[Flightgear-devel] Netiquette

2012-04-22 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everyone, probably I'm not the right person to write this as my last code commit was ages ago - but I'm still following the discussions on this list: Currently I'm seeing quite a few mails with a full quote of the mail referring to (e.g. the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nasal: vector, quaternion, matrix math?

2011-05-16 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 16.05.2011 19:02, schrieb Curtis Olson: Long term it might be fun to expose the SimGear SGMath vector, matrix, and quaternion classes through nasal, but for the short term I'm thinking of doing something less efficient. No solution for Nasal,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C++ for Simulation

2010-09-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon S. Berndt schrieb: If cost is an issue (isn't it always?), is it worth it to expend the resources to clean up code that may have been gathering flotsam and jetsam for years - particularly if you want to add some new features (base on new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seeking permission -- reuse of SimGear component

2010-02-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Michael A. K. Gross schrieb: Unfortunately, it claims GPLv2. That would force NASA's hand at releasing the planner code publicly, not something I can do as a contractor Please read the Licence (GPLv2) carefully again. It tells you, that you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Outerra

2010-02-08 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James Sleeman schrieb: Heiko Schulz wrote: Just for those who wants to know what's going on in the flight sim world: Outerra is a new 3d-engine for seamless planet rendering. That's what a dense forest should look like. And that grass

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stuart Buchanan schrieb: So far, my requirements list is as follows: * 17 screen * NVidia graphics card (non-integrated) * Ubuntu support * Plenty of USB sockets for joystick/pedals. That looks like the list for my Laptop replacement ;) -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] least squares code

2009-10-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Curtis Olson schrieb: I will be receiving a sequence of 2d data points in real time. I will start by assuming a linear relationship/fit which I know in advance is a [...] A method that forgets the oldest data and weights newer data more heavily

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear web site is updated.

2008-12-22 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 We should change our last announcement (or change the version number of this release): Looking at the announcement page we are releasing 1.9.0 but one enty earlier it says: October 27, 2008 - World Scenery v1.0.1 released. The World Scenery is made

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Best cartesian point class to use

2008-12-01 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James Turner schrieb: (following from my recent discovery that Point3D is archeology at best...) What is the 'best' type to be using in new code for Cartesian co- ordinates? Not for rendering related things, where I assume osg::Vec3 is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 If we add a little lable / watermark on all screenshots on the homepage with http://www.flightgear.org/; (or one of our logos...) it makes reusing them much more difficult... Perhaps adding a copyright statement as well would be even better. This

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to put a dynamic model from MatLab inside Flightgear

2008-11-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hallo Thiago, although mI haven't hacked FGFS for ages and never used it togeth with Matlab I hope I can help: When you are using a Matlab flight dynamics model FGFS runs completely independently of it - it get's the relevant data over an network

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HEADS UP: Scenery regeneration

2008-08-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Ralf, Ralf Gerlich schrieb: [...] The actual problem lies within TriangleJRS, the triangulation code of TerraGear, [...] Fixing TriangleJRS was not possible for me as I am clearly not a computational geometry man. if the triangulation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D trees

2007-12-30 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Josh Babcock schrieb: LeeE wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2007 09:47, Detlef Faber wrote: Hello, Could it be that the overhead of rotating many simple billboard objects accounts for the performance hit over an equivalent number of more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Random Objects OSG patch

2007-12-28 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris Metzler schrieb: On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:38:48 -0600 Curtis Olson wrote: 2. The random seed could have probably been better chosen because there were areas where you'd get 5 water towers in a straight line. I never chased that one down,

[Flightgear-devel] Fontsize problem at the Homepage

2007-12-27 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, looking at the aircraft download page the text under the thumbnails is extremly small (height: 5 pixel...) Can we change that? (I *guess* the culprit is the font-size:80%) As far as I can see the plane download page is the only affected

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and snapshots)

2007-12-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 AnMaster schrieb: All screenshots have been looselessly compressed with optipng before uploading (http://optipng.sourceforge.net/) at max level. I don't think that screenshots need a lossles compression. JPG is optimized for photograph-like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft selection summary

2007-12-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 AJ MacLeod schrieb: One point which keeps cropping up is size. While I fully agree that it's important to keep the base package to a reasonable size so that people aren't put off downloading FG, I also think that there's perhaps even a danger

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-12-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert Black schrieb: On Saturday 01 December 2007 02:38:13 pm alexis bory wrote: Heiko Schulz wrote: But we havn't found a number yet- so how should we find the right name? Alexis Identifying the versions as stable testing and unstable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-11-30 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Curtis Olson schrieb: How about a quick, friendly, positive, informal thread here to do a poll on what what folks are thinking for the next version number. The odd/even numbering scheme doesn't really work for us (did anyone ever backport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Keyboard reorg

2007-11-13 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Megginson schrieb: [...] 2. Decide on a block of keys to be set aside for per-aircraft key assignment. [...] Hi David, it's a great idea at the right time to set a standard for the key bindings. Here are some of my thoughts: 1) try to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal poll: driving simulation

2007-08-07 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, for my living I'm developing powertrain modells for hardware in the loop simulators (for a well known OEM...). As my part covers only longitudinal dynamics I'm currently not using any 3D visualisation, but my drivetrain colleagues are using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reality issues in MP, Was: Flying at/for LinuxTag (fwd)

2007-06-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joacim Persson wrote: Anyway, look at the wind strut. It looks as if the 225 was lining up to take off in a tail wind. And this brings up the issue of MP and reality: The metar weather for EDDI on Friday was wind from 50 degrees, and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Intellectual property rights, trademark rights vs. GPL ??

2007-05-07 Thread Christian Mayer
I doubt there's something like fair use - either it's allowed (by the trademark owner) or not. What might look like fair use most probably only shows that the trademark owner doesn't know it (how should he? we are not that big yet...) - or he doesn't care (I've heard that this might result in a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The infamous invisible wall of weather

2007-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, as my time constraints got worse over the years my last contributed code is quite old... It was the WeatherCM environmen - it should be in the CVS somewhere. This code has/had the ability to smoothly interpolate globally between different weather stations, which should prevent the described

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Book

2007-01-28 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi Nick, Nick Warne schrieb: On Friday 26 January 2007 23:46, Christian Mayer wrote: The quality of the text looks quite bad to me, it's about amateur writing level, I guess. The layout was done with OpenOffice which also fits in this picture. What on earth do you mean that statement? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Book

2007-01-26 Thread Christian Mayer
I had a look at the sample chapter. The quality of the text looks quite bad to me, it's about amateur writing level, I guess. The layout was done with OpenOffice which also fits in this picture. Searching the net for the author, it looks like he has written lots of computer books on totally

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dene schrieb: Curtis Olson wrote: That's all well and good, except I think we want our screenshots to be redistributable and used and shared as much as possible. This is an open and free project. I really want to avoid going down the path of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Stefan Seifert wrote: Hell... I've even got a picture that Martin posted a while back of him and a plane, amongst alot of others... Martin seems to be the one to ask then. Oh man, you should expect that everything I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dene schrieb: Hi Curt, thanks for re-affirming that, I am still a little unsure on some things; As long as I'm using images in a positive manner then it's OK? who makes the judgement call on whether my use is positive or not? That's the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Does this actually mean that I have to hide every single picture, that I publish, behind a wrapper that forces the visitor to agree to the respective license ? In the past I've been simply uploading some picture or screenshot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson schrieb: Someone just directed me to the following ebay vendor selling FlightGear. [...] Although it seams that we've found a reasonable way to deal with the problem, I think one point is still missing: This guy uses our screenshots

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: * Except, arguably, for the screenshots. But even there, I think you could make a very valid fair use argument that as long as your distribution is licensed, making screenshots for the purpose of advertising is fine.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Patterson schrieb: As an idea, could we add a section to say what ip addresses range to expect the packets to orginate from. This would help protect the key against being brute forced. This way we may not even need to do the public/private

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: Olaf Flebbe wrote: Hi, The comment for fast_log is IMHO incorrect. /** * This function is about 3 times faster than the system log() function * and has an error of about 0.01% */ The relative error can be larger than 7%

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on Softpedia

2006-06-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: Martin Spott wrote: Unfortunately they took the screenshots from the FlightGear gallery and put their watermark on it, The watermark is a pity but it might be good for FlightGear to put the screenshots that end up in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on Softpedia

2006-06-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: Perhaps - but then only with our own watermark, so that everybody who finds them knows where they are from. Hehe, good idea ! Do you know a method how to place such a watermark without requiring

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Impact of texturing objects on performance?

2006-06-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnt Karlsen schrieb: On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:03:58 +0200, Frederic wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Using Shared models helps saving memory. That way, only one model is loaded, and it is displayed multiple times. With static objects, every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL licensing question.

2006-06-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Here's a question for all you amateur lawyers and GPL experts out there. INAL but your case looks to me like that that person wants to use FGFS just as an (complex) viewer/interpreter program for his proprietary content(*).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL licensing question.

2006-06-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver schrieb: Am Dienstag, den 06.06.2006, 19:48 +0200 schrieb Christian Mayer: (*) I'm assuming that the proprietary aircraft doesn't derive of any preexisting material (like textures) in FGFS. This might become complex with the cofiguration

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Light reflection on rivers and see, any perspective on developing such eye candies?

2006-05-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Inzerillo schrieb: While looking at redBaron screenshots I was impressed by the light effect on the rivers (see the sun light reflecting on the river in http://www.redbarent.com/assets/images/taranaki.jpg) Is anybody working on such a

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

2006-04-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robicd schrieb: There are mirrors inside, for the pilots (look at http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-cp-canopy-01l.jpg); I wonder if there's a way with FGFS to create those mirrors, some kind of picture-in-picture technique :-) The usual way

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

2006-04-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robicd schrieb: The usual way (the only one?) to create mirrors is to render the scenery (at least) twice. I wonder if it's easy to implement, I don't know how SimGear/Plib handle that (if it's even possible). That should not be a real drop down

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

2006-04-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flying.toaster schrieb: Just one question before I get started ... What is the reasonnable polygon count (in triangles or quads) that can be accepted by most platforms without turning into a slideshow ? For strike fighters this is somewhere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive 0.1 bravo ready for testing

2006-04-28 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pigeon schrieb: http://pigeond.net/flightgear/fglive-0.1bravo.torrent 532mb, md5sum b0a267cc0d789314d0347129abb50724 README: http://pigeond.net/flightgear/README.fglive.html OK, this looks much better on my laptop. Selecting only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ I just had a quick look at Munich (EDDM). Activating all layers it looks like that the most

[Flightgear-devel] Automated source code analysis

2006-04-16 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, probably you've heared already of Coverity. They have a method to automatically scan source code for possible bugs. They are also working together with a few OSS projects (like GCC, FireFox, KDE or Wine) where they continously scan the code base:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnt Karlsen schrieb: ..and rightfully so, amule has a search function and the first 2 boxes I looked at, had ahem copyrighted music etc in when I fetched K5dvd, the second time I looked, everybody behaved like I was RIAA or BSA or FBI or

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloadpage

2006-03-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was again wondering why most planes on the downloadpage have the same version. Looking at the sourcecode of make-aircraft-html.pl it looks like the version number is that date the make-aircraft-html.pl is run (when no version is set in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloadpage

2006-03-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: I was again wondering why most planes on the downloadpage have the same version. Looking at the sourcecode of make-aircraft-html.pl it looks like the version number is that date the make-aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::string'

2006-03-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:41, Chris Metzler wrote: Yes, this is definitely the way to solve this problem. After all, nobody gets truly worked up about dumbass things like vim vs. emacs or anything like that! Two

[Flightgear-devel] For the Europeans: public geodata

2006-03-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, there's a page - http://publicgeodata.org/Home - that tries to lobby the European parliament not to pass a bill that allows the national mapping agencies to own the data that the tax payer has already paid for. So if you live in Europe you might

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tutorial System patch (version 5)

2006-02-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchanan, Stuart schrieb: Hi All, Another post from me - must mean another iteration of the tutorial patch I've just tried the current version in CVS -- it's great! But one problem is that I don't have Festival - and thus have to read all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tutorial System patch (version 5)

2006-02-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchanan, Stuart schrieb: Yes, having festival really makes a difference. I compiled it successfully on Cygwin, but I don't know if it is possible to compile for straight windows. Perhaps some kind person will be able to compile a MS binary and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine schrieb: IIRC I have been mentioning http://www.sdss.jhu.edu/htm/index.html every time these kind of questions arise for years now :-) :) I know. Perhaps it's time that we implement it this time :) CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-19 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As my last post to this topic was probably a bit cryptic for some I've looked in the net a bit and have found: http://taltos.pha.jhu.edu/htm/ Probably we can use their software directly - or use their algorithm to partition the earth in such a way

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: FlightGear/src/Sound voice.cxx,1.3,1.4

2006-02-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Frederic Bouvier -- Saturday 18 February 2006 17:05: fgrun and fgadmin haven't any config.h under MSVC. And I don't know about Mac or another potential, non unix, system. OK. But most likely because the build system

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Luff schrieb: I'm considering the problem of looking up global data at the moment (eg. how many navaids are within x miles of point p). So far I've only implemented this in a very crude manner, by indexing a map of navaid pointers using FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Wojnaroski schrieb: If someone wants to provide me with a script or list of phrases to record I know I can find a professionally trained voice to create the audio files. As for a Texan accent, I think we can work that as well and probably a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airway routing heads up

2006-02-07 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Durk Talsma schrieb: Notice that the routing algorithm is still far from perfect, but I thought it would be fun to share some of the initial experiments with you guys... What algorthim are you using? CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] two scenery ideas

2006-01-24 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: X-Plane uses some shader language dithering approach which I don't understand enough to comment on. This sounds like a good solution This isn't easy, especially not within the context of plib which really doesn't like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Studio 2005

2006-01-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: Frederic Bouvier wrote: It says that strcpy ( for instance ) is not secure and one should use strcpy_s that is the secured version. Maybe I missed something, but I don't thing strcpy_s is available outside the MS world. They

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Battery Realism (Nasal Electrical System)

2006-01-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Elliott schrieb: Hmm... this made me think about how some aspects of realism and accuracy may not always be a good idea. For example, if the temperature is so low that CCA is inadequate to start the engine what is the solution? In real

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Will my updates be used/useful?

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Surgeon schrieb: On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:08, Christian Mayer wrote: (*) unless you want to get fancy with blending the textures, etc. pp. But this will create an big overhead. Well yes but a half decent scenery engine using texture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Will my updates be used/useful?

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 dene maxwell schrieb: Hi all, my reading of the situation; a) No adjustment of the textures takes place at the moment for sloping terrain...hence the stretch problem. b) a cylindrical solution has been proposed(that I don't understand the

Re: OSG? was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Graphics Engine

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: The sg* vectors and matrices are created in such a way that they'll offer the higest possible performance and compatability for using OpenGL. column major like fortran :) Well, I worked, together with some collegues, on

Re: OSG? was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Graphics Engine

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: Hi, On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:54, Christian Mayer wrote: (BTW: my diploma thesis [= roughly a masters thesis] was the creation of cache oblivious matrix operations in C++ using the space filling Peano curve; I could

Re: OSG? was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Graphics Engine

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: Hi, On Sunday 15 January 2006 13:18, Christian Mayer wrote: Technomathematik (= applied mathematics) Karlsruhe? Nope, TU München Mathematician from Tübingen, did numerical analysis, mostly timestepping. Numerics

Re: OSG? was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Graphics Engine

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Fröhlich schrieb: Hi, On Sunday 15 January 2006 13:33, Christian Mayer wrote: Numerics is also the stuff that I do most (as well as lots of fluid dynamics). Ok, so you are actually writing on your PHD? Nein. Ich muß erst noch die

[Flightgear-devel] File name problem in CVS

2006-01-12 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, there's a problem in the base package CVS tree. In the directory data/Aircraft/Citation-Bravo/Models is a Bravo.ac and a bravo.ac, i.e. two files that differ only in the case of the first letter. (well, that's what TortoiseCVS tells me) At

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture compression experiments in plib

2006-01-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiago Gusmão schrieb: The other problem is that this is plib, i'm not sure this is simply going to be accepted into the tree after being coded properly. And to make it an option, i think we also need to modify it to get the option passed to plib.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft - have fun!

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torsten Dreyer schrieb: I tried the same approach as everyone else: get as close to the original as possible. What makes a model of a kids toy different from a model of a A380, a Cub, a 747 or a PA28? But to keep it safe, I will send a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft - have fun!

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Gerlich schrieb: Hi, Christian Mayer schrieb: BTW: at least in Germany it makes a difference if it used geschäftsmäßig or not. As someone might ask money for distributing it (at least the big distributions are!), it falls under

[Flightgear-devel] Status of the hangar

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's the status of the hangar at http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/ Does it show all planes in CVS or only released versions? Why do all have the version v20051121? CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture compression experiments in plib

2006-01-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AJ MacLeod schrieb: I was hoping that it might enable me to run Jon's new KSFO scenery with Tiger data, but no improvement there at all. Either Jon has to reduce the ploy count markedly, or I have to upgrade my video card! Same here, unfortunately

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer voice comunication

2006-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Although voice communication would be a great addition to FlightGear, it is going to be pretty useless feature. Could you probably back this with an explanation ? Voice-based ATC is done all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer voice comunication

2006-01-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Vezzali schrieb: Hi All! Some time ago on the mailing list I read something about multiplayer's voice comunication, does anyone is working on that? If yes what is the state of development? I'm asking that because I found this GPL project

Re: [Flightgear-devel] South-Germany Scenery Update

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Gerlich schrieb: Hi all, I have just uploaded the current release of the South Germany Custom Scenery. Great work! 2. Extended Area It's getting closer and closer... Any plans for the also very beautiful Munich area?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Circuit simulator written in Nasal

2005-12-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Babcock schrieb: Figures that it would be Ampere that would model the electrical system. Now if only we could get Volt and Watt to contribute ... :) That still would leave Mr Ohm, Mr Siemens (you know, one over Mr. Ohm), Mr. Fahrenheit, Mr