Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Matthew Law wrote: That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? As I understand it it's a commercial CD containing satellite images of the UK, but processed with TerraGear to match FlightGear's own scenery format. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Fix for compilation error in panel.cxx: `truncf' undeclared

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Eric L Hathaway wrote: To compile FlightGear from a clean CVS checkout (with plib and SimGear are already installed), I run a little script that issues the following commands: export CFLAGS=-Wall -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math \ -funroll-loops -march=athlon export CXXFLAGS=-Wall -O3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Fix for compilation error in panel.cxx: `truncf' undeclared

2004-01-29 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, [autoconf problems with truncf] If I look into config.log, I find the lines configure:9991: checking for truncf configure:10041: gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=athlon -msse -mfpmath=sse -I/home/flightgear/sw/include -I/usr/X1 1R6/include -L/home/flightgear/sw/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Mally
As I understand it it's a commercial CD containing satellite images of the UK, but processed with TerraGear to match FlightGear's own scenery format. Maybe the simscreens postings should credit the source and acknowledge the copyright? Mally --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-29 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 01:45:18 -, Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But to go back to the C172 example, does anyone actually understand how this issue is handled in a cessna autopilot or any of the others that might be installed in a 172? Will it stall the aircraft? Or...hmmm...trying to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-29 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:40:38 +0100, Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just downloaded the Pilot's Guide from this link: http://www.n612sp.com/KAP%20140%20AUTOPILOT.pdf It seems that this pdf file does not contain the entire document. For the complete document use this link:

[Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, Is it true that apron/platform/hardstand lights should be red instead of blue? If so, wouldn't that be a good indication at scenery generation? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread mat churchill
That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? Some info here: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.html http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2004-January/006927.html Had just

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-29 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Eric Erik Hofman writes Hi, Is it true that apron/platform/hardstand lights should be red instead of blue? If we are talking about area lighting I would think yellow to light orange If so, wouldn't that be a good indication at scenery generation? Erik Cheers Innis

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Ventura publisher (really old)

2004-01-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
These sites http://filext.com/ http://www.icdatamaster.com/ may help you identify what the files are, but it appears that they give no hints as to the internal format. You might get that once you know what it is though. They are also useful sites to see whether your extension of choice is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Eric Erik Hofman writes Hi, Is it true that apron/platform/hardstand lights should be red instead of blue? If we are talking about area lighting I would think yellow to light orange. I meant the edge lighting (just like the taxiway edge lights are blue). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Mally wrote: As I understand it it's a commercial CD containing satellite images of the UK, but processed with TerraGear to match FlightGear's own scenery format. Maybe the simscreens postings should credit the source and acknowledge the copyright? At least mentioning that it uses textures based

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
mat churchill wrote: Had just slightly improved this method after advice from Curt on how to stop the tile edges cutting into inclines. But have had loss of fat on my hardrive (linked to powercut I think). If anyone knows of a good file recovery solution that will work with reiser fs would like

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Thursday 29 January 2004 13:57: A good journaling file system like RiserFS would never lose (actually 99.995% of the time, and even then just very small portions of the) data. Any reason why you don't recommend XFS instead? :-] m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Law
I'm interested in how you did this as I thought of extracting the files from the MS FS VFR scenery discs I have and somehow stitching it together for use in FGFS..? In theory you should be able to get at the data as Reiser should still be able to give you everything since the last time it wrote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Ventura publisher (really old)

2004-01-29 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi Curt, A quick glance in the bookcase and I see the manual is there. That's a good sign since the manuals usually get trashed before the disks. AFAIK the best bet is going to be trying to get a postscript file out of an installed copy of ventura for each document. Then at least you can read

[Flightgear-devel] BUG: Fog disappears when looking towards sun

2004-01-29 Thread David Luff
There seems to be a problem with the fogging on my machine (Linux, NVidia card). When the sun is in, or just out of, the field of view, the fog disappears and visibility is perfect. This is most easily seen by starting at dawn or dusk, and with a low visibility (eg 5000), climb to about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG: Fog disappears when looking towards sun

2004-01-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Luff wrote: There seems to be a problem with the fogging on my machine (Linux, NVidia card). When the sun is in, or just out of, the field of view, the fog disappears and visibility is perfect. This is most easily seen by starting at dawn or dusk, and with a low visibility (eg 5000), climb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-29 Thread Alex Perry
From: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Innis Cunningham wrote: Erik Hofman writes Is it true that apron/platform/hardstand lights should be red instead of blue? If we are talking about area lighting I would think yellow to light orange. I meant the edge lighting (just like the taxiway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG: Fog disappears when looking towards sun

2004-01-29 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Luff wrote: There seems to be a problem with the fogging on my machine (Linux, NVidia card). When the sun is in, or just out of, the field of view, the fog disappears and visibility is perfect. This is most easily seen by starting at dawn or dusk, and with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Ventura publisher (really old)

2004-01-29 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some really old, as in ancient ventura publishing files that I'd be interesting at cracking open and at least extracting out the important stuff in order to convert to some more modern tool. I have an old Ventura Publisher 3.0 for Windows - it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG: Fog disappears when looking towards sun

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic BOUVIER wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Luff wrote: There seems to be a problem with the fogging on my machine (Linux, NVidia card). When the sun is in, or just out of, the field of view, the fog disappears and visibility is perfect. This is most easily seen by starting at dawn or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Alex Perry wrote: In the U.S., the rule is as follows. It is either similar or identical to the ICAO rules because other airports have lighting looking similar. Edge lighting that is at ground level is blue, both for taxiways and aprons. However, unusual truncation of those areas, as often

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Christopher S Horler
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:44, Erik Hofman wrote: Matthew Law wrote: That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? As I understand it it's a commercial CD containing satellite images of the UK, but processed with TerraGear to match

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Russell Suter
mat churchill wrote: That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? Some info here: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.html

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Russell Suter wrote: mat churchill wrote: That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? Some info here: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.h tml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Mally
I once been a Terraserver subscriber. I was allowed to download everything i want at full resolution for a short period of time. I have now the bay area at 1m resolution in color. You are not allowed to redistribute images but derived work is yours. -Fred

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Mally
Fred I once been a Terraserver subscriber. I was allowed to download everything i want at full resolution for a short period of time. I have now the bay area at 1m resolution in color. You are not allowed to redistribute images but derived work is yours. Derived work in a GIS context would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Russell Suter
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Russell Suter wrote: mat churchill wrote: That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? Some info here: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Mally
Russ I'm not planning on redistributing the work. The work would be for a client of mine who is trying to upgrade their simulator's visual database... Are you sure that doesn't count as redistributing? Mally --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Law
The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per region. I bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice in MSFS but I'd like to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension script to rip these into FG for people who have purchased the images would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread David Luff
On 1/29/04 at 10:05 PM Frederic Bouvier wrote: I once been a Terraserver subscriber. I was allowed to download everything i want at full resolution for a short period of time. I have now the bay area at 1m resolution in color. You are not allowed to redistribute images but derived work is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Russell Suter
Mally wrote: Russ I'm not planning on redistributing the work. The work would be for a client of mine who is trying to upgrade their simulator's visual database... Are you sure that doesn't count as redistributing? Not if they buy the images and I simply provide the labor... --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread David Luff
On 1/29/04 at 10:08 PM Matthew Law wrote: The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per region. I bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice in MSFS but I'd like to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension script to rip these into FG for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-29 Thread William Earnest
Jim Wilson wrote: But to go back to the C172 example, does anyone actually understand how this issue is handled in a cessna autopilot or any of the others that might be installed in a 172? Will it stall the aircraft? Or...hmmm...trying to remember... does the 172 even have an AP for the pitch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-29 Thread David Megginson
Alex Perry wrote: Finally, permanenent lighting is often recessed into the tarmac. For lights stuck on obstructions/construction, this is not done. When a long way away, and standing at ground level, the recessed lights can be invisible so you can only see the ramp edge indication if it coincides

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-29 Thread David Megginson
William Earnest wrote: I can't give an exact matching case, but here is some info on a S-TEC System Twenty/System Thirty autopilot in a Piper Warrior II, a plane in the C172 class. The STEC is currently the AP of choice for any light aircraft, whether shipped as a factory option or not.