1 A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
3 Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain
4 this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be
5 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 Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
11 Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
12 for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
13 when adding the texture. Ssystem Homepage can be found at:
14 http://www1.las.es/~amil/ssystem
17 Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
18 Paul redid the "debug" system so that it would be much more flexible,
19 so it could be easily disabled for production system, and so that
20 messages for certain subsystems could be selectively enabled.
21 Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
25 Bernie Bright <bbright@c031.aone.net.au>
26 Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
27 STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
28 Currently trying to get a BeOS port together but life keeps getting
32 Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>
33 Gene has done a lot of work getting FG to compile with the MSVC++
34 compiler. Also, he has pushed, proded, and bugged me endlessly to
35 do my stuff right. (I mean that in a good way, because sometimes
36 when the little nudge in the right direction isn't working, I need
37 a good hard shove.) :-)
40 John Check <j4strngs@rockfish.net>
45 Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
46 Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
47 http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
51 METAR parser and fetcher. "material" animation (based on Jim Wilsons's
52 "emission" animation). Debugging and extension of property listener
53 features. Addition of removeChildren.
57 Reworked and cleaned up large parts of the infrastructure, of math
58 files, animations and rendering in preparation of a transition to
59 the OSG library. Added new handlers for shared and referenced objects.
62 Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
66 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
67 Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
68 decompression routines.
69 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
72 Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
73 Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
76 Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
77 RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
80 Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
81 Developed the LaRCsim code under funding by NASA which we use to provide
82 the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
83 http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
87 Fixed an old bug in the SGPropertyNode class.
90 Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
91 Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
92 Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
93 hold autopilot module" by teaching Curt Olson the basics of Control Theory
94 and helping him code and debug early versions. Curt's "Boss" Bob Hain
95 also contributed <bob@me.umn.edu>. Further details available at:
96 http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/Docs/Autopilot/AltitudeHold/AltitudeHold.html
97 Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
100 Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
101 Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
102 after that also to Win32
105 David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
106 SimGear property manager/registry
110 Ported the (chrome) "shader" animation to OSG, and helped with porting
111 the "material" animation.
114 Curt Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/
115 Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
116 He has his hands in many of the areas.
119 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
120 Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
121 This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
122 Unix-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
123 environments since these don't use the Unix make system.
126 Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
127 Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
128 he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
129 to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
130 http://welcome.to/pausch
133 Durk Talsma <d.talsma@chello.nl>
134 Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets.
135 Sun changes color based on position in sky.
136 Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
137 Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
138 Added time zone support in the SGTime class.
139 Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
140 http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
143 Mark Vallevand <Mark.Vallevand@UNISYS.com>
144 Contributed some METAR parsing code.
145 Contributed some win32 screen printing routines.
148 Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com>
149 Contributed some initial GameGLUT support and other fixes.
150 Has done some interesting preliminary work on a binary file format
151 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/fgfs.htm
153 Has set up a 'Cygwin Tips' site that has been very helpful to many
154 people in getting a Cygwin Unix-on-Windows build environment set up
155 so they can build FG effectively.
156 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/cygwin.htm
159 Norman Vine <nhv@yahoo.com>
160 Provided more than uncountable URL's to the "FlightGear Community".
161 Many performance optimizations throughout the code.
162 Lots of windoze related contributions.
163 Contributed wgs84 distance and course routines.
164 Contributed a great circle route autopilot mode based on wgs84 routines.
167 Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
168 Contributed magnetic variation code (impliments Nima WMM 2000)
169 We've also borrowed from Ed's wonderful aviation formulary at various
171 http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
174 Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
175 Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
176 data file format. This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly
177 allowing us to bundle MetaKit with our code. MetaKit has a liberal
178 X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
179 http://www.equi4.com/metakit
182 WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
183 Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
184 project could have real home. This includes, web services,
185 ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
188 Robert Allan Zeh <raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
189 Helped me tremendously in figuring out the Cygnus win32 compiler and
190 how to link with .dll's. With out him the first runable win32
191 version of FG would have been impossible.
198 THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
199 Curt L. Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
202 05 Jul 2000 Removed non-SimGear entries (CLO)
204 08 Mar 2000 CONTENTS RESEARCHED AND UPDATED by
205 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>