Hackathon Proposal: Multiplayer Improvements

Title:	Multiplayer Improvements
Sponsors:	MariuszXC
Interested Parties:	MariuszXC
Status:	n/a
Summary:	Improving ground-referenced presentation of remote players' planes
Background:	forum topic https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=39846
Details:	Due to scenery differences some aircraft are shown partially sunk or floating, even when their GND flag is true.
Required skills:	Nasal
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Progress during the Hackaton

Under the topic of Multiplayer Improvements we actually worked on two issues:

• ground reference of remote aircraft,
• tracing a cause of low resolution remote aircraft model displayed together with the cockpit model.

With the first issue we had success applying the necessary corrections, so a model does not appear floating or partially sunk. Since the offset needed to be applied to a low-res model and to the high-res may be different, we are investigating further on how to dynamically decide which needs to be applied.

With the second issue we identified the cause of the problem, defined a solution and are working on implementing it.

Progress after the Hackaton (current state)

We tested a solution to the second problem and found it working. We are now waiting for a code review.

Update: Code review passed with success. As of commit ID bda359 our solution is in Flight Gear.