Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ 
It's probably not well known that livery files (or other overlay
files) have no defined structure. They are just XML files that are
copied (laid) over the property tree on request. What you put in
there, and where, is entirely your business. It doesn't have to do
with liveries and textures at all. Take this example:

Overlay file (in $FG_ROOT/Airports/Places/):

  ?xml version=1.0?
  PropertyList
  sim
  presets
  nameVienna City/name
  latitude-deg48.2402400/latitude-deg
  longitude-deg16.4106300/longitude-deg
  /presets
  /sim
  /PropertyList


Nasal:

  gui.teleport_dialog = gui.OverlaySelector.new(
   Teleport to,   # dialog title
   Airports/Places,   # directory with overlay XML files
   sim/presets/name,  # where the name is in those files
   nil, # no sorting property (- sort by name)
   nil, # no MP property (- no MP transmission)
   func fgcommand(presets-commit));
# what to do if new entry was chosen

Binding:

  gui.teleport_dialog.open();


And if you now click entry Vienna City, you'll immediately
get telported there. BTW: menu bindings should always use the
open() method, keys always the toggle() method.

m.

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[Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ 
aircraft.livery and aircraft.livery_update are now only
wrappers for more generic classes, which one can also
use directly instead. They allow to manage more than just
livery XML files. One could allow users to choose a
livery, seat covers, flight attendant uniforms, ...  :-)
each of them separately and like liveries are handled
now.


Instead of aircraft.livery.init, one writes something
like this:

  var foo_dialog = gui.OverlaySelector.new(
  Select Foo,   # title of selection dialog
  Aircraft/xy/Models/Foo,   # directory with XML files
  sim/model/foo/name);  # property for name entries


In bindings one can then use

  xy.foo_dialog.open();   # for the menu
  xy.foo_dialog.toggle(); # for key bindings
  xy.foo_dialog.close();  # for ... no idea  :-)


If one wants to send the choice over MP, then one has to
assign an MP property (which needs to get created in the
*-set.xml file -- otherwise MP won't send it):

  var foo_dialog = gui.OverlaySelector.new(
  Select Foo,   # title of selection dialog
  Aircraft/xy/Models/Foo,   # directory with XML files
  sim/model/foo/name,   # property for name entries
  nil,# (sort dialog entries by name)
  sim/multiplay/generic/string);# use this property for MP


In the model XML file one uses instead of aircraft.livery_update:

   load
   var update = aircraft.overlay_update.new();
   update.add(Aircraft/xy/Models/Liveries, sim/model/livery/file);
   update.add(Aircraft/xy/Models/Foo, sim/multiplay/generic/string);
   /load

   unload
   update.stop();
   /unload


Each of the update.add() does also take an optional callback
function as third argument. This is then called whenever that
property got changed.

Maybe we should throw out aircraft.livery(_update) and convert
everything to the generic method now. Don't know yet ...

m.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Erik Hofman 


Melchior FRANZ wrote:
 aircraft.livery and aircraft.livery_update are now only
 wrappers for more generic classes, which one can also
 use directly instead. They allow to manage more than just
 livery XML files. One could allow users to choose a
 livery, seat covers, flight attendant uniforms, ...  :-)

After two days of frustration trying to get this stuff to work I've 
abandoned the idea of liveries. It just doesn't work or is not 
documented well enough to get it to work. Sorry, no liveries for my planes.

Erik

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Detlef Faber 
Am Sonntag, den 19.10.2008, 18:46 +0200 schrieb Erik Hofman:
 
 Melchior FRANZ wrote:
  aircraft.livery and aircraft.livery_update are now only
  wrappers for more generic classes, which one can also
  use directly instead. They allow to manage more than just
  livery XML files. One could allow users to choose a
  livery, seat covers, flight attendant uniforms, ...  :-)
 
 After two days of frustration trying to get this stuff to work I've 
 abandoned the idea of liveries. It just doesn't work or is not 
 documented well enough to get it to work. Sorry, no liveries for my planes.
 
It works extremly well, take a look at the F4U, it has livery selection
plus Logo selection.

Greetings


 Erik
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Erik Hofman 

Detlef Faber wrote:

 It works extremly well, take a look at the F4U, it has livery selection
 plus Logo selection.

It doesn't, I looked at a number of aircraft that use it and somehow it 
doesn't apply to they way I have set op the PC-7. Not matter what I try.
After two days I lost interest.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ 
* Erik Hofman -- Sunday 19 October 2008:
 I looked at a number of aircraft that use it and somehow it 
 doesn't apply to they way I have set op the PC-7.

Your Nasal parts were correct and functional. (They are just
some trivial helpers, anyway.) What was probably broken were
your material animations -- the central part of the livery
stuff.

m.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ 
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 19 October 2008:
 What was probably broken were your material animations 

Patch attached  ... s/object/object-name/

m.

Index: Models/pc7.xml
===
RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pc7/Models/pc7.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 pc7.xml
--- Models/pc7.xml	19 Oct 2008 14:29:44 -	1.12
+++ Models/pc7.xml	19 Oct 2008 18:45:34 -
@@ -370,18 +370,17 @@
  /axis
 /animation
 
-!--
 animation
  typematerial/type
- objectright_flap/object
- objectright_aileron/object
- objectleft_flap/object
- objectleft_aileron/object
- objectwing/object
- objecthull/object
- objecthstab/object
- objectrudder/object
- objectelevator/object
+ object-nameright_flap/object-name
+ object-nameright_aileron/object-name
+ object-nameleft_flap/object-name
+ object-nameleft_aileron/object-name
+ object-namewing/object-name
+ object-namehull/object-name
+ object-namehstab/object-name
+ object-namerudder/object-name
+ object-nameelevator/object-name
  property-basesim/model/livery/property-base
  texture-proptexture/texture-prop
  texturepc7_scheme.rgb/texture
@@ -389,20 +388,19 @@
 
 animation
  typematerial/type
- objectlha_marker/object
- objectrwl_marker/object
- objectlwu_marker/object
- objectrha_marker/object
- objectlhf_marker/object
- objectrhf_marker/object
- objectlht_marker/object
- objectrht_marker/object
- objectlwu_marker/object
- objectrwl_marker/object
+ object-namelha_marker/object-name
+ object-namerwl_marker/object-name
+ object-namelwu_marker/object-name
+ object-namerha_marker/object-name
+ object-namelhf_marker/object-name
+ object-namerhf_marker/object-name
+ object-namelht_marker/object-name
+ object-namerht_marker/object-name
+ object-namelwu_marker/object-name
+ object-namerwl_marker/object-name
  property-basesim/model/livery-logo/property-base
  texture-proptexture/texture-prop
  texturepc7_trans.rgb/texture
 /animation
---
 
 /PropertyList
Index: Models/Liveries/swiss.xml
===
RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pc7/Models/Liveries/swiss.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 swiss.xml
--- Models/Liveries/swiss.xml	19 Oct 2008 14:29:45 -	1.1
+++ Models/Liveries/swiss.xml	19 Oct 2008 18:45:34 -
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-?xml version=1.0?
+?xml version=1.0?
 
 PropertyList
  sim
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ 
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 19 October 2008:
 Patch attached  ... 

Oh, and uncomment the nasalload/unload part, so that
the livery is correctly transmitted via MP. And the file
property only needs to be there, but it's not actually 
read, so it doesn't have to get initialized. But that's just
cosmetics. New patch. Tested in MP.

m.
Index: pc7-set.xml
===
RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pc7/pc7-set.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.11 pc7-set.xml
--- pc7-set.xml	19 Oct 2008 11:20:00 -	1.11
+++ pc7-set.xml	19 Oct 2008 18:58:23 -
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ David Culp,  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   model
pathAircraft/pc7/Models/pc7.xml/path
livery
-file type=stringdefault/file
+file type=string/
/livery
   /model
 
Index: Models/pc7.xml
===
RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pc7/Models/pc7.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 pc7.xml
--- Models/pc7.xml	19 Oct 2008 14:29:44 -	1.12
+++ Models/pc7.xml	19 Oct 2008 18:58:23 -
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
   pitch-deg-4/pitch-deg
  /offsets
 
-!--
  nasal
   load
var livery_update = aircraft.livery_update.new(Aircraft/pc7/Models/Liveries);
@@ -16,7 +15,6 @@
livery_update.stop();
   /unload
  /nasal
---
 
 !--
  animation
@@ -370,18 +368,17 @@
  /axis
 /animation
 
-!--
 animation
  typematerial/type
- objectright_flap/object
- objectright_aileron/object
- objectleft_flap/object
- objectleft_aileron/object
- objectwing/object
- objecthull/object
- objecthstab/object
- objectrudder/object
- objectelevator/object
+ object-nameright_flap/object-name
+ object-nameright_aileron/object-name
+ object-nameleft_flap/object-name
+ object-nameleft_aileron/object-name
+ object-namewing/object-name
+ object-namehull/object-name
+ object-namehstab/object-name
+ object-namerudder/object-name
+ object-nameelevator/object-name
  property-basesim/model/livery/property-base
  texture-proptexture/texture-prop
  texturepc7_scheme.rgb/texture
@@ -389,20 +386,19 @@
 
 animation
  typematerial/type
- objectlha_marker/object
- objectrwl_marker/object
- objectlwu_marker/object
- objectrha_marker/object
- objectlhf_marker/object
- objectrhf_marker/object
- objectlht_marker/object
- objectrht_marker/object
- objectlwu_marker/object
- objectrwl_marker/object
+ object-namelha_marker/object-name
+ object-namerwl_marker/object-name
+ object-namelwu_marker/object-name
+ object-namerha_marker/object-name
+ object-namelhf_marker/object-name
+ object-namerhf_marker/object-name
+ object-namelht_marker/object-name
+ object-namerht_marker/object-name
+ object-namelwu_marker/object-name
+ object-namerwl_marker/object-name
  property-basesim/model/livery-logo/property-base
  texture-proptexture/texture-prop
  texturepc7_trans.rgb/texture
 /animation
---
 
 /PropertyList
Index: Models/Liveries/swiss.xml
===
RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pc7/Models/Liveries/swiss.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 swiss.xml
--- Models/Liveries/swiss.xml	19 Oct 2008 14:29:45 -	1.1
+++ Models/Liveries/swiss.xml	19 Oct 2008 18:58:23 -
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-?xml version=1.0?
+?xml version=1.0?
 
 PropertyList
  sim
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] livery - generic overlay

2008-10-19 Thread Erik Hofman 


Melchior FRANZ wrote:
 * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 19 October 2008:
 What was probably broken were your material animations 
 
 Patch attached  ... s/object/object-name/

duh :(
anyway, thanks for the patch.

Erik

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