Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-16 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
of Transportation also known as rm...@umd.edu From: syd adams adams@gmail.com To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:17:23 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-15 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:12:27 AM Subject: Fw: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request... Syd et al -- Me: I'll also see what I can come up with by way of my own solutions. I actually have hacked together an ATC version that (in my own opinion, of course

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-15 Thread syd adams
It's looking good so far ... I haven't tested it yet myself , but if the guidelines are a separate texture , you can have them clipped my making the instrument the same dimensions as the radar screen ... cheers -- Let

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-09 Thread Stuart Buchanan
syd adams wrote: That might be best . I know very little about what information a real scope displays , and intercepting a radial is the pilots job , so I dont know if I can bring myself to add that line ;). I was at a fly-in to an RAF base last week, which included a tour of their tower.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-09 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request... syd adams wrote: That might be best . I know very little about what information a real scope displays , and intercepting a radial is the pilots job , so I dont know if I can bring myself to add that line ;). I was at a fly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-09 Thread syd adams
Sounds like you guys know far more about the subject than I do . I'll see what I can do . The simplest idea I had was to overlay another transparent texture with a single line that could be rotated to the runway heading , but I dont know if that's suitable. Maybe a property enabled line could be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-09 Thread Vivian Meazza
Stuart Buchanan wrote syd adams wrote: That might be best . I know very little about what information a real scope displays , and intercepting a radial is the pilots job , so I dont know if I can bring myself to add that line ;). I was at a fly-in to an RAF base last week, which

[Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-08 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
Hello, Syd and Jester... How easy/difficult would it be to add a small detail to the radar scope view, which would be extended centerlines for the runways? Trying to use version 2 today, I ran into difficulty giving good localizer intercepts just trying to eyeball the extended lines,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-08 Thread syd adams
I think I know what your looking for , dont know if I like the idea , but it shouldn't be too difficult. You can tint the view from the menu to darken it so the screen info displays clearer ... what about another step to blackout the background view completely? What comes to mind is a line from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-08 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
, August 8, 2009 6:06:12 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request... I think I know what your looking for , dont know if I like the idea , but it shouldn't be too difficult. You can tint the view from the menu to darken it so the screen info displays clearer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer ATC aircraft, feature request...

2009-08-08 Thread syd adams
That might be best . I know very little about what information a real scope displays , and intercepting a radial is the pilots job , so I dont know if I can bring myself to add that line ;). I know , Im sure you mean this as a training tool, and I'll play around with ideas , but I'd be interested