Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer voice comunication

2006-01-06 Thread John Wojnaroski
Not sure this is what you're looking for. http://openatc.sourceforge.net/test/ IIRC there were some discussions about an ATC program that would work with the TNL libraries, and I seem to recall a project page on SF. But, as noted, it seems to have vanished... JW Martin Spott wrote: Oliver

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC background chatter in CVS

2006-01-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Curt, I don't have it running yet, just wondering; does the code contain any logic to filter the chatter based on radio frequency/location? Sitting on the ramp, tuned to ground control, you should not be hearing calls to an ARTCC. If your practicing VFR patterns at your local field, you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mapping a texture to a sphere

2006-01-20 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I am posting this on behalf of John Wojnaroski who can read this list, but is having trouble with sourceforge bouncing his posts for some reason: If you can read this, the email problems have been resolved as well as the texture mapping to a sphere. Thanks Curtis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mapping a texture to a sphere

2006-01-21 Thread John Wojnaroski
Durk Talsma wrote: On Saturday 21 January 2006 09:31, John Wojnaroski wrote: That might be possible, I believe there will be a DHCP connection provided. I'm not familiar with the server, tried googling but lots of stuff on raising pigeons and pigeon holes. ;-) I'm guessing

[Flightgear-devel] scale webcast

2006-02-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
FYI on Scale4x On another note, WebmasterRadio (www.webmasterradio.fm) will be doing a special show profiling this year's conference. It will be on the air on Feb 2nd at 3pm EST. JW --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do

[Flightgear-devel] setting props at init

2006-02-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
I tried the following in my startup script --prop:/environment/pressure-sea-level-inhg=30.24 \ and it failed to change the value from the the defalt of 29.92, yet --prop:/sim/menubar/visibility=false \ or setting it true works just fine. Syntax problem? wrong/mis-spelled property name? Or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] setting props at init

2006-02-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
to 2AM GMT) each day. Regards John W. Erik Hofman wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: I tried the following in my startup script --prop:/environment/pressure-sea-level-inhg=30.24 \ and it failed to change the value from the the defalt of 29.92, yet --prop:/sim/menubar/visibility=false

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP for scale

2006-02-04 Thread John Wojnaroski
Thanks, AJ Working JW AJ MacLeod wrote: On Saturday 04 February 2006 01:18, John Wojnaroski wrote: There was also the mention of connecting to the MP server during the show. Since neither Curtis nor I have used the server we'll need some help, hints, advice, or pointer to info on how

[Flightgear-devel] Extraneous building?

2006-02-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
FYI Haven't been to KSFO for a while, but don't think this structure belongs here ;-) Perhaps something smaller that may have been mis-identified during file generation. See 942050.stg OBJECT_SHARED Models/fgfsdb/generic_skyscraper_09.ac -122.3775000 37.6186110 -465.86 180 JW

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

2006-02-06 Thread John Wojnaroski
an amazingly real aural environment, even if a bit out of context. No question that voice would be a good addition. Regards John W. Erik Hofman wrote: Melchior FRANZ wrote: It just doesn't look as if there's much interest. The original code was written for/by John Wojnaroski so you might

[Flightgear-devel] Planning??

2006-02-06 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Curt, Looks like the best (only) opportune time to meet with Tony is Friday either at the scale site or back here. Setup should not take more than two hours, assuming all goes well. Biggest unknowns are power and internet connections. As a paying exhibitor we can get the power, one

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

2006-02-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
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 few others as well. Do we want it a 8hz or 16hz? Regards John W. Erik

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

2006-02-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Okay, that's a start The text-to-speech stuff is best handled by festival, so we won't do those. Combinations of words and phrases are best handled by something other than canned audio files, just way too many possibilities for context specific communications. Things like ATC chatter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] socket output problems

2006-02-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
That will fail every time, try something like --opengc=socket,out,30,127.0.0.1,# above 5000,udp tcp is NOT supported for opengc, it is sent and forget udp protocol JW Justin Smithies wrote: Hi Guys im having trouble getting FG to output on a socket using Linux. I know my network is fine as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] socket output problems

2006-02-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
In using the loopback address you may also see an error msg since there is no hardware in the loop. Try some other dummy private address other than the loopback 192.xx.xxx.xxx, 10.10.10.; 172.29.0.xxx, etc JW Justin Smithies wrote: Hi Guys im having trouble getting FG to output on a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] socket output problems

2006-02-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Just to be sure The machine running the demo software is at 192.168.1.3. What is the address of the FG machine? The startup script for the demo lets you set the socket address where you want to receive data from FG and the IP and socket address where you want to sent control data back

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737 diy cockpit

2006-03-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
http://www.lfstech.com go to the download page JW Justin Smithies wrote: Cheers Jw do you have a url for that download ? Justin Smithies On Friday 03 March 2006 18:31, John Wojnaroski wrote: To make that work on the 747, I had to pretty much can the fuel/engine model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737 diy cockpit

2006-03-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
It wasn't a big change. I tried to do minimum damage to the exsting structure. Have not had a change to look at your new code; however going back to the 0.9.9 release: plugged in a new engine model for a fan based more on physics and theromdynamics, not perfect but not bad either. the other

[Flightgear-devel] Build/Run Problem

2006-03-25 Thread John Wojnaroski
Just finished bringing up a new machine with Linux and FlightGear. After what appears to be a good build of all the programs, plib, simgear, openal, flightgear, the following error occurs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/FlightGear$ ./747_ntps /usr/local/bin/fgfs: error while loading shared

[Flightgear-devel] New scenery textures

2006-03-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
if we plan to commit the new texures for the next build, something has to be fixed regards the deserts of the world. have not looked at all the world's regions, but the high desert of California is all wrong. from palmdale to edwards to george to mojave not a speck of sand in sight! and all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery textures

2006-03-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Rob, There are places in the desert that are quite green due to farming and irrigation. Just look at the area south of Palm Springs around the Salton Sea, a by-product of the water runoff from intense irrigation. Go a few mile ease towards Blythe and all you have are sun-bake rocks and

[Flightgear-devel] Adding 747 spoilers

2006-03-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Something I don't understand about the aircraft .xml files for JSBSim. Have been able to edit/modify/add engine properties, tanks, etc for the basic 747-100 Added the following to create some drag in the DRAG axis section (will worry about lift later) COEFFICIENT NAME=CDsp TYPE=VALUE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Rob Rob Oates wrote: New scenery update! Hopefully this gets everyones blessing :) here is what is improved: + The color of the city textures finally look good. No more violet, and the hues look perfect. + New town texture...i'm finally satisfied with this one, it goes well with

[Flightgear-devel] Fresh build problem

2006-04-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, I'm doing a fresh FG-0.9.10 build on a new machine with Linux Debian (sarge) and 2.6.15.. Building Simgear complains about the openal libraries: checking for library containing glutGetModifiers... -lglut checking for library containing alGenBuffers... no checking for library containing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ILS a KPMD

2006-04-24 Thread John Wojnaroski
and 114.5 for DME Regards, Justin Smithies On Monday 24 April 2006 20:05, John Wojnaroski wrote: Hi, If someone has a moment, would you mind flying the ILS to 25 at Palmdale, KPMD; ILS is 110.7 and VOR/DME is 114.5 Altitude at the marker is 4500' Just want to confirm that it works

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplay Jitter Problem with dual models flying in formation

2006-05-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Is the jitter between the drones relative position or are both drones equally displaced with respect to a common reference point (like the ground)? If you don't need absolute accuracy as to the drones' position then some form of a smoothing filter might work. OTH if precision is a must you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. OTH I can do FG in my sleep. Perhaps there is any opportunity for some common sharing and help. Contact me off list JW Major A wrote: Hi all, I've just had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Major A wrote: John, Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. I'm afraid I can't say much more than that at this point -- the only source I have myself is

[Flightgear-devel] Mail bounce test

2006-10-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
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[Flightgear-devel] test

2006-10-25 Thread John Wojnaroski
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[Flightgear-devel] Home built projectors

2006-11-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
You can build a poor man projector using an old AV viewgraph machine and cannabilizing an old 15 LCD glass panel. It is a bit tricky getting the glass separated from the frame and enclosure. The leads are very thin and you need to watch the heat build up from the viewgraph lamp; if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Home built projectors

2006-11-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
there? Regards John W. Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/1/06, John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course some of us work for universities with nice research budgets to buy all sorts of high end gear On the outside chance that was directed at me I'll just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Guess I'll jump in too with my two cents I have OSG and FlightGear CVS installed and kind of running -- at least it starts ;-) but have not had any time in the past week and a half to go any further. But I have to take Andy's side on this one, not so much based on technical issues (all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
, and perhaps a few PCI graphics cards in a single machine and create a complete wrap-around display. Don't know what sort of performance one might expect but it is worth exploring.. John W. Hi John, John Wojnaroski wrote: If this had been a commercial development and the product had

[Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
Downloaded a fresh CVS copy to try out the updates to the OSG port. An earlier first attempt built and segfaulted when loading the c172. After getting the fresh tar file I casually blew away the earlier version and untarred the fresh one. Now when starting the build sequence with autogen.sh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Martin Spott wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: Downloaded a fresh CVS copy to try out the updates to the OSG port. [...] About the only strange, quirky thing is that when untarring the file, getting a warning msg regards time stamp set to the epoch on some of the files. Am I grabbing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/10/06, John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Downloaded a fresh CVS copy to try out the updates to the OSG port. An earlier first attempt built and segfaulted when loading the c172. After getting the fresh tar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
John Wojnaroski wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/10/06, John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Downloaded a fresh CVS copy to try out the updates to the OSG port. An earlier first attempt built and segfaulted when loading the c172. After

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting John Wojnaroski : Understand we still need plib, the openal stuff; what about Simgear? will the latest released version work or is it best to get the latest cvs version? This is mandatory in any case. FlightGear and SimGear should match. OK, after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Georg Vollnhals wrote: John Wojnaroski schrieb: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting John Wojnaroski : Understand we still need plib, the openal stuff; what about Simgear? will the latest released version work or is it best to get the latest cvs version

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-OSG

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Justin Smithies wrote: Tried installing OSG as instructed by your emails and maked and installed in the correct order. But make on the openproducer just threw up this error ? HELP Version' ../../../lib/Linux32/libosgProducer.so: undefined reference to

[Flightgear-devel] FG dying at startup

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
FG is being terminated during startup. Can one start fgfs with a bash script under gdb? Or is the way to build an fgfsrc type file and load /usr/local/bin/fgfs and then execute to get a back trace? Not all that familiar with using it for debugging... : : : Warning: Material::setShininess()

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG dying at startup

2006-11-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: On 11/10/06, John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FG is being terminated during startup. Can one start fgfs with a bash script under gdb? Or is the way to build an fgfsrc type file and load /usr/local/bin/fgfs and then execute

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: On Friday 10 November 2006 19:28, John Wojnaroski wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting John Wojnaroski : Understand we still need plib, the openal stuff; what about Simgear? will the latest released version work or is it best to get the latest cvs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem

2006-11-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: I think you will need at least libjpeg-devel and giflib-devel. giflib-devel is the one I hit which wasn't installed by default on fedora. Curt. Right, I knew that ;-), Should have had my morning coffee first, before trying something more complicated than walking...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] press_ihg in net_ctrls.hxx

2006-11-14 Thread John Wojnaroski
Thomas Biwer wrote: Doug, thank you for your help. yeah, might be your right. Anyhow, if this is the case I have no idea how to get the pressure measurement information out of flightgear... thomas, probably this variable holds the pressure setting, and not the pressure measure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] updated OpenSceneGraph

2006-11-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Some have asked if flightgear works with OpenSceneGraph CVS HEAD. I do not yet use the CVS version. But with that ac3d reader checkin from yesterday it might be worth a try. It does work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: Someone just directed me to the following ebay vendor selling FlightGear. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Realistic-Professional-Aviation-Flight-Simulator_W0QQitemZ260053619883QQihZ016QQcategoryZ80336QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem At first glance I thought, no big deal, just another person

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Didier Fabert wrote: this page is very interesting http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html i understand that if we think there is a gpl violation, we must write to them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] they know if it's a violation or not ! regards True, but ultimately it becomes the obligation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cockpit builders USB interface

2006-11-19 Thread John Wojnaroski
IMHO sounds a like a bit of a forced fit for a limited capability... OTH I've built a board for the 747 project that provides input/output for 128 discrete static switches, 64 momentary switches, 16 rotary encoders, and drivers 128 LEDs and/or 16 numeric 7-segment LED displays. It all fits on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cockpit builders USB interface

2006-11-19 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Martin, I think I have just what your looking for and can help you. Have a prototype board I just finished for interfacing my throttles on the 747 project. I'll also be using it for the flight yoke, rudders, toe brakes, spoilers, etc It provides eight A/D channels with a 12 bit data word

[Flightgear-devel] Success

2006-11-19 Thread John Wojnaroski
Okay, enough fun for one day.. Flightgear cvs built and runs with OpenSceneGraph cvs. Looks like around 40fps out of KSFO Thanks for all the help JW - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C/C++ code to interface with FlightGear

2006-11-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Curtis Olson -- Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:22: Does anyone have any sample C/C++ code that will interface with FlightGear's --telnet interface? What about ./scripts/example/fgfsclient.{c,cxx} ? You might take a look at Chap 15, page 589 in UNIX Network

Re: [Flightgear-devel] real-time data

2006-11-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Vikas N Kumar wrote: Hi All I need some help in collecting real-time data from FlightGear while the aircraft is being flown. I will need it when I interface it with hardware for instrument panels etc. Could someone point where I could look for some info on this ? Either in the source code or in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-28 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: Now that I am hosting the FlightGear web site with a commercial hosting service, it becomes quite easy to setup online forums using phpBB2. I know our development culture is built around mailing lists. I'm sure the FlightGear community will be decisively split

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Idea: VOR/ILS/NDB Emergency Localizer

2007-01-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: On 1/10/07, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, this is not really new to me as I've been already trying different yokes and rudder pedals with different simulated C172's. This is why I was asking for the type of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altAlert problems

2007-01-21 Thread John Wojnaroski
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2007 17:42, Martin Spott wrote: Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: I asked on the developer list if anyone knew how ATC converted from pressure altitude to altitude, because I think that would be the correct way to do it. Does anyone know? How

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altAlert problems

2007-01-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2007 19:15, John Wojnaroski wrote: Likewise, not sure where you're going with this. ATC simply reports the current altimeter setting to the pilot. Above FL180 all altimeters are set to 29.92 or 1013. Encoding report aircraft altitude, otherwise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear and IVAO

2007-01-25 Thread John Wojnaroski
Pep Ribal wrote: What I'm asking to you is some help regarding communication between Flightgear and the client, which will have to produce an information flow between the simulator and the server, regarding weather, planes position, and so on. Hi Pep, Over the past few years we've tried

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear remote modules

2007-02-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
leee wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 17:54, Jim Campbell wrote: Hi, Curtis has already hinted as to how the following may be done with his remote FDM. To my mind flightgear can be broken down into distinct plugin modules. There is the FDM, the external world visualisation,the cockpit input

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear remote modules

2007-02-13 Thread John Wojnaroski
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Rob Ratcliff wrote: You could use an event distribution (Pub/Sub) paradigm based on something like the CORBA Notification Service (Event Service), the CORBA property service, the newer Data Distribution Service (DDS) or something like the High Level Architecture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Zero lag altimeter

2007-02-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
AJ MacLeod wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:28, John Denker wrote: Solving this problem is easy: I'd say so too... for exact values rather which don't rely on modelled instrumentation can't one just use the values provided under /position in the property tree? That would

[Flightgear-devel] FG segfault

2007-02-24 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Just did an update from cvs of the latest and greatest, build went just fine, but... at run time, the program segfaults after the welcome screen comes up. Before running down the halls screaming and setting my hair on fire, thought an update to the base package might be appropriate ;-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG segfault

2007-02-24 Thread John Wojnaroski
It's been a while, I found it. JW John Wojnaroski wrote: Hi, Just did an update from cvs of the latest and greatest, build went just fine, but... at run time, the program segfaults after the welcome screen comes up. Before running down the halls screaming and setting my hair on fire

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Base package

2007-04-25 Thread John Wojnaroski
Yes, that's it. :-) Thank you Georg John W. Vollnhals wrote: John Wojnaroski schrieb: Silly question follows After several months I finally found the time to do a new and fresh install of the latest OSG software and FlightGear. Build went just fine and now ready to run

[Flightgear-devel] Compile error

2007-04-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Downloaded the latest OSG version (23APR07) and latest flightgear source from CVS. Here is the error mesgs... make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/ATC' if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -MT

[Flightgear-devel] Strange compile error

2007-04-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, I'm not sure where or who this problem belongs to, so posting to both groups Using Debian 'etch', linux-2.6.17, gcc-4.1. OSG is SVN from 23 Apr 07 and Simgear/FlightGear is latest CVS as of 27 Apr 07. Initial build went just fine on all programs and flightgear program came up just fine.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange compile error

2007-05-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
msg to self ;-) problem is with neither distribution, just a dumb error on my part setting up the openGL libraries and include files. Sorry for the noise John John Wojnaroski wrote: Hi, I'm not sure where or who this problem belongs to, so posting to both groups Using Debian 'etch

[Flightgear-devel] Frame rates

2007-05-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Is there any info/data on FG frame rates with OSG vis-a-vis previous plib versions running on comparable hardware? Running with the 23 Apr release of OSG and the latest FG/SG software I'm seeing frame rates around 22 fps. The same configuration at KSFO with plib and the 0.9.10 release

[Flightgear-devel] Simgear updates for next release

2007-05-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
OK, here is the list of salient changes for the next release of Simgear. If I've missed any please let us know Redefined airport signage class to a more general class for all signs Added new commands to create signs More stringent header dependencies Sign emissive values settable via material

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Data change log for next release

2007-05-10 Thread John Wojnaroski
The other thing I didn't notice mention of is the superb improvement in ground type representation in YASim which finally gives us water (with waves/swell) for seaplane operations and of course correct behaviour on other surfaces for other types of aircraft. I'm sure John W. will pick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Data change log for next release

2007-05-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
John Wojnaroski wrote: The other thing I didn't notice mention of is the superb improvement in ground type representation in YASim which finally gives us water (with waves/swell) for seaplane operations and of course correct behaviour on other surfaces for other types of aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] John's position on combat simulation; Was: Data change log for next release

2007-05-12 Thread John Wojnaroski
Martin Spott wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: As Curt noted we've already crossed over into the twilight zone. If you're opposed to the idea then lets remove ALL models of military aircraft AND civilian derivatives and ALL operations that have a military/combat purpose (e.g: tacan, HUDs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] John's position on combat simulation;

2007-05-13 Thread John Wojnaroski
Martin Spott wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Sorry, John, this has nothing to do with selective morality - as you allege. After reading these lines I'd say you have severe difficulties telling the difference between flying and shooting/killing. Ooo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Static pressure

2007-06-04 Thread John Wojnaroski
oops, me bad.. think I found the problem. Forgot to load in the new scenery tiles for those locations Sorry about that, apologies all around John W. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] OSG - Improved Weather Radar

2007-06-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Vivian Meazza wrote: embryo plans for adding ground echoes. We have yet to port 3D clouds to osg, so there is no weather to display on the osg version of wxradar. FWIW... Unfortunately, I won't have any time for about two or three months, but might suggest a relook at Mark Harris' code for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] OSG - Improved Weather Radar

2007-06-15 Thread John Wojnaroski
Vivian Meazza wrote: John Sent: 15 June 2007 16:26 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] OSG - Improved Weather Radar Vivian Meazza wrote: embryo plans for adding ground echoes. We have yet to port 3D clouds to osg, so there is

[Flightgear-devel] Remote freezing

2007-07-25 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, I'm looking for a way to pause/unpause Flightgearfrom a remote workstation either via an ssh/telnet command string (ssh preferred for security) or from a separate interactive bash script running on the same host. At the moment, my mind is drawing a complete blank and the docs don't seem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gas turbine engines modeling

2007-08-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
Ulrik Hjort wrote: Hi, On the goal/wish list gas turbine engine modeling is mentioned. Anyone who know the status on this project ? I'm interested in this topic but will not jump into it before I know what the status is. Anyone already started on it ? I use a gas turbine model for the 747

[Flightgear-devel] Compile error

2007-08-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, renderer.cxx: In member function `void FGRenderer::splashinit()': renderer.cxx:403: error: `setUpdateVisitor' undeclared (first use this function) renderer.cxx:403: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) renderer.cxx: In static

[Flightgear-devel] Callback problem??

2007-08-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Working with the latest CVS from Flightgear and OSG-2.1.5. Seeing this message repeating over and over...and over. Also did a cvs update on the data. Using the 737-300 aircraft model at the moment Cannot find image file Cannot find image file Cannot find image file Cannot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Particle Systems

2007-09-01 Thread John Wojnaroski
I've yet to see a system that IMHO tops what Mark Harris did a few years ago part of his doctoral thesis. See http://www.lfstech.com/img/sfo_clouds.jpg. Someone made a decision a few years ago to replace rather than improve. Think we all lost a very promising implementation, but there might

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Particle Systems

2007-09-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
Detlef Faber wrote: Am Samstag, den 01.09.2007, 22:24 +0100 schrieb Vivian Meazza: ... I'm with you on this one John, except I can't see how to integrate that solution, or the particle solution with the weather radar. But perhaps some real expert can ... I'm working on an idea using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Particle Systems

2007-09-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: John Wojnaroski ... I've yet to see a system that IMHO tops what Mark Harris did a few years ago part of his doctoral thesis. See http://www.lfstech.com/img

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Particle Systems

2007-09-02 Thread John Wojnaroski
AnMaster wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John Wojnaroski wrote: I've yet to see a system that IMHO tops what Mark Harris did a few years ago part of his doctoral thesis. See http://www.lfstech.com/img/sfo_clouds.jpg. Another thing, in that picture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: 2. In terms of who does the interfacing work, us or them. I think that boils down to who benefits. I suspect that the FlightGear users will have a bigger benefit from getting access to the vatsim world than visa versa. Based on what I've seen on

[Flightgear-devel] Default glider model

2007-11-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Running OSG-2.2 and FG cvs... After turning off all the models, panels, views, etc, I'm left with the default yellow-green glider model in the scene. Does one have to set the view or eyepoint in front of the model to make it disappear or is there a more correct way to eliminate the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default glider model

2007-11-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
Vivian Meazza wrote: John Wojnaroski Sent: 18 November 2007 16:15 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Default glider model Hi, Running OSG-2.2 and FG cvs... After turning off all the models, panels, views, etc, I'm left with the default yellow-green glider

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default glider model

2007-11-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * John Wojnaroski -- Sunday 18 November 2007: Vivian Meazza wrote: model pathModels/Geometry/null.ac/path /model Cannot find model file /usr/local/FlightGear-osg/data/Aircraft/747-200/Models/Geometry

[Flightgear-devel] Frame rate drops

2007-11-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Having a strange problem with the latest osg version. Upon startup, the initial frame rate sitting on the runway at KSFO is around 27fps, not bad for the older Nvidia graphic boards currently in the system. With multiple cameras and monitors (3) it drops to around 15fps, marginal but

[Flightgear-devel] Mirror site

2007-11-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, The pre-release tar files have been uploaded to an alternate site for the interim to relieve the load on Durk's machine. Files are at http://www.lfstech.com/pub/flightgear or ftp://www.lfstech.com/pub/flightgear. Should also be quite a bit faster. JW

[Flightgear-devel] Scale6X

2007-11-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Flightgear at Scale this year will be either the OSG version or 0.9.11. We're trying to negotiate for a bit more space and power to set up three large scale screens. Curt posted a notice to the upcoming events regards the show. Joysticks? We don't need no stickin' joysticks ;-) The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-11-29 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi Durk, looking over my logs, there was quite a bit of traffic downloading the pre-release version of FG and the base files. Glad I could help. Do you want to continue with this arrangement or has Curt had a chance to setup the ftp server for you? If not I can give you ftp access and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-11-30 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: I say it's go time. :-) Curt. I say go with 0.9.11. And for those worried about that number, work extra hard updating/improving the code so we can then quickly move to 0.9.12 :-) Or better still, start a new versioning system with OSG. JW

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dual head problem

2007-12-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, did you run configure with--enable-osgviewer ? JW jean pellotier wrote: Hi all I tryed to run flightgear cvs-OSG using two displays, running two X instances (different resolution) and when I start flightgear in a terminal on the second display, it always start on the fist one. The

[Flightgear-devel] Pressure altitude

2007-12-09 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, have come across an interesting problem (maybe) Looking at data coming across the opengc socket interface. in 0.9.10 the pressure altitude is reported as 29.9069 in the 0.9.11-pre2 it is reported as 5.32503e-315 in the CVS osg head it is reported as 29.9017 Need to dig further, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal error with YASim aircraft having 4 fuel tanks

2008-01-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
LeeE wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008 18:24, LeeE wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008 11:07, Chris Metzler wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:00:22 + LeeE wrote: Can anyone else confirm this problem on the OSG cvs branch? Yes, I see it too, and have for at least a couple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal error with YASim aircraft having 4 fuel tanks [OFFLINE]

2008-01-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
Berndt, Jon S wrote: Unfortunately, the supporting code is not part of the JSBSim baseline so it is impossible to see how it works , although it has been submitted a while back. You can see the supporting source changes by downloading the tar file of the code used at a Mathworks expo and will

[Flightgear-devel] Dihedral aero coefficients

2008-01-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Looking over a couple of xml aircraft files and aero numbers... Can any of you aero experts out there identify the coefficients that account for wing dihedral? I can't seem to find anything that would account for the difference in wing lift on left side versus right side thereby creating

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: [Scale-announce] SCALE is this Weekend!

2008-02-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
that SCALE is this weekend in Los Angeles, CA (USA). I will be there with John Wojnaroski (http://www.lfstech.com) demoing his 747 simulator. If anyone is in the neighborhood, please stop by and say hi, we should be pretty easy to find! Just look for the big blue canopy and crowd ;-) Curt

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