[Flightgear-devel] Fw: FG/OpenGC Source

2001-11-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi It appears that Curtis has not had a chance to post the updates/changes to the FG network module requred to run the latest OpenGC displays. If you need the updates you can find them at ftp://ftp.kingmont.com with the following cavets: 1) They may or may not be in sync with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: JSBSim cp2fg script and Makefile

2001-11-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
This file is the interface between flightgear and JSBSim so it is used only when compiling flightgear and JSBSim together. It can be directly affected changes in JSBsim and directly affected by changes in FlightGear so which side should own the official master copy has been lightly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: JSBSim cp2fg script and Makefile

2001-11-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
Sorry :-) No problem, it was kind of a weird evening from the start.. plus had a disc failure the day before and I don't think my backup was fully in sync with a few of the files I could retrieve. Looking back through all the source in .cpp and .cxx the diff is clearer with the new

[Flightgear-devel] Multi-engine models

2001-11-29 Thread John Wojnaroski
Well, applied the patch called out on the JSB website and threw out all my hacks and kludges and... It crashed! Am I correct to assume that one only has to modify the .xml files that specify the airplane to enable a multi-engine model. The code in FG and JSBsim will handle the rest or are there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-11-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Okay, I think I found it. In FGPosition 1.31 2001/11/30 16:49there is a GetHOverBCG() and GetHOverBMAC() In FGState.cpp from the C310 package the function FGState::GetParameter(...) defines case FG_HOVERB: return Position-GetHOverB(): Should one or both of these be added to the

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs base sync?

2001-11-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Did a fresh build of fgfs from the CVS library @ 10pm PST. Everthing went fine. Downloaded the snapshot of the base package and installed fgfs_base-snap.0.7.9.tar.gz 26.9M Friday, 30-Nov-2001 02:00:58 EST Got a config mismatch area from jsbsim for the configuration

[Flightgear-devel] Parse Oooops!

2001-12-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Curtis. When you modified the command line argument from display to opengc it looks like you forgot to account for one less letter to parse in the arg.substr(10) in the add_channel function in the parse routine. it should be else if ( arg.find( --opengc= )

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-12-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
It's working for me with the latest CVS of both FlightGear and the base package as of Saturday morning, except for a version mismatch -- JSBSim rejects the config file in the base package because it is version 1.55 rather than 1.56. You can just change the VERSION attribute at the top, or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-12-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
It appears as though we've been going too fast ! ;-) There seems to be a few things that are not in sync. Maybe we need to hold off on new changes for a few days and iron out the directory structure? things were a little confusing trying to get all the file name changes and version

[Flightgear-devel] OpenGC File Organization

2001-12-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Ross, Giving some thoughton how to organize the OpenGC files. would have used private mail but I don't have all your individual emails. Given the size of monitors today, it is possible to fit more than one display panel on a single screen. For example, a 19" screen can hold a PFD and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: Keybinding Changes for Powerplant

2001-12-04 Thread John Wojnaroski
Oh, I forgot to add this: modeling realism and malfunction code isn't really too bad. This feature specifically won't require much in the way of rework or anything even if we wait. I've had this in mind for some time (I have modeled malf.s for shuttle training simulators, USAF, NASA, etc. so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
This is about as ugly as it gets. This will go on your permanent record. :-) :-) :-) Argggh, banished to the netherworld... I should have realized that! :-0 JW ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear.

2001-12-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
Currently we don't have a 747 panel so perhaps someone out there might see this as an opportunity to jump in and start working on one. :-) Well, we do have the glass displays which are ideal for the 747, but you need a second machine on a LAN. Flavio has suggested running the display

[Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear with Opengc

2001-12-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
The source tree on opengc.org currently only builds on windows. We've had some problems convincing John W's CVS to talk to SourceForge, which is why there are currently two versions of the code (kingmont and sourceforge). The autoconf scripts included in the SourceForge version are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buildings or planes?

2001-12-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
David wrote: Aside from eye candy, we need buildings at airports for two practical reasons: 1. they make the airports easier to spot from a distance, and 2. they give the user a visual cue for distance and altitude during an approach. Hm, You know I was kinda

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear with Opengc

2001-12-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
You need to check out the your copy from the SF repository as your SF user ID, not anonymously. It sounds like that is what you did. $ export CVS_RSH=ssh $ cvs -z3:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/opengc/ co opengc cvs server: Updating opengc

[Flightgear-devel] Engine start/c310

2001-12-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Just downloaded the latest CVS. Has anyone been able to start the right engine? could not find the/an answer going back througt the email thread. JW

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGC Update

2001-12-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
On 2001.12.09 22:39 John Wojnaroski wrote: Hi.. Like a kid in a candy store The Opengc CVS repository now contains the latest and greatest for the flightgear interface.. Updated interface modules for flightgear, addition of a flight mode annunciator for the autopilot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: FGInterface radical surgery

2001-12-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
I think the problem with that though is what about the stand alone version. I also have visions of a standalone version communicating to flightgear via network sockets. I do like having a layer of glue between FlightGear and the FDM ... really you will still need this layer, you are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: FGInterface radical surgery

2001-12-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis writes: I don't see any of the proposed changes really having any substantial affect on the network interfaces ... perhaps we might need to do a tiny amount of redesign in places, but I don't see that as a negative. David writes: The problem is that you'll miss more information as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Objects

2001-12-14 Thread John Wojnaroski
-Original Message- What's FG_EXPERIMENTAL_LIGHTING? And is it used by default? It is code to enable lighting on the aircraft carrier incuding an Optical Landing aid (fixed at 3.75 deg). It is not enabled by default unless you add that define. As far as I know only I am using it.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS Status

2001-12-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Send me your session transcripts, and I might be able to suggest patches to get your machine to build further than mine. However, I really need to get mine sorted out :o) I hear you, but Trying to sort out some problems with the ftgl libraries. I got a build using cmake but the fonts don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Objects

2001-12-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
John, I shall help you with this on Tuesday 18 Dec if Norman or Curt havent already told you how to. I dont have FlightGear at home (normal PC wihout accelerator!!) , thats why. I will have to send you textures, .mtl file and the objects.txt file. I think both Norman and Curt have tried

[Flightgear-devel] Fw: PATCH: opengc configure.in

2001-12-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
Cameron writes: Hi, Is any of your work on OpenGC or FlightGear in either of the respective, official CVS repositories? BTW, the OpenGC-unix.tar.gz package on kingmont.com is one heck of a hairball. You're too kind ;-) (hehe) That was a stop gap effort until my CVS account at

[Flightgear-devel] Flight.hxx accessors

2002-01-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Regards phrasing for crashes - some refer to that as lawn-darting (remenber that pic on AWST of the Mig-29 at Paris) To the topic. some of the accessors for alpha-dot, beta_dot and temps and pressures are commented out. Would like to (need to) use the data for the OpenGC Flight Management

[Flightgear-devel] VOR TO/FROM

2002-01-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Going thru the FG nav code for FG I noticed the To/From flag calculation in radiostack.cxx. Someone might want to checkon the method of calculation. I believe the to/from is independent of aircraft heading and only denotes position left or right of the orthogonal vector to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-14 Thread John Wojnaroski
Speaking of lawn darting there seems to be a problem with autopilot altitude hold with the c310 under jsbsim. Or at least that's what I'm getting...an instant lawn dart (stalls and drops). Tried 2000 and 4000ft. Jsb/c172 still works fine. The problem seemed to appear around when the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ummm...anyone read this?

2002-01-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Was thinking it'd be nice to have a least a minimal heading and altitude hold autopilot working for LWCE. What would be the best file and property tree location to put these values in so that the existing autopilot routine is somewhat adjustable by aircraft? See notes below. Well, I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ummm...anyone read this?

2002-01-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
What I was looking for right now was the simple autopilot that is already in FG...ie something to keep the plane in the air when I let go of the yoke (besides pause :)). I agree it should be done right, but I can get the existing one (which is very basic) working for both c172 and c310

[Flightgear-devel] ILS/Runway Heading

2002-01-21 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Looking thru Robin Peel's database I notice that runway headings in the ILS file are given as true headings as I ILS KLAX 06L 108.50 082.92 33.952390 -118.399094 ... I ILS KLAX 06R 111.70 082.92 33.950486 -118.398768 ... I ILS KLAX 07L 111.10 082.93 33.940199 -118.376567 ...

[Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Believe there was a discussion while back regards YASIM options, but can't find it. Could someone tell me command line options for running YASIM with the various models? Thanks John W.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Andrew wrote: Oh yeah. Duh. I knew that. :) I *will* try that someday, but I'm lacking the required second machine at the moment. Just need to get the turbine data across the link (Assuming that YASIM is generating N1, N2, EGT, EPR, oil pressure, fuel flow, etc) Sure thing:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
Andy wrote Just need to get the turbine data across the link (Assuming that YASIM is generating N1, N2, EGT, EPR, oil pressure, fuel flow, etc) Sure thing: /engines/engine[n]/n1 /engines/engine[n]/n2 /engines/engine[n]/epr /engines/engine[n]/egt-degf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
Engine data is a little screwy. running jbsim for the c310 no data comes across and for yasim-747 the zeroeth values are missing. Not sure i've got this properties thing all figured out yet. In opengc.cxx data-n1_turbine[0] = fgGetDouble(/engines/engine[0]/n1);

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
Engine data is a little screwy. running jbsim for the c310 no data comes across and for yasim-747 the zeroeth values are missing. Not sure i've got this properties thing all figured out yet. In opengc.cxx data-n1_turbine[0] = fgGetDouble(/engines/engine[0]/n1); data-n1_turbine[1]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-29 Thread John Wojnaroski
Andy wrote The gear is controlled by /controls/gear-down, a boolean. The flaps are in /controls/flaps, a floating point number from 0 (no deflection) to 1. Also, the 747 has slats, which it looks for in /controls/slats, with the same convention. There's no default keyboard mapping for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Options

2002-01-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Aerodynamically, yes. The gear is interpolated from all to none over the retract-time specified. But you can't see that in the properties; all you get is the control position. David is right, we need to decide on a set of output properties for the actual surface positions. Yes. kept

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Post 0.7.9 priorities

2002-02-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes: Aside from stabilizing our current flight models, I think that the absolute top priority for 0.8 should be at least a minimal level of runway lighting. While the general scenery lighting makes night flying nice (and makes roads look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenGc Updates for 0.7.9

2002-02-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Curtis, got the msg on properties, still a bit foggy, but that's my fault. Have not had the time to study how and why they work. I should stop and take the time. Attached are revised opengc files. I inadvertently sent you an n-1 rev. Discovered it last night when I did a fresh checkout and

[Flightgear-devel] Threads

2002-02-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Tried latest build on latest CVS, looks okay Tried build with threads, first simgear, then flightgear For ./configure --with-threads (in simgear) returns: checking for pthread_exit in -lpthread... (cached) no checking for pthread.h... (cached) yes Running ./configure --with-threads

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Back to Linux

2002-02-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
TOWER:/usr/local/bin$ fgfs fgfs: error in loading shared libraries: libmk4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That's the metakit. You find it in in the SimGear directory. Just have to compile and install it. Right! I thought I caught that when building

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back to Linux

2002-02-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
fgfs --fg-root=/usr/local You want the full path so you want --fgroot=/usr/local/FlightGear Okay, that worked. some problems with the xml aircraft files, but at least it got to the preference file and into the aircraft files. Hopefully, if I just copy over the command options from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back to Linux

2002-02-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
What kind of problems with the xml? Turns out to be operator error. Have two machines, both were running with cygwin for fg and opengc glass cockpit displays Well config control was a little sloppy, had a very, very stale base tar package that got untarred on the new linux machine So, with

[Flightgear-devel] A nit

2002-02-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Going through a Cygwin FG build, notice that SimGear configure.in checks for the plib files, but plib is not required to build SimGear just FlightGear. Should that test be removed from SimGear or is this just a early heads up? Of course simgear could be used for other sims not using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A nit

2002-02-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Actually if you grep through the simgear source for plib includes you will find several, so simgear does indeed depend on plib in order to build. Ooops, that's weird, I turned off the plib directory and SimGear still built. I think I best check my make files and include paths and

[Flightgear-devel] Sockets

2002-02-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Running FG under cygwin allows the socket output to be set to the broadcast address, 192.xxx.xxx.255. But under linux Fg returns an error that make_client_socket failed for the broadcast address. Looks like cygwin is faking it. there are socket options with the system call of 'int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sockets

2002-02-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Running FG under cygwin allows the socket output to be set to the broadcast address, 192.xxx.xxx.255. But under linux Fg returns an error that make_client_socket failed for the broadcast address. Looks like cygwin is faking it. Not necessarily. Did you declare that to be the broadcast

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gallery

2002-02-14 Thread John Wojnaroski
Yes, it is. According to the picture, it IS possible to have FG + OpenGC running on the same machine (obviously at least one person had it :-). I always was under the impression this requires 2 networked machines. Perhaps someone could put together a simple readme for getting this

[Flightgear-devel] FG/OpenGC Bug

2002-02-21 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, If anyone has tried running the FG/OpenGC displays across a network of mixed platforms you might experience a problem with the sizeof() function used to determine the size of the network data packet. Linux and cygwin calculate the value differently in aligning the bits in memory. the

[Flightgear-devel] FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, A question was asked last week on running FG and OpenGC on the same machine. Well, theone way is to run each app in it's own window and use the loopback address of 127.0.0.1 to communicate via sockets. fgfs .. --opengc=socket,out,24,127.0.0.1,5800,udp ... Depending on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
I tried downloading OpenGC stuff, but http://opengc.sf.net/ seems to be dead (might be temporarily, though). Is the FG related stuff under that same address (I recall it was integrated, right?) or somewhere else? Try http://www.opengc.org. If the problem persists, I can upload a

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, A question was asked last week on running FG and OpenGC on the same machine. Well, the one way is to run each app in it's own window and use the loopback address of 127.0.0.1 to communicate via sockets. fgfs .. --opengc=socket,out,24,127.0.0.1,5800,udp ... Shift-5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
Andy Ross writes: Undeniably. Unfortunately, the only way to get it closer is to have people work on and provide feedback for the models. I'll freely admit that I don't spend much time in the 747 model, because big jets don't push my buttons. Jim Brennan, could probably rattle off

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-24 Thread John Wojnaroski
Certainly not, when it's gross weight is 800k lbs. :) The weight you quote is close to the zero-fuel weight, which is typical for landing. By default, YASim will top your tanks off at startup. The plane in this condition will indeed have a very high approach speed. Try setting the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG/Opengc Interface

2002-02-24 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, IIRC the 747-400 comes down pretty fast anyway. I think you're looking at 195 KIAS range for final dropping down to 175 KIAS (with full flaps) at the outer marker. But note again, this is from memory. Still, there is no way that pig flies at 150. The biggest problem I saw with that

[Flightgear-devel] Broken Code

2002-02-25 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, On Jan 19 the FGEngInterface and FGGearInterface were removed from the flight.hxx source. It broke a lot of code in the opengc interface as well as internal logic to modulate the display symbols. I have made requests to this group for help in fixing what was broken by this change. I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: DC-3 model now animated

2002-02-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
- normalized position of ailerons - normalized position of flaps - normalized position of elevators - normalized position of rudder What about speed brakes/spoilers ? These are getting quite common on some of the faster planes like Mooney's... What about cowl flaps? JW

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: DC-3 model now animated

2002-02-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
What about cowl flaps? All of my experience is with jets, what exactly are cowl flaps? JW Mine too. Cowl flaps are used to cool engines for ground operations,taxi, takeoffs and landings when the engine is either at a high power setting or there is insufficient airfow to cool the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights tested

2002-03-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:25 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights tested Roman Grigoriev writes: Today I built airport scenery from CVS and seen runway lights WOW! looks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights tested

2002-03-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
John Wojnaroski writes: For both YASim and JSBSim the flaps seem inop. Gear, flight surfaces, engines are okay. Except it looks like the YASim 747 needs a nose gear Do you have the latest CVS code for both FlightGear and the base package? As far I as can tell yes, downloaded both

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
It's not exporting any properties. :) I was lazy when I did the new XML files, and only did property exports for the aircraft that I could test visually. All that's necessary is to clone the control-output tags from the DC-3, which should be identical in all ways. I'll get a new one put

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-04 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Can you post what you changed? I'm not sure from the above exactly which tags went where. Certainly, if you put the right tags in the right places, it should work. :) Here it is. I posted it earlier, but you might have missed the msg. For both YASim and JSBSim the flaps seem inop.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-04 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Oh, never mind, it's just a typo. Note spelling of the property above, and here: [...] data-flaps = fgGetDouble(/surface-positions/flaps-pos-norm); [...] Snip the stray s, and you should see correct behavior. This, it must be admitted, is the biggest disadvantage of a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on TechTV

2002-03-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Is this a cable station? Public access? Something you can only pull in within 200' of the transmitter? Cable. website is http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/ Regards JW ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A viewer interface suggestion

2002-03-13 Thread John Wojnaroski
ggestion Curtis L. Olson wrote: Trying to make all our users puke, huh? :-) Our eyes / brain has a certian amount of image stabalization so we can't just bounce the view around as much as if the pilot had a camera bolted to his head. No, probably not. But providing some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] playing with runway lighting

2002-03-14 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis writes: Are you talking about standard runway and approach lighting, or other types of lighting. Well, there are the: 1) directional threshold lights (green on the approach, red on the departure end) 2) 5, 6, 7, whatever combinations (arrangements) of approach lights 3)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] San Jose (photo scenary)

2002-03-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
I'd like to experiment flying under San Jose photo scenary. I've already downloaded the package but I don't know how to start it. Anyone coul'd help me ? If you look at the contents, there is one directory. Simply put it all in the same directory that currently has a KSJC* file in it.

[Flightgear-devel] ADI Mechanization

2002-03-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, FWIW: while I've been working mostly with the glass displays, now and then I'll bring up the "steam gauges" panel. I finally see why the artifical horizon looked funny to me. All the ADI's that I'm aware of have the bank index marks fixed relative to the panel or instrument frame which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADI Mechanization

2002-03-19 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Strange :-( I'll check it with Fly! and MSFS which inspired me when I look how it move) And if it is wrong I'll make new version. You might try a more authorative source. Something like an instrument flight training manual or a pilot friend. I recall seeing a few clips of MSFS in motion

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim updates

2002-03-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
I'd love to be able to practice formation flying. It would be cool to try to hold the #2 slot in the Blue Angels' Diamond formation. I guess that would require someone writing an advanced AI engine first. ;-) -- The slot position is #4, right wing is #2 and left wing is #3 Probably all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, OK my wording was a little strong :-) Not really, the idea behind the glass displays is for the development of full scale cockpit simulators. so things like framerate and fidelity are major design objectives to achieve the highest level of realism and performance. Right now you can get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] glass cockpit

2002-04-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
What's the status of OpenGC integration with FlightGear? I have a thought in mind for something it might be used for, and I might be interested in trying it out. The network interface is alive and well. ( it is sync'd with the latest CVS version of FG ) The FMC is in the shop for a

[Flightgear-devel] OpenGC Manual

2002-04-04 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, A few folks have asked for it, so here it is; fresh off the presses. When you download the opengc package from the CVS repository you also receive, free of charge, a short tutorial on how to install, configure and run OpenGC with FlightGear Regards John W.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wheel array question

2002-04-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Jon Berndt writes: Right now our wheels are stored in an array. Is there anywhere that defines which position corresponds to which wheel ... something along the lines of: wheel[0] == nose wheel[1] == left wheel[2] == right from JSBSIm.cxx: FCS-SetLBrake(

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wheel array question

2002-04-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Prototyping and evaluation of launch vehicle flight deck displays. Jon Commercial or open source? A few years back we used a product from a company located in Montreal (for the moment the name escapes me) to build displays (pre-OpenGL) with XView that ran on Sun platforms and supported 1553

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d graphics hardware support

2002-04-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
We are using an head tracker to look around in flightgear. It works the same as the mouse, though. Is this what you are asking, Jon? The problem with the glasses seems to lie when we enable the stereo buffer on our graphics card to render the scene in 3d. We can view FG in the glasses

[Flightgear-devel] Fw: Airspeeds?

2002-04-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: John Wojnaroski To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Airspeeds? Hi, On the subject of airspeeds: Indicated Airspeed (IAS) is calculated based on the difference between stagnation pressure in the pitot tube and the static

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fw: Airspeeds?

2002-04-19 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Bottom line question for the FDM' rs: Would you take a few moments to comment/explain how your models handle the various airspeeds. Just a quick thank you for the info put. To make the FG/OpenGC interface effective will require a little handshaking on both ends to sync up. Back in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs-base-0.7.10.zip

2002-05-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Would anyone be willing to create a zip version of the base package and post it some place where I can fetch it and put it on the ftp site? I can put a version on one of my ftp machines. Just need to move it out from behind the firewall. Say the word and I'll send you the address, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
So what is the SI unit for direction/heading? Certainly they wouldn't overload unit names, right? :-) I recall reading an article several years ago in a flying mag (can't remember exactly where or when) on someone's proposal to change the number of degrees on the compass from 360 to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building on cygwin...

2002-06-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Building on cygwin... I'm interested in helping out on the Flightgear project, specifically the multiplayer networking stuff if it hasn't already been done, but I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get the software to build on cygwin. Does anyone have any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building on cygwin...

2002-06-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
The cygwin is the lates from the web site with everything installed, I can compile/build things with it without any problems. My main problem is that plib requires glut to compile / build, which isn't in the cygwin installation. I have tried using mesa or freeglut but both of these fail to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi David I have volume restrictions at my ISP and a lot of traffic to my site, so I cannot afford to put anything large there for download. If there are any volunteers, I'd be happy to send copies of my scenery for them to host. A couple of weeks ago I set up an ftp server for Curt to

[Flightgear-devel] Re: progress

2002-06-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I haven't disappeared. I've been quite busy at work the last two weeks and haven't had a lot of free time. I'm shooting for posting a new Windows alpha executable and a tar of the source presuming Linux is building ok this weekend. Any news on your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: progress

2002-06-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hmm, this is going to get fiddly. I've got a generic route/flight-plan backend sort of working (no flight traversal or waypoint sequencing as of yet), which I am planning to extend with airways, SIDs, STARs and so on (with editing of course). The long term plan was to build an FMC / MCDU

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: progress

2002-06-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
James Turner wrote: Anyway, I'd like to work out a plan of attack to avoid too much duplication. I suspect some might be inevitable, since there's slight different goals. (and, alas, I only have one computer, so I'm kind of anti the whole 3 computers thing :-) My sense is that any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Well, this is where it gets interesting :-) We really need to define the auto-throttle property nodes, so that the FMC/MCDU can set (some of ) those. Or, on the 757/767, this is done via a physical panel, apparently (if I understand Thomas' comments). (the 777 uses a THRUST LIM page). And

Fw: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot planning [was RE: progress]

2002-06-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
If this is a duplicate, my apologies; having a few minor email problems today and not sure what was sent. Well, this is where it gets interesting :-) We really need to define the auto-throttle property nodes, so that the FMC/MCDU can set (some of ) those. Or, on the 757/767, this is done

[Flightgear-devel] Socket Problem

2002-06-11 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, with regards the glitch with the new socket code. When trying to connect with native_ctrls perror() returns "transport end not connected" after the sock.recv(..) call in the read routine. Is something missing? Something OpenGC and/or FG have to initialize? Regards John W.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
I'm still unsure of the other two instruments you asked about. I'll keep digging. FWIW: EGT gauge and airspeed Lower left is gear indicator ( 3 green) Can't make out the rest of the symbols on the gauge; could be flap position Regards JW ___

[Flightgear-devel] Duplicate properties?

2002-06-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, the property browser reports two values for rho-slugsft3 in /fdm/jsbsim/atmosphere as: rho-slugsft3 = 0.002371 (double) rho-slugsft3 = (none) trying to access the value with the properties manager returns the second null value. the other values appear to be operating properly. Is this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Duplicate properties?

2002-06-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
Odd. I'm only calling tie once, and my little fltk property browser only shows the correct value. The duplicate showed up in the pull-down menu from view properties. You might check the value of /environment/density-slugft3. It's probably better to use that one anyway as it is not FDM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: crashes at tile borders revisited

2002-07-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
When I was working on getting the agl calculation functioning with all the viewer changes, I toyed with the idea doing something that ignored sudden (and/or unreasonable) variations to AGL, at least for a few frames. It was mostly in response to what happens when a very fast aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: crashes at tile borders revisited

2002-07-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
That's probably an issue with the autopilot and the 747. It's been difficult finding control factors that work for all the different speeds, compounded by the giant mass of the 747. At those lower speeds the effectiveness of the elevator can change dramatically with relatively small

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:40 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot David Megginson writes: I'm wondering if we can make everything a bit simpler -- smaller

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Replying to self: - Original Message - From: John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:33 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot - Original Message - From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot

2002-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: Frederic BOUVIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds progress : screenshot John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : There is an editor program Mark wrote for adding

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

2002-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base Package size (was 3D clouds) David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson writes: Just poking around at the edges

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

2002-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base Package size (was 3D clouds) Jim Wilson writes: Just poking around at the edges with the clouds that still don't show,

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

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