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Adding Graphical Plotting to FlightGear

Postby mahi_0615 » Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:42 am

Hi All
I am developing flightgear based post flight data analysis system. In this system i want to include a section which can plot the various flight parameters in real-time as well as in offline mode . Is there any MSVC ++ 2010 based open source software is available which we can modify according to our requirement.

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Re: Adding Graphical Plotting to FlightGear

Postby Hooray » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:54 am

mahi_0615 wrote in Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:42 am:Hi AllIn this system i want to include a section which can plot the various flight parameters in real-time as well as in offline mode .



This is already possible in FG >= 2.8 using the new canvas subsystem, without requiring any C++ code changes and without rebuilding FG from source. I'm moving this thread to the canvas subforum.

For details, please see below:

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Hooray wrote in Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:53 pm:
* A flight analysis featuring a map displaying the flightpath and a vertical analysis graph and VCR-like playback.

That should be very simple to implement using a combination of the canvas system and by accessing the built-in flight recorder subsystem.
Graphs can already be created using the canvas, we would just need a way to access the replay buffers from Nasal space.

Update: The required hooks for this just got committed by James: https://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear/com ... dfc1e1cb43
But it's using yet another subsystem called "FGFlightHistory" and apparently doesn't make use of the existing flight recorder subsystem at all ... :?
ThorstenB's flight recorder/property recorder system would have seemed like a more natural choice actually ...



Subject: Using a canvas map in the GUI
Hooray wrote in Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:56 pm:
zakalawe wrote in Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:34 pm:There's also a long-requested feature to use the replay-code to extract the historical aircraft position, which would be another kind of data to show.


That's definitely a good idea, accessing the replay/flight recorder buffers via a dedicated Nasal/property tree interface would be pretty cool, not just for showing historical path data, but also for computing a flight profile, or even for doing a full flight evaluation - which could also be done via Nasal/Canvas then, we just need Nasal hooks (i.e. ghosts) to access the replay/flight recorder subsystem and get data from it.

I've been talking to ThorstenB about exposing the system to Nasal a while ago, and when Tom and I played around with graph plotting, we also figured that it would be kinda cool to access such info from Nasal.

The combination of these features (replay/flight recorder access + Nasal + Canvas), would also make it possible to create a full flight instructor console. The original graph-plotting experiments were pretty encouraging:
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And 2D plotting is another long-standing feature request, originally brought up by Curt: http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear- ... 03651.html

curt wrote:But, I was just thinking today that it might be cool to have a built
in grapher for simple / quick graphing needs.

With the property system it would be trivial to pick an arbitrary
property from the property tree and graph it over time -- superimposed
on top of everything else.


With the Canvas, it has now become trivial to create such graphs, but we still need to have Nasal-space access to the corresponding subsystems and data, i.e. the replay/flight recorder system.


Update: Zakalawe has just committed to implement the required hooks for this as part of issue 763: https://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear/com ... dfc1e1cb43


mahi_0615 wrote in Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:42 am:Is there any open source software is available which we can modify according to our requirement

See this thread: viewtopic.php?f=49&t=17540&hilit=gnuplot

More at: search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=gnuplot


Update 05/2013: http://wiki.flightgear.org/FGPlot
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