Hi,
I just set up a bug tracker for FlightGear at
http://his.biologie.hu-berlin.de/flightgear
If you want to become a supporter, that is being able to work on the tickets,
create an account on the site (via Join in the upper right corner) and write
me a PM with your username.
The schema of
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 13:32 schrieb Pigeon:
As we know, we have some FG docs and tips online written by many
people, and then there's the seedwiki site. And now we have a bug
tracker (i always liked one btw).
Things are a bit here and there, basically everywhere. It's
difficult
Am Freitag 10 März 2006 16:12 schrieb Vassilii Khachaturov:
There is also an existing bug tracker over at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=583atid=100583
which has been there for several years already;
at one point when I looked for a place to write down
the bugs that bother me but
Am Mittwoch, 22. März 2006 14:07 schrieb Martin Spott:
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:40, Julien Pierru wrote:
Teotihuacan pyramid complex:
http://flamebunny.homelinux.net/pics/fgfs/Teotihuacan.jpg (20m NE of
Mexico City MMMX on heading 045);
Nice, but we
Am Mittwoch 22 März 2006 18:55 schrieb Julien Pierru:
well there is definitely a canal down there, not sure if it is dried up or
not:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.693701,-98.845561spn=0.016544,0.021715t
=khl=en
Julien
P.S:that thred definitely generated some interests, though not the
...
Or put differently: Even though the plaintiff was able to prove the
origin of the defendant's map by the easter eggs, that bought them
nothing, as the base data is not copyright protected and the easter eggs
won't count as mental creation to make it protected.
Again: IANAL, and this is
Am Freitag 21 April 2006 19:49 schrieb Martin Spott:
A very nice recipe on how to fool your dog:
http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/Parabel_mit_Hund.wmv
Got this from www.eddh.de ? :-)
While we are at it, try also this one (!!! 19MB download):
Am Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 11:50 schrieb Martin Spott:
Christian Mayer wrote:
Perhaps - but then only with our own watermark, so that everybody who
finds them knows where they are from.
Hehe, good idea ! Do you know a method how to place such a watermark
without requiring Curt to open every
Am Montag 12 Juni 2006 01:10 schrieb Ampere K. Hardraade:
On Saturday 10 June 2006 13:15, Tony Pelton wrote:
heck, even taking the records, and stuffing those records, as they are
now, into XML would be a start.
Already in XML format...
http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/export_cyyz.svg
This idea actually _does_ have appeal - hey, I'm right now busy with
creating an SVG drawing - but I see one drawback here:
Airport-creators or -maintainers are not _forced_ to think of the
logical layout. Let's assume some flight simulation does not honour the
logical layout at all and we'll
Am Montag, 12. Juni 2006 12:28 schrieb Ralf Gerlich:
Hi,
Ralf Gerlich schrieb:
However, given proper tools - which is what TaxiDraw is going for - we
can make the tool support the user, by, e.g., automatically placing
lines of borderlights around any new pavement polygon and allow the
Am Donnerstag 25 Januar 2007 02:26 schrieb tangyong:
Can anybody translate the book to English?I think there are more people can
read English than German language.
I could but I don't have the book. From what I've read in the sample chapter
there are lots of slips and even errors in it. Looks
Am Donnerstag 25 Januar 2007 21:09 schrieb Pep Ribal:
lots of HTML
please post no HTML mails to this list
Thanks,
Thomas
--
PhD Student, Dept. Animal Physiology, HU Berlin
Tel +49 30 2093 6498, Fax +49 30 2093 6375
-
Hi all,
just discovered that DFS (German Air Traffic Control), provides live (delayed
30mins for security reasons) flighttracks for Düsseldorf (EDDL), Köln/Bonn
(EDDK), Munich (EDDM), Frankfurt (EDDF) and Hamburg (EDDH):
Hi,
I hit on a strange problem when using the --flight-plan commandline option
with the default c172. All controls are working except the ailerons, which
makes flying around a bit challenging... ;-)
command line: fgfs --airport=EDDT --runway=26L --flight-plan=EDDT-EDDC.plan
EDDT-EDDC.plan:
Am Donnerstag 08 Februar 2007 18:35 schrieb gh.robin:
On Thu 8 February 2007 11:13, Thomas Förster wrote:
...
If it is FG cvs with OSG, it is not a surprise to me, i told before on
several topics regarding autopilot, that it is not working.
Nobody but Lee answered to confirm
Am Donnerstag 15 Februar 2007 19:10 schrieb Pep Ribal:
Sorry, I forgot to post the bitmap... Here it is...
Regarding the command-line thing, it might be good to start there.
However, what should be the right tool to use when it comes the time to
set up the GUI?
That is the point in starting
Am Freitag 23 Februar 2007 13:16 schrieb Ralf Gerlich:
BTW: There was a long list of suggestions for static objects to be built
for Berlin on the organisation list. Maybe we should post that to the
Wiki for people outside the organisation committee to participate.
OK, since I compiled the
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 17:23 schrieb Roberto Inzerillo:
It's a pity I used non free image files for that one; that's why I can't
distribute it.
I'd like to distribute it anyway, so I'm asking if someone wants to help
by providing a few private shots (regarding this building and a few more).
OK, just to mediate a bit and prevent 2 discouraged contributors...
I think Martin is just trying to prevent history repeating. We once had to
remove a model from CVS with great effort. This was good will on the side of
the FG community as it was released under the GPL, so we hadn't had to.
Hi all,
since I don't like spending a sunny weekend in fruitless hidden discussions
about refactoring is bad if it reformats code I've put up some thoughts
about a possible style guide for Flightgear:
CODING POLICY:
==
File Naming
-
All filenames are all lower
Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2007 14:45 schrieb Vivian Meazza:
My problem - I only had classtanker/class in my scenario. Not
typetanker/type as well.
You had typeaircraft/type. The AI code chooses the class used based on
type so I had to change that to use the new FGAITanker class.
That
Am Donnerstag 28 Juni 2007 22:02 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
Here's a small Nasal file to play with (attached). If you put
it into $FG_ROOT/Nasal, start fgfs with the ufo and press the
g-key, then you get a file-select dialog where you can select
a parking.xml file. When you click the Load button,
Am Sonntag 01 Juli 2007 12:31 schrieb alexis bory:
I think this crash is related to the above:
Failed to find route from waypoint 8 to 154 at KSAN
whithout any other message in the console. FG just quits.
No, these seem to be unrelated. The latter happens if the route finding
algorithm
Thoughts, ideas, objections?
Though the property system is probably nice, why not just raise an exception +
a catch all error handler. In release code this probably just logs a warning,
whereas in debug/development code it exits (could be a commandline option).
This works for all subsystems
No callsigns from the Traffic Manager stuff - did we break that?
Probably not, never seen any... (so, if broken, not with the wxradar patch)
Thomas
--
PhD Student, Dept. Animal Physiology, HU Berlin
Tel +49 30 2093 6173, Fax +49 30 2093 6375
Am Montag 02 Juli 2007 15:04 schrieb Vivian Meazza:
Good. Phew. No callsign in the flightplans?
I think the properties are not updated. Internally they are set at least on
loading the xml file. ATM I'm guessing though.
I couldn't compare with
earlier, since today is the first time I have
Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 08:30 schrieb Durk Talsma:
The most significant exception (no pun indented) :-)
The context of a message also depends on the messenger :-)
to this rule seems to
be the one related to the routing algorithm. It seems like the new
algorithm is pickier than my old one.
Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 10:28 schrieb Vivian Meazza:
Of course code breakage happens. But in an ideal world, it shouldn't get
into cvs.
In an ideal world we had automated unit test that cover everything... Welcome
to reality :-P
It makes us all look unprofessional.
Not more than not
Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 10:31 schrieb Martin Spott:
Perhaps you recall this thread: C++ code beautifier /
Codingstandardsproposal
Seems to me that we are just revisiting these issues.
I can't remember having read a proposal that found general consensus in
the mentioned thread - so I
Repost of (relevant parts) of Tim Moore's original posting in another thread
to keep things organized :-) With permission
Please use this thread for coding style discussions.
Thomas
File Naming
-
All filenames are all lower case. Header files end with the suffix .hxx,
Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 13:54 schrieb Thomas Förster (actually it was Tim
Moore :-) ):
I personally hate underscores or any other indication that a variable is
a private member, with the rationale that a cursory reading of a
well-written class will quickly give you that information anyway
Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 15:59 schrieb John Denker:
If some developer, for development purposes, wants to increase
the number of digits in the display, I parameterized the
format so that changing it is a simple one-character edit.
http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/flight-control.diff
I hope
Am Mittwoch 04 Juli 2007 19:38 schrieb Heiko Schulz:
Hi,
But I forgot a wish: I would love to see, if we could
change and do individuals paintings of the ground of
airports - all the lines and markings. Maybe that
could be something...
AFAIK Ralf Gerlich has done some research in that
Am Donnerstag 05 Juli 2007 17:12 schrieb Ralf Gerlich:
const string would only make sense if a string was returned which is
typically stored in the object and should _not_ be copied, e.g. in a
getter-method.
And exactly thats the case here :-)
Thomas
--
PhD Student, Dept. Animal Physiology,
Sane code
would just use a set_element() function and be done with it instead of
using a design element that even good, productive programmers don't
always recognize. The older I get, the more C++ looks like a
terrible, terrible mistake.
which reminds me of:
The Zen of Python (by Tim
Am Freitag 06 Juli 2007 10:19 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
...
Maybe you should stop by in our IRC channel at some time. It's
usually much more relaxed and friendly there, and it's easier to
clear matters.
I second that. I was quite surprised yesterday :-) Thx
OTOH sometimes it's not an option
Am Freitag 06 Juli 2007 19:27 schrieb John Denker:
It's been ten days now with no CVS-commit nor even any
discussion of a CVS-commit AFAICT.
That's definitely not true (generally spoken). Which branch are you using?
Thomas
--
PhD Student, Dept. Animal Physiology, HU Berlin
Tel +49 30 2093
Am Freitag 06 Juli 2007 20:33 schrieb John Denker:
On 07/06/2007 01:50 PM, Thomas Förster wrote:
That's definitely not true (generally spoken). Which branch are you
using?
CVS OSG, up to date as of late yesterday (the 5th).
Has something happened since then?
Hmm, rereading your post
Am Samstag 07 Juli 2007 09:41 schrieb Vivian Meazza:
OK so it's 2 features, not 1 bug - excellent. I also noted that the route
taken from parking to active runway seemed a bit odd, but then I compared
our taxiways to those on Google Earth - we seem to have bits missing
alongside 28L, which
Hi all,
a 'cvs update' failed for me today:
can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv9314
No space left on device
As my local /tmp has plenty of space left (2GB) I suspect the CVS server to be
the culprit. Anyone here who can change that?
Thomas
--
PhD Student, Dept. Animal Physiology,
Am Mittwoch 18 Juli 2007 21:56 schrieb AnMaster:
I'm strongly against using PDF, loading a pdf viewer takes much longer time
and it is harder to edit *.pdf than text files. At least I got no program
to edit *.pdf
Same here. Automatically creating PDF as an alternative nicer representation
is
Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 18:56 schrieb Harald JOHNSEN:
Thank you a lot for the very detailed explanations, I think that I have
everything I need for now.
Harald,
Note that we are actively working on that part (groundnet-AI interaction),
so expect changes in the interface of the involved
Hi all,
I prepared a patch to enable unit testing in FlightGear development. The used
framework is UnitTest++ (http://unittest-cpp.sourceforge.net/) which is
included in the patch. The whole is completely separate from any FG code,
though sitting in src/Tests. testAirportsGroundnet.cxx is the
Am Sonntag 02 September 2007 schrieb Heiko Schulz:
Hi,
Thomas Förster is working on the same Idea - ask him,
I'm sure he pleased about help!
Not that I know, having no experience with VoIP at all. You probably mean the
VoIP client from Holger Wirtz (also from Berlin ;-) ).
Thomas
--
PhD
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
The last point is done with weighting factors, which are for
now configurable in the property tree and might need some more
adjustment. Please check problem cases and report any unwanted
behavior.
I'd prefer the evaluation formula changed
Am Samstag 13 Oktober 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
You are a bit behind ... :-)
Dang, my last cvs up was 2 days ago. Probably I should setup a 30 min cron
job... ;-)
Taking wind into account is impossible with the current startup [...]
Behind again ... that works already. Look into
Am Samstag 13 Oktober 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 13 October 2007:
Caching would mean [...]
BTW: (real) caching would be a good idea. But I doubt
that *.osg is a big win. It would have to be the native
binary format *.ive to make sense, no?
And there would
Am Samstag 13 Oktober 2007 schrieb Tim Moore:
My objective is to be able to override model file paths that seem to be
hard to change, like those in the scenery files. Perhaps it's easier than I
think to update those? How often is the scenery rebuilt?
Since this is about replacing(?) scenery
Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Carroll Barry:
Hello all,
I would like to use Flightgear to display real-time air traffic. At the
moment I am using tracking data from this site:
http://www.fly.faa.gov/ASDI/asdi.html
What I would like to be able to do is to create and control aircraft
Am Montag 05 November 2007 schrieb Carroll Barry:
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the reply. Would your solution allow me to manually control
what might be thousands or aircraft?
I haven't looked into the multiplayer protocol yet because I am just using
the standalone exe on my pc. Would I be
Am Mittwoch 28 November 2007 schrieb Stuart Buchanan:
Melchior wrote:
...
- unclear wording: Environment Rate: [+][-]
What is an environment rate? :-)
I thought it was clearer for new users than Time Warp delta. I've
changed this to Time Warp.
How about Sim Time Rate [-][+][Real
Am Donnerstag 29 November 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
* Thomas Förster -- Thursday 29 November 2007:
How about Sim Time Rate [-][+][Real Time]. I don't think newbies know
what 'time warp' is
As said in the other email: I didn't criticize Environment Rate
to favor Time Warp. Both might
Am Freitag 30 November 2007 schrieb Curtis Olson:
...[lots of version number discussion]...
I say it's go time. :-)
If it comes down to marketing and a reasonable version number scheme (i.e. one
that correlates with the major feature development), why not skip 1.0
altogether. v1.0 has that
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
Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 schrieb tangyong:
...(Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems)...
A-SMGCS should manage all kinds of vehicles(including aircrafts and cars)
on airport.So I need to simulate more than twenty aircrafts moving on the
airport surface to test A-SMGCS.
Am Samstag 12 Januar 2008 schrieb Maik Justus:
...[MP FDM override]...
For the pushback we need something similar. Additionally the pushback
need to know the gear positions of the airliner to simulate it properly.
But all this should be possible in Nasal.
I'd like to see the Slave FDM
Am Dienstag 15 Januar 2008 schrieb Curtis Olson:
If these (or any other events) firm up and we know there will be a
flightgear presence, please email me so I can post details on our web site.
At least for Linuxtag we're in the planning stages and will definitely exhibit
FG. Especially as it is
Am Mittwoch 23 Januar 2008 schrieb Heiko Schulz:
Oops , now I see a lot of ...
Warning:detected OpenGL error 'invalid operation'
after RenderBin::draw(,) in the teminal
but otherwise it seems to go smoothly ...
Cheers
--
This message I got the last months with OSG-Builds- I
Am Freitag 01 Februar 2008 schrieb till busch:
hi,
i have reworked the apt.dat-loading code. everything works fine so far, but
i have two questions:
1. we currently have runways and taxiways in one FGRunwayList. imho these
are very different things. i'd like to make two separate lists. are
Am Montag 11 Februar 2008 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
...
Think someone did a conservative choice here.
Conservative?
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewWrongentry.php?idThread=427767idForum=3lp=endelang=de
Sorry for the long url. Its in German too...
At least I think conservative is the right
Am Sonntag 10 Februar 2008 schrieb Heiko Schulz:
...
It seems to mee, that METAR is not used correctly.
METAR ssems alright to me, if in RL the visibility is
under 11nm, ti is in FGFS too. But above 11nm - FGFS
can't show this
Note that METAR itself only codes visibility up to m.
Am Mittwoch 20 Februar 2008 schrieb Mike Schuh:
I wonder if a multiple regression against several factors would turn up
anything useful:
vis = f(humidity,temp,wind,ceiling,elevation,sun_angle,ground_cover)
Not sure how to incorporate sun_angle for values 0 (i.e., night). Moon?
Thanks for the processing chain.
I'll see if I find some time to look into this in the weekend. Lots of other
data processing (ant distributions, butterfly breathing, etc.) on the bench
already... :)
My main idea is not to develop a complicated model. I rather try to find some
complicated
Am Donnerstag 13 März 2008 schrieb Christian Schmitt:
Hone more question: Is there a way to set maximum sizes for aircraft
that are allowed on a particular parking position? That would solve the
current problem of a 747 parking on at Gate B on a position not suitable
for that size.
The
Am Sonntag 30 März 2008 schrieb BARANGER Emmanuel:
Hi all,
After some tries on the Paris scenery and with nels' help on jabber,
here are a few screenshots showing how much a textured ground
dramatically improves Flightgear rendering.
http://helijah.free.fr/ground/JPG-Version/
Well, for
Am Sonntag 27 April 2008 schrieb Melchior FRANZ:
* Nicolas -- Tuesday 08 April 2008:
After precipitation patchs, I post a new patch about screenshot
management. With this patch, you can choose the directory destination
for the screenshots.
Committed, thanks. Example:
Nevermind.
I overlooked the simgear patch. Next time, please put a note into the commit
messages that a simgear update is required.
Thomas
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Am Montag 12 Mai 2008 schrieb Durk Talsma:
On Monday 12 May 2008 15:31, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
Is DCL some aeronautic acronym? Or do we now put developer initials
in dir names. I'd find that quite disturbing (and not only because
Dave certainly isn't the sole ATC author). I would prefer
James,
while I'm pretty much in favour of spatial indices, note that a lot of work in
that direction has been done already. As far as I know, Mathias Fröhlich has
written a general templated spatial index for simgear. I've the code with me,
but haven't found time to look at it yet (Sorry
Am Montag 03 November 2008 schrieb Martin Spott:
Somewhen in the past we've been starting the FlightGear Expo
Checklist page on the wiki (you won't find the page without using a
seach engine)
Sometimes a little link might help... ;)
Am Montag 03 November 2008 schrieb gerard robin:
..[boost libs introduction]...
Are we talking about it ?
http://www.boost.org/users/license.html
Which is not said being GPL
Not knowing any details, from the website it sounds like things are more
complicated:
Introduction
The Boost
Am Montag 01 Dezember 2008 schrieb James Turner:
(following from my recent discovery that Point3D is archeology at
best...)
What is the 'best' type to be using in new code for Cartesian co-
ordinates? Not for rendering related things, where I assume osg::Vec3
is the way to go, but for other
Am Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008 schrieb Durk Talsma:
Hi Heiko,
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 01:43:26 Heiko Schulz wrote:
Hi,
Here are some of my screenies for the gallery! Feel free to take one or
more of them.
No. 4 seems to get problems on touch down. Where's the left main wheel? Render
Am Montag 05 Januar 2009 schrieb James Turner:
- when I want to sync the main repo with the cvs-import one, your
instructions say 'git fetch', but I seem to need to 'git pull' to get
the master branch in sync with the origin. It works fine, I guess I'm
just mis-understanding what fetch
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