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What would you want to see most of all in the next flight gear major release? You got 3 votes!

More Aircrafts
6
2%
Improved Aircrafts
54
17%
Better Scenery (better textures)
47
15%
More Accurate Scenery
47
15%
Better Sky
5
2%
Better Sea
7
2%
Improved Physics
26
8%
Better Sound
7
2%
Crash And Other 3D Effects
13
4%
Improved Performance (frame rate)
37
12%
More 3D AI Models (cars on the roads and trains on the railways)
18
6%
Better GUI
11
4%
Improved fgrun Tool (easier to use)
9
3%
More 3D Buildings And Objects
15
5%
Space Flight Support
10
3%
 
Total votes : 312

Re: Feature Poll

Postby Gijs » Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:00 pm

Toanphuc wrote:Have anyone think about using some technology in Orbiter engine?

The thing is that Orbiter is released under a different (more strict) license than FlightGear. Which means that we cannot just use parts of it in FlightGear. Read more about FlightGear's license at our wiki: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/GN ... ic_License
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby hvengel » Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:59 pm

stuart wrote:(This is going slightly off topic, but in response to Crashpilot I thought it worth responding to point out the ways in which people can contribute.)

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Submitting bug reports accurately is a good example. You can do so by using the FG Bug Tracker (http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/). This is new, but if used sensibly, a very good tool to help us Devs.

Crashpilot wrote:Why should I have to contribute C++ code to state that I think Flightgear wastes major potential by minor mistakes?


You can contribute in many ways without writing code. For example, placing objects in the scenery with the UFO and submitting them to the Scenery Objects DB is pretty straightforward and takes very little time. Even an hour spent doing this would make a difference.

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Crashpilot wrote:For example, having ~300 Aircrafts to download might look impressive in the first place, but causes more harm than benefits if the vast majority of them are unfinished and/or orphaned. The thing is, the jewels hide in the crowd. People will download some fancy looking Crafts with very high expectations, and will become disappointed by it: "Not yet done". After some tries they will think "what a crappy sim" and leave. Small issue, big impact. There are other examples, like Scenery.


... and yet everyone seems intent on creating new aircraft rather than improving existing ones?

One way you could easily contribute would be to submit patches to CVS setting the "status" flag on each aircraft accurately. Yes, it'll require learning a bit about CVS, and XML, but that would be a fine contribution. You'd have to decide on appropriate criteria for the status flags, but that isn't impossible.

Crashpilot wrote:Flightgear do lack of marketing, release management and distribution. Not important you say? Well, I think this is where some greedy people kick in and take advantage of this by offering an actual distribution - for sale!


Release management actually works pretty well. Certainly the timescales for a release have improved significantly over the last couple of years. You are absolutely correct that marketing is a significant issue, and has caused some real headaches. Unfortunately most of the current contributors are too busy making improvements to the simulator to spend the time on marketing. This is an area where new people could contribute successfully.

Another simple way to contribute would be to write an appropriate review for one of the major Flight Sim websites. Even writing some articles for the FG Newsletter would help.

In fact a quick search of the wiki came up with this page: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Volunteer, which lists lots of ways to contribute to the simulator.

-Stuart


As Stuart points out there are lots of non-technical things that need to be done and one of these is marketing but there are many others (writing documentation for example). Most open source projects in fact are short handed for these non-technical tasks and can definitely use more people with these skills. FG is no exception. In addition my experience with open source projects is that users often berate the developers for not doing these non-technical tasks. But would you rather have skilled programmers doing programming or marketing (or some other non-programming tasks)? The real solution is for those users who have those skills to step up and help the project.

When it comes to improving aircraft the best thing you can do is to just do it. For A long time I was disappointed with the state of the P-51D. It had a lot going for it but it was also missing lots of features and the FDM definitely needed work. About 6 months ago I decided to do something about it and started working on improving the P-51D. Since I am a programmer and not a 3D modeler or FDM expert the learning curve was steep but it was the same basic learning curve that any user would have to go through if they had not done this type of thing before. I now have a much enhanced P-51D that I have asked be merged into GIT (CVS replacement) so hopefully it will be released with V2.1. The point being that if you don't like something about how FlightGear, or any open source project for that matter, is working you are the solution - roll up your sleeves and fix the problem. Also now that FlightGear has moved from CVS to GIT it should be easier for users to contribute changes to the existing aircraft fleet since GIT is designed to enhance collaboration. If you don't know how to get started just ask here or on the developer lists and you will get lots of help.

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Re: Feature Poll

Postby Talkless » Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:24 am

"What would you want to see most of all in the next flight gear major release?"

None of the items listed.

I'm still (naively) dreaming about "missions/job/career" mode.

Free flight is fun, though ability to choose from "infinite" airplanes and "infinite" airports to fly from/to just overwhelms you.

Now with "mission/career" generator:
Commercial pilot starting with Cessna, ending with Dreamliner?
Millitary transfers with Bell UH-1 and Chinook?
Search & Rescue with Eurocopter?
More..?

Random mission generator with success/failure checks, scoring would be amazing...
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby erik » Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:41 pm

Then you're in luck:
viewtopic.php?t=39774&p=392509

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Re: Feature Poll

Postby D-ECHO » Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:49 pm

@Talkless, you might want to check out viewtopic.php?f=89&t=40197 for (very rudimentary) SAR-kind-of operations :D
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby surpii » Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:19 am

Better A350 and A380
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby SP-NTX » Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:56 am

... A350 and A3800 will take years to do
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby Catalanoic » Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:14 pm

It seems "better aircraft" wins over "More 3D Buildings And Objects", my usual "field", so I may try with something...
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby Ysop » Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:22 pm

small hint: the poll was from 2010 :)
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby Maerchenprinz » Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:41 pm

small hint: the poll was from 2010 :)

Yip! - And if we all did what OTHERS like instead of what WE like, I e.g. wouldn't work on an aircraft which no one flies! :mrgreen:
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby Catalanoic » Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:57 pm

but still active as the last ten posts
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Re: Feature Poll

Postby wkitty42 » Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:15 pm

only because someone necroposted and that was followed by a spambot posting which has been removed...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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