Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding external nasal bindings fgcommands to FlightGear by using Plugins ?

2004-07-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Back to the plugins discussion ... I am really about to get famous here for my unpopular views ;-) Andy Ross wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: I'm still not convinced that a plugin system would be such a great idea for FlightGear. Well, I am just making suggestion :-) I think most of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding external nasal bindings fgcommands to FlightGear by using Plugins ?

2004-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Boris Koenig said: Back to the plugins discussion ... I am really about to get famous here for my unpopular views ;-) It sounds like you are anticipating something here. My recommendation is that you spend quite a bit more time getting familiar with FlightGear. It isn't that your idea or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taildragger takeoff and landing

2004-07-30 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon S Berndt wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:34:16 -0500 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, then how do you explain a frisbee that can curve either way, even though it's always thrown with the same direction of spin. And please include the coriolis effect in your explanation (now that

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.5

2004-07-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
The official v0.9.5 source tarball and base package is now up on the ftp sites and I've updated the website as well. I plan to email out an official announcement later today, but I'd love to collect as many pre-built packages as possible in advance. So if you are one of our package builders,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.5

2004-07-30 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
How do I create a pre-built package? Do I just select the relevent folders and drop them into the tarball? Regards, Ampere On July 30, 2004 10:36 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: The official v0.9.5 source tarball and base package is now up on the ftp sites and I've updated the website as well. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.5

2004-07-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: How do I create a pre-built package? Do I just select the relevent folders and drop them into the tarball? It seems like every operating system and distribution has a different mechanism for prepackaging software. So if you want to package FG for a particular

[Flightgear-devel] Properties and speed of lookup

2004-07-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
Properties = text strings bound to variables or access methods. Property manager maintains a list of these. How is the lookup done when a property value is retrieved (assuming the desired property to be looked up is referenced by the text string)? I wondered if an STL map is used? Jon

[Flightgear-devel] problems with RUNFGFS.BAT at FG forum at AVSim

2004-07-30 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello all, not a problem I suffer from myself, but I notice there seem to be quite a few people posting on the FlightGear forum at the AVSim web-site and the RUNFGFS.BAT question is something a lot of new Windows users seem to be having a lot of trouble with. Because all the developers and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems with RUNFGFS.BAT at FG forum at AVSim

2004-07-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Lee Elliott wrote: Hello all, not a problem I suffer from myself, but I notice there seem to be quite a few people posting on the FlightGear forum at the AVSim web-site and the RUNFGFS.BAT question is something a lot of new Windows users seem to be having a lot of trouble with. Because all the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Properties and speed of lookup

2004-07-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S Berndt wrote: Properties = text strings bound to variables or access methods. Property manager maintains a list of these. How is the lookup done when a property value is retrieved (assuming the desired property to be looked up is referenced by the text string)? I wondered if an STL map is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.5

2004-07-30 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: [...] So if you are one of our package builders, please let me know as soon as you have v0.9.5 ready to go and I will update the web site. Solaris/Sparc is currently building - but it takes a while on an old Sparc20 :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's

[Flightgear-devel] Data source battle?

2004-07-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
When using real-time weather via the net and the native-ctrls interface to input control data to FG it appears both sources attempt to write to the environmental properties; this is most noticeable with the wind vector and discontinuities in the ground speed turning off the specific wind

[Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-07-30 Thread Chris Metzler
I've been waiting to post this until after the release went out, hoping there'd be more discussion when things were a tiny bit calmer . . . Over time, various people have done a lot of work on ground structures, etc., to add to the scenery for FlightGear. Frederic's did a lot of work on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] create craters and smoke effect

2004-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:13:20 +0200, Boris wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe that saves some time or at least keeps you from re-inventing the wheel ;-) ..maybe. Executive summary from http://www.phoenixosfs.org/ ;-) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:45:36 +0100, Matthew wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) ..you have a kit started? Which diesel?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taildragger takeoff and landing

2004-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:42:48 -0400, Ampere wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On July 28, 2004 03:06 pm, Jon S Berndt wrote: So, from the point of view of the horizontal stabilizor, that pesky downwash happens because wings really suck. ;-) I guess that's one of the reasons why some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taildragger takeoff and landing

2004-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:47:43 -0400, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jim Wilson wrote: This suggests that both bernoulli and the pushing (gravity) are at play, depending on the airfoil. My (uneducated) guess is the pushing is almost all of it and that the bernoulli effect only