Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update Missing in config.h-msvc6

2002-04-23 Thread Bernie Bright
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Ugh, that's ugly. The configure script takes care of this automatically with unix/cygwin. Could something be done with the am2dsp.pl script? Tricky! The am2dsp.pl script doesn't touch config.h.in. However I could get the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE version string from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LINUXTAG 2002

2002-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
PS: Who's already planning to come? I am preparing to come - if this is of any use, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update Missing in config.h-msvc6

2002-04-23 Thread Bernie Bright
Bernie Bright wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Ugh, that's ugly. The configure script takes care of this automatically with unix/cygwin. Could something be done with the am2dsp.pl script? Tricky! The am2dsp.pl script doesn't touch config.h.in. However I could get the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sounds

2002-04-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Sam Varner wrote: How do I get sound for my FDM? I have an engine model and I can get the rotational speed. How do I use this to get the pitch of the engine sample? You can take a look at FlightGear/Aircraft/c172/c172-sound.xml for engine you would see: pitch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windoze exe for 0.7.10

2002-04-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm just wondering if a windows developer would mind building a 0.7.10 windows version (--without-logging) and send it to me for the ftp site ... likewise for the other platforms (or let me know when you have it built and available on your site so I can update the links

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

2002-04-23 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Alex makes some good points. So I'm wondering, why can't we have things like throttle/mixture, yoke, flaps, trim wheels, prop pitch, etc. not be part of the instrument panel (except in 2D panel mode)? I mean they really aren't instruments anyway. If we accepted that

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

2002-04-23 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: why just the other day some were saying that treating OpenGL under unix as a non-windowing system was passe yet this was a reality until this year for the vast majority of users I believe :-)) Until about 1999 or 2000, I think -- that's when most Linux users (seem to

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Slow framerate near Burbank (real)

2002-04-23 Thread D Luff
On 22 Apr 2002, at 13:16, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Who was it that said they might have put a bunch of C172 models on top of each other at the end of a runway at KEMT (El Monte, CA)? This is what is killing performance out of Burbank for Melchior. It is also (I believe) what is triggering

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Slow framerate near Burbank (real)

2002-04-23 Thread D Luff
On 22 Apr 2002, at 13:11, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote: Who was it that said they might have put a bunch of C172 models on top of each other at the end of a runway at KEMT (El Monte, CA)? This is what is killing performance out of Burbank for Melchior. It is also (I believe) what is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with final linking - Solved!

2002-04-23 Thread Norman Vine
Michael Basler wites: I had the X windows package coming with Cygwin installed. This includes different opengl/glut packages adapted for X, which - expectedly - do not work out of the box with FlightGear. Thus, the lesson to learn is: Do NOT install X windows while building FlightGear under

AW: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with final linking - Solved!

2002-04-23 Thread Michael Basler
Norman, Since 'X' has just VERY recently been added as an option to the Cygwin Installer the fallout from this has not hit the Cygwin list yet and having been 'toasted' once there over this issue I am hesitant to bring it up again So I have a suspicion that we will have to find our own way

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The 3D models are going to need the ability to add submodels anyway, and ssg-ifying the current panel code is going to be a nasty job (at least, I've backed away every time I've decided to look and give it a try). More importantly, a year or two from

[Flightgear-devel] Need help with GUI

2002-04-23 Thread Alexander Kappes
Can anyone please help me with the GUI? I'm now at a point with my ATC implementation where I would like to display ATC options in a seperat window like the one that appears after selecting Goto Airport from the menu bar. How can I toggle this window on and off by pressing a key and related to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help with GUI

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Wilson
Alexander Kappes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can anyone please help me with the GUI? I'm now at a point with my ATC implementation where I would like to display ATC options in a seperat window like the one that appears after selecting Goto Airport from the menu bar. How can I toggle this window

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

2002-04-23 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: What would the drawbacks be of making the new code do either 2D or 3D and converting the old panels over to the new format? This could potentially solve a number of the concerns that have been raised. It's important to remember that the 2D panel is 3D -- we just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3Dcockpit

2002-04-23 Thread Alex Perry
Yes, but there is more to it than (a) an implied 0 for the third coordinate (b) an arbitrary choice for dimensional units because the 3D model uses the z buffer for overlay, while the panel uses drawing order. In order for the panel to be drawn correctly by the 3D SSG tree, we have to imply

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3Dcockpit

2002-04-23 Thread David Megginson
Alex Perry writes: Yes, but there is more to it than (a) an implied 0 for the third coordinate (b) an arbitrary choice for dimensional units because the 3D model uses the z buffer for overlay, while the panel uses drawing order. That's probably how I should have done it; to see what

[Flightgear-devel] MSVC6: Update for 0.7.10 - April 23, 2002

2002-04-23 Thread Geoff McLane
Did cvs updated plib, simgear, flightgear, and of course fgfsbase ... built in 1, 2, 3 order ... 3. FlightGear\FlightGear.dsw First copy FlightGear\src\include\config.h.msvc6 to config.h, and manually change the version to 0.7.10 ... just like someone had to do in config.in ... Twas i that

[Flightgear-devel] selecting a 3d plane model

2002-04-23 Thread Keith Wiley
The downloadable binary produces a yellow and purple glider even though the aircraft in the preferences.xml file is a c172. Now, in my dev version, obtained through cvs, it also species c172 but it also produces a 3D model of a cesna. I think this polygonally complex model is killing my

[Flightgear-devel] Trouble compiling on IRIX

2002-04-23 Thread shreeganesh ramanan
Hi I tried compiling Flightgear on IRIX and ran into this problem. Plib, Zlib, and metakit compiled fine. Then when SimGear was compiling , for some files the -g compile option causes an internal compiler error props.cxx:834: Internal Compiler Error in 'output_die', at dwarf2out.c:5433

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problem making simgear

2002-04-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Make sure you do a cvs update -d to get all the new subdirectories. Regards, Curt. Boslough, Mark B writes: Hi, I did a cvs update for the first time in a couple of months, and I get the following error when I try to make simgear. $ make Making all in src-libs make[1]: Entering

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trouble compiling on IRIX

2002-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
props.cxx:834: Internal Compiler Error in 'output_die', at dwarf2out.c:5433 [...] The compiler is GCC 2.95.3 Can anybody explain how this can be solved ? By avoiding GCC on IRIX. I had several tries with GCC at release 0.7.8 and I never succeeded because of compiler errors. I started filing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problem making simgear

2002-04-23 Thread Tony Peden
Did you do a cvs update -dP ? On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 17:19, Boslough, Mark B wrote: Hi, I did a cvs update for the first time in a couple of months, and I get the following error when I try to make simgear. $ make Making all in src-libs make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

2002-04-23 Thread Alex Perry
These patches are against the 1.5 CVS, not the 1.4 release, so there may be problems. Here they are: http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-smoothing.dif http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-transparency.dif I get the 1.4.2, execute 'patch plib-smoothing.dif'