"speed-up" can now also be used for slow-motion (i.e. 0.5 / 0.25 / ...)
or fractional speeds (3.141...). This was already working for instruments
(for replay) before, now it's also considered by FDM simulation.
Allow XML property data to be submitted with a request; changes the request method from GET to POST. Supply nodes via the 'body' argument to the command.
Add missing ATIS elements (transition level, expected approach,
precipitation, runway surface warnings).
Minor phraseology fixes for US/Europe.
Adds "/sim/atis/concise-report" option to use abbreviations (CAVOK etc),
and omit "obvious" units (depends on airport).
Trigger ATIS updates for significant pressure changes.
Make subsystems create-able and removable from commands. Only some subsystems are supported so far, since many have non-default constructors or other complexities.
With this, change, it's possible to dynamically add and remove the traffic-manager at runtime, for example: fgcommand("add-subsystem", props.Node.new({ "subsystem": "traffic-manager", "name":"traffic-manager", "do-bind-init":1}));
For (future) easier testing of the sim, support a mode where only explicitly named config / option files are loaded, instead of the default ones. (Including, for example, preferences.xml). This currently produces a non-functional sim, but will soon be more useful :)
No behaviour should change unless you try the new option.
Avoid the application becoming unresponsive during nav-cache rebuilds. We still have to wait for the rebuild, but perform it on a helper thread so the main GUI thread stays responsive and hence doesn't trigger a beach-ball / 'not responding' alert. Also ensures there's some feedback (the spinner) during the rebuild operation, so users don't think we've hung.
In preparation for caching the groundnet in the NavCache, make taxi-nodes and parkings inherit from FGPositioned. As part of this, make them heap (as opposed to value) classes, disable their copy-constructors, remove many mutating operations, and give them real constructors.
so they can instantly adjust to the changed environment.
(Not fully working yet, since some environment settings, like environemnt
pressure/temperature, still changes slowly after a sim reset - instead of
immediately jumping to the new setting. Also, METAR sometimes arrives too
late...).
Break some subsystem dependencies, by explicitly using properties to read the primary position, orientation and velocities. (Instead of directly accessing the primary model placement). This means a couple more globals can die.
Keep distro packagers happy by having the option to use the system's sqlite library instead of our bundled version. Set SYSTEM_SQLITE=1 when running cmake to use the system one.
Cache the parsed navigation and airport data in a binary file to reduce
startup times and memory consumption (since only referenced FGPositioned
elements are held in memory).
Data will be reimported when the mod-time of any input file is changed.
If a global file is changed (nav.dat, awy.dat, apt.dat, etc), the cache
will be completely rebuilt, which takes approximately 30 seconds on
moderate hardware. (Future work may reduce this).
Separate other init functions from position init, since they are unrelated, and made fg_init.cxx very complex. Next step will be brining some sanity to the position init logic :)
(Requires latest SimGear!)
Break fgInitSubsystems into several phases - subsystem creation, then binding and then init. Run init over multiple main-loop iterations so the application stays responsive to GUI/OS events during init.
There should be no behaviour changes due to this, except that during init Windows and OS-X should no longer show the beach ball / 'application not responding feedback', hopefully.
Remove various hacks and make magvar work like a normal subsystem, as part of the environment manager. Fix the remaining users of the globals->get_mag accessor, and hence kill off the global pointer.
- property-interpolate now supports specifying the
interpolation time by passing rate instead of the actual time,
similar to max-rate-of-change in the noise-spike filter.
so package builders don't need local patches.
Also, instead of hardcoded firefox, use "xdg-open" or "sensible-browser"
launchers on Linux, to auto-detect user's preferred browser.
Override with cmake switch -DWEB_BROWSER=...
(Not affecting Mac/Win which are hard-coded anyway).
- Refactor CanvasMgr into PropertyBasedMgr to be also used
for the Canvas GUI system.
- Get rid of tied properties in the Canvas system.
- Add new placement type 'window' for placing canvases onto
windows
- Pass mouse events to Window class (only if cursor is over
window)
- Refactor canvas placement clean up
Sink the 2D panel logic into FGPanelNode, simplifying
renderer.cxx and a few other places. Also allows potential
for unloading / paging of 2.5D panels in the future.
Aircraft could fall through the ground on scenery reload. Properly reset
the "sceneryloaded" flag to pause FDM processing while scenery is being
reloaded. Also stop processing some instruments while scenery is reloaded.
Not every xml-autopilot filter needs to run at the update rate
of the FDM. This only makes sense for the autpilot filters. Those,
who update instrument needles or environment properties for example
may run at frame rate.
This patch (thanks to ThorstenB, who is the author) forces those
filters defined in /sim/systems/autopilot into the FDM loop and those
defined in /sim/systems/property-rule into the default loop. They
show up as xml-autopilot and xml-proprules in the performance monitor
Use 8bit normals if /sim/rendering/no-16bit-buffer is set to true. May be usefull for old card returning 0x8cda at fbo setup time
White/gray specular material
s/Tabs/Spaces/
Shadow map size is set by the /sim/rendering/shadows/map-size property before starting fgfs. Its default value is 4096. Maximum value is 16384 in most card
The new renderer is activated by the --enable-rembrandt option, or in the preferences.xml file.
The renderer at this stage doesn't have shadows yet, and shows a lighting bug. The slash screen doesn't work too.
This way of scenery paging is really application code.
Now that the simgear stg loader is seperated from the paging
code, this appication specific paging can reside here.
May be at some time also use the spt stuff here.
- move property /sim/auto-coordination to
/controls/flight/auto-coordination
- introduce new property /controls/flight/auto-coordination-factor
with default of 0.5
- auto-coordinate the rudder if auto-coordination is true and the factor
is greater than zero
backward compatibility for the old property is temporary provided by
a temporary Nasal hack in FGDATA/Nasal/aircraft.nas
Don't initialize the offset in the main loop but in
the init method of the implementing class. This ensures
it gets initialized if you instantiate more than one
heading-indicator and does not initialize the property for
unsused heading-indicators (no more stray heading-indicator-fg
property anymore).
Replace SG_GENERAL by more specific log classes in many places.
Allow "," to separate logging classes (using "|" is odd on the
command-line).
Also add new option to make logging more useful for developers.
You can use:
--log-level=debug --log-class=environment
to only get environment debug messages, or
--log-level=debug --log-class=sound,ai
to only get debug messages related to the sound or AI subsystem.
FGFX objects must be dereferenced early enough, and sound manager must be
removed late enough - otherwise openal complains about resources being
still in use when tryin to remove buffers.
Also: do not create FGFX objects for AI/MP aircraft, when AI sound is
disabled.
Add range checks and provide error messages.
Extend time offset to 64bit - so we're safe for 2038-01-19 (and the next
couple of millions years beyond...).
Support partial date/time strings, such as --start-date-gmt=2011 or
--start-date-gmt=:::12:00:00
OSG3 relies on "fonts/arial.ttf" being available. FG doesn't provide it -
so it's not necessarily available everywhere (not here). Use one of our
txf fonts instead.
Add a new way to configure multi screen systems.
The new version allows easier configuration of displays
that need to fit at the edges as well as configurations
where the screens match at reference points.
This kind of screen configuration will again zoom.
If set to true, the decision about the near and far
planes in the viewer are still adapted to not clip away
everything before the configured near plane.
Replace deprecated "old-help-dialog" command with generic "open-browser".
Can also be used to add links to aircraft manuals in the menubar (local
file or http) , i.e.
<binding>
<command>open-browser</command>
<path>Aircraft/ogeL/FlightManual.html</path>
</binding>
/sim/ATC/radius should be a nummeric estimate of the size of your aircraft. A small aircraft fits into a large parking, but a large aircraft does not fit into a small parking space. Because the AI part of radius is also used for slightly different purposes (prioritizing gate assignmments, the given valuem may deviate slightly from the real aircraft size. See http:/wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft.radii for an overview of currently used values for the redius property.
/sim/ATC/flight-type can be any one of "ga", "cargo", "gate", "mil-fighter", "mil-cargo", or "vtol". See http://wiki.flightgear.org/Interactive_traffic#A_technical_perspective for more information.
optionally, the property /sim/ATC/airline can be set set to a three letter icao airline code. By way of illustration, I will commit a number of startup preset files setting these properties shortly.
Also did some more finetuning to the traffic mananger routing algorithm can be any one of "ga", "cargo", "gate", "mil-fighter", "mil-cargo", or "vtol". See http://wiki.flightgear.org/Interactive_traffic#A_technical_perspective for more information.
optionally, the property /sim/ATC/airline can be set set to a three letter icao airline code. By way of illustration, I will commit a number of startup preset files setting these properties shortly.
Also did some more finetuning to the traffic mananger routing algorithm.
Don't detect libsvn without APR.
When installed, enable libsvn support by default (same as for automake).
When enabled, provide libsvn to fgfs.
gitignore temporary CMake files
This fixes at least the startup process.
If an ambigous fix name was presented with --vor=ID or --ndb=ID
present a list of matching records along with frequency and
position in the console to give the user the chance to pick
the correct one by adding the frequency with --vor-frequency=nnn.nn
It does not yes solve the issue when the user relocates using the
GUI dialog. This requires some GUI and Nasal hacking along with a
new Nasal helper function "navaidinfo".
Whenever resolving a (relative) path to an absolute path with
'resolve_maybe_aircraft_path', check if the result is empty and report original
(relative) path as missing. Otherwise no or a meaningless message is
issued ("File '' not found.").
--ai-scenario=... can only add/enable another scenario.
Introduce --disable-ai-scenarios option to disable all scenarios (can be
used by external launchers, GUIs etc)
Also provide error instead of debug message when a scenario cannot be loaded.
Fixed ugly sim-reset issue: Persistent properties (USERARCHIVE attribute)
are retained across sim sessions (when restarting the sim). So they should
also be retained on sim-resets (without the need to first exit/restart
the sim to make them really persistent).
Also, avoid warning due to read-only properties.
Seems the hack was necessary for the pre-OSG display only. Or the feature
is broken since OSG port altogether. But it caused issues for 3D and 2D
cockpits when /sim/virtual-cockpit wasn't enabled. => Removing for now.
Original property-rules in keyboard.xml toggled master and clock freeze
independently - which caused issues when only one property was true. New
command toggles both properties consistently.
This reverts commit b36b33f716.
See #316: Caused issues with sky becoming black in dense fog.
Also: when the fog issue is solved, we could configure the constant
(black) clear color once only (during init), no need to do it in every
loop. Also, entire "if (skyblend) { ... } else {..}" was redundant,
since "if" and "else" clauses were all identical - and the "clearColor"
variables were unused. => Once the fog issue is solved, we can easily
improve the clearColor configuration here.
This class and their source files visual_enviro.[h|c]xx were
unused since OSG transition. It's only functionality was to
keep a variable for the enable-state of rendering of precipitation.
This has now been moved to SGPrecipitation.
This patch also removes all references to this class and
visual_enviro.hxx. Wxradar needs a new implementation for cloud
echoes which probably should be part of fgclouds.
See also SimGear commit 4e6159aa07f2817c09fad72db64d713e47f6f3da
New module contributed: AV400WSim.
Supports communication with external (aka real) Garmin 400/500 WAAS flight
sim units. Includes changes to options.cxx and fg_io.cxx to support
invoking and configuring the new module.
New "auto-position" switch to always use closest tower for tower-view.
Exposes new "/sim/airport/closest-airport-id" property.
Display closest airport on groundradar by default.
