slawekmikula / flightgear-addon-fgcamera

Flightgear fgcamera addon

FGCamera FlightGear Addon

OBSOLETE CODE

This fork of the fgcamera-addon is deprecated (sorry, RL issues). Please take a look at the PlayeRom's fork which from this time is a main repository for the development of this addon: https://github.com/PlayeRom/flightgear-addon-fgcamera. Thanks PlayerRom for taking it further !

About

Flightgear virtual camera. Written in NASAL. Adds features similar to Ezdok Camera Addon for FSX.

Running

• extract zip (if downloaded as a zip) to a given location. For example let's say we have /myfolder/addons/thisaddon with contents of this addon.
• run flightgear with --addon directive OR add it in the Launcher application in 'Add-On' section.

Code:

    ./fgbin/bin/fgfs --fg-root=./fgdata --launcher --prop:/sim/fg-home=/myfolder/flightgear/fghome --addon="/myfolder/addons/fgcamera"

Documentation

More documents can be found in the Docs folder.

Configuration

• all can be configured through GUI available in the main menu under View->FGCamera
• settings regarding each plane are stored in FGHOME/aircraft-data/FGCamera/

History

• 1.0-1.2 - versions published on the flightgear forum
• 1.2.1 - addon compatiblity + small fixes
• 1.2.2 - #5 (reverse mouse controls - the same as in FG), #3 disable keyboard mapping, #10 adds additional API for walker aircraft integration
• 1.2.3 - fix create new camera, fix count cameras from 1, welcome message, help message

Planned (branch next)

• 2.x
  • new GUI for configuration
  • logic moved to property-rules
  • ability to select mini dialogs to toggle cameras (simple and with slot numbers)

Authors

• Marius_A - concept, coding
• Slawek Mikula - addon compatiblity
• PlayeRom - fixes and improvements

Links

• FlightGear wiki: Wiki
• FlightGear forum: Forum

License

GNU General Public License version 2 or, at your option, any later version (https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21685&p=314678#p314678)