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== Development news == | == Development news == | ||
=== Heads up: Project Rembrandt === | === Heads up: Project Rembrandt === | ||
As many of you may have heard already, Fred is currently making huge progress on adding shadows to FlightGear in [[Project Rembrandt]]. Now, F-JJTH ported the P92 to use the new system and posted a youtube video demonstrating [[Project Rembrandt]] at work. To provide feedback, please check out the the [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=14883 forum thread]. | As many of you may have heard already, Fred is currently making huge progress on adding shadows to FlightGear in [[Project Rembrandt]]. Now, F-JJTH ported the P92 to use the new system and posted a youtube video demonstrating [[Project Rembrandt]] at work. To provide feedback, please check out the the [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=14883 forum thread]. | ||
{{#ev:youtube|v02phoOqWHE|400|Project Rembrandt at work}} | {{#ev:youtube|v02phoOqWHE|400|Project Rembrandt at work}} [[File:Project-rembrandt-cockpit-lighting.png|400px|Cockpit lighting in Project Rembrandt at work (by F-JJTH)]] | ||
== Interview with a contributor (NAME) == | == Interview with a contributor (NAME) == | ||
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== In the hangar == | == In the hangar == | ||
All the way back in May 2011, we addopted a new status-rating system for aircraft. So far, only a few have actually been rated, as can be seen in the list 'hockenberry' set up at [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApzphjA4w05ndF94Y2F0bzJTbHQ5QTJXZXJRcUVRbWc&hl=en_US Google Docs]. If you're an aircraft developer and your aircraft is/are not on the list, please consider rating their status. All you'll need to know/do is described at [[Formalizing Aircraft Status]]. If you'd just like to get started contributing to FlightGear, this would also seem like an excellent way to get started. | |||
=== A new instrument: Vertical Situation Display === | |||
[[File:Omega95-vsd-instrument.jpeg|250px|thumb|Omega95's VSD instrument]] | |||
Omega95 has created an entirely new instrument type for FlightGear, a so called Vertical Situation Display (VSD). This was done entirely in scripting space using Nasal and XML animations. He's basically proven everbody wrong who ever claimed that complex instruments couldn't yet be created in scripting space. Apparently, he managed to create this instrument in less than 24 hrs. His first question related to this was about accessing trigonometric functions from Nasal, shortly thereafter he posted screen shots depicting his VSD. | |||
To read up on the whole discussion, please see [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15200 the forum topic]. There's work ongoing to turn his project into a new tutorial for the wiki on creating complex instruments in scripting space: [[Howto: Implement a Vertical Situation Display in Nasal]]. | |||
=== Glider winch launching ropes === | |||
[[File:DG-101G_winch_launch_with_rope.png|thumb|250px|A DG-101G during a winch launch.]] | |||
FlightGear never showed ropes during winch launching. [[User:Gijs|Gijs]] started working on an animated 3D rope, attached to the glider and winch. The cable exist of the following parts: | |||
* '''Strop''' (3 m) attached to the glider with a ring. | |||
* '''Weak link assembly''' designed to break apart before the cable or any other equipment fails. | |||
* '''Trace''' (17 m) | |||
* '''Parachute''' so the cable doesn't drop too quickly after releasing. | |||
* '''Launch cable''' the longest part; all the way to the winch. | |||
=== New aircraft === | === New aircraft === | ||