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[[Portal:Developer|Developer]] - [[Portal:User|User]]
<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">Getting started</span><br />
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<span style="font-style:italic;">
[[How the FlightGear project works]] <br/>
[[Howto: Understand the FlightGear development process|The development process]] · [[Release plan]]<br/>
[[Building FlightGear]] · [[FlightGear and Git|Git]] · [[FlightGear Build Server|Build server]]<br/>
[[Property tree]] · [[File formats]] · [[Tools of the Trade]]</span>


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<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">General</span><br />
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! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#0f7a71; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #d9e2e2; text-align:left; color:white; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">The Developer Portal</h2>
[[Long Term Goals|Long term goals]] · [[:Category:Popular Community Requests|Popular Ideas]] · [[Google Summer of Code]]<br/>
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[[Project Infrastructure Enhancements|Project infrastructure enhancements]]<br/>
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[[Improving Glider Realism|Improving glider realism]] / [[Improving Helicopter Realism|helicopter realism]]<br/>
This portal is for developers contributing to FlightGear. If you want to help with FlightGears development, it's a good idea to subscribe yourself to the [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel FlightGear devel] mailing list. The [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=flightgear-devel list archive] is also available and should be searched before posting the same question.<br><br>
[[Howto:Set up a multiplayer server|Setting up a multiplayer server]] · [[FlightGear Expo Checklist|Expo checklist]]</span>
'''Please choose a sub-portal:'''
* [[Portal:Developer/3D Modelers|3D Modelers]]
* [[Portal:Developer/Aircraft|Aircraft]]
* [[Portal:Developer/Scenery|Scenery]]<br><br>
'''The FlightGear project is looking for organizations/individuals who would be willing to help sponsor a fulltime project coordinator/manager to help oversee the overall development process If you are interested in helping or have anything else to contribute to this issue, please subscribe to the the [http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11813.html FlightGear Devel mailing list] to discuss details.''' (Note that the FlightGear project can apply for free funding/sponsoring with [http://www.nlnet.nl nlnet]-applications are to be sent [http://www.nlnet.nl/foundation/request/index.html here]-you can help prepare a template for applying: [[Funding Application]])
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[[Howto:Troubleshooting Aircraft Performance Issues]]·
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[[Howto: Make an aircraft|Making an aircraft]] · [[Flight Dynamics Model|Flight dynamics model]]<br/>
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[[Howto: 3D Aircraft Models|3D aircraft models]] · [[Howto: Edit a livery|Liveries]] · [[:Category:Aircraft resources|Resources]]<br/>
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[[Soaring instrumentation sdk]] · [[Creating instruments for FG|Creating instruments]] · [[System dependent instruments|System dependent instruments]]<br/>
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[[Howto: Design an autopilot|Designing an autopilot]]</span>
*[[FlightGear Package Manager]] (New! Alpha release of [[Java]]/[[XML]] package manager!)
*[[Walk View‎]] (New! walk view code!)
*[[FlightGear Contest]]
'''[[Work in progress|More...]]'''


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<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">Animations</span><br />
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[[Howto: Animate models|Animate models]] · [[Howto: Illuminate faces|Illuminate objects]]<br/>
* [[ Project Infrastructure Enhancements ]]
[[Howto: Animate gear scissors|Gear scissors]] · [[Tracking animation]]<br/>
* [[Google Summer of Code Candidate Projects]] - application template to allow community members to prepare a possible application to decrease the effort required to actually apply
[[Howto: Make a clickable panel|Clickable panels]] · [[Knob / slider animation]]</span>
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* [[Pending Patches]] (2 listed for the moment)
* [[Segfaults]] - Reproducible Critical Bugs in FlightGear
* [[Showstoppers]] - Annoying Issues in FlightGear
* [[FlightGear Glitches]] (graphical/scenery related glitches)
* [[Usability Improvements]] (list of related feature requests)
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* [[Programming Resources]]
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* [[ Building Flightgear ]]
* [[ Building Flightgear - Windows]]
* [http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/how-to-build-flightgear-cvs-on-mac-os-x/ Building Flightgear - Mac OS X]
* [[ Building FlightGear Launch Control ]]
* [[ Building Terragear ]]
* [[ Keeping FlightGear (win32) up to date without compiling]]
* [[ OpenSceneGraph ]]
* [[ Tools of the Trade ]]
* [[ Using TortoiseCVS with FlightGear ]]
* [[ Flightgear and Git ]]
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* [[ Code Cleanup ]]
* [[ Contributor Repositories ]] mirrors, branches and forks privately maintained by contributors
* [[ Development Resources ]]
* [[ Extension Support ]]
* [[ Submitting Patches ]]
* [[ Technical Reports ]]
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* [[Command Parameters]]  
* [[ FDM API ]]
* [[ File Formats ]]
* [[ Initialization Sequence ]]
* [[ Nasal scripting language ]]
* [[ Property Tree ]]
* [[ Subsystems ]]
* [[ UML Diagrams ]]
* [[ YASim ]]
* [[ FlightGear 1.0 aircraft names for command line‎|1.0.0 a/c names for command line]]


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<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">Core</span><br />
<span style="font-style:italic;">
[[:Category:FlightGear Core developers|List of Core Developers]] · [[:Category:Developer Plans|Developer Plans]] · [[:Category:Core development projects|Projects]] <br/>
[[Howto: Start core development|Getting started]] · [[Programming resources]] · [[Nasal/CppBind|Adding scripting bindings]]<br/>
[[Howto:Add new fgcommands to FlightGear|Adding fgcommands]] · [[Howto:Create new subsystems|Creating subsystems]] <br/>
[[Built-in Profiler]] · [[Howto:Extend Nasal]] · [[Howto:Using Ada in FlightGear]] <small>(<font color="red">updated!</font>)</small><br/>
[[Howto:Use Property Tree Objects]] · [[Code cleanup]] <br/>
[[FlightGear-Points of Interest]] · [[Request for comments]] <br/>
[[OpenSceneGraph]] · [[Rendering system improvements]]</span>


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<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">[[Portal:Developer/Scenery|Scenery]]</span><br />
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[[Procedural Texturing]]<br/>
[[Howto: Place 3D objects with the UFO|Placing objects]] · [[Signs|Airport signs]]<br/>
[[Howto: Convert objects from X-Plane|Converting from X-Plane/MSFS]]<br/>
[[Howto: Make an airport|Making an airport]] · [[Using TerraGear|Generating terrain]]<br/>
[[AI Traffic]]</span>


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<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">[[Nasal|Scripting]]</span><br />
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[[Nasal FAQ|Frequently asked questions]] · [[Howto:Write simple scripts in Nasal|Writing simple scripts]] <br />
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[[Nasal for C++ programmers]] · [[Nasal Variables|Variables and their types]] <br />
* [[ Bugs ]]
[[Nasal Conditionals|Conditionals]] · [[Nasal Loops|Loops]] · [[Nasal Operators|Operators]] · [[Nasal Console|In-sim console]]</span>
* [[ Feature Requests / Proposals / Ideas ]]
* [[ FGFS Todo ]]
* [[ FlightGear Expo Checklist ]]
* [[ Long Term Goals ]]
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* [[Howto: Add smooth ("Ambient Occlusion") shadows in Blender|Add smooth shadows in Blender]]
* [[Howto: 3D Aircraft Models|3D Aircraft Models]]
* [[Howto: Add aircraft lights|Add aircraft lights]]
* [[Howto: Edit a livery|Edit a livery]]
* [[Howto: Illuminate faces|Illuminate faces]]
* [[Howto: Make a helicopter|Make a helicopter]]
* [[Howto: Set up a multiplayer server|Set up a multiplayer server]]
'''[[:Category:Howto|More...]]'''
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* [[ Nasal scripting language ]]
* [[ Writing simple scripts in %22nasal%22 ]]
* [[ Walk View‎]]
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* [http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/XMLAutopilot/ FlightGear Autopilot] (Theory, Configuration, and Tuning)
* [[ Autopilot Tuning Resources ]]
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* [http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/19/25-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-blender/ 25 tutorials to get you started with blender]
* [http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/09/50-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-gimp/ 50 tutorials to get started with gimp]
* [[ Howto: 3D Aircraft Models|3D Aircraft Models]] (howto)
* [[ Aircraft Information Resources ]]
* [[ Model Import and Export ]]
* [[ Modeling - FAQ ]]
* [[ Modeling - Getting Started ]]
* [[ Modeling Resources ]]
* [[ Modeling - SketchUp]]
* [[ Normals and Transparency Tutorial ]]
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro Blender3D Modeling]
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<span style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold">Effects and shaders</span><br />
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[[Shaders]] · [[Project Rembrandt]]<br/>
[[Howto:Shader Programming in FlightGear|Shader programming in FlightGear]]<br/>
[[Shader Coding - Best Practices|Best Practices]] · [[GLSL Shader Programming Resources|GLSL resources]]</span>
 
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== Developer Documentation ==
{{Main page/Leftbox|title=Put a piece of yourself into FlightGear!
=== RFC Topics ===
  |contents=In FlightGear, "development" is [[Howto:Understand the FlightGear development process|anything that improves the project]]. So, it's not just code-related [[Howto:Start core development|core development]]. There's also [[Portal:Developer/Scenery|scenery development]], [[Portal:Developer/Aircraft|aircraft development]] and all the stuff you can see in the column here on the left. If you want an extended overview, check out the [[Volunteer]] page.
'''Clarification:'''In its current form, the RFC section is exclusively based on and covered by previous mailing list and forum discussions (as well as various wiki entries), as such it is not supposed to reflect work in progress (RFC="Request For Comments" and not WIP), but is rather to be seen as an attempt to provide comprehensive analyses and summaries of key issues identified in various FlightGear related discussions and feature requests (which are to be linked to in the corresponding resource sections, if that didn't yet take place, it's because of most of these RFCs being indeed WIP).
Thus, RFC entries are not meant to imply anyone "working" on any of these issues, in fact only because an RFC entry is listed here doesn't necessarily mean that work on that particular issue is prioritized or generally endorsed by the FlightGear community.  
These RFC documents are however intended to hopefully help increase and maintain awareness of long-standing issues and challenges affecting FlightGear's evolution and overall development progress in order to solicit community feedback about possible approaches to address these in an efficient and structured fashion.
Anybody is welcome to comment on, help refine and develop new strategies to tackle the challenges presented in these and future RFCs.


* [[Autopilot Enhancements]] - enhancing the autopilot infrastructure.
Actually that's not all you can contribute. There's also documentation, with the [[FlightGear Manual]]... and this wiki of course! To contribute to the wiki, head off to the [[Portal:Wiki|Wiki Portal]]. There's a lot to do there too.
* [[Backwards Compatibility Initiative]] - discussing possible ways to improve FlightGear's backwards compatibility.
 
* [[Distributed Interactive Simulation|Multiplayer Enhancements]] - discussing possible steps to enhance FlightGear's Multiplayer support.
If you want to get in touch with other developers, register an account at the [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewforum.php?f=18 forum], and for core development subscribe to the [[mailing list]] too and consider visiting the {{tickets|issue tracker}}.
* [[FDM engine feature standardization]] - discussing possible steps to standardize feature support of mainstream FlightGear FDM engines.
 
* [[FlightGear Glass Cockpits]] - discussing required infrastructure changes to enable non-developers to easily access FlightGear-internals in order to enable them to model complex glass cockpit-type aircraft instrumentation systems.
Remember: we might call it volunteering, but what should drive you is [[How the FlightGear project works|the fun of doing something]].
* [[FlightGear Headless]] - discussing required steps to enable FlightGear to be used as its own regression testing framework
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* [[FlightGear Sessions]] - discussing possible steps to finally allow aircraft to be reliably switched at runtime.
 
* [[Formalizing Aircraft Status]] - discussing suggestions about how to more properly describe aircraft development status.
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* [[Keyboard function priority list]] - reorganizing FlightGear keybindings.
  |contents=Visit [[:Category:Core development projects]] to see a list of currently ongoing projects!
* [[Next Generation Scenery ]] - revamping the FG scenery engine.
See [[:Category:Developer Plans]] to see a list of developer plans for the upcoming release.
* [[Property Tree Reorganization]] - reorganizing the property tree (i.e. implementing and enforcing existing property/node naming conventions).
See [[request for comments]] for a list of long-standing issues and challenges affecting FlightGear's evolution and overall development progress (admittedly a little outdated meanwhile).
* [[Recommended Property Tree Enhancements]] - discussing possible property tree enhancements to help ensure integrity of crucial runtime state.
 
* [[Recommended Project Policies]] - discussing recommended policies for future contributions to the project.
'''Help needed:'''
* [[Simplifying Aircraft Deployment]] - identifying potential steps to simplify deployment of FlightGear aircraft.
 
The [[YASim]] FDM is looking for a new maintainer:
 
{{cquote|There are some pending merge requests[http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/flightgear-devel/thread/533DBD01.9040802%40sol2500.net/#msg32183541] to add some YASim features, but we have an issue that since none of the current C++ developers own, or are experts in YASim, we're reluctant to be the person who merges such changes, and potentially introduces subtle regressions.
 
Obviously this is chicken-and-egg, since no one can become expert enough in the  code to become a maintainer :)
 
So, I'm more than happy to apply patches *providing* I can be convinced they are sane+reasonable from a pure code perspective (happy to help with that, too,
if people are new to C++), and providing we have some assurance that a representative sample of YASim aircraft are unchanged or improved by the patch.
Suggestions for that means in practice, are most welcome!
 
Otherwise I worry, given the nature of the solver, we'll keep optimising the solver for some aircraft, and making other existing aircraft worse - until someone tests them, and announced that they're no longer working.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg23986.html
|title=YASim and documentation
|author=James Turner |date= Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:54:43 -0700}}</ref>|James Turner}}
 
{{cquote|I am still broadly happy to answer questions if posed (as long as I remember enough to come up with a meaningful answer).  Just cc: me if you do, because my latencies here are measured in weeks.Bugs can always be fixed.  What YASim needs is a maintainer, not really expertise per se.  The latter comes from the former.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg23986.html
|title=YASim and documentation
|author=Andy Ross |date= Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:54:43 -0700}}</ref>|Andy Ross}}
 
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{{Main page/Leftbox|title=Coding Help Needed! (Updated 06/2020)
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* {{Progressbar|70}} [[Compositor#TODO|Compositor roadmap]]
* {{Progressbar|40}} [[Deboosting FlightGear|Replacing boost]]
* {{Pending}} [[CompositeViewer Support|Switching to osgViewer::CompositeViewer]] (multiple scenery cameras and moving maps)
* {{Pending}} [[World Scenery 3.0 roadmap]]
* {{Pending}} [[Reset & re-init]]  
* {{Pending}} [[Canvas Development]] - discusses possible future Canvas additions
* {{Pending}} [[Canvas Properties#Planned Features|Canvas Project (Planned Features)]] (fully scriptable 2D rendering API)
* {{Pending}} [[Canvas Widgets#Missing_.2F_Todo|Canvas Widgets (Missing Features)]] (Canvas GUI layer for scriptable widgets)
* {{Pending}} [[Howto:Use Property Tree Objects|Depreciate tied properties and use PropertyObjects instead]]
 
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  |contents=Every month we try to include an interview with a contributor in the [[FlightGear Newsletter]]. Anyone contributing to FlightGear, in whatever way, is welcome to answer a few questions and write his/her own interview.
 
More info at [[FlightGear Newsletter: Interview]].
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Revision as of 03:38, 6 September 2020

Welcome to the developer portal

Please visit our forum if you cannot find what you're looking for.
 
 

Put a piece of yourself into FlightGear!

In FlightGear, "development" is anything that improves the project. So, it's not just code-related core development. There's also scenery development, aircraft development and all the stuff you can see in the column here on the left. If you want an extended overview, check out the Volunteer page.

Actually that's not all you can contribute. There's also documentation, with the FlightGear Manual... and this wiki of course! To contribute to the wiki, head off to the Wiki Portal. There's a lot to do there too.

If you want to get in touch with other developers, register an account at the forum, and for core development subscribe to the mailing list too and consider visiting the issue tracker.

Remember: we might call it volunteering, but what should drive you is the fun of doing something.
 
 

For core developers

Visit Category:Core development projects to see a list of currently ongoing projects! See Category:Developer Plans to see a list of developer plans for the upcoming release. See request for comments for a list of long-standing issues and challenges affecting FlightGear's evolution and overall development progress (admittedly a little outdated meanwhile).

Help needed:

The YASim FDM is looking for a new maintainer:

Cquote1.png There are some pending merge requests[1] to add some YASim features, but we have an issue that since none of the current C++ developers own, or are experts in YASim, we're reluctant to be the person who merges such changes, and potentially introduces subtle regressions.

Obviously this is chicken-and-egg, since no one can become expert enough in the code to become a maintainer :)

So, I'm more than happy to apply patches *providing* I can be convinced they are sane+reasonable from a pure code perspective (happy to help with that, too, if people are new to C++), and providing we have some assurance that a representative sample of YASim aircraft are unchanged or improved by the patch. Suggestions for that means in practice, are most welcome!

Otherwise I worry, given the nature of the solver, we'll keep optimising the solver for some aircraft, and making other existing aircraft worse - until someone tests them, and announced that they're no longer working.[1]
— James Turner
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Cquote1.png I am still broadly happy to answer questions if posed (as long as I remember enough to come up with a meaningful answer). Just cc: me if you do, because my latencies here are measured in weeks.Bugs can always be fixed. What YASim needs is a maintainer, not really expertise per se. The latter comes from the former.[2]
— Andy Ross
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  1. James Turner (Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:54:43 -0700). YASim and documentation.
  2. Andy Ross (Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:54:43 -0700). YASim and documentation.
 
 

Coding Help Needed! (Updated 06/2020)


 
 

Wanted: interview candidates

Every month we try to include an interview with a contributor in the FlightGear Newsletter. Anyone contributing to FlightGear, in whatever way, is welcome to answer a few questions and write his/her own interview.

More info at FlightGear Newsletter: Interview.

Development repository status

Current release: 2020.3.19 (18 Oct 2023)
Next release: 2020.3.20
See release plan for details.

Getting started
How the FlightGear project works
The development process · Release plan
Building FlightGear · Git · Build server
Property tree · File formats · Tools of the Trade

General
Long term goals · Popular Ideas · Google Summer of Code
Project infrastructure enhancements
Improving glider realism / helicopter realism
Setting up a multiplayer server · Expo checklist

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Aircraft
Howto:Troubleshooting Aircraft Performance Issues· Making an aircraft · Flight dynamics model
3D aircraft models · Liveries · Resources
Soaring instrumentation sdk · Creating instruments · System dependent instruments
Designing an autopilot

Nuvola apps kaboodle.png

Animations
Animate models · Illuminate objects
Gear scissors · Tracking animation
Clickable panels · Knob / slider animation

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Core
List of Core Developers · Developer Plans · Projects
Getting started · Programming resources · Adding scripting bindings
Adding fgcommands · Creating subsystems
Built-in Profiler · Howto:Extend Nasal · Howto:Using Ada in FlightGear (updated!)
Howto:Use Property Tree Objects · Code cleanup
FlightGear-Points of Interest · Request for comments
OpenSceneGraph · Rendering system improvements

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Scenery
Procedural Texturing
Placing objects · Airport signs
Converting from X-Plane/MSFS
Making an airport · Generating terrain
AI Traffic

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Scripting
Frequently asked questions · Writing simple scripts
Nasal for C++ programmers · Variables and their types
Conditionals · Loops · Operators · In-sim console

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Effects and shaders
Shaders · Project Rembrandt
Shader programming in FlightGear
Best Practices · GLSL resources