FlightGear Newsletter July 2010: Difference between revisions

For other ideas on starting to contribute to FlightGear, you may want to check out: [[Volunteer]].

We would like to remind all readers that the FlightGear project is planning to participate in Google's Summer of Code 2011.  

If you have any questions or other feedback related to GSoC, please use the forum to get in touch: http://flightgear.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=38

==Development news==

As some of you may already know, there is now an orchestrated effort going on to get FlightGear ready for becoming a mentoring organization in Google's Summer of Code 2011.  

For the time being, one topic from the "New Features" sub forum has already been moved to this new forum, it is about a suggestion to procedurally populate the FlightGear scenery with dynamically created cities, for more details please check out [[AutoGen Scenery for FlightGear]].

Michael contributes new FlightGear mapping software to the communitiy, written in the Ruby programming language: [http://rubyforge.org/projects/fgmap FGMap]. Basically it shows your current flight position on an [http://openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] map. It therefore has some similarity to [[Atlas]] and the online [[MPMap]]s. As with all projects, [http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=9572&atid=37032 feedback] is highly appreciated.

Downloads and more information are available at [http://rubyforge.org/projects/fgmap the project's website].

Last month, the infamous [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Howto:_Get_rid_of_common_errors#Warning:_Picked_up_TriangleIntersect QNaN errors] that may cause FlightGear to become [[Showstoppers|unresponsive]] have been linked to potential issues in the Nasal interpreter (and more generally Nasal code) by flug, for more details please see: [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8483&p=83701 "Nasal source of Dreaded Triangle Error-source of many probs?"].

For the time being, you will want to look out for any Nasal code that contains unchecked divisions with unvalidated divisors.

[[Nasal]] is the name of FlightGear's built in scripting language that allows people to easily create custom logics for adjusting and driving FlightGear internals without having to modify the C++ source code or recompile FlightGear.  

To use Nasal you don't need to be a programmer, in fact Nasal is so simple that it can be used by people without any prior programming experience at all. Still Nasal is very powerful and flexible.

London Gatwick EGKK may be downloaded from [http://www.mediafire.com/?t2ml5ezmgwv MediaFire].

==Aircraft review==