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fgVisual

Inspired by renewed interest in FlightGear on the PS1 forum, and mindful of the limitations of the FG injector in 747IPC v3, I came up with a new program that would be the bridge between PS1 and FlightGear.

The new visualizer, called fgVisual to preserve the commonality with Garry Richards' VisualPS1, takes input position and attitude data from PS1 and applies a smoothening algorithm which also boosts the update rate to 30 Hz (or any arbitrary number). FlightGear then takes this data and displays scenery as would be seen by the PS1 pilot.

Other features in fgVisual include:

• FlightGear time is set to match PS1 clock time.
• altitude offsets: aircraft at ground elevation in PS1 will always be at ground elevation in FlightGear, not floating above nor sinking below the earth.
• not implemented yet: inject FlightGear's ground elevation model back into PS1. This will bring the GPWS alive!

fgVisual blog page: http://open744.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/fgvisual/

System Requirements

• Aerowinx PS1.3A-EE4
• 747IPC v3.x
• PS1 Broker
• You can use hoppie's all-in-one 747IPC installer to install the 2 items above
• FlightGear
• Local Area Network (LAN)

Downloads

Latest version 0.4 (18 Dec 2009). README file
Windows FlightGear users: fgvisual-0.4_win32.zip (28.5 kb)
fgVisual source code: fgvisual-0.4.tar.bz2 (15.6 kb)

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.