User:Laserman
Hi!
I'm Laserman. My callsign is d-laser.
My nick on the forum is pommesschranke.
sometimes you can find me on mumble.allfex.org
Screenshots
- FlightGear, Multiplayer events, FGUK-Saturday, osgEarth:
https://plus.google.com/photos/109278059987600403431/albums
- scenery: http://www.23hq.com/laserman/album/18137297
- osm2city scenery: http://www.23hq.com/laserman/album/17753165
Videos(mostly RC Heli, electronics, ...)
http://www.youtube.com/user/pommesschranke2
Hardware
I did build a hardware cockpit panel with EFIS,MCP and radio for FlightGear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_st-qdq4yco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHcjeJKOoQ
http://www.23hq.com/9484739/14884128_d8fb309ef8cc3ef87f642779168ad178_large.jpg
http://www.23hq.com/laserman/photo/15011591?3hq.com/laserman/photo/15011591?
http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/11/home-cockpit-aka-simpit/
http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/12/home-cockpit-pt-2-many-ios/
http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/26/home-cockpit-baubericht-teil-3/
http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/29/home-cockpit-baubericht-teil-4/
(GPL) firmware for the atmega32 microcontroller:
https://gitorious.org/laserman-s-hardware-panel-for-flightgear/test/source/master
(GPL) Software
- gpx2stg.py converter script: converts from gpx files (from JOSM or other sources) into .stg lines
- wed2stg.py: reads earth.wed.xml(created with WED) and writes .stg line to STDOUT
- tools for reading & generating apt.dat (from/to ASCII, Postgres, sqlite)
- gateway_pull.py: a tool to download airport layouts (ICAO.dat) from gateway.x-plane.com
- a little python script that receives properties via USB-serial and forwards to FlightGear via UDP socket
- the firmware for my Hardware Panel written in C (avr-gcc)
- a multitouch, multiplatform python/kivy app http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_TQPanel
- https://gitorious.org/~laserman
- https://gitorious.org/fg/lasermans-fgdata/source/c573f73176fc32b9bdea81333ff7bb66e0bee215:Tools
new germanwings livery for A320,A319...
(quick & dirty) http://www.23hq.com/9484741/13249751_b6a278a9ce5a1fbe6f9845186834cfa0_large.jpg
stuff that I did, am doing and plan to do
airport improvements
Belgium
- EBAW Antwerpen-Deurne
- EBBE Beauvechain Airport MIL
- EBBR Brussels Airport
- EBBY Baisy-Thy
- EBBZ Buzet
- EBCF Cerfontaine
- EBCI Brussels South
- EBFS Florennes MIL
- EBGB Grimbergen
- EBLG layout is incomplete, no buildings yet
- EBOS Oostende-Brugge
- EBSG Saint-Ghislain
- EBSW Sint-Pieters-Leeuw heliport
- EBTY Tournai
Croatia
- LDZA Zagreb
Germany
Slovenia
rest of the world
- MDPC
static models
- Halde Hoheward Done
- Zénith de Strasbourg Done
- Gasometer Oberhausen Done bug in ground elevation data :-(
- Gasometer Herne
- Hoesch Gasometer Dortmund Done ...from nothing to upload: only 4 hours!
- Tetraeder Bottrop Done - lights are still missing
- Colosseo Rome Done
- BMW museum Munich Done
- BMW tower Munich Done
- Olympiaturm Munich Done
- Ruhrtalbrücke Done
- Flughafenbrücke Düsseldorf Done
- Hohenzollernbrücke Cologne Done
- Cologne Cathedral Done
- Kölnarena Done
- EDDF pier(Flugsteig) "A plus" Done
- EDDL texturing the terminal Done
- EDLW terminal & tower Done
- EDDG buildings Done
- EDLK hangars Done
- animated Rheinturm Düssseldorf Done
- Westfalenhallen Dortmund Done
- Atomium - new version with smooth spheres, nicer chrome effect and windows. reduced file size from 863KB to 516KB Done
- a simple horse race track Done
- tennis court Done
- 36m church in red, green and blue Done
- 60x60m castle Done
- red brick chimney Done
- improve the 50m power pylon - I don't like how the top looks, better use a texture than many vertices ?
- improve generic skyscrapers Done
- solar park Done
- H-shaped barracks Done
airport layouts (WED)
- LJAJ Done http://gateway.x-plane.com/scenery/page/LJAJ
- LDPN Done http://gateway.x-plane.com/scenery/page/LDPN
- submit IAHM-COL's PGUA and add forest exclusion zones Done
- submit IAHM-COL's KXTA and add forest exclusion zones Done
terrain (TerraGear)
NickR's terragear scripts: https://gitlab.com/fg-scenery-build-script/fg-scenery-build-script/tree/master
(based on new airport layouts from http://gateway.x-plane.com/)
groundnets
Parking Positions for >7000 airports in ICAO.grondnet.xml format http://media.lug-marl.de/flightgear/Airports.tgz
the tools I used: https://github.com/mherweg/d-laser-fgtools
- aptdat2sqlite.py (read apt.dat write to sqlite , 10 seconds)
- sqlite2xml.py (read from sqlite and create folders and files in Airports folder, 2 minutes)
other
- 3300 object locations in Slovenia
- OpenStreetMap.org: map more building heights / levels