Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Martin Spott
Kris Feldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with transparency in the bitmap and thus one cannot fly under it :( Obviously it depends on how the tower is constructed for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Martin Spott wrote: Kris Feldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with transparency in the bitmap and thus one cannot fly under it :( Obviously it depends on how the

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Replay code doesn't compile with MSVC

2003-07-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Curt, MSVC ( ISO ? ) doesn't allow non integral initialisation within a class. Here below is the patch needed to compile the replay sources. Cheers, -Fred D:\FlightGear\cvs\FlightGear\src\Replaycvs diff -u cvs server: Diffing . Index: replay.cxx

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Selig wrote: I just did a cvs update in the process of updating some uiuc files, e.g. the recorder files which had some issues and I want to put the new ones on the fgfs cvs. In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase views we had are now ***very*** different.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Replay code doesn't compile with MSVC

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Curt, MSVC ( ISO ? ) doesn't allow non integral initialisation within a class. Here below is the patch needed to compile the replay sources. This is in CVS now. Thaks for the patch. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: [PATCH] navcom localizer property

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Small patch to expose the localizer property (e.g., true for ILS localizer). It's in CVS. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 09:48: Michael Selig wrote: In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase views we had are now ***very*** different. There's a lag effect that is giving me serious vertigo and there's roll now as well which is compounding the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instant replay system

2003-07-18 Thread Matt Fienberg
Wow. This is *great*! And after nobody responded to my request that it wasn't even on bottom of the priority list Thanks! -Matt Curtis L. Olson wrote: I have implimented a first stab at an instant replay system and have just commited it to CVS. The system continuously records your

[Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The autopilot altitude hold seems a bit messed up though since yesterday - quite bad porpoising - I checked that with the 747, a4, c-172 and a couple of mine. Terrain following still seems ok though. I doubt this is due to the replay stuff. Lee,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: datapreferences.xml,1.117,1.118

2003-07-18 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: Six statue miles is the generally-accepted cutoff for good VFR. Terminal area forecasts (TAF's) don't bother with anything over that, and just report P6SM (plus six statue miles). Nice to know but does that have any bearing on anything other then what is

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread David Culp
Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php Dave -- David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thrustmaster FCS joystick config file

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:46:08 +0200 (CEST) Bert Driehuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always found hat switches to be darn near impossible to use for controlling critical things. I reluctantly use them for the view, because it won't impact the aircraft flight path. FYI, it seems that the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Jon Berndt
Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php Dave Hilarious. I wonder if MS saw that coming. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php Well, I'd have to be interested in console gaming. But heck all you'd need now is a PS/2 emulator and x-box would really be in trouble. IIRC these units with modified chips

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery lighting

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:40:40 +0100 (BST) Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to make lighting on scenery visible over more that very short distances? I've been designing a few objects in blender, converted them to AC3D, then edited the material properties to have emis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thrustmaster FCS joystick config file

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:34:18 +0200 Jorge Van Hemelryck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, has my tmdc.xml file been added to CVS, in the same Thrustmaster directory ? How can I check it easily without clearing my whole data directory and checking out the whole package ? Sorry, I'm not too familiar

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php Dave Hilarious. I wonder if MS saw that coming. Of course they did. I remember reading an article quite a while back about an MIT student cracking the security

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 5 projector wrap around display.

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
Nice... FWIW, here's what more or less the product we currently use at work: http://www.sogitec.com/anglais/produita/apogee.htm As it's on the web, I guess it's not too secret. Ours runs on a bunch of cupboard-sized computers, but it can provide rather interesting images... projected on a

[Flightgear-devel] 4-Axis, 4-Button Joystick

2003-07-18 Thread Roland Häder
Hello. Here are my patches files. Please check them out and include them in your project. These files has been testet with a Phoenix Joystick (4-axis, 4-buttons). Chears, Roland 4-axis.zip Description: Zip archive ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

RE: [Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:datapreferences.xml,1.117,1.118

2003-07-18 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: That depends on where and when. I think that most pilots in the eastern U.S. (you're there, aren't you, Norm?) would have been happy even for 3 SM for much of this spring and summer, and L.A., of course, has its smog. Somewhere like Arizona, on the other hand, 10

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 09:48: Michael Selig wrote: In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase views we had are now ***very*** different. There's a lag effect that is giving me serious vertigo and there's roll now as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 cockpit data

2003-07-18 Thread Christopher S Horler
xpdf indeed does open it but kghostview does not... On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:26, Jim Wilson wrote: Christopher S Horler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tried to look but the pdf file won't open once I downloaded it. That's strange. Works for me with xpdf 1.00 and linux acroread 5.0.5. File

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Michael Selig -- Friday 18 July 2003 20:15: The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. No. It only removed heading damping from the Helicopter View. Everything else is unchanged. FYI -- View #3 does not 'play' well w/ my computer (Linux w/ a GeForce4 Ti 4400 card). The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Michael Selig -- Friday 18 July 2003 20:15: The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. No. It only removed heading damping from the Helicopter View. Everything else is unchanged. I think if we start creating more views, we should *add* them and not

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 21:08: Melchior FRANZ wrote: None of the views was removed. Well, sort of. The number of views was increased to 6, but the maximum value after toggling the 'v' key was still set to 5 ... Aaahh, OK. That explains a lot. Didn't think of this, but Chase

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: 'v' - scrolls through a limited number of views. I'll just make it the first 3 defined views. If the current view is greater than 3, then it'll start at 0 (the cockpit). 'CTRL+v' - scrolls

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: Looks good to me. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Fokker 100 progress

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi. Just to let you know, this is the Fokker 100 with separate flaps (inbound and outbound), ailerons and speedbrake objects: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/fokker/ Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] a glitch...

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
Has this occurred to anyone ? http://jvh.net/fgfs/sceneryglitch-001.jpg I was flying peacefully over the standard scenery when I saw a strange island... How can this be explained ? Is my scenery wrong ? -- Jorge Van Hemelryck ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, Jim Wilson wrote: Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: 'v' - scrolls through a limited number of views. I'll just make it the first 3 defined views. If the current view is greater than 3, then it'll start at 0 (the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 21:08: Melchior FRANZ wrote: None of the views was removed. Well, sort of. The number of views was increased to 6, but the maximum value after toggling the 'v' key was still set to 5 ... Aaahh, OK. That explains a lot.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 cockpit data

2003-07-18 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Jim, On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:27:25PM -, Jim Wilson wrote: This was an outstanding find. I did have a main panel map that John sent me a while back, but this has the whole flight deck in one pdf. Now if I could only have (for free :-)) the pages that reference each of the balloon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Kris Feldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with transparency in the bitmap and thus one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 22:42, Michael Selig wrote: At 7/18/03, Jim Wilson wrote: Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: 'v' - scrolls through a limited number of views. I'll just make it the first 3 defined views. If the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread John Check
On Friday 18 July 2003 6:55 pm, Lee Elliott wrote: what makes this possible, It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin. -Fred _All_ surfaces are very thin:) (geometry joke) That's what I like to hear, plane talk hwaah hwaah hwaaah hwah Do I get double points

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 13:30, Jim Wilson wrote: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The autopilot altitude hold seems a bit messed up though since yesterday - quite bad porpoising - I checked that with the 747, a4, c-172 and a couple of mine. Terrain following still seems ok though.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 14:10, Jim Wilson wrote: David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php Well, I'd have to be interested in console gaming. But heck all you'd need now is a PS/2 emulator and x-box would

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37737-01.rgb,NONE,1.1737-static.ac,1.1,1.2 942050.stg,1.5,1.6

2003-07-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
David Megginson commit in CVS: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37 In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv25197/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37 Modified Files: 737-static.ac 942050.stg Added Files: 737-01.rgb Log Message: Add a Southwest 737 holding short of 28L on taxiway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Lee Elliott wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Kris Feldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with transparency

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 19 July 2003 00:41, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Kris Feldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to duplicate the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37737-01.rgb,NONE,1.1737-static.ac,1.1,1.2 942050.stg,1.5,1.6

2003-07-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier writes: The texture should be marked -kb in CVS. It is corrupted under windows and makes FG segfault on loading it. Where is that cvswrapper that enforce the use of -kb for any rgb file ? It's on my todo list ... 2 out of town funerals and a trip to Norway for business have

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-18 Thread Norman Vine
Richard A Downing writes: I'm working my way through some of the UK aerodromes, and have hit some problems agreeing ANY of the decimal coordinates in the FG files with the DMS coordinates given in the UK AIP. probably worth while reading this just to make sure you have the 'maths' right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:20:38 -0400, John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 18 July 2003 6:55 pm, Lee Elliott wrote: what makes this possible, It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin. -Fred _All_ surfaces are very thin:)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 cockpit data

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Manuel Bessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe this is an excerpt of the well known NWA 744 Manual that is sold on the web, eg. at http://www.esscoaircraft.com/ (the 744 AOM is here: http://www.esscoaircraft.com/noname162.html ) Could be. I think that's the one that was $70. Do you know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Martin Spott wrote: It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin. -Fred _All_ surfaces are very thin:) (geometry joke) LeeE Infinitely so. Best, Jim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, you wrote: * Michael Selig -- Friday 18 July 2003 20:15: The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. No. It only removed heading damping from the Helicopter View. Everything else is unchanged. FYI -- View #3 does not 'play' well w/ my computer (Linux w/ a GeForce4 Ti

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37737-01.rgb,NONE,1.1737-static.ac,1.1,1.2 942050.stg,1.5,1.6

2003-07-18 Thread David Megginson
Frederic Bouvier writes: The texture should be marked -kb in CVS. It is corrupted under windows and makes FG segfault on loading it. As in cvs admin -kb 737-01.rgb ? If so, then it should be OK now. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello Jim, Sorry, I missed this post at first. The porpoising is certainly related to the elev_adj_factor - the lower it is the worse the problem. It's hardly apparent with the c-172 or 747 but more so with the a4. Try increasing then. Generally

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] backout autopilot fix

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
This backs out only the target climb rate calculation fix for the time being. http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/newauto-patch.diff Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]