[Flightgear-devel] TACAN Electrical Issue

2006-02-03 Thread Ron Jensen
I started playing with TACAN today. While it is enabled in Aircraft/Generic/generic-systems.xml it is not energized in Aircraft/Generic/generic-electrical.xml and therefore only works with custom electrical files. Suggested patch: --- data/Aircraft/Generic/generic-electrical.xml

[Flightgear-devel] TACAN_freq_dat

2006-02-05 Thread Ron Jensen
The file TACAN_freq.dat.gz contains the wrong frequency data for our use. It contains the ground reply channel frequencies, as we are using the frequencies to look up TACANs and VORTACs in nav.dat.gz and nav.dat.gz uses the VOR channel frequencies. Attached are modified TACAN_freq.dat and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New 737-300

2006-02-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 06:41 -0800, Mike Rawlins wrote: (...) What is the correct syntax to start FG for a particular set of radio (1 and 2) frequency settings? I've tried all of the following without success: --prop:/radios/nav/frequencies/selected-mhz[0]=110.00

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-18 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:03 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: Some questions: 1. There is a white sliver at the top of the right rear window that does not show up in ac3d. Any help in removing this would be appreciated. The fuselage is set to 2-sided polygons. I set it to single sided in ac3d and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] inflight / on ground / on airport

2006-03-09 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 02:22 +0100, Markus Barenhoff wrote: hi, are there properties in tree where i can read from if the aircraft is currently in air, on ground or even on ground/on airport? it would be nice to have (i need it for the 737 electrical system, to switch on the external ground

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:59 -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: 3. Any other major issues? Curt, Last month I suggested a change[1] to TACAN_freq.dat and carrier_nav.dat to enable TACAN to work on the proper channels. I'd like to see this go in so the F4E I'm working on can use the TACAN.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-10 with 3D cokpit

2006-03-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:45 +0100, alexis bory wrote: hi, I put on my server an .tgz of the a10. http://croo.murgl.org/fgfs/A-10/A-10.tar.gz I'll try to freeze the dev and concentrate in some weigth and textures optimization, plus tiddy up, until (maybe) it's comited and released.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] generic-instruments.xml and a second DME device

2006-03-22 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 20:41 +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote: After some debating in IRC ... Can we please add a second DME device to Generic/generic-instruments.xml? i.e. dme namedme/name number1/number /dme It is ***NOT*** possible to create extra devices within an aircraft's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interfacing hardware for FG

2006-03-29 Thread Ron Jensen
I have to agree with Martin. They're simple RS-232 devices. Lets just have the specs on the comm protocol and leave all the closed source driver cruft behind. Speaking of specs, there doesn't seem to be a single electrical spec on the website. How are we supposed to design cockpit hardware

[Flightgear-devel] Updated F4E

2006-04-01 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi All, I've finally switched to fgfs 0.9.10 today. I've already got my F4 up and running under the new system. If you'd like to check it out its at http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/ , The 2D panel requires Dave Culp's T38, I think... Most of the 3D instruments are there, although some need

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reminder: upcoming v0.9.10 release

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 08:01 -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I would like to do the official v0.9.10 release this week. I hope to make the official tarballs earlier in the week so that ready to run binaries can start appearing by the end of the week. Regards, Curt. Curt, At the risk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML files, FC4, FG ver. 0.9.9 (pre-compiled, from the FG web site).

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi Steve, You picked two airplanes whose 3D instruments are not straight forward. The c172p's entire 3D panel is its 2D panel mapped onto a rectangle. The magic is done in Aircraft/c172p/Models/c172p.xml everything between panel and /panel. The Citation-II is one unified model, all the bits and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reminder: upcoming v0.9.10 release

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:29 -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: At the risk of repeating myself, TACAN is broken for everything but the carriers. Replacing the two files below makes it work perfectly. Can someone submit them to CVS before the 0.9.10 release _please!_ Last

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:58 +0100, Justin Smithies wrote: is it possible to make the weather check for updates more often than 1 hourly ? Is there a file that can be modified or prop tree variable ? Justin Smithies I believe the metar data is only updated hourly at the source so there is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A320 nose gear steering

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 18:24 +0200, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Julien Pierru : I actually just found that out: http://www.janes.com/transport/news/jawa/jawa000824_n_2.shtml It says the nose gear deflection is +-75deg, i tried it out and it works great. Do you have a patch ? 5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather updates

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
have thought as most of us use adsl that the option to chage this would be better. Why else does x-plane and fs2004 have this option ? Justin Smithies On Monday 03 April 2006 18:04, Ron Jensen wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:58 +0100, Justin Smithies wrote: is it possible to make

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reminder: upcoming v0.9.10 release

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 19:18 +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: Curtis L. Olson Ron Jensen wrote: At the risk of repeating myself, TACAN is broken for everything but the carriers. Replacing the two files below makes it work perfectly. Can someone submit them to CVS before the 0.9.10

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 22:53 -0400, Rob Oates wrote: and I think would be acceptable to make them a little darker. Please don't make them darker. One of the thing I like about your texture set vs. the old one is I can actually make out details over forests its not all one black blob. See the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated F4E

2006-04-07 Thread Ron Jensen
There is another update to the F4E, same place as it always is http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/F4E.tgz The airspeed/mach gauge is installed and functional, although the texture needs some work, mach readout only goes to 1.2, its blank above that... The needle reads out KCAS, and the mach ring

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two different problems with c172p and c172r

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:23 -0400, Yavuz Onder wrote: Hi, Failing to get the performance I need from C172P, I decided to try C172R, it seg faulted with this output: ~/ob/FlightGear-0.9/source$ fly --aircraft=c172r --airport=LSTS --runway=14 Model Author: Unknown

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft repaint request]

2006-04-17 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:28:51PM -0600, Ron Jensen wrote: http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/models/ww-ii/p-51/ http://www.mfarchive.modelstuff.co.uk/mf069/images/Daretuskegee536% 20P-51.jpg Stupid GUI driven e-mail client at my URL. Let's try it in MUTT: http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A SenecaII for FlightGear: first version available

2006-04-25 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 22:38 +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi all, it's been a while, since I announced the model for a Seneca. It is a *LOT* more work, than I expected it to be so it took a lot longer than I thought. But I think I can show you what I have so far:

Re: FlightGear RPMs (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm)

2006-04-26 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:15 -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:38:20 -0500 Curtis L. Olson wrote: - freeglut never implimented glut's fullscreen/game mode (so free glut is *not* a complete drop in replacement for original glut.) Plus freeglut 2.4 has the well know bug

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-04-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 07:33 +0200, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 04:37, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Is anyone out there working on an F-14 Tomcat (like from the movie, Top-Gun with Tom Cruise.) I talked to a guy today who flies F-14's and would be able to provide a lot of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A4F - AAR Capability

2006-04-28 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi Vivian, On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 18:08 +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: Hi, I have also taken the opportunity to adjust the panel to make it more nearly like that of an A4F, rather than an A4C, although a couple of the instruments are not correct, principally the ASI should be replaced with a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F - AAR Capability

2006-04-29 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:01 +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: Ron I have also taken the opportunity to adjust the panel to make it more nearly like that of an A4F, rather than an A4C, although a couple of the instruments are not correct, principally the ASI should be replaced with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A SenecaII for FlightGear: first version available

2006-05-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:30 +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Looks great, flies good. I managed some pretty landings after I got a feel for it. Is it supposed to pitch down so violently when the flaps deploy, though? No, that has to be improved There is an entry in SenecaII-jsbsim.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A SenecaII for FlightGear: first version available

2006-05-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:30 +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Looks great, flies good. I managed some pretty landings after I got a feel for it. Is it supposed to pitch down so violently when the flaps deploy, though? No, that has to be improved There is an entry in SenecaII-jsbsim.xml

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2006-05-10 Thread Ron Jensen
Start here: http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9 This is the /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/ part of the path. Then click the link to data, the link to Docs, the link model-howto.html, then choose save link target as... (or windows equivelent) on the Download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:00 -0400, Julien Pierru wrote: I just asked him and he is ok with it, so go for it... Julien The modified OV10 is at http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/OV10_USAFE.tgz I included the entire OV10_USAFE directory because I was too lazy to just pull the added files. Start

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:00 -0400, Julien Pierru wrote: For some reason this message seems to have not shown up on the list so I shall resend. Excuse if it arrives twice... I just asked him and he is ok with it, so go for it... Julien The modified OV10 is at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgmap navaids

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:04 +1000, Pigeon wrote: The only thing that I'm missing now is TACAN. It would be really great (and a slight improvement on Atlas) if the TACAN channel for a suitably equipped airfield was shown. I have just noticed I have sorta misinterpreted some of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgmap navaids

2006-06-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:17 +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: Hi Vivian I'm more than willing to be corrected on this one, but my understanding is as follows: A VORTAC station has 3 frequencies in RL - TACAN, VOR, and DME. This is my understanding, too. Further A TACAN channel includes 3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Models -what files?

2006-06-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 14:57 +1200, dene maxwell wrote: I checked the Aircraft/Spitfire/spitfireIIa-set.xml and there were no leading / on any of the other file references I could find. Erik didn't say file references, he said property references. I did find that by deleting the sections in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerobatics using flight gear and JSBSim

2006-06-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 19:34 -0500, Jon S. Berndt wrote: All this to say that it looks very good. Now for a few questions : - Are both half wings treated separately in JSBSim ? That can be important for snap rolls, even though I do them day in day out now Yes, I know. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:01 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: And I'm a moron and just wiped out the whole thing 2 seconds ago. Let me try again ... thanks for your patience ... :-( Curt. And this is the biggest argument against forums. They're only accessable when the server is up and its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pc7 panel patch

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 20:30 +, Stuart Buchanan wrote: + instrument include=../Instruments/attitude-indicator.xml Stuart, This points to a file that doesn't exist in CVS, i.e. Failed to open file at /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Aircraft/pc7/Panels/../Instruments/attitude-indicator.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Info request on airport radar.

2006-12-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 19:25 +0100, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Hi, I'm modelling a few german airport towers, they have moving radar antennas on top. I'd like to animate their rotation. Is that a fixed rpm or are there different speeds for different radar types? Any hint on tech specs about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear and Google Earth, again.

2006-12-09 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:14 -0500, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Here is something more in-line with what we are using already: http://www.ossim.org/OSSIM/ossimPlanet Snaps.html Try http://www.ossim.org/OSSIM/ossimPlanet%20Snaps.html instead. Ron

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cows

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:14 +, Vivian Meazza wrote: Hi, There have been several complaints about our fauna, namely headless cows, over on the IRC channel. I've done one with a head: ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/lowish-poly-cow.jpg it's 180 vertices, so heads

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Errors

2007-01-01 Thread Ron Jensen
in other words, part of the tile is missing? Thanks for your help. On 12/30/06, Nick Warne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:26, Ron Jensen wrote: By default FlightGear installs two 1x1 chunks w122n37 and w123n37 from the w130n30

Re: [Flightgear-devel] implemented: interval timer (aka approach timer) [aka stopwatch]

2007-01-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:15 -0500, John Denker wrote: (The FlightGear package refuses to compile on my machine, x86 Debian etch, so I'm stuck with precompiled binaries.) What problems do you have? I find including more libraries in some of the Makefile.am's does the trick for me... I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] won't compile ... also configuration issues:openAL +- osg +- whatever

2007-01-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 21:21 +0100, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:42, John Denker wrote: Uhhh, what has OSG got to do with it? I don't see an OSG requirement mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Do I need OSG on top of plib? Or OSG instead of plib? Is this

[Flightgear-devel] Patch to Docs/model-howto.html Attn: Mathias

2007-01-06 Thread Ron Jensen
Add an index entry for the pick animation style. Index: model-howto.html === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Docs/model-howto.html,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 model-howto.html --- model-howto.html4 Jan 2007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] won't compile ... also

2007-01-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 19:59 +, Martin Spott wrote: I was naive enough to enstall the Debian version, but it's lacking the patches to make it work with FlightGear, so I had to use apt to pull the Debian sources[1], applied the FlightGear patch [2] file, and rebuilt it with dpkg-build

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pick animation.....

2007-01-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 19:40 -0800, syd wrote: Hi again , Im adding the pick animation to the A6M2 , SO much easier ! I can only get the property-assign to work , but not property-adjust or nasal scripts ... I want to increment / decrement a property. Is this being worked on / not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pick animation

2007-01-07 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 09:51 -0500, Josh Babcock wrote: First, this animation is a really good idea. I've spent the better part of the weekend adding instruments to my F4E, this code ROCKS! I for see a problem though. With the old hotspot code, if you wanted to animate a really small switch,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to OV-10 Gmeter (attn: Dave Culp)

2007-01-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 18:24 +, Martin Spott wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: Enable reset button on the OV10 G Meter to reset using the new pick animation style. Did anybody cross-check this patch ? Martin. Martin, Mathias changed the pick animation so that patch won't work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pick animation

2007-01-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 09:46 -0500, Josh Babcock wrote: Good idea. Also, perhaps we should agree on a convention for how this will be used before we end up with a bunch of different methods. For instance, should a single left click toggle a switch, or should a right click always turn it on,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F4E Updated

2007-01-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:02 +, Martin Spott wrote: 1.) I noticed, that, while all of the other instruments operate really smooth, the pressure altimeter needle 'jumps' from one position to the next (a behaviour that I've often seen in M$FS ...). This does not only happen during

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG_OSG Alpha Bug

2007-01-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:30 +0100, gh.robin wrote: Second the c310 panel is look at, by yourself http://perso.orange.fr/GRTux/OSG_AlphaBug2.jpg This can be fixed/suppressed by setting line 26 of c310/Models/c310-dpm.xml to read: depth-test type=boolfalse/depth-test I know this problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c182 revision version?

2007-01-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 01:33 -0500, John Denker wrote: Hey, it looks like we've got a 182rg in the fleet! Cool On 01/13/2007 12:08 AM, Ron Jensen wrote: I made the knob 2.5 cm thick and 5 cm in diameter. The lever is 12.5 cm in diameter more likely 12.5 mm ;-) whatever 1/2 inch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c182 revision version?

2007-01-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 09:58 -0700, Ron Jensen wrote: If you're looking for one more touch of realism, you can implement the squat switch. I suspect the relevant property is: /gear/gear/wow (where wow stands for Weight on Wheel). This would be overly complex for little gain. Putting

[Flightgear-devel] Bug In Aeromatic Output

2007-01-14 Thread Ron Jensen
While creating the C182RG model I discovered that JSBSim's aeromatic program is creating a bad value for retractable landing gear. It is putting out retractableRETRACT/retractable instead of retractable1/retractable Looking at the cvs data/Aircraft tree I found the following aircraft affected:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Input/Joysticks template.xml, 1.2, 1.3

2007-01-17 Thread Ron Jensen
Joystick power type should be a double not an int. doubles allow fine-grain control over the output curve. And revert Saitek Cyborg-Gold-3d-USB.xml to version 1.27 Thanks, Ron On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 06:40 -0600, Melchior Franz wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Input/Joysticks In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfault in listener +- location-in-air

2007-01-17 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:22 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: A listener on /gear/gear[*]/wow doesn't make much sense, anyway, as this property is written to in every frame, which kind-of defies the purpose of listeners. An old-school polling loop wouldn't be less effective. I'm learning as I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Input/Joysticks template.xml, 1.2, 1.3

2007-01-17 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:01 -0700, Ron Jensen wrote: Joystick power type should be a double not an int. doubles allow fine-grain control over the output curve. And revert Saitek Cyborg-Gold-3d-USB.xml to version 1.27 Thanks, Ron On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 06:40 -0600, Melchior Franz

[Flightgear-devel] PC7 fails on CVS HEAD [PATCH]

2007-01-21 Thread Ron Jensen
Fix failure on CVS HEAD Index: pc7.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pc7/pc7.xml,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 pc7.xml --- pc7.xml 6 Jan 2007 17:46:49 - 1.6 +++ pc7.xml 21 Jan 2007

[Flightgear-devel] More updates to C182RG

2007-01-21 Thread Ron Jensen
Fix aircraft help and remove redundant key binding Index: c182rg-set.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/c182rg/c182rg-set.xml,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 c182rg-set.xml --- c182rg-set.xml 21 Jan

[Flightgear-devel] Enhanced KT-70 Test Display

2007-01-21 Thread Ron Jensen
This patch makes /instrumentation/kt-70/outputs/flight-level and id-code go to all 8s during self-test. Changing this instrument should have no negative effects since no aircraft currently in CVS seems to actually use the kt-70... Index: kt_70.cxx

[Flightgear-devel] Patch to fix c182rg squat switch

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
Please apply this patch to the c182rg controls.geartoggle won't allow gear handle to move to the down position on the ground after it is moved to the up position. Thanks, Ron Index: Nasal/squatswitch.nas === RCS file:

[Flightgear-devel] KT-70 3D Model for Instruments-3D

2007-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi all, I modelled a KT-70 transponder. It is at http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/Instruments-3d.tgz Attached is a patch to install it in the c182rg. Also, I submitted a patch to enhance the test display on this instrument (but not vital to performance):

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] removal of Instrumentation/annunciator.[ch]xx

2007-01-29 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:27 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 29 January 2007: The replacement would be a simple $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Generic/annunciator.nas Or $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Instruments/annunciator.nas? And it would look like the attached file (with some small

Re: [Flightgear-devel] where to put optional Nasal addon script?

2007-02-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:05 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: A few days ago I suggested to replace the annunciator.cxx with a Nasal file, and to put it into $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Generic/ or $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Instruments/. Ron was for the former, because the latter contains only definitions of 2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] where to put optional Nasal addon script?

2007-02-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 13:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Melchior wrote: Now Dave sent me a patch which puts a generic kap140.nas into $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Instruments/, and I guess now is the time to finally decide where such optional Nasal instrument (or other) addons should go: There is

[Flightgear-devel] Patch for my 3D KT70 Transponder

2007-02-03 Thread Ron Jensen
Please apply to CVS, thanks: Add panel lighting effects to transponder. Index: kt70.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Instruments-3d/kt70/kt70.xml,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 kt70.xml --- kt70.xml

[Flightgear-devel] Patch for C182(RG)

2007-02-03 Thread Ron Jensen
Please apply to CVS, thanks! Make the night lighting wrap at 1.0 instead of 0.75. Index: c182rg-set.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/c182rg/c182rg-set.xml,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4

[Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Jensen
While working on 3D cockpit instruments I keep hitting into issues with internal floating point representation and the textranslatestep tag. The step tag effectively truncates the property, 29.9199 becomes 29.91, so a (3D) readout reads off one number. The electronics technician in me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:32 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/07/2007 09:47 AM, Ron Jensen wrote: While working on 3D cockpit instruments I keep hitting into issues with internal floating point representation and the textranslatestep tag. The step tag effectively truncates the property

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main renderer.cxx, 1.74, 1.75

2007-02-08 Thread Ron Jensen
This patch broke the jpeg server, it used the mSceneCamera. My attached patch changes it to use the mBackGroundCamera. On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 23:32 -0600, Mathias Froehlich wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Main In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv17538/src/Main Modified Files:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DME for pa28-161

2007-02-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:32 -0200, Thiago Drechsel wrote: Hi everybody. Does anybody have a patch that includes DME for the Piper Cherokee pa28-161. It's an excelent model, but I miss DME when doing my IFR procedures. Truly bizarre, I fired up this aircraft and saw the radiostack,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll

2007-02-09 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:55 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/07/2007 02:14 PM, Andy Ross wrote: So if there's a design flaw here, it's at a higher level. Maybe what's really needed is a digit extractor animation instead. Good news: The /design/ is not as flawed as it looks. All

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll

2007-02-09 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:00 -0500, John Denker wrote: I come to slightly different conclusions. The main point of difference is that I think it would be better to change the code to establish a reasonable default scroll value, rather than rampaging through all the existing instruments to add

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172p strange behaviour with --flight-plan

2007-02-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 10:53 +0100, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Saturday 10 February 2007 01:08, gh.robin wrote: Hello Roy, I do not notice any differences regarding /autopilot/new-config dir between first load values (after FG loaded) and after reload autopilot. i get two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DME for pa28-161

2007-02-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 07:48 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:44 +, Martin Spott wrote: Hi Ron, Ron Jensen wrote: Truly bizarre, I fired up this aircraft and saw the radiostack, complete with DME and though, what is Thiago talking about, its right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick setup for Saitek P880

2007-02-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 00:12 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Ed Sirett -- Sunday 11 February 2007: This file works for a Saitek P880. This looks rather archaic. It doesn't support several aircraft, because it doesn't use the controls wrappers. Also it lacks indentation. Who's going to fix it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172p strange behaviour with --flight-plan

2007-02-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 00:16 +, leee wrote: I couldn't see a parameter to enable dynamic view in the command line but it seemed ok if I enabled it via the menu. The view pitched a small amount when I enabled it and pitched back when I disabled it. LeeE Dynamic view from the command

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which OSG?

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 11:59 -0800, Lou Sanchez/Viviana Bellifemine wrote: Hi, Building stopped working for me a few days ago after an update. I get a compilation error in renderer.cxx because it can't find osg/Camera. What is the current correct version of OSG to use? Thanks. Cheers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weekly bug roundup

2007-02-11 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:27 -0500, John Denker wrote: From http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Bugs 1 Known Bugs 1.30 Broken startup banner. Broken startup banner. On startup, the simulator prints Author: Unknown and prints a bogus Date, even when an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fg_sqawk Version 0.2beta

2007-02-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 08:46 +0100, Holger Wirtz wrote: P.S.: Does anyone know how to tell FG that I do not want ATIS on 118.85 at KSFO? Edit/remove line number 218101 in Airport/apt.dat. Also see KAMA Rick Husband Amarillo Intl on line 208997. That airport uses 118.85 for ATIS. According to

[Flightgear-devel] New Instruments-3d/kap140 for CVS

2007-02-18 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi all, I've finished (I hope) a 3D Kap-140 head. Its at http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/kap140.tgz If someone could commit it to CVS? Thanks, Ron The head uses the traditional left/right click squares on the setting knob. It also uses a much cooler mouse-wheel click: - Point to the inner

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dme distance property

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 02:32 +0100, Csaba Halász wrote: Hi! I noticed that T38 doesn't display range to dme. It uses the /instrumentation/dme/distance-nm property, whereas I think it should use /instrumentation/dme/indicated-distance-nm. I have replaced all three occurrences of this property

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG cvs (OSG) seg fault

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 22:45 -0600, Laurence Vanek wrote: After fresh cvs updates of OpenSceneGraph FlightGear I got a seg fault during inital startup. backtrack below: snip Laurence, You did rebuild simgear, too, right? Build order should be OSG-simgear-flightgear

[Flightgear-devel] OV10 update issues.

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi, Some stuff got confused in CVS for the OV-10 this week: Aircraft/OV10/Models/CDF/ contains both an OV10.xml and an ov10.xml (ov10.xml is probably redundant) Aircraft/OV10/Models/NASA/Instruments GPS.xml was renamed GPSa.xml to avoid name conflicts, and now GPS.xml is back Thanks, Ron

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heading , pitch and roll illustrations for fgfs-model-howto.html

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:29 -0600, Reagan Thomas wrote: I came upon the TODO asking for illustrations in the 3D Aircraft Models HOWTO and thought that's something I can do now! :) http://139.78.95.188/flightgear/heading.jpg http://139.78.95.188/flightgear/pitch.jpg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An2 problems

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:54 -0600, Jon S. Berndt wrote: As a side note, the engine claims a displacement of 250 cubic inches and an output of 1300 horsepower! I suspect something isn't right. Aeromatic suggests a 1300 hp piston engine should displace ~2080 cubes. Ron One figure I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll

2007-03-09 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 15:18 -0500, Jim Wilson wrote: Hi Everybody, Just to clarify, I wrote the textranslate and texrotate animations (they are animations) while doing the displays for the 747. They are for sliding and rotating texture mappings on an 3D object, and have nothing per

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile failure

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:36 +1300, Craig Benbow wrote: Trying to build a CVS version of FG. Can anyone point me to whats wrong here? Its a bit beyond my C++ skills sorry. Actually I guess this is a linkage problem...still haven't a clue what to look for... Craig rm -f libMain.a ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building under MSVC8

2007-03-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 06:03 -0800, Gene Buckle wrote: Has anyone recently been able to build SimGear FlightGear using the project files currently in CVS? If so, what is your _exact_ directory structure? I fought with the build process for over 2 hours last night before giving up in digust.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Three tentative multiplayer feature requests

2007-03-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:43 -0700, pebble garden wrote: (snip) There are three features, though, which YS possesses that I'd dearly love to have implemented in FlightGear. I have no idea of their implementation difficulty, so I'll just toss them out and hope someone can tell me how do-able

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Chat, ridealong

2007-03-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 09:31 -0700, pebble garden wrote: Ron, you wrote, 2. In-game chat, ideally with tunable private and global channels, so a teacher could communicate with their student without spamming the global chat. This is doable now. Under View-Rendering Options check

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radar

2007-03-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 02:14 +0100, Csaba Halász wrote: Hello people! Looks like radar has been broken since Revision 1.72 of AIManager.cxx some 4 months back. The radar supports a fixed number of aircraft, and the nodes for these are created at initialization. The aforementioned 1.72

[Flightgear-devel] Patch to the Aerostar-700

2007-03-25 Thread Ron Jensen
Aeromatic produces a bogus retractableRETRACT/retractable This lets the animations work, but the FDM never sees the gear as up. Use retractable1/retractable instead. Index: Aerostar700.xml === RCS file:

[Flightgear-devel] Patch to the E3B

2007-03-25 Thread Ron Jensen
Aeromatic produces a bogus retractableRETRACT/retractable This lets the animations work, but the FDM never sees the gear as up. Use retractable1/retractable instead. Index: E3B.xml === RCS file:

[Flightgear-devel] Patch to the KC135

2007-03-25 Thread Ron Jensen
Aeromatic produces a bogus retractableRETRACT/retractable This lets the animations work, but the FDM never sees the gear as up. Use retractable1/retractable instead. Index: KC135-E.xml === RCS file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] encoder/altimeter kap140.nas

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:09 -0600, Dave Perry wrote: I compiled and tested the edited code. Any other testing is welcome. If there are no changes requested after a few days, would Melchior please put this in cvs. The last time I attached a patch, Sourceforge deleted it, so I will send the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim bug (was) weekly bug roundup

2007-03-31 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 20:27 -0600, Jon S. Berndt wrote: 1.24 Misdirected diagnostic in JSBSim.cxx Was the fix for this applied to JSBSim.cxx in JSBSim CVS, too? Jon The wiki [1] says this bug is fixed in JSBSim, however that is not true. CVS for flightgear [2] matches CVS for JSBSim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim bug (was) weekly bug roundup

2007-03-31 Thread Ron Jensen
] Behalf Of Ron Jensen Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:51 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim bug (was) weekly bug roundup On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 20:27 -0600, Jon S. Berndt wrote: 1.24 Misdirected diagnostic in JSBSim.cxx Was the fix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] encoder/altimeter kap140.nas

2007-04-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:32 -0600, Dave Perry wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:57 -0600, Ron Jensen wrote: Dave, I've been running John's code for a while now and have not noticed any problems with it. I compiled with your patch this morning but have not had a chance to fly it yet

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:45 +0100, Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, Helping Vivian today on the Spitfire model, the gear warning (stall) klaxon wasn't working for me [again] although Vivian had fixed the previous issue why it failed sometimes. After investigation, it turns out one of the

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