The launcher diagram and navaid-search now include TACANs, using
the current NavCache encoding (DME whose name ends in TACAN). A new
‘—tacan’ option works similar to —vor etc to set position (with
optional offset).
Tuning the Tacan instrument from the command line is not yet supported,
but could be easily added.
upper_case_property causes valueChanged to fire twice, since
SGPropertyNode string storage is now immutable (std::string). This
caused double-processing of for example adding a waypoint in
the route-manager dialog. Since the InputListener already upper-cases
the string, we can simply remove the upper-case property logic.
Detects /sim/affinity-control being set to 'clear' and 'revert' and modifies
all thread affinities accordingly. Only active on Linux.
Also modified meaning of /sim/thread-cpu-affinity. Instead of true/false, we now
expect these values:
'': do nothing.
'none': tell OSG to not set up any thread affinities (same as prev
'false').
'osg': allow OSG to set up thread affinities but attempt to cancel affinity
of main thread afterwards.
This is for investigating bug 2734.
If /sim/thread-cpu-affinity is true or unset on startup, we use default
behaviour where we tell OSG to set up thread-cpu affinities.
Setting /sim/thread-cpu-affinity to false on start up results in all/most
threads being free to run on any cpu core. For example in .fgfsrc or on
command, use:
--prop:bool:/sim/thread-cpu-affinity=false
- Output files are now written in the current directory instead of being written in the aircraft folder (issue GH#337)
- A new exception TrimFailureException is now thrown when trim fails. This eases the detection of the trim failure (previously the exception message needed to be checked).
- An exception is thrown when a latitude higher than 90 degrees is supplied to a <waypoint> control element (PR GH#536)
- Fix the sign of the initial NED climb rate (property ic/gamma-deg) (PR #545)
- JSBSim now checks malformed data in <table> elements. Anything different than numbers and spaces/tabs will be rejected.
- Usage of <location> and <orientation> in engines is now officially dropped (PR #559, #561 and #563). These elements were deprecated long ago in favor of the corresponding elements <location> and <orientation> in thrusters. Therefore the code removed is no-op.
- The computation of the initial rotation rates has been fixed (Issue GH#553). Previously, the rotation rates could be initialized with extremely high values when the vehicle was spawned over the Poles. And for a given set of initial conditions, the initial rotation rates could have different values depending on the initial latitude at which the vehicle was initialized. This now fixed.
- The precision with which values are transmitted thru a socket can now be set via the attribute precision such as <output precision="8"> (PR GH#579)
- Added 2 new methods to FGFDMExec: SetOutputPath and GetOutputPath to specify the path to which the output files will be written.
- All JSBSim exceptions now inherit from JSBSim::BaseException. There still exist std::* exceptions thrown by JSBSim. Cleanup is still in progress.
- JSBSim no longer calls exit() or abort(). Exceptions are thrown instead. This gives the calling application an opportunity to gracefully recover.
With this change, binding can be activated mostly-correctly from
the compatability layer. Closing still isn't working quite right, more
changes to follow.
We now allow an aircraft to specify both simple gear contact points (which will
be automatically used by old Flightgear builds), and also gear contact surfaces
(which will be automatically used by new Flightgear builds).
When parsing gear specifications, if specified we now use 'wheel-x', 'wheel-y'
and 'wheel-z' in preference to 'x', 'y' and 'z' for the wheel centre point.
These new 'wheel-*' values will be ignored by old Flightgear builds.
So to work with both old and new Flightgear builds, an aircraft should specify
old-style contact points with 'x', 'y' and 'z' as before, and new-style contact
surfaces with 'wheel-x', 'wheel-y' and 'wheel-z', and 'wheel-radius' and
'tyre-radius'.
test_suite/unit_tests/FDM/CMakeLists.txt
test_suite/unit_tests/FDM/TestSuite.cxx
test_suite/unit_tests/FDM/yasim-gear.cxx
test_suite/unit_tests/FDM/yasim-gear.hxx
E.g. run test suite with: -u YASimGearTests::test
Contact surface can now be a torus shaped tyre; we find the part of this torus
that is furthest towards the ground instead of using a fixed contact point.
Torus is specified by radius of wheel centred on original contact point,
orientation of a wheel axle, and radius of torus. If both wheel and tyre radius
are both zero the calculations reduce to a fixed contact point as before.
src/FDM/YASim/FGFDM.cpp
Read new optional <gear> attributes:
wheel-axle-x
wheel-axle-y
wheel-axle-z
wheel-radius
tyre-radius
src/FDM/YASim/Gear.cpp
Added new gearCompression() function that calculates gear compression for
wheel with torus tyre. If new radius values are both zero the calculation
behaves like a contact point as before; we also optimse this case to avoid
the extra matrix operations.
Moved old algorithm into gearCompressionOld() function to allow testing
that new algorithm gives same results when wheel and tyre have zero radius.
src/FDM/YASim/Gear.hpp
Added new members:
_wheelAxle,
_wheelRadius
_tyreRadius
Also declare gearCompression() function so it is available for unit
testing.
Added GearVector struct for caching unit vector and magnitude and use for
_compr and _wheelAxle, so we avoid having to calculate magnitude and unit
vector each iteration.
Clarified that _compressDist is vertical movement of gear. Not useful for
gear animations - one must use compression-norm.
src/FDM/YASim/Airplane.cpp
src/FDM/YASim/Model.cpp
src/FDM/YASim/YASim.cxx
Use g->getContact() instead of manually adding compression vector to
g->getPosition() (which no longer gives the correct contact point).
Ensure that lag/lag-mod-averaged is created and set to a valid value (0) prior to calling the base class init method as otherwise the MPList will have a nil reference.
This needs to be done prior to the base class ::init() because that method sets the model-added property which will trigger the lisetener.
refs: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/2674/
Because disabling threaded GC wouldn't result in exactly the same allocation and GC due to changes I made to the GC as part of the threaded GC work the only safe thing to do is to remove it all.
Once we have figured out if it is the threaded GC causing the problem or not then we will at least know what needs fixing.
Using a <condition> images can be hidden now.
Also reworked the logic so that any hidden item will be hidden from creation and not rely on the update logic; as otherwise items can momentarily appear.
Refactor Splash to be data drive using definitions in <content> for the system splash and <model-content> for model related content.
All system splash is at fixed index and should not be changed except for good reason.
