[Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Hi folks, I recompiled flightgear (git) , and noticed that the 2d cloud layers are racing along nearly double my flight speed , and usually in the general heading I fly .Its gives the illusion I'm flying backwards , unless a mountain peak happens to be poking through.Is this a recent bug , or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Nathanael Rebsch
congratulations 'peter morgan' for posting such an amusiong email. 1. i personally have no idea, but i can tell it's a subdomain of flightgear.org which tells me that it's origins are somewhere in flightgear! 2. originating from the ones who run flightgear.org makes it official, as in that it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, I have to agree Nathanael! Very funny... I don't think that Gijs and Curtis will like your posting here Some answers: Welcome at the official database for FlightGear liveries! With respect I wish to establish some facts1) who are the officers in charge to make it official and Curtis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, as maintainer/founder of the official livery database I will try to answer Pete's questions, altough I do not understand how most of them are related to the liveries anyway... The livery database was set up as a repository, just like http://scenemodels.flightgear.org, to host data that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Heiko Schulz
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] June / LinuxTag release

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: Would the future also contain the MP protocol+player enviroment, ATC, MP mapping ? I doubt that these are affected by the release process. and also all the aircraft independant in hangars Aircraft are available here: http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft-2.0.0/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal for a revised environment interface

2010-06-21 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Since I'm quite new on the list, I have pondered a few days if this is meant to be a joke. Ohhh look. A chunk of work required that is not screamingly time-sensitive, could be tightly defined and has potential mentors. I smell a potential project for Google Summer of Code next year

[Flightgear-devel] GIT

2010-06-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Git works horribly for me. I seem to have public key problems every second try. So Don't expect much activity from me in the future. At least I've given up searching for a clue. Erik -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread Curtis Olson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:03 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I recompiled flightgear (git) , and noticed that the 2d cloud layers are racing along nearly double my flight speed , and usually in the general heading I fly .Its gives the illusion I'm flying backwards ,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2010-06-21 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Erik Hofman wrote: Git works horribly for me. I seem to have public key problems every second try. So Don't expect much activity from me in the future. At least I've given up searching for a clue. Hi, One thing I stumbled on is that gitorious presents you with different

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
syd adams a écrit : Hi folks, I recompiled flightgear (git) , and noticed that the 2d cloud layers are racing along nearly double my flight speed , and usually in the general heading I fly .Its gives the illusion I'm flying backwards , unless a mountain peak happens to be poking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread Victhor
Yeah, I noticed it :) If I didn't have instruments I would believe I was stalling/flying backwards :) syd adams a écrit : Hi folks, I recompiled flightgear (git) , and noticed that the 2d cloud layers are racing along nearly double my flight speed , and usually in the general heading I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal for a revised environment interface

2010-06-21 Thread willie
On 21/06/10 11:54, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: Since I'm quite new on the list, I have pondered a few days if this is meant to be a joke. No joke at all, Thorsten :-) I am not a coder and have to rely on others to advise me what effort is needed to accomplish a coding task. Which I know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Glad to know it's just not me. I wonder if it has anything to do with this new cloud creating menu ? Which I haven't quite figured out the purpose of , wasn't the METAR string supposed to handle the user defined weather ? Just curious , since the move to git , progress reports seem to have fizzled

[Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Me again ... Im recompiling Terragear again ... changed Distros , but while compiling simgear-cs I get these ... In file included from SGClipGroup.cxx:26: SGClipGroup.hxx:55: error: ‘RegisterRenderBinProxy’ in namespace ‘osgUtil’ does not name a type SGClipGroup.cxx:73: error:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Spott
syd adams wrote: Im using svn OSG , recompiled yesterday is that too new ? OSG version 2.2.x should be fine. If that one doesn't work either, then you're having additional trouble hiding elsewhere. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Thanks Martin , I'll give that a try. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.netwrote: syd adams wrote: Im using svn OSG , recompiled yesterday is that too new ? OSG version 2.2.x should be fine. If that one doesn't work either, then you're having

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Morgan
sorry.. I am definately not good as explaining things.. There is a TV show in the UK called the Dragons Den - its a good watch.. One thing I do is look at any project first positively outcome outlook and then the deperately negatively and forecast how everything could go tits up.. This is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Morgan
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Nathanael Rebsch nathan...@dihedral.dewrote: congratulations 'peter morgan' for posting such an amusiong email. Thank you.. I take that as a compliment.. Please add me along with John Denker .. and guess everyone else chased him away.. maybe me also Who was

[Flightgear-devel] Caspian Sea Penguin

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Morgan
As Curt out BFDL pointed out some new aircraft to research recently. and the whole FDM One aircraft I am intrigued by is the Caspian Sea Monster.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle Seems to me as a muppet that this aircraft was controlled via ground radar to pitch

[Flightgear-devel] Ask willie

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Morgan
The idea is a complete ideas zone...and keep daftness away from core.. Well away from and probably working in concert with flightgear-bugs.. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-future/ An idea anyway, peter morgan --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Morgan
Ohh.. fogot to mention legal USA entities blocked http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/

[Flightgear-devel] ATC

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Morgan
the current ATC clients are deformed in some ways... although there are a few atc client around such as 1) ATC 2) ATC2 3) ATCML - fav so if can explain my local situation.. I'm training some crew ie kids of all ages to understand some IFR/ATC, and indeed the scenario changes with that.. indeed..