Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base Package size (was 3D clouds)

2002-09-18 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : My guess is something is messed up in the large.sky file, or how it is picking up the cloud files (the index is probably 0 so the cloud loading loop in the loader isn't being run). When I get a chance I'll try a gdb session, but looking at the large.sky

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base Package size (was 3D clouds)

2002-09-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Frederic BOUVIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Have you set the current directory to $FG_ROOT ? The cloud loader don't prepend the cloud file name with the fg-root path. That was the problem. BTW the failure to find a cld file isn't being returned by the function. Now that it is working, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Guys! Maybe I missed something but I can't got nicy views with clouds3d just got similar to http://rockfish.net/~nhv/fgfs/images/fgfs-screen-009.jpg I compiled from today CVS with gcc3.2 and have nvidia-31.23 drivers on geforce3 running in 1024x768 32bpp so there is a some problem with alpha how

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Basler
Roman, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roman maybe on windows all is OK and problem is related to linux? Don't worry, on windows (cygwin), SimGear does not even compile - yet, despite all the patches ;-) - I think Norman is working on that, though. Regards,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
Roman Grigoriev writes: Maybe I missed something but I can't got nicy views with clouds3d just got similar to http://rockfish.net/~nhv/fgfs/images/fgfs-screen-009.jpg I compiled from today CVS with gcc3.2 and have nvidia-31.23 drivers on geforce3 running in 1024x768 32bpp That's what

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
Tony Peden writes: It looks like this may have helped crosswind handling on the ground considerably. The relatively small amount of testing I've done shows that the c172 will sit still in up to a 15 knot crosswind and turn very slowly in 20 knots. Let us know what you think. I'll

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread Tony Peden
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 05:52, David Megginson wrote: Tony Peden writes: It looks like this may have helped crosswind handling on the ground considerably. The relatively small amount of testing I've done shows that the c172 will sit still in up to a 15 knot crosswind and turn very

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
Tony Peden writes: I didn't look at everything, but the nose wheel was in NONE and the mains CASTERED as far back as I looked (which went back to the beginning of time for the configurable gear). I can't explain the CASTERED mains, but I understood what you call steer groups to be brake

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Norman Vine
Michael Basler writes: maybe on windows all is OK and problem is related to linux? Don't worry, on windows (cygwin), SimGear does not even compile - yet, despite all the patches ;-) - I think Norman is working on that, though. Things were going rather well for me on Windows then I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Could you please describe this situation Why this happened? Roman - Original Message - From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot Roman Grigoriev writes:

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
David Megginson writes: Note a second problem with this code: it uses getDrPos (the actual rudder position) and ignores maxSteerAngle from the config file. A better option would probably be SteerAngle = SteerGain*FCS-GetDrCmd()*maxSteerAngle*RADTODEG; For RADTODEG, read DEGTORAD.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
Roman Grigoriev writes: Could you please describe this situation Why this happened? I don't know the code well enough to suggest why. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim, Norman, I'm getting the following compile error: fg_init.cxx: In function `void fgInitView()': fg_init.cxx:667: no matching function for call to `FGViewer::get_LOCAL ()' Regards, Curt. Norman Vine writes: Michael Basler writes: maybe on windows all is OK and problem is related

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:29:40 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an excerpt from FGLGear.cpp: case bgNose: SteerGain = -0.50; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff; break; In other words, if gear belongs to bgNone, it gets SteerGain=0.0, so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:15:54 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For RADTODEG, read DEGTORAD. Use degtorad and radtodeg These are consts from the FGJSBBase class. This is where commonly used constants are being migrated to, instead of #defines, which we are moving away from.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S Berndt writes: I may be guilty, here. Note that this file needs to be gone through again with a fine tooth comb and validated. Just when I think I can't become more overwhelmed than I already am ... Wife pregnant with triplets again? (Don't laugh, my wife has a friend who had two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Jim, Norman, I'm getting the following compile error: fg_init.cxx: In function `void fgInitView()': fg_init.cxx:667: no matching function for call to `FGViewer::get_LOCAL ()' oops ... forgot one :-) I was doing a little sanity checking // $FG_SRC / Main /

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Basler
Norman, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Vine and put the tarball at http://rockfish.net/~nhv/fgfs/clouds.tgz Thanks. Great work. First the good news: SimGear does build now on my Cygwin system (with a host of warnings in clouds3d, but still). The not

[Flightgear-devel] Slackware packages

2002-09-18 Thread Jon Stockill
I've put flightgear packages for slackware 8.1 on my site at: http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/ While these have been tested on 2 of my machines, 1 was the machine that I try all the builds on, so there could be all sorts on there that it's relying on to work. If there are any other

[Flightgear-devel] Removed simgear/interpreter/

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
I've removed the simgear/interpreter/ directory for three reasons: 1. It was wasting a lot of space. 2. Nobody (including me) was doing anything with it. 3. Plib now has its own C-like interpreted language in CVS. I've updated configure.ac, but have not changed SimGear.dsp (an MSVC thing?). If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Removed simgear/interpreter/

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: I've updated configure.ac, but have not changed SimGear.dsp (an MSVC thing?). If someone who uses this file can send me a patched version, I'll commit it ASAP. The MSVC work spaces are generated automatically whenever I run make dist. I have taken care of this.

[Flightgear-devel] forwarded message from Christina Guilbert

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
The winter LinuxWorld Conference Expo is in NY, January 21 - 24, 2003. If we want to have a booth, now is the time to think about requesting it. I sincerely doubt that I would be able to attend, so if we do have a booth, we'd need a volunteer to interface with the conference managers and do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Removed simgear/interpreter/

2002-09-18 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: The MSVC work spaces are generated automatically whenever I run make dist. I have taken care of this. Thanks for handling that. If the files are autogenerated, we might want to yank them out of CVS. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Removed simgear/interpreter/

2002-09-18 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson Curtis L. Olson writes: The MSVC work spaces are generated automatically whenever I run make dist. I have taken care of this. Thanks for handling that. If the files are autogenerated, we might want to yank them out of CVS. Most MSVC users probably don't have Perl

[Flightgear-devel] 3d cloud rendering problems

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman, Here's something for you to play with. Based on my own experiments, I believe that the cloud rendering problem centers around not having the correct state setup when we draw the cloud imposters. So, I don't believe it's an issue of protecting state around a particular section of code,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot - SOLVED!

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Basler
Norman, From: Norman Vine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:59 PM OK attached find a new makefile.am for the clouds3d directory that should pick up exgl.c on Windows and hopefully will still work on other systems This finally did the job. Now SimGear +

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Another automake victim

2002-09-18 Thread Boslough, Mark B
I could not build on cygwin until I installed automake 1.6. I tried to install autoconf 2.53 or 2.54 and could not do it for some reason, so I am still running autoconf 2.52. This seems to require that I get in and take the continuation symbols out of the configure.ac files. I can build the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] Base CVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread Jon Berndt
Is there some reasoning behind setting the steering gains according to the brake selection? This makes no sense to me. It looks to me like their needs to be a separate steering selection (or just specify the gain in the config file). Agreed. I beg your indulgence - let me have a look at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Removed simgear/interpreter/

2002-09-18 Thread Bernie Bright
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:39:11 -0500 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Megginson writes: I've updated configure.ac, but have not changed SimGear.dsp (an MSVC thing?). If someone who uses this file can send me a patched version, I'll commit it ASAP. The MSVC work spaces are

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] BaseCVSupdate:'FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172'

2002-09-18 Thread Tony Peden
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:48, Jon Berndt wrote: Is there some reasoning behind setting the steering gains according to the brake selection? This makes no sense to me. It looks to me like their needs to be a separate steering selection (or just specify the gain in the config file).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Removed simgear/interpreter/

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie Bright writes: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:39:11 -0500 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Megginson writes: I've updated configure.ac, but have not changed SimGear.dsp (an MSVC thing?). If someone who uses this file can send me a patched version, I'll commit it ASAP.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Another automake victim

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Mark, I don't think anyone has sent me a copy of extgl.h to add to the cvs repository. Curt. Boslough, Mark B writes: I could not build on cygwin until I installed automake 1.6. I tried to install autoconf 2.53 or 2.54 and could not do it for some reason, so I am still running autoconf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d cloud rendering problems

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: I think you are on to something ! That would explain the lightening of the clouds with each pass. BUT this only started after I updated my code the other day !. Also I never had the 'text' texture Right now I'm wondering if it is related to the use of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d cloud rendering problems

2002-09-18 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson Norman Vine writes: I think you are on to something ! That would explain the lightening of the clouds with each pass. BUT this only started after I updated my code the other day !. Also I never had the 'text' texture Right now I'm wondering if it is related to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another automake victim

2002-09-18 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: I don't think anyone has sent me a copy of extgl.h to add to the cvs repository. It is in this tarball http://rockfish.net/~nhv/fgfs/clouds.tgz Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Modeling wing twist animation

2002-09-18 Thread Jim Wilson
One possible application of being able to apply the smoothing calculation to a group of 3D Model objects (as opposed to a single object in ac3d format) is in animating the Wright Brother's twisting wing lateral control method. One way would be to use and interpret user data entries in the model,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d cloud rendering problems

2002-09-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson Norman Vine writes: I think you are on to something ! That would explain the lightening of the clouds with each pass. BUT this only started after I updated my code the other day !. Also I never had the 'text' texture Right now I'm

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear CVS failure?

2002-09-18 Thread Jon Berndt
I get this error this evening for the SimGear CVS server: $ cvs update -dP ? metakit-2.4.2 ? metakit-2.4.2-32.tar ? zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz ? simgear/metakit ? simgear/zlib ? src-libs/boost ? src-libs/Makefile ? src-libs/Makefile.in cvs server: Updating . cvs server: failed to create lock directory

[Flightgear-devel] C++ Question/Problem, WRT New Sky Code

2002-09-18 Thread Jonathan Polley
When I rebuilt the MacOS X version of FlightGear, after the 3D cloud code was added, I started getting an EXC_BAD_ACCESS runtime error. I did some looking around with gdb and found out that the error was happening BEFORE the main was being called. Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base Package size (was 3D clouds)

2002-09-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
What I meant is to only keep $FG_ROOT/Clouds3D/large.sky and $FG_ROOT/Clouds3D/field56.cld Right, thats what I thought you meant. I was talking about the other files in that directory. I know that field56.cld is the only file currently referenced in large.sky, but I'd still rather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C++ Question/Problem, WRT New Sky Code

2002-09-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
From: Jonathan Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I rebuilt the MacOS X version of FlightGear, after the 3D cloud code was added, I started getting an EXC_BAD_ACCESS runtime error. I did some looking around with gdb and found out that the error was happening BEFORE the main was being called.