Re: [Flightgear-devel] Resigning as patch committer.

2006-02-22 Thread Martin Spott
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..FG being a meritocracy, you qualify on your merits and on stepping > forward. The more people we have doing cvs commits, the easier the > work load gets on each, [...] I don't think this is a good solution. The more people have CVS write access the less responsibility eac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture compression experiments in plib

2006-02-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:17:32 + Tiago Gusmão wrote: > > I will post in the plib in the plib devel list just to make sure we can > go ahead with this, but before i would like to know what exactly do we > want and have someone double-check the specs and issues, i'm not an > OpenGL guru or somet

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using condi

2006-02-22 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Melchior, These are really interesting comments to me bcause they're exactly what I was getting trying to run FGv099 on a PC that098a had run previously. I didn't change any of the command line that I had used with FGv098a. Your comments would seem to say though, that something is being en

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dist-scale animation WAS: flash animation

2006-02-22 Thread Josh Babcock
Josh Babcock wrote: > It seems to have the same behavior > if I reverse the order of the animations. My mistake, it is broken in a new and creative way if the animations are reversed: http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/fgfs-screen-012.jpg http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/fgf

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Festival

2006-02-22 Thread syd
syd -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:40: > > Everything seems to go fine , but no voices. Flightgear logs say > > VOICE: something is listening to localhost:1314, but it doesnt seem to > > be Festival. This is a plausibility check. If a channel to the configured host:port is openend in festival m

[Flightgear-devel] dist-scale animation WAS: flash animation

2006-02-22 Thread Josh Babcock
Josh Babcock wrote: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: OK, aside from the scaling thing, this is working great. But, to make it work nicely, I tried to integrate it with Melchior's dist-scale animation from fgfs-export.py: 0.4 0.8 10 dist-scale LIT-LandingX0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Resigning as patch committer.

2006-02-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:31:04 -0500, Ampere wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Some of my works have been handled by Erik, so I would first like to > say "thank you." > > Now a small question: if Erik hasn't nominated his successor to Curt > yet, when do we get to nominate people? :) ..FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flash animation

2006-02-22 Thread Josh Babcock
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Great! Now, is it possible to get it to scale only on two axis? I use a trick with billboarding to avoid collisions between the light halos and body parts. | x| | ^ object center ^ face This way, the object rotates around the object cente

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Jean-Yves Lefort
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:02:47 +0100 Frederic Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jean-Yves Lefort wrote : > > Hi, > > > > I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear, > > available at http://people.freebsd.org/~jylefort/mk-viii.tgz > > > > The MK VIII is an Enhanced Groun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flash animation

2006-02-22 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Josh Babcock wrote : > Can anyone explain to me how the flash animation works? It seems to be > undocumented and I think it is what I need. I am trying to animate some > landing light halos, and I want to make them get dim as the view gets > off-axis. > The flash animation can be found in the b

[Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 23:43: > As soon as I use the instead of property (and so on > with green and blue) flightgear crashes with the following error message: It doesn't crash ... > Unknown exception in the main loop. Aborting... ... but abort, because you entered an invali

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Robicd
Hi Melchior, That means I can only change the color emission property of a 3d model once per flightgear session [...] No. But only once with static values. If you use etc., then you can change it as often as you like. That's what is done in the bo105 material dialogs (Ctrl-y) after all. But

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Jean-Yves Lefort wrote : > Hi, > > I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear, > available at http://people.freebsd.org/~jylefort/mk-viii.tgz > > The MK VIII is an Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System aimed at > regional turboprop and small turbofan aircrafts such as

[Flightgear-devel] Re: 'step' and 'scroll' properties, and other odd things

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* alexis bory -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 22:54: > Another weird thing: > > I have 4 distinct 'rotate' animations for the needle and the 3 'drums' > -> OK the drums have each their own rotation speed. > > After adding a single 'material' animation for the 4 objects. > (whith 4 tags inside the

[Flightgear-devel] 'step' and 'scroll' properties, and other odd things

2006-02-22 Thread alexis bory
hi, I can't make 'step' and 'scroll' properties working for a 3D object rotate animation. It seems that they are only available for textures animation. The purpose is animating step by step the drums counter of the A-10 altimeter. Another weird thing: I have 4 distinct 'rotate' animations for t

[Flightgear-devel] flash animation

2006-02-22 Thread Josh Babcock
Can anyone explain to me how the flash animation works? It seems to be undocumented and I think it is what I need. I am trying to animate some landing light halos, and I want to make them get dim as the view gets off-axis. Josh --- This SF.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] tiny eta-reduction at the voice README docs

2006-02-22 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> Sounds good. I used what KDE uses internally. Of course, > "voice-locations" alone would also work. I'll add your > versions to the README. Thanks. The pleasure is mine. FWIW, the way festival is compiled here on Debian by default, is with a TAB completion. For a quick start (rather than going t

[Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:53: > * Roberto Inzerillo -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:43: [material animation problem] > That's a bug. Fixed and committed. m. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you gr

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] tiny eta-reduction at the voice README docs

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Vassilii Khachaturov -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:39: > BTW, I don't know how recent it is, but on my system the following > is even easier to get the install voices list: > > festival> (voice.list) > (rab_diphone don_diphone kal_diphone) Sounds good. I used what KDE uses internally. Of cou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] tiny eta-reduction at the voice README docs

2006-02-22 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
BTW, I don't know how recent it is, but on my system the following is even easier to get the install voices list: festival> (voice.list) (rab_diphone don_diphone kal_diphone) Vassilii --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you

[Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:09: > That means I can only change the color emission property of a 3d model > once per flightgear session [...] No. But only once with static values. If you use etc., then you can change it as often as you like. That's what is done in the bo105 material

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Justin Smithies wrote: Curtis maybe this could be added to the FG cvs as it could be used on other aircraft etc. What does everyone else think ? Agreed, but it's not a quick/trivial drop in patch and I'm just not going to have time to look at it today. I'm heading back out of town for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Justin Smithies
Curtis maybe this could be added to the FG cvs as it could be used on other aircraft etc. What does everyone else think ? Regards, Justin Smithies On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:37, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > Hi, > > I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear, > ava

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Robicd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Roberto Inzerillo -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:43: I've set two animations with one condition each; the conditions compare the current sun-angle-rad with a fixed value; one condition should make the Needle light on, the second condition should bring the Needle back

[Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roberto Inzerillo -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:43: > I've set two animations with one condition each; the conditions compare > the current sun-angle-rad with a fixed value; one condition should make > the Needle light on, the second condition should bring the Needle back > to no emission.

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] tiny eta-reduction at the voice README docs

2006-02-22 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Index: README.voice.html === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Docs/README.voice.html,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 README.voice.html --- README.voice.html 14 Feb 2006 23:36:53 - 1.3 +++ README.voice.html 22

[Flightgear-devel] How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-22 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
I am trying to get the SeattleSpaceNeedle.ac light on when dark. I made use of suggestions contained in model-howto.html Now I have a .xml file with the following content, but that does not work correctly. I want a part of the SpaceNeedle to emit red light at night, and then emit no light in

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Tutorial System patch (version 5)

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Buchanan, Stuart -- Tuesday 21 February 2006 00:15: [tutorial system] I've committed that now. I only removed trailing spaces, fixed a few typos, and re-implemented the fg_command.cxx changes in tutorial.nas. (I wanted to avoid hard-coded numbers in the presets part.) Please test: - fire up t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Justin Smithies
Cool i think this could be used in the 737 too with some mods. I'm away to try it on my test model. Cheers Justin Smithies On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:37, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > Hi, > > I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear, > available at http://people.fr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim question: propeller idle RPM

2006-02-22 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: > Is Andy Ross still on this list? He is, he's just caught up in another personal project (a maybe-possibly-kinda fundable startup) and isn't doing much FlightGear hacking these days. [He's also sitting on a PistonEngine patch from Vivian for the turbo modelling -- I'll ge

[Flightgear-devel] MK VIII EGPWS emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Jean-Yves Lefort
Hi, I have implemented a Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS emulation for FlightGear, available at http://people.freebsd.org/~jylefort/mk-viii.tgz The MK VIII is an Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System aimed at regional turboprop and small turbofan aircrafts such as the Citation, Citation Bravo, B1900D,

[Flightgear-devel] YASim question: propeller idle RPM

2006-02-22 Thread David Megginson
Is Andy Ross still on this list? If so, I'd be grateful for any suggestions about changing Propeller.cpp to slow down idle RPM for constant-speed propellers (drag? friction?). A normal, non-geared, light aircraft with a CS prop should idle around 700 rpm sitting still with the prop lever all the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-22 Thread David Megginson
On 22/02/06, Dave Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took your advice this evening and tried the 55 knots with 14 degrees. > Yasim did not want to converge at first (insufficient elevator trim) but > after I increased the hstab effectiveness to 2 (was 1.5) it converged. > I also took the hstab i

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Festival

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* syd -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:40: > Everything seems to go fine , but no voices. Flightgear logs say > VOICE: something is listening to localhost:1314, but it doesnt seem to > be Festival. This is a plausibility check. If a channel to the configured host:port is openend in festival mode,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: festival speech

2006-02-22 Thread Martin Spott
"Buchanan, Stuart" wrote: > --- Martin Spott wrote: >> Can I persuade somebody to create a chapter (or sub-chapter) for The >> Manual that describes such a setup with FlightGear ? Maybe a whole >> chapter on its own that contains external communication setups would be >> a great addition in the lo

[Flightgear-devel] Re:Festival

2006-02-22 Thread syd
Hi all ...following the tips here I got festival up and running Everything seems to go fine , but no voices. Flightgear logs say VOICE: something is listening to localhost:1314, but it doesnt seem to be Festival. It works fine from the command line , so not sure where to turn next ... Has an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: festival speech

2006-02-22 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Martin Spott wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > Yes. Festival seems to be set up restrictive on some systems (or by > default?). > > One has to set the permissions in /etc/festival.scm (if it looks > there) or > > in /usr/share/festival/siteinit.scm or /usr/share/festival/init.scm: > > > >