L. D. James
11-06-2007, 06:25 PM
For your information, you have an opportunity to have some influence in the next FSInn client. As in the past, Benjamin is open to feedback from FSInn users. Please feel free to post your comment/suggestions here or on the official FSInn site, www.mcdu.com . I’ll present your comments posted here as a link to Benjamin.
O the official FSInn site (http://www.mcdu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4956&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 ) Benjamin wrote: I havent being active on this forum in the last 6 months. I have not immediat plan on being more active.
FSInn and FSCopilot dev has been a great dev experience for me in the past, i experimented a lot of stuff i would have never experienced in other context. FSCopilot and FSInn are the kind of stuff are to make happen, just because there is thousands of users, all with different PC config and architectures, the number of issue we had to solve in the past was amazing.
Dont run, FSInn and FSCopilot arent dead.
FSX has been a great disappointment for me, and many others in the dev community. I had a lot of hopes initially about Simconnect, and i was very disappointed not seeing a sight of proactive behavior from MS Aces team on Simconnect. I could have done like i did on previous version of FS, and go directly hacking in FSX, but i didnt just because the overall performance of FSX make me think its not worthing.
The other point is that i dont know what is the MS strategy for online flying. FSX internal multiplayer with gamespy implements a quality for formation flying we will never be able to compete with (FSInn, FSHost, etc). We will always get jumping aircraft on FSX, no matter how hard we try. Its a design issue in FSX. Personnally i did all i could, without hacking hard inside FSX.
Looks like that now, after FSX SP2, there will not be any other update on FSX, so now i ll wait and see if i get excited by FS11.
Stating that, i must say that i ll continue supporting the online flying communities, only thru deving software. Our communities made huge acheivements and i dont want to waste all that work.
I really wish some other developers would step forward and dev new stuff, new pilot clients, open to all networks, and free for everyone.
I cant release FSInn or FSCopilot opensource. The reason is that i am using some personnal technologies i am using for telecom software, and i dont want to publicly distribute that technologies.
I also dont want to indirectly help the FS payware industry. I dont want to show how i did on FSCopilot and FSInn to support all FS, from FS2002 to FSX with the same binaries. I dont want to show how i am able to run Visual Basic in FS, or even DotNet application inside FS.
Since i am not able to provide the same quality for FSX like i did on FS2004 for formation flying, the P2P technologies inside FSInn isnt worthing anymore. I do think that if MS keeps the same stance toward simconnect dev, people willing to fly in formation with friends will be forced to use gamespy stuff.
So now my plans are :
- Stop FSCopilot
- Make a new FSInn only for ATC network usage only
FSCopilot was initially designed to be a freeware alternative for developpers to FSUIPC, now simconnect is the SDK to work with FS, making FSUIPC and FSCopilot useless. I do regret i never had the time nor the motivation to make a real documentation to FSCopilot SDK, only some very few people were trained by me to use FSCopilot. I see very little reason to continue the work on it.
FSInn is very complex to dev and very complex to install because of a lot of features. A lot features are related to formation flying, like P2P and Aircraft repository. If we considere FSInn will never be able to compete with MS made multiplayer with gamespy, a lot feature of FSInn could be removed, making the software simplier and lighter to run on any CPU.
My idea is to make something simple, light, with minimum features, Squawkbox philosophy could be reference, and making it to become opensource without any wizardry i want to protect. Then release it open source, up to new people to make it better.
This is my plan.
Feel free to tell me what you think, i ll try to complete a bit more my message tomorrow.
_________________
FSInn a 3 ans/ 3 years of FSInn
-- L. James
--
L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
www.apollo3.com/~ljames
O the official FSInn site (http://www.mcdu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4956&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 ) Benjamin wrote: I havent being active on this forum in the last 6 months. I have not immediat plan on being more active.
FSInn and FSCopilot dev has been a great dev experience for me in the past, i experimented a lot of stuff i would have never experienced in other context. FSCopilot and FSInn are the kind of stuff are to make happen, just because there is thousands of users, all with different PC config and architectures, the number of issue we had to solve in the past was amazing.
Dont run, FSInn and FSCopilot arent dead.
FSX has been a great disappointment for me, and many others in the dev community. I had a lot of hopes initially about Simconnect, and i was very disappointed not seeing a sight of proactive behavior from MS Aces team on Simconnect. I could have done like i did on previous version of FS, and go directly hacking in FSX, but i didnt just because the overall performance of FSX make me think its not worthing.
The other point is that i dont know what is the MS strategy for online flying. FSX internal multiplayer with gamespy implements a quality for formation flying we will never be able to compete with (FSInn, FSHost, etc). We will always get jumping aircraft on FSX, no matter how hard we try. Its a design issue in FSX. Personnally i did all i could, without hacking hard inside FSX.
Looks like that now, after FSX SP2, there will not be any other update on FSX, so now i ll wait and see if i get excited by FS11.
Stating that, i must say that i ll continue supporting the online flying communities, only thru deving software. Our communities made huge acheivements and i dont want to waste all that work.
I really wish some other developers would step forward and dev new stuff, new pilot clients, open to all networks, and free for everyone.
I cant release FSInn or FSCopilot opensource. The reason is that i am using some personnal technologies i am using for telecom software, and i dont want to publicly distribute that technologies.
I also dont want to indirectly help the FS payware industry. I dont want to show how i did on FSCopilot and FSInn to support all FS, from FS2002 to FSX with the same binaries. I dont want to show how i am able to run Visual Basic in FS, or even DotNet application inside FS.
Since i am not able to provide the same quality for FSX like i did on FS2004 for formation flying, the P2P technologies inside FSInn isnt worthing anymore. I do think that if MS keeps the same stance toward simconnect dev, people willing to fly in formation with friends will be forced to use gamespy stuff.
So now my plans are :
- Stop FSCopilot
- Make a new FSInn only for ATC network usage only
FSCopilot was initially designed to be a freeware alternative for developpers to FSUIPC, now simconnect is the SDK to work with FS, making FSUIPC and FSCopilot useless. I do regret i never had the time nor the motivation to make a real documentation to FSCopilot SDK, only some very few people were trained by me to use FSCopilot. I see very little reason to continue the work on it.
FSInn is very complex to dev and very complex to install because of a lot of features. A lot features are related to formation flying, like P2P and Aircraft repository. If we considere FSInn will never be able to compete with MS made multiplayer with gamespy, a lot feature of FSInn could be removed, making the software simplier and lighter to run on any CPU.
My idea is to make something simple, light, with minimum features, Squawkbox philosophy could be reference, and making it to become opensource without any wizardry i want to protect. Then release it open source, up to new people to make it better.
This is my plan.
Feel free to tell me what you think, i ll try to complete a bit more my message tomorrow.
_________________
FSInn a 3 ans/ 3 years of FSInn
-- L. James
--
L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
www.apollo3.com/~ljames