Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- 11/5/2008 3:20 PM: What is the proper mechanism for calling nasal initialization code in an aircraft specific nasal file. settimer() and setlistener(sim/signals/fdm-initialized), or just put it on the top level, where it's run late enough for most purposes. I see that core

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Ron Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... I've been playing with xfoil a little trying to hone my aerodynamics knowledge... I've also been working with DATCOM+ a bit for the same purpose, but DATCOM isn't good for low reynolds numbers, so I don't know what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: Let me see if I can get you some detailed information if you are interested in playing around with this. I know that flying wings are a very popular platform in the small UAS world, so I'd love to have more examples of these in FlightGear.

[Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Curtis Olson
What is the proper mechanism for calling nasal initialization code in an aircraft specific nasal file. I see that core nasal code sets a listener on /sim/signals/nasal-dir-initialized however, I don't really care when the nasal-dir is initialized for aircraft specific code since it doesn't live

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Csaba Halász
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the proper mechanism for calling nasal initialization code in an aircraft specific nasal file. I see that core nasal code sets a listener on /sim/signals/nasal-dir-initialized however, I don't really care when the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: What is the proper mechanism for calling nasal initialization code in an aircraft specific nasal file. I see that core nasal code sets a listener on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:24:34 -0600, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I really need to get my web site update with some pictures of our new airframe because it is super cool (a flying wing with blended body fuselage.) And I have a neat movie of it coming off the launcher (I put

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 20:24 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: What is the proper mechanism for calling nasal initialization code in an aircraft specific nasal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: Assuming we're talking about the Malolo1 as modeled in CVS, I looked at it the other day when I was looking for elevon examples. From the AC3D model the Malolo1 should maybe have elevons but the JSBSim flight model doesn't use them... Are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal initialization

2008-11-05 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 23:06 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: The new airframe has a *really* nice blended body center section. The wings plug in are are replacable. We have experimented with a couple airfoils, different wing areas, wing sweep, and