FlightGear Newsletter April 2011: Difference between revisions

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== Development news ==
== Development news ==
=== Vostok-1 ===
[[Image:Vostok-1-Carrier-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Carrier]]
[[Image:Vostok-1-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Spacecraft]]
[[Image:Vostok-1-Interior-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Interior]]
To celebrate Yury Gagarin historical flight [[Vostok-1]] carrier and spacecraft had added to FG. In heavily development still, it allows full orbital flight from liftoff to landing already, first spaceflight in Flight Gear.
Things what makes it possible:
*JSBSim centrifugal force addition made whole flight available.
*JSBSim property driven point masses, tanks and engines, aerodynamic coefficients implementation allows stages changing. Each stage of flight have independent mass scheme, propulsion system, aerodynamics reactions, so simulation is more or less realistic.
*Datcom+ with "little wing" approach resolves carrier and spacecraft aerodynamic exactly enough to make flight on real fuel and oxidizer capacities with real g forces, orbit and deorbit paths.
*Zan's shader makes Earth looks pretty enough on high altitudes.
*FG improvement shifted practical flight celling from 80 to 160 kilometers.
First human spaceflight was fully automated. In Flight Gear it manual fully instead, to make it interesting and to let You understand how that stuff is going really.
Authors and developers, since Flight Gear orbital flight is possible for now, You are invited to make FG driven Mercury-Atlas project. Low Earth Orbit flights can be more exact and eyecandy in Flight Gear than in any current simulator. And You can be sure it will be free for You and users in any case.
=== Atmospheric scattering shader ===
=== Atmospheric scattering shader ===
Zan has been working very hard on an experimental atmospheric scattering [[shader]]. The shaders makes use of [http://sponeil.net/ Sean O'Neil's algorithm]. Altough there are some issues with the shader, it looks like it will have a promising future!
Zan has been working very hard on an experimental atmospheric scattering [[shader]]. The shaders makes use of [http://sponeil.net/ Sean O'Neil's algorithm]. Altough there are some issues with the shader, it looks like it will have a promising future!
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=== New aircraft ===
=== New aircraft ===
=== Vostok-1 ===
[[Image:Vostok-1-Carrier-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Carrier]]
[[Image:Vostok-1-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Spacecraft]]
[[Image:Vostok-1-Interior-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Interior]]
To celebrate Yury Gagarin's historical flight, [[Vostok-1]] carrier and spacecraft were added to FlightGear. In heavily development still, it allows full orbital flight from liftoff to landing already. Making it perform the first spaceflight in FlightGear.
Things that make it possible:
*[[JSBSim]] centrifugal force addition made whole flight available.
*JSBSim property driven point masses, tanks and engines, aerodynamic coefficients implementation allow stages changing. Each single stage of the flight has independent mass scheme, propulsion system, aerodynamics reactions, so simulation is more or less realistic.
*Datcom+ with "little wing" approach resolves carrier and spacecraft aerodynamic exactly enough to make flight on real fuel and oxidizer capacities with real g forces, orbit and deorbit paths.
*[[FlightGear Newsletter April 2011#Atmospheric scattering shader|Zan's shader]] makes the earth looks pretty enough from high altitudes.
*FG improvement shifted practical flight celling from 80 to 160 kilometers.
The first human spaceflight (in reallife) was fully automated. In FlightGear, controls are completely manual instead; to make it interesting and make you understand how it really works.
Authors and developers, since orbital flight is possible in FlightGear from now on, you are invited to make a FlightGear driven Mercury-Atlas project. Low earth orbit flights can be more exact and eyecandy in FlightGear than in any current simulator. And you can be sure it will be free for you and users in any case.
=== Updated aircraft ===
=== Updated aircraft ===
=== Liveries ===
=== Liveries ===