1 A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
3 Note, as hard as I've tried, I've found it impossible to perfectly
4 maintain this file. If you are aware of someone who you think might
5 be included here, PLEASE let me know. Projects like this are made
6 possible only by the help and hard work of others. I want to properly
7 credit everyone who has contributed to this project.
10 Raoul Alonzo <amil@las.es>. Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and
11 provided his kind permission for using the moon texture. I also used
12 parts of his code as a template when adding the texture.
15 Michele America <nomimarketing@mail.telepac.pt>
16 Contributed to the HUD code.
19 Steve Baker <sbaker@link.com>
20 - Author of PUI (a graphical interface written entirely on top of
22 - Contributed significantly to the basic Audio library.
23 - Steve has provided an immense amount of coaching and tutelage,
24 both on the subjects of flight simulation and OpenGL. It has been
25 his comments and thoughts that have prompted the implementation of
26 most of the more sophisticated features of Flight Gear.
29 Michael Basler <pmb@knUUt.de>
30 Coauthor of the Getting Started guide.
33 Jon S. Berndt <jsb@hal-pc.org>
34 Working on a complete C++ rewrite/reimplimentation of the core FDM.
35 Initially he is using X15 data to test his code, but once things are
36 all in place we should be able to simulator arbitrary aircraft.
39 Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
40 Paul redid the "debug" system so that it would be much more
41 flexible, so it could be easily disabled for production system, and
42 so that messages for certain subsystems could be selectively
45 Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
49 Jim Brennan <jjb@foothill.net>
50 Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear.
53 Bernie Bright <bbright@c031.aone.net.au>
54 Many C++ style, usage, and implimentation improvements. STL portability,
58 Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@wmad95.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
59 Contributed the README.Linux
62 Gene Buckle <geneb@nwlink.com>
63 Gene has done a lot of work getting FG to compile with the MSVC++
64 compiler. Also, he has pushed, proded, and bugged me endlessly to
65 do my stuff right. (I mean that in a good way, because sometimes
66 when the little nudge in the right direction isn't working, I need
67 a good hard shove.) :-)
70 Didier Chauveau <chauveau@math.univ-mlv.fr>
71 Provided some initial code to parse the 30 arcsec DEM files found at:
72 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
76 Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
77 Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
78 http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
81 Francine Evans <evans@cs.sunysb.edu>
82 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~evans/stripe.html
83 Wrote the @#$@#$@% GPL'd tri-striper we use and "love". :-)
86 Oscar Everitt <bigoc@premier.net>
87 Created single engine piston engine sounds as part of an F4U package
88 for FS98. They are pretty cool and Oscar was happy to contribute
89 them to our little project.
92 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@quest.jpl.nasa.gov>
93 Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
94 decompression routines.
95 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
98 Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
99 Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
102 Jeff Goeke-Smith <jgoeke@voyager.net>
103 Contributed our first autopilot. (Heading Hold)
104 Better autoconf check for external timezone/daylight variables in
108 Michael I. Gold <gold@puck.asd.sgi.com> -- Patiently answered my endless
109 "newbie" OpenGL questions. His effort alone has made me a great SGI
113 Charlie Hotchkiss <chotchkiss@namg.us.anritsu.com> -- Worked on improving
114 and enhancing the HUD code. Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
117 Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
118 http://agcbwww.larc.nasa.gov/People/ebj.html -- Developed the
119 LaRCsim code under funding by NASA which we use to provide the
120 flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
123 Tom Knienieder <knienieder@ms.netwing.at>
124 Ported Steve's Audio library to Win32
127 Reto Koradi <kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch> http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor
128 Helped me get on track with setting up fog effects.
131 Bob Kuehne <rpk@sgi.com>
132 Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
135 Vasily Lewis <vlewis@woodsoup.org> http://www.woodsoup.org
136 Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
137 project could have real home. This includes, web services, ftp services
138 shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
141 Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
142 Contributed some topnotch scenery textures.
145 Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
146 Maintains the European mirror of the FG web pages.
149 Alan Murta <amurta@cs.man.ac.uk>
150 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/
151 Created the Generic Polygon Clipping library
154 Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
155 Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
158 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
159 Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
160 This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
161 Unix-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
162 environments since the don't use the Unix make system.
165 William Riley <riley@technologist.com>
166 Contributed code to add "brakes".
169 Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>. Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with
170 all the information he needed to write the astro code.
173 Chris Schoeneman <crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com>
174 Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux
175 It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly
176 will have an influence on the development of our own audio library.
179 Jonathan R Shewchuk <Jonathan_R_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
180 Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the
181 Delauney triangulation of our irregular terrain.
184 Gordan Sikic <gsikic@public.srce.hr>
185 Contributed a cherokee flight model for LaRCsim. Currently is not
186 working and needs to be debugged. Use configure --with-flight-model=cherokee
187 to build the cherokee instead of the navion.
190 Michael Smith <msmith99@flash.net>
191 Contributed cockpit graphics, 3d models, logos, and other images.
192 Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
195 U.S. Geological Survey - http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
196 Provided geographic data used by this project
199 Durk Talsma <pn_talsma@macmail.psy.uva.nl>
200 Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets. Sun changes color based on
201 position in sky. Moon has correct phase and blends well into the
202 sky. Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
205 Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com>
206 Contributed some initial GameGLUT support and other fixes.
209 Norman Vine <nhv@laserplot.com>
210 Many performance optimizations throughout the code. Many contributions
211 and much advice for the scenery generation section. Lots of windoze
212 related contributions.
215 Carmelo Volpe <carmelo.volpe@csb.ki.se>
216 Porting Flight Gear to the Metro Works development environment (PC/Mac)
219 Robert Allan Zeh <raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
220 Helped me tremendously in figuring out the Cygnus win32 compiler and
221 how to link with .dll's. With out him the first runable win32
222 version of FG would have been impossible.