Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Roman Grigoriev
- Original Message - From: Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flightgear-Devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 7:24 AM Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows Has anyone ever considered implementing aircraft shadows projected on the ground? I tried to work not with shadows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Roman Grigoriev wrote: I tried to work not with shadows but with light lobes but It requres multitexturing that PLIB NOT support and I think that will not support in nearest future. FlightGear is tightly connected with PLIB and Curtis IMHO will not release FlightGear w/o released PLIB with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Roman Grigoriev
- Original Message - From: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows Roman Grigoriev wrote: I tried to work not with shadows but with light lobes but It requres multitexturing that PLIB NOT

[Flightgear-devel] base package cvs update failing...

2003-03-17 Thread James Turner
Doing 'cvs up' in fgfsbase. (flags are -dP) cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory Have I done something dumb (been away from my FG box for 2 weeks, it worked before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] base package cvs update failing...

2003-03-17 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
James Turner writes: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory I see the same thing. -Fred ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] base package cvs update failing...

2003-03-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic BOUVIER writes: James Turner writes: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory I see the same thing. I know there was a chance that John would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has anyone ever considered implementing aircraft shadows projected on the ground? Jon How about cheating? Add a rectangle under the aircraft, map a fuzzy silhouette texture onto it and animate it down to ground level (translate it based on AGL). Above

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Andy Ross
Roman Grigoriev wrote: Yes, but you can't specify second texture's coordinates - It uses texgen I can work with second texture, Maqrten Stronberg gave multitexture patch to me at Summer 2002, but as you see there is no multitexture in PLIB CVS Didn't we go through this before? What you want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: How about cheating? Add a rectangle under the aircraft, map a fuzzy silhouette texture onto it and animate it down to ground level (translate it based on AGL). Above 50m AGL you'd have to offset up a little to keep it above the terrain. That would work very well for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2003-03-17 Thread Major A
How about cheating? Add a rectangle under the aircraft, map a fuzzy silhouette texture onto it and animate it down to ground level (translate it based on AGL). Above 50m AGL you'd have to offset up a little to keep it above the terrain. Good idea, but how do you map the silhouette? It

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Richard Harvey

2003-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Some folks might not have heard that the creator and lead developer of the Fly! series passed away last week. There's a mention on the avsim current news (scroll down). http://www.avsim.com/ Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] base package cvs update failing...

2003-03-17 Thread John Check
On Monday 17 March 2003 9:57 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Frederic BOUVIER writes: James Turner writes: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory I see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] base package cvs update failing...

2003-03-17 Thread John Check
On Monday 17 March 2003 9:57 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Frederic BOUVIER writes: James Turner writes: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvslck: No such file or directory I see

[Flightgear-devel] Speaking of helicopters...

2003-03-17 Thread David Megginson
I just found this: http://www.me.psu.edu/me415/fall01/boeing2/ It's a little old -- apologies if the link has already been posted. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] La Paz

2003-03-17 Thread David Culp
That wasn't going to be happening at the La Paz airport, as far as I could tell, at least not with the current YASim model. I hope my only flights into or out of La Paz will be in FlightGear :) Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] La Paz

2003-03-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Culp writes: That wasn't going to be happening at the La Paz airport, as far as I could tell, at least not with the current YASim model. I hope my only flights into or out of La Paz will be in FlightGear :) I remember exactly 0% of the flight or the airport, but my family flew into