Re: [Flightgear-devel] lights flaring on runways in FG

2004-08-08 Thread Peter L
Interesting, I re-installed Windoze, ATI drivers and motherboard chipset drivers. I set the frame rate at 85 fps and don't get the problems. It looks like it may be one of the options, but havn't found a combination yet. Peter - Original Message - From: Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-08 Thread Harald Johnsen
We are talking of an FMC but of course I wanted to redo at least the ehsi display (for the eye candy). Erik mentioned some time ago that it isn't yet really possible to do simple animations using Nasal in FlightGear, at least that's what Andy indicated when he was asked about that, I

[Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-08 Thread Harald Johnsen
Last mail was cut... What about the performance ? Imagine a simple gauge with a background and a needle. This could be drawn with 3 lines of Nasal code: DrawTexture(background, x,y), Rotate(angle), Drawtexture(nnedle, x,y) So it can't be slower than xml gauges. And

[Flightgear-devel] StarAlliance flights

2004-08-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, I found a very cool (windows) screensaver: http://www.staralliance.com/star_alliance/star/content/screensaver.html It features all StarAlliance flights that are currently in the air and shows them on a world map. One it it's features is to use a programm that automatically updates the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] openGL bindings for Nasal (was: FMC)

2004-08-08 Thread Boris Koenig
just adapted the subject to have the right people look into this thread ;-) Harald Johnsen wrote: We are talking of an FMC but of course I wanted to redo at least the ehsi display (for the eye candy). Erik mentioned some time ago that it isn't yet really possible to do simple animations using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: bo105 - patch

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: * 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:18:41 +0200, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings, I'm new at the mail-list and at Flight Gear. I introduce myself: I got the degree on Electronic Engineering a month ago. My Thesis was focused in the design and building of a VTOL robot. It had

[Flightgear-devel] RE: Taildragger takeoffs and landings

2004-08-08 Thread Dave Perry
David Megginson wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I have a book deadline looming, so I don't have any big chunks of time free until after the 9th, but if you feel like tweaking the J3 Cub and DC-3 files until you like the handling better, I'll be happy to commit the changes. Ideally, we want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
Arnt Karlsen said: ..and you will wanna listen to David M (Magginson) on setting up Emacs; if it can cook coffee, it can fly your chopper robots. ;-) http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html Hey that's handy! Now if *nix only had a gui environment that supported simple cut and paste of plain ascii

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
David said: What IDE do you suggest me? No ide is necessary for this type of app. A good editor like emacs is fine. Half the time I just run the first gui editor I think of to do quick edits, just because they'll usually support the common shortcut keys. What O.S.? For this use any OS you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Al West
On Monday 09 August 2004 02:35, Jim Wilson wrote: David said: What IDE do you suggest me? No ide is necessary for this type of app. A good editor like emacs is fine. Half the time I just run the first gui editor I think of to do quick edits, just because they'll usually support the common

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 01:36:33 -, Jim wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen said: ..and you will wanna listen to David M (Magginson) on setting up Emacs; if it can cook coffee, it can fly your chopper robots. ;-) http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html Hey that's handy! Now