Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread Innis Cunningham
Frederic Bouvier Innis Cunningham wrote: Thanks Fred Full credits should go to Erik for the Fokker family ! Sorry.In that case thank you Erik I am only responsible for the Airbus A320. Nice aircraft also the 100 to.Noticed that it (f50) seemed a little touchey on pitch but nothing bad.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument help

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
It looks like the switch is marked CHT Select in the top part of the image. Does this aircraft have a 4 cylinder engine by any chance? Richard -Original Message- From: WillyB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2003 8:10 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching functionfor call to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:19:32 +0200 Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisal: Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: so just today I downloaded the FlightGear all CVS,it stopped at compile.. cut Try removing all simgear related files from your system and install it again to see if that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: But we can use a combination of both, right? If you will look at an aircraft at range of 15 feets, you see nothing. At 100k feets, you see a dot. At 7, you would see a triangle. At 5, you would see a rough shape. At 25000, the next one and at 1 a complete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Frederic Bouvier Innis Cunningham wrote: Thanks Fred Full credits should go to Erik for the Fokker family ! Sorry.In that case thank you Erik Thanks. I've been heads down too long while working on these aircraft. Thanks everyone who mentioned the dusk/down colors. It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching function forcall to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Lukasz Szift Hejnak
0, Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisal: Lukasz Szift Hejnak [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: so I changed the order of the args in main.cxx and ended up with: flightgear/src/Main/main.cxx lines: 1767-1771 thesky-build( 550.0, 550.0, 6.0, 6.0,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching functionfor call to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: and I looked on the files trough the web cvs system and in fact, the code in the main.cxx is different than in my local main.cxx so how can it be, if I downloaded the file yesterday? What is the exact command you use to get FlightGear CVS? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching functionfor call to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Lukasz Szift Hejnak
0, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa: Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: and I looked on the files trough the web cvs system and in fact, the code in the main.cxx is different than in my local main.cxx so how can it be, if I downloaded the file yesterday? What is the exact command you use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching functionfor call to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: What is the exact command you use to get FlightGear CVS? cd ~/CVS cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 login mkdir flightgear cd flightgear cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 co source I don't think 'co source' is the right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching function forcall to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: What is the exact command you use to get FlightGear CVS? cd ~/CVS cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 login mkdir flightgear cd flightgear cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: main.cxx error: no matching functionfor call to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Tuesday 29 July 2003 12:17: Lukasz, try checking out into another directory (the FlightGear source) and see if you get the same main.cxx file. What does ident say? That's what it =should= say: $ ident main.cxx main.cxx: $Id: main.cxx,v 1.115 2003/07/27 07:49:33

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching function forcall to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Lukasz Szift Hejnak
hmm.. funny but it seems that the error just solved itself I moved the main.cxx file to somwhere else and entered the cvs -dp update and the new downloaded main.cxx is the correct up-to-date one so whatever caused this weird behaviour yesterday, has somehow got solved today ;) anyway thx for your

[Flightgear-devel] Boeing 3D drawings

2003-07-29 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Just found this site with dxf/dwg (Autocad) 3D Drawings from Boeing: http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/aircompat/3d_view.html CAD 3 View Drawings for Airport Planning Purposes Just thought that this might come in handy for the modellers. Regards, Manuel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 3D drawings

2003-07-29 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Manuel Bessler wrote: Hi Just found this site with dxf/dwg (Autocad) 3D Drawings from Boeing: http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/aircompat/3d_view.html CAD 3 View Drawings for Airport Planning Purposes Just thought that this might come in handy for the modellers. Thanks, there are the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 3D drawings

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Wilson
Manuel Bessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Just found this site with dxf/dwg (Autocad) 3D Drawings from Boeing: http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/aircompat/3d_view.html CAD 3 View Drawings for Airport Planning Purposes Just thought that this might come in handy for the modellers.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching function forcall to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread WillyB
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 03:51, Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: hmm.. funny but it seems that the error just solved itself I moved the main.cxx file to somwhere else and entered the cvs -dp update and the new downloaded main.cxx is the correct up-to-date one so whatever caused this weird behaviour

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument help

2003-07-29 Thread WillyB
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 00:42, Richard Bytheway wrote: It looks like the switch is marked CHT Select in the top part of the image. Does this aircraft have a 4 cylinder engine by any chance? Yes, it uses the Continental 0-200 (100 HP) which is 4 cylinder. From what I understand now the switch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: main.cxx error: no matching function forcall to `SGSky::build

2003-07-29 Thread Lukasz Szift Hejnak
0, WillyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa: Doesn't CVS keep a file you have modified intact? Just telling you there is a different version and not overwriting your changes? according to the doc's I read it should.. apparently mine (v 1.11.2) doesn't -- with regards Lukasz Hejnak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Matevz Jekovec writes: My suspicions were not correct. I benchmarked the framerate again yesterday and had 7 FPS in 24bpp mode and 9 FPS in 16bpp mode. I'm pretty sure the 16bpp mode worked faster in all views and positions in comparison to 24 bpp. Yes, that has been my experience as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Matevz Jekovec writes: In 3d cockpit view. That leads me to another question. Is there any way we can optimize the graphic engine, not to be so slow in 3d cockpit view? I know we had similar problems with the engine in Falcon, but were never solved due to untouchable source code later

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument help

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Matthew Law writes: IIRC, running lean at high power settings increases CHT. Running rich decreases it since there is more fuel to help dissipate heat. That's an OIT (Old Instructor's Tale) as far as I can tell, though I'm sure that a little heat gets carried off that way. What actually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument help

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Arnt Karlsen writes: ...except when running lean-of-peak, where leaning further, lowers CHT further. Anything lean of 50 degF rich of peak EGT will result in lower CHT. Running right at peak is already slightly cooler, though only by a few degrees. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument help

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Alex Perry writes: Individual cylinders have slightly more or less airflow cooling (due to the pattern of baffles in front of the firewall) and receive slightly different richness in the mixture (due to fuel injection differences, or uneven atomization after the carbureter as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: David, congratulations on your IFR approval! Now, be careful out there (that's what the exam is all about anyhow) but I hate to loose you as a developer. Thanks. Fortunately, since I did my whole flight test in hard-core IMC, the examiner was actually able to see how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: When we broke out at 4000 ft on our initial climb out from Ottawa, and the windows were suddenly filled with sunlight and glorious white cloudtops, everyone in the plane gasped -- it kind-of makes all the work for the rating worthwhile. Not to mention ones own feeling of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 28 July 2003 14:24, Jim Wilson wrote: ...aircraft already have xml that does this by selecting out the cockpit and maybe gear when they are viewed from a certain distance. In that case the That idea hadn't ocurred to me at all, and I hadn't spotted it in any of the other a/c

[Flightgear-devel] Coordinate system in multiplayer protocol

2003-07-29 Thread antoine
Hi I am trying to use Flightgear as a GUI for an air traffic simulator. I use the CVS head and the multiplayer mode (--multiplay=in,10,,5500) on a gnu/linux intel box. I though the positions were in meters in a geocentric frame. When i start in the default position KSFO:28L (-122.358, 37.6117)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Changing the model would stop that working of course, as the geometry would've changed, but it's a quick and simple way of getting a 'lite' (er) version of a model, at least with regard to texture space requirements. Using the reduce function in ac3d and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 00:35, Jim Wilson wrote: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Changing the model would stop that working of course, as the geometry would've changed, but it's a quick and simple way of getting a 'lite' (er) version of a model, at least with regard to texture

[Flightgear-devel] Was IFR checkride - clouds

2003-07-29 Thread Alex Perry
From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] When we broke out at 4000 ft on our initial climb out from Ottawa, and the windows were suddenly filled with sunlight and glorious white cloudtops, everyone in the plane gasped -- it kind-of makes all the work for the rating worthwhile. I like

re: [Flightgear-devel] Was IFR checkride - clouds

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Alex Perry writes: [...] When we broke out at 4000 ft on our initial climb out from Ottawa, and the windows were suddenly filled with sunlight and glorious white cloudtops, everyone in the plane gasped -- it kind-of makes all the work for the rating worthwhile. I like to request

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-29 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Jim Are you working on a low poly version of the 747 for scenery work. I was working on it yesterday.Regrouping the fuse to use one texture and removing the wing and gear textures to reduce the load. I was planing to just apply a material to the wings, gear and horz stabilizer.Grey(silver)