[Flightgear-devel] Multiple instruments and systems, and configuration of these

2004-08-07 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
Hi, I've looked through the TODO comments in the source code for the instrumentation and the systems, and would like to start implementing some/all/even more of them. That is unless someone else is already doing that. The two main things to add are: 1) Multiple instruments and systems, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bo105 + patch

2004-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Alex, Those photos are really are nice! Wow! Mind me asking what you took them with? I like how they modeled them after Frederic's models! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: It will be good if we can have some generic Graphic Interface for FlightGear. Not only can it be used on the CDU, it can also be used on other flight displays. So, you are also talking of script-able ways to implement basic animations or what exactly is it that you're

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Harald Johnsen wrote: Would it work to have one node in the property tree that would contain the text on the CDU display ? The 3D cockpit could listen for changes to this node and when one happens, update the CDU display in the 3D cockpit... I like this idea, the text could be use for the FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Harald Johnsen wrote: As I said before I don't have all the knowledge to build it enterely by myself so I will need a lot of feedback at the beginning (the fonctions of the fmc but also the look and feel). Besides projectmagenta.com that I mentioned in my last reply there's also another

[Flightgear-devel] Re: bo105 + patch

2004-08-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Alex Romosan -- Saturday 07 August 2004 01:19: as a matter of fact it does seem that european helicopters behave differently from american ones. Yes, you are right, sorry. I was slightly pissed, because if felt as if you needlessly dragged my country into the matter, only because we didn't

[Flightgear-devel] Re:bo104 - patch

2004-08-07 Thread Jeff Sinsay
* Alex Romosan -- Saturday 07 August 2004 00:36: you can clearly hear the woman say that if you lift the collective you increase the pitch of the blades so you get more lift and you'll go up. so it would seem that collective up means helicopter goes up. maybe in austria they do it differently.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: bo104 - patch

2004-08-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jeff Sinsay -- Saturday 07 August 2004 16:28: Yes indeed, when looking from the top down American Helicopters rotate-counter clockwise, while European/Russian Helis rotate clockwise. Yes, that's widely known. But nobody would seriously assume that anywhere the collective lever is pushed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: bo104 - patch

2004-08-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 16:57:24 +0200, Melchior wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Jeff Sinsay -- Saturday 07 August 2004 16:28: Yes indeed, when looking from the top down American Helicopters rotate-counter clockwise, while European/Russian Helis rotate clockwise. Yes, that's widely

[Flightgear-devel] Re: bo105 + patch

2004-08-07 Thread Alex Romosan
Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Alex Romosan -- Saturday 07 August 2004 01:19: as a matter of fact it does seem that european helicopters behave differently from american ones. Yes, you are right, sorry. I was slightly pissed, because if felt as if you needlessly dragged my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Manuel Bessler
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:20:25PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: I'd say that would not really that much depend on the availabilty of a FMC/CDU SDK but rather getting your hands on the right docs, as soon as these have been collected it should be much more realistic to that done, I think the idea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Manuel Bessler
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: I like the unix philosophy: for every task a seperate program that does only the one thing its designed for. ( make each program do one thing well) I know this is not always appliceable esp. for a flightsimulator, but it could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Manuel Bessler wrote: http://www.fmcguide.com/ Sure, besides several other locations where you can PURCHASE such professional material, but I guess you aren't suggesting to really buy that stuff just for some basic mechanisms to be implemented, otherwise you'd probably be the first one to be asked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Manuel Bessler wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: I don't even mention that this whole thread ultimately brings us back to the plugins discussion :-) I'm thinking more in terms of named pipes/fifo sockets... right, whatever comes to your mind that serves the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Manuel Bessler
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:27:02PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: Ususally, homebuilt CDUs consist of a small LCD w/ TV or VGA interface, the pushbuttons and a piece of plastic resembling the CDU panel. Use an older PC to drive the LCD with a CDU/FMC software running on it (or remotely if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Manuel Bessler wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:27:02PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: Use an older PC to drive the LCD with a CDU/FMC software running on it (or remotely if using X11) is the latter really an already established mechanism, I was really under the impression for it to be a spontaneous

[Flightgear-devel] XMLSound Wish List

2004-08-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
Looking at the xmlsound structure... Wondering if it would be useful to extend the structure and methods to add a second property and then define a set of additonal macro operators to combine the two properties with an arithmetic/logical operation to produce a result. One example; interior jet

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XMLSound Wish List

2004-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
John Wojnaroski wrote: Looking at the xmlsound structure... Wondering if it would be useful to extend the structure and methods to add a second property and then define a set of additonal macro operators to combine the two properties with an arithmetic/logical operation to produce a result. One

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-07 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I was talking about having a libary-like interface that can allow the user to implement basic and advanced animations really easily. Regards, Ampere On August 7, 2004 05:08 am, Boris Koenig wrote: So, you are also talking of script-able ways to implement basic animations or what exactly is it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XMLSound Wish List

2004-08-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
All volume related subsections have one thing in common, the actual volume. So it already is possible to to that. For example, the wind noise decreases as the aircraft gets higher, but also increases when the aircraft gains speed: wind namewind/name modelooped/mode