X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Thanks;h=f1101fac5f4ed2980ce6e4944caf79881aa3b7d6;hb=458edb933903836ac10b2acd9ef68e06e2a04470;hp=f2aecdaa887a2e22a0372adce264382242084415;hpb=c0e9c42a3644e9210a4dac4677436f1ab874d958;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/Thanks b/Thanks index f2aecdaa8..f1101fac5 100644 --- a/Thanks +++ b/Thanks @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups. + Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ 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. @@ -29,7 +37,11 @@ Michele America Contributed to the HUD code. -Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com +Emmanuel Baranger <> + Many, many very nice aircraft models. + + +Andrei Barbu Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website. @@ -65,6 +77,20 @@ 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. @@ -73,6 +99,12 @@ Bernie Bright Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements. STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-) Threading support and threaded tile pager. + Initiate the fgrun project + + +Francesco Brisa <> + Scenery models and ground networks for Italian airports. + Scripts for automated source downloads and builds. Bernhard H. Buckel @@ -108,6 +140,11 @@ 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. @@ -120,6 +157,24 @@ Oliver Delise http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear +John Denker + Contributed bugfixes and improvements to the navigation and ATIS code. + + +Jean-Francois Doue + Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on + Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert) + http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html + + +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 @@ -127,10 +182,8 @@ Dave Eberly http://www.magic-software.com -Jean-Francois Doue - Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on - Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert) - http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html +Martin Eschen <> + Helped enourmously toward finishing the full scale traffic demo at EHAM. Francine Evans @@ -144,21 +197,39 @@ 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 Förster <> + 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. - 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. + 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. 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 @@ -171,6 +242,18 @@ 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. @@ -190,6 +273,21 @@ Habibie RedHat package building changes for SimGear. +Csaba Halász <> + 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. @@ -221,8 +319,14 @@ 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. @@ -312,7 +416,14 @@ 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 @@ -334,6 +445,11 @@ 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 @@ -374,17 +490,25 @@ 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. +Frederic Bouvier + 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. + Builds the FlightGear binary windows distributions. + Maintainer of fgrun, the defacto launcher on windows and many other platforms. + Author of fgsd, a standalone scenery designer. + Provides regular binary snapshots of flightgear and it's related projects for + the windows community. Petter Reinholdtsen @@ -394,12 +518,32 @@ Petter Reinholdtsen environments since the don't use the Unix make system. +Thorsten Renk + Created the local weather system, providing beautiful cloudscapes + and an accurate meteorological simulation. + + William Riley Contributed code to add "brakes". Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes. 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. @@ -409,6 +553,10 @@ 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 @@ -416,6 +564,11 @@ 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 @@ -425,7 +578,13 @@ 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 Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the @@ -446,6 +605,15 @@ Michael Smith 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 @@ -464,9 +632,22 @@ Durk Talsma Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky. Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude. Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff. - Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft. 2D Cloud layers (nifty). - http://people.a2000.nl/dtals + Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft. + Full scale AI traffic demo for EHAM. + Current FlightGear release manager. + + +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 @@ -535,7 +716,7 @@ Darrell Walisser Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs. -Davud Culp +David Culp Changed the layout of the conbtrolls section and added a great number of extra controls which will prove to be usefull no and for the future. Contributed a number of aircraft configuration files, including a T-38 and @@ -570,11 +751,20 @@ 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 @@ -588,7 +778,8 @@ 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 @@ -607,6 +798,7 @@ Mathias Fr 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 @@ -632,6 +824,8 @@ Stuart Buchanan 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 @@ -660,7 +854,7 @@ SkyscraperPage.com http://skyscraperpage.com WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org [ FlightGear no longer uses woodsoup services, but we appreciate the support provided to our project during the time they hosted us. ] - Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear + Provided computing resources and services so that the FlightGear project could have real home. This includes, web services, ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc. @@ -679,13 +873,9 @@ THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY Curt L. Olson - -THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000 - -Oliver Delise - - +Updated 2000-03-08 by Oliver Delise, delise@mail.isis.de 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 2009-02-02 by Durk Talsma