[Flightgear-devel] Generic Location for Aircraft Logos

2009-04-22 Thread Detlef Faber
Hello everybody, I have created a Selection Dialog for Logos (or Noseart) on the F4U, and I'm about to add this feature to other Aircraft as well, so I like to put the Logo XML and Texture files in /Aircraft/Generic/Logos. This way all Logos can be used with every Aircraft which have a square

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic Location for Aircraft Logos

2009-04-22 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Detlef Faber wrote: Hello everybody, I have created a Selection Dialog for Logos (or Noseart) on the F4U, and I'm about to add this feature to other Aircraft as well, so I like to put the Logo XML and Texture files in /Aircraft/Generic/Logos. This way all Logos can be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_'

2009-04-22 Thread syd adams
as soon as I get my system back up I'll check ... this is the cvs version I assume ? On 4/21/09, John Waget jwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got this error message when running fg with 777-200ER: Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_' When running with other aircrafts, fg works

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic Location for Aircraft Logos

2009-04-22 Thread Detlef Faber
Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 09:08 +0200 schrieb Anders Gidenstam: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Detlef Faber wrote: Hello everybody, I have created a Selection Dialog for Logos (or Noseart) on the F4U, and I'm about to add this feature to other Aircraft as well, so I like to put the Logo XML

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_'

2009-04-22 Thread John Waget
Yes this is the cvs version On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM, John Waget jwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got this error message when running fg with 777-200ER: Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_' When running with other aircrafts, fg works perfectly. Can anyone tell me what's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_'

2009-04-22 Thread syd adams
OK I've almost got everything back , and I'll have to recompile everything from scratch , so the error should appear here (no extra files I forgot to commit lying around). Ive had this error in the past but can't remember if its a typo in the nasal or xml files. Should have an answer this evening

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_'

2009-04-22 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM, syd adams wrote: OK I've almost got everything back , and I'll have to recompile everything from scratch , so the error should appear here (no extra files I forgot to commit lying around). Ive had this error in the past but can't remember if its a typo in the

[Flightgear-devel] RPM gauge with digital hobbs meter

2009-04-22 Thread Curtis Olson
In case anyone is interested I just added a varient of the high res C172 rpm gauge that implements a digital hobbs meter instead of the original static/non-changing hobbs meter that was cooked into the background texture. The hobbs meter runs when the engine runs and is saved periodically to your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread jean pellotier
hi And ty Torsten for committing ! I hope it doesn't trigger too much bugs. My side I don't see weird things. for me FG is quite impossible to use with the ridge drift, on startup it start having full of nan nan nan, cull visitor and so on, with 1 fps, nearly 90% of my try to start are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Patrice Poly wrote: I have just received a mail from Ian Forster-Lewis , the author of the original ridge lift ground sampling algorithm, in which he agrees for inclusion of his work into FG, provided that his name and link is included in the code. Great addition, marvellous !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Patrice Poly
for me FG is quite impossible to use with the ridge drift, on startup it start having full of nan nan nan, cull visitor and so on, with 1 fps, nearly 90% of my try to start are bad. i commented some lines in ridge_lift.cxx (from 210 to 307, and change 309 to:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Curtis Olson
I'm seeing a ton of these nan's when I start at KHAF ... it's just one or two or three per frame, but that ends up spewing an awful lot of extra text to my console. Regards, Curt. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Patrice Poly wrote: for me FG is quite impossible to use with the ridge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: I'm seeing a ton of these nan's when I start at KHAF ... it's just one or two or three per frame, but that ends up spewing an awful lot of extra text to my console. That's weird, at least using the ASK 21 I don't see a single one - on Linux/AMD64 with GCC-4.3.2,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Patrice Poly
Le Wednesday 22 April 2009 19:20:54 Martin Spott, vous avez écrit : Curtis Olson wrote: I'm seeing a ton of these nan's when I start at KHAF ... it's just one or two or three per frame, but that ends up spewing an awful lot of extra text to my console. That's weird, at least using the ASK

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Curtis Olson
With floating point numbers you usually don't want to check for zero. Usually you want to check if fabs( number ) epsilon (where epsilon is some really small number.) This is more stable since inside the computer, a floating point number is just an approximation ... 1/10 for instance becomes a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Marcin Koziol
I'm a bit at lost for now, as I really don't see any NaN anymore here, and don't have another platform to test on. I would be interested to see on which platforms / configuration this happens, maybe when more feedback comes in ?? Hi! I'm new here. I have checked out CVS version of FG about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fatal error: name must begin with alpha or '_'

2009-04-22 Thread syd adams
Well finally got everything up and running , and I cannot duplicate your error , although at the moment , pushing the fuel pump switches will cause an error . Not sure what to suggest other than try another cvs update on it . On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM, John Waget jwa...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:57 -0400, Patrice Poly wrote: Le Wednesday 22 April 2009 19:20:54 Martin Spott, vous avez écrit : Curtis Olson wrote: I'm seeing a ton of these nan's when I start at KHAF ... it's just one or two or three per frame, but that ends up spewing an awful lot of extra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working ridge lift !!

2009-04-22 Thread jean pellotier
I would be interested to see on which platforms / configuration this happens, maybe when more feedback comes in ?? I've got a 32 bits debian SID system, and my athlon xp 2800+ is a single core, i usually got nearly 20 fps near KSFO. jano