After playing around with the existing AI system (scenarios and tanker.nas) I built a Nasal based prototype for GroundServices that is based on a graph system, that lets vehicles move along the edges of a graph like trains on rails. It currently only moves ground vehicles along an airports taxiways without providing any services.
I hope I can use this as a basis and extend it for getting real ground services in the future. My intended next steps are:
* make the system more robust
* find/create(?) models for ground services. eg. I couldn't find a fuel truck model until now. And the stairs and caterer models are not animated. This would be nice.
* attach vehicles to an aircraft.
* Integrate to AI traffic. One challenge here is to detect a landed aircraft.
For those interested, this is a current snapshot of my work. https://github.com/thomass171/GroundServices