Hi all,
just pushed ratings for my vehicles to Git (wow, didn't know I had that many
(uninished) vehicles!
This year I didn't start new aircraft IIRC, I'm now finishing up my existing
ones instead, as I should
have done in the past years...). Anyway, I came across some issues with the
Vivian wrote:
Just how many systems are there – this must be a 4 as well?
So that would become 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 = 14 = early production. Good enough for
me J
My 2nd point wasn't about the Jetman ;)
But yeah, I do think the Cockpit might be a 4 rather than a 5 then. Will wait
for some more
Oliver wrote:
This guy is allready calling its product Microsoft Flight Simulator
2011, so he doesn't even care about the trademarks of Microsoft
products or its company name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SX56YCTc5M
Now that video IS a copyright violation. It is a copy of Oscar's
Interesting use of FlightGear!
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/05/braincontrol.html
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May is over, June is well on its way: time for another newsletter! Looks like
summer already started accross
the globe, given the slightly dissapointing number of contributions. I guess
being outside is in favour of sitting
behind a desk for must of us. :)
Still, a small group of people is
Hi Curt,
Is anyone else seeing this problem, or do I need to keep digging on my end?
Screenshots work fine with latest (and all preceding) Win32 build; April 29
build that is.
One thing that I could think of: enabling muti-threading mode in
preferences.xml. If you do
that, the screenshot
Hi all!
Another month just past by. I'm always amazed at how quickly 28,29,30 or 31
days pass by. But I'm even
more amazed by the number and quality of work that we, as a community, are able
to produce in that time!
And thanks to the people that contributed to the newsletter this month, we're
Martin Spott wrote:
Does any of the non-German crowd plan to serve as booth staff or attend
LinuxTag as a visitor ?
Do virtual visitors count? Hm, only if you'll have an internet connection at
the
booth of course...
Anyway, wish you all the best and lots of fun. From experience I can
Hi Geoff,
Then the next tab [HGT Chop] did a fantastic job of
setting up some_root/work/SRTM-30/chunk/tile/
index.fit.gz and arr.gz. Great stuff... must check what
terrafit parameters were used, since this greatly influences
the elevation mesh to be used...
Currently it doesn't set any
Hi Geoff
I then read and tried the windows TerraGUI.exe
(Gijs and others?), but it seems at the moment
this ONLY deals with .dat files from TaxiDraw,
and uses fgfs.exe to view a .btg file, or did I
get this wrong?
Are there any plans in extending this to a
more general TG GUI? And where
Hi everyone,
every end of the month when I pre-read the latest edition of the FlightGear
Newsletter, it is proven to me
that our community is not just alive, but booming! All those people working
on various parts of the sims;
it is always a pleasure to follow new developments.
As I've been
Hi,
with no doubt, question about view capture is not rare, but what
i've found, is that only solution which able to stream view image via
network is screenstreamer [ http://pigeond.net/flightgear/screenstreamer/ ]
patch and
now its outdated, and was never included neither in CVS tree
Hi Yves,
Yves wrote:
At the moment it is not cross-platform, unfortunately. I didn’t get QProcess
to work here so I write to
bash scripts and start this scripts via system() and terminal appplication
on OSX. This works for OSX,
but the whole part for starting fgfs with args should be
I'm wondering ... is FGFS written in C or C++?
A nice overview of programming languages in our project is available at
http://www.ohloh.net/p/flightgear/analyses/latest
Altough this does include fgdata (thus the large number of xml lines :p ),
besides simgear and flightgear.
Gijs
Hey!
I seem to get the same problem as John (email attached below, since it's been a
while since it was posted). Please see the attached log
for the output that I got. Not very useful I think... Isn't there a debug
option, like we have on fgfs?
The previous build from Fred works fine
Martin wrote:
'fgfs-construct' crashing ? A bug in the code ? Unbelievable ! ;-)))
Well, thing is still that I cannot build scenery with the latest build. Whether
it's a Fred bug or not.
If those that build it themselves have no problems with it (is it that hard to
tell if you have?),
I
Isn't it loaded from the corresponding Scenery/Terrain/.../.../...stg file?
(which is generated by TerraGear,
so if the location of the beacon is really wrong, it should be updated in
martin's apt.dat file)
Hi all,
time flies when you're having fun. Apparently I had too much fun last month;
because it's already time
for a new edition!
Altough there was a little less aircraft development going on this month, we do
have some nice other
developments to mention. Special attention is in place for
Hey Erik!
Erik wrote:
It might also be a good time to make installing new liveries a lot
easier.
Please let me know whenever something is undertaken on this part. I'd like to
make sur we'll end up with
something in cooperation with http://liveries.flightgear.org which I maintain
Hi Henri,
The following file contains the console output , with several runs, done at
several Airport.
Do you fly the 747-400 from current Git and also have an updated fgdata? It
should not show
some of these errors, like:
XML sound: couldn't find file:
Failed to load file:
Failed to
Hey Hal!
I just put in another p51d-jsbsim merge request.
Commited to the master branch! I did get the usual property errors from
JSBSim, but
apart from that it is very nice. Please check if the commit went fine.
The merge is to the master branch but I think this should also go into the
Hi all,
time for yet another newsletter; the first of 2011! With a lot of developers
running to get things done
before the release, there are quite some interesting developments featured in
this edition. Especially the
aircraft and scenery side are well-featured.
Once again I would like to
Just in case anyone out here know's more about the in-sim menu translations:
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=263
Cheers,
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Hi Stuart,
thanks for taking the time to write this kind message, it's appreciated!
Being very blunt, while a proof of concept is very nice, I think you
need to do more this close to the v2.2.0 release.
You're right. I did not relate it to the release being close for some reason,
which does
Hi Martin,
There might be a simple reason: TerraGear's 'genapts' didn't support
stopways for most of its life, it's more of a 'recent' addition ;-)
For some reason the textures were commited (to Textures.high/Runway, see this
discussion), but never ended up in
Textures/Runway and
Heiko wrote:
I don't think that rescaling will change anything, or break anything.
The Citation-II uses a recolored/edited version of those CubeMaps (to be found
in Aircraft/Citation/Models/Effects/CubeMaps).
I've rescaled those CubeMaps prior to commiting, so if the Citation-II in Git
Hi Melchior,
I was about to send an email to the mailing list asking for feedback, so thanks
for saving
my three minutes :)
Shudder! This patch simply duplicates a lot of code that was meant
to be *re-used*.
Right. So far it was a proof of concept. What it needs now is someone to clean
Erik wrote:
Looking at their so called todo list
...which is not much more than a sum-up of FlightGear features (like the VATSIM
support that
FlightGear has these days).
Oh, to all: please do not provide direct links to these people's websites.
Every single hit increases
their pagerank
Hi Hal,
Could some please do the merge.
Merged! I tried to merge it as clean as possbile (without all kind of
master-merges; as James
told me to avoid those), but due to this my name ended up with the commits.
Sorry for that. I'll
ask James how to prevent that from happening in future
Hi Scott,
A380 has been updated. Please make sure everything went well this time. A
couple of comments:
I get the following warnings:
Scaling image 'D:\FlightGear\data\Aircraft\A380\Textures\Common\mcdu_icons.png'
from (150,150) to (128,128)
Scaling image
Sorry, wasn't finished typing/commiting yet when I hit the Send button :)
-
Hi Scott,
A380 has been updated. Please make sure everything went well this time. A
couple of comments:
I get the following warnings:
Scaling image
Hi Jack!
AH-1 has been updated. Please check to see if everything went properly.
However, I did get these (non fatal, but ugly and slowing things down)
warnings/errors when launching the
AH-1 in FlightGear. All are easy to fix; except for the radar error which I
don't understand fully. I am
Hal wrote:
I just put in another merge request for the p51d.
Could someone please merge this into fgdata master.
Done. Error comments at http://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/merge_requests/72
Is there any interest in mouse acceleration properties,
besides myself ?
Defenitely yes! Much, much nicer/realistic for levers!
Gijs --
Gaining the trust of online customers is
Hi Heiko,
just returned from holiday; so I'm caching up with my mailbox.
I noticed today that the dense-slider for the 3d-clouds has dissapeared.
I removed it, since I thought it was broken (because I did not know you have to
toggle 3D clouds).
I've just commited a fix for this; now the
I took a closer look and it appears that I missed the
Aircraft/p51d/Models/induction-air-hotspots.xml file when I was checking in
my
changes. I have checked this into my fgdata clone and I will be requesting a
merge into fgdata to get it into place shortly. Not sure how I missed it.
Hi,
it looks like the Hudson build server is down since last Saterday (or Friday).
Any
idea about the problem? Is it being worked on? I am completely dependant on this
server, since Fred does not provide new binaries any longer, so I'd like to see
it up
again... ;)
Cheers,
Gijs
Hi
Stuart wrote:
- a close button on the top right
- at minimum a Close button at the bottom of the dialog
(Why) do we need two buttons to close a dialog? I recently removed the ones
that say Close on most
dialogs, replacing them with small buttons in the top right corner. There are
Hi there!
Hal wrote:
I just created a new merge request for the p51d-jsbsim model. This is merge
request #66. This merge includes the following changes:
Running p51d-jsbsim now gives me no visual model, an empty dialog popup and a
lot of errors
in the console:
Processing command line
I've been updating The Manual for the upcoming release, including
updating the command reference to include the changes to the menus.
Looks good to me Stuart! But I do wonder why people feel the need to capitilise
each single word.
Why isn't it Traffic options, or Tanker controls? I know
just using the default - ./fgfs enter I get this error.
Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: @PKGLIBDIR
Please upgrade to version: 2.0.0
You need to tell FG where your data directory is. Do that with
--fg-root=/usr/share/flightgear
in your commandline, or set FG_ROOT in
Martin wrote:
Can someone, please, commit to GIT attached configuration file, for Genius
F-31U VIBRATION USB Joystick?
Thanks! It's commited.
Cheers,
Gijs
PS: Forgot to add your name to the commit. Sorry for that...
Hey all!
With the release in reach, I decided to test-load the base package aircraft
from last release (and possibly the upcoming release).
All this is with this afternoon's Git, on a Windows machine. All I did was
launch FlightGear with the aircraft, check the console
for output, and see if
Scott wrote:
thanks Gijs, it looks like all the other changes from the source tarball
didn't come through?
there should a very large number of deletes and modifies...
Ah, thought it was just the listed files :)
I'll merge it tomorrow morning (if no-one is quicker).
Cheers,
Gijs
So could someone with commit rights to fgdata please replace the A380
aircraft by;
Done:
http://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/commit/05721b5fb2d374adf80ec6cf4e05ba4e66012e8a
Please check if all went well.
Cheers,
Gijs
I have just received this, but have not knowingly made a recent post.
Alan
It was sent at October 17 according to the head, which is the day you posted
http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29106.html
I'd say it is a slow responsing mail server. I've
Hi Durk and all,
Durk wrote:
After a period of having been extremely busy at work, following a switch of
jobs and moving to a different country,
I'm slowly coming back to life. December is already well on it's way, and it
would be great if we could manage
another major release this
And Avsim is with us: http://avsim.com/ Not sure if that is due to the email I
sent last week (then they
might have included a link to our statement), but it is nice that there's yet
another website (and one of
the most important flightsim ones) paying attention to the situation.
Cheers,
Gijs
Alex wrote:
Sorry I haven't been keeping up with things, but have flightsim.com and
simmarket.com run the statement yet?
FlightSim.com did (in a couple of languages), simmarket.com did not yet
(AFAIAA)..
Would be nice if you could chat to the simmarket.com team ;)
Gijs
Hi all,
time for yet another newsletter! The November edition is full of interesting
developments, from the newly
released 737NG series, to some wonderful ideas (and actual models) for
auto-generated cities. Special
attention is in place for world's first DIY collimated display system, a
I do like Thorsten's list, especially since he attached images of each single
cockpit.
This makes it clear at what time of development he checked the aircraft.
Anyway, it is still a delicate subject and I don't think we'll ever find a
rating system that
works for all...
Curt wrote:
1. It
Curt wrote:
Here's a random idea: if we put the wiki link for each aircraft in the
corresponding aircraft-set.xml
file we could automatically link to it from the aircraft download page ...
Wouldn't it be easier to create redirect in the wiki from (for example)
In order to promote our statement, I've created a YouTube video, explaining
some basic things
about FlightSimPro and the like, and reference the viewers to our statement. If
we all vote thumbs
up on this video, add it to our public playlists, make it favourits etc., it
will come up higher in
Hi all,
after updating fgdata from Gitorious this evening and installing the win32
nightly binary from
Hudson (28-nov-2010 7:00:55), JSBSim aircraft suddenly bounce, when at the
ground. Some
aircraft bounce more than others (747-400 and C172P for example crash due to
the extreme
forces),
Yeah, problems is fixed! I had --model-hz=30. Setting it to 120 (so it
was omitted from the commandline by FGRun) fixed the problem.
For what it's worth (I do think it is weird that some aircraft are not
affected by low model-hz, while others are), some more info below:
Bertrand wrote:
Hi Heiko,
I try since yesterday to commit my changes to fix the broken 737-300.
I made a complete fresh and clean clone, and followed the tutorial in the
wiki:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Git_on_Windows#Commiting_changes
Problem: it shows the whole changes since the
Curtis Olson wrote:
I made a few tweaks and posted a copy of this here:
http://www.flightgear.org/flightprosim.html
The wiki article has been updated to reflect the official statement. It is
being linked to by a growing number
of websites/forums, including some major ones like
Hm, some need to read
http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29013.html
again.
Gijs wrote (a lot more, but this is an important passage):
Of course we don't want some of our important pages (main page, download etc.)
to be edited by just anyone
with a wiki
Hi all
Stuart wrote:
There is a version on the wiki, but it has since been modified by
various people to something more emotional and prejorative,
which nicely illustrates the point Martin and I were making :)
The emotional sentences you are refereing to were written before we decided on
Hi all!
XIII wrote:
And why do they use an A-6E screenshot I have made me-my-own-self ?
Nah, I just sent to Facebook an inquiry for copyright infringement :-)
Content on the FlightGear wiki also falls under the GNU GPL license (as stated
at the bottom of this
page), so does this A-6E
Hi all,
time for yet another newsletter! The October edition is slightly less filled as
last month, but we still
collected a bunch of interesting updates/news items. Once again I would like to
emphasize the need
for contributions from all of you. Even if it is just adding one screenshot,
or
Hi all,
L Francesco wrote:
why can't we use the flightgear phpbb forum accounts ?
we already have a table containing users/emails/md5 passwords. the server
could check for an user/password against this
table (ok, not with a direct connection to the mysql db, but calling an
ad-hoc php
Gijs wrote:
Commit and zip are on their way (might arrive later today but at least
tomorrow).
SVN is available from the repository and the .zip can be download from this
link:
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear747-400/downloads/list
Please let me know if it solves the problem (and no
Thanks for your reports, but all of these problems are already known to me.
- The broken wings on startup might have been due to exessive G loads at
startup (eg. when the aircraft is dropped
onto the earth). Clicking 747-400 Repair in the menu should fix all
(dileberate) failures.
- The
Jon wrote:
The URL given doesn’t work.
This one does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9Kato1CxA
Alan wrote:
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9Kato1Cx. A , but that is for upward
loading.
Yeah, I am aware of such images and I know how the 744's wings are supposed to
look bended,
Hi mifi, Jentron,
first of all thanks for reporting these errors mifi! It is really appreciated.
All the FDM erros I got with the 744 from SVN (the 744 has its private
repository, once in a while the version in Git is updated, as I make
quite some small changes each time it's not worth
Hi Jentron,
There is a null-named property somewhere, probably more than one. I looked
for it briefly but couldn't find it.
There was one in your diff indeed. Thought it was a neccessary addition to my
code :P
Not sure what happened here. The properties inside JSBSim are
Hi,
last week, James dropped the idea of moving our website (partly) over to the
wiki. So far I have discussed
this with a couple of people, all of which have different opinions. Therefore,
I would like to ask anyone that
cares about our website to reply.
I think we all agree that our
Hey!
Torsten wrote:
From time to time, I notices some abuse by inserted spam into our wiki pages.
Great care must be taken, our
home page is locked for the everybody group.
Of course. Additionally I will look for some more anti-spam measures that we
could install at the wiki.
The
Hi all,
to fullfill some requests, we now have a special newsletter mailinglist, thanks
to Curt! Please register yourself at
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-newsletter. Emails will
be sent when a newsletter is released,
and possibly also a week in advance of the
Hi all,
I am proud to announce that the September edition of our newsletter is the
longest ever! A big thank
you to all contributors! I'm glad to see more and more devs (and users) add
their pieces.
Additions are now welcomed at next month's edition. If we all just write a
little paragraph
Looks good to me! One thing though: where is the timeofday dialog?
Also, our gui does not yet support sub-menus, right? Would be nice
it it did, and would make the menus a little less long...
Cheers,
Gijs
I got the shuttle into FlightGear a long time ago:
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=32000#p32000
FlightGear can read .3ds files directly IRC, so does Blender (then export to
.ac). Blender also opens .obj, so the Crawler
shouldn't be a problem either.
Cheers,
Gijs
Jon wrote:
Nice! How does one begin writing for the next issue? Is there a particular
format to follow? Order of stories?
Nice to see you're interested Jon!
I've written a little guide a while ago, which is available at the forum:
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28t=7794
Hi devs!
Being on holiday last month, I was able to manage this month's newsletter ;)
A big thank you to all contributors as always! We've had some last-day
contributions, together with
some earlier writings, I think we have created another nice edition.
To those that didn't write anything
Nice article Thorsten! I will see where I can improve the wiki-side of things a
little.
Thanks a lot for your efforts on improving documentation!
Cheers,
Gijs --
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Hi devs!
Another month's (almost) over, another newsletter is written. A big thank you
to all contributors!
This month's edition is quite special, as it is the 12th edition! I will try to
come up with something
special for next month's jubilee edition ;)
Have a look at it:
Hi,
I was notified about the existence of yet another website, affliated with
FlightSimPro:
http://www.realflightsimulator.net/
The website forces users to registrate with their email address (I use a
special one for
such occasions :p ) and then sends an email with a download link. This
I can't find any information neither on the web nor on the forum...
You did not notice my reply at the forum?
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=8606
Gijs
_
Alles wat je
Hi,
as maintainer/founder of the official livery database I will try to answer
Pete's questions, altough
I do not understand how most of them are related to the liveries anyway...
The livery database was set up as a repository, just like
http://scenemodels.flightgear.org, to host
data that
Hi devs!
Another month's over, another newsletter is written. A big thank you to all
contributors!
Have a look at it:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Newsletter_May_2010
Contributions to next month's newsletter are welcome at this link. Everyone
(with a wiki account,
Jeff wrote:
fgviewer crashes when reading channel options (which it doesn't use).
Here is a patch which fixes this by adding a pointer check.
If you feel happy creating patches for fgviewer, here's another issue that
really
should be looked at IMO...
Hi Chris,
Chris wrote:
As I see it a nice QT/Gtk interface to tie together all the terragear tools
shouldn't be a
big deal for one of the developers to piece together. I did a mock-up QT
tool, see more at...
your TerraGear GUI looks pretty cool! Apparently we've been working on the
Hey!
For instance, I noticed that when I start at LEPA, I run into an assert
which stops FG. Reproducible.
Is it similar to http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17t=8005?
If yes, I would say that it should be added to the bug-tracker that James
mentioned already.
Cheers,
Gijs
Rob wrote:
However, would the one stated above prevent models which use submodels for
wing-flex effects
from appearing to have wings? (Wait... are there any such models, or are the
wings animated
components of the main model?)
A much bigger problem are those aircraft (like my 744)
Another month's over, another newsletter is written. A big thank you to all
contributors!
Have a look at it:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Newsletter_March_2010
Contributions to next month's newsletter are welcome at this link. Everyone
(with a wiki account,
which is free
Hi guys!
Curt wrote:
I'm open to that, however the aircraft download page is automatically script
generated based on
content in the aircraft-set.xml file. The easiest approach I think would
be to add some sort of
wiki or external page tag inside the -set.xml file so the script can
Curt wrote:
Ok, so if we come up with a standardized naming scheme, can we blindly create
links for every aircraft on
the download page? What do we do with aircraft that don't have a specific
wiki link? Would we route those
to some generic aircraft information page?
That's
Hi,
Martin Spott wrote:
Maik Justus wrote:
I don't know. But at least my two cents to The Manual (chapter A
Helicopter Tutorial was copied from the Wiki to the manual.)
I suspect this has not happened without proper negotiation, or did it ?
Maik copied it himself, as you can see
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
j...@kingmont.com wrote:
Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message requiring
a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at
http://kingmont.com.
The other two (official) mirrors have the same behaviour. Already for three
days...
Gijs
Heiko Schulz wrote:
I wonder if a bug-tracker makes really sense here- we have more than 130 (?)
aircrafts
130?! There's 300 of them in CVS, so about 350 with the additional hangars! :)
Agree with you on all points btw. It might be nice to have an additional bug
tracker for
aircraft
Hi,
What about asking (kindly) to the real administrator of this site :
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/wiki.flightgear.org:About
No need for that, he already knows about the problem. Actually, he
already fixed the problem! As Pete knows, all we're waiting on is a
one minute job to be
Hi Rob,
I was trying to get a good screenshot which demonstrates this, but I can't
find the right
arrangement of objects to prove my point at the moment.
If you take the UFO, you can place any object at any place... ;)
Cheers,
Gijs
Erik wrote:
I never understood this view (model-view) anyhow, what is it supposed to do?
In the bottomleft corner of your screen a dialog shows up, that allows you to
cycle through helicopter-views from yourself and the other MP pilots.
Quite a nice feature to view other's landings!
Cheers,
Hi,
Just wanted to know if anybody was working on it so I don't duplicate wnat
other people are doing.
Do I understand correctly you are doing a 3D model and such of a 747?.If so I
won't bother with the
current 747-400
Most of it is already in CVS for quite a while. Under
Hi Innis,
I am working/created the KLM 744. The Pakistan 747 is not maintained by anyone
AFAIK.
Just a quick question is anyone doing anything with the 747-400 model or
instruments.
What excactly do you mean? Are they broken? I am awaitening CVS writing acces
so I
can continue to update
Hi,
while searching for flightsim events I came across the Flight Simulator
Convention at
the Helicopter Museum in Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, United Kingdom.
As FlightGear is being promoted (by some) as the most realistic heli sim of the
three big
players (MSFS, X-Plane and FG) it
Morning guys,
Brian wrote:
It appears this entry (and others at the same airport - NW, NE,
SW1, SW2) are for helipads, since they measure 80'x80'. According
to the specification for the 810 version airport files, [h]elipads at
the same airport are numbered sequentially as 'H1x', H2x'. My
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
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