"""
- ground properties (e.g. feel bumpiness and the reduced friction of
grass or go swimming with the beaver)
- initial load for yasim gears (to get rid of the jitter the beaver has
on ground)
- glider/winch/aerotow (do winch start with YASim glider or do aerotow
over the net) I will place a how-to on the wiki soon, here very short:
use the sgs233y (or the bocian if you have AJ (up ot now) non-GPL
bocian)
winch start: Ctrl-w for placing the winch, hold w to winch, press
Shift-w to release the tow
aerotow: Place the glider within 60m to a MP-aircraft, press
Ctrl-t to tow to this aircraft. If the MP-aircraft is the
J3 and the patch is installed on both sides, the J3 feels the
forces, too. The J3-pilot has to taxi very slow up to the
moment, the glider starts moving. Increase the throttle gently.
Don't lift the J3 early, wait for the glider being lifted,
lift gently.
"""
(including all subdirs and with max depth!), but only the outmost level.
There are no *-set.xml files in deeper nested dirs, and with an ever growing
number of aircraft the search just lasts too long.
Here is a patch for two bugs in the AI/multiplayer part:
1. Cannot find model file *.ac error message (was only a false message,
anything worked correctly, the model was loaded from the correct path
afterwards).
2. Often many multiplayer aircrafts are missing in the property-tree.
(but I need them for aerotowing). There is still another bug: The
property in some circumstances seems not to be cleaned up after logout
of a multiplayer. I have added a workaround for this, but I don't now,
if it 100% works (should have no side effects, just aerotow would not
work sometimes). For testing I need more traffic on the mp-server.
src/Input/input.cxx src/Main/renderer.cxx
src/Main/renderer.hxx src/Scenery/scenery.cxx
src/Scenery/scenery.hxx: Move scenery picking into the renderer.
There is most of the required data defined. Also we can better use
the pick visitor that will be needed with th upcommung panel code.
src/FDM/groundcache.cxx src/FDM/groundcache.hxx: Store the material
that was used to get the croase agl level and return that material
in case we need to make use of that croase value.
options.cxx: Olaf Flebbe: Fix some problems with --help --verbose
caused by the usage of snprintf. Elimate snprintf usage in favour
plain std::string manipulations.
data/AI/Aircraft/*/*.xml and read traffic information from these files.
Current code still mimicks old behavior by reading data/Traffic/fgtraffic.xml
The latter functionality will be disabled once we have some traffic containing
files in data/AI/Aircraft.
earth model instead of WGS84. WGS84 precision is overkill for what the
traffic manager requires, and also keeps locking up while computing
course and distance for anti podal points in New Zealand vs. south west
france.
utils/Modeller/Makefile.am src/FDM/YASim/Makefile.am:
Remove -lssg from the linker lines.
Do no longer build threedconvert. A very similar functionality
is available with osgvconv. But leave threedconvert in place
if somebody will need that ...
I found a small conspicuity in YASim. The destructor of the fdm was
never called, therefore a modification of the heli fdm (not in cvs) did
not work after reset (I tie some properties and untie them in the
destructor, but the destructor was not called and the tieing failed
after reset. I don't know if any other parts of YASim need their
destructors, at least it wastes memory.
Another small fix I have made to the turbulence.cpp. The code needed,
that (a-floor(a)) is >=0 and <1. This is analytical correct, but
numerical only for "small" values. In normal fg-operation a in this
function is always small, but with unrealistic parameters in the
aircraft config file it is not and then fg crashes (instead a crash of
the aircraft or cataputling it far away).
"bind the visibility-property of the SGSky object to a property
named /envirionment/effective-visibility-m. This property is needed to decide
if the aircraft is within clouds or not. I use this property also for the
structural icing code."
- Ground network slow-down finally works as expected
(although occasionally causing a traffic jam)
- Hold position instruction now really sets speed to zero, in addition
it actually works now for crossing and two-way traffic
- Attempt to limit execution time of ground network trace algorithm
to make performance acceptable at high-density networks
- Removed remaining terminal messages
- Various minor tweaks and clean-ups
Time/tmp.cxx Main/viewer.hxx Main/viewer.cxx Main/renderer.cxx
Get rid of an other OSGFIXME. The view matrix had some plib specials
included. The viewer is now updated for that.
a second tacan may not be likely)
- remove some dead code
- simplify <name>/<number> handling
- let a listener watch over input props and search for new channel/frequency
- allow to set channel number as one number (rather than as single digits),
as some aircraft may prefer this (the ch53 does so); this is to be set
in /instrumentation/tacan[n]/frequencies/selected-channel[0]
it was never added, which is perfectly normal when the aircraft started
out of range. (Analog to the DME sound, which doesn't have that warning
either.)
value on a property. This becomes a NaN when converted to a numeric
value, which then percolated into the C++ world where it ultimately
caused a crash in YASim's turbulence code. While converting nil to
NaN isn't *strictly* wrong, it's dangerous for this reason. Toss a
Nasal exception instead. Hopefully this won't break too much
preexisting code.
- Moved AIModels/Traffic Manager related AI functions to a new file
- Rewrote the traffic manager so that the containers use pointers to
objects instead of the objects themselves, which will allow for a
more flexible memory management.
- Rewrote parts of the airport groundnetwork code, also because the
stl containers now contain object pointers instead of the objects
themselves.
- Fixed an uninitialized iterator in the AI distance tracking code
- Fixed flawed logic in some of the traffic controller's while loops
- Added a tower controller, which paces take-off behavior of AITraffic
in a more realistic way.
- Various other minor fixes and fine tuning.
More realistic calculation of vortices at the blades and therefore
real airfoil parameters can be used now (not to be mixed up with the
vortex ring state which is still not simulated), ground effect is now
continuous e. g. at buildings, calculating of the rotor in more than 4
directions, better documentation of the airfoil parameters.
- Well I finally licked it, the clipping works great now, in 16 and 32
bpp mode, on 2d and 3d panels.
- I tried glScissors, didnt work because clipping was done in screen
co-ordinates.
- Stencil buffer methods worked great for 2d panel, but messed up 3d
panels,(depth buffer problems I think), and only worked in 32 bpp mode.
- I then tried clip planes , and so far it appears to work with no
problem, and no framerate drop like I had with the stencil buffer
method...
I'm attaching the panel.cxx file for testing...
values that were angles between the aircraft's orientation and the
global velocity vector, not the airflow velocity. So the HUD velocity
vector was wrong when the wind was non-zero. Fix that.
maintain a resonable distance from each other while taxiing on the same
route. The current code does not yet take crossing routes or aircraft
taxiing into opposite directions into account.
If there is a windows problem, look very carefully at the line termination
with a serial port monitor. It should be \r\n (CR-LF), not \n, not \r\r\n
or any other possible variant.
format. I have a Garmin 295 to test with, but so far I haven't been able
to make this work (code should compile cleanly though.) I don't know if
I've made a mistake in the protocol or if my 295 just doesn't support this.
More work on this to come.
- NEVER EVER use leading underscores for auto variables
- don't store values in auto variables for the next function call (not
even when they start with underscore :-) This fixed the TACAN
channel lookup, which was supposed to be done on channel changes only,
but was always done)
- only do frequency search if frequency has changed (this was apparently
planned, but not finished; leftover from adf.cxx?)
- don't use double as bool switch
- some minor cleanup
algorithm caused a program crash. Because there is always one waypoint more
than there are routes, the trace function should only pop_back the final route
entry at search depths of one or higher. I also added a lot of of additional
safeguarding code, due to the fact that the new trace algorithm was
apparently not as stable as I'd hoped it would be. ...
in the case of fg_init.cxx we'll only see that if the log-level is set
in preferences.xml, because command line options weren't even processed
at that time. :-/
generates a data file of aerodynamic lift and drag (and L/D) against
AoA at a specified speed and altitude through a full circle. Wrote it
to track down the YF-23 superthrust issue, but it wasn't any help.
All the forces look fine.
state. The only really obvious problem was a giant negative engine
RPM, which happened because of a lack of clamping in the engine code
combined with the YF-23's ability to actually reach speeds near the
engines _vMax value. It's not clear to me that this will fix the
superthrust issue at high AoA's, but it's an obvious bug nonetheless.
+ The wing compilation step was accidentally omitting regions that lie
between the tips and the first/last control object. That's a real
problem for wings that contain no controls, and a significant issue
for those that contain only a few. I'm stunned that this went
undetected for so long.
+ The Surface::flapLift() function was oddly returning 1.0 Newtons as
a minimum, instead of zero.
(this was the reason why the first two text lines on the splash screen
looked more blurry than the others). BTW: I played with other values
than -0.5, but this turned out to be the best already. It makes textures
sharper than 0, but not too sharp (and thus flickering).
track and is a PITA for support staff. It's this message:
Error reading properties:
Failed to open file
at /home/newbie/.fgfs/autosave.xml
(reported by SimGear XML Parser)
than tick marks, and looser (zoomed) than the other 40%. Rationale:
- this was only used in *one* tape of *one* HUD ("custom")
- it's not in the MIL-STD!
- doesn't seem very useful
- relies on integer scale values, while we now have float values in the new HUD
This feature would have had to be rewritten anyway. If someone needs it and
can come forward with a (MIL-)STD description, then it can be added to the
existing tape generator again (using a value->screen-position mapper function).
Otherwise it's simply declared dead.
(Yay, one TODO and a few FIXMEs less. ;-)
encapsulation, but a real namespace would probably be better)
- extend alignment to optionally adjust x/y, and to return absolute
l/r/b/t coordinates (as opposed to plib's relative ones!)
- implement tape gaps as per Curt's order :-)
- shuffling stuff around for fun
- add generic text adjustment and
- use it in the ladder: climb -> vert bar on the outside, numbers below line
dive -> vert bar on the inside, numbers above line
work for ground based distance separation of AIAircraft.
Traffic manager initialization related changes:
- Schedules initialize "on the fly", instead of during initialization
- Invalid routes are no longer deleted, but marked as BOGUS and ignored
- Changed loading order from a distance based prioritization to a point-
score based prioritization, resulting in a much faster establisment of
AIAircraft near the user's plane.
Preparatory work for ground-based separation of Aircraft.
- The groundnetwork findShrortestRoute function not only returns a list
of waypoints, but also a list of taxi "segments" (a.k.a. taxiways).
- The taxiway list is stored in the Flightplan, and updated everytime
a new taxi leg is created.
implications.
Fix the ladder so it "moves" around in the hud correctly based on alpha/beta
offset projected onto the horizon line so the horizon is always the horizon.
using Curt's new speed adjustment code. 2) Separated the function
FlightPlanCreateCruise() into a new source file in preparation of a more
elaborate airway following scheme.
calculations. We run the FDM at 120hz and compute how many loops can fit into each FG loop.
Floating point rounding could lead to a situation where we could end up running
1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3... loops of the FDM when in fact we want to run 2, 2, 2, 2, 2...
If we artificially inflate ml above by a tiny amount to get the
closest integer, then subtract the integer from the original
slightly smaller value, we can get a negative remainder.
Logically this should never happen, and we definitely don't want
to carry a negative remainder over to the next iteration, so
never let the remainder go below zero.
such a box:
_____/\_____
| Booo |
|__________|
likewise with options bottom, left, right. The size can be set via option
<marker-offset> (analogous to <tape> offsets), which describes the distance
from the base to the peak. Default: 8 px
a 8 pt font (set 8 pt in preferences.xml, too)
- fix vertical alignment of digits in label and ladder (temporary
solution -- the whole font handling needs to be reviewd and fixed)
- simplify nadir and zenith (they always want to be horizontally centered
on the ladder lines, no?)
- simplify and abstract label box drawing (no need for stippled side lines)
- align text (more) correctly in label boxes
- move variable declaration near their first use (c++ style rather than c)
- rename (zenith|nadir|hat) to enable-(zenith|nadir|hat) and make them bool
(for consistency reasons)
Generally you want point sprites for performance reasons when enhanced runway
lighting (and smooth points) are activated. Most hardware doesn't
accelerate the rendering of standard smooth points, so without point sprites
you will kill your night time performance if you turn on enhanced runway
lighting.
Note that enhanced runway lighting "breaks" our clever scheme to make the
runway lighting brightness vary with the relative view angle. This means
with enhanced lighting on, all lights are equally bright no matter what
direction you view them from. So perpendicular runways are just as bright
as runways you are directly lined up with (when enhanced runway lighthing
is activated.)
You can revert to the original lighting scheme by turning off enhance runway
lights, turning off distance-attenuation, and turning off point-sprites in
the rendering options menu.
maintainable. The rules are simple (extension functions are called
*with* the lock, which must be dropped before calling naCall(), which
grabs it) but the tracking of when the lock was held was getting a
little confused. Keep a "nasal call depth" count in the subsystem to
figure out whether we are making a sub-call and thus hold the lock.
- Fix a warning about class member initialization order.
- Clear up a problem with the default autopilot behavior on the back side
of an ILS in preparation for adding a real "back course" approach mode.
and "latitude-offset" should not use a precalculated value of warp.
2) Since the values of cur_time and crrGMT are identical in the current
version of the SGTime class, the calculations of the "system", "gmt", and
"latitude" are re-evaluated and updated where necessary.
I attach 2 new files and a diff file for the associated changes to add a
“fluxgate compass” to the instrument inventory. Whist this outputs
essentially the same data as /orientation/heading-magnetic-deg, it has to
be powered, and can be made to fail. I also followed Roy’s suggestion to
generate the error properties for this instrument here rather than in
xmlauto.xml.
When this instrument is included in cvs, I intend to use it in the Hunter,
A4F Seahawk and KC135. After a bit more research, it might be appropriate
for the Spitfire and Hurricane as well. AJ would also like to use it for his
Lightning model.
autopilot with the servos off. In otherwords, the computer goes through the
motions of computing the desired behavior (pitch or roll) but doesn't actually
drive the outputs. This is potentially useful when implimenting a flight
director.
and tgt_altitude -> tgt_altitude_ft. Also fix a comment in AIBase.hxx
indicating that the altitude is in meters, even though the usage throughout the
code was most definitely feet.
- In AIMultiplayer.cxx, update the altitude_ft variable so that the altitude
is reported correctly in the entity's property subtree.
- In AIMultiplayer.cxx, compute a velocity value in kts to fill in the speed
entry in the entity's property subtree. Note, this is not an earth centered
reference speed, not an indicated speed and not a speed relative to the local
airmass (that would be much harder to do.)
the buggy ~fnt(), causing an abort() ... ;-)
(Only loaded texture fonts (*.txf) have a new'ed puFont. The built-in
pixmap fonts don't, and may, thus, not be deleted.)
each frame. However, often these values didn't change leading to bogus data
getting introduced into the computational pipeline.
This patch switches to a much more sane method for ground track computation.
Thanks to tied functions, this is only executed when the node is read. This
will be done by the old & new HUD code, the latter of which won't have a
special lon/lat mode at all. Instead it will be regular labels that point
to these properties for displaying lon/lat.
I would have liked to avoid the duplication of code (lon and lat being
basically the same thing), and to avoid using static buffers and all, but
... if anyone wants to make it prettier, go ahead.
The format is controlled by /sim/lon-lat-format (will be changed if I
find a better place).
AI aircraft are out of range or the piloted aircraft has no radar system.
These computation include range, bearing, and angular offset relative to the
piloted aircraft. This gives some external script the control the behavior
of the AI aircraft relative to the piloted aircraft without requiring a radar
system, and without requiring the AI aircraft to be within radar range.
flightplan. Such aircraft are given some initial conditions that they
fly with. They proceed on in "freeflight" mode indefinitely. For example,
there is a refueling demo where the tanker starts at 3000', 280 kts, and
in a 15 degree bank, and then continues to orbit indefinitely.
For these aircraft with no flightplan, I have added several control nodes in
controls/flight that allow a script or menu or external application to set
heading, altitude, bank angle, and speed. This permits some level of interactive
or scripted control over AI aircraft.
are taken down by the C++ runtime environment. This will later be done
with runlevels. Why would we want to run nasal code in subsystem
destructors? We don't really. But some data structures may use nasal,
which are normally created/destroyed during runtime. And these will
also be destroyed at fgfs exit. In the past things like these didn't
happen, because someone had disabled all subsystem destructors ...
src/AIModel/AIAircraft.cxx src/ATC/AILocalTraffic.cxx
src/FDM/flight.cxx src/FDM/flight.hxx src/FDM/groundcache.cxx
src/FDM/groundcache.hxx src/Main/fg_init.cxx src/Main/main.cxx
src/Scenery/hitlist.cxx src/Scenery/hitlist.hxx
src/Scenery/scenery.cxx src/Scenery/scenery.hxx
Make use of the attached SGMaterial reference userdata on scenegraph
leafs. Make the SGMaterial pointer available to the ground query
routines.
SGPropertyNode to guarded ones. This is also done for JSBSim/JSBSim.hxx,
for which JSB had given explicit permission a while ago. I postponed that
back then, but now is the time.
color group /sim/hud/palette/color[*]/ to the active group /sim/hud/color/
if they really exist. (Parameters like <antialiased> can be set in the
active group and be left alone, or set by each <palette> color group.)
into the <color> group, but that's because on HUD color changes a whole
"color" set from /sim/hud/palette/color[*] is copied to /sim/hud/color/, and
antialiasing needs to be considered with that. (I'm not entirely happy
with the property names yet.)
there's a bug that I had copied: update() checks each list node: if it
has no children, then a listener is attached. Later, when freeing the
children list, it assumed again that each node without children would
have a listener attached. This caused a crash when a node had children
before, but lost them in the meantime. Now we tried to remove a listener
where there never was one.
with an invalid path, as in getprop("/sim/model/737") or x.getNode("f:1").
Forward sg's error message to the Nasal runtime error function instead, so
you get something like:
Nasal runtime error: name must begin with alpha or '_'
at /home/m/fgfs/Base.local/Nasal/props.nas, line 30
Unfortunately, the location points to the line where the ghost wrapper
sits, rather than the offending script line.
*many* years, so the property browser always leaked memory. I activated
this line in property_list.cxx and ... got a crash right there. So this
was the reason for it being commented out? Doing the same for now, until
I know the exact reason and can really fix it.
"Bug Fix - amend the code so that JSBSIm can have more than one tanker in
the environment at the same time. A nasal script has to be added to each
aar-capable JSBSim model to complete this fix."
- backport submissions for plib 1.8.5:
* set slider size correctly
* remove slider/arrow when all entries fit into the view
* don't allow to scroll off the list
Unfortunately, there's no simple way to distinguish them. plib has no
user defined widget classes, and getTypeString() -- which could be used
for that -- isn't virtual. Sigh. I'll discuss the problem on the plib list.
For now I can only offer an ugly workaround. (Don't look closely!)
from plib's file-picker, where it made some sense to keep the current path as
string, and to chop off elements when leaving a dir, and adding them when
entering. But it doesn't make the least sense in SGPropertyNode space, where
we already have everything to move in a tree.
- add R & W flags for TRACE_READ and TRACE_WRITE. Remember: lower case letters:
disabled (rw ... reading/writing), upper case letters: enabled (RWAUT)
- remove some verbosity & further cleanup ... to make further work easier :-)
"Add Air to Air TACAN and User-User refuelling over the Multiplayer Network.
With this change, your TACAN instrument can be tuned to the channel of a
Multiplayer ac. It also activates fuel flow between User and User aircraft
when they are less than 50 ft apart. To participate in multiplayer as a
tanker, all you require to do is to use the callsign MOBIL* (where * is some
number) on the net. Only MOBIL1, MOBIL2 and MOBIL3 have been assigned TACAN
channels, but any MOBIL callsign will be able to give fuel."
- PropertyObject: remove additional "values" member again
- don't create entry lists for <list>, <select>, and <combo> at dialog
creation and delete them on dialog close, but let a separate class
fgValueList handle this. The three widgets are now subclassed and the
derived widget lets fgValueList manage the lists
- make <select> consistent with <list>. This breaks backwards
compatibility, but not a single dialog in fgfs uses it and did so
since ... forever. (Shoot me!)
Rationale: now that dialogs are a bit more dynamic than they used to be
(thanks to embedded Nasal), we have to delete and recreate entry lists
during dialog use. Deleting only at dialog closing doesn't cut it anymore.
Especially list widgets that are updated several times per second would
use up a lot of memory otherwise. The route-manager doesn't update that
often, but it did already leak. One TODO less. :-)
"Preparations for an upgrade to Air-to-Air Refuelling to allow more than one
tanker in the environment at a time. This will only work with YASim models.
JSBSim models are unaffected by this change."
The ufo sets this to a very low value, "serious" aircraft (which don't want this
unrealistic automatism at all) set it to a very high value, and those that don't
care ... don't need to care.
signals, this is meant for attaching listeners. The ufo will use that to
hide/reveal the status line in screenshots. The following signal properties
are now available:
/sim/signals/exit ... set to 1 right before quitting
/sim/signals/reinit ... set to 1 on re-init (Shift-Esc)
/sim/signals/screenshot ... set to 1 before and to 0 after screenshot
/sim/signals/click ... set to 1 after mouse clicks at terrain, signalling
that the geo coords in /sim/input/click/ were updated
I've got some updates for the soaring scenario that will make for a more
realistic (and fun) experience. They are:
1) A cap cloud, which will sit atop each thermal
2) A thermal scenario with wide coverage around KSFO, and using cap clouds
3) A one-line change to AIThermal.cxx to position cap cloud properly
4) Schweizer 2-33 set file change to match cloud coverage with thermal
heights.
files:
1) data/Models/Geometry/thermalcap.ac
2) data/Models/Geometry/thermalcap.xml
3) data/Models/Geometry/thermal_cap.rgb
4) data/AI/thermal_demo.xml
5) data/Aircraft/sgs233/sgs233-set.xml
6) source/src/AIModel/AIThermal.cxx
*** or, if you prefer diffs ***
7) aimodel.diff
only used by the <list> widget. It allows to "dialog-update" the list,
which rescans the <value> children and redraws the list widget with new
contents. The old contents are only freed at dialog close, which should
eventually get changed.
two almost identical functions for these methods. It only forces to repeat
the redundancy for every small change to either.
- abstract out generation and destruction of plib string arrays
- abstract out generation of lists from <value> children
used in dialog.cxx to allow XML dialogs access to their own prop tree via
Nasal's cmdarg(). That way dialogs can generate dynamic content, such as
list entries.
- only call globals->set_initial_waypoints() if the waypoints list address
has actually changed, that is: if it has just been initialized
- remove trailing spaces
- fix indentation
but got changed so that Nasal listeners wouldn't be triggered needlessly.
Doesn't make sense, though, as Nasal will never be available before the
video size is set, and it prevents the window interface from setting the
startup size.)
