Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Wednesday 29 November 2006 05:24: I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. Exactly. I can't imagine to take part in forum based development. Is this anything that is worth exploring? No. Is it worth having both options available? Not that I knew.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs + gaia (google earch client) = moving map

2006-11-29 Thread Rob Oates
Here is a good alternative http://www.alpix.com/3d/worldwin/WW2d_Java.html its a Java JOGL 3D client that uses the Nasa World Wind images and data. -Rob On 11/25/06, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:41:36 +0100, Melchior wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Curtis Olson wrote: Now that I am hosting the FlightGear web site with a commercial hosting service, it becomes quite easy to setup online forums using phpBB2. I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the FlightGear community will be decisively split between

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Jon Stockill
Stuart Buchanan wrote: So, my tuppence worth: - Have a structure user forum, and possibly wind down the -user list in the future. I'd disagree - if anything you should create another mailing list to gate the forum messages to. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Leidson Campos A. Ferreira
For FlightGear developers. I think a good idea keep development discussions into mailing lists, because this way is driven to developers only. Maybe with a forum, questions with no relevance, help developers give no focus to important development questions. For end users For end users, forum

[Flightgear-devel] FGMap, Google Earth style

2006-11-29 Thread Pigeon
Hi all, Just quickly knocked up a google earth version of FGMap. It doesn't do much right now, nothing fancy at the moment, just a first proof of concept. http://pigeond.net/flightgear/mpmap02-5000.kml Just use google earth to open that file and it should work. It automatically

[Flightgear-devel] Ads by Google .... on the FlightGear main web page

2006-11-29 Thread Martin Spott
Curt, I honour the fact that hosting the FlightGear servers costs you areal money and that a common way to fund this is by placing advertising on the web pages. This is ok for me as long as the ads somehow relate to the FlightGear project. Today my browser was redirected from the large frame

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Josh Babcock
Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/28/06, Ron Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this is the biggest argument against forums. They're only accessable when the server is up This is similar with email lists ... you can only post and receive postings when the list server is running and configured

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon Stockill wrote: Stuart Buchanan wrote: So, my tuppence worth: - Have a structure user forum, and possibly wind down the -user list in the future. I'd disagree - if anything you should create another mailing list to gate the forum messages to. Of course, at some point in the future

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ads by Google .... on the FlightGear main web page

2006-11-29 Thread Josh Babcock
Martin Spott wrote: Curt, I honour the fact that hosting the FlightGear servers costs you areal money and that a common way to fund this is by placing advertising on the web pages. This is ok for me as long as the ads somehow relate to the FlightGear project. Today my browser was

[Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Alex Perry
I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the FlightGear community will be decisively split between forums versus mailing lists if I ask people's preferences ... so I'm not expecting a consensus here. Is this anything that is worth exploring? I'd also hate to look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:27:29 -0800, Alex wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the FlightGear community will be decisively split between forums versus mailing lists if I ask people's preferences ... so I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Sikorsky-76C S76c.xml, 1.1, 1.2

2006-11-29 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Syd, I have tried to adjust the rotor parameters to fit the real heli. Unfortunately I have only very few data for the s76c, therefore I have changed only some geometric data an changed the rpm to get the same tip-speed as the bo. The geometric data is from a poor scaled drawing of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG point lights

2006-11-29 Thread Curtis Olson
On 11/28/06, Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, not so great. At SFO at night in the UFO I see a decrease from about 60fps with the existing lights to 43 with the OSG version. I suspect the slowdown is very dependent on processor speed; I hadn't noticed it on another computer using the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Curt, I prefer the mailing list. I think there are much tot little contributions for splitting the topics in a forum (how many contributors we have?). Up to now it's no problem to have the survey of all contributions. If someone prefer the thread-sorted view: we have it on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Tracker Bug

2006-11-29 Thread Gabor Toth
Hi, I've checked the data stored in the tracker DB for the flight mentioned below. It was continous, without the zig-zag. Then I've checked the algorythm I use to reduce the number of segments displayed for the flight path. It woks well. The bug is likely in Google's code. Pigeon: Is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Tracker Bug

2006-11-29 Thread Pigeon
Pigeon: Is there a way to send Google bug reports about Google map API? Normally people simply post onto the GMAPI's discussion group. And just when I'm searching around the group I found these:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG point lights

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/28/06, Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, not so great. At SFO at night in the UFO I see a decrease from about 60fps with the existing lights to 43 with the OSG version. I suspect the slowdown is very dependent on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG point lights

2006-11-29 Thread Tim Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Moore wrote: I have a new patch at http://www.bricoworks.com/moore/lightpt2.diff Try http://www.bricoworks.com/moore/lightpt3.diff instead. A last-minute typo disabled point sprites. Tim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Tracker Bug

2006-11-29 Thread Gabor Toth
Hi,   Thanx for the hint. I've modified the code to split polylines whenever path crosses lon=0 or lon=180 border. Now it looks better. Regards, Gabor On Thursday 30 November 2006 00:28, Pigeon wrote: Pigeon: Is there a way to send Google bug reports about Google map API? Normally

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Tracker Bug

2006-11-29 Thread Toth Gabor
Hi, Thanx for the hint. I've modified the code to split polylines whenever path crosses lon=-180/180 border. Regards, Gabor On Thursday 30 November 2006 00:28, Pigeon wrote: Pigeon: Is there a way to send Google bug reports about Google map API? Normally people simply post onto the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Using FG for class presentation

2006-11-29 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
We had the presentation today and it went extremely well. Althought FlightGear was only ran for some 2 minutes to show the flight profile of the Concorde, the simulation made the presentation a whole lot more interesting. Much thanks to those who have provided help over the past few days. :)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:29, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:27:29 -0800, Alex wrote in message I'd also hate to look in two places. On the other hand, changing how we present the mailing list archives so they look like a forum _and_ allow replying if you have logged

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Curtis Olson
On 11/29/06, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:29, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:27:29 -0800, Alex wrote in message I'd also hate to look in two places. On the other hand, changing how we present the mailing list archives so they look like a forum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Curt wrote: I just realize I have said absolutely nothing. :-) I think I'm going to let them run just a bit longer and then maybe we can an idea if enough people think they are useful and are using them. If the community is split into two different camps, communication is going to suffer,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Curtis Olson
On 11/29/06, Jon S. Berndt wrote: If the community is split into two different camps, communication is going to suffer, plain and simple. I can receive email wherever I am and reply or not. I can set up filters and rules in my email program to sort the email posts. If the mails to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Jon S. Berndt
On 11/29/06, Jon S. Berndt wrote: If the community is split into two different camps, communication is going to suffer, plain and simple. I can receive email wherever I am and reply or not. I can set up filters and rules in my email program to sort the email posts. If the mails to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Dene
Jon S. Berndt wrote: On 11/29/06, *Jon S. Berndt* wrote: If the community is split into two different camps, communication is going to suffer, plain and simple. I can receive email wherever I am and reply or not. I can set up filters and rules in my email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG point lights

2006-11-29 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:36, Tim Moore wrote: Try http://www.bricoworks.com/moore/lightpt3.diff instead. A last-minute typo disabled point sprites. This is still faster with point sprites reenabled? I do not want to remove the old implementation that was happening completely on the GPU

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Wednesday 29 November 2006 05:24, Curtis Olson wrote: Now that I am hosting the FlightGear web site with a commercial hosting service, it becomes quite easy to setup online forums using phpBB2. I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums integration thought

2006-11-29 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Thursday 30 November 2006 06:20, Jon S. Berndt wrote: Curt wrote: I just realize I have said absolutely nothing. :-) I think I'm going to let them run just a bit longer and then maybe we can an idea if enough people think they are useful and are using them. If the community is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:48, Josh Babcock wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/28/06, Ron Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this is the biggest argument against forums. They're only accessable when the server is up This is similar with email lists ... you can only post and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG issue 'transparent SenecaII' fixed

2006-11-29 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:11, Torsten Dreyer wrote: I have fixed the transparent SenecaII to work with the osg and plib versions of fg. The problem was that the prop-discs were using the same material as many other surfaces. The prop-discs get partly transparent by texture and by