system.
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\noindent William Riley\index{Riley, William} (\mail{riley@technologist.com})\\
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Contributed code to add ''brakes''.
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\noindent Paul Schlyter\index{Schlyter, Paul} (\mail{pausch@saaf.se})\\
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Provided Durk Talsma with all the information he needed to write the astro code.
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\noindent Chris Schoeneman\index{Schoenemann, Chris} (\mail{crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com})\\
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Contributed ideas on audio support.
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\noindent Jonathan R Shewchuk\index{Shewchuk, Jonathan}
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(\mail{Jonathan\_R\_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu})\\
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Author of the Triangle\index{triangle program} program. Triangle
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is used to calculate the Delauney triangulation of our irregular terrain.
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\noindent Gordan Sikic\index{Sikic, Gordan} (\mail{gsikic@public.srce.hr})\\
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Contributed a \Index{Cherokee flight model} for \Index{LaRCsim}. Currently is not
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working and needs to be debugged. Use configure
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to build the cherokee instead of the \Index{Navion}.
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\noindent Michael Smith\index{Smith, Michael} (\mail{msmith99@flash.net})\\
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Contributed cockpit graphics, 3d models, logos, and other images.
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Project Bonanza
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\web{http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html}.
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\Index{U.\,S. Geological Survey}
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\web{http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html}
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Provided geographic data used by this project.
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\noindent Durk Talsma\index{Talsma, Durk} (\mail{pn\_talsma@macmail.psy.uva.nl})\\
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Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets. Sun changes color based on
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position in sky. Moon has correct phase and blends well into the
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sky. Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
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\noindent Gary R. Van Sickle\index{van Sickle, Gary R.}
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(\mail{tiberius@braemarinc.com})\\
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Contributed some initial \Index{GameGLUT} support and other fixes.
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\noindent Norman Vine\index{Vine, Norman} (\mail{nhv@laserplot.com})\\
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Many performance optimizations throughout the code. Many contributions
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and much advice for the scenery generation section. Lots of Windows
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related contributions.
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\noindent Carmelo Volpe\index{Volpe, Carmelo} (\mail{carmelo.volpe@csb.ki.se})\\
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Porting \FlightGear to the \Index{Metro Works} development environment
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(PC/Mac).
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\noindent Robert Allan Zeh\index{Zeh, Allan} (\mail{raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM})\\
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Helped tremendously in figuring out the \Index{Cygnus} Win32 compiler and
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how to link with .dll's. Without him the first run-able Win32
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\section{What remains to be done}
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At first: If you read (and, maybe, followed) this guide until this
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point you may probably agree that \FlightGear\hspace{-2mm}, even
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in its present state, is not at all for the birds. It is already a
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flight simulator which has a flight model, a plane, terrain
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scenery, texturing and simple controls.
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Despite, \FlightGear needs -- and gets -- further development. Except internal tweakings,
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there are several fields where \FlightGear needs basics improvement and development.
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A first direction is adding \Index{airports}, streets, rivers and
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all that bringing the Scenery to real life.
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Second, the \Index{panel} (being disabled by default at present)
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needs further improvement including more working gauges.
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Besides, there should be support for adding more \Index{planes}
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and for implementing corresponding flight models differing from
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the basic \Index{Navion}.
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Another major task is further implementation of the \Index{menu
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system}, which at its present state basically does nothing.
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Another direction concerns \Index{audio support}. While the audio
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library itself is essentially complete there is a need for more
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sounds to play and for code to drive it.
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There are already people working in all of these directions. But if you're a programmer
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and think you can contribute, you are invited to do so.
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\subsection*{Achnowledgements}
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Obviously this document could not have been written without all
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those contributors mentioned above making \FlightGear a reality.
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Beyond this we would like to say special thanks to Curt
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Olson,\index{Olson, Curt} whose numerous scattered Readmes,
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Thanks, Webpages, and personal eMails were of special help to us
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and were freely exploited in the making of this booklet.
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Further, we would like to thank Kai Troester\index{Troester, Kai} for donating the
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solution of some of his compile problems to our Chapter \ref{missed}.
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In addition, we would like to thank Steve Baker\index{Baker,
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Steve} for a careful reading and for numerous hints on the first
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draft of this guide.
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In addition we gained from hints given to Newcomers on the Mailing lists, notably from
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those given by Norman Vine \index{Vine, Norman}, to name only one.
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%% Revision 0.00 1998/09/08 michael
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%% Initial revision for version 0.53.
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%% Revision 0.01 1998/09/20 michael
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%% several extensions and corrections
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%% revision 0.10 1998/10/01 michael
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%% final proofreading for release
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%% revision 0.11 1998/11/01 michael
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%% corrections on audio library, getting started
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%% revision 0.12 1999/03/07 michael
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%% Updated Credits
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