Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread tat . michy
I don't think turning turbulance to zero by dedault is a good solution. If the problem is only in JSBSim then it should be fixed. Meanwhile we can pro vide the zero turbulance workaround in a wiki page or some other place. I want to know what is the real cause of the problem. turbulance is just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] landing gear control

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Robert Black wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:15:49 am SydSandy wrote: Ok I have another one Can we add a /controls/gear/gear-lever-lock to prevent accidental raising gear while on the ground , on aircraft that have this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] landing gear control

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Black
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:15:49 am SydSandy wrote: Ok I have another one Can we add a /controls/gear/gear-lever-lock to prevent accidental raising gear while on the ground , on aircraft that have this feature ? The key bindings can be over ridden , but there's also joystick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Friday 07 December 2007 14:40:34 gerard robin wrote: Making the 3D model shape is the easiest (5% of the work, more or less 24 hours of work, but very complicated shape) There is a lot of stuff to do: =the cockpit must completed (versus the A10, Alexy has spent so many time to do it)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Hans Fugal wrote: The aircraft discussion has been interesting. One stumbling block I've come across when deciding which aircraft to download before is the quality guessing game. The web site lists the author's assessment, but I've found that to be less useful than it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Heiko Schulz
Nice idea! Why not add a system like: 5 stars for a very complete aircraft like the Senecca II or one for the not so goog like the fokker 70/100? So everyone can see, where is potential to develop?! Regards HHS --- Hans Fugal [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: The aircraft discussion has been

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Hans Fugal
The aircraft discussion has been interesting. One stumbling block I've come across when deciding which aircraft to download before is the quality guessing game. The web site lists the author's assessment, but I've found that to be less useful than it could be, because some authors say alpha when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Lee Duke
If you want to make the simulation more realistic turning up the turbulence is not the best way to do it. At the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, the simulations were operated at 1.4 times real-time to give the pilot a task that resembled the real thing. This technique was developed during

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I don't think turning turbulance to zero by dedault is a good solution. If the problem is only in JSBSim then it should be fixed. Meanwhile we can provide the zero turbulance workaround in a wiki page or some other place. I want to know what is the real cause of the problem. turbulance is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Friday 07 December 2007: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/StampeSV4.jpg Wow, that's a nice one! Unfortunately it will not be available before FG stable will be released :( We can postpone the release for it. ;-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread dave perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think turning turbulance to zero by dedault is a good solution. If the problem is only in JSBSim then it should be fixed. Meanwhile we can pro vide the zero turbulance workaround in a wiki page or some other place. The problem is the default AC (c172p) with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Nice idea! Why not add a system like: 5 stars for a very complete aircraft like the Senecca II or one for the not so goog like the fokker 70/100? So everyone can see, where is potential to develop?! Regards HHS --- Hans Fugal [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: We could give a star for every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, --- gerard robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On ven 7 décembre 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: Yes we must not talk about artistic competences (here the msfs models are better :( ), only to answer the question: does the model simulate the real one ?which degree of simulation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- AJ MacLeod wrote: I agree that we need a better indication of state of completion for the models on the downloads page, but as far as I can see it will have to be a very basic overview. I'm not a fan of simplistic star ratings, but if the stars are for degree of completion and every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Stuart Buchanan wrote: --- Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 December 2007: - avoiding really difficult to fly aircraft in the default aircraft collection doesn't make fgfs a toy, and Oh, and to take some pressure from the bf109, I declare now the pittss1c the official

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Stuart Buchanan wrote: --- Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 December 2007: - avoiding really difficult to fly aircraft in the default aircraft collection doesn't make fgfs a toy, and Oh, and to take some pressure from the bf109, I declare

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: Yes we must not talk about artistic competences (here the msfs models are better :( ), only to answer the question: does the model simulate the real one ?which degree of simulation ? Right I think- eye candies are only one small part

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dave perry -- Friday 07 December 2007: What is proposed is to make the default turbulence = 0.0 at start-up, not turning off turbulence modeling. You can still use the weather menu to set the desired turbulence or you can [...] OK, before even more people answer who didn't get what I was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wouldn't turning the turbulence down make other FDMs less realistic? Also if JSBSim autopilots are affected, how come autolanding with Concorde while turbulence is enabled (but no crosswind) works perfectly? Concorde uses JSBSim after all...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Stuart Buchanan -- Friday 07 December 2007: j3cub - dhc2W - pittss1c/p51d/bf109/ BTW: the p51d wasn't considered very realistic in IRC discussions, so I'm not even sure if it should be in the default collection. Being a well known and remarkable aircraft in real life isn't enough. But

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-52 Pro joystick configuration

2007-12-07 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi AnMaster, It seems better than mine to me. I'll test it with my X52 (not X52 pro but it looks useful with X52 too). Thanks for your effort!! Tat On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:45 PM, AnMaster wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I have made a joystick config for Saitek X52

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Jon Stockill wrote: I've got a Chipmunk T-10 planned when the grob g115 is more complete - was the standard RAF trainer a long time ago, and is still in service for pilots training to fly with the BBMF - would that be suitable? Jon that one ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 December 2007: - avoiding really difficult to fly aircraft in the default aircraft collection doesn't make fgfs a toy, and Oh, and to take some pressure from the bf109, I declare now the pittss1c the official victim that I'll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 December 2007: - avoiding really difficult to fly aircraft in the default aircraft collection doesn't make fgfs a toy, and Oh, and to take some pressure from the bf109, I declare now the pittss1c the official victim that I'll pick on. That one should definitely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Goorg, and Melchir, Thanks for your report and opinion. On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:09 AM, Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Tat, tested this on OpenSUSE 10.2 86_64 with FG 9.11 Prerelease S76 Helicopter 1. DList stack overflow (snip) NEGATIVE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, AJ MacLeod wrote: On Friday 07 December 2007 14:40:34 gerard robin wrote: Making the 3D model shape is the easiest (5% of the work, more or less 24 hours of work, but very complicated shape) There is a lot of stuff to do: =the cockpit must completed (versus the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Heiko Schulz
Yes we must not talk about artistic competences (here the msfs models are better :( ), only to answer the question: does the model simulate the real one ?which degree of simulation ? Right I think- eye candies are only one small part of being realistic, but if we want to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Goorg, and Melchir, Thanks for your report and opinion. On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:09 AM, Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Tat, tested this on OpenSUSE 10.2 86_64 with FG 9.11 Prerelease S76 Helicopter 1. DList stack overflow (snip) NEGATIVE Yes, my fingers are aching ... pressed more than 30 times

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Vivian Meazza
Err ... there's a 2D exterior? And a 3D cockpit is not necessarily better than a 2D. 2D is less demanding on frame rate, and can be just as effective as a 3D cockpit. And some of those are by no means brilliant. Horses for courses. Our most detailed ac need high end computers to run on, with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter simulations

2007-12-07 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, You should have the latest CVS-Version or the pre-Release-version. It has the latest YASim with improved helicopter-fdm. In the DOC's you will find further information about. Regards HHS --- Lee Duke [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I'm trying to build a simulation model of a helicopter and a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Vivian Meazza
Gerard robin wrote Sent: 07 December 2007 15:44 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality On ven 7 décembre 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: Yes we must not talk about artistic competences (here the msfs models are better :(

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi there, I want to know if the bugs that I reported before are Mac OS specific or not. So I want you guys to check if the following bugs occur on your platform(s). 1. DList stack overflow When I reset fgfs by pressing Shift-ESC for several times (maybe 10 times), DList stack overflow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Vivian Meazza wrote: Gerard robin wrote Sent: 07 December 2007 15:44 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality On ven 7 décembre 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: Yes we must not talk about artistic

[Flightgear-devel] Helicopter simulations

2007-12-07 Thread Lee Duke
I'm trying to build a simulation model of a helicopter and a tiltrotor aircraft. I see there are a couple of rotary-winged models in the FlightGear inventory. Does anyone know which FDMs were used for these models. I'm looking for some information on how these aircraft and rotor models were

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* AnMaster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Melchior FRANZ wrote: aircraft minus model? :-} Well what do you suggest for storing /sim/aircraft in otherwise? Err, looks like you didn't get the hint. A '-' in programming context is a minus, not a hyphen. Although some people seem to not like this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, I found kind of a hint of the cause of DList stack overflow. After reset, the number of ssgTransform increases a lot. so maybe this has something to do with the cause of the problem since ssgTransform::cull calls _ssgPushMatrix and _ssgPopMatrix. these two show DList stack overflow error.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* AnMaster -- Friday 07 December 2007: scriptaircraft.HUD.cycle_color()/script [...] Yet I get this for button: Nasal runtime error: No such member: HUD at /input/joysticks/js/button[3]/binding, line 1 You probably defined a variable named aircraft somewhere else in the joystick driver

[Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I wanted a button to turn off/on HUD on my joystick so I took a look at the keyboard binding for it: key n=104 nameh/name descHUD Master Switch/desc binding commandnasal/command scriptaircraft.HUD.cycle_color()/script /binding /key

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Freitag 07 Dezember 2007 schrieb LeeE: ...[end user rating scheme is bad idea]... I propose that we identify the different areas of development i.e. 3d model, FDM, Cockpit, flight control systems etc. and then just state the level of development for each of those areas. While this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Curtis Olson
On Dec 7, 2007 2:43 PM, LeeE wrote: I'm not sure that a rating scheme, where the ratings are given by end users, is a good idea. I'm not sure the value of debating and discussing and designing a system that probably no one will step forward to build. But that said, if you allow multiple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread LeeE
On Friday 07 December 2007 20:25, Curtis Olson wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 2:20 PM, AnMaster wrote: Just an idea: A rating system for users. (Please rate this aircraft after you tried it for a bit!) However we can't know how well the users know how it should be. Maybe we should ask them

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, On Dec 8, 2007, at 5:01 AM, SydSandy wrote: Quite a few of the aircraft currently use the following scale: - alpha - beta - early-production - production (snip) I agree with most of the discussion ,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SydSandy wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:39:53 + (GMT) Stuart Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- AJ MacLeod wrote: I agree that we need a better indication of state of completion for the models on the downloads page, but as far as I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread SydSandy
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:39:53 + (GMT) Stuart Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- AJ MacLeod wrote: I agree that we need a better indication of state of completion for the models on the downloads page, but as far as I can see it will have to be a very basic overview. I'm not a fan of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-52 Pro joystick configuration

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi AnMaster, It seems better than mine to me. I'll test it with my X52 (not X52 pro but it looks useful with X52 too). Please note that the axis and button numbers differs between X52 and X52 Pro at least if your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, I want to know if the bugs that I reported before are Mac OS specific or not. So I want you guys to check if the following bugs occur on your platform(s). 1. DList stack overflow When I reset fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Vivian Meazza
Georg Vollnhals Sent: 07 December 2007 16:10 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease ... Snip ... 2. Aircraft shows up under a carrier on reset This happens when I reset FlightGear (Shift-ESC) on Nimitz. This is a bug which we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
gerard robin wrote: that one ? http://www.spyflight.co.uk/chipmunk.htm Better choice , less risk to caught a cold. Yup, that's the one. Obviously it won't be ready before the next release, but should be available to fill the taildragger gap before the first osg release. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Friday 07 December 2007: 1. DList stack overflow I've seen them on other occasions in fg/plib. Haven't tried with Shift-Esc, but I think that's a plib problem. Don't think that's something we can fix before the release. It's definitely not one of bugs that people usually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Tatsuhiro Nishioka schrieb: Hi there, I want to know if the bugs that I reported before are Mac OS specific or not. So I want you guys to check if the following bugs occur on your platform(s). Hi Tat, tested this on OpenSUSE 10.2 86_64 with FG 9.11 Prerelease S76 Helicopter 1.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * AnMaster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Melchior FRANZ wrote: aircraft minus model? :-} Well what do you suggest for storing /sim/aircraft in otherwise? Err, looks like you didn't get the hint. A '-' in programming

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Preparing the vmap0 Data / TerraGear

2007-12-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:34:37 + will Pink wrote: Hello, Can anyone help with the attached ? I have checked and everything is there and the permissions are correct. I just really need to get over this hurdle as it is being used in quite a large Flight Simulator project and im delaying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * AnMaster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Indeed that was what I did, as a way to do aircraft specific mappings. Now I renamed the variable to aircraft-model. aircraft minus model? :-} Well what do you suggest for storing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * AnMaster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Melchior FRANZ wrote: You probably defined a variable named aircraft somewhere else in the joystick driver file, and this overwrote the aircraft namespace Ah, should call it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* AnMaster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Melchior FRANZ wrote: You probably defined a variable named aircraft somewhere else in the joystick driver file, and this overwrote the aircraft namespace Ah, should call it aircraft-model or something then. Thanks I was not aware that nasal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * AnMaster -- Friday 07 December 2007: scriptaircraft.HUD.cycle_color()/script [...] Yet I get this for button: Nasal runtime error: No such member: HUD at /input/joysticks/js/button[3]/binding, line 1 You probably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Curtis Olson wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 2:20 PM, AnMaster wrote: Just an idea: A rating system for users. (Please rate this aircraft after you tried it for a bit!) However we can't know how well the users know how it should be. Maybe we should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Downloading and Quality

2007-12-07 Thread Curtis Olson
On Dec 7, 2007 2:20 PM, AnMaster wrote: Just an idea: A rating system for users. (Please rate this aircraft after you tried it for a bit!) However we can't know how well the users know how it should be. Maybe we should ask them if they are pilots/if the flew that aircraft in reality.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread gerard robin
On ven 7 décembre 2007, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * gerard robin -- Friday 07 December 2007: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/StampeSV4.jpg Wow, that's a nice one! Unfortunately it will not be available before FG stable will be released :( We can postpone the release for it. ;-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird recent nasal problem

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* AnMaster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Indeed that was what I did, as a way to do aircraft specific mappings. Now I renamed the variable to aircraft-model. aircraft minus model? :-} m. - SF.Net email is sponsored by: