Very frequently we get sent logfiles from customers who are having a problem, and who are often surprised when we say that the logs aren’t really of much use. It’s a perfectly reasonable assumption, that’s what the logs are for, right? How can we say they’re useless, especially when Traffic Global – or anything else […]
Traffic Global – Light Aircraft Generation
Since the ability to create light (GA) aircraft was added to Traffic Global, there have been a lot of questions about what decisions lie behind the created flights, and a lot of people assuming that it’s a simple case of filling all GA parking at all airports all the time. In every other aspect of […]
Traffic Global – Choosing the Runway
There are a lot of people asking a completely fair question: Why does Traffic Global not use the same runway as [FlightRadar24|X-Plane|Pilot2ATC], delete as appropriate. It feels like it should be straightforward. Weather is this, airport’s rules are this, therefore land on 08R. Dead easy. Except. The problem is that there are a load of […]
Traffic Global – Airport Design
One of the key design decisions in Traffic Global was to avoid using any additional files to help with navigation, and to avoid any special, Traffic Global-specific rules or encodings. All the data needed comes directly from files that are required by X-Plane itself and would be fully used by X-Plane itself. Although this does […]
Traffic Global – Adding New Aircraft
Although Traffic Global comes as standard with over 1,000 liveries there are still around 1,000 more that are referenced in the standard traffic database that are not provided. In an ideal world, every single referenced livery would be provided but the reality is that creating an additional 1,000 liveries requires a lot of time, and […]
Traffic Global – Aircraft Substitution System
When Traffic Global reads a schedule file (BGL) and tries to find the correct aircraft model to fly a particular route, there are several rules in place about how it does this. Obviously the first thing it tries is an exact match with the aircraft name that is used in the BGL, and this name […]
Traffic Global – Pre-release Presentation
I was reminded that the video for this is online, so it feels right to add a link here.
Traffic Global for X-Plane Dev Diary – July
Originally published on https://www.justflight.com/articles/developers-diary-traffic-global-for-xplane-11 Welcome back, and congratulations on your persistence if you’ve been here from the start! This month’s diary needs to take a bit of a step back which, as will become clear, is very appropriate. I’d like to talk about something that happened during the internal beta, and I need to start by […]
Traffic Global for X-Plane Dev Diary – June
Originally published on https://www.justflight.com/articles/developers-diary-traffic-global-for-xplane-11 Welcome back! So far in these diaries I’ve been trying to talk a bit about what the development of something like this feels like from the “other side”; not just a “what I did on my summer holidays”-type essay in multiple parts, but what the thought processes and drives are for someone […]
Traffic Global for X-Plane Dev Diary – May
This has been a busy month to say the least. Firstly, the beta was announced last month which puts a certain amount of pressure on. More than that, it’s been a time of gathering threads together and trying to join them together without using too many granny knots.