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So far, we haven't actually coded up any heuristics at all: We merely ended up implementing the previously mentioned helper class to monitor/track an aircraft using a timer object, and call a single buildInstruction() routine that internally deals with two geo.Coord() objects, one representing the destination (i.e. runway) and the other the permanently updated position of the aircraft that is being tracked. | |||
We also looked up screen shots of actual ATC software to see what kind of parameters can commonly be configured for a GCA, which is why we put together a Canvas based UI dialog to more easily configure the GCA in FlightGear, including the corresponding offsets. | |||
The whole thing is implemented in a fashion so that it can also be told to monitor AI/MP nodes, but also to be able to emit instructions using arbitrary output properties - which is to say that the script is capable of monitoring an AI/MP aircraft, and issuing instructions using the MP "chat" properties (just as well as the festival/flite TTS properties, or '''Spoken ATC''' itself). | |||
In other words, once the heuristics are added, you could literally be running the GCA script on a multiplayer client to have it issue instructions to another MP client across the continent. | |||
For the time being, there won't be any changes, but it's reached a state where it should be fairly straightforward to add custom heuristics, or even let it track/control AI nodes like tanker.nas<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=316981#p316981 | |||
|title = <nowiki> Re: Spoken ATC </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> Hooray </nowiki> | |||
|date = Aug 20th, 2017 | |||
|added = Aug 20th, 2017 | |||
|script_version = 0.40 | |||
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