Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here???
On Monday 10 May 2004 13:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here??? Guess because no posts have been made - it was the weekend afterall and a nice sunny one here in the UK at that. Cheers, Al ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here???
On Mon, 10 May 2004 14:14:11 +0100, Al wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 10 May 2004 13:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here??? Guess because no posts have been made - it was the weekend afterall and a nice sunny one here in the UK at that. ..whew. ;-) The weird thing was, the spam too, took the weekend off. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here???
On 5/10/04 at 2:14 PM Al West wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 13:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here??? Guess because no posts have been made - it was the weekend afterall and a nice sunny one here in the UK at that. Speak for yourself, it was cloudy all weekend in Nottingham, with rain on Friday and Sunday evenings. Cheers - Dave This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here???
The server was down. Regards, Ampere On May 10, 2004 08:43 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here??? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11
Hi Ampere, I'm not sure what exactly you changed between your last two mails, but in both cases the MD11 model looks pretty good now. I take it that you have not modelled the landing gears yet? About the control surfaces. I'm not exactly sure what the best approach will be. I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to aircraft modelling, so I have to find out a lot by trial and error. I know that some of the other aircraft use ac3d models, which contain named surfaces that can be animated by binding these names to internal properties. I tried converting your 3ds model to ac3d format. After the conversion I only saw name NoName tags, which probably indicates that the names of each surface is lost in the conversion, because I did see some names pop up in your binary 3ds file. So, the two things I don't know yet are: 1). Can we animate a 3ds model? 2). If we need to convert to ac3d format, is there a way to retain the original names given to each surface or do we need to manually reinsert them? Is there somebody on the list who can enlighten us? I tries searching for documentation on the FlightGear web pages and at seedwiki.com, but to no avail. Cheers, Durk On Saturday 08 May 2004 22:13, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I have re-exported the model again. It should be *bug free* now. When do you like to have the axis information for the control surfaces? Regards, Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11
I'm not sure what exactly you changed between your last two mails, but in both cases the MD11 model looks pretty good now. I went in to attach everything, then detach everything again so now all the object's pivot align at [0,0,-5.96]. It would seem that the code that reads 3ds files takes the position of the objects relative to their pivot instead of the object's true location. Hence you see things like flaps and engines get dislocated. It would also seem that the code doesn't support the mirror function. So instead of being able to just flip one side to the other and call it a day, I have attach everything together, and detach everything again. I take it that you have not modelled the landing gears yet? No, not yet. About the control surfaces. I'm not exactly sure what the best approach will be. I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to aircraft modelling, so I have to find out a lot by trial and error. I know that some of the other aircraft use ac3d models, which contain named surfaces that can be animated by binding these names to internal properties. I tried converting your 3ds model to ac3d format. After the conversion I only saw name NoName tags, which probably indicates that the names of each surface is lost in the conversion, because I did see some names pop up in your binary 3ds file. So, the two things I don't know yet are: 1). Can we animate a 3ds model? 2). If we need to convert to ac3d format, is there a way to retain the original names given to each surface or do we need to manually reinsert them? I don't know the answer to these questions myself, as I am also a novice when it comes to modding FlightGear. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops
I've been asked to recommend a laptop with long battery life for use on long trans continental airline flights. The user is word processing/spreadsheet oriented. This isn't my cup of tea, as I'm more of a book reader in flight (who doesn't like carrying crap--even 6 lb computers--around airports). I am aware of the technical issues and websites with specs online. Just hoping for some first person accounts of actual performance. Thanks, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops
Jim Wilson wrote: I've been asked to recommend a laptop with long battery life for use on long trans continental airline flights. The user is word processing/spreadsheet oriented. This isn't my cup of tea, as I'm more of a book reader in flight (who doesn't like carrying crap--even 6 lb computers--around airports). I am aware of the technical issues and websites with specs online. Just hoping for some first person accounts of actual performance. Some laptops I've seen (Dell) allow you to substitute an extra battery pack instead of the cd rom drive giving you 2x the normal battery life. That makes a big difference in how long your laptop is useful ... I've also seen people buy extra batteries and charge them up in advance ... more weight to carry but a reasonable option. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops
Practically all laptops allow you to buy another battery, so even though you have to power down the laptop to switch, you don't do too badly. With that, I can last the 5:30hr journey by train from London to Edinburgh. (Word processing only. If you want to run FGFS, or compile it, then you are looking at *much* shorter timescales). Spreadsheet could be more intensive depending on application. Giles Robertson. -Original Message- From: Curtis L. Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2004 21:03 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops Jim Wilson wrote: I've been asked to recommend a laptop with long battery life for use on long trans continental airline flights. The user is word processing/spreadsheet oriented. This isn't my cup of tea, as I'm more of a book reader in flight (who doesn't like carrying crap--even 6 lb computers--around airports). I am aware of the technical issues and websites with specs online. Just hoping for some first person accounts of actual performance. Some laptops I've seen (Dell) allow you to substitute an extra battery pack instead of the cd rom drive giving you 2x the normal battery life. That makes a big difference in how long your laptop is useful ... I've also seen people buy extra batteries and charge them up in advance ... more weight to carry but a reasonable option. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter
On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: For an upcoming newsletter article I am [hopefully] writing an introduction to modeling aircraft flight dynamics in YASim. For a subsequent issue of the newsletter I think I'd like to walk the reader through the process of creating a specific aircraft model in YASim. I have borrowed a POH for a Super King Air 200/200C which gives a *ton* of great information for modeling the aircraft's flight dynamics, so I think this would make a great candidate for this exercise. (It would be nice to have a few more turboprops in flightgear, and the king air is just a really cool design and would be good to have anyway.) So my question is this. Are there any 3D modelers out there who would be interested in participating in this exercise by creating a (or adapting an existing?) 3D model for the King Air 200 and animating/texturing it? I don't know if there is any 3d models from MSFS land we could get permission to use/adapt? Is there anyone who would like to do a 2D or 3D cockpit? We have a nice 2D cockpit for a Beech 99 (which is similar) so that might serve as a reasonable starting point. I would like to take a shot at building a 3D cockpit. I've studied some pictures at www.airliners.net and found them to be a valueable source. If anyone has, or knows about anything that can be of help, please let me know. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops
Jim Wilson schrieb: I've been asked to recommend a laptop with long battery life for use on long trans continental airline flights. The user is word processing/spreadsheet oriented. Get an Centrino based laptop. Windows is fully supported and Linux is getting there (the WLAN driver is in a useable beta stage) The brand (Acer, Dell, IBM, ...) doesn't really matter. Every major player has high quality / high price modells as well as those with a smaller price tag (and a not so good quality...) CU, Christian PS: I'm writing this on an Acer Travelmate 800 series laptop - which I'd buy again. It's high quality with a very reasonable price tag. And performance (even with FlightGear) is great ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops
Intel has _just_ realased the Dothan series of mobile processers, so Intel's Centrino technology is great for battery life. They have processers as low as 1 GHz using like only 1.1 voltsI believe, keeping it alive for much longer. And as long as he has a nice videocard (aka Nvidia or ATi 128 mb card) any new processer should be fine for FG. DO NOT get a normal pentium 4, unless the thing has one big a** fan; it WILL overheat VERY quickly. I speak from experience, our 2 GHz p4 laptop will shutdown from heat after 5 min of running FG. Dell andToshiba,should begood quallity-wise, butGateway and HPI've had (many) badexperiences with like defective products, trashy coustomer service, etc... Hope this helps, -Ethan From: Christian Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 00:06:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from baron.me.umn.edu ([128.101.142.119]) by mc6-f41.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 10 May 2004 15:18:16 -0700 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=baron.me.umn.edu)by baron.me.umn.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))id 1BNJ68-l1-00; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:18:08 -0500 Received: from natnoddy.rzone.de ([81.169.145.166])by baron.me.umn.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))id 1BNJ5t-ku-00for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:17:53 -0500 Received: from ChristianMayer.de (p213.54.237.156.tisdip.tiscali.de[213.54.237.156])by post.webmailer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4AMHjec014214for [EMAIL PROTECTED];Tue, 11 May 2004 00:17:49 +0200 (MEST) X-Message-Info: P3NBY493gE4HY0WSm21bPf+hjszfTIEm Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Christian Mayer Büro- und EDV-Systeme User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE;rv:1.4) Gecko/20030619 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: de,en References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel.flightgear.org List-Unsubscribe: http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2004 22:18:19.0992 (UTC) FILETIME=[B32BE580:01C436DC] Jim Wilson schrieb: I've been asked to recommend a laptop with long battery life for use on long trans continental airline flights.The user is word processing/spreadsheet oriented. Get an Centrino based laptop. Windows is fully supported and Linux is getting there (the WLAN driver is in a useable beta stage) The brand (Acer, Dell, IBM, ...) doesn't really matter. Every major player has high quality / high price modells as well as those with a smaller price tag (and a not so good quality...) CU, Christian PS: I'm writing this on an Acer Travelmate 800 series laptop - which I'd buy again. It's high quality with a very reasonable price tag. And performance (even with FlightGear) is great ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Real-Time Atmospheric Scattering
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[Flightgear-devel] ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here???
Hi, ..com test; I see no posts in 2 days here??? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
