Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-15 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, the correct cg for a SF25C is 0.143 .. 0.334m behind the wings tip (measured 0.52m from the center line). Regards, Maik am 15.08.2011 22:07 schrieb TDO_Brandano -: BTW, you can get a pretty good idea of where the CG is on a plane from the landing gear position. On a tail dragger the CG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Martin is responding slowly ....

2011-07-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Martin, congrats! You probably noticed, the world spins different now. Regards, Maik Am 25.07.2011 17:14 schrieb Martin Spott: Hi, if anyone is wondering why I'm responding even slower as usual, this might be caused by the simple fact that I'm being distracted by our daughter who was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT commit 31819df8: Alouette II - New FDM by

2011-05-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Am 18.05.2011 21:09 schrieb Heiko Schulz: If the drawbacks introduced by the new FDM are really that obvious and serious as you've stated here, I'd say you/we should take a revert of the latter change into account. At least the author of the first and in my eyes much more realistic fdm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim issues

2011-04-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Heiko, does your local FDM still uses default approach fuel etc? But even if not, there should be no difference in the flight behavior. The only effect of the approach fuel level is (for a rotorcraft) within the gear solver. By the way: I would prefer to use the old default values for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, to avoid this happen again in the future: Is it possible to add a metar-server functionality to the mpservers? If the NOAA protocol / access changes we only have to modify the mpservers, not the clients? Maik m schrieb am 06.11.2010 09:30: Thanks. I think it is pretty inconsiderate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim, Quadcopter and MatLab

2010-09-19 Thread Maik Justus
to be flown. I think it is impossible to fly it by keyboard. Maik Any idea? Best, Julien. PS: Sorry if my questions are a bit boring... It's the first time I do such things. Le 18/09/2010 23:13, Maik Justus a écrit : Hello Julien, please find enclosed the yasim configuration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim, Quadcopter and MatLab

2010-09-18 Thread Maik Justus
/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel !-- copter config for Autonomous Quadcopter - University Bremen by Maik Justus see README.yasim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CPRC Autonomous UAV Helicopter

2010-05-08 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Thomas, Thomas Hamilton schrieb am 08.05.2010 04:03: Maybe it's easier if you just provide a (maybe very simple but right size) 3d Model of your helicopter. Then I can make a FDM similar to my rc-helicopters. At the end we only need to adjust it to make it fly as your helicopter does.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CPRC Autonomous UAV Helicopter

2010-05-05 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Thomas, Thomas Hamilton schrieb am 05.05.2010 19:57: Thank you for the response Maik, I am sure your helicopter has flapping. Maybe not a visible flapping hinge, but some elasticity within the blades or the blade holder. The Bo105 and the Ec135 has no flapping hinge as well. I gather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CPRC Autonomous UAV Helicopter

2010-05-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Thomas, Thomas Hamilton schrieb am 01.05.2010 20:33: Hello, I am a member of a college robotics team and we are currently building an autonomous UAV helicopter. We wish to use FlightGear for research and development, however after an exhaustive search we have failed to find even one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quadrocopter (Quadcopter) / Mikrokopter / X-UFO / Microdrone

2010-04-12 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Andreas, what is the actual status of the 3D-model? Best regards, Maik Andreas Bresser schrieb am 18.07.2009 02:31: Hi Maik, Nice. Will the finished model be published with GPL license? Would be nice to have such a model within cvs. Yes, definitely (and if not GPL than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones virtual UAV competition

2010-04-12 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Curt, Curtis Olson schrieb am 12.04.2010 18:27: Hi Maik, Do you still have the FDM for the small quad-copter? Is this something that could be added to CVS? I think it could generate a fair amount of interest. yes, I still have the FDM, but no 3D-model. The FDM contains only the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones virtual UAV competition

2010-04-11 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, some time ago I made a FDM for a small quad-copter. Therefore flightgear also could be used for simulating this kind of uav. Sensors like acceleration and gyroscope should be easy to simulate with all their inaccuracies. Laser scanner and ultrasonic sensors (using some discrete rays)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2

2010-04-03 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Emmanuell, Heikos Mail wasn't an attac. He just noted that the fdm is actually broken and he offered his help. I prefer to revert to the last version of the fdm, even if some coordinates are wrong. The resulting flight characteristic is correct. Best regards, Maik P.S.: the uh1 has a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - Helicopter FAA - AATD

2010-03-31 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, Heiko Schulz schrieb am 31.03.2010 01:57: The UH1 was the one with the most realistic flightmodel. Unfortunately as helijah corrected the fuselage shape in YASim, he broke the whole balance settings. Tensors and CoG seems not right anymore, visible as the whole aircraft is turning on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - Helicopter FAA - AATD

2010-03-31 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, yes, the FDM for the Bo105, Aircrane und UH1 are tuned to match the data given in some NASA Reports, in particular Report NASA-CR-3144 A compilation and analysis of helicopter handling qualities data. Volume 1: Data compilation, which is public available. This report contains the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-30 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Jörg, Jörg Emmerich schrieb am 30.03.2010 11:05: Hi Maik, that is wundervoll news. Surely I will use the then completed translation. But why wait? I will start with the review / translation short time after my Eastern vacation. Best regards, Maik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-29 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Jörg, Jörg Emmerich schrieb am 29.03.2010 16:05: Hi Maik, thank you for offering help in translating your chapter about the Helicopters. But I am a little confused: I just compared the getstart.pdf chapter A Helicopter Tutorial with the wiki Flying the Helicopter - and on first sight they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Jörg, Jörg Emmerich schrieb am 26.03.2010 10:23: ... For the example of the Helicopter (and similar) I am not yet sure about the best way: But I am convinced also here we do need a chapter about the Basics of how to fly a Helicopter in the manual -- and point to the wiki for enhanced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, just a remark, probably already know: Some parts of the getstart.pdf are in the wiki, which is partly translated to German. Best regards, Maik Adrian schrieb am 25.03.2010 08:44: Hey Joe! Where d'you want me to go with that pen in my hand? :-) Just tell me which pages you are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - Helicopter FAA - AATD

2010-03-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Christian, the helicopter flight model is very realistic, for my point of view it is the the most realistic flight model which is available for normal PC users. The setup of the configuration is a bit tricky, esp. for the auto-rotation, therefore it does not work realistic for most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Martin, Martin Spott schrieb am 25.03.2010 22:34: Maik Justus wrote: just a remark, probably already know: Some parts of the getstart.pdf are in the wiki, [...] Oh, are people really duplicating The Manual on the Wiki ? I don't know. But at least my two cents to The Manual

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for Help (SoundSystem listener orientation)

2009-11-03 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Erik, Erik Hofman schrieb am 03.11.2009 14:01: And now the Doppler effect is also fixed (sort of). I needed to multiply the velocity vector by 100 to get some sort of Doppler effect going on. Maybe you are calculating the velocity as m/frame instead of m/s? Or you transformed the m/frame

Re: [Flightgear-devel] about yasim's rotor model

2009-10-30 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Heiko Schulz schrieb am 29.10.2009 22:27: Hi, ...just the rotor 3D object turns clockwise (the 3D rotational axis is z negative), the main rotor is still counterclockwise (/rotors/main/blade/position-deg increases, a clockwise rotor should decrease this value?). So much as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear in industry use

2009-10-28 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Arnt, Arnt Karlsen schrieb am 28.10.2009 17:26: ..aye. One problem, they provide FG binaries, but no source??? http://www.cloudcaptech.com/download/Piccolo/FlightGear/ Do they have to provide the source to everyone? Or do they just need to deliver the license within the download and

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear License, was: Re: Fwd: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2009-10-25 Thread Maik Justus
Detlef Faber schrieb am 25.10.2009 11:33: I sympathise with Durks intentions, at least he is trying to adress the issues that gives a lot of FG devels a headache (including me). Rather than shouting down his well intended move I would expect some Suggestings how to deal with this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quadrocopter (Quadcopter) / Mikrokopter / X-UFO / Microdrone

2009-07-17 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Andreas, Andreas Bresser schrieb am 17.07.2009 19:22: Hi. I am working on a Quadrocopter (http://www.mikrokopter.de) model in Flightgear with YAsim. Nice. Will the fiinished model be published with GPL license? Would be nice to have such a model within cvs. After the loading of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New member...and questions ;-)

2009-06-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hi LeeE leee schrieb am 26.06.2009 13:57: I just thought I'd point out that the YASim solver sets the incidence for the hstab element, not the wing element. Thanks for correcting me. I checked the code. The only difference between wing and mstab are: - you have to define one wing (only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New member...and questions ;-)

2009-06-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Olivier Faivre schrieb am 26.06.2009 14:04: Interesting. Will try both possibilities. if mstab is not use by the solver, What about biplane ? Not so clear anymore in my mind... I think the comment in the README.YASIM is wrong. I thought the solver sets the incidence of the wing, but I was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New member...and questions ;-)

2009-06-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Olivier, Olivier Faivre schrieb am 25.06.2009 20:52: Hello guys, ... Actually, the wing is done with only one piece, 7° dihedral, no twist. Can I use the mstab command to specify the outer wing and the regular wing command for the inner one ? yes In the readme file, I read this for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New member...and questions ;-)

2009-06-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Heiko Schulz schrieb am 25.06.2009 22:06: Hi, ... Can I use the mstab command to specify the outer wing and the regular wing command for the inner one ? In the readme file, I read this for mstab : these surfaces are not involved with the solver computation these surfaces are not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL in SimGear

2009-05-27 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Matias, Matias D'Ambrosio schrieb am 26.05.2009 22:55: Hello all, I have just subscribed to this list, but I did search in the archives for emails regarding OpenAL and the doppler effect in particular. Hopefully I didn't miss any important emails. I have some experience with OpenAL,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *** SPAM *** Re: Scene ambient and specular color changes

2009-04-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Erik, Erik Hofman schrieb am 01.04.2009 08:42: (heavy clouds will only be possible in situations with reduced visibility anyhow). I am not sure that I got your point 100%, but I think visibility and cloud layers are not well correlated. E.g. actual Metar for EDDS: 012020Z 05012KT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash in FlightGear\src\Airports\dynamics.cxx , patch included

2009-03-31 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Durk, Durk Talsma schrieb am 31.03.2009 07:12: Thanks for the update. Did you install additional traffic at KSFO, or copy the old demo over? Not by intention. I just made a diff on the traffic folder and found no diff. Can traffic be in an other file? Or can a MP aircraft causing to call

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash in FlightGear\src\Airports\dynamics.cxx, patch included

2009-03-30 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Durk, Durk Talsma schrieb am 30.03.2009 08:01: Hi Maik, Committed. Thanks for looking into this. BTW: At / near which airport did you see this crash? I'd like double check a few things regarding this at the crash site, if possible. KSFO, about 1 in after starting fg. Best regards,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash in FlightGear\src\Airports\dynamics.cxx, patch included

2009-03-30 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Maik Justus schrieb am 30.03.2009 08:59: Hi Durk, Durk Talsma schrieb am 30.03.2009 08:01: Hi Maik, Committed. Thanks for looking into this. BTW: At / near which airport did you see this crash? I'd like double check a few things regarding this at the crash site, if possible

[Flightgear-devel] crash in FlightGear\src\Airports\dynamics.cxx, patch included

2009-03-29 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, I had several crashes in FlightGear\src\Airports\dynamics.cxx. Please commit the enclosed patch. Best regards, Maik ? Airports.diff Index: dynamics.cxx === RCS file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [IMPORTANT] questionable extension to the property system planned: compound property types

2009-03-21 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Csaba, Csaba Halász schrieb am 21.03.2009 02:48: I also wonder if property change listeners should get an additional argument, giving the index of the changed item. But of course the change would need to be detected first, which basically means we can not directly expose a writable vec3d/4d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [IMPORTANT] questionable extension to the property system planned: compound property types

2009-03-20 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Stuart Buchanan schrieb am 20.03.2009 16:22: My immediate thought is that one could write some fairly straightforward code to interpret a given property node with 3 child values as a Vec3. Could we subvert the property attributes to indicate that a given nodes contains a Vect3. That way

Re: [Flightgear-devel] northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere

2009-02-22 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Heiko Heiko Schulz schrieb am 22.02.2009 13:41: Hi, I had just a test, and I'm not sure about a mistake in Rotorpart.cpp. I had just a test with the Ec135 and it wirk like it should. Bo105 and S64E Skycrane using Nasal for the blade bending, the ec135 not! So it could be that it has to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] northern hemisphere vs southern

2009-02-22 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Emmanuel, BARANGER Emmanuel schrieb am 22.02.2009 20:40: Hi Maik, I just tested your patch. This seems to work properly. I continue testing Best regards. Emmanuel Thank you very much. Can you check, if the sliding on ground (with engine off) is reduced? Best regards, Maik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim sliding helicopters bug (+ ugly fix)

2009-02-03 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 02.02.2009 18:43: Ever since helicopter support was added to the YASim FDM there's an annoying bug: even when parked, with rotor off and braked, helicopters slide happily around on the ground. some time ago I dug into this problem and tried to fix it. My idea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] doppler volume

2009-01-22 Thread Maik Justus
Hello, James Sleeman schrieb am 22.01.2009 01:14: Hi Maik, ... Just to clarify on the reference-dist, is it that this value is a diminishing effect, that is for reference-dist of 1 after distance 1 the volume is half original, after distance 2 the volume is 1/4 original (half of a half),

Re: [Flightgear-devel] doppler volume

2009-01-22 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Maik Justus schrieb am 22.01.2009 13:45: Hello, James Sleeman schrieb am 22.01.2009 01:14: Hi Maik, ... Just to clarify on the reference-dist, is it that this value is a diminishing effect, that is for reference-dist of 1 after distance 1 the volume is half original, after distance 2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] doppler volume

2009-01-22 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Vivian, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 22.01.2009 11:17: I would think that the attenuation of sound in air is amenable to mathematical calculation. Yes it is. (at lest if your distance to the sound source is large compared to the size of the source). Surely we shouldn't be guessing at some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] doppler volume

2009-01-21 Thread Maik Justus
Hi James, the effect you are discussing is not the Doppler effect, but just the volume as a function of the distance. Every aircraft has its own sound definition including the distance, where the volume is halved (reference-dist) and the distance where the volume is cutted off (max-dist). The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] division by zero in YASim/Airplane.cpp (possibly caused by bad 787 model)

2009-01-08 Thread Maik Justus
Hi LeeE schrieb am 08.01.2009 12:40: On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Csaba Halász wrote: 0x006a3b59 in yasim::Airplane::compileFuselage (this=0xc066688, f=0x7f84f00bf930) at src/FDM/YASim/Airplane.cpp:512 512 float segWgt = len*wid/segs; (gdb) p segs $1 = 0 (gdb) p *f $3 =

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Doppler

2008-12-20 Thread Maik Justus
Hi James, James Sleeman schrieb am 20.12.2008 13:21: Csaba Halász wrote: http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html Some distributions (notably debian) have switched to this version from the original implementation. Ahh I see, using Ubuntu here and yes it appears to be this soft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Doppler

2008-12-20 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Melchior, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 20.12.2008 15:56: * Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 20 December 2008: I just defined USE_OPEN_AL_DOPPLER after that #if* group, but Doppler didn't work. PS: not just after the group, but instead of it, so the other optional symbols weren't defined.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Doppler

2008-12-20 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Melchior, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 20.12.2008 17:54: * Maik Justus -- Saturday 20 December 2008: Did you try to #define USE_SOFTWARE_DOPPLER instead? No, AFAICS that enables your manual Doppler calculations, which you added for openal implementations with broken Doppler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Doppler

2008-12-20 Thread Maik Justus
Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 20.12.2008 18:29: * Maik Justus -- Saturday 20 December 2008: And the manual calculation works quite fine. And if it works with openal-soft we should use it with openal-soft. Ah, ok. I re-tried with USE_SOFTWARE_DOPPLER, and that only worked for a very short

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Doppler

2008-12-20 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 20.12.2008 20:01: Yes, USE_SOFTWARE_DOPPLER works with openal-soft. Is there any chance to get to know at compile time, that openal-soft is used? If not: is there any chance to get to know at runtime, that openal-soft is used? if yes: we need to change the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stall horn sound

2008-11-07 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Curt, Curtis Olson schrieb am 07.11.2008 23:12: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Question: has anyone noticed anything odd with the stall horn sound in the default c172p in the current cvs (although it's likely been an issue since we migrated to openal?)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Erik, Erik Hofman schrieb am 23.10.2008 18:47: Vladimir Karmishin wrote: I need any thoughts, imaginations about which way can it be modified to let it work with multiple 3d sound emitters. Reading this again there might be some confusion; aircraft can have multiple 3d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim not be able to simulate small aircrafts with canard-config?

2008-09-12 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Heiko, Did you try to call the main wing in the fdm file hstab and the canard wing with the real incidence values? And check the position of the c.g. Maik Heiko Schulz schrieb am 12.09.2008 03:51: Hi, Some months ago I began to model a Gyroflug Speedcanard SC-01B, a well-known

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound positioning and orientation

2008-08-21 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Erik, Erik Hofman schrieb am 21.08.2008 14:25: Hi, ... There are two options, modify the code to reflect what is described in README.xmlsound or modify the README file. I would prefer to modify the README file. I made some asymmetric sound for helicopters (S58, bo105) and adjusted

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Input/Output

2008-06-24 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Tat, Tatsuhiro Nishioka schrieb am 24.06.2008 06:05: HI, I guess spinning the cockpit around z axis can roughly achieve what Curt says. When making a coordinated turn with 15 degree bank, you can rotate the cockpit around roll axis about 15 degree, and then, spin the cockpit around z

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I need a help

2008-06-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Héber in which direction can you rotate platform (is z the vertical axis)? I think you should not only use the aircrafts orientation for the rotation of the platform, but the acceleration, which should give a much more realistic feeling. The interface to flightgear should not be a problem.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Input/Output (It was: I need a help)

2008-06-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Héber Héber Cos.Fer. schrieb am 23.06.2008 21:53: Maik, I think it's better to receive angular position than acceleration, because my plataform is limited in less than 90º (+45, -45). It's only a prototype. But you can not feel orientation directly, you only can feel acceleration.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/JSBSim/models/flight_control FGActuator.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 FGFCSComponent.h, 1.3, 1.4

2008-06-09 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Fred, Frederic Bouvier schrieb am 07.06.2008 10:14: I was able to compile JSBsim and FG today, except a small glitch with non portable code in new_gui.h I was able to fix using plib. Thank you! Thanks, -Fred Maik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/JSBSim/models/flight_control FGActuator.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 FGFCSComponent.h, 1.3, 1.4

2008-06-05 Thread Maik Justus
Frederic Bouvier schrieb am 05.06.2008 22:15: These changes are very unfortunate. Like it or not, cin, cerr and cout are defined in iostream under MSVC. FG is no longer compilable for me :-( -Fred Hi Fred, don't know what is different here, but yesterday evening I compiled

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS - Frame Rates under Windows XP

2008-04-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Frederic Bouvier schrieb am 01.04.2008 08:52: I have a Core2 Duo 2.66 ( E6600 ) and a 7600GT. I always saw the greatest fps increase after upgrading CPU and was disappointed by several GPU-only upgrade. All I can tell is that with the Seahawk, at KSFO, I have 75hz steady ( with vsync on )

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 350 Mb movie

2008-03-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Georg Vollnhals schrieb am 01.03.2008 03:41: Curtis Olson schrieb: I just posted a movie of one of the things I've been working on this week. It's a light-twin flight simulator with full cockpit and 7 visual channels (LCD displays). This movie shows an approach into 6WA8 (Ranger

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Red Bull Air Race for FlightGear

2008-02-10 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Torsten Torsten Dreyer schrieb am 01.02.2008 22:01: Thank you very much for this work. Unfortunately I am not able to get it running. I can't see any pylon. I just want to know, if it works for someone else? Hi Maik, please check: did you use the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Depth percepted cockpit

2008-02-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Joacher, a very interesting and promising idea. Is the needed hardware available separately? If yes: how much does it cost? Maik [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 01.02.2008 20:59: I think I have to emphasize this: There are two heads: Your real one in front of the monitor and the virtual

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Red Bull Air Race for FlightGear

2008-02-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Torsten, Torsten Dreyer schrieb am 01.02.2008 17:49: Hi all, here is something that might kill your weekend. So if you promised your kids a great weekend at the zoo or wanted to paint your house: *** STOP READING *** But if you have some time to spare: go on! I have written some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] trees

2008-01-28 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Stuart, Stuart Buchanan schrieb am 28.01.2008 10:25: If you have a look in the data/Textures/Trees/ directory you will see that the .rgb files are actually a strip of different trees, evenly distributed along the x-axis. You can change them in any way you want, as long as you ensure that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pushback

2008-01-12 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Gijs, a few days ago Jester, simstick and me tried to get the pushback working over the MP-protocol. In principle it worked. But the problem is the time lag between th different users. To avoid ugly oscillations it was necessary to use a very elastic junction between pushbak und 787, which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-06 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Dave, same here. But it is ok, if I start with 4:3 window and maximize it when fg runs (my normal start procedure). Maik dave perry schrieb am 06.01.2008 05:08: Maik Justus wrote: Hi, Maik Justus schrieb am 26.12.2007 20:38: Hi Syd, what's about an algorithm, which checks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-06 Thread Maik Justus
in upper right corner of the window), I get the distorted-aspect-ratio image filling the screen. I am running Fedora 7 with nvidia graphics, gnome window manager. What is your environment? -Dave Maik Justus wrote: Hi Dave, same here. But it is ok, if I start with 4:3 window and maximize

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-05 Thread Maik Justus
MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Maik Justus wrote: Hi Arvid, AnMaster schrieb am 04.01.2008 23:13: My resoltion is 1400x1280, not 4:3 nor 16:9 ? 20 1400x1280 TFT. I got no idea what format it is, but the monitor works well for me. The screen area of the monitor is about 30.5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-05 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Arvid, AnMaster schrieb am 05.01.2008 14:48: it is 1400x1050. ok (4:3). Try 58.6. Thank you, Maik - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AI load_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Georg, Georg Vollnhals schrieb am 05.01.2008 15:32: Hi Vivian, very nice to notice that there is activity around the external load development. I activated your scenario after compiling Tim Moore's additional source code. The load is visible at KSFO - even at night with luminescend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and snapshots)

2008-01-05 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Vivian, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 21.12.2007 00:11: Christmas has arrived slightly early! I've got something which: A. runs B. looks OK with limited testing The ballistic object aligns with the direction of flight in pitch and heading with an external force applied. It would be possible

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and snapshots)

2008-01-05 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Vivian, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 06.01.2008 01:01: Maik Justus wrote: Hi Vivian, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 21.12.2007 00:11: Christmas has arrived slightly early! I've got something which: A. runs B. looks OK with limited testing The ballistic object aligns

[Flightgear-devel] fg (plib branch) crashes, probably in groundnetwork.cxx

2008-01-04 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, with the plib branch (actual cvs, source and data) fg crashed here from time to time. Now I have a new (faster) PC and fg crashes much more often. It seems, that the frame rate has influence on the crash rate. Compiled with debugging information and running in the debugger I got no crash,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-04 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Maik Justus schrieb am 26.12.2007 20:38: Hi Syd, what's about an algorithm, which checks the ratio of the screen and sets fow to 55 for 4:3 screens and 70 for 16:9 screens? (55 / 70 = (4/3) / (16/9) ) Maik P.S.: for non-physicists: (55 / 73,333 = (4/3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-04 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Arvid, AnMaster schrieb am 04.01.2008 23:13: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 My resoltion is 1400x1280, not 4:3 nor 16:9 ? but you also have to consider window borders. Not sure how large they are, however the screenshots I took at www.flightgear.org (A10-KNID-01 for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Funfly.

2008-01-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Curt, thank you very much for this great event. Unfortunately my hardware forced me to be a spectator (due to thermal problems my notebook throttles down after some minutes of flightgear; I need to clean the cooling system again. And I am thinking about buying a new computer). What could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Funfly.

2008-01-01 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Curt, Curtis Olson schrieb am 01.01.2008 21:54: A sailplane/soaring competition would be another fun one. Maybe we sign up a couple tow operators who stay busy towing people up, and then see who can stay aloft the longest. Sounds great. E. g. build teams with one tow aircraft and one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] fix ATC chat

2007-12-31 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Stuart, Stuart Buchanan schrieb am 31.12.2007 14:39: I'm 90% sure that this is a side-effect of the problems we're having with MP servers, rather than the chat code itself (though there were certainly problems with the chat code before, so I could be wrong). ... Based on this, I think

Re: [Flightgear-devel] helicopters flight dinamics models

2007-12-27 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Veronica, veronica galli schrieb am 27.12.2007 11:14: Hello, I'm Veronica Galli, an Italian student of aerospace engineering. I'm trying to develope a good flight dinamics model for helicopters and I'm just watching FlightGear's ones. It sounds me that the only one which supports

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE water crashes or landing - a change in design principle and default is suggested

2007-12-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Shad Young schrieb am 26.12.2007 10:00: GWMobile wrote: You are really missing the point. What I am saying is no one interested in reality is going to land on water in the first place so the people who would expect a crash indication won't be doing the landing anyway. Well,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2007-12-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Syd, what's about an algorithm, which checks the ratio of the screen and sets fow to 55 for 4:3 screens and 70 for 16:9 screens? (55 / 70 = (4/3) / (16/9) ) Maik P.S.: for non-physicists: (55 / 73,333 = (4/3) / (16/9) ) SydSandy schrieb am 26.12.2007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE water crashes or landing - a change in design principle and default is suggested

2007-12-25 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, GWMobile schrieb am 25.12.2007 14:57: The original post quoted below exemplifies why I beleive it is a mistake to ever have crash detection for water in a flight sim however let me lay it out simply. 1. Anyone who lands on water in a flight sim knows they are doing it. It is highly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The north pole is gone

2007-12-24 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Gerard, gerard robin schrieb am 24.12.2007 01:14: BTW: i could not use the c172 because mine makes difference between water and solid Cheers Yes, all YASim aircrafts do. But while the default scenery looks like water it is marked as solid. Therfore you can land on water everywhere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and snapshots)

2007-12-21 Thread Maik Justus
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maik Justus Sent: 18 December 2007 23:12 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and snapshots) Hi Viviam, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 18.12.2007 23:41: I've just a few moments ago added

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 Gallery Page

2007-12-19 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Curtis Olson schrieb am 19.12.2007 01:19: On Dec 18, 2007 5:21 PM, Maik Justus wrote: Heikos page is now working for me with also some other screenshots (worth to be in the gallerie, too): http://www.hoerbird.net/index.htm Hi, right now I still cannot connect ... would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 Gallery Page

2007-12-19 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Gerard, gerard robin schrieb am 19.12.2007 14:44: Here Osprey with rotors all folded up, on elevator http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/Osprey_on_carrier.jpg I only got huge difficulties because, when the elevator get down ( mid position) the blades suddenly fall down ??? The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 Gallery Page

2007-12-19 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Gerard, gerard robin schrieb am 19.12.2007 15:51: On mer 19 décembre 2007, Maik Justus wrote: Hi Gerard, gerard robin schrieb am 19.12.2007 14:44: Here Osprey with rotors all folded up, on elevator http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/Osprey_on_carrier.jpg I only got huge

[Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and snapshots)

2007-12-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 18.12.2007 00:27: Maik wrote Hi, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 17.12.2007 02:18: * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 17 December 2007: Just now (!!!) remembering Torsten's Dragonfly banner-trick (!!!) which is pretty similar: Yes,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pushback

2007-12-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Gijs, Gijs de Rooy schrieb am 18.12.2007 22:09: Hi folks, I did a lot of work last week on a pushback truck model. The model is done, the steering is working (could be better) but we still need the possibility to push/pull planes. Please see the forum page for some more info and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and snapshots)

2007-12-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Viviam, Vivian Meazza schrieb am 18.12.2007 23:41: I've just a few moments ago added a few lines of code to AIBallistic which apply an external force (using the same math as above). The rest works as before. I just need few properties to set the magnitude and vector of the external force

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 Gallery Page

2007-12-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hi James, James A. Treacy schrieb am 19.12.2007 00:02: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:15:24PM -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: Here is a prototype for the v1.0 Gallery: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/tmp/v1.0/ I've taken the best of the pictures that were submitted on the mailing list and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 Gallery Page

2007-12-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hi AJ MacLeod schrieb am 18.12.2007 23:33: On Tuesday 18 December 2007 22:15:24 Curtis Olson wrote: 4. Do we have a nice outside view of a glider or two? Heiko's ASK looks very nice though, and he has some very good screenshots of it too - hopefully he will reappear with them

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and snapshots)

2007-12-17 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 17.12.2007 02:18: * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 17 December 2007: Just now (!!!) remembering Torsten's Dragonfly banner-trick (!!!) which is pretty similar: Yes, it's clearly a job for Maik's winch/anchor feature. He has already lifted me via MP: I was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and movies)

2007-12-17 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Heiko, Heiko Schulz schrieb am 17.12.2007 16:46: Hi, for all, who are interested: I also did a video starring the EC 135 ÖAMTC in her natural environment! you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkeApfVUnVk or here: www.hoerbird.net/index.htm Have fun HHS very good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads page update

2007-12-17 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Curt, could you please delete the as350 and the bell206 from the download page? Both have no 3D-model and a very poor FDM. The hornet and the fk9mk2 are done by Emmanuel Baranger (3D) and me (FDM). Melchior: Whats about changing the bo105 status from beta to production? Best regards, Maik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiplayer generic properties

2007-12-10 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Melchior, Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 10.12.2007 19:32: Note that loops/listeners that were started in nasalload have to be stopped/removed in nasalunload! Otherwise they will keep running (which is a feature), and you might accumulate them over time. The bo105 does that correctly, the v22

[Flightgear-devel] The Release: Whats New

2007-12-10 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, there are two What's New lists in the wiki: http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Changes_since_0.9.10 and http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=FlightGear_pre-release_changelog_summary Which one will be used as the official What's new list? I would

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