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FlightGear is a open-source flightsimulator. Free as in speech.
Awesome thing is, it utilizes a property tree,which allows you to access/edit ANYTHING(well almost. I think) within the simulator (MSFS however, afaik, needs to go through simconnect/fsuipc).
Best part about FlightGear? Not only does it have a totally awesome property tree, it exposes that property tree through a HTTP interface and a Telnet interface. Which means that you can edit almost anything within the server through the internet/LAN. And it being telnet and all, all you gotta do is write a wrapper class for your development language and you're all set to do magic.
Grabbed the connection class off the CVS website (yeah yeah, get a CVS client I know), started messing bout with it. Awesome stuff.
Given enough time, I'm pretty sure that one can fly from point A to point B on a totally different computer using a client connected through the telnet interface. I've already written code to remotely control the throttle (which was as easy as fsgs.set("controls/engine/engine/throttle",input);)
I'm pretty sure that one can send joystick/keyboard commands. Either that or map a aileron/elevator position to given joystick input (ailerons are "/controls/aileron/aileron-position" I think). Or have an instructors panel to remotely set failures, control the plane etc. Possibilities are endless!
In other words - FlightGear : Awesomely fun toy for the computer geek flightsimmer.
Hell,it's plenty good for flightsimmers who cant afford MSFS.
EDIT : Messing about with this painfully reminds me of how horrible I am at Java GUI programming. ):
Awesome thing is, it utilizes a property tree,which allows you to access/edit ANYTHING(well almost. I think) within the simulator (MSFS however, afaik, needs to go through simconnect/fsuipc).
Best part about FlightGear? Not only does it have a totally awesome property tree, it exposes that property tree through a HTTP interface and a Telnet interface. Which means that you can edit almost anything within the server through the internet/LAN. And it being telnet and all, all you gotta do is write a wrapper class for your development language and you're all set to do magic.
Grabbed the connection class off the CVS website (yeah yeah, get a CVS client I know), started messing bout with it. Awesome stuff.
Given enough time, I'm pretty sure that one can fly from point A to point B on a totally different computer using a client connected through the telnet interface. I've already written code to remotely control the throttle (which was as easy as fsgs.set("controls/engine/engine/throttle",input);)
I'm pretty sure that one can send joystick/keyboard commands. Either that or map a aileron/elevator position to given joystick input (ailerons are "/controls/aileron/aileron-position" I think). Or have an instructors panel to remotely set failures, control the plane etc. Possibilities are endless!
In other words - FlightGear : Awesomely fun toy for the computer geek flightsimmer.
Hell,it's plenty good for flightsimmers who cant afford MSFS.
EDIT : Messing about with this painfully reminds me of how horrible I am at Java GUI programming. ):
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