[Flightgear-devel] re: City signs

2005-05-15 Thread ImaSudonim
Wow! Amazing! You made it definitely worth getting up early today! I'll give it a try. Where exactly is this in the code please? I think that you said originally that you were doing it in perl? Is that still the case? I'm wondering if FG could be started with a parameter --destination

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sunday 15 May 2005 12:03: I'll give it a try. Where exactly is this in the code please? It isn't. It's a Perl program on my HD. I'll release it later today. (I guess. :-) And I'm really not sure if it will run on MICROS~1, although all required components are available

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 15 May 2005 15:43: * ImaSudonim # comcast : net -- Sunday 15 May 2005 12:03: Oops. Sorry for including your address in the attribution line. Normally people have a real name set, and only this is taken. http://members.aon.at/mfranz/city-names.jpeg [25 kB]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Jon Stockill -- Sunday 15 May 2005 01:45: Just out of interest, how do you create position models through the telnet interface? This'd be really handy for testing models. You should read flightgear-users! :-)

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon Stockill -- Sunday 15 May 2005 23:36: Ah, I see, it's not dynamic, which is why you put the markers over the 5 nearest airports - the models need to be pre-defined. That's what I am doing. I seem to remember that I couldn't create nodes via telnet. But you can set a property via telnet

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Hey, I had something like that implemented: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg [60 kB] It popped up balloons over the nearest 5 airports. Was all done by my late metar script written in Perl. I would just need to add some text ... :-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Dave Culp
http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg [60 kB] It popped up balloons over the nearest 5 airports. Was all done by my late metar script written in Perl. I would just need to add some text ... :-) You win the prize for style :) Those look nice. Dave

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Culp -- Saturday 14 May 2005 21:08: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg [60 kB] You win the prize for style :) Those look nice. Sorry, I can't accept that prize. It's just colored squeres. No text. :-) The only nice thing is that not a single line in the source or even the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Saturday 14 May 2005 21:46: [http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg [60 kB]] Is all this neat stuff in CVS or the scenery data? 8-) No. And I never adapted it to the new airport database format. So it isn't functional at the moment. Maybe I'll fix it later (in some

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 14 May 2005 22:36: I never adapted it to the new airport database format. So it isn't functional at the moment. That is: it would have to be changed to read locations from another list, that contains name type lon lat elevation for each city etc. Should be easy to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Saturday 14 May 2005 21:46: [http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg [60 kB]] Is all this neat stuff in CVS or the scenery data? 8-) No. And I never adapted it to the new airport database format. So it isn't functional at the moment. Maybe I'll fix

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon Stockill -- Sunday 15 May 2005 01:45: Just out of interest, how do you create position models through the telnet interface? This'd be really handy for testing models. You should read flightgear-users! :-) http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2005-May/010974.html

[Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 15 May 2005 02:12: BTW: my script is functional again, and shows the balloons over airports. Now I'll make the billboarding rectangles, and finally create text textures (dynamically generated by e.g. ImageMagick, and maybe cached) OK. Here's one first real-time