Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Gerhard Wesp wrote: So, one would really need to define a corresponding network interface. This does already exist and is specified in the ``400/500 Series Flight Sim ICD.'', a proprietary Garmin document. It describes the RS232 interface of their _hardware_ simulator units. I guess Bill Stone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] README.todo

2004-11-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 17:31, Boris Koenig wrote: I haven't yet really played with 3D cockpits: what exactly would be involved in adding such support ? The support is already there: it is possible to set the view position at runtime through the /sim/current-view/{x

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Magnetic Compass

2004-11-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:05, Melchior FRANZ wrote: No, I take that back. Mouse properties are (like kbd * js bindings) fixed at the beginning. min/max can't easily be changed afterwards, and I don't feel like re-writing the whole input module. Better set the default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2004-11-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Durk Talsma wrote: [...] For this and other reasons, I'm currently leaning toward favoring having a separate set of low-polygon count models for AI aircraft. The basic idea would then be to have a directory looking like this: data/Aircraft/AI/ I like the idea of having such a low-polygon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
David Megginson wrote: I understand that there are USB devices that you can wear on your head to control the view in games, and those would probably work in FlightGear, but it would be hard to survive the ridicule from family, friends, and neighbours for wearing one. LOL, that would indeed be very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting data out of FlightGear

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Chuck Cole wrote: [...] Any help would be greatly appreciated. If someone could give me some instructions on building the projects myself, I should be able to debug myself, but again, Ive been unable to do so (Ive already gone through the Getting Started documents on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530 (was: Quick report from AOPA)

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
This is something that I intended to post already weeks ago - it's likely to exceed the mysterious 1024 byte limit, though ;-) Curtis Olson wrote: A lot of people asked about GPS modeling which we (and FlightGear) really don't do a good job of yet. There are few flight simulators that really

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft directory structure

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: However, as things stand right now. We have oodles of references to stuff as ../../../Instruments/hsi.xml etc. If we move an aircraft one directory level deeper (or more) all those relative references break. :-( Well, this is then about relative paths, it could probably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin GNS 530

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Boris, I got about 20% through your message before I ran out of steam, sounds like you are somewhat related to Erik ;-) but if you talk to Bill again, why don't you propose that they keep their application closed source and proprietary. Having seen the commercial side of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft directory structure

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I think step #1 needs to be making aircraft relocatable. If I did get everything right, the major problem is that aircraft rely on instruments and other devices that reside in abitrary locations within the $FG_ROOT directory structure. As a workaround it might really be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft directory structure

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Giles Robertson wrote: That's much neater than what I suggested. How many of these variables do we need so that the directory for the a/c does not have to be a subdirectory of $FG_ROOT? I haven't yet really looked into aircraft design/development, so I cannot really comment on the paths that are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft directory structure

2004-11-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Lee Elliott wrote: The downside would be that an installer/un-installer would become a necessity. I think that issue was discussed some time ago on the user list ? Probably, it would already be sufficient to simply package aircraft folders as tar archives in order to simplify installation ? If I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal

2004-11-18 Thread Boris Koenig
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:33, Boris Koenig wrote: sure, right - but putting nasal scripts into module tags like in other PropertyList encoded XML files isn't yet supported natively. Also, I don't think Vance wanted to link the Nasal script to a particular action ? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal

2004-11-18 Thread Boris Koenig
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2004 16:53, Vance Souders wrote: I wish I had a clue about how to add text chunks to the 3d animation code :-| What exactly do you want to do ? Do you want to animate text ? If you only want to add text layers, then there are numerous examples in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal?

2004-11-17 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On November 16, 2004 09:56 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Sure: http://plausible.org/nasal/flightgear.html This should probably move to the FlightGear site, I suppose. Ahhh, thanks for the url ... it's been too long since the last time I looked at nasal. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Switching from 2D panel - 3D panel - 2D panel (was: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Data/AI)

2004-11-17 Thread Boris Koenig
Giles Robertson wrote: This is probably unrelated, but with the 0.9.6 win32 binaries, if you start up with a large FOV (?90), then until you reset, 3d-cockpits are unusable. I can confirm something that seems related: if I switch from 2D panel mode to 3D panel mode and use the mouse to change the

[Flightgear-devel] local build problems with latest CVS

2004-11-17 Thread Boris Koenig
Building yesterday's CVS version, I get the following errors (clean checkout): -8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8-- ../../src/Main/libMain.a(fg_commands.o)(.bss+0x0):/usr/local/include/simgear/props/props.hxx:336: multiple definition of `color_nodes'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] local build problems with latest CVS

2004-11-17 Thread Boris Koenig
Boris Koenig wrote: Building yesterday's CVS version, I get the following errors (clean checkout): [...] Please disregard this for the moment, it seems to be building now - obviously I had to explicitly specify the other SimGear version (keeping different versions of FG, SimGear etc. around

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Switching from 2D panel - 3D panel -2Dpanel (was: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Data/AI)

2004-11-17 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Giles Robertson wrote: I think that's a result of the standard problem that if you move the view with the mouse in 2d panel mode, you can't see the panel, and it can be very difficult to get back to the original location; resetting resets the viewpoints back to normal, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal

2004-11-17 Thread Boris Koenig
Vance Souders wrote: I'm working on a new cockpit for the T6; the T6's altimeter displays barometric pressure in both inches HG and MB. I want to add a small amount of script that converts from the HG reading in the property tree to MB for the gauge (I need this for the texture translation).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] the ATC thing (was: Re: OT: Another FGFS PPL :-D)

2004-11-16 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Speaking of multiplayer support, whatever happened to the online ATC thing? There's currently a group of 6 people who are collecting ideas and suggestions to come up with a protocol draft and a corresponding cross-platform library ... Some of the development has been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal?

2004-11-16 Thread Boris Koenig
Andy Ross wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Is there any documentation that explains how the nasal scripting system is integrated into FlightGear? I looked a bit, and can't find anything. Sure: http://plausible.org/nasal/flightgear.html This should probably move to the FlightGear site, I suppose.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear on Mac OS X

2004-11-13 Thread Boris Koenig
Arthur Wiebe wrote: Another way to do it which is what I did was use the following command: locate plibfnt It returned: /fgfs/lib/libplibfnt.a /Users/myuser/FlightGear/plib/src/fnt/libplibfnt.a (s)locate doesn't really browse your file system, as 'find' would do - rather, (s)locate runs a query

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear on Mac OS X

2004-11-11 Thread Boris Koenig
Just a quick note as I am catching up on all this: Arthur Wiebe wrote: Now FlightGear itself is another story. I had to upgrade automake in order to run the autogen.sh script successfully. While I wouldn't consider this to be a very common problem, it would probably not be a bad idea to add a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane on Linux

2004-11-08 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon Berndt wrote: Looks like X-Plane is finally going Linux - not just the support apps, but the whole thing. I guess there's even a beta available. Anyone try it, yet? I think it's only a demo ? On the other hand the description of the upcoming v. 8.0 release sounds indeed VERY promising:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Boris Koenig
David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:36:33 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Explaining in pictures is easier than dealing with single-line- equations :-) We'll see, Multiple, sequential equations are welcome as well. Anything, really ... Could you go into detail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] St. Elmo's Fire

2004-11-02 Thread Boris Koenig
David Culp wrote: [...] If I change the time-of-day to something darker the panel code darkens and redens everything, which ruins the effect. [...] That's exactly something I have also observed, in particular with self-illuminating instruments - something like a basic LCD or TFT shouldn't be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib CVS compatibility

2004-11-02 Thread Boris Koenig
Arthur Wiebe wrote: I tried, the problem is that it doesn't build on OSX without fixing the source code in some areas, which I tried but it didn't work. The only way I could get it to build was to get plib from CVS which seems to work. If any FlightGear dependcy is taken from CVS it's often a good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] List of FG materials and textures

2004-11-01 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: Ok this is just a rough idea what do ya guys think? I think that a variation of what you described should be relatively straight-forward to do, at least to get some basic support for season-based textures going ...basically it sounds similar to what has been mentioned already

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Automake warnings

2004-10-31 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: I noticed on my system and someone else's that when running autogen on SimGear or FlightGear one get's lots of automake warnings like this : acinclude.m4:28: warning: underquoted definition of wi_EXTRA_LDIR It does it with automake 1.8.3 and 1.9 It looks harmless to me but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Development of a virtual sports programme

2004-10-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Florian Schießl wrote: Hi, moin ! Thanks for the fast answer, that helps me. :) you're welcome :-) So, that way you could incorporate all information that is required - in case that you should need to use external variables, make sure to also check out the httpd/telnet interface (again: 'fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a sweaty pigeon at FL350 is a doomed pigeon ... (was:Development of a virtual sports programme)

2004-10-30 Thread Boris Koenig
[OT] Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:50:01 +0200, Florian wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I dont need a specific bird. The user should be able to steer easily but still using his muscles. It should be sports after all. The simulation is merely a motivation. ..get evil; model say a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures

2004-10-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: Screen grabs here : http://surgdom.hollosite.com/flightgear/flightgear.html Do people want textures like this in FlightGear? I like it ! And I think such images would probably be nice to appear within the screenshots section, likewise for the recent 747 livery - it's all about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML validation (was: submodels - config file)

2004-10-29 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: David Culp wrote: Unable to read submodels file: /home/dave/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/FW190/submodels.xml Did you already load the file in your browser to see if it's XML compliant? I would like to suggest adding an optional --validate-xml option to FlightGear, while this would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Development of a virtual sports programme

2004-10-29 Thread Boris Koenig
Florian Schießl wrote: I make my master thesis about the development of a virtual sports game. The user will be hanging in some sports machine. He can move his arms and feet and fly like a bird. Sensors pick up the movement. He can fly through a virtual reality that is represented on a computer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GenAirports logic/process

2004-10-29 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: Please don't tell me that the source code is self explanatory - not everyone has an IQ of 150 to understand what Curt coded or the patience to step through the code with a debugger. Heck, even I battle to understand my code when I see it a few months down the line. ;-) lol,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal multiple contexts (was: AI carrier)

2004-10-28 Thread Boris Koenig
Hi Andy ! Thanks for answering my Nasal inquiry several weeks ago, regardless of your vacation - Hope you've had a good time in Japan ;-) Andy Ross wrote: I'm honestly looking for something to get me back into FlightGear development. I can do the YASim integration if you guys have an interface

[Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Hi ! I was going to give implementing a simple transponder-like instrument a go, as there doesn't seem to be one yet (?) While I browsed through the Aircrafts folder in order to look into the file format I wondered whether it's also possible to specify an enlargement/zoom transformation upon mouse

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Boris Koenig
David Culp wrote: Look at the T-38 or OV-10, which have a radar instrument that can appear in two different states. In one state it is minimized and looks like a button, and in the other state it is maximized. You could use the same XML code to make an instrument appear unzoomed or zoomed.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerial images

2004-10-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: When I fired up FlightGear a week ago I noticed that the textures looked very dry and brown to me. I thought San Francisco would be a lot greener and reckoned it was just the guys who created the textures. Tonight I was thinking of making some greener looking grass textures

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifying development status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Kahler wrote: I'm not big on XML (done HTML before) but this: maturityalpha/maturity doesn't seem right. I would expect something more like: modeltag maturity=alpha /modeltag You are right - and wrong, actually it doesn't matter at all, logically you are of course somehat right,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifying development status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On October 20, 2004 10:05 pm, Boris Koenig wrote: Personally, I'd hence still prefer getting everything and being able to tell FlightGear what maturity level I require for all aircraft minimally. I'm sure your method of showing maturity of aircrafts will come in handy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifying development status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Oops, I forgot to add the patch for options.xml -- Boris --- options.xml.origFri Oct 22 10:01:51 2004 +++ ../options.xml Fri Oct 22 08:50:27 2004 @@ -420,6 +420,42 @@ /option option + !--in order to allow users to specify a minimum development status for aircraft, +

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw and choice of images from terraserver-usa

2004-10-21 Thread Boris Koenig
Chris Metzler wrote: [...] The Urban Areas/T=4 dataset is fabulous, btw -- it goes down to 25cm resolution (TaxiDraw fetches 1 meter resolution images, it appears). I'd recommend just changing fetch.cpp to T=4, and getting the highest resolution images available; but not all areas are covered by

[Flightgear-devel] SGPropertyNodes are making fun of me ! (fgcommands)

2004-10-21 Thread Boris Koenig
Hi ! Having added a couple of new fgcommands recently I was now going to refine some of the acceptable parameters, to allow more functionality. And since Erik said that there could only be ONE parameter of type SGPropertyNode be passed to a fgcommand, I was going to pass all other parameters as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trim quotes

2004-10-21 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon S Berndt wrote: Would it be grumpy of me to suggest that we try a little harder to trim quotes when replying with quotes? I've noticed that there are several emails today with 100 to 200 lines of quoted material, followed by anywhere from a few lines to ten or so. Over time, this stuff

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Aviation weblog: Land and Hold Short

2004-10-20 Thread Boris Koenig
David Megginson wrote: I have had little luck finding aviation weblogs (they're all about rants about politics, ...how would you then call the following: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/medicals.html ? ;-) (just kidding) BTW: talking of healthy presidents: Pres. Bush Senior did even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-20 Thread Boris Koenig
David Luff wrote: On 10/19/04 at 11:57 AM Chris Metzler wrote: I think that your idea to put a taxiway designator in the 'xxx' (bet this message gets flagged as spam now!) part of the record is an excellent one. The downside of course is that it would require X-Plane itself to understand it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VBOs - performance test results

2004-10-20 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I'm afraid, you cannot expect people to purchase new hardware for an open source game to work ;-) Is new hardware really necessary? nope, it wasn't required - after all it is supposed to be software-raytracing and not hardware, but I *assume* without a corresponding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenRT (was: VBOs - performance test results)

2004-10-20 Thread Boris Koenig
But, hell - yes, it does look damn amazing: http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Dynamic/Images/chess.jpg http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Dynamic/Images/dance.jpg http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Dynamic/Images/kitchen.jpg taking into account that all this was created without conventional 3D hardware - the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a vivid exampe for the guru syndrome (was: hi res screen shots)

2004-10-08 Thread Boris Koenig
Norman Vine wrote: I still sometimes wonder if those that post well meaning but uninformed suggestions have any idea .. Norman, that's gonna be my favorite in my collection so far ! :-) BTW, sgi.com mentions what I seemed to recall:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another vivid example for the guru syndrome :-] (was: Buildiing/running the ATC network test)

2004-10-08 Thread Boris Koenig
[WAY OFFTOPIC !] Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: leave it alone, then it's NOT your business, but rather the folks from opentnl.org should take care of such issues ... With such an attitude you might be better off subscribing to fgfs-users and not fgfs-devel. Thanks for that hint Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hi res screen shots

2004-10-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: If you select hi-res screen shot from the menu, that means the menu is active, and it is drawn on every tile (so if you are doing a 3x3 scheme, you would get 9 instances on the menu.) This is probably easier to figure out than my first problem, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hi res screen shots

2004-10-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Boris Koenig wrote : Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: If you select hi-res screen shot from the menu, that means the menu is active, and it is drawn on every tile (so if you are doing a 3x3 scheme, you would get 9 instances on the menu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Buildiing/running the ATC network test

2004-10-07 Thread Boris Koenig
John Wojnaroski wrote: Hi But even then it won't compile on Solaris/Sparc: Just upgraded to GCC-3.4.2 oh well :-) and it fumed and fussed trying to build the TNL library on my P4. So it's not all Solaris/Sparc... leave it alone, then it's NOT your business, but rather the folks from opentnl.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hi res screen shots

2004-10-07 Thread Boris Koenig
Curtis L. Olson wrote: These last couple weeks and months I've been getting hammered at work and at home. I've got a large and growing number of to-reply-to emails in my inbox. yes, you mentioned that some time ago - here on the mailing list My hope is that someday I'll get caught up, but I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Buildiing/running the ATC network test

2004-10-06 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: Note: For now, you will have to install the TNL headers files by hand: the following script should work #!/bin/bash cd /usr/include mkdir tnl cd tnl [...] This could be easily solved by setting srcdir = .. in src/master/Makefile yes, even though a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Buildiing/running the ATC network test

2004-10-06 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: yes, right - I did change exactly that yesterday ... there are some other smaller changes, we'll upload a fixed set of files by tomorrow. Would you mind trying to compile with a recent version of GCC before you post new files ? I'm using 3.4.2 on Solaris

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Buildiing/running the ATC network test

2004-10-06 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: So, maybe you can resolve some issues by directly trying to build the STANDARD package from opentnl.org - possibly, there's even some info available specific to Solaris. Huh ? I think: Features Multiple platform support * Windows 98, ME, NT, XP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] File names?

2004-10-06 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: Hope this hasn't confused anyone. There is a file on the SF page called tnl_head.tgz. This is a tar file of the header files for the network test build. it is NOT the tar file tagged as *HEAD* on the OpenTNL website. That's pretty clear. I'm mostly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] File names?

2004-10-06 Thread Boris Koenig
John Wojnaroski wrote: Suggest we take the positive road and make it work. From my perspective it looks d--- good and since it is open-source as well perhaps the TNL folks would be willing to work with us. Yes, I suggested already to drop them a few lines and ask them for their feedback, maybe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Network Test

2004-10-05 Thread Boris Koenig
James Turner wrote: On 4 Oct 2004, at 19:17, John Wojnaroski wrote: A few details... Volunteers will get a package of software that contains the TNL libraries and a basic set of software to connect to the ATC net as a controller or pilot. Package will include ALL source code and make files for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Network Test

2004-10-05 Thread Boris Koenig
Giles Robertson wrote: DevC++ has some problems; last time I tried, you couldn't build FGFS on it because of the number of files in the final link; (it can't process the command line - too long). yes, I see - but that would probably not be a problem when linking only a -compared to FG - relatively

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Network Test

2004-10-04 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:17:07 -0700, John wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A few details... Volunteers will get a package of software that contains the TNL libraries and a basic set of software to connect to the ATC net as a controller or pilot. Package will include ALL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory usage

2004-10-01 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, after reading a LWN article I started playing with the memory ovcercommit switch on a Linux box. Later I wondered why I wasn't unable to run FG reliably anymore and ran a 'top' to see what's going on here. I noticed that FG appears to lock huge amounts of memory - and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VATSIM/IVAO integration MCDU/FMC

2004-10-01 Thread Boris Koenig
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: You are right. I had this image on my HD and could not remember from where it came. shouldn't be a problem - particularly not if you still favor the skin-able approach :-) I am sorry. Now that you said from where it comes, its even more obvious that we can't keep it as we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, Hi ! First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VATSIM/IVAO integration MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: If you browse my site, you might find other goodies that could be interesting for FlightGear. I won't do MSFS, so it looks like I'm stuck with you for a while :-) It was kind of an understatement so say you might find other goodies :-) There's really A LOT of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:49:33AM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: My current impression is that this might not even be SUCH a big issue, but I may very well be wrong :-) If FG would have a socket somewhere that will eat control data for the position, attitude, and maybe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MCDU/FMC

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Boris Koenig wrote: http://www.hoppie.nl/mcdu Ready to be abused by any program that can open the socket. Connect a TELNET and off you go. sounds good :-) Windows-specific code: only the part that moves the mouse off

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Validating XML parser

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon S Berndt wrote: I've been wondering about easyXML, if it can be modified to support validation against a DTD? it probably can - if I remember correctly there are even some suggestions for DTD's or rather SCHEMA's for FG around ?? Since it is built on top of eXpat - and I believe eXpat _can_

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Validating XML parser

2004-09-30 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon S Berndt wrote: Now, this raises another question: do general purpose (or configurable) XML application editors (open source or free, preferred) exist that could be used to author a JSBSim config file? This is what a quick search on sourceforge brought up - I didn't check each package,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] separation of runways from scenery (was: UK Photo Scenery)

2004-09-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Manuel Massing wrote: I am not sure, but maybe we would also need special handling for runways, to handle incosistencys between terrain and runway elevation, or irregular terrain underneath the runway. If parts of the corresponding source code should be reviewed/adapted, it would be nice to see a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] coming up with ideas for an ATC protocol - just in case ....

2004-09-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: For FlightGear and X-Plane. There may be problems working with Microsoft's Flight Simulator as it uses a different airport database than us. X-Plane is meanwhile supported by a customized version of squawkbox - implemented via some kind of plugin ... So: X-Plane

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PropertyList - XML files - where to find the sources

2004-09-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: I have now looked into dozens of source files, but I don't seem to be able to find those files that are responsible for the XML handling, respectively loading parsing the PropertyList XML files, so I apologize in advance, but: what's the name of the classes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PropertyList - XML files - where to find the sources

2004-09-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: However, there are two new issues: 1) While it wasn't a real problem to use easyxml.cxx's readXML to simply copy a XML file's structure to a particular node within the property tree, there doesn't seem to exist a similar wrapper for WRITING XML files within

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids *symbols* ?

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Chris Metzler wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:27:47 +0100 Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are already models for VOR/DME, TACAN, and ILS aerials in the Models directory of the base package. Yeah, I had fetched some VORTAC images off the web and had started to make a model for it in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Georg Vollnhals wrote: I use commercial data since a long time (DSat5) for FLY!II and X-Plane but as license agreements forbid giving it to the community I worked with low-res Landsat 7 data (and SRTM elevation data) and developed tools (Win32, Delphi) for improving picture quality, cutting and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG users discussion on AVSIM.COM

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I have only read the first few posts, but I am already seeing a problem here: people seem to think that Flightgear only supports .ac3d for models. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! yes, I remember plib supporting various models ... But it's about convenience, I think: Micro$oft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Voice stuff

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Just a couple of comments that didn't yet make it to the 'outbox' ;-) John Wojnaroski wrote: John writes: Thinking a bit about the folks playing in the virtual ATC world. Would be nice if FG could be included, might obviate the need for an AI system. Conversely, developing an AI/ATC system is good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATLAS ? (navaids *symbols* ?)

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
David Megginson wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:34:05 +0200, Boris Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have actually already looked for symbols online, but probably one would have to draw new ones, in order to be able to release them under the GPL - vector images would be also neat, so that they can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATLAS ? (navaids *symbols* ?)

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Hey Robert: are you back ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Boris Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. put models of the actual navaid transmitters in the scenery. For what purpose ? :-) Do you mean to improve situational awareness, so that a 3D model of a VORTAC is displayed, including the current

Re: [Flightgear-devel] coming up with ideas for an ATC protocol - just in case ....

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..what do we have right now? FG can be rigged to run as an ATC World Server now, right? lol, I don't even know about that :-) another evidence for the lack of documentation about FG :-/ We have xatc as a viable client to that FG ATC World Server, I haven't yet really played

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:42:34 +0200, Boris wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The (German) description for the second version explicitly states the right to export images and use them 'commercially'. ..that is the precise legal meaning of Mit der Business-Version erhalten Sie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] IVAO vs. VATSIM (get it straight)

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
John Wojnaroski wrote: ATM VATSIM is running an event in SoCal with 24 controllers and 88 flights as of 08:15Z to be honest: I would have expected more people :-) I'm all for trying it. not yet so sure about that ... And it will take some time to build up a following. agreed ... At a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another (3.). ATC online network

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Oliver C. wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 20:38, Boris Koenig wrote: Making VATSIM/IVAO people switch to something like what Arnt suggested, would really require to incorporate so many new things ...just to make the change really feasible. There's also a third ATC online network, VATSIM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737 autoflight modeling

2004-09-24 Thread Boris Koenig
Jon S Berndt wrote: First of all, due to the unavailability of the actual flight management software, a guess would have to be made using reference material such as a flight manual. A quick search of the web indicates that flight manuals for currently in-service airliners are not simply given

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VIRTUAL ATC: a feedback from IVAO (A voice for FG)

2004-09-24 Thread Boris Koenig
Hi ! I have just received a reply from IVAO's 'chief developer' - as soon as he says that it's okay to post his reply to this list, I'm going to post the full text. However, in summary: they would support an opensource client for their network, PROVIDED that their rules are respected, ***BUT***

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..protocols, ATC and interoperation, was: oops (wrong link)

2004-09-24 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: Both of these networks don't seem to be really interested in cross-platform development, so I really wonder whether these new versions will mean that the protocol is also going to change anytime soon... ..which lands us back to define our own. ;-) I am going to ask them about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] IVAO vs. VATSIM (get it straight)

2004-09-24 Thread Boris Koenig
Another thing: As I seem to be the only one so far, who's got in touch with them, I would not mind continuing the exchange to a point where things get specific, but I would appreciate some help concerning the things that we should get straight with them - I mean, I have already asked quite some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mamaloucos.com: I just rang Europress publishers of the Getmapping high in the sky series (reminded by Boris's question). I spoke to Richard Charge their head of Sales. To be very clear this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Sorry for all those typos in that other posting... I'm simply not yet entirely awake :-) Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: If we are to do something similar, it will probably be a better idea to find several open source ATC-simulator development groups Well, I am not aware of *any* popular ATC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dynamically modifiable menubar (was: /sim/navdb ?)

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Generating a dynamic menu structure might be harder than you think, As you didn't yet reply to the ideas that I mentioned in this thread, I simply tried the approach that I described. And everything seems to work somewhat now - with the small exception

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Giles Robertson wrote: Beware being like Sony. Invent a new protocol that is better and more efficient and flexible, and still nobody will use it, though, on the other hand, nobody uses Sony's protocols (ATRAC-3, Betamax), because they are eyeballed with patents. and despite from that: this would

[Flightgear-devel] Good news :-) [ linux atc sim pendant to proController available ! ]

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
But there's also some good news in this whole discussion: this morning I had an eMail in my inbox from Richard Smith who told me he would have written a linux based version of IVAO's ProController some time ago because he didn't want to run Windows just for playing with IVAO - he called it 'xATC'

[Flightgear-devel] PropertyList - XML files - where to find the sources

2004-09-22 Thread Boris Koenig
I have now looked into dozens of source files, but I don't seem to be able to find those files that are responsible for the XML handling, respectively loading parsing the PropertyList XML files, so I apologize in advance, but: what's the name of the classes that are used or rather where do I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-webpage addition (tardiff created base-package patches)

2004-09-22 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: But there's another thing in this context - it's about the VERSION file in $FG_ROOT/data not containing pre-release tags, I think Jim Wilson mentioned a couple of weeks ago that this is supposed to be like that, this however causes a problem for those users

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-22 Thread Boris Koenig
David Luff wrote: On 9/21/04 at 4:02 PM Jon Stockill wrote: Those demos are based on festival 1.4 - the prerelease of 2.0 includes a synthesis module called multisyn, which is a great improvement on the older modules. http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/testing/atis.wav contains the synthesised

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-22 Thread Boris Koenig
John Wojnaroski wrote: - Original Message - From: David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] This all sounds very exciting, especially the encouraging results from the voice recognition stage, and the fact that Jon thinks that Festival 2 is sounding pretty good. Could you send me the code you've got so

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