Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen.nas FONT size

2012-02-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Curt, add text include=text.xml/ to you aircraft's model file, place text.xml in the same directory as you aircraft's model file and see hello, world! written in huge letters 20m in front of you aircraft. Torsten PropertyList !-- It should have a name. Can be used for other

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - January 2012

2012-02-01 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Happy new year everyone! The first FlightGear newsletter of 2012 features the upcoming release of course, but besides that we've collected a bunch of interesting topics. Ranging from a unique paragliding simulator to more realistic looking skies. Enjoy! Contributions for next month's

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - January 2012

2012-02-01 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Sorry for the inconvenience, made a mistake in the link ;) Happy new year everyone! The first Flightgear newsletter of 2012 features the upcoming release of course, but besides that we've collected a bunch of interesting topics. Ranging from a unique paragliding simulator to more

[Flightgear-devel] new Cessna Altimeter

2012-02-01 Thread Stephan Bourgeois
Hello everybody, I have been working on a new version of the Cessna Altimeter with the dual unit Kollsman window. This is to scale with the best photograph I have of such instrument. However I would like to play with the line thickness and the font to improve the legibility. Also, to match the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new Cessna Altimeter

2012-02-01 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
Hey. Would this be helpful? http://gallery.tigert.com/gallery/gauges/aab?full=1 The photo was taken by me years ago and I can license it as GPL if you want. Feel free to use it as a texture if you find it helpful. Btw, we had QNH of 1055 hPa last week and the local aviation forum discussions had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new Cessna Altimeter

2012-02-01 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
Oops. Looks like my old gallery site is unreliable. http://koti.kapsi.fi/tigert/altimeter.jpg That's the same image, sorry for the bad url. //T On 1 February 2012 22:56, Tuomas Kuosmanen tuomas.kuosma...@gmail.comwrote: Hey. Would this be helpful?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LaRCsim broken?

2012-02-01 Thread D-NXKT
Hello Fred, I have managed compiling LaRCsim. ENABLE_LARCSIM:BOOL=ON and ENABLE_UIUC_MODEL:BOOL=ON are the required settings. Everything works fine! Thanks for your help! Regards D-NXKT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new Cessna Altimeter

2012-02-01 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
Actually, heck. I have some more too, if someone finds them useful. These were taken from a piper sales promo event at our airport in 2003 (time flies... :-)) where they promoted the new piper Saratoga and Archer. They are the new interior/panel style but pre-GarminG1000 age. So, kinda recent

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Mac OS X 2.6.0-RC1 has been released

2012-02-01 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi there, Mac version of FG 2.6.0-RC1 has been finally released. Please download the package from the link below and give it a try. http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/downloads/ Feedbacks and bug reports are very welcome. Note for users: - In-sim menu shows on the Mac menu bar at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new Cessna Altimeter

2012-02-01 Thread Stephan Bourgeois
Yes Tuomas, all these photos are good reference for texture artists. I am giving the link to the gallery mentioned in my last post, the last 3 photos are relevant: https://picasaweb.google.com/115739205390457019398/FlightGear And a direct link to the dual unit baro scale: