Re: [Flightgear-devel] J3 Cub -- sitting in the backseat

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm now seeing a little bit of texture battling on the altimeter, but that might be because I'm in 16 bit. Let me know if anyone else sees it. The layers probably just have to be a little further apart. It doesn't in 24 bit. With the 3D instruments

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FW: Cygwin Build problems

2003-01-29 Thread James Turner
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 02:43 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: SimGear/FlightGear configure used to automatically add /usr/local/lib to the library search path. That was removed because apparently it causes gcc-3.2 to gripe? Someone needs to explain the gcc-3.2 problem so that we can get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J3 Cub -- sitting in the backseat

2003-01-29 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: It doesn't in 24 bit. With the 3D instruments there is a tradeoff between accuracy and z-fighting. The further out the needles are the more error there is even at shallow view angles. Hmmm...maybe it would be useful to have a property that would indicate 16 bit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: Radios and Instrumentation

2003-01-29 Thread James Turner
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 03:18 pm, David Megginson wrote: With the move, I'm also considering cleaning up the radio code a bit, and introducing better lags for the ADF and VOR needles (they're a little too snappy right now). Just one thing : when I get to the KLN-89b, I'm going to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: Radios and Instrumentation

2003-01-29 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A slightly bigger deal would be eliminating the /radios/ property-tree branch and putting the radios under /instrumentation/, possibly with some slight restructuring for consistency. That would have the benefits of simplifying the top level of the

[Flightgear-devel] script demo

2003-01-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I needed a 15 minute break, so ... I just committed a quicky perl script demo to $fgsrc/scripts/perl/autopilot/flyplan.pl. It's a hack and really needs to be enhanced a bit more, but it shows how you can remotely manipulate the autopilot and radio settings, as well as monitor flight progress

[Flightgear-devel] Morse numerals

2003-01-29 Thread David Megginson
When I tried to ident 3U (a local NDB), I realized that FlightGear did not support numerals in Morse identifiers -- I just kept hearing U ... U ... U. That's fixed now in the current CVS. Just out of curiosity, do no U.S. navaids have digits in their identifiers, not even local NDB beacons?

[Flightgear-devel] real-time video possibility

2003-01-29 Thread Brandon Walters
Does anyone know how to go about this?the real time video feed is for a project much like socf's idea of having a a GPS reciever on board along with other payload, and flight gear would be used on the ground station as a good interface... does anyone know how to link in the real time vidoe, exam

RE: [Flightgear-devel] minor slashdot mention

2003-01-29 Thread Jon Berndt
[1] I have a 2 year old daughter ... :-) http://www.nickjr.com/grownups/home/shows/dora/index.jhtml Is she into Teletubbies, yet? :-) Jon smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] real-time video possibility

2003-01-29 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Brandon Walters writes: Does anyone know how to go about this?the real time video feed is for a project much like socf's idea of having a a GPS reciever on board along with other payload, and flight gear would be used on the ground station as a good interface...