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Source: Ticket #1686
Source: Ticket #1686
=== Aircraft Ratings Submission System in "Download Aircraft" webpage ===
we got to focus on creating a better "Aircraft Download" webpage with more functionality. Here are some ideas for consideration:
1.) Allow registered users thump up/down aircrafts and allow "sort by rating".
2.) Keep download stats to allow "short by downloads"
3.) Allow registered users to easily submit a different rating than the one the author set for Cockpit, FDM, Model and Systems. We may then show an average of these ratings as an alternative, or automatically perform re-evaluation of the shown data if a certain number of user ratings deviate greatly from what the author set. This will help us: a.) quickly rate all the unrated aircrafts, b.) raise the ratings of the underated models (strict/perfectionist authors) and c.) lower the rating of planes that have been over-rated.
Source: Ticket #1699
=== flightgear does not read groundnets from apt.dat.gz  ===
there are far more parking positions in apt.dat than in the xml files but flightgear does not use them so far.
Source: Ticket #1753
==== Decision: Implement during World Scenery 3.0 ====
=== non-solid taxi lines and other markings ===
Is it possible to make the taxilines non solid (and other)? At some airports the yellow taxilines are few centimeter higher than the ground, he plane jump up and down.
Maybe it is possible to interpolate new nodes for the line and to recalculate new elevations.
Source: Ticket #1767
==== Decision: Implement during World Scenery 3.0 ====

Revision as of 03:14, 6 July 2020

Describe the feature you would like to see implemented. Be as precise as possible and include additional information (e.g. links to certain websites). Please limit the request to reasonably small and simple features. Fundamental changes need to be discussed on the mailing list.

fgcom and radio through different sound device

It would be nice, if fgcom and all radio sounds could be routed through a different sound device. In noisy aircraft it is hard to hear anything. USB headsets are separate sound devices. Is that possible (on Linux)?

Source: Ticket #1641

Making screenshots every 1..100 milliseconds and sending it by UDP or another protocol

There is no ability in FlightGear to take frames from screen and send it permanently to another programm \(to computer vision system, for example\). It may be a good feature, that can do it.

Source: Ticket #1647

Manual view ordering

Currently if you want to have overhead panel, for example, to have one click away from the cockpit view, you have to a) contact the developer and hope that they find that order useful too or b) change it yourself. Choise 'b' isn't a big issue with production planes but it can become a hassle with those in active development. Also it can be very comforting for players who just want to fly.

Is it possible to change the menu so one could manually create a custom view order, for example moving the items up and down the list?

Source: Ticket #1664

Callsigns should be secured

The system that handles callsigns in multiplayer should be secured so that callsigns cannot be spoofed. A few days ago, I was involved in an incident in the KSFO area, connected with mpserver16, where an unknown individual began spoofing callsigns and used the callsigns of random pilots to make numerous racist jokes and comments.

Source: Ticket #1679

Canvas: Inverse clipping

Especially in HUD development it would be very useful to have opposite clipping in canvas.

Right now we can do this:

item.set("clip", "rect(62px, 687px, 262px, 337px)");

Would be nice if we could do the opposite, set a rectangle where there should not be drawn:

item.set("inv-clip", "rect(62px, 687px, 262px, 337px)");

Source: Ticket #1686

Aircraft Ratings Submission System in "Download Aircraft" webpage

we got to focus on creating a better "Aircraft Download" webpage with more functionality. Here are some ideas for consideration:

1.) Allow registered users thump up/down aircrafts and allow "sort by rating". 2.) Keep download stats to allow "short by downloads" 3.) Allow registered users to easily submit a different rating than the one the author set for Cockpit, FDM, Model and Systems. We may then show an average of these ratings as an alternative, or automatically perform re-evaluation of the shown data if a certain number of user ratings deviate greatly from what the author set. This will help us: a.) quickly rate all the unrated aircrafts, b.) raise the ratings of the underated models (strict/perfectionist authors) and c.) lower the rating of planes that have been over-rated.

Source: Ticket #1699

flightgear does not read groundnets from apt.dat.gz

there are far more parking positions in apt.dat than in the xml files but flightgear does not use them so far.

Source: Ticket #1753

Decision: Implement during World Scenery 3.0

non-solid taxi lines and other markings

Is it possible to make the taxilines non solid (and other)? At some airports the yellow taxilines are few centimeter higher than the ground, he plane jump up and down.

Maybe it is possible to interpolate new nodes for the line and to recalculate new elevations.

Source: Ticket #1767

Decision: Implement during World Scenery 3.0