FGx Globe Read Me

Your world - in ways you have never seen before.

FGx Globe R7 ~ Full Screen

FGx Globe R5 ~ Full Screen

See also this post on Jaanga.com:

FGx Globe R5: New Globe type, More Aircraft, More thumbnails

Project Links

You have two ways of viewing the FGx Globe files:

• Code hosted on GitHub: fgx.github.io
• Source code on GitHub: github.com/fgx << You are now probably here.

2016-02-23

FGx Globe R7

Major update!

• Adds waypoint tracking data from mpserver15.flightgear.org
• Data gathered at load time from mpserver15 in yellow
• Runtime updates are red
• Code is still in its infancy
• Can use a lot of cleaning up and streamlining
• Many features still to be added

But it's certainly already fun to watch the peeps flying around.

Thanks Hazuki!

2013-11-19

This is the hot stuff:

FGx Globe R5

Air Run Nav R1

• Release 1.0 ~ Many issues.
• Takes too long to load. But, once loaded, you can pan, zoom and rotate with your mouse,
• Edit the latitude and the longitude to go to new location
• Or choose a different city from the drop down list.
• Both of these actions take way too long. We will have to learn how to cheat here,
• Next is the list of 27,151 airports with 27,151 tooltips << Try that with PostGIS.
• Click on an airport to paint the screen with its data. GitHub data is behind Gitorious data - so many errors occur.
• Clicking on an airport only shows its particulars. Upcoming release will take you there
• Error: Painted text can prevent you from rotating screen. Work-around: Click outside text area or load airport with no data.
• Click 'Get Nearby Airports' to see all airports in the current tile.
• Airports with ILS display each ILS as a correctly headed but badly positioned green bar. All other airports just show a red cube.
• Airport placards now uses Three.js Sprites. Placards will look toward you no matter where you move.
• Some locations have moving 3D objects. These objects are inserted at specified locations by a Google Docs spreadsheet. Why? Just because we can.
• Different map types got turned off, They will be back

Copyright Notice and License

FGx copyright notice and license

Change log

2013-12-11 ~ Theo

• R5 is up
• Add new bump-map globe with clouds
• Add ablity to stop globe rotating to Global Settings tab
• Just about all thumbnails now appear correctly

Road Map << outdated

• Add paint the stars using their relative luminosity in their correct positions, see Marble. Data is available via x-plane .dat

2013-12-05 ~ Theo

• New index.html
• fixed links so works with new FGx Aircraft dirs

2013-12-04 ~ Theo

• Updated so as to work with revised FGx Aircraft repo
• Add logo/text to read me
• Tried adding sprites that always camera as alternate to fixed postion placars for aircraft placards but result was confusing so reverted.

2013-11-24 ~ Theo

• Added link and notes to info panel
• Started adding auto-rotate checbox

2013-11-19 ~ Theo

• Air Run Nav R1 added
• History pages added and older text moved there

2013-11-18 ~ Theo

• New release folder 4.0
• Now loads Geoff FG to JSON models
• Loads latest jQuery/jQueryUI/te,plates

2013-05-03 ~ Theo

• smaller file size models from FG via blender
• fgx globe: seymour is pre-loaded

2013-05-02 ~ Theo

• fgx globe airports: lot of UI work

2013-05-01 ~ Theo

• Loaded Aerostar model - exported from FlightGear

2013-04-30 ~ Theo

• Load multiple types of planes
• Eight types of models now avalable
• Improved call back handling
• Improved already loaded handling
• More logical variable names
• Better deletion of terminated flights
• Aircraft scale changes with camera distance
• Camera motion stops when you zoom in

2013-04-28 ~ Theo

• Number of planes shows in window title bars
• Planes are now all b777 3D models
• Flight windows with OSM has select zoom and retained in permalinks
• Flight windows now show a 2D image of plane rotated to current headding
• The main menu is using small text in most places
• Text on Info page updated

2013-04-27 ~ Theo

• 4flight-window-settings.html: simplified JavaScript and HTML
• 3globa-settings.html: simplified JavaScript and HTML
• 0info.html tidied
• Added more maps
• Planes are deleted as and when Crossfeed no longer lists them
• Windows stay closed - and are deleted from the permalink
• started work on bringing in 3D models

2013-04-26 ~

• Updated index page for fgx-globe
• Added load-plane-3d
• Updated fgx-globe-r3

2013-04-19 ~ Theo

• Added j3QUE FGx r1
• New index page for fgx-globe
• fgx-globe-r2-dev uses updated Crossfeed link

2013-04-13 ~ Theo

• World Airports,Runways and Navaids r2.4: airport image links to Google Maps
• World Airports,Runways and Navaids r2.4: tightened up Heads-up diaply
• World Airports,Runways and Navaids r2.4: added link to wunderground.com

2013-03-20 ~ Theo

• airport symbol size is scaled to the camera distance
• display output prettified with degree symbols
• Checked Geoff's naivaid file for commas in name field. Found none
• Deleted quotes from file. Reduced file size by 3%
• Checked Geoff's icao file for commas in name field. Found none
• Deleted quotes from file. Reduced file size by 4.2%
• Replaced custon XMLHttpRequest functions with generic function
• Was loading two starfield bitmaps, now just one!

2013-03-19 ~ Theo

• updates to airports-runways-navaids r2.2
• Added loading, reading display of Geoff's navaid data
• Completed namespacification
• Added mousewheel event capture and linked it to onMouseUp function

2013-03-18 ~ Theo

• update airports-runways-navaids r2.1
• Distance calculations now relate to camera position, not a separate airplane object
• Number of airports displayed relates to camera altitude versus number of ILS and distance from camera
• Scale of airport symbols relates to alitude
• Settings display updated
• Heads-up display shows number of runways and ILS
• More variables embedded in the FGx name space
• Ongoing code clean-up

2013-03-17 ~ Theo

• Added airports-runways-navaids r2
• r2: skysphere with one of Paul Blunt's PNGs
• r2: globe has texture
• r2: added lights
• r2: fixes silly bug where heads-up displayed incorrectly. Fixed position of sidebatr causing issue

2013-03-09 ~ Theo

• Adding airports-runways-navaids folders + data

2013-03-09 ~ Theo

• Adding copyright and licensing information

2013-03-07 ~ Theo

• added word-wrap:break-word; to heads-up css in globe-circumscribe-airports-2k-json.html

2013-03-06 ~ Theo

• added aptinfo folder with navaid data for 2,123 airports
• cookbook: added globe-circumscribe-airports-2k-json.html

• not fully working

2013-03-05 ~ Theo

• cookbook: added open-geoff-file-head-ups-only-nearby.html

• Shows details of nearest of 27,000 airports

• cookbook: added globe-circumscribe-airports.html

• ditto with nicer UI

• cookbook: added globe-circumscribe-airports-2k-only

• what does a globe with 2,134 airports look like? Crowded.

2013-03-04 ~ Theo

• cookbook: added 'open-geoff-file-show-only-nearby.html'

2013-03-03 ~ Theo

• cookbook: added 'open-geoff-file-and-display.html'
• cookbook: added 'open-geoff-file-and-find-nearby.html'

2013-03-02 ~ Theo

• cookbook: added 'find-nearby.html'
• cookbook: added 'globe-circumscribe.html'

2013-03-02 ~ Theo

• Wiki: worked on mission statement

2013-02-28 ~ Theo

• Started & completed process of putting variables in a name space. Thanks to Pete for the push...
• mothball: looks for latest update number otherwise delete...
• Added GoSFO and GoWorld ~ wormholes into parallel worlds

2013-02-27 ~ Theo

• Updated public home page regarding dev version, new code
• default camera position is set by laitude, longitude and radius using new update position function
• Started adding API with access via query string

*2013-02-26 ~ Theo

• Rejigged placard and heads-up distrubition of info
• Added display of thumbnails to heads-up where model thumbnails exist.

2013-02-25 ~ R2 ~ Theo

• Started Change Log in GitHub Read Me
• Created folders for textures & fgx-globe r2 & populated fgx-globe-r2
• OBJ.planeId.hdg & dist_nm: no longer arrays, now single values
• Addeded OBJ.planeId.update
• Moved propellers back into correct location r1 + r2
• Cleaned up processFlightsData()
• Added 'mothball' function - to remove non-active planes from the scene
• Updated text to show the count of 'flying' and 'flown'
• Added an Equator
• Added back skywriting

2013-02-25 ~ R1 ~ Theo

• simplified object management
• globe has diameter of 100 units
• planes have heading - but I think they are off by 90 degrees or 270 or something but I have not taken the time to track this down yet.
• sliders allow you to set plane scale and altitude scale
• planes with an altitude of 0, are grayed.
• moving the cursor over a plane cause a 'heads-up' display to appear which displays model name and the remaining data from the feed not shown on the placard