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FlightGear Newsletter August 2011 (view source)
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=== AI/ATC interactions === | === AI/ATC interactions === | ||
[[File:Ehamrwyblock.png|thumb| Heavily congested taxiways at Schiphol after the 777-200 had been blocking active runway 24 for nearly 4 hours.]] | [[File:Ehamrwyblock.png|thumb| Heavily congested taxiways at Schiphol after the 777-200 had been blocking active runway 24 for nearly 4 hours.]] | ||
Even though the preparations for our upcoming release were still going on at full throttle, development for the next release had already started. In early | Even though the preparations for our upcoming release were still going on at full throttle, development for the next release had already started. In early August code changes were committed, which allow FlightGear users to interact with an artifically intelligent ATC system. Currently it is possible to request startup clearance, permission for push back, as well as taxi-clearances. A brand new, and highly experimental, ground network visualization system makes it possible to taxi from parking to runway along the route given by ATC. Hold position and resume taxi instructions can be be given in order to avoid collisions with other (AI controlled) aircraft. Hand-off to a tower controller has been inplemented.More interactive take off procedures, are in the planning stages. The aim is to have all stages of IFR commercial aviation traffic under ATC control before the release of flightgear 2.6.0, which is planned for early 2012. | ||
=== Local Weather moving to a new rendering technique === | |||
[[File:Local-weather-v1.5-2.jpg|thumb| Clouds in Local Weather using the new rendering system.]] | |||
The Local Weather package is currently undergoing a restructuring to make use of the Nasal interface to the system generating the default 3d clouds written by Stuart. This system has better performance, faster loading times of cloudlets and can move clouds in the wind far more efficiently, which in essence means improved framerate with higher detail level of clouds. | |||
First tests (so far without any cloud-terrain interactions) look very promising, but there are still significant problems both on the Nasal and on the hard-coded side of the interface left. | |||
Together with significant improvements in the speed of terrain quearies (about a factor 50 faster now!), this should mean that even detailed modelling of cloud-terrain interaction should be possible in the future. | |||
An experimental release (with several features unavailable) will probably be ready by mid-September. | |||
== Nasal for newbies == | == Nasal for newbies == | ||