[Flightgear-devel] Illumination bug ?

2003-12-04 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi, it seems that there is a problem with illumination and I wonder if it is an OpenGL limitation or a flaw in our way to use it. Look at those screenshots : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/fgfs-screen-001.jpg http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/fgfs-screen-002.jpg They are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you got the latest CVS code it shoudl just work. Got it - I took the YF-23 for a reconnaissance flight What will the sailboat do if it reaches the shoreline ? Will it turn around ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you got the latest CVS code it shoudl just work. Got it - I took the YF-23 for a reconnaissance flight What will the sailboat do if it reaches the shoreline ? Will it turn around ? Not at this moment, no. That would require

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: Not at this moment, no. That would require intervention from a Nasal script (which isn't implemented yet). Actually, if you guys used property ties to wrap your internal variables, you could drive it with Nasal right now. You can either tie a pointer to the actual data, or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit

2003-12-04 Thread Gene Buckle
Al, go take a peek at www.simpits.org g. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Very nice piece of kit - but a little costly. I've been toying with the idea of building my own generic single seat cockpit unit. I do MIDI, LCD, Serial and Keyboard interface controllers. Recently

[Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling SimGear under MS Visual C++ 7

2003-12-04 Thread Marco Gugel
When I build SimGear I have some problems like those.. d:\Flightgear\SimGear-0.3.4\simgear\screen\jpgfactory.hxx(30) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'jpeglib.h': No such file or directory Where I Can find this file? It isn't in plib, glut, simgear, flightgear!! Moreover..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Not at this moment, no. That would require intervention from a Nasal script (which isn't implemented yet). Actually, if you guys used property ties to wrap your internal variables, you could drive it with Nasal right now. You can either tie a pointer to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling SimGear under MS Visual C++ 7

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
Marco Gugel wrote: d:\Flightgear\SimGear-0.3.4\simgear\screen\jpgfactory.hxx(30) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'jpeglib.h': No such file or directory Where I Can find this file? It isn't in plib, glut, simgear, flightgear!! The simple answer is: It's in libjpeg.

[Flightgear-devel] Patch for sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Surgeon
The throttle and axis bindings need to be swapped in sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml The description at the top is correct but the bindings don't match. This is an ongoing problem - I remember having the same problem over a year ago. I've never made patch files before but here is my attempt :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: Even for (say) a dozen of simultaneously active dynamic models? I'm not sure, but it would be a good thing to look into. Even for hundreds. The overhead for a property tie is pretty close to zero. You pay the cost only when the property is accessed -- to your internal C++

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling SimGear under MS Visual C++ 7

2003-12-04 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Marco Gugel wrote: ... d:\Flightgear\SimGear-0.3.4\compiler.h(245) : fatal error C1189: #error : What version of MSVC++ is this? The file compiler.h is not suitable for MS visual C++ 7, it is setted for VC++ 5. What can I do? Get Simgear CVS (and FlightGear CVS too), or in compiler.h,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Thursday 04 December 2003 21:17: There's a similar issue with the current bo105.nas script -- it hooks a timer at 20Hz to do a rear door animation. But only if the animation was triggered and as long as the movement lasts, which is a time where the operator watches the animation,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2003-12-04 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Paul Surgeon wrote: The throttle and axis bindings need to be swapped in sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml The description at the top is correct but the bindings don't match. This is an ongoing problem - I remember having the same problem over a year ago. I've never made patch files before but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: But only if the animation was triggered and as long as the movement lasts, which is a time where the operator watches the animation, anyway, and couldn't care less about a few extra cycles. Apart from that there should be zero overhead. Have I misunderstood the settimer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
I wrote: It's easy to see every model (maybe a few dozen around a busy aircraft) ^ port ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:35, Frederic Bouvier wrote: I just want to point out here that axis are not the same for Linux and Windows : axis 2 3 are inverted, and the hat axis are not the same ( 45 for Linux, 67 for Windows ). Whoa ... that sounds nuts! I've never heard of that before.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Josh Babcock
Well, I can certainly see that aircraft's *pilot* being busy ... Josh Andy Ross wrote: I wrote: It's easy to see every model (maybe a few dozen around a busy aircraft) ^ port ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Thursday 04 December 2003 21:47: [...] if settimer() was the *only* method for doing animations via scripts, then *every* animation would be done with a timer handler and we'd potentially have many timers going off every frame. [...] That's slow. OK, OK. Just wanted to note

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: How will this sample code react, if the door has already opened half way and a second trigger happens? Will it stop immediately (like the current code does) and start to close? Yes. I forgot to mention that feature of your original: it was very slick. If all you want to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2003-12-04 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Paul Surgeon wrote: Well the interesting thing is that the axis were also swapped on Windows. Whether I run FG under Windows or Linux I always have to edit the bindings and swap those two axis. Are you using the hat ? they are also swapped. If you are using the same file, you are doing the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Even for (say) a dozen of simultaneously active dynamic models? I'm not sure, but it would be a good thing to look into. Even for hundreds. The overhead for a property tie is pretty close to zero. You pay the cost only when the property is accessed -- to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:27, Frederic Bouvier wrote: If you are using the same file, you are doing the endless loop yourself. On Windows I was using a precompiled binary distribution. On LInux I'm using the CVS version. They were on seperate hard disks. To be sure, can you post the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit

2003-12-04 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Al, On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:11:06AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Very nice piece of kit - but a little costly. I've been toying with the idea of building my own generic single seat cockpit unit. I do MIDI, LCD, Serial and Keyboard interface controllers. Recently I've got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for sidewinder-force-feed-pro.xml

2003-12-04 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:27, Frederic Bouvier wrote: If you are using the same file, you are doing the endless loop yourself. On Windows I was using a precompiled binary distribution. On LInux I'm using the CVS version. They were on seperate hard disks. To be

[Flightgear-devel] New stuff

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
OK, time for more stuff, mostly Nasal or Nasal related. Curt gave me write access to the CVS repository so I've checked it in myself. Shout if I broke something. The FGNasalSys subsystem now has a parseScript() method that returns a pointer to a FGNasalScript object. You can use this to hold

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New stuff

2003-12-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy Ross writes: I wrote: OK, time for more stuff, mostly Nasal or Nasal related. Curt gave me write access to the CVS repository so I've checked it in myself. Shout if I broke something. I broke something! :) My commit died in the base package Nasal directory with the following

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New stuff

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
I wrote: OK, time for more stuff, mostly Nasal or Nasal related. Curt gave me write access to the CVS repository so I've checked it in myself. Shout if I broke something. I broke something! :) My commit died in the base package Nasal directory with the following error: cvs [commit aborted]:

[Flightgear-devel] TerraSync

2003-12-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
TerraSync is now useful again. If you are net connected while flying, you can use it to fetch scenery from any where (just in time). This way you don't have to download huge chunks of scenery data, or endure vast expanses of ocean where you know there should be land and airports. Just go fly,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New stuff

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: cvs [commit aborted]: could not open lock file `/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal/,bo105.nas,': Permission denied Give the commit another try now ... Worked great, thanks. Andy ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] undefined reference to `ssgCullAndDraw(ssgRoot*)'

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Matkovic
I couldn't find a solution to this one in recent posts, but it seemed like a common problem. I get this linker error even though I successfully compiled the cvs versions of plib and simgear. Any suggestions? /usr/local/SimGear-cvs/lib/libsgsky.a(cloud.o): In function

[Flightgear-devel] Repeatable problem with FG ATI 9200

2003-12-04 Thread Lee Elliott
Hi all, I've found a repeatable FG scenario that's causing a system hang crash on my system. I strongly suspect it's due to the ATI drivers for my ATI9200 256MB video card but it's interesting that it was so repeatable. It would be handy to have something a little more solid to beat ATI