Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Flight Gear Simulator...

[Hugo Vincent]

Hi everyone,

We thought about integrating with Flight Gear, but decided it was too  
large, complex and resource hungry (for our needs anyway), and instead  
used CRRCSim (look on Source Forge). It uses the same NASA LARC  
simulator engine, and basically just wraps that in a thin OpenGL layer  
using SDL and so on...

We also integrated with OpenGC (glass cockpit; www.opengc.org) for some  
nice graphics. The way we have done it, the Groundstation software  
receives data in exactly the same way from either the simulator or the  
onboard systems (albeit at different data rates due to limited radio  
bandwidth).

See:
http://johnstowers.no-ip.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://johnstowers.no-ip.com/wiki/index.php/Simulator
http://johnstowers.no-ip.com/wiki/index.php/Groundstation

A nice screenshot:
http://johnstowers.no-ip.com/wiki/index.php/Image:OpenGC-Simulator- 
Screenshot.png

And get our code here:
http://johnstowers.no-ip.com/websvn

We needed to make modifications to CRRCSim and OpenGC to integrate  
them, but I understand that FlightGear can interface over a UDP  
network, no changes necessary (in FG anyway).

I will be following your progress with interest.

Cheers,
Hugo Vincent.