The jitter is most likely caused by the irregular frame rate and CPU clock dependent intervals. There's no easy way around that. I tried some fancy interpolation and all that -- to no avail.
I have added a fledgling replay system that records flight data and control
positions during the flight.
I have added an internal command called "replay" which will trigger a replay
of the entire saved flight data set. This could be bound to a keyboard or
menu command, in fact this entire module is screaming for someone to build
a gui to control playback speed, amount of playback, etc.
This is the initial version so there are kinks that still need to be worked
out, please be patient.
Square the normalized direction acceleration for the y and z axes, so
that turbulence predominantly affects pitch.
Bind to the /environment/turbulence/magnitude-norm and
/environment/turbulence/rate-hz properties in FlightGear.
The current chase view respects heading but ignores roll & pitch. And it follows heading without delay, which makes the viewer behave quite strange. This change makes the chase view feel more natural. You aren't fixed behind the plane, but follow all its movements with a delay.
Erik Hofman:
I've decided not to add the patch to preferences.xml in the base package because something feels funny with that. I think there needs to be some more discussion about it.
between temperature at altitude vs. temperature at sea level. The dialog
box asked for temperature at altitude which makes sense, but all the
internal crunching expected temperature at sea level. However, it makes no
logical sense to specify the sea level temperature for different layers so
I changed the internal processing to work with temperature at altitude and
then derive an approximate sea level temperature at the end.
If you know the ground temperature, you can just enter this temperature
for the first boundary layer and the system should do the right thing.
/sim/rendering/horizon-effect
toggle sun and moon resizing effect near the horizon
/sim/rendering/enhanced-lighting
toggle enhanced runway lighting on or off
/sim/rendering/distance-attenuation
add distance attenuation to the enhanced runway lighting
etc.
Improved the weather system to interpolate between different
elevations and deal with boundary-layer conditions. The configuration
properties are now different (see $FG_ROOT/preferences.xml).
Normally for smoothest frame rates you would configure to sync
to your monitor's vertical refresh signal. This is card/platform
dependent ... for instance with Linux/Nvidia there is
an environment variable you can set to enable this feature.
However, if your monitor is refreshing at 60hz and you can't quite sustain
that with flightgear, you can get smoother frame rates by artificially
throttling yourself to 30hz. Note that once you are about about 24fps, it
is *change* or inconsistancy in frame rate that leads to percieved jerkiness.
You want to do whole divisors of your monitor refresh rate, so if your
display is syncing at 75 hz, you might want to try throttling to 25 hz.
Melchior FRANZ:
The reason: these models are to be added to the scenery, but the
scenery isn't yet set up at this point. The correct order is:
- set up model_lib (needed by the scenery)
- set up scenery (needed by the model manager)
- set up model manager
