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One major motivation for introducing the traffic manager II file format is to make it easier for FlightGear users to contribute to the traffic database. To further motivate this, some tools are currently in development that aim to make user interaction even easier. Although most of these tools are not ready for public use yet, it is probably worth mentioning some of these developments. First of all, the custrom scenery project is working on extending their scene model database to store traffic. A web based front end will allow users to enter their favorite flight, and thus collect an extensive amount of traffic data. Users will be able to download the collected results and place the downloaded files in their traffic directory. | One major motivation for introducing the traffic manager II file format is to make it easier for FlightGear users to contribute to the traffic database. To further motivate this, some tools are currently in development that aim to make user interaction even easier. Although most of these tools are not ready for public use yet, it is probably worth mentioning some of these developments. First of all, the custrom scenery project is working on extending their scene model database to store traffic. A web based front end will allow users to enter their favorite flight, and thus collect an extensive amount of traffic data. Users will be able to download the collected results and place the downloaded files in their traffic directory. | ||
Secondly, the author of the traffic manager code has written some scripts, mainly for private use, that will allow one to input the flight data into a simple text format and then convert the resulting text file to xml. The most important of these scripts | Secondly, the author of the traffic manager code has written some scripts, mainly for private use, that will allow one to input the flight data into a simple text format and then convert the resulting text file to xml. The most important of these scripts can be found in the flightgear source package under scripts/perl/traffic/. | ||
Creating AI traffic files this way is easy. First, you need to define the aircraft for each fleet (data taken from the June 2010 Malayasian project): | Creating AI traffic files this way is easy. First, you need to define the aircraft for each fleet (data taken from the June 2010 Malayasian project): | ||