Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 19:32 +0300, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: I may be completely wrong - but local weather creates clouds by Nasal, ac3d models and a few dedicated shaders - how should that affect a completely different system? In theory it could, by altering the properties that affect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-15 Thread James Turner
On 11 Aug 2010, at 17:32, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: Which changes? I may be completely wrong - but local weather creates clouds by Nasal, ac3d models and a few dedicated shaders - how should that affect a completely different system? This is far more likely to be my fault, than yours

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-14 Thread thorsten . i . renk
However, reverting those changes didn't seem to have any effect. Has anyone managed to find a solution to this? -Stuart Just a guess- could it be that changes made for the alternative clouds system introduced it? Which changes? Back when the effect was reported here for the first time,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-12 Thread syd adams
While Im not positive this is the problem ... I noticed these lines in cloud.cxx starting at line 706: if (sp_dist 0) { bx = cos((180.0-direction) * SGD_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) * sp_dist; by = sin((180.0-direction) * SGD_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) * sp_dist; } I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-12 Thread syd adams
nope still broken :( On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: While Im not positive this is the problem ... I noticed these lines in cloud.cxx starting at line 706: if (sp_dist 0) { bx = cos((180.0-direction) * SGD_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) *

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 Aug 2010, at 00:40, Stuart Buchanan wrote: This was re-factored to get rid of some old vector calculations by James: http://gitorious.org/fg/simgear/commit/aa859c488f21d0b1f8d54c657e23a738dcadacca From a code read of the diffs, I think the course for the viewer movement was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-11 Thread Heiko Schulz
However, reverting those changes didn't seem to have any effect. Has anyone managed to find a solution to this? -Stuart Just a guess- could it be that changes made for the alternative clouds system introduced it?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-11 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Heiko Schulz Just a guess- could it be that changes made for the alternative clouds system introduced it? I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with it. However, I have tracked it down to simgear/scene/sky/clouds.cxx SGCloudLayer::reposition(), which sets new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-11 Thread syd adams
Im just thinking out loud , but why would cloud movement take into account viewer movement ? Cheers On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Heiko Schulz Just a guess- could it be that changes made for the alternative clouds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-10 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:03 AM, syd adams 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 , unless a mountain peak

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-22 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the links , I'll do some reading tonight . I was just a surprised because I hadn't seen it mentioned on the dev-list . Or I just missed that one maybe :) Cheers On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:01 AM, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: Glad to know it's just not me. I wonder if it has anything

[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] 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] 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] 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