[Flightgear-devel] working with the property tree

2005-05-25 Thread bass pumped
I need to learn how to work with the property tree in flightgear. Could someone refer me to material that might be helpful? Thanks! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] working with the property tree

2005-05-26 Thread bass pumped
On 5/26/05, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: I need to learn how to work with the property tree in flightgear. Could someone refer me to material that might be helpful? This isn't much information. What exactly do you want to do with the property tree, or are you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread bass pumped
Well, I submitted it. Alas, it didn't go well. You can follow the flame war here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/threads.html#01305 I just read that... that guy certainly has a problem!!! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] batteries, alternators, volts, amps - electrical system

2005-06-01 Thread bass pumped
Hi, I'm thinking that if you can find the performance graphs for a given alternator for an aircraft, especially those with rpm vs output (whether voltage or current) and then put the values into an XML file, it might do the trick for you. You could then use Kirchoff's laws to sum the input from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property browser

2005-06-06 Thread bass pumped
If I wanted to look at the code for the property browser where would I look? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native-Ctrls UDP packet structure

2005-06-18 Thread bass pumped
Maybe I'm wrong but I remember reading somewhere on the lists that the reason for this vibration was because of the damping on the gear being too low and that you could fix that problem by increasing the damping? or did I read that for Yasim? On 6/18/05, Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native-Ctrls UDP packet structure

2005-06-19 Thread bass pumped
Hi all, I managed to finally get control of flightgear using a joystick and the native-ctrls format from simulink. IT FLIES! at least almost... Just have one thing I couldn't sort out... that was the throttle. It seems to be acting digital,ie. at certain instants, based on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Short Reference Document error?

2005-06-19 Thread bass pumped
Hi guys, Since you are updating the documentation, I think it might be a good idea to include the byte order lists of the various input/ouput protocols. It would help someone who would want to fly flightgear through some external application, and especially help those who are building external

[Flightgear-devel] Debugging Throttle control in Native-ctrls

2005-06-20 Thread bass pumped
Hi all, I'm sending joystick input through Simulink in Matlab to Flightgear using the Native-ctrls structure. I am able to control everything pretty satisfactorily, everything except the throttle... its gone digital on me!!! It fluctuates between a one and a zero in almost a random manner when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debugging Throttle control in Native-ctrls

2005-06-20 Thread bass pumped
Throttle should be no different from any other value. There is probalby internal code clamping this to the range of 0.0 - 1.0 so if your numbers are coming through garbage and random, you might see this effect. If it was me, I'd insert some debugging code in src/Networks/native_ctrls.cxx

[Flightgear-devel] Native_FDM suggestion

2005-06-22 Thread bass pumped
Hi all, I was working on interfacing flightgear with Simulink via UDP... I'm happy to say that it worked :-) I used a matlab script file to read and write data to transfer data to flightgear. I was looking at the data that is being sent and I realized that of all the engine data being sent,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native_FDM suggestion

2005-06-22 Thread bass pumped
Throttle position is definitely included in the net_ctrls.hxx structure. What structure are you using for your matlab communication? Curt. yup!!! it is there in native_ctrls. I just thought it might be a good idea to have it in native_fdm too!! Just a thought!!!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native_FDM suggestion

2005-06-22 Thread bass pumped
I think you should share the specifics of the UDP and Matlab version with those of us that have been toying with this unsucessfully for months... ;^) Matlab 7 it is. I used the TCP/UDP/IP toolbox by Peter Rydesäter. You can find it at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native_FDM suggestion

2005-06-22 Thread bass pumped
ok... I have a question. I want to send a commanded elevator control surface deflection instead of a stick command to flightgear from matlab. This means that I cannot use native_ctrls but instead have to use native_fdm where an option to edit this value does exist. But how will I be able to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debugging Throttle control in Native-ctrls

2005-06-22 Thread bass pumped
..this is the correct behavior for early WWI era planes powered with rotary engines such as the Gnome, Rhone and Oberursel rotaries, these were throttled by blipping the ignition off-n-on to cut power to a desirable level. If you're _not_ doing a rotary, it's a bug. ;o) I know I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native_FDM suggestion

2005-06-22 Thread bass pumped
On 6/22/05, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were you, I'd take a look at net_fdm.h and native_fdm.c. The data structure received by FlightGear can easily be modified to include whichever parameters you'd like to control from your Matlab sim. You just need to add code to set the

[Flightgear-devel] Jitter related

2005-06-27 Thread bass pumped
Hi all, I got two questions to ask... 1. When an aircraft has ZERO velocity, given some rudder input, and also when there is no wind, should the rudder actually have any effect at all? I see the c-172 actually turn, and over a period of time, if left alone, flip over, do some gymnastics,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jitter related

2005-06-27 Thread bass pumped
Strange. Are you sure there's no wind? I'll take a look. No wind!! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-27 Thread bass pumped
Sorry to bother you guys... I know this is unrelated but I have to ask. Are you able to access CVS for OpenAL? I followed the instructions on the download page of openAL, but none of those commands seem to work... in the sense everytime I try to login, it just hangs, and I end up having to stop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jitter related

2005-06-27 Thread bass pumped
This doesn't limit to the c-172. I do not know whether this has been fixed or not, but back in Feburary when I was testing the model for the A380, I notice that the wind is powerful enough to moved the A380 slowly from the center of the runway to the edge of the runway. Going back a bit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-28 Thread bass pumped
Yes, I do this already for months at least since FlightGear uses OpenAL. I did the initial checkout using this command: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvs-repository co openal after doing a CVS login. I don't remember the password, though .. The website says

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-28 Thread bass pumped
cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvs-repository co openal I tried this command too!! nothing happened. it just sits. Didn't even ask me for a password. I am using Fedora Core 2. Does this have anything to do with it? ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-28 Thread bass pumped
Why do you yell at me !? I'm sorry... I didn't think I was yelling at you. But if u feel I did so, I sincerely apologize, that was not my intention. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-29 Thread bass pumped
I give up... could someone save me the suffering and mail me a tarball of openal they have to this address? I've decided cvs hates me lol... kind of reminds me of Martin's signature on all his posts!! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS for OpenAL

2005-06-30 Thread bass pumped
Point taken. Will correct. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Controlling FlightGear from external flight data.

2005-07-22 Thread bass pumped
Where I can find a similar info for FGFS ? Also, what kind of program I can use to send some test UDP packets to FGFS ? Telnet ? I've had success with Matlab. I used Simulink with the virtual reality toolbox and a tcp/udp toolbox to send joystick data to flightgear. As Josh said above,

[Flightgear-devel] Stereographics

2005-08-10 Thread bass pumped
Just wondering... would it be possible to fly flightgear in stereo? I do know Nvidia has a stereo driver which you could use to make applications seem in 3D with both shutter glasses and the old red-blue glasses. I tried it out on a computer here with no effect (I was using shutter glasses

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Stereographics

2005-08-10 Thread bass pumped
oooppss... didn't see jon's mail. should have kept this one in that thread... ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Saitek Cyborg Evo

2005-08-23 Thread bass pumped
Hi, Reading this gave me an idea... I have a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick in which the rudder axis and the other buttons never used to work. I looked at the xml file for it and fount that it was names as Logitech Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. I removed one of the Logitechs and had to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear

2005-08-24 Thread bass pumped
any idea when we will see the next release? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] MSVC build error

2005-09-05 Thread bass pumped
Hi all, I'm trying to get flightgear 9.8 built in Windows. I'm using MSVC 7 for the build. I ran into the following errors from the Nasal code. start output from the following code:- static struct { naCFunction func; char* name; } propfuncs[] = { { f_getType, _getType }, {

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC build error

2005-09-06 Thread bass pumped
On 9/6/05, Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like a version skew problem. That function signature (with four arguments) is the one from the current CVS version. The 0.9.8 Nasal interpreter used a different API with only two arguments. It looks to me like you're compiling CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC build error

2005-09-06 Thread bass pumped
On 9/6/05, Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: Andy Ross wrote: It looks to me like you're compiling CVS FlightGear with an older SimGear. I did download flightgear [...] from the 'bleeding edge' link from the website. [...] But when compiling that simgear [...] I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC build error

2005-09-07 Thread bass pumped
On 9/7/05, Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip These words, the same thing say. Hmmm, too much of Star Wars prequel this summer have you watch? ;-) Best, Jim Wilson LOL!! ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC build error

2005-09-21 Thread bass pumped
Hi everyone, I tried to compile the latest version of flightgear today in MSVC 7. It compiled fine... but then I had problems when it tried linking. Any ideas on how to fix it would help. Thank you in advance. Start ouput Linking... LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/EDITANDCONTINUE' due to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC build error

2005-09-22 Thread bass pumped
On 9/22/05, Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon bass pumped : Hi everyone, I tried to compile the latest version of flightgear today in MSVC 7. It compiled fine... but then I had problems when it tried linking. Any ideas on how to fix it would help. Thank you in advance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Transfer function elevator/climb for root locus analyse for JSBSIM

2005-09-30 Thread bass pumped
On 9/29/05, Hans-Georg Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, is it possible to derive the transfer function from jsbsim fdm coefficients. I know the way to calculate the parameters like Clalpha for a operation point. But for a root locus analyse I need the transfer function (Root locus

[Flightgear-devel] openAL compilation problem

2005-11-12 Thread bass pumped
Hi, I'm trying to compile pre-rel-3 in MSVC 7 but i'm running into a linking problem again. It looks to me like simgear is unable to read the openAL header files while trying to link. I have put them in the sound_mngr directory and modified the include statements to read it directly from there,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] openAL compilation problem

2005-11-13 Thread bass pumped
Add the libs to FG, SG does not need them. Harald. Hi Harald, Thank you for your reply. I did add the libraries to FG as you suggested but I still get the same errors. It looks like for some reason or the other the header files are not being read... for example the function alGetError

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compiling Simgear...

2005-11-13 Thread bass pumped
However, I am getting an error building the openal/alut directory after the make install of the openal/linux directory succeeds. I get a lot of warnings from the aclocal process (shown below as there's many). Then creating libs/libalut.dll.a I get a large number of undefined references as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile dying in MSVC6

2005-11-14 Thread bass pumped
Ok... I myself have been having problems with compiling FG with MSVC 7.1, but I've been told this much. Its way to hard to compile with MSVC6. But ofcourse, I submit to the judgement of the masters. They know way better. On 11/14/05, Sam Ingarfield - VK6HSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: openAL compilation problem

2005-11-18 Thread bass pumped
On 11/14/05, Geoff Air [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi WIN32 developers, I too have had BIG PROBLEMS with compiling OpenAL CVS with MSVC7.1 - maybe this will eventually be cleared up by the OpenAL developer group ... maybe NOT ;=(( Part of the problem, is that for no particular good reason

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unresolved externals MSVC

2005-11-19 Thread bass pumped
On 11/16/05, Ethan D. Schur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm getting about 4273 unresolved externals when linking flightgear in MSVC7. I build simgear and all the dependencies. The errors look something like this FlightGear error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol bool __cdecl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-11-27 Thread bass pumped
On 11/23/05, pmaclean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I got flight gear (version 0.9.8) to compile thanks to the posting by Erik Hofman. http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/simgear-cvslogs/2005-January/001011.html I am using Visual Studio dotnet (7.1) on Win2K. The only reason I have had any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-11-27 Thread bass pumped
On 11/27/05, John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: On 11/23/05, pmaclean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I got flight gear (version 0.9.8) to compile thanks to the posting by Erik Hofman. http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/simgear-cvslogs/2005-January/001011.html

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-11-27 Thread bass pumped
On 11/27/05, bass pumped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/05, John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: On 11/23/05, pmaclean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I got flight gear (version 0.9.8) to compile thanks to the posting by Erik Hofman. http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-11-27 Thread bass pumped
On 11/27/05, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: oops... disregard the above ouput. I found an error in what I had done. Right now I can only confirm that the data being put on the network is wrong. I have matlab running on another computer reading the output

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-11-27 Thread bass pumped
On 11/27/05, bass pumped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/05, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bass pumped wrote: oops... disregard the above ouput. I found an error in what I had done. Right now I can only confirm that the data being put on the network is wrong. I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-11-30 Thread bass pumped
Hi, I'm glad to report that I am an idiot and that there is nothing wrong with the data transmission code. It works fine except when trying to write throttle over udp. For some wierd reason it takes values of one or zero at random when the throttle is pushed from 0 to 1. For

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL and new video drivers

2005-12-01 Thread bass pumped
On 12/1/05, Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the latest drivers from the chipset manufacturer's website (nVidia or ATI). The card manufacturers have been known to optimise the drievrs that they ship on the CD. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-12-01 Thread bass pumped
On 12/1/05, bass pumped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm glad to report that I am an idiot and that there is nothing wrong with the data transmission code. It works fine except when trying to write throttle over udp. For some wierd reason it takes values of one or zero

Re: [Flightgear-devel] opengc

2005-12-02 Thread bass pumped
On 12/2/05, Bruce Benneke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble with opengc connecting to flightgear 99 (windows) I THINK opengc is working, not sure how to check as I can't get FG to talk to it. It just seems to be listening to port 5800 FG is set up socket, out, (my ip), 5800, udp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] opengc

2005-12-02 Thread bass pumped
this over to linux and try again... Bruce bass pumped wrote: On 12/2/05, Bruce Benneke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble with opengc connecting to flightgear 99 (windows) I THINK opengc is working, not sure how to check as I can't get FG to talk to it. It just seems

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear FDM

2005-12-02 Thread bass pumped
k... got it fixed :-) On 12/2/05, bass pumped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/05, bass pumped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm glad to report that I am an idiot and that there is nothing wrong with the data transmission code. It works fine except when trying to write

[Flightgear-devel] Thesis Advice

2005-12-08 Thread bass pumped
Hi all, I'm trawling for topics to do my masters thesis on. My interest in intelligent flight control. Anyone have any good ideas?? Thanks, ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org