X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Thanks;h=71b95678624351a2790dc0186a5bb43fbeb7bdf5;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fnext;hp=d39bc3def4c3a3682b6f038c4f41b7f07dc85956;hpb=0e242871bbcef1445cf56e6b6aee5074b4f1f973;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/Thanks b/Thanks index d39bc3def..71b956786 100644 --- a/Thanks +++ b/Thanks @@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ A1 Free Sounds http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com Granted permission for the flightgear project to use some of the sound effects from their site. +Syd Adams: + Added clipping to 2d instruments. Added volume control to ATC-chatter. + Created and maintain: DHC2, B1900D, Aerostar 700, S76C+ helicopter, + Cessna Citation Bravo & CitationX, A6M2 'Zero'. Assisted with Cessna + Citation II with Curt and 777-200 with Justin Smithies. + + +Mark Akermann + Redone sun code. The sun now consists of three textures with individual + colors which are calculated based on the effect of light scattering. + This is accomplished by using various environmental data and by + calculating the distance the light travels through the atmosphere. + Raul Alonzo Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission @@ -23,6 +36,9 @@ Michele America Contributed to the HUD code. +Emmanuel Baranger <> + Many, many very nice aircraft models. + Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website. @@ -59,6 +75,20 @@ Paul Bleisch system. +Matthias Boerner <> + Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in + Germany. + + +Thorsten Brehm + Thorsten provided the TCAS system and fixed an uncountable number of + bugs, closed memory leaks and helps creating new releases. + + +Alexis Bory + Very nice models, including the F14-B. + + Jim Brennan Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear. @@ -69,6 +99,11 @@ Bernie Bright Threading support and threaded tile pager. +Francesco Brisa <> + Scenery models and ground networks for Italian airports. + Scripts for automated source downloads and builds. + + Bernhard H. Buckel Contributed the README.Linux Co-Author of the "Getting Started Manual" @@ -102,6 +137,11 @@ John Check New instrument panel configurations +Bertrand Coconnier + Contributed several bugfixes and improvements for the integration of + the JSBSim flight dynamics model + + Dave Cornish Created our new, super cool, runway textures. Created some of our cloud textures. @@ -114,6 +154,22 @@ Oliver Delise http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear +John Denker + Contributed bugfixes and improvements to the navigation and ATIS code. + + +Martin Eschen <> + Helped enourmously toward finishing the full scale traffic demo at EHAM. + + +Torsten Dreyer + Contributed the very nice Piper Seneca, closely modelled after the + real thing. Also added many other nice aircraft (such as the ogeL, also + closely modelled after the real thing), buildings, etc. + Creator of fgpanel. Code maintainer of weather, environment, autopilot + and many other core systems. + + Dave Eberly Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's weather data base system. Go to Dave's web site. He has a ton of @@ -138,21 +194,39 @@ Oscar Everitt them to our little project. +Detlef Faber + Many WWII era aircraft. + + +Leidson Campos A. Ferreira + Rewrote the Jpeg screen httpd streaming (--jpg-httpd option) + + +Olaf Flebbe + Improved the build system for Windows and provided pre-built + dependencies. + + Bruce Finney MSVC5 compatibility. +Thomas Forster <> + Updates to the AI system, including the Dykstra route finding algorithm, + adding a performance class, and many code clean-ups. + Co-organizer of the annual LinuxTag booth. + + Melchior Franz - Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats. + Reworked the joystick driver detection code, added high/low support for "hats". Nasal-ified the Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D (USB) joystick which now forms the basis of a lot of programmable joysticks. - Created the led.txf font. Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim. Maintains the only fully working helicopter model in FlightGear (Bolkow 105). - Made the GUI code fully XML configurable and added support for themes. - Started the Nasal library for easy model animation. - Reorganized the joystick code so it won't leave configuration data resident - for joysticks that aren't present. + Made the GUI code fully XML configurable and added support for themes, + reworked property browser, route manager and several other dialogs. + Wrote Dynamic Cockpit View, Fly-By view and lots of other Nasal code. + Implemented Nasal "listeners". Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler @@ -165,6 +239,18 @@ Thomas Gellekum Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD +Ralf Gerlich <> + Technical Genius behind the Custom Scenery Project. + Current maintainer of TaxiDraw + + +Anders Gidenstam <> + Added support for lighter than air vehicles to JSBSim. + Contributed simulation of wildfires and a basic system for dual control + of an aircraft over the multiplayer network. + Author of several airships and one aircraft. + + Neetha Girish Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes. @@ -184,6 +270,21 @@ Habibie RedHat package building changes for SimGear. +Csaba Hal�sz <> + Many bugfixes and code checking. + + +Ampere Hardraade <> + Many detailed 3D models of aircraft, including the MD11, and several + Airbuses. + + +Brett Harrison <> + Ground networks for various airports. + Most of the liveries for the new C172p by HHS. + AI Repaints for several 737's and C172's + + Dave Haskell Original exterior textures for the Cessna 310 U-3A model. Only a few minor modifications were made. @@ -215,9 +316,17 @@ Bruce Jackson of NASA http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html +Ron Jensen + Contributed to the piston engine code in JSBSim. + + Maik Justus Developed YASim's helicopter/rotor logic. + Implemented aerotowing, water plane and anchor support for YASim, and + made its gear aware of the surface material. Wrote the Bo105 helicopter FDM configuration file. + Developed gear/ground interactions and added aerotow/winch + support to the YASim FDM Ove Kaaven @@ -306,7 +415,14 @@ Cameron Moore Reigning list admin. Provided man pages. Self-proclaimed code janitor. - FAQ maintainer. + Has been maintaining FAQ for some years. + + +Tim Moore <> + Many innovations to the OpenSceneGraph based graphics system. + Counseling of other developers toward learning OSG + Maintaing a GIT repository containing a mirror of FlightGear's + source code, speficially for bugfix releases. Anders Morken @@ -328,6 +444,11 @@ Phil Nelson extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines. +Tatsuhiro Nishioka + Maintainer of the Mac port. + Contributed some very nice Japanese aircraft models. + + Alexei Novikov Created European Scenery Contributed a script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered @@ -368,17 +489,24 @@ Alex Perry Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual. +Pigeon <> + Developed the multiplayer network infrastructure. + + Friedemann Reinhard Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel. Frederic Bouvier - Added French language support - Keeps FlightGear MSVC compatible. - Did a number of code changes to improve the animation code. - Added a number of animations that improves the visual system quite a lot. - Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot - of static scenery. + Added French language support + Keeps FlightGear MSVC compatible. + Did a number of code changes to improve the animation code. + Added a number of animations that improves the visual system quite a lot. + For a long time built the FlightGear binary windows distributions. + Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot + of static scenery. + Maintainer of fgrun, the defacto launcher on windows and many other platforms. + Author of fgsd, a standalone scenery designer. Petter Reinholdtsen @@ -394,6 +522,21 @@ William Riley World scenery based on vmap0 data. +Gijs de Rooy <> + Contributed some very nice building models, including a very + detailed layout of the Amsterdam airport terminals, and many + downtown buildings. + Redid the Boeing 747-400 3D model. + Greatly contributed to the FlightGear community as a very active + first aid responder on the official Flightgear forum, as a forum + and wiki admin, and as the editor of the monthly FlightGear + newsletter. + + +Gerard Robin <> + Many nice Aircraft models + + Andy Ross Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry information rather than aerodynamic coefficients. @@ -403,6 +546,10 @@ Andy Ross Added the Nasal scripting language and added FlightGear integration. +Brian Schack <> + Current maintainer of Atlas, the moving map program for FlightGear + + Paul Schlyter Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing @@ -410,6 +557,11 @@ Paul Schlyter http://welcome.to/pausch +Christian Schmitt <> + Detailed Frankfurt airport buildings. + Contributions to the custom scenery project. + + Chris Schoeneman Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly @@ -419,6 +571,12 @@ Chris Schoeneman Phil Schubert Contributed various textures and engine modelling. http://www.zedley.com/Philip/index.htm + + +Heiko Schulz <> + Contributed AI traffic for EDDF + EDDF Night lights + ground networks Jonathan R Shewchuk @@ -438,8 +596,17 @@ Michael Smith Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html -Martin Spott +Martin Spott Contributed to the installation / user guide. + Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in + Germany. + Manages the "World Scenery" releases. + Maintains world's biggest repository and toolchain for free and + open map and scenery data at http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ + + +Jon Stockill <> + Maintainer of the object database. Martin Dressler @@ -463,6 +630,18 @@ Durk Talsma http://people.a2000.nl/dtals +Gabor Toth <> + Contributed some Livery repaints for AI Aircraft + Contributed many ideas leading towards the Traffic Manager II format + Runs FGTracker, an online flight tracking service for FlightGear + + +James Turner <> + Many code cleanups of the internal structure of the airport database, + runway parsing, route management. + Is currently working on adding flightmanagement support. + + UIUC - Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Contributed modifications to LaRCsim to allow loading of aircraft parameters from a file. These modifications were made as part of an @@ -564,11 +743,20 @@ Jean-Claude Wippler http://www.equi4.com/metakit +Holger Wirtz <> + Author of FGCom, a voice communication program intented for FlightGear + multiplayer/ATC. + + John Wojnaroski Open Glass Cockpit project 3d clouds +Marcus Zojer <> + Contributed a B1B aircraft model. + + Lee Elliot Author of the YF-23, A-10, Ann225, B-52 and TSR-2 models. Did a lot of suggestions for better aircraft modelling, some of which @@ -582,7 +770,8 @@ Innis Cunningham Vivian Meazza Added a number of excellent aircraft models including the Hawker Hunter and Seahawk. - Provided realistic wind, gravity and drag calculations for AIBallistic models. + Provided realistic wind, gravity and drag calculations for AIBallistic models, + as well as terrain intersections (impacts) of submodels. Added the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System and AI code for AICarrier and AIShip, and implemented the TACAN navigation instrument @@ -595,12 +784,13 @@ David Culp model that creates an updraft around it's center. -Mathias Fröhlich +Mathias Fröhlich Implemented the groundcache code which made it possible for aircraft to follow the ground precisely and, as a result, made it possible to land on aircraft carriers. Modified YASim, JSBSim and LaRCsim to support the groundcache code. Reorganized the code to eliminate the viewer jitter for close by objects. + Mathias is responsible for the transition to OSG and he added HLA support. Harald Johnsen @@ -621,12 +811,31 @@ Roy Vegard Ovesen autopilot designers. +Stuart Buchanan + Substantial additions to the Getting Started Manual + Enhancements to the Cessna-310 3d model. + Added a generic yoke model, a generic throttle quadrant model and a + generic pedal set model. + OSG based three 3D clouds. + Forum moderator. + + +Stefan Seifert + Added the save-on-exit option to save the user preferences at program exit. + +Thorsten Renk + Created the local weather system with Thermals, Ridge lift and Wave lift + which creates an accurate meteorological simulation. + Added the Atmospheric light scattering (ALS) framework + (http://wiki.flightgear.org/Atmospheric_light_scattering) + Worked a quite a number of aircraft shaders like the interior shader, + rain shader and exhaust flume shader + + Space Imaging, Inc http://www.spaceimaging.com/ Space Imaging has allowed us to use the images in their archive for commercial and non-commercial use, provided the original image can't be extracted from the textures. - Some (if not all) of the best textures in use by FlightGear wouldn't be - possible without the satellite images provided by them. Airservices Australia @@ -639,6 +848,10 @@ SkyscraperPage.com http://skyscraperpage.com SkyscraperPage.com has allowed us to use their building diagrams to make textures and 3d models of their buildings. +http://sky.aw.net.ua/ + The owner of this site has kindly allowed us to use potographs from this + site for cloud texturing. + WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org [ FlightGear no longer uses woodsoup services, but we appreciate @@ -654,21 +867,56 @@ Robert Allan Zeh version of FG would have been impossible. +The following individuals have contributed to the scenery object database: + Martin Spott, Dave Martin, Thomas Foerster, Chris Metzler, Frederic + Bouvier, Melchior Franz, Roberto Inzerillo, Erik Hofman, Mike Round, + Innis Cunningham, David Megginson, Stuart Buchanan, Josh Babcock, + Esa Hyytia, Mircea Lutic, Jens Thoms Toerring, Mark Akermann, + Torsten Dreyer, Martin C. Doege, Alexis Bory, Sebastian Bechtold, + Julien Pierru, Bertrand Augras, Gerard Robin, Jakub Skibinski, + Morten Oesterlund Joergensen, Carsten Vogel, Dominique Lemesre, + Daniel Leygnat, Bertrand Gilot, Morten Skyt Eriksen, Alex + Bamesreiter, Oliver Predelli, Georg Vollnhals, and Paul Richter. -NOTE: ----- +For regional texturing, support by the following people and organization is +gratefully acknowledged: + + - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) for the + satellite images of the Brazilian cerrado: + http://downloads.ibge.gov.br/downloads_geociencias.htm + + - Diogo Sergio for the image of the caatinga trees: + http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caatinga_Xiquexique_pedras_01.JPG + + - Maria Hsu for the image of a caatinga tree: + https://www.flickr.com/photos/14323530@N05/2150992479/ -THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY + - Leonardo "Leguas" Carvalho for the image of the Ipe-Amarelo tree: + http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Ipe_detail.jpg -Curt L. Olson + - Spoladore for the image of the Lixeira tree: + http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajueiro-bravo-do-campo#/media/File:Lixeira_do_cerrado_de_Mato_Grosso.JPG + - Otávio Nogueira for the image of a cerrado tree: + https://www.flickr.com/photos/55953988@N00/3896942038 + + - P199 for the image of Las Piñas City, the Philippines: + http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Pinas_City.jpg + + +NOTE: +---- -THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000 +THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY: + Curt L. Olson -Oliver Delise +THE CONTENTS WERE RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000: + Oliver Delise Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com Updated 2003-04-17, Updated 2004-06-01, Updated 2005-04-02 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com +Updated 2007-05-16 for 0.9.11 release +Updates 2015-06-15 by Thorsten Renk