Re: [Flightgear-devel] Citation Bravo ADF

2010-03-01 Thread syd adams
If you put this in your .fgfsrc, the ADF is alive at the start: --prop:/instrumentation/adf/adf-btn=true The property seems a bit broken, though, because it's really a toggle among ADF and ANT modes (and others?), so something like --prop:/instrumentation/adf/mode=adf would make much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread syd adams
Ive been considering it ... unless someone beats me to it. I did some quick browsing and Im guessing the desired aircraft is the PA-18 I flew in one almost 30 years ago , and its amazing how small a sand bar in the middle of a river you can land on :) Cheers P.S. I could probably get a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread syd adams
So-- Syd, if no one else steps up and you're busy, and no one is in a screaming hurry to have the model (I work pretty slow), I'd be interested in taking this on as a YASim project, otherwise I'll defer to you and consider the Champ again, no worries. -Gary aka Buckaroo Well I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread syd adams
Very nice ! -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio

[Flightgear-devel] dme

2010-03-07 Thread syd adams
This writes the source frequency to dme/frequencies/selected-mhz to fix the dme hold for the second source , and for an indication in the property tree that it is doing what it's supposed to . Cheers Index: dme.cxx === RCS file:

[Flightgear-devel] dme fix

2010-03-07 Thread syd adams
My first email seems to have vanished , so here goes again ... I fixed the dme so that it writes the source frequency to dme/frequencies/selected-mhz , which allows dme hold to use source 2 (nav[1]) . This was probably intended in the first place. Cheers Index: dme.cxx

[Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-08 Thread syd adams
Hello , This patch adds the option of a barber pole in the airspeed indicator, adapted from K. Hoercher's nasal code for my b1900d... It is enabled like this in the instrumentation.xml file : airspeed-indicator nameairspeed-indicator/name number0/number

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread syd adams
If you see places for improvement or accuracy , updates are welcome . This was based on the nasal code , and I didnt research much other than to read the pages listed in that nasal piece. And thanks for reading and commiting , James. Cheers On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:19 AM, James Turner

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-09 Thread syd adams
P.S. - the ias and mach limits are read each frame, so they could (potentially) be updated from Nasal dont know if I like this idea , the intent was to install a specific instrument at startup ... oh well :) Cheers --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread syd adams
OK I'll consider myself out-voted :) It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and get back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten without notice. But I guess that's better than it being completely ignored ;) My main wish is that the enabling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread syd adams
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: On 10 Mar 2010, at 15:44, syd adams wrote: It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and get back into the coding side of things. and its immediately rewritten without notice. I apologise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-10 Thread syd adams
:) Cheers On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Tim Moore timoor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:44 PM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: OK I'll consider myself out-voted :) It is a bit of a turn off though, when I try to fix some minor issues and get back into the coding side

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-11 Thread syd adams
Hello James , I just updated your commits and tested , thanks. But I see another issue that bothers me ... originally I didnt initialize the parameters UNLESS the airspeed indicator had an overspeed needle ... but now even without , the alt-threshold , ias-limit ,and mach-limit are visible . That

[Flightgear-devel] airseed fix

2010-03-12 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , This is another patch for the overspeed It keeps the overspeed properties out of property tree when airspeed indicator is not 'overspeed ' enabled No sense putting unused properties in an already heavily populated property tree . Could someone apply please ? Thanks . ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airseed fix

2010-03-13 Thread syd adams
Thanks James On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:24 AM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: On 13 Mar 2010, at 02:55, syd adams wrote: Could someone apply please ? Done. James -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio

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] autopilot

2010-03-16 Thread syd adams
Hello ... After the recent autopilot update , altitude hold doesn't work anymore for me , (using pi-simple-controller) Im not sure what effect to expect with the anti-windup addition , but my guess is it's just exposing my poor configuration. Cheers

[Flightgear-devel] reset crash

2010-03-16 Thread syd adams
Ran into this , thinking I had a problem with the Primus 1000 ... When I try a reset from the menu , I get this error : passed invalid index (0) to FGRouteMgr::jumpToIndex Fatal error: name may contain only ._- and alphanumeric characters Ive been trying to hunt this down , but too tired

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reset crash

2010-03-16 Thread syd adams
I could reproduce with all the aircraft of mine ... haven't tried anyone else's yet . Ouch - the first message is mine - the second I can't claim responsibility for. What are the steps to reproduce - fire up the Bravo and hit 'reset'? James

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reset crash

2010-03-16 Thread syd adams
OK , could be something on my end. I'll dig a little deeper after work. Cheers On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: On 16 Mar 2010, at 14:08, syd adams wrote: I could reproduce with all the aircraft of mine ... haven't tried anyone else's yet . filed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot

2010-03-16 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the explanation , that does help clear a few things .I'll probably redo these files again shortly . Cheers On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de wrote: Hello ... After the recent autopilot update , altitude hold doesn't work anymore for me , (using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Primus1000 / M877

2010-03-18 Thread syd adams
Being the Primus 1000 author and maintainer i guess i should pipe up :) 1) The Primus1000 always shows distance and bearing (the additional blueish and white needles) to the VOR-Stations tuned in, even if they are out of range. I think this is not how it is supposed to be. I changed it so

[Flightgear-devel] nav radio patch

2010-03-19 Thread syd adams
Hello , This is a small patch to add a heading-pointer-offset for RMI's and HSI's that have these pointers. The reason for an offset is to illiminate the need to calculate true / magnetic headings or magnetic variation... not required as far as the needle is concerned. It rests at a 90 degree

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-20 Thread syd adams
SInce this is related , I'll ask here . I've got a 2 pointer RMI well under way , and according to the few documents I found , the RMI gets its input from the ADF and Nav receiver ... it doesn't do the calculations itself. So is better to NOT to use the /nav/heading-deg ? Cheers

[Flightgear-devel] RMI instrument

2010-03-21 Thread syd adams
displays yet ... It requires a /systems/electrical/outputs/rmi voltage to operate... If someone could include this , I would appreciate it . Cheers // rmi.cxx - radio magnetic indicator. // Written by Syd Adams, started 2010. // // Copyright (C) 2010 Syd Adams // // This program is free software

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improvements to the material library and materials.xml

2010-03-30 Thread syd adams
Good to hear , Ive thought of similar solutions , but they never got any further than just ideas in my head :) Looking forward to this. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, For a while I've been thinking about improving our material handling to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Announce] (electrical) circuit simulation

2010-04-13 Thread syd adams
Sounds promising . Ive been poking around with the generic electrical system , kind of hoping to revive it as a default system , with more complex systems done in nasal . I look forward to seeing what this can do. Cheers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Greetings from Eyjafjallajokull

2010-04-16 Thread syd adams
Yeah Ive been listening to the radio , sounds like no flying allowed yet. Sure makes for some gorgeous pictures though. We only see sunsets like that during forest fire season :) Cheers On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de wrote: Hi, most of you have probably heard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Greetings from Eyjafjallajokull

2010-04-16 Thread syd adams
Does that mean I'm supposed to click the reply at the bottom of the page ? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! Spectacular photos Torsten!!! (And I'm only top posting because Syd did and I want to maintain consistency and flow.) :-) Curt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear's Best Features

2010-04-23 Thread syd adams
What makes FG outstanding is, that it models not only the regular behaviour of systems but also the system errors. That is gyro drift, compass errors and side lobes on ILS signals to name just a few. This is news to me. Which instrument models the drift ? I thought none did , so I created a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear's Best Features

2010-04-23 Thread syd adams
Thanks Torsten , I'll give that a try . And yes , there are still things about FlightGear I probably dont know about ;) Cheers -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear's Best Features

2010-04-23 Thread syd adams
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, David Megginson david.meggin...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:11 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: This is news to me. Which instrument models the drift ? I thought none did , so I created a nasal gyro that drifts at 3 degrees/15

[Flightgear-devel] airport radio...

2010-05-02 Thread syd adams
Hi guys, Is it possible to add radio control to an airport or is it hard coded ? Our local airport is not controlled , but we are still required to state our intentions to the airport radio. I could probably do something with nasal , but would like to know if there is some trigger that enables

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airport radio...

2010-05-02 Thread syd adams
Helps a little but I don't have time to poke around in the code ATM... I thought there might be a simple way to force communication by modifying the apt.dat file ... Thanks On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Michael Smith mdsmi...@highland.net wrote: On 5/2/2010 4:24 PM, syd adams wrote: Hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p lights question

2010-05-25 Thread syd adams
:) Cheers On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:19 AM, HB-GRAL flightg...@sablonier.ch wrote: HB-GRAL schrieb: syd adams schrieb: While I cant test myself , (fg isn't playing nice at the moment) , in a lot of cases transparent covers need to be disabled for an animation behind it to be visible , so I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim effectiveness tag

2010-05-25 Thread syd adams
Hi Gary ... Ive wondered about this myself. Found this section in YASim/Surface.cpp : // Similar to the above -- interpolates out the flap lift past the // stall alpha float Surface::flapLift(float alpha) { float flapLift = _cz * _flapPos * (_flapLift-1) * _flapEffectiveness; Hopefully

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is something amiss with altimeter settings?

2010-05-29 Thread syd adams
Hi Rob , Im not sure if I understand what you mean. The 777 uses the instrumentation/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft to run the altimeter settings I havent checked to see how it deals with the reported MET pressure ... but it looks like you already know that above 17999 ft you set the

[Flightgear-devel] nasal errors

2010-05-29 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , Ive been trying to get FG running again , but still continue to get these errors at startup , which breaks livery select , autostart ... Nasal runtime error: bad/missing argument to subvec() at /home/syd/FGFS/data/Nasal/string.nas, line 225 called from:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal errors

2010-05-30 Thread syd adams
This is the output I get when starting with the Aerostar-700 : Loading local weather routines... '/home/syd/FGFS/data' Nasal runtime error: bad/missing argument to subvec() at /home/syd/FGFS/data/Nasal/string.nas, line 226 called from: /home/syd/FGFS/data/Nasal/string.nas, line 236 called

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Installed, doesn't run.

2010-06-11 Thread syd adams
Not sure what the problem might be , since I did the same thing 2 days ago and it runs without problems here , on an AMD Athlon XP with an NVIDIA 6200 series graphics card... just a thought , but I did have to remove pulseaudio to get another app to run without segfaulting during Openal

[Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Hi folks, I recompiled flightgear (git) , and noticed that the 2d cloud layers are racing along nearly double my flight speed , and usually in the general heading I fly .Its gives the illusion I'm flying backwards , unless a mountain peak happens to be poking through.Is this a recent bug , or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Glad to know it's just not me. I wonder if it has anything to do with this new cloud creating menu ? Which I haven't quite figured out the purpose of , wasn't the METAR string supposed to handle the user defined weather ? Just curious , since the move to git , progress reports seem to have fizzled

[Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Me again ... Im recompiling Terragear again ... changed Distros , but while compiling simgear-cs I get these ... In file included from SGClipGroup.cxx:26: SGClipGroup.hxx:55: error: ‘RegisterRenderBinProxy’ in namespace ‘osgUtil’ does not name a type SGClipGroup.cxx:73: error:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-21 Thread syd adams
Thanks Martin , I'll give that a try. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.netwrote: syd adams wrote: Im using svn OSG , recompiled yesterday is that too new ? OSG version 2.2.x should be fine. If that one doesn't work either, then you're having

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-06-22 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the links , I'll do some reading tonight . I was just a surprised because I hadn't seen it mentioned on the dev-list . Or I just missed that one maybe :) Cheers On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:01 AM, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: Glad to know it's just not me. I wonder if it has anything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More git questions

2010-07-03 Thread syd adams
Found one :) http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Git_for_dummies http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Git_for_dummiesLooks likes something I could use too . Cheers On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, First: I think we really need something like GIT for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: new autopilot subsystem implementation

2010-07-06 Thread syd adams
, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:54 PM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: I'll take a look at it , could be broken again ... but you need to set the altitude in the Alerter and arm it, then climb to that altitude (with a VS mode, or manually) ... it wont actually ALT hold until your within +- 1000 ft

[Flightgear-devel] material error

2010-08-09 Thread syd adams
Hi folks , hope someone can point me in the right direction ... I just did a new git clone of flightgear , simgear, fgdata (deleted all local copies first) , and recompiled all last night. I now get this error : Error building technique: findAttr: could not find attribute bool which is generated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] material error

2010-08-09 Thread syd adams
OK thanks , I'll try again . I compiled with a --with-simgear=/mypath :: I still have the older cvs simgear installed also maybe its time to clean that up to :) Cheers On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Csaba Halász csaba.hal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:22 PM, syd adams adams

Re: [Flightgear-devel] material error

2010-08-10 Thread syd adams
/08/2010 21:22, syd adams a écrit : Hi folks , hope someone can point me in the right direction ... I just did a new git clone of flightgear , simgear, fgdata (deleted all local copies first) , and recompiled all last night. I now get this error : Error building technique: findAttr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-11 Thread syd adams
Im just thinking out loud , but why would cloud movement take into account viewer movement ? Cheers On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Stuart Buchanan stuar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Heiko Schulz Just a guess- could it be that changes made for the alternative clouds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-12 Thread syd adams
While Im not positive this is the problem ... I noticed these lines in cloud.cxx starting at line 706: if (sp_dist 0) { bx = cos((180.0-direction) * SGD_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) * sp_dist; by = sin((180.0-direction) * SGD_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS) * sp_dist; } I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d clouds

2010-08-12 Thread syd adams
nope still broken :( On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: While Im not positive this is the problem ... I noticed these lines in cloud.cxx starting at line 706: if (sp_dist 0) { bx = cos((180.0-direction) * SGD_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft dirs (and noisy output atlog-level=info)

2010-09-07 Thread syd adams
Just thinking out loud , but wont all the paths in the aircraft's xml files need to change ? I'm thinking of the ones that require the full /Aircraft/myplane/Sound ,,, etc . Having a separate Aircraft folder seems like it would make dropping the finished work into fgdata/Aircraft fairly painless.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread syd adams
 That stuff is unnecessary and in real life you'd probably get your license yanked if you were caught using foul language on the radio. Here, in Canada , its a $5000 fine and/or a year in jail.That,s a pretty good deterrent :).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ProFlightSimulator The Most Realistic Flight Sim Ever

2010-11-16 Thread syd adams
While I tend to ignore these now, I am giving them a poor WOT score :) On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Chris Wilkinson blobster...@yahoo.com.au wrote: For the Windows brethren I'd be inclined to run a virus checker over that package before opening it. Spybots, virii, and trojans run hand in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft model/cockpit rating

2010-11-30 Thread syd adams
I think the list is a good start , but as already mentioned , I'm my own worst critic. Rating my own work , I'd say decent 3d model , working FDM's but plenty of room for improvement , and a FAIL for autopilot configuration . Hopefully I can get back to work on them once life stabilizes here , and

[Flightgear-devel] development directory

2010-11-30 Thread syd adams
Hi guys, how do I set the path for the development aircraft ... outside the FG-ROOT/Aircraft. I did some searching but couldn't find the email that announced this recent change. Thanks -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] development directory

2010-11-30 Thread syd adams
found it : --fg-aircraft=/my/addons; On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:04 PM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, how do I set the path for the development aircraft ... outside the FG-ROOT/Aircraft. I did some searching but couldn't  find the email that announced this recent change

Re: [Flightgear-devel] development directory

2010-12-01 Thread syd adams
It seems to work fine here without any additional changes , but I only have one aircraft in that folder at the moment On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:36 AM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: On 1 Dec 2010, at 08:45, James Turner wrote: This is supposed to be automatic - I updated the code in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments (was: Scenery Corner)

2010-12-23 Thread syd adams
Sticking my 2 cents in here , i cant take anything on the forum too seriously , probably just from bad forum experiences overall. The mailing list was always the place I looked for development news , but like Vivian mentioned , that doesn't seem to happen much since the move to Git . Would be nice

Re: [Flightgear-devel] map question

2010-12-30 Thread syd adams
I see a large portion of mine could be affected I can change all those to fit the new layout. So how do I go about committing updates ? Who do i contact about write access , or is a merge request the way to go? Or possibly create a gitorious repository for each of mine ? I,ve got FG installed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disabling menu items (was Re: map question)

2011-01-03 Thread syd adams
The following aircraft override the radio dialog, which has moved since v2.0.0. 777-200ER b1900d Citation-Bravo I've just pushed an enhancement to gui.nas that allows the aircraft developer to change the binding for a symbolically named dialog, in the same way that they can

[Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-07 Thread syd adams
Hi guys. Is there any interest in mouse acceleration properties, besides myself ? I,ve added it locally , and have mouse drag pedestal controls in the Aerostar . The calculation is already done in the code, FGMouseInput.cxx , so I've simply written each to a property: At line 317: if (x !=

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-07 Thread syd adams
Yes, the two lines of code I added just write the mouse xy movement to properties.With nasal I have to calculate the movement,which is done in the mouse code already.I've set up the Aerostar so I can click and slide the throttle,mixture and propeller levers in pairs, or Shift-drag to move each

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-07 Thread syd adams
Thanks,now I can undo my nasal versions.I didn't want to get too far in case the idea didnt fly;) On Friday, January 7, 2011, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, Good idea, and cheap to implement. I just pushed the patch with some tiny modifications. I added some code cleanup, too,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-07 Thread syd adams
Hi Torsten , i have one little request , could you invert the y acceleration before updating the property ? I had it inverted originally , otherwise you get negative values pushing the mouse forward , positive pulling back. It could be inverted with nasal for use , but it feels more natural with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-08 Thread syd adams
I knew this was too easy , and looking for the reason , but the acceleration properties don't zero out when the mouse stops moving . While it still works to a point , still not quite right. -- Gaining the trust of online

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-08 Thread syd adams
After a quick investigation , i see that the acceleration properties are only updated IF there has been a mouse movement , so they retain the last value ... my oversight. Should I make a patch , or leave this to you Torsten ? Cheers On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:03 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-08 Thread syd adams
No problem , and thanks . Imagine where flightgear would be now if everything worked the way it was meant too on the first try :) On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de wrote: could you invert the y acceleration before updating the property ? Sorry, my bad. It's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-08 Thread syd adams
Ive tried a few solutions to zero the properties , but then the animation stops working .With the current implementation , the mouse can leave the picked object while the button is pressed and continue to move the lever , so for the moment this seems to work ... On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:27 AM,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mouse acceleration

2011-01-09 Thread syd adams
Sound like a good idea . I don't get smooth results without some nasal help , but its so much nicer to move the mouse in the direction you want to push the lever rather than clicking 2 hotspots or two separate mouse buttons for forward/back.Having this routine in the global nasal should also save

[Flightgear-devel] reflect effects

2011-01-10 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , I've been attempting to add Chris's livery to the Citation II . Have to do some texture remapping , but I can't seem to get the reflect map to work correctly ...maybe I'm misunderstanding. I've converted a livery image file to a greyscale image , and modified the shades accordingly , but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect effects

2011-01-11 Thread syd adams
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Emilian Huminiuc emili...@gmail.com wrote: The intensity of the reflection is controlled by the material shininess and the alpha channel in the reflect map. In the grayscale map do a color to alpha with black as the color, if using GIMP.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect effects

2011-01-11 Thread syd adams
OK thanks thats were Im going wrong... On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:32 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Emilian Huminiuc emili...@gmail.com wrote: The intensity of the reflection is controlled by the material shininess and the alpha channel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect effects

2011-01-11 Thread syd adams
Heiko , I must have the wrong files , I initially get a silod chrome Citation . Sounds like I better start over and find the correct one .Even so , I'm interested in experimenting with other aircraft... Cheers On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi Syd,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect effects

2011-01-11 Thread syd adams
This is what i see with the initial model : http://imagebin.org/132166 On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, Datum: Dienstag, 11. Januar, 2011 14:39 Uhr Heiko , I must have the wrong files , I initially get a silod chrome Citation . Sounds like I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect effects

2011-01-11 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , just letting you know i found the problem with the reflect effect ... I had the Citation in a development folder and saw nothing but a solid chrome effect.I moved it into fgdata/Aircraft and it worked . Thanks for the tips. Cheers On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Heiko Schulz

[Flightgear-devel] reflect mapping

2011-01-14 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , I've been experimenting with the reflection effect ... I don't know who originally added them , but could someone with write access set the Aircraft/Generic/Effects/CubeMaps' textures to correct texture sizes so Flightgear doesn't have to rescale them every load ? Thanks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect mapping

2011-01-18 Thread syd adams
, at 18:55, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:09 AM, syd adams wrote: Hi guys , I've been experimenting with the reflection effect ... I don't know who originally added them , but could someone with write access set the Aircraft/Generic/Effects/CubeMaps

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect mapping

2011-01-19 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the info. I,ve scaled them ,and dont see any problems here .Just wanted to remove some startup errors ... though I see we have links to patches in the forum in the startup terminal what's that , anti-prosim tools ? ;) Cheers On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Heiko Schulz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reflect mapping

2011-01-19 Thread syd adams
19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info. I,ve scaled them ,and dont see any problems here .Just wanted to remove some startup errors ... though I see we have links to patches in the forum in the startup terminal what's that , anti-prosim tools

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777-200ER ground handling..

2011-01-27 Thread syd adams
Sorry about the late reply ...just got internet installed ... (moved into a new place). Now just need to find which box my router is in so i don't have cables strung across the living room floor :). Thanks for implementing the steering ... I'll see if I can figure it out if you send a merge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at LinuxTag and FSWeekend need your help

2011-02-06 Thread syd adams
I'd love to help , but things are tight right at the moment how much time do we have before the event ? I should be able to pitch in a little in a month or so if that's not too late. I'm also not sure how to go about this with the posted mail address. Cheers On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM,

[Flightgear-devel] Sgtext

2011-02-10 Thread syd adams
Hi guys, I.ve been working at changing over the Citation X EFIS to use 3d text ,but having a few problems. The property scale and offset don't work here , and formating doesnt behave like I expected ... for example , format%2.0f/format for altitude at 3029.23341234 prints 3029 . Scaling the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sgtext

2011-02-10 Thread syd adams
=double0.009/character-size  /text I'm not sure what you were after with %2.0f but the example you give looks correct to me. I don't think I've had to use scaling on any text values though. S. On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 13:26 -0700, syd adams wrote: Hi guys, I.ve been working at changing over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candiates

2011-02-20 Thread syd adams
Like we couldn't see this coming ;) As for the 777 , unrealistic according to who ? I'm not against changing it as one of the default aircraft , there are a lot of other great choices now , but I do get annoyed with these claims by armchair pilots who read it somewhere or saw it on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candidates

2011-02-21 Thread syd adams
Well a picture isn't what i asked for , I asked for some facts to back up that 'unrealistic' statement... And Ive seen stranger things around KSFO ;) But I'm not looking for an argument , I'm looking for some suggestions on how to improve it from real world airliner pilots. Cheers On Mon, Feb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candidates

2011-02-21 Thread syd adams
Reminded me of this video ... it IS a 757 , but still the performance is amazing ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJliayH6co On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Jack Mermod wrote: I wasn't planning to get into an argument over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candidates

2011-02-22 Thread syd adams
This is much more helpful than just a 'its unrealistic' and leave it at that. I,ve been testing some changes , it does tend to lift fairly early , but I think Ive got it a little closer now.I,ve so noticed a fuel.nas error at startup , so I'll tackle that one too. Thanks for the feedback guys.I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal-based generic electrical system

2011-02-23 Thread syd adams
Just to clear this up , my electrical system is all adapted from Curt's original nasal system , so it's about 99.9% his work/idea :). I'm definitely interested in trying out your's , Gary, Cheers -- Free Software

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New instrument: TCAS

2011-02-25 Thread syd adams
It compiled here with no problems , so now I'll go test it .Thanks , Thorsten. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, Hope the new instrument works for everyone (well, Hudson compiled it!). And hopefully this won't trigger a new multi-player sport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-26 Thread syd adams
Just a thought , but maybe asking nicely rather than demands and threats might work better ;) On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jack Mermod jackmer...@gmail.com wrote: I'm planning on contacting Red Bull today. If I get the green light, I better see my livery in the database lickity split!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Logos and licensing

2011-02-27 Thread syd adams
too many emails to read but if i understand Tim , I happen to agree that there's no reason for every aircraft to be inserted into the fgdata repository . Why not keep them separate from the main FG project and leave the onus on the content creators ? There the one's bringing the undesired

[Flightgear-devel] c172j

2011-02-27 Thread syd adams
Hi guys , I modelled a c172j , the aircraft i trained in , and got the fdm working pretty accurately (except for slipstream effect) , but noticed that the yasim piston engine burned about 11 gallons per hour , about 3 gallons an hour more than the real one does full rich. Would it be possible for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172j

2011-02-28 Thread syd adams
Thanks guys . I did think of limiting the mixture with src / dst ,but thought the ability to fine tune the fuel burn would still be nice. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Vivian Meazza vivian.mea...@lineone.net wrote: Syd Hi guys ,  I modelled a c172j , the aircraft i trained in , and got

[Flightgear-devel] another fuel change...

2011-02-28 Thread syd adams
Me again ... As Heiko mentioned , my S76C broke due to a fuel.nas change . If the change was mentioned here , I guess i missed it completely. After some experimentation, I finally got it running again ...it wouldn't start due to empty tanks , and trying to fill them with the dialog didn't work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another fuel change...

2011-02-28 Thread syd adams
Yes , thanks Gary. I'll do some experimenting here ... that'll be great if i can trim down my own fuel routine. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Gary Neely grne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: Me again ... As Heiko mentioned , my S76C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another fuel change...

2011-03-01 Thread syd adams
Possibly , i was getting fuel.nas errors suddenly ,when they hadn't appeared before , so i assumed that had changed the S-76 runs fine now , and ive been able to remove most of my old fuel handling routine.But the problem must have been in my own code , still not sure why , but all is good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another fuel change...

2011-03-02 Thread syd adams
It seems to work well here , once I figured out what was happening , and I removed my own fuel management for the S76C.Still testing to get the fuel consumption right. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de wrote: I changed the fuel.nas recently to reflect the changes in

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