Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Robicd
Gerard ROBIN ha scritto: http://www.geocities.com/robitabu/fgfs_pa/fgsd_palermo.html Wonderfull. You where using FGSD, does it mean you are working on windows. because on the linux side i could never make a compilation of that program. That's right. But I don't like it very much. I'm just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Culp
(2) I don't allow multiloop to become higher than, currently, 80. diff -u -p -r1.20 flight.cxx --- flight.cxx 22 Nov 2004 10:10:33 - 1.20 +++ flight.cxx 26 May 2005 05:07:44 - @@ -83,7 +83,13 @@ FGInterface::_calc_multiloop (double dt) // ... ok, two times the roundoff

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Culp -- Thursday 26 May 2005 09:00: (2) I don't allow multiloop to become higher than, currently, 80. I tried your fix above and it didn't work for me :( Oh. I had only observed the problem with YASim aircraft so far, and there it helped. But there's no reason why it wouldn't happen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 09:00, Dave Culp wrote: I tried your fix above and it didn't work for me :( Yes, because Melchiors beacon stuff is different from that one you describe. Especially, if AI aircraft keep on moving it sounds like something different. I have thought about that and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 09:20, Melchior FRANZ wrote: So we need both workarounds for now!? MATHAS! :-) Sorry for that long time ... I lost my internet connection at sunday evening. The guys from the telephone company found out that there is significant noise in the cable (?, that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working with the property tree

2005-05-26 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: I need to learn how to work with the property tree in flightgear. Could someone refer me to material that might be helpful? This isn't much information. What exactly do you want to do with the property tree, or are you just looking for a short description? You could start

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery size constraints

2005-05-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Alberico, James F wrote: Hi, I have been tracking down the cause of an FGFS access violation that occurs when attempting to use 1-arcsec scenery data for a tile generated in TerraGear to have 4 nodes. Granted, this may be extremely ambitious from a performance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Montag 23 Mai 2005 10:52, BONNEVILLE David wrote: How could I get the terrain elevation at a given lat/lon at runtime ? Could you point me to the right way ? That depends on what you need. In src/Scenery/hitlist.* there are the fgCurrentElev(...) functions which could be used to get a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-September/021434.html I don't see the XML files as being any different then any other source file and source code needs to be compiled. I've had this in the back of my mind ever since you brought it up, but not

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- Erik Hofman Norman Vine wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-Se ptember/021434.html I don't see the XML files as being any different then any other source file and source code needs to be compiled. I've had this in the back

[Flightgear-devel] CH pedals

2005-05-26 Thread Luuk van Hal
Hi, i've recently discovered this url: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1389791 in which is explaned what the problem is with the CH product pro pedals. Now I've compiled the pedals in joydev.c and hid-core.c and can see the hid-core.c: hid_init_reports

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider MkII

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:57, Martin Spott wrote: BTW, I don't remember if these URL's have already been mentioned: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/glider.html http://www.colditz-4c.com/glider-l.jpe I think they were mentioned before. I had already seen them as part of my

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 09:35 +0100, Richard Bytheway a crit : -Original Message- Erik Hofman Norman Vine wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-Se ptember/021434.html I don't see the XML files as being any different then any other source file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Dienstag 03 Mai 2005 14:17, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Try adding --log-level=info for a possible hint, ./fgfs --lat=87 --long=28 --altitude=3 --log-level=info That's an old, well known bug. If you position fgfs exactly on the tile boundaries (*integer* lon/lat), the intersection code

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mathias Fröhlich -- Thursday 26 May 2005 12:01: On Dienstag 03 Mai 2005 14:17, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Try adding --log-level=info for a possible hint, ./fgfs --lat=87 --long=28 --altitude=3 --log-level=info That's an old, well known bug. If you position fgfs exactly on the tile

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 12:21, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Unfortunately, a similar bug showed up recently for *bucket* boundaries. If you set /position/{latitude,longitude}-deg to a bucket boundary, fgfs refuses to set /position/elevation-m accordingly. It simply lets the old elevation in the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mathias Fröhlich -- Thursday 26 May 2005 12:29: On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 12:21, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Unfortunately, a similar bug showed up recently for *bucket* boundaries. If you set /position/{latitude,longitude}-deg to a bucket boundary, fgfs refuses to set /position/elevation-m

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Culp
Just out of curiosity I removed the three tall scenery objects I had placed at Sembach, then flew around there for 30 minutes with no more ground cache errors. I think the problem comes from overflying the edge of a tall scenery object. Just a guess. Dave

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Richard Bytheway wrote: Would it be possible to have a compiled form stroed on disk, which is automatically regenerated on startup of FGFS based on rules similar to make. If the ASCII version is newer than the compiled version, rebuild the compiled version. This is a very interesting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 12:37, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Hey! I update compile in the same minute a new cvs-log commit message comes in if I'm at my computer. Yes, this happens with CVS/HEAD as of *now* (Thu May 26 12:36:12 CEST 2005). I had tried it as soon as I saw the fix because I had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Dave Culp wrote: Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. Here's a screenshot of the freeze: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/fdm_freeze.jpg You should not do these

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Norman Vine
Martin Spott writes: Richard Bytheway wrote: Would it be possible to have a compiled form stroed on disk, which is automatically regenerated on startup of FGFS based on rules similar to make. If the ASCII version is newer than the compiled version, rebuild the compiled version.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Jsbsim-devel] FDM freeze due to ground cache]

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 13:17, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I was in fact the first to ask for: Why that message and that Freeze ? This message is because of the fact that this is the case. Even if you can see ground there is a posibility that in floating point arithmetics the test for that can

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 May 2005 13:07: In my eyes _dropping_ ASCII XML files from the distribution should considered to be a no-go, Seconded. And then: it's *not* XML parsing that slows the startup process down so much! It's parsing two simple gzipped ASCII lists that are directly taken

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 25 May 2005 23:01:52 +0200 Frederic Bouvier wrote: No kidding, you are the first to show a convincing scenery enhancement without using photo-scenery. Generic textures are not dead ;-) At one point, I used fgsd to do what I thought was some nice work in the Washington, D.C. area as

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 26 May 2005 14:00: cache a binary representation in $FG_HOME [...] Or better even in /var/tmp/. BTW: this method isn't such a Great Idea[TM], as someone implied (and it wasn't Richard, who certainly knows that). It's rather the usual way to do things like these.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Gerard ROBIN -- Thursday 26 May 2005 14:12: Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 à 14:00 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit : * Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 May 2005 13:07: Seconded. And then: [...] Thanks Mathias And thanks Gerard for thanking Mathias as a response to my message. m. :-}

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Norman Vine wrote: Martin Spott writes: This is a very interesting approach that you present here - and probably the only one that doesn't destruct the whole idea of having human-adaptable configuration files. In my eyes _dropping_ ASCII XML files from the distribution should considered to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 May 2005 11:37:13 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dave Culp wrote: Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. Here's a screenshot of the freeze:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 14:12 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 14:00 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 May 2005 13:07: In my eyes _dropping_ ASCII XML files from the distribution should considered to be a no-go, Seconded. And then: it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..what happens if you slow the simulation by 15-20 times the clock time? Slowing down might not be reasonable as I'm currently getting frame rates in the 15-20 fps region Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 15:10, Melchior FRANZ wrote: BTW: the scenery doesn't show anything unusual and suspicious. Not even the familiar crack line. And starting fgfs with --lon=16.5 --lat=48.5833 works flawlessly. Hmm, that did not for me ... But with the attached patch it did, at

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mathias Fröhlich -- Thursday 26 May 2005 15:50: On Donnerstag 26 Mai 2005 15:10, Melchior FRANZ wrote: BTW: the scenery doesn't show anything unusual and suspicious. Not even the familiar crack line. And starting fgfs with --lon=16.5 --lat=48.5833 works flawlessly. Hmm, that did not for

[Flightgear-devel] Mountainous areas

2005-05-26 Thread Corrubia, Stacie K
I have been trying to build some scenery over some pretty mountainous areas in California (w117n35) using SRTM 1 arcsec data. I end up with some very strange looking scenery with HUGE cliffs. I wanted to compare the FG base scenery from the downloads but when I tried to unpack the data ended

RE: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery size constraints

2005-05-26 Thread Alberico, James F
Erik Hofman wrote: Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Alberico, James F wrote: Hi, I have been tracking down the cause of an FGFS access violation that occurs when attempting to use 1-arcsec scenery data for a tile generated in TerraGear to have 4 nodes. Granted, this may be extremely

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery size constraints

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Alberico, James F -- Thursday 26 May 2005 16:42: Erik Hofman wrote: Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Alberico, James F wrote: Hi Jim, It good to see some big names showing up on the list. This might give the project a boost to get to the next level. You certainly mean Harald, not me, unless

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: BTW : Martin contributed an IRIX build Well, this was made possible by _your_ switch from GTS to GCAL - I never managed to build GTS on IRIX Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Andy Ross
Dave Culp wrote: Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. My guess is this is a crash due to weird collision detection in the ground or gear code. The last I checked, JSBSim and YASim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Andy Ross
Richard Bytheway wrote: Would it be possible to have a compiled form stroed on disk, which is automatically regenerated on startup of FGFS based on rules similar to make. If the ASCII version is newer than the compiled version, rebuild the compiled version. Sorry, but that sounds dumb.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Oliver C.
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:31, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Gerard ROBIN a crit : Wonderfull. You where using FGSD, does it mean you are working on windows. because on the linux side i could never make a compilation of that program. It is a long time ago i wondered to make sceneries of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 09:15 -0700, Andy Ross a crit : Dave Culp wrote: Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. My guess is this is a crash due to weird collision detection in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Oliver C. wrote: What about offering static binary builds of FGSD for linux with everything included? I'll go and get one until weekend, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim/FGTable.cpp exception

2005-05-26 Thread Phil Cazzola
I was getting a access exception in FGTable.cpp line at line 267. I belive I have tracked it down to values not being initialized in the constructor for the 3D tables. Fix: Index: FGTable.cpp===RCS file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 26, 2005 04:32 pm, Andy Ross wrote: Would it be possible to have a compiled form stroed on disk, which is automatically regenerated on startup of FGFS based on rules similar to make. If the ASCII version is newer than the compiled version, rebuild the compiled version. Sorry, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery size constraints

2005-05-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Alberico, James F -- Thursday 26 May 2005 16:42: You certainly mean Harald, not me, unless you are commenting on the ugly format of my name here. :-) I'm sure he meant boeing.com (hey, Stacie was first!). Now with Boeing and Yep. Sikorsky on board, where is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 26, 2005 01:43 pm, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: How so?  Python does it by compiling a new *.pyc everytime there is a change to the associated *.py file. Ampere Beside, you don't compile Flightgear everytime you run it. You compile Flightgear when there is a change in the source.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:50, Geoff Reidy wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: I'm having a strange problem that may be linked to this. Now when I start at KSFO, looking forward, I'm getting 1fps. Same with the heli chase views. If I switch to the tower it's the same until I start zooming in.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working with the property tree

2005-05-26 Thread bass pumped
On 5/26/05, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: I need to learn how to work with the property tree in flightgear. Could someone refer me to material that might be helpful? This isn't much information. What exactly do you want to do with the property tree, or are you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: I'll go and get one until weekend, Aaah, don't bet on that. I managed to built all prerequisites but now I get an internal compiler error when compiling FGSD sources - and I don't have a different platform/compiler available :-/ Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 18:56 +, Martin Spott a crit : Martin Spott wrote: I'll go and get one until weekend, Aaah, don't bet on that. I managed to built all prerequisites but now I get an internal compiler error when compiling FGSD sources - and I don't have a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 26 May 2005 19:56, Lee Elliott wrote: On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:50, Geoff Reidy wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: I'm having a strange problem that may be linked to this. Now when I start at KSFO, looking forward, I'm getting 1fps. Same with the heli chase views. If I switch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread AJ MacLeod (email lists)
On Thursday 26 May 2005 19:56, Martin Spott wrote: Aaah, don't bet on that. I managed to built all prerequisites but now I get an internal compiler error when compiling FGSD sources - and I don't have a different platform/compiler available :-/ This stopped me too. After fiddling with it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
AJ MacLeod (email lists) wrote: This stopped me too. After fiddling with it for ages, I finally gave in and read the README. Quoted directly... First, the bad news : g++ v3.3.x is unable to compile fgsd correctly. It produces internal Compiler Errors Bah. Whoever reads these things

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
I get about 1 frame every five seconds. Same result at KEMT. Have looked through the nvidia forums but haven't seen anyone complain of problems like this. Geoff Thanks for that Geoff. I've already got a couple of older drivers and I believe that all the old drivers can

[Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-26 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: Only a minute eh? Under Cygwin cvs takes nearly 5 minutes - time for a brew a coffee - and that's on a pretty powerful machine. Time from execution to fade in of the cockpit display is about 10 seconds on my laptop (1.8GHz Athlon64). I started trying to hunt this down.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-26 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Andy Ross wrote : Attached is a patch that pre-reads the directory contents ahead of time (currently that is a list of length zero) to avoid having to hit the kernel (twice!) for every airport. Under Linux, this doesn't provide much speedup. But Windows (and especially the cygwin libraries)

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross Vivian Meazza wrote: Only a minute eh? Under Cygwin cvs takes nearly 5 minutes - time for a brew a coffee - and that's on a pretty powerful machine. Time from execution to fade in of the cockpit display is about 10 seconds on my laptop (1.8GHz Athlon64). I started trying to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Oliver C. a crit : On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:31, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Gerard ROBIN a crit : Wonderfull. You where using FGSD, does it mean you are working on windows. because on the linux side i could never make a compilation of that program. It is a long time ago i wondered to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mountainous areas

2005-05-26 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Did you download this file in binary mode ? The basic windows ftp client is in ascii when started and corrupt binary files with line endings conversion. -Fred Corrubia, Stacie K wrote : I have been trying to build some scenery over some pretty mountainous areas in California (w117n35) using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Geoff Reidy
Lee Elliott wrote: On Thursday 26 May 2005 19:56, Lee Elliott wrote: On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:50, Geoff Reidy wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: I'm having a strange problem that may be linked to this. Now when I start at KSFO, looking forward, I'm getting 1fps. Same with the heli chase views.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Geoff Reidy -- Thursday 26 May 2005 23:36: 2.6.11 and also can't build the older drivers, as I since found out :( Just updated from 2.6.9 where only = 6629 worked properly with fgfs. Debian unstable. I compile and use 6629 with Linux 2.6.11.7 without problems. You only need to patch the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Lee Elliott wrote: I have three version here 7174, 7167 6629. Both of the 7nnn exhibit the same problem and 6629 won't compile here. Drat! Which kernel version are you using? I'm on 2.6.11 here. Check the forum - there's a patch on there for 6629 with 2.6.11. Jon

[Flightgear-devel] Crash detection (was FDM freeze)

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Culp
We should probably come up with some kind of standard way for the FDM to signal to the rest of the simulator that it has detected a collision and stopped. I agree it's time for crash detection and handling. I just added a basic version to my OV-10 sim (can't have public users wallowing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash detection (was FDM freeze)

2005-05-26 Thread Andy Ross
Dave Culp wrote: One decision to make is what the handler should do once a crash is detected. I have it calling the reinit code in order to reset the sim to the starting position (below), while others may prefer to have the sim close after a crash, or perhaps display a crash-splash screen

[Flightgear-devel] 3D view goes away by itself

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Culp
I have a cockpit view system set up for the OV-10 sim that uses a 2D forward view and 3D side views (screenshot : http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/2D_3D_views.jpg It's controlled by some nasal scripts I bound to the arrow keys. Here are the up(forward) and left bindings: key

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Geoff Reidy
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I compile and use 6629 with Linux 2.6.11.7 without problems. You only need to patch the driver source with an official nvidia patch: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676 Thanks, will give that a go. PS: please, no fullquotes! Only quote what you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash detection (was FDM freeze)

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Culp
If you want to do push-mode handling with an FGCommand and make it settable by the user, you can have the command call (or be) a Nasal script that can be assigned by the user (e.g. globals.crashHandler = myFunction). Or have it indirect through another FGCommand binding found in the property

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Norman Vine
Martin Spott writes: Norman Vine wrote: Just use the source Luke :-) Yes, I do right on the track to figure how much effort it would be to 'port' CWXML to IRIX/MIPSpro. Apparently they rely on having GCC as compiler on _every_ supported Unix platform. You mean gcc isn't

[Flightgear-devel] More startup speed work

2005-05-26 Thread Andy Ross
Here's another startup speed patch (against plib this time) for windows users to try. The plib loader for the RGB texture format wants to do piecewise I/O on the file. It will repeatedly seek to the beginning of a scan line in the image, then read, then seek, etc... Because of the color

RE: [Flightgear-devel] More startup speed work

2005-05-26 Thread Norman Vine
Andy Ross writes: Here's another startup speed patch (against plib this time) for windows users to try. Nice one Andy :-) Anyway, let me know if this produces any appreciable speedup under windows, and we can start the, ahem, bureacratic process of getting this into plib. :) submit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D view goes away by itself

2005-05-26 Thread Phil Cazzola
Hmmm. I have something similar that works, but I don't see the important difference. I copied/modifed stepView() to be a stepCockpitView(). It does an explicit setprop(/sim/current-view/view-number, 0); which I believe forces a copyToCurrent() and an update(), but I'm not sure if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Geoff Reidy
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I compile and use 6629 with Linux 2.6.11.7 without problems. You only need to patch the driver source with an official nvidia patch: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676 OK that's fixed my issues, thanks Melchior!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D view goes away by itself

2005-05-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Hmmm, After a few feet of altitude, FG changes the default near clip plane to be further away from the viewer. The 3d aircraft models are drawn with different view parameters so this shouldn't be a problem ... but maybe somehow your 3d model geometry isn't getting configured so it get's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Andy, Thanks for looking into this. I had started working on a patch, but didn't have a chance to finish it. (See AI weirdness thread earlier this month). I do have a limited number parking and rwyuse files, so I'll test it tonight. As for the parking/runway files: I've started adding some

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-26 Thread Norman Vine
On Thursday 26 May 2005 22:48, Andy Ross wrote: Attached is a patch that pre-reads the directory contents ahead of time (currently that is a list of length zero) to avoid having to hit the kernel (twice!) for every airport. Under Linux, this doesn't provide much speedup. But Windows