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- Fixed the Calibrated Air Speed (CAS) computations for supersonic velocities
- Fixed the Nlf (Normal load factor) sign
- Nlf can now be specified as an initial condition via the property ic/targetNlf
- Added blocking sockets to the input features
- Added a property to piston engines to get the AFR (Air to Fuel Ratio)
- Added conversion from m/s to ft/s
- Restored the initial conditions for engines running (-1 means all engines)
These are the time statistics that are the simulation code, which is basically everything except the rendering.
For a while I've wondered how efficient each of my JSBSim models are, and how much of our valuable frame time is spent on simulation modules.
Ideally the simulation modules should be taking 2-3ms, anything longer indicates a need to consider optimising things more.
These are the new properties that are added by this change:
/sim/rendering/sim-frame-count Number of frames since start (or last time
/sim/rendering/sim-frame-count-reset Reset statistics. Can be useful to reset monitoring after a slow startup
/sim/rendering/sim-host-avg-ms Average amount of time spent in the "simulation" rather than rendering. This attempts to take into consideration the
frame rate throttling but when throttled this figure is less reliable.
/sim/rendering/sim-host-total-ms Total milliseconds since reset
/sim/time/frame-wait-ms Current frame wait to meet throttling rate.
When an explicit aircraft-dir is set, check this location before
checking installed packages. This allows setting —aircraft and
-aircraft-dir to correctly take precedence over a package.
Add better airway support, fix various issues with VIA, and add
parsing / generation of ICAO route strings. Also fix the
serialisation of flight-plans with airway enroute segments, so these
can be restored correctly.
Upcoming flight-planning changes want to use the perf computation code
in route-path, so move it to a public class, and implement some of the
missing functionality, especially correct GS computation for altitude.
Since the subsystem manager tracks group state, it now binds/inits
automatically. This means groups which create subsystems during init
no longer need to manually bind() them.
- I think I've fixed a long standing problem with clicks traveling through windows and bringing the dialog window underneath to the foreground.
- Added /sim/gui/dialogs/current-dialog that contains the name of the currently active (in front) dialog window.
- Changed dialog-open to bring a dialog to the front if it is already open.
Aircraft can now set a /sim/model/fallback-model-index property that is transmitted over the MP network.
Receiving clients use this as an index into AI/Aircraft/fallback_models.xml to determine a model to use if the model path (/sim/model/path) cannot be found under Aircraft or AI/Aircraft. This allows aircraft developers to identify a suitable fallback model to be used for those who do not have their aircraft installed.
As this code has significant bit-rot and requires a lot of work to compile and
run again, it is currently deactivated.
The test also writes to the files "/Users/jmt/Desktop/airways.kml" and
"/Users/jmt/Desktop/procedures.kml" and would need to be modified to write to a
temporary directory and the file contents reread and checked by the test.
The extractBits(), signExtend(), and writeBits() functions of the anonymous
namespace in Input/FGHIDEventInput.cxx have been shifted out of the namespace
and are now exposed via the header. This is needed as
<Input/FGHIDEventInput.cxx> cannot be imported within the CppUnit
infrastructure, as it is already built into the run_test_suite binary.
These include Scenery/{maptest.cxx, test.cxx} and Time/{test_event.c, ttest.c,
win32test.c}. These files, essentially untouched since added in 1999, are not
useful for conversion for the test suite.
The HistoryPopup was caching its contents rather early, and we failed
to tell the model when its underlying data updated. Connect that
through so the history model refreshes also.
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2036/
- Trim reports, FGOutputFG and sockets messages now respond to the debug level
- Channels : fix for incorrect time steps caused by execrate
- Improved configuration error detection in FGSwitch with respect to late bound
- Fixed the ordre in which the components of the p-factor moment are reported in CSV output files.
- Now all the sea level properties from the standard atmosphere are updated along with the other atmosphere properties.
- The properties propulsion/start_cmd and propulsion/cutoff_cmd are now read/write (they were read only before).
Mickael Danilov reported that one cannot send brake commands to /fdm/jsbsim/fcs/{right,left}-brake-cmd-norm since FG overwrites them with /autopilot/autobrake/* properties.
A new property /fdm/jsbsim/systems/override-fg-brake-properties has been added which is set ot false by default to keep the legacy behavior. When set to true, the properties /fdm/jsbsim/fcs/{right,left}-brake-cmd-norm can be modified by the user and will ignore the setting from FlightGear.
Use The Qt 5.6 Shortcut item, but via a conditional file so
we don’t touch the base Qt requirement. (This means no shortcuts
when using Qt 5.4 or 5.5, oh well)
- Air density now takes humidity into account.
- The protocol of input sockets is no longer case sensitive
- Late bounded properties are now cached for better performance.
Allow setting of various secondary location args without
knocking out the main ones. The user arg values still override, but
this allows selecting a runway (for example) and manually setting
altitude / heading / offset if desired.
Categorise arguments to ensure user-specified ones take precedence
over values set by the launcher.
When any positional arg is set, exclude all positional ones from being
set at all, to prevent strange interactions.
This simplifies the launcher's rendering since the widget-based
code is gone, various things get hooked up as a result. Styling
fixes everywhere as well.
Menubar on Linux/Windows needs to be re-added.
* Removed the IAS dependency to the Pitot tube angle (real Pitot tube are less sensitive to AoA than was simulated)
* Removed the class FGUDPOutputSocket which was redundant with FGOutputSocket
* Added a new type of functions "template" which are intended to prevent duplication of functions. For now, they are available to compute output values and script notifications.
* Aerodynamics forces can now be specified in stability axes.
* Density altitude and pressure altitude are computed according to ISA standard atmosphere 1976.
New properties:
* Flight path angle (gamma) in degrees
- fdm/jsbsim/flight-path/gamma-deg
* Aerodynamics forces in stability axes
- fdm/jsbsim/forces/fsx-aero-lbs
- fdm/jsbsim/forces/fsy-aero-lbs
- fdm/jsbsim/forces/fsz-aero-lbs
* Aerodynamics moments in stability axes
- moments/roll-stab-aero-lbsft
- moments/pitch-stab-aero-lbsft
- moments/yaw-stab-aero-lbsft
* Pause JSBSim
- fdm/jsbsim/simulation/pause
* Fixed multiple bugs.
Display a warning when the user tries to set arguments in additional
settings which the launcher will also set / conflict with. Blacklist
is still evolving, and we don’t actually prevent the user from running,
since maybe they are doing something special
At a basic level, the implementation supports two levels of LoD:
FAR from /sim/rendering/static-lod/ai-range-bare to /sim/rendering/static-lod/ai-range-detailed.
NEAR from /sim/rendering/static-lod/ai-range-detailed to 0.
(First of many digressions: If /sim/rendering/static-lod/ai-range-mode-pixel=true then instead of measuring LOD distance in meters, the size of the object in pixels is used, so the ranges are different)
The models that are loaded for FAR and NEAR depend on a combination of the availability of a model in /AI/AIrcraft/ and FG_AIRCRAFT directories.
If /sim/rendering/static-lod/ai-range-detailed=false then an AI aircraft will be used in preference for both NEAR and FAR.
If /sim/rendering/static-lod/ai-range-detailed=true then an AI aircraft will be used for FAR, and an FG_AIRCRAFT for NEAR.
Obviously if only an AI or a FG_AIRCRAFT model are available, that will be used for the entire NEAR+FAR range.
Change delay to 15 seconds; and alert that there is a delay.
The 15 second delay should be sufficient to allow the compressor to finish processing; and in anycase this is running in a thread and therefore shouldn't freeze the whole sim for the delay period.
/sim/multiplay/use-detailed-models can be used to set whether
we will prefer models from Aircraft/ (true) or from AI/ (false).
Default (set in defaults.xml in fgdata) is true.
Fixes a perf issue when opening and closing dialogs which uses
bindings, reported by Michael Danilov - huge thanks for his help
in tracking this down.
This bug was caused by the SGBinding ‘don’t delete properties’ change,
since the PUI code was copying nodes to work-around that problem. With
SGBinding fixed, the copying caused huge numbers of nodes under
/sim/bindings/gui
When releasing the RMB over a PUI dialog, we no longer get stuck in
drag mode due to the buttons map getting out of state. This is slightly
ugly work-around, better fix to follow hopefully (needs better OSG
integration)
Make the policy of using models in FGData/AI more flexible, with the
option to prefer normal data sources. Keep the existing behaviour for
everything except multiplayer aircraft, where we now prefer the data
model (presumably, an installed aircraft) over the AI one.
bool[42] and bool[72] used to have two bits (i.e. transmitted twice). This was not harmful just wasteful.
Mapped the first of the duplicated bits of each of these to new bools at the end of the list. These two properties will not be compatible with pre 2018.2.
If all bools in a block are 0 the block would never be transmitted, i.e. fix a bug whereby each block of 0..30 used to need at least one true value to transmit the block.
This should help with a white-screen in the launcher Gijs reported,
due to our Optimus selection symbol interacting weirdly with the
dynamic OpenGL detection in Qt
The typo was introduced in 7e607b8403 from July
2016. The result was a series of alert messages such as:
savexml: writing to 'Path "/flightgear/home/.fgfs/runtime-jetways/0.xml"' denied
(unauthorized directory - authorization no longer follows symlinks)
This allows the sources and headers in src/Main/ to be used by other targets.
They are grouped into the new "Main" flightgear component via the macro in the
FlightGearComponent CMake module. The bootstrap.cxx file with its main function
has been separated out into a separate variable MAIN_SOURCE for use by the fgfs
binary.
All these files have therefore been removed from the test_suite CMakeLists.txt
file, as they are added via FG_SOURCES and FG_HEADERS. The MSVC grouping code
also does not need to deal with the now deleted separate SOURCE and HEADER
variables for these files.
This is for simplifying the main src/Main/CMakeLists.txt file and allowing the
code to be shared with the test suite.
The generated source and header files have also been removed from the main
source list and placed in the CMake module as the global variables
EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_SOURCES and EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_HEADERS.
This required many time related include files, functions, and variables to be
tested for via CMake, and converted to macros via #cmakedefine, so that they
would be automatically set for the test-mktime.cxx file.
Since the new _storagePath data member internally contains the add-on
id, changing _id after _storagePath has been initialized would make both
data members inconsistent. As changing the add-on id is probably not a
very useful operation, the simplest way to prevent such an inconsistency
from happening is to make Addon's _id data member const (as is already
the case for _storagePath), and thus remove Addon::setId().
Consequently, remove the Addon default constructor too, since add-ons
with an empty id would be ill-formed and couldn't be changed (_id being
const now). This leaves us with one Addon constructor:
Addon(std::string id, AddonVersion version = AddonVersion(),
SGPath basePath = SGPath(), std::string minFGVersionRequired = "",
std::string maxFGVersionRequired = "",
SGPropertyNode* addonNode = nullptr);
New methods Addon::createStorageDir() and Addon::getStoragePath() with
corresponding Nasal bindings in the addons.Addon ghost:
createStorageDir() method (returns the dir, doesn't fail if it already
exists)
storagePath read-only attribute to get the dir
The directory reserved for each add-on is
$FG_HOME/Export/Addons/ADDON_ID, but please use the above methods (or
the corresponding C++ ones) to avoid hardcoding such paths in your code.
Also create directory $FG_HOME/Export/Addons in fgInitConfig() as a way
of reserving the namespace, in order to prevent future failures in case
someone would have the strange idea to create it as a file...
It is the call to exit that causes FG to lock up and become a zombie.
Alternative is to throw an exception, i.e.:
throw sg_error(std::string("YASim SOLUTION FAILURE:") + a->getFailureMsg(););
This adds the fix for non converging aircraft. Henning has performed a thorough analysis of all of FGAddon and other repositories and there are a few models that fail, however there have always been a few that fail - but with this patch this situation is improving.
As for aircraft, an add-on can now add its custom dialogs in
$addon_dir/gui/dialogs. This commit makes NewGUI consider this directory
as a dialog-providing one for each registered add-on.
If an add-on has a file named addon-menubar-items.xml in its base
directory, load it and add its items to the FG menubar.
Logically, fgStartNewReset() should call
flightgear::addons::AddonManager::instance()->addAddonMenusToFGMenubar()
in order to re-add the items, however doing so would cause the
add-on-specific menus to be added one more time on every reset, because
for some reason, commit 45ea8b5daa added
the PRESERVE attribute to /sim/menubar (apparently to preserve the state
of menu entries upon reset?).
Note: the addon-menubar-items.xml files are reloaded during reset,
however the menu bar doesn't reflect this, since adding the
reloaded items to the menu bar in fgStartNewReset() would cause
the add-on-specific menus to appear several times in the menu bar,
as explained above.
Preparation for work on the synchronisation and lag prediction filters that jano has underway - firstly by adding a property to indicate the mode of the clock being used. Pre 2018.1 will be mode 0.
Automatic selection in the launcher is disabled for now, since
it needs more testing before release, but the basic UI for selection
is straightforward enough to throw in.
The add-on framework now uses the following files in each add-on
directory:
- addon-config.xml (previously: config.xml)
- addon-main.nas (previously: main.nas)
This is consistent with the addon-metadata.xml file that is already part
of the interface between FG core and add-ons. The goal is to make it
clearer, when browsing an add-on directory, which files belong to the
"FG core <-> add-on" interface and which files belong to the add-on
proper. This will be beneficial also when more files are added to the
"FG core <-> add-on" interface, such as possibly addon-events.xml in the
future.
This change is incompatible, thus it is the right time to do *before*
2018.2.1 is out, especially considering that this upcoming release
already has incompatible changes in the add-on API, namely the
requirement of the addon-metadata.xml file and the type of the argument
passed to each add-on's main() function. We'll try harder not to break
compatibility in the add-on API once 2018.2.1 is out. For now, it is
still a good time to try to get the API as clean as possible.
Prevent FDM-derived properties being sent at full speed (120Hz) which
overloads telnet connections. Instead track dirty properties and
send them at the protocol’s update rate (which is presumably what
the user expects)
the current timestamp used in mp protocol and in AImultiplayer is not a good one:
it can pause, or even change speed if we change warp value.
we want it to be used for network protocol lag and jitter estimation, and
a time flowing linearly on both side is needed, here's a first introduction
of this timestamp relates to real elapsed time.
here it's initialised to the system clock, then follow the monotonic clock.
in future improvement, it will allow time synchronisation betwen mp players,
to have a very good close formation flight experience.
The "Airbus" callouts ("2500", "hundred above", "retard") are not issued
by the original mk-viii unit, but adding support helps with better
simulation for Airbus a/c. The new callouts are disabled by default, and
are enabled by a specific setting of the GPWS "category-4" configuration
value (see Wiki).
- /sim/multiplay/transmit-filter-property-base can now filter based on property index; or have the previous mode of transmitting only generics by setting to 1.
- Move emesary MP bridge property base index to 12000 - to allow filtering of all except these (to reduce packet size).
