Re: [Flightgear-devel] lamp-post appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: 1) I closed the bug-tracker issue concerning the taxiway signs. That's all good. 2) Alas there are other scenery elements that still exhibit an improper dependence on camera tilt angle. Example: http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/img48/pole-dark.png in contrast to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lamp-post appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-15 Thread James Sleeman
Could the poster be referring to the pole in the middle distance on the right directly above the compass, it changes from bright whites into greys, or even transparence. Pretty subtle. I have a hard time seeing any difference between the two images.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lamp-post appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-15 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- James Sleeman a écrit : Could the poster be referring to the pole in the middle distance on the right directly above the compass, it changes from bright whites into greys, or even transparence. Pretty subtle. I have a hard time seeing any difference between the two images. This

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple --generic record/playback errors

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Brown
As noted by John in February, but I did not see it addressed in this thread, is the chase view issue in 2.0. (chase view does not follow heading, and if you select chase while in a turn the viewpoint holds that angle until you leave the viewpoint) I sincerely hope it's not a feature, as there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple --generic record/playback errors

2010-03-15 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Peter Brown wrote: As noted by John in February, but I did not see it addressed in this thread, is the chase view issue in 2.0. (chase view does not follow heading, and if you select chase while in a turn the viewpoint holds that angle until you leave the viewpoint)

[Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hey folks, you won't belive that- but Flight Pro Sim releases a new version! Isn't it surprising? Did you know that many of the technologies used in FlightGear are the same within FlightProSim? And that this has many improved graphics as well as 3D clouds and cool water? And did you know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hey folks, you won't belive that- but Flight Pro Sim releases a new version! Isn't it surprising? Did you know that many of the technologies used in FlightGear are the same within FlightProSim? And that this has many improved graphics as well as 3D clouds and cool

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hey folks, you won't belive that- but Flight Pro Sim releases a new version! Isn't it surprising? Did you know that many of the technologies used in FlightGear are the same within FlightProSim? And that this has many improved graphics as well as 3D clouds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Heiko Schulz a écrit : Heiko Schulz wrote: Hey folks, you won't belive that- but Flight Pro Sim releases a new version! Isn't it surprising? Did you know that many of the technologies used in FlightGear are the same within FlightProSim? And that this has many

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Pete Morgan
One idea which I've used before, would be to create the flightprosim.flightgear.org subdomain. then link sites (eg wiki, 3rd party) to the subdomain. This gets it well up in the rankings and is easy to implement. When end up on that domain is a nice notice explaining what flightprosim. Also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
I did a bit of poking around FPS.com web site and found a download link on the disclaimer page (link: http://www.flightprosim.com/disclaimer/). The link to the download file sourcess.zip contains a snapshot of the wiki from October last year along with some interesting stuff.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Alan Teeder
Clickbank is an interesting site. See http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-basics/selling-basics/what-products-are-allowed/ Perhaps they should be advised that he is selling GPL software which includes material with copyright by many contributors. On the other hand they may

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple --generic record/playback errors

2010-03-15 Thread Pete Morgan
Is it the same as this bug Chase-view broken http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=99 pete Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Peter Brown wrote: As noted by John in February, but I did not see it addressed in this thread, is the chase view issue in 2.0.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: Heiko Schulz wrote: Hey folks, you won't belive that- but Flight Pro Sim releases a new version! Isn't it surprising? Did you know that many of the technologies used in FlightGear are the same within FlightProSim? And that this has many improved graphics as well as 3D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: That won't stop the fact that he already makes money with our work. And yes, I seriously believe that he is able to bring our project in danger. Making money is one thing; it's allowed by the GPL. Problem here seems that, while our project tries to do everything to keep it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, Fred wrote: I think the whole thread should be removed by the moderator. I see no point making him advertisement and letting the flames grow up. Has been done. Reason: we do not tolerate spam at our forums. No matter if that is some weird non-related software or a paid version of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:50:34 +0100, Erik wrote in message 4b9e655a.9050...@ehofman.com: Heiko Schulz wrote: That won't stop the fact that he already makes money with our work. And yes, I seriously believe that he is able to bring our project in danger. Making money is one thing; it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I think the whole thread should be removed by the moderator. I see no point making him advertisement and letting the flames grow up. Oh yes, I'm supportive of this procedure, also of installing a 'flightprosim.flightgear.org' page - which could get re-directed to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Martin Spott a écrit : Frederic Bouvier wrote: I think the whole thread should be removed by the moderator. I see no point making him advertisement and letting the flames grow up. Oh yes, I'm supportive of this procedure, also of installing a 'flightprosim.flightgear.org' page

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple --generic record/playback errors

2010-03-15 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: Is it the same as this bug Chase-view broken http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=99 Yes, it seems so. Cheers, Anders -- --- Anders Gidenstam WWW:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Reptile
I have noticed that one of the screens on their website uses my alternative summer textures which were partially made using Google Earth images hence they are not GNU-GPL (see my website http://flightgear.xf.cz ). I do not know how many problems I could have with Google corporation doing this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Curtis Olson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Frederic Bouvier fredfgf...@free.frwrote: What will happen if this guy creates a flightgear.flightprosim.com page ? We could only hope ... !!! Can we get in trouble ourselves for using his name? Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:04:35 +0100 (CET), Frederic wrote in message 29285847.3999171268669075452.javamail.r...@spooler4-g27.priv.proxad.net: - Heiko Schulz a écrit : Heiko Schulz wrote: Hey folks, you won't belive that- but Flight Pro Sim releases a new version! Isn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
wrote: What will happen if this guy creates a flightgear.flightprosim.com page ? We could only hope ... !!! Can we get in trouble ourselves for using his name? Curt. -- Yes! And I don't like this idea. It won't help but starts a war, which we maybe can't win.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Frederic Bouvier fredfgf...@free.fr mailto:fredfgf...@free.fr wrote: What will happen if this guy creates a flightgear.flightprosim.com http://flightgear.flightprosim.com page ? We could only hope ... !!! Can we get in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread David Megginson
This kind of thing happens sometimes -- not much we can do unless we want to spend tens of thousands of $$ going to court, so there's no point getting stressed. I did go to Google Sidewiki and leave a comment on the page, so that anyone using the Google toolbar or a sidewiki add-on in their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Heiko Schulz
Btw: Blender has more or less the same problem- and it seems from the design of the webpage, that is the same company. Blender were able to fight against successfully last year. But this year they are back.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread kyle keevill
That's un-believable, but he's done his research, the license allows you to sell it =/ He obviously did his research and found a loophole. It's a shame that someone would go the great lengths to actually do something as immoral as this. On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Heiko Schulz wrote: Btw:

[Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread James Sleeman
This guy sure does waste a lot of time for FG developers to discuss this every few months :-( One thing that has struck me that could be done, is to have a welcome message broadcast to the user on the MP chat when players connect, for example something like... Welcome to FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Pete Morgan
Just sent an email to New Zealand open Source and got this reply, pete Hello Peter, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Please recognise that the GPL does not in any way preclude people from packaging up and selling a software application *so long as they comply with the terms of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread syd adams
I have to agree that much can't be done . I hate to see it removed from the forum , flame war or not , since keeping as much information out there as possible might keep a few some being conned . Cheers -- Download

[Flightgear-devel] Bug report - crash

2010-03-15 Thread Michael A. K. Gross
Just upgraded to the latest CVS (I try to do that). I found a bug that may be difficult to find at random -- the ground.cxx bombed out with the following message: unable to find path to runway threshold in ground.cxx for airport KEMT followed by the dreaded unknown exception in main loop. I'm

[Flightgear-devel] Interesting glider model...

2010-03-15 Thread Gene Buckle
http://home.att.net/~m--sandlin/bug.htm This gent is having some issues getting an accurate flight model for his gliders in X-Plane. Apparently cruise speed is 20kts. Anyone care to give this a shot? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interesting glider model...

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:23 -0700, Gene Buckle wrote: http://home.att.net/~m--sandlin/bug.htm This gent is having some issues getting an accurate flight model for his gliders in X-Plane. Apparently cruise speed is 20kts. Anyone care to give this a shot? g. I know not of this

[Flightgear-devel] Microsoft C++ exception: FP_Inactive

2010-03-15 Thread 乌兰巴根
Hi guys: I ever successfully build and run the flightgear-1.9.1 under WindowsXP by MSVC90. It is a great work and very interesting. Last week I download the source packege of flightgear-2.0.0. Build the source of flightgear is OK, but when step to debug, there is an exception: First-chance