Re: [Flightgear-devel] Key Bindings

2013-03-06 Thread Vic Marriott
Vic, I think you missed a key line in my original email Guilty as charged M'lud. -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Key Bindings

2013-03-03 Thread Vic Marriott
James said, 'What I'd like to see is the entire 'Ctrl' (Command on Mac) space reserved for GUI functions, like a normal application - Ctrl-Q for quit, Ctrl-M for map dialog, Ctrl-A for autopilot dialog, Ctrl-R for replay dialog (or radios dialog :) - then have a complete discussion about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear branch

2012-09-10 Thread Vic Marriott
I'm sure someone will put me straight if I am talking rubbish, but aren't you using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? There are only 6 .xml files which contain these 'global' settings: Models/Airport/Jetway/jetway-737-ba.xml Models/Airport/Jetway/jetway-747-ba.xml

[Flightgear-devel] www.whenthunderrolled.com

2012-06-19 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi All, I received this today. It is a commercial venture, so I don't feel inclined to contribute directly. Has anyone else been contacted by them? This bit keep between us of course made me feel like a child being groomed for nefarious reasons. Cheers, Vic Hi Vic, We know it might be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An empassioned plea

2012-04-26 Thread Vic Marriott
Bj?rn Kesten said, I don't want no friggin' wizard to tell me what I can or can't do... ;) Is this a wind-up, or what. How can a simple request for developers to optimise their coding on new improvements end up with statements like this? I was hoping this thread had served it's purpose and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An empassioned plea

2012-04-23 Thread Vic Marriott
Personally, I'd build the best white-box machine I could afford and throw Linux on it. Hi Gene, Once again the point is being missed. Things like food and shelter are higher up the finances queue than another computer set-up. Those of you who can afford such luxuries might like to have a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An empassioned plea

2012-04-22 Thread Vic Marriott
a Mac Pro can get periodic upgrades just like any other PC or Linux box. As I hinted before Gene, those of us on limited budgets can't really justify the spend for a Mac Pro. Erik, You are forgiven :0) James, I think you have an advantage in that you run Linux on your Mac, so you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An empassioned plea

2012-04-19 Thread Vic Marriott
Erik said, Advances in quality always requires more resources. Period. If your hardware doesn't support it, bad for you but be grateful FlightGear at least provides an option to turn to less nifty rendering. I don't want to appear unappreciative, but for the last 3 releases I have been in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An empassioned plea

2012-04-18 Thread Vic Marriott
It's probably not so much about memory consuming but more about resource consuming. But be assured that most new options are easily turned off. Sorry, but I think the point is being missed here. Where is the sense in making very impressive advancements to FG, if the average user has to turn

[Flightgear-devel] An empassioned plea

2012-04-13 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi, More and more, the FG forums are showing that the most recent improvements, added to the existing code, are too memory consuming for operation on anything less than a high powered, up-to-date, well equipped computer. Though I, and probably most other FG users, am delighted that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sun Light placement

2011-08-19 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi All, Thanks for the astronomy lesson. I will try to not ask any more silly questions. Durk's explanation illustrated the point so well that even I could understand it. :0) Mind you, the information you have all given me means any Country Music or Cowboy films, which refer to the Sun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery models

2011-07-26 Thread Vic Marriott
Jon Stockill wrote: I've recently hacked together a script to run some checks over the models in the scenery database looking for common problems. So far it's looking for missing textures, and textures with the wrong dimensions. The output can be found here:

[Flightgear-devel] Subject: Exporting .ac files from Blender

2010-03-10 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi Andrew, I think you are going too deep. The problem happens when you import the file. The textures are not imported with it. The same applies if you import to Blender with the intention of exporting it to a third party application like Sketchup. The textures are lost, though plain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-21 Thread Vic Marriott
That all depends on the font license. Commercial font licenses can and do dictate how the font can be used. Best to use free (libre) fonts where possible to avoid the problem totally I expect... Surely, what is being presented is an image. There is no need for whoever sees the image to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-19 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi Erik, I think the proposed splash screens are excellent except for http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/Splash3.png 2 things just don't seem right: 1. The rain/snow, which we FG users know is brilliant, might give the impression of a poor quality picture. 2. Because of the angle the pic

[Flightgear-devel] winner Softonic Awards 2009

2010-01-27 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi, Curt said maybe I should post their banner and link so we get more votes for the free car? :-) I read the following to mean their voters entered a draw for the car. From October 6th, 2009 until November 30th, 2009 all Softonic users were able to vote for their favourite candidate and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim Statement

2009-12-14 Thread Vic Marriott
I hate to be the one to shout about bad English, but FlightGear is either 'Free', or you can download it 'for nothing'. Please don't say 'for free'. Cheers, Vic -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays

[Flightgear-devel] Re;Emission animation broken?

2009-06-11 Thread Vic Marriott
Are you referring to the ambient material changes ? I don't think so. I am trying to use particular seconds to switch illuminations on or off. Would it help if I showed the actual code I am using? Vic -- Crystal

[Flightgear-devel] Emission animation broken?

2009-06-10 Thread Vic Marriott
Hi All, Is there any work being done to fix the lack of 'Emission Animation'? Currently, to test any animated models which use /sim/time/utc/ second, I have to resort to version 1.0.0. In view of the way things are being changed as FG progresses, it would be a shame if this previously