FlightGear Headless: Difference between revisions

The original FG scene graph design is based on rigid assumptions of the ordering of the sequence of events for start up and shut down. Branch management is highly inconsistent, and is scattered all over the flightgear and simgear codebases. But it worked perfectly due to the fixed event sequences. The new subsystem design however brings in a much more flexible design, whereby systems can be dynamically turned on, turned off, restarted, initialised, reinitialised, etc. This is essential for enabling rebooting, and allows for custom FlightGear usage of only a small subset of systems and for a headless mode. The OSG+subsystem breakage occurred once the scene manager subsystem was fully converted to the new design. The OSG scene graph root is created at the start of FGScenery::init(). With the subsystem design, the scene graph root may not be present when other flightgear/simgear code paths are called to create, manage, or destroy the various scene graph branches.<ref>{{cite web