Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:11:13 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: No, the xml files are used to change attributes of models (animations, visual range, scale, etc) Here is a quick rundown on how to add a shared model to the current version of FlightGear - I'm not sure if this is applicable to 0.9.2 since I never ran that version and wouldn't have remembered anyway. :) [ snip ] Step 2 : Inside the data/Models/MyModels drirectory create an xml file called foomodel.xml with the following contents : It's worth noting that you don't *have* to create an .xml file. The entry in the *.stg file can refer to a model file (e.g. foomodel.ac or foomodel.3ds) rather than an .xml file (e.g. foomodel.xml). You probably *want* to use an .xml file, with the .xml file containing the model filename, as noted here, because then you get all the additional bells and whistles possible through the .xml file. But you don't *have* to do it that way. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpcWJXRIfPb7.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
Thanks so much for your help, this works like a charm for FlightGear 0.9.2. Geoffrey Frost -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Surgeon Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:11 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:05, Geoffrey Frost wrote: Can I just replace the radio-medium.xml file with a .3ds model and get the same results? Geoffrey Frost No, the xml files are used to change attributes of models (animations, visual range, scale, etc) Here is a quick rundown on how to add a shared model to the current version of FlightGear - I'm not sure if this is applicable to 0.9.2 since I never ran that version and wouldn't have remembered anyway. :) Step 1 : Create a directory under the FlightGear data/Models directory. I'm going to use data/Models/MyModels as an example. Step 2 : Inside the data/Models/MyModels drirectory create an xml file called foomodel.xml with the following contents : ?xml version=1.0? PropertyList pathfoomodel.3ds/path animation typerange/type min-m0/min-m max-m25000/max-m /animation /PropertyList Step 3 : Create an 3ds model called foomodel.3ds and save it into the data/Models/MyModels directory. Notice that the xml file references the 3ds model file and tells FG that it must be visible from 0 meters up to 25 km. Step 4 : Start FG and fly (or use UFO model and move) to the location where you want to place the model. Open up the property browser in FG and write down the lat, lon and altitude where you want to place the model. (File-Browse Internal Properties-Position) Step 5 : In CVS there is a perl program called calc-tile.pl that works out what stg file a geodetic coordinate falls in. You can get it here if you don't feel like playing with CVS and don't have the CVS branch installed : http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/FlightGear/ scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl?rev=HEADcvsroot=FlightGear-0.9content-ty pe=text/x-perl Run the perl script in a terminal window passing it the longitude and latitude that you wrote down in step 4. You'll probably have to install perl first if you run on a MS OS's. Example : [EMAIL PROTECTED] scenery]$ ./calc-tile.pl -55.5 30.3 Longitude: -55.5 Latitude: 30.3 Tile: 2039314 Path: w060n30/w056n30/2039314.stg Step 6 : Open the corresponding stg file in your scenery directory (in my case SceneryDir/w060n30/w056n30/2039314.stg) Step 7 : Add the following lines to the stg file replacing the parameters with your own : OBJECT_SHARED Models/MyModels/foomodel.xml -55.5 30.3 1000.0 0.00 The format is : OBJECT_SHARED Relative path to model xml file lon lat altitude above wgs84 ellipsoid rotation/heading Step 8 : Start FG and fly to where you added the model and it should be there. Hope that helps Paul ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
Geoffrey Frost wrote: We are currently running FlightGear Version 9.2 for a UAV simulation in which we fly the UAV into a balloon. We were able to successfully get a balloon model into FlightGear 9.2, but in order to do so we are running FlightGear in multiplayer mode, and have to run a simulation on two different computers. We would like to be able to place the balloon into FlightGear statically, but do not have the know how. If you just want a static object at a fixed location and fixed altitude you could easily add it to the scenery. If you take a look in the FlightGear/data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37 directory there are a couple of files with the .stg suffix. Now you could add the particular object by adding something like the following line: OBJECT_SHARED Models/Structures/radio-medium.xml -122.438000 37.689917 243.5 0 Where it represents: type path lat lon orientation elevation Maybe someone else can step in and explain the 942058 part of the file called 942058.stg ? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
Erik Hofman wrote: Maybe someone else can step in and explain the 942058 part of the file called 942058.stg ? I cannot _explain_ it but I could point an an implementation of the algorithm that's used to determine this number. This is part of TerraGear: TerraGear/src/Prep/Tower/calc-tile.pl Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Maybe someone else can step in and explain the 942058 part of the file called 942058.stg ? I cannot _explain_ it but I could point an an implementation of the algorithm that's used to determine this number. This is part of TerraGear: TerraGear/src/Prep/Tower/calc-tile.pl Well, there is nothing to explain. It is just a magic/bucket number that is a function of latitude and longitude of the tile and is used to index scenery tiles. A tile being a 1/8 of a degree at the equator but its width shrink to 1/4 and 1/2 when the longitude increase ( in absolute value ). The number is computed in simgear/bucket/newbucket.[hc]xx -Fred ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
Can I just replace the radio-medium.xml file with a .3ds model and get the same results? Geoffrey Frost -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Hofman Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:49 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request Geoffrey Frost wrote: We are currently running FlightGear Version 9.2 for a UAV simulation in which we fly the UAV into a balloon. We were able to successfully get a balloon model into FlightGear 9.2, but in order to do so we are running FlightGear in multiplayer mode, and have to run a simulation on two different computers. We would like to be able to place the balloon into FlightGear statically, but do not have the know how. If you just want a static object at a fixed location and fixed altitude you could easily add it to the scenery. If you take a look in the FlightGear/data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37 directory there are a couple of files with the .stg suffix. Now you could add the particular object by adding something like the following line: OBJECT_SHARED Models/Structures/radio-medium.xml -122.438000 37.689917 243.5 0 Where it represents: type path lat lon orientation elevation Maybe someone else can step in and explain the 942058 part of the file called 942058.stg ? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:05, Geoffrey Frost wrote: Can I just replace the radio-medium.xml file with a .3ds model and get the same results? Geoffrey Frost No, the xml files are used to change attributes of models (animations, visual range, scale, etc) Here is a quick rundown on how to add a shared model to the current version of FlightGear - I'm not sure if this is applicable to 0.9.2 since I never ran that version and wouldn't have remembered anyway. :) Step 1 : Create a directory under the FlightGear data/Models directory. I'm going to use data/Models/MyModels as an example. Step 2 : Inside the data/Models/MyModels drirectory create an xml file called foomodel.xml with the following contents : ?xml version=1.0? PropertyList pathfoomodel.3ds/path animation typerange/type min-m0/min-m max-m25000/max-m /animation /PropertyList Step 3 : Create an 3ds model called foomodel.3ds and save it into the data/Models/MyModels directory. Notice that the xml file references the 3ds model file and tells FG that it must be visible from 0 meters up to 25 km. Step 4 : Start FG and fly (or use UFO model and move) to the location where you want to place the model. Open up the property browser in FG and write down the lat, lon and altitude where you want to place the model. (File-Browse Internal Properties-Position) Step 5 : In CVS there is a perl program called calc-tile.pl that works out what stg file a geodetic coordinate falls in. You can get it here if you don't feel like playing with CVS and don't have the CVS branch installed : http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/FlightGear/scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl?rev=HEADcvsroot=FlightGear-0.9content-type=text/x-perl Run the perl script in a terminal window passing it the longitude and latitude that you wrote down in step 4. You'll probably have to install perl first if you run on a MS OS's. Example : [EMAIL PROTECTED] scenery]$ ./calc-tile.pl -55.5 30.3 Longitude: -55.5 Latitude: 30.3 Tile: 2039314 Path: w060n30/w056n30/2039314.stg Step 6 : Open the corresponding stg file in your scenery directory (in my case SceneryDir/w060n30/w056n30/2039314.stg) Step 7 : Add the following lines to the stg file replacing the parameters with your own : OBJECT_SHARED Models/MyModels/foomodel.xml -55.5 30.3 1000.0 0.00 The format is : OBJECT_SHARED Relative path to model xml file lon lat altitude above wgs84 ellipsoid rotation/heading Step 8 : Start FG and fly to where you added the model and it should be there. Hope that helps Paul ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
Thanks I will give this a try. Geoffrey Frost -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Surgeon Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:11 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:05, Geoffrey Frost wrote: Can I just replace the radio-medium.xml file with a .3ds model and get the same results? Geoffrey Frost No, the xml files are used to change attributes of models (animations, visual range, scale, etc) Here is a quick rundown on how to add a shared model to the current version of FlightGear - I'm not sure if this is applicable to 0.9.2 since I never ran that version and wouldn't have remembered anyway. :) Step 1 : Create a directory under the FlightGear data/Models directory. I'm going to use data/Models/MyModels as an example. Step 2 : Inside the data/Models/MyModels drirectory create an xml file called foomodel.xml with the following contents : ?xml version=1.0? PropertyList pathfoomodel.3ds/path animation typerange/type min-m0/min-m max-m25000/max-m /animation /PropertyList Step 3 : Create an 3ds model called foomodel.3ds and save it into the data/Models/MyModels directory. Notice that the xml file references the 3ds model file and tells FG that it must be visible from 0 meters up to 25 km. Step 4 : Start FG and fly (or use UFO model and move) to the location where you want to place the model. Open up the property browser in FG and write down the lat, lon and altitude where you want to place the model. (File-Browse Internal Properties-Position) Step 5 : In CVS there is a perl program called calc-tile.pl that works out what stg file a geodetic coordinate falls in. You can get it here if you don't feel like playing with CVS and don't have the CVS branch installed : http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/FlightGear/ scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl?rev=HEADcvsroot=FlightGear-0.9content-ty pe=text/x-perl Run the perl script in a terminal window passing it the longitude and latitude that you wrote down in step 4. You'll probably have to install perl first if you run on a MS OS's. Example : [EMAIL PROTECTED] scenery]$ ./calc-tile.pl -55.5 30.3 Longitude: -55.5 Latitude: 30.3 Tile: 2039314 Path: w060n30/w056n30/2039314.stg Step 6 : Open the corresponding stg file in your scenery directory (in my case SceneryDir/w060n30/w056n30/2039314.stg) Step 7 : Add the following lines to the stg file replacing the parameters with your own : OBJECT_SHARED Models/MyModels/foomodel.xml -55.5 30.3 1000.0 0.00 The format is : OBJECT_SHARED Relative path to model xml file lon lat altitude above wgs84 ellipsoid rotation/heading Step 8 : Start FG and fly to where you added the model and it should be there. Hope that helps Paul ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request
We are currently running FlightGear Version 9.2 for a UAV simulation in which we fly the UAV into a balloon. We were able to successfully get a balloon model into FlightGear 9.2, but in order to do so we are running FlightGear in multiplayer mode, and have to run a simulation on two different computers. We would like to be able to place the balloon into FlightGear statically, but do not have the know how. We are looking for someone interested in helping us with this application and are willing to compensate you for the work. If interested please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 541-386-5862. Thank you. Dr. Geoffrey Frost Sagetech Corporation 1280 Alameda Road Hood River, OR 97031 541-386-5862 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
