[Flightgear-devel] The castAR Kickstarter is now live.

2013-10-14 Thread geneb
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system The castAR stands to do a LOT to improve the visuals for both DIY and commercial flight simulators. Because it's AR and not VR, it can also be used to generate in-cockpit displays by covering the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Upcoming Random Buildings changes

2013-10-11 Thread geneb
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: This is to give a heads up on some changes that I'm planning for Random Buildings for the V3.0 release, and to allow for comments/suggestions/ideas. I've now got the new system broadly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] win32 buildbot offer

2013-10-09 Thread geneb
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Stanisław Halik wrote: Hey, I can run a win32 buildbot with either MSVC 2008[1] or mingw-w64 on the same box that runs pypy buildbots aurora/ananke. I take it you're not aware of http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080 ? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] win32 buildbot offer

2013-10-09 Thread geneb
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Stanisław Halik wrote: On Wed October 9 2013 06:26:40 geneb wrote: I can run a win32 buildbot with either MSVC 2008[1] or mingw-w64 on the same box that runs pypy buildbots aurora/ananke. I take it you're not aware of http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080 ? Yeah but i4dnf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] win32 buildbot offer

2013-10-09 Thread geneb
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Stanisław Halik wrote: On Wed October 9 2013 06:56:18 geneb wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Stanisław Halik wrote: On Wed October 9 2013 06:26:40 geneb wrote: I can run a win32 buildbot with either MSVC 2008[1] or mingw-w64 on the same box that runs pypy buildbots aurora

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Howto download aircraft ( and others data ) from Git

2013-09-03 Thread geneb
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, grtuxhangar team wrote: Curt, Thanks for the joke Ahmad How about you not be a jerk when you don't get what you want, when you want it? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.12 is branched

2013-08-08 Thread geneb
The release branches exist, and the autobuild is running - someone can take the source ball or binaries (unfortunately the Windows slave is down, someone needs to ping Gene) and test it. Slave is up. Has been since about 7am PDT. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reminder: entering feature freeze now

2013-06-21 Thread geneb
But hey, since you think I don't know anything anyway and just pretend to be smart here, why don't you go looking for a different and really smart person to code you what you like. Or better yet, do it yourself. Because I have enough of this - I'm suspending my offer to help merging

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Benchmark matrix

2013-06-20 Thread geneb
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Alan Teeder wrote: Instead of all this mudslinging about what slows what on which processor, could some thought be given to producing a benchmark suite for Flightgear. It would need to take in all of the, by now well known, variables - making it by no means a simple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering

2013-05-03 Thread geneb
On Fri, 3 May 2013, grtuxhangar team wrote: Arnt, OK I have a question, when you are flying with FG how do you aim your camera ? Your answer is my answer . grtuxhangar team, you're basically trying to have a logical conversation with a fence post. You'll be a lot happier if you just add

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering

2013-04-30 Thread geneb
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Heiko Schulz wrote: Now, sorry, FG snapshots With ALS and Without Rembrandt https://sites.google.com/site/grtuxhangarctd/other-download/ P-38_demo1.png Who said we don't need a specific version when using ALS ? If I can't remember what ALS stands for, can I call it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering

2013-04-29 Thread geneb
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, grtuxhangar team wrote: Renk, There was so many wrong remarks , that i forgot that one: Just FYI, his _last_ name is Renk, not his first. That's Thorsten. :) His email client puts his last name first and doesn't insert a comma, so everyone thinks he's Renk Thorsten. :)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering

2013-04-26 Thread geneb
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Vivian Meazza wrote: Enough, too long already It would have been a LOT shorter had you trimmed his original message down instead of just tacking on to the bottom. :D g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmospheric Light Scattering

2013-04-26 Thread geneb
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Vivian Meazza wrote: Gene Enough, too long already It would have been a LOT shorter had you trimmed his original message down instead of just tacking on to the bottom. :D What and spoil the point? :-) By the time I reached where your text started, I'd forgotten

[Flightgear-devel] Somehow fitting I think...

2013-04-15 Thread geneb
http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/post/37629811483/when-jenkins-fails-to-build-the-package-for-the-5th :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translations

2013-04-04 Thread geneb
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Saikrishna Arcot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I saw that Flightgear is only translated into eight languages, and am planning to upload the translation files to Launchpad to allow translators to translate them into other languages. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.10.1

2013-04-03 Thread geneb
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Curtis Olson wrote: Hi James, This is great news if you are able to crank out full installers right from Jenkins. That will save me a bunch of downloading and hours of uploading for every new release candidate. It might be a good idea to create a script that will

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kinect for pc for head tracking?

2013-03-17 Thread geneb
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Alasdair Campbell wrote: To which end, you are not very encouraging with your ridiculous proclivity to commence every sentence with a double period, which does little other than highlight you as a bloody fool. Alasdair Campbell On reflection, I must apologise to Arnt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kinect for pc for head tracking?

2013-03-15 Thread geneb
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Zhitao Li wrote: I understand some of the reasons why Flightgear is hesitating to use trackir in the game, now Kinect sensor is available for PC, and it is far more powerful than the trackir, and with a more open SDK and license. Which makes me wonder if anyone in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2013-03-12 Thread geneb
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Renk Thorsten wrote: But we have to compromise - this wouldn't run on the Intels either. I'm assuming you're referring to the Intel graphics chipset, in which case the response would be So what?. Writing to the lowest capability chipset is simply a drag on the rest of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Daily Builds

2013-03-02 Thread geneb
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Saikrishna Arcot wrote: Just to let everyone know, I'm having (roughly) daily builds of FlightGear and Simgear for Ubuntu users at https://code.launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/flightgear-edge. If you are interested, you can add the PPA using the instructions on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 82, Issue 20

2013-02-28 Thread geneb
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, BARANGER Emmanuel wrote: Geneb wrote: As far as I know, they're still distributing it. Games typically don't get an official EOL like other products do. They do still support it through their website although further development ceased when they closed the ACES studio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-28 Thread geneb
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Renk Thorsten wrote: Renk, you should take a look at the default Cessna 172 in FG and it's mate in FSX. The FSX version wipes the floor with the FG version with respect to the cockpit model. (I'd really appreciate if you guys would call me on first-name basis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Renk Thorsten wrote: Following a forum discussion, I finally became curious and tested the FSX demo version yesterday. I've spent about two hours flight with it, testing 3 different planes (the ultralight, the Baron and the Learjet) and had a look at different weather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG vs. FSX demo

2013-02-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Stefan Seifert wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 07:42:19 Renk Thorsten wrote: * A big plus about the FSX terrain is that it doesn't have landclass seams. Is this why there's such a hard edge on the coastlines? g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 82, Issue 19

2013-02-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, BARANGER Emmanuel wrote: And then FX X is dead. It no longer exists. If you compare, do it with what exists. Xplane 10 (64 bit) or Prepar3D, this is the surviving of FS X (production of Lockheed Martin) While your diatribe makes ZERO sense to me, you're incorrect that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 82, Issue 19

2013-02-27 Thread geneb
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Arnt Karlsen wrote: And then FX X is dead. It no longer exists. If you compare, do it with what exists. Xplane 10 (64 bit) or Prepar3D, this is the surviving of FS X (production of Lockheed Martin) While your diatribe makes ZERO sense to me, you're incorrect that FSX is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real Avionics protocols

2013-02-04 Thread geneb
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Michael Sabino wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a group of flightgear users who are trying to develop a library for the real avionics protocols so that instruments could communicate to each other using MIL-STD-1553/ARINC/HSDB(F-22 Raptor). I am currently working on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CI server

2013-01-21 Thread geneb
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, ys wrote: Hi Sorry for that and I don't want to shout loud about anything (mostly), but after some months ... is it possible to get the images back somehow on the official CI server? I mean, with all respect for whatever console, but I need to note that this server

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CI server

2013-01-21 Thread geneb
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, ys wrote: Hi Gene Could have different reason, is also reported as bug with some jenkins versions ... https settings for anonymous user, windwos server, proxied and wrong proxy configuration ... In case you're running a nginx proxy I could send you another

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CI server

2013-01-21 Thread geneb
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hi Gene, De: geneb ge...@deltasoft.com On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, ys wrote: Hi Gene Could have different reason, is also reported as bug with some jenkins versions ... https settings for anonymous user, windwos server, proxied and wrong proxy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CI server

2013-01-21 Thread geneb
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Found this : https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-14063 Maybe you already know. I wasn't aware of that - all my searches came up empty. Looks like someone installed GreenBalls v1.12+ for us. :) It's working now. g. -- Proud owner of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dan Freeman and ProFlightSimulator

2013-01-13 Thread geneb
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Jim Thomas wrote: Got burned too. I'll send you the disks. Jim Thomas jdtchicago at gmail.com Jim, I hope you challenged the charge on your credit card if the scammers refused to refund you or gave you a run-around. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 8

2012-12-22 Thread geneb
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Clement de l'Hamaide wrote: I have had no contact with them either by phone or otherwise. I don't know whether or not either party has a legitimate gripe. What I DO know is that it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the purpose of this mailing list. I would strongly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 8

2012-12-22 Thread geneb
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Gijs de Rooy wrote: I would strongly request you take your drama to the forums. It has no place here. Better take the drame to your own forum... That makes no sense at all. I'll write it off to a collision between your writing and my understanding. :) This all just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 8

2012-12-22 Thread geneb
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Gijs de Rooy wrote: Better take the drame to your own forum... That makes no sense at all. I'll write it off to a collision between your writing and my understanding. :) With your forum I meant Emmanuel's forum. Didn't mean Gene's forum :-) Sorry for being unclear.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Radio Propagation

2012-12-14 Thread geneb
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, James Turner wrote: On 14 Dec 2012, at 17:27, James Turner wrote: As I said to Adrian offline, I know there's plenty of code already checked in, of a similar quality / design / pattern to his submission, but I'd like to set a higher standard for new code than what we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound bugfix and Jenkins

2012-12-13 Thread geneb
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, James Turner wrote: On 13 Dec 2012, at 09:02, Renk Thorsten wrote: Jenkins FlightGear-Win64-CMake build history: #220 (pending - All nodes of label 'x64' are offline ) Last build (#219), 3 days 9 hr ago Shouldn't have the fix propagated to a new Win64 binary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Radio Propagation

2012-12-13 Thread geneb
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Adrian Musceac wrote: Please forgive my my clear words - it's not my intention to offend anybody. No offence taken. I understand your pain/gain argument and we agree to disagree on that. The pain is now taken care of, the gain is present. You are one of the project

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain sampling for elevation

2012-12-01 Thread geneb
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Adrian Musceac wrote: Hi, Right now, due to some rather encouraging results I've had so far with my little terrain sampling experiment, I've started a wiki page on this topic: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Terrain_sampling I've included a screenshot with a demo of three

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI manager fails to compile with MSVC

2012-11-24 Thread geneb
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, ThorstenB wrote: Am 24.11.2012 14:16, schrieb Alan Teeder: Thanks – FG compiles and runs again. Thanks for the feedback. As you may have noticed, the Jenkins Windows builds were apparently stuck/blocked for 3 days - it hasn't even tried to compile - hence there were no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-07 Thread geneb
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, AJ MacLeod wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:48:27 +0100 Durk Talsma wrote: It's definitely worth putting effort into promotion of FG, I'm sure the vast majority of FSX (and probably X-Plane) users have almost no idea of what it is or is capable of and there are bound to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-07 Thread geneb
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Durk Talsma wrote: Hi Thorsten, So, what I was actually looking for was new ways of *using* FlightGear, within the limitations of an internet-free environment. Our lan based multiplayer server was very effiective in the past, and in the last few years we also had some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-07 Thread geneb
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Durk Talsma wrote: Hi Gene (and John), On 07 Nov 2012, at 15:31, geneb wrote: Durk, if you can find someone that's willing to cut the parts for you, I'd be happy to donate a drawing set for my single-seat collimated display system. You show up next year

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-06 Thread geneb
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, TDO Brandano wrote: Ok, silly idea, but it might just work. You could try to install the drivers in a wineprefix and reroute the traffic to the usb device on the linux side so that the stream of data gets logged somewhere? I think the smarter path, providing Saitek won't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement

2012-09-17 Thread geneb
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Curtis Olson wrote: I posted something to slashdot, but I guess it came out as anonymous coward. Honestly, there are a lot of sharp people that read slashdot, but for every one of them, there are 100 complete morons. And at least Fixed that for you. :) g. -- Proud

Re: [Flightgear-devel] license

2012-09-05 Thread geneb
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Martin Spott wrote: Renk Thorsten wrote: FlightProSim does not defraud its customers as far as I am aware. According to reports on this very list (hint) and elsewhere they don't comply with the money-back guarantee they advertize. Nor do they comply with the GPL from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] license

2012-09-05 Thread geneb
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Renk Thorsten wrote: We haven't been able to pin them down on a specific technical violation of the gpl, but that doesn't mean they are legitimate, honorable, and ethical. They're immoral scammers, plain and simple. It galls me to speak up for FlightProSim, but such

Re: [Flightgear-devel] feature request

2012-08-28 Thread geneb
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Curtis Olson wrote: How do I get a prototype here? Depending on how they have implemented the device, the integration could be relatively straight forward. This is the only way: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game?ref=live g. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dan Freeman and ProFlightSimulator

2012-08-15 Thread geneb
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Vivian Meazza wrote: Here's what they claim to be their source code that I got from their website a while back: http://www.abbeytheatre2.org.uk/flexshare/flightgear/FlightProSim/ AFAIKS it's our source code unaltered. It ought to install and run, but I never checked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dan Freeman and ProFlightSimulator

2012-08-15 Thread geneb
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Curtis Olson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:30 AM, geneb wrote: Ah, ok. I wonder if that's what is on this fancy 4 DVD set they're shipping now... I still would like the contents of those DVDs - I'd like to put together some kind of anti campaign so folks know where

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changelog for Release 2.8.0

2012-08-15 Thread geneb
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hi Vivian, I think Curt has this video in mind : http://youtu.be/I5cqAgOnSxE That's really cool Fred. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dan Freeman and ProFlightSimulator

2012-08-14 Thread geneb
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Ivan Abolit wrote: I am not sure if this is the right forum for my topic but I feel some one else in the flight simulator world should be aware of this. I ordered the 4DVD Edition of ProFlightSimulator from the company's website on 4 April 12; paid $150.00 CAD for both

[Flightgear-devel] MSVC build slave..

2012-08-13 Thread geneb
...is back online! Many thanks to Curt for donating a replacment drive! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error building FG on Windows (linking)

2012-08-09 Thread geneb
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Geoff McLane wrote: I AGREE the directory setup SUCKS big time, and the wiki does not yet give ALL the answers... and this, at the moment seem exacerbated by some Win32 parts of jenkins (simpits) seem DOWN... Should be back online tonight! :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C

[Flightgear-devel] Build failed in Hudson: FlightGear-next #231

2010-10-29 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next/231/changes Changes: [James Turner] Goodbye old HUD - and the archeology it depended upon in cockpit.cxx -- Started by an SCM change Building on master Checkout:workspace /

[Flightgear-devel] Hudson build is back to normal : FlightGear-next #232

2010-10-29 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next/232/changes -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and

[Flightgear-devel] Hudson build is back to normal : FlightGear-next #216

2010-10-24 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next/216/changes -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and

[Flightgear-devel] Build failed in Hudson: FlightGear-next-mac #234

2010-10-17 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next-mac/234/changes Changes: [James Turner] Use a property listener on the root, to observe property creation, and thus lazily update the MP property map. Fixes bug 164, and probably many latent MP missing-property issues.

[Flightgear-devel] Build failed in Hudson: FlightGear-next-mac #233

2010-10-16 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next-mac/233/ -- Started by an SCM change Started by an SCM change Started by an SCM change Started by an SCM change Started by an SCM change Started by an SCM change Started by an SCM change Started by

[Flightgear-devel] Build failed in Hudson: FlightGear-next-mac #232

2010-10-15 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next-mac/232/changes Changes: [Torsten Dreyer] Fix timing issue on startup for auto runway selection [Torsten Dreyer] remove leftover debugging stuff -- Started by an SCM change Building remotely on

[Flightgear-devel] Build failed in Hudson: FlightGear-next-mac #230

2010-10-10 Thread geneb
See http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next-mac/230/ -- Started by user geneb Building remotely on MacPro Checkout:FlightGear-next-mac / http://flightgear.simpits.org:8080/job/FlightGear-next-mac/ws/ - hudson.remoting.chan...@b46c4c:MacPro