Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further 3D Clouds updates

2008-11-26 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I cheched your patch in but I still have the checkerboard : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs_clouds_checker.jpg but only when the weather scenario is set to none. -Fred Thanks for checking in all my patches. I'm aware that there are still checkerboard issues.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further 3D Clouds updates

2008-11-26 Thread Markus Zojer
Well, just tested, very nice, I withnessed an improvement in performance. My specs: Athlon XP2000, 768MB ram, NVidia FX 5900 @ 1680x1050 (system: linux with nvidia drivers), no AA Using: sg + fg cvs, OSG 2.7.5; everything enabled, custom settings, using metar, no ai/mp planes around Startup:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further 3D Clouds updates

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
I haven't applied the patch yet, so I can't give full specs. With CVS as of a few days ago, I did notice that OSG attributed almost double the 'update' time with 3D clouds on. I assume that Tim can comment on what The 'update' time is. I assume this means that (at least prior to your patch) the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further 3D Clouds updates

2008-11-26 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Well, just tested, very nice, I withnessed an improvement in performance. My specs: Athlon XP2000, 768MB ram, NVidia FX 5900 @ 1680x1050 (system: linux with nvidia drivers), no AA Using: sg + fg cvs, OSG 2.7.5; everything enabled, custom settings, using metar, no ai/mp planes

[Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, Recently, I discovered that there seem to be almost the double cameras that there were previously. This is in the event/update/cull/draw page of the statistics page. Is this expected? I also notice that each camera seems to be 'paired' with another camera - as in the 2nd camera will not

[Flightgear-devel] Performance and initialization patch

2008-11-26 Thread Yon Uriarte
Hi, this is a patch to speed up startup times and some other misc things. Please kindly try it out on your configurations. Commenting on each file/change: nasal/misc.h: If p == 0 return, else call free(p). Dont go into the malloc lib for nothing, probably free() does this check 1st thing in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view

2008-11-26 Thread Tim Moore
Matthew Tippett wrote: Hi, Recently, I discovered that there seem to be almost the double cameras that there were previously. This is in the event/update/cull/draw page of the statistics page. Is this expected? Yes. In order to draw our huge Z range -- from the tip of your nose (more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Performance and initialization patch

2008-11-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Hi, * Yon Uriarte -- Wednesday 26 November 2008: this is a patch to speed up startup times and some other misc things. Thanks for taking care of that. Startup time is really a problem, made worse by the fact that one has to restart fgfs to use another aircraft. I'll leave commenting on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Performance and initialization patch

2008-11-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Nov 2008, at 11:14, Yon Uriarte wrote: Hi, this is a patch to speed up startup times and some other misc things. Please kindly try it out on your configurations. Commenting on each file/change: logstream.cxx: Modified a bit the logstream implementation to avoid (stack)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-26 Thread dave
Hi Folks, Can whoever is working on the NZ scenery put Andrew Casey's house on the ground so we can buzz it until he complies. :) That was a joke (possibly a bad one). dave. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Comments within Original Message Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view From: Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 26/11/08 09:57 AM Matthew Tippett wrote: Yes. In order

[Flightgear-devel] Non-orthogonal frustums for multi-camera support

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I have been wrestling with this for a few weeks now. As some of you are aware, I am slowly preparing a new multi-head demo with around 8 GPUs in it (so up to 16 heads). The new camera support is great, but there are some problems with the way the frustums work. My understanding is that

[Flightgear-devel] Nasal: executing commands (Unix)

2008-11-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
FlightGear's Nasal doesn't support running external commands. Partly because it's too dangerous, but also because Nasal's unix module isn't fully cross-platform (read: Windows isn't good enough for it ;-) On Unices (Linux, OSX) it's fairly trivial to implement this feature and to keep it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal: executing commands (Unix)

2008-11-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 26 November 2008: 2) Write a script that scans the FIFO (attached). Better version attached. (In this simple case we don't need the inner loop and the timeout.) m. fgfs.fifo.runner Description: application/shellscript

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Non-orthogonal frustums for multi-camera support

2008-11-26 Thread Tim Moore
Matthew Tippett wrote: Hi, I have been wrestling with this for a few weeks now. As some of you are aware, I am slowly preparing a new multi-head demo with around 8 GPUs in it (so up to 16 heads). The new camera support is great, but there are some problems with the way the frustums

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Non-orthogonal frustums for multi-camera support

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Thanks. I guess the frustum calculation is possibly the most difficult part (at least investing some more effort) and dusting off the maths. With the original shear code that you implemented first there did appear to be a project of some sort - the far left and right screens exhibit a level of