[Flightgear-devel] [OT] The real Hansa Jet on the road again

2010-01-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, as some of you might be aware of, I made a model of a HFB 320 Hansa Jet some time ago for FlightGear. HFB is the acronym for Hamburger Flugzeug Bau, a predecessor for AIRBUS. A group of aviation enthusiasts in Hamburg acquired the probably last available aircraft of this type to restore it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoundSystem on MacOS

2010-01-24 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jan 2010, at 07:59, Erik Hofman wrote: Fly-by views are *not* okay for me, but I must point out (before Erik gets annoyed) that I am running a few days behind CVS due to hacking on other areas of the code. I'll pull now and report back. You're trying to get me a heart attack, don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BugFix - Re: Bugs: 787

2010-01-24 Thread leee
On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: After following the link below.. here is the fix. Not sure what it does, but took a stab at replacing the ax=13.6. The model looks fins in the views.. +++ b/787.xml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Mach 1 = 576.6 kt @ 35,000 ft -- width=5.9 taper=0.62/ fuselage

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: Eye catching graphics in 2.0.0 / Splash screen update

2010-01-24 Thread S Andreason
Durk Talsma wrote: Secondly, because the new splash screen was so distinctly different, it seems a good idea to me to update the splash screens for all our default aircraft. After all, these screens are going to be the first visual impression of the new version. Preferably somebody with

[Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Olivier JACQ
Hi all, Is anyone of you experiencing this while starting up at KSFO : Failed to load file: Models/Airport/water-tower-150-red-white.xml osgDB ac3d reader: could not find texture Google_Earth_Snapshot3.jpg osgDB ac3d reader: could not find texture Google_Earth_Snapshot2.jpg osgDB ac3d reader:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Olivier wrote: Is anyone of you experiencing this while starting up at KSFO : Hi Olivier, these errors should be gone since yesterday (right Martin?). Please try to redownload the scenery tile and see if that helps. Cheers, Gijs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The real Hansa Jet on the road again

2010-01-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Jan 2010, at 10:23, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Enjoy some pictures of the voyage here: http://blog.hansajet.de/archives/category/auf-nach-finkenwerder Fantastich! James -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
Olivier JACQ wrote: Is anyone of you experiencing this while starting up at KSFO : Might either be caused by pulling from CVS in the middle of two commits - or a technical fault at my end. I've flown around this region for a while before pushing to CVS whithout getting any Errors, but I'll do a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: Olivier wrote: Is anyone of you experiencing this while starting up at KSFO : these errors should be gone since yesterday (right Martin?). Please try to redownload the scenery tile and see if that helps. Actually I tried to avoid this sort of errors by a) flying around

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Olivier JACQ
Ok I switched from Terrasync and use CVS insted to get the new KSFO tile, and everything is fine. Thanks ! Another strange thing: I have problems with 3D clouds in KSFO, looks like it is due to : PNG lib warning : Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk PNG lib warning : Profile size

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Olivier wrote: PNG lib warning : Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk PNG lib warning : Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk Could you try if replacing Objects/w130n30/w123n37/KSFO_AirTrain_1.png with the attached file, fixes the problem? It did got rid of the error on my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread syd adams
While on the subject of scenery , I get this when trying to start at SDDF , or approach EDDF: Failed to load file: Models/Airport/eddf_blast_deflector_generic.xml Failed to load file: Models/Airport/eddf_blast_deflector_high.xml Failed to load file: Models/Airport/eddf_blast_deflector_low.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Gijs de Rooy wrote: Olivier wrote: Is anyone of you experiencing this while starting up at KSFO : these errors should be gone since yesterday (right Martin?). Please try to redownload the scenery tile and see if that helps. Actually I tried to avoid this sort of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BugFix - Re: Bugs: 787

2010-01-24 Thread Pete Morgan
leee wrote: On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: After following the link below.. here is the fix. Not sure what it does, but took a stab at replacing the ax=13.6. The model looks fins in the views.. +++ b/787.xml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Mach 1 = 576.6 kt @ 35,000 ft -- width=5.9

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Yup, I took the freedom to rename two files because with the former version we were having two different AC3D files (one for the train and one for the track) carrying identical names ;-) Ah, that sounds fine ;) Thanks, Gijs OVER and OUT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread syd adams
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.netwrote: syd adams wrote: While on the subject of scenery , I get this when trying to start at SDDF , or approach EDDF: [...] I haven't updated anything for a week , could be the problem . Apparently you've been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
syd adams wrote: Guess I should have been clearer ... I use Terrasync , but assumed all related scenery content was also downloaded with it ... I haven't updated the base package in a while. The Objects/- and Models/-directories inside the TerraSync repository are in sync with each other. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: --prop:/sim/paths/use-custom-scenery-data=true then it's going to fetch the required model files from the TerraSync location as well, no matter if the directory names differ from those in CVS or not. I'm uncertain wether the above flag is enabled by default or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-24 Thread syd adams
Ok thanks , never tried the use-custom-scenery-data option , I'll give that a try... once Ive finished compiling todays updates . On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.netwrote: Martin Spott wrote: --prop:/sim/paths/use-custom-scenery-data=true then it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The real Hansa Jet on the road again

2010-01-24 Thread Victhor
I s want to do that as well! :D Let's all get some money and buy an old VASP 727-200 that's parked at our airport, SBRF! :D (There's a 737-200 too, if you're interested. Also SBBR(not SBRF) has a Transbrasil 767(flew on one of those twice), not sure if it's still there, it was the last time I

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-24 Thread Pete Morgan
I'm having a successful time tuning my first autopilot on the 787. I've managed to get rid of the jerks and wobbles, mainly by using a noise-spike filter with max-rate-of-change. That thanks to Syd Adams for that wonderful tip. All flight level changes, and NAV, heading can be tuned very