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The Developer Portal This portal is for developers contributing to FlightGear. If you wanna help with FlightGears development, it's a good idea to subscribe yourself to the FlightGear devel mailing list. The list archive is also available and should be searched before posting the same question. Please choose a sub-portal: Scenery 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 FlightGear Devel mailing list to discuss details.

Latest Organizational Issues Project Infrastructure Enhancements 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 Background Info Resources Compiling Building Flightgear Building Flightgear - Windows Building FlightGear Launch Control Building Terragear Keeping FlightGear (win32) up to date without compiling OpenSceneGraph Tools of the Trade Using TortoiseCVS with FlightGear Contributing Code Cleanup Contributor Repositories mirrors, branches and forks privately maintained by contributors Development Resources Extension Support Submitting Patches Technical Reports Code Internals Command Parameters FDM API File Formats Initialization Sequence Nasal scripting language Property Tree Subsystems UML Diagrams YASim 1.0.0 a/c names for command line Current Efforts/Branches & Work in Progress Warning! These links outdated, and some of these projects are finished: Efforts to create photo realistic scenery for FlightGear (Images: [1] [2] [3] [4] New aircraft model under development: Bede BD-5J F14-Tomcat aircraft model under development (F-14 released!) 787 being revamped LFLJ enhancements Free Walking mode for FlightGear using the Jeep vehicle in CVS Random Trees for FlightGear More...

Todo Bugs Feature Requests / Proposals / Ideas FGFS Todo FlightGear Expo Checklist Long Term Goals Done Changes since 0.9.10 HowTos Add smooth shadows in Blender 3D Aircraft Models Add aircraft lights Edit a livery Illuminate faces Make a helicopter Set up a multiplayer server More... Instrumentation Creating instruments for FG Nasal scripting Nasal scripting language Writing simple scripts in "nasal" Autopilot configuration FlightGear Autopilot (Theory, Configuration, and Tuning) Autopilot Tuning Resources 3D Modeling 3D Aircraft Models (howto) Aircraft Information Resources Model Import and Export Modeling - FAQ Modeling - Getting Started Modeling Resources Modeling - SketchUp Normals and Transparency Tutorial Blender3D Modeling Scenery Blender Ground Signs Tutorial Placing 3D Objects with the UFO Signs (placing and explanation) Using Terragear Using the Custom Scenery TerraGear Toolset Building Terragear-cs in Ubuntu Hardy

Developer Documentation

RFC Topics

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 endorsed by the FlightGear community.

• Next Generation Scenery - revamping the FG scenery engine
• Keyboard function priority list - reorganizing FlightGear keybindings
• 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
• Simplifying Aircraft Deployment - identifying potential steps to simplify deployment of FlightGear aircraft
• 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
• Recommended Property Tree Enhancements - discussing possible property tree enhancements to help ensure integrity of crucial runtime state
• Backwards Compatibility Initiative - discussing possible ways to improve FlightGear's backwards compatibility
• Recommended Project Policies - discussing recommended policies for future contributions to the project
• Distributed Interactive Simulation - discussing possible steps to prepare FlightGear for HLA
• Property Tree Reorganization - reorganizing the property tree (i.e. implementing and enforcing existing property/node naming conventions)

Miscellaneous

• Glass Cockpit Projects
• Copyright Inquiry
• FlightGear - Gear
• Sign Specification Proposal

Middleware & Base Package Development

• Category:Aircraft TODO

Misc

• FGSD- How to make a airport