Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wind confusion.

2002-02-17 Thread Martin van Beilen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 04:06:13PM -0800, Alex Perry wrote: [..bait snipped..] Purely on principle, I think it is more important to let each FDM subsystem use whatever conventions that its authors believe will make for a consistent and easy to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compiled binaries for 0.7.9

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
Right now on the FlightGear downloads page we have ready to run binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, Debian, and Sgi. I'm just trying to find out how to get some official blessing for a SuSE package that I plan to build, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compiled binaries for 0.7.9

2002-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
dyld: ./fgfs-0.7.9-02.16.02 can't open library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.6.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) Since I am missing the entire X11R6 directory, I assume that I need to load Xfree86? Yes, from a UNIX point of view you do, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wind confusion.

2002-02-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd be happier if we kept it as is. Wouldn't be the first time engineers have traded correctness for pragmatism. Ah pragmatism! Is that the excuse engineers use when they get their vectors math bass-ackwards? ;-) Best, Jim

[Flightgear-devel] More DC-3 3D model progress

2002-02-17 Thread David Megginson
I'm starting to add basic markings to the DC-3 3D model, and actually managed to get the stripes to line up around the nose (it's in the base package): http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/dc3-markings.png Unfortunately, vertex-smoothing doesn't seem to be surviving AC3D export, but I'll look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wind confusion.

2002-02-17 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:00:03PM -, Jim Wilson wrote: Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd be happier if we kept it as is. Wouldn't be the first time engineers have traded correctness for pragmatism. Ah pragmatism! Is that the excuse engineers use when they get their vectors

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wind confusion.

2002-02-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Bah humbug. Engineers, seeing that there were two incompatable standards simply choose to break the one normally seen by people who should be able to understand the problem and adapt. Obviously, in this case, they chose the wrong group. :) Ha! Someone made the suggestion that we are doing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Aileron trim aid.

2002-02-17 Thread Martin van Beilen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:10:15PM +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * It is not possible to have more then 1 active telnet connection at a time. Yes, and it's a feature. ;-) Hmmm.. Must be an rfc3092 compliant feature. so perl has still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seg fault on 2nd reset

2002-02-17 Thread Marcio Shimoda
I'm getting a set fault after resetting twice with either LaRCsim or JSBSim. In both cases it's getting through the FDM init, updates the material textures, updates sun and moon positions, and then quits after printing: Logging priority is info Set logging classes to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seg fault on 2nd reset

2002-02-17 Thread Tony Peden
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 17:37, Marcio Shimoda wrote: I'm getting a set fault after resetting twice with either LaRCsim or JSBSim. In both cases it's getting through the FDM init, updates the material textures, updates sun and moon positions, and then quits after printing: Logging priority

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aileron trim aid.

2002-02-17 Thread Andy Ross
Martin van Beilen wrote: Andy Ross wrote: But... sh and awk? Goodness gracious, learn some perl, man! :) I'm fluent in Perl, thank you very much. However: ls -l /usr/bin/{awk,nc,perl} - -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root88236 Jun 19 1999 /usr/bin/awk* - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wind confusion.

2002-02-17 Thread Andy Ross
Martin van Beilen wrote: I think I am beginning to understand what the source of the confusion is. As most of you know, weather reports specify the winds as a _from_ heading. However, in simulated space I tend to think of wind as a vector, i.e. a _to_ heading. Apparently, two out of three

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Priorities

2002-02-17 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Hi! Curtis could you please tell us your priotities to next FlightGear release and It would be 0.7.10 or 0.8.0? As for me I'd like to see 1)ground explosion when plane crash the ground (I have a lot explosion textures) 2)runway lights support 3)aircraft landing lights 4)trees houses and various