Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 19:54 +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote: It's amazing stuff - it even vaporized a 10 meter section of my fencing. (10 meters of 2.5mm high tensile fencing wire vanished) Do you also live on the Highveld? :) -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in theHimalayas
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 22:13 -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 03 May 2005 23:59:15 +0200 Paul Furber wrote: Flying WNW towards the summit in the Cessna. How in the world did you get the Cessna up there! From the command line :] fgfs --lat=87.001 --lon=28.001 --altitude=31000 The plane stalled and then as it recovered I paused and snapped the screenshot. You can see the instruments haven't settled down yet and the throttle is at idle. Interestingly the Cessna *does* fly quite nicely at that altitude but the F-16 just drops out of the sky in a flat spin (for me anyway). -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas
Hi all, I compiled the CVS versions of SimGear and FlightGear last night and they were roughly 40% faster than 0.9.8 - which is very impressive. Nice work! But I still can't fly in the Himalayas for some reason. The e070n30 grid is untarred and in the correct place and I set Everest's lat and long from the command line (and altitude=32000 just to be safe!). fgfs just sits there for ages with the occasional disk access. I've flown all over Africa and the US so I know I'm installing scenery data correctly - it's just the Himalayas region which doesn't work. (doesn't work on 0.9.8 either) I'm running CVS versions from last night on amd64 Gentoo Linux. Any ideas? -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:26 +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Paul Furber -- Tuesday 03 May 2005 12:50: it's just the Himalayas region which doesn't work. (doesn't work on 0.9.8 either) I'm running CVS versions from last night on amd64 Gentoo Linux. Any ideas? No. If you had posted a command line that exposes the problem, *hundreds* of fgfs developers would have tried to reproduce it, and maybe would have been able to reproduce it and to find a solution. But so ... *Smacks forehead* - ask smart questions idiot! Sorry about that - I'll be more informative in future :) Try adding --log-level=info for a possible hint, ./fgfs --lat=87 --long=28 --altitude=3 --log-level=info seems to initialise everything, including the splash screen, then gets stuck in the terrain loading. I get thousands of: no terrain intersection messages interspersed with: Updating Sun position Gst = 0.824526 t-cur_time = 1115114851 Sun Geodetic lat = 0.275179 Geocentric lat = 0.273428 sun angle relative to current location = 1.24501 Updating Moon position t-cur_time = 1115114851 Moon Geodetic lat = -0.184198 Geocentric lat = -0.182992 moon angle relative to current location = 1.7246 Updating light parameters. Sun angle = 71.3338 ambient = 0.2 diffuse = 0.968597 specular = 0.5 sky = 0.953064 Corrupt scenery data perhaps? -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in the Himalayas
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:17 +0200, Melchior FRANZ wrote: That's an old, well known bug. If you position fgfs exactly on the tile boundaries (*integer* lon/lat), the intersection code somehow falls through between the tiles. Try this: $ ./fgfs --lat=87.001 --long=28.001 --altitude=3 Thanks - this worked a treat. I'm now flying at 32000 feet over the breathtaking, er, sea. Oops - looks like I picked the wrong tile set :) I wouldn't be surprised if someone fixed that bug within ... the next twenty years? ;-) I feel an itch coming on... -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in theHimalayas
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:22 -0600, Phil Cazzola wrote: I wasn't sure if you figured this out: Lat=87 and Long=28 would be a polar location, somewhere north of Murmansk. Lat =28 and Long=87 is on the China/Nepal border Thanks - I did have it the right way around when running it - just typed it in wrong in the previous e-mail. I've just downloaded the e080n20 tileset and there now seems to be a large peak of ~29 000ft on the China/Nepal border :] -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in theHimalayas
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:46 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On May 3, 2005 01:52 pm, Paul Furber wrote: Thanks - I did have it the right way around when running it - just typed it in wrong in the previous e-mail. I've just downloaded the e080n20 tileset and there now seems to be a large peak of ~29 000ft on the China/Nepal border :] Some screenshots will be nice. Ask and ye shall receive: Flying WNW towards the summit in the Cessna. The SouthEast ridge slopes away to the right and in the saddle on the far right is the top of the Lhotse face. http://www.paulfurberconsulting.com/images/fgfs-everest-1.jpg An external view: http://www.paulfurberconsulting.com/images/fgfs-everest-2.jpg -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in theHimalayas
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 23:59 +0200, Paul Furber wrote: Ask and ye shall receive: Flying WNW towards the summit in the Cessna. Er, that should be NNE... -- Paul Furber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ex tenebris lux, ex fenestris tux -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
