This patch is there to correct a problem that prevent to load static objects when specifying a relative fg-root or a different, relative, fg-scenery. It appears that there is a mix between fg-root, fg-scenery and PLIB's model-dir.
It has been reported on the list that users are not able to see the buildings, especially those running the win32 builds because they run 'runfgfs.bat' that set FG_ROOT=./DATA.
I decided not to use model-dir because it just add confusion and to build a valid path earlier.
immediate end to glut, only that I'm going through and cleaning up (and
taking inventory of the actual glut dependencies in case I want to investigate
SDL.)
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.
