Re: [Flightgear-users] Building Fences

2005-12-11 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: Becareful when using transparency in your texture, because it can cause a huge performance decrease. Really? I can't think of a reason why modern OpenGL accellerators take longer to display transparnet textures than

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Re: Clouds 2D better than Clouds 3D

2005-12-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 13:57 +1000, Chris Wilkinson a écrit : Hi there, I just tried to fly from LFMO and I looked at the metar info from there. Here is my local Brisbane (YBBN) metar info... YBBN 110300Z 07010KT SCT032 29/20 Q1011 NOSIG Here is the metar for Orange

Re: [Flightgear-users] Update MB339 PAN

2005-12-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 15:11 +0100, Georg Vollnhals a écrit : Hi, just for your information, there is an actual update (cockpit ..) of the MB339 PAN aircraft of the University of Udine, Italy Now version 1.1 http://frecce3d.uniud.it/ Regards Georg Thanks for the Info, that AC

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 23:10 +1100, Pigeon a écrit : Hi all, Cooked up some FG videos for everyone's pleasure... http://pigeond.net/photos/flightgear/videos/ Perhaps in the future we could make some short video clips for little parts of various FG flying tutorials

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 01:31 +1030, George Patterson a écrit : On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 15:35 +0100, Gerard ROBIN wrote: Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 23:10 +1100, Pigeon a écrit : Hi all, Cooked up some FG videos for everyone's pleasure...

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Pigeon schrieb: Hi all, Cooked up some FG videos for everyone's pleasure... Hi, the Nimitz... takeoff video is great to demonstrate what FG is capable now! This one (and other of this quality) should be on FlightGears site - only argument against this could be the size of videos.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On December 11, 2005 07:10 am, Pigeon wrote: Hi all, Cooked up some FG videos for everyone's pleasure... http://pigeond.net/photos/flightgear/videos/ Perhaps in the future we could make some short video clips for little parts of various FG flying tutorials too. Pigeon.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 17:30 +0100, Georg Vollnhals a écrit : Pigeon schrieb:Hi all, Cooked up some FG videos for everyone's pleasure... Hi, the Nimitz... takeoff video is great to demonstrate what FG is capable now! This one (and other of this quality) should be on FlightGears

[Flightgear-users] Re: Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Pigeon
the Nimitz... takeoff video is great to demonstrate what FG is capable now! This one (and other of this quality) should be on FlightGears site - only argument against this could be the size of videos. We can always resize videos... and btw while we're on the topic of this, do these videos

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread cmetzler
Hi all, Cooked up some FG videos for everyone's pleasure... http://pigeond.net/photos/flightgear/videos/ Perhaps in the future we could make some short video clips for little parts of various FG flying tutorials too. Fantastic stuff. What hardware (processor/mobo/video

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building Fences

2005-12-11 Thread Dan Lyke
Christian Mayer writes: Really? I can't think of a reason why modern OpenGL accellerators take longer to display transparnet textures than solid ones (except of a harmless hardware optimized blending function). ? Transparency require a frame buffer read, a multiply, and a frame buffer write.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pigeon schrieb: the Nimitz... takeoff video is great to demonstrate what FG is capable now! This one (and other of this quality) should be on FlightGears site - only argument against this could be the size of videos. We can always resize

RE: [Flightgear-users] Re: Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Vivian Meazza
Pigeon. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pigeon Sent: 11 December 2005 19:58 To: FlightGear user discussions Subject: [Flightgear-users] Re: Some FG videos... the Nimitz... takeoff video is great to demonstrate

[Flightgear-users] Hardware Benchmarking Compatibility (again!)

2005-12-11 Thread Paul Duncan
Hi All, Meant to get this done about a week ago, but things have been a tad busy. I've just been through all the E-mails regarding benchmarking of FGFS running on specific hardware, and here's what I've come up with. It could be made waaay more complex than this, but I believe that for the moment

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building Fences

2005-12-11 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Lyke schrieb: Christian Mayer writes: Really? I can't think of a reason why modern OpenGL accellerators take longer to display transparnet textures than solid ones (except of a harmless hardware optimized blending function). ? Transparency

Re: [Flightgear-users] Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Gerard ROBIN schrieb: Regards Georg EDDW ^^ Hello, Georg Not so bad to give your Favorite Airport :=) which gives us some ideas. 1. Hi Gerard at LFPO, you are right, it is nice to know where people live and if I know the ICAO code of the local airport I often

[Flightgear-users] Re: Some FG videos...

2005-12-11 Thread Pigeon
That list on my site needs an update ;) My P3 died a while ago. The box i did the capturing is a P4 2.4GHz, 1G ram, video card is a nvidia 6600 256MB. I do realize with my machine is not quite smooth enough to capture a 800x600 video of FG with xvidcap. 640x480 seems ok. Also i

[Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 32, Issue 23

2005-12-11 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Gerard ROBIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Re: Clouds 2D better than Clouds 3D Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 13:57 +1000, Chris Wilkinson a écrit : I just tried to fly from LFMO and I looked at the metar info from