Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 flaps?

2002-03-03 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman writes: I know that the DC-3 has inner and outer flaps, but is it true that you cannot see the DC-3 flaps from the top as well? That's correct. I looked it up in a book, and for the inner flaps you don't see the flaps from above. Are the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Danie Heath wrote: I finally got the sim running. Here's my first impressions * Ground texturing excellent, except taxiways and ramps We are aware of that. But nobody had been able to create new ones ;-) * I've only seen the default aircraft, but I will start development

[Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

2002-03-03 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It appears that the plane is above the runway at least with the c172. David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8gfQmF2H7v0XOYBIRAvWbAJ9aN6YmdPWSU7csgRP6GEyrSoP48wCggFIH

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread John Check
On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: Danie Heath wrote: I finally got the sim running. Here's my first impressions * Ground texturing excellent, except taxiways and ramps We are aware of that. But nobody had been able to create new ones ;-) * I've only seen the

re: [Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
David Findlay writes: It appears that the plane is above the runway at least with the c172. It's very hard to get it exactly right. The problem is that both JSBSim and YASim sample only one ground position for the elevation under all gear, but nearly every surface in FlightGear slopes at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
John Check writes: That's a good thing. One thing to consider is the number of polygons, which we think shouldn't bee too high because of the hardware we want it to run on. Also, there is currently a bug in the model loader that is preventing the default model from being

re: [Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

2002-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: David Findlay writes: It appears that the plane is above the runway at least with the c172. It's very hard to get it exactly right. The problem is that both JSBSim and YASim sample only one ground position for the elevation under all gear, but nearly every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Danie Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: forward to some nice developments. As a fan of anti-Microsoft bans, I can't wait to screw Bill Gates and his company with this amazing piece of software. OT We have a lot to thank Bill Gates for, including the way he (especially) and others got under

[Flightgear-devel] ancient 'ascii' scenery format

2002-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I would be able to clean up a *lot* of code if I could jettison support for the old 'ascii' scenery format. None of the scenery on the ftp server is in the old ascii format. It consumes more space to represent the same geometry, file loading is slower, it hasn't been updated to support newer

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot update

2002-03-03 Thread Jim Wilson
with CVS as of 03-03-2002 13:18): http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/autogui-20020303.tar.gz Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: OT We have a lot to thank Bill Gates for, including the way he (especially) and others got under Richard Stallman's (and others) skin with their shrink-wrap revolution. We owe Bill a debt of gratitude for making sure that open source became a popular idea, even

re: [Flightgear-devel] ancient 'ascii' scenery format

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Is anyone still using this ancient file format? Does anyone have any objections to ending support in flightgear for it? I think that PPE has support for the old ASCII format but not the new binary one. Other than that, chuck it. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear first impression

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Yes, originally, that's correct. Something to do with ATT and a printer driver, I think. I was just speaking of Bill...since back in those days the profile for Stallman's project was lower too. That is to mean lower than after the mid eighties, when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual Cockpit!

2002-03-03 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:32, you wrote: I spent most of today working on a virtual cockpit interface for the panel, and I'll be damned, it works! Umm, one problem. When you look down, the panel follows the bottom of the screen. Other than that it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ancient 'ascii' scenery format

2002-03-03 Thread Jonathan Polley
One thing to remember, once you leave the ASCII format, the platform's byte order becomes important. When you start storing data in binary format, you might want to use network format so the standard hton*() routines can be used. This probably seems obvious, but most of the network code I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ancient 'ascii' scenery format

2002-03-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jonathan Polley writes: One thing to remember, once you leave the ASCII format, the platform's byte order becomes important. When you start storing data in binary format, you might want to use network format so the standard hton*() routines can be used. This probably seems obvious, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-03 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: For some reason, the animations are not working with the YASim Cessna 310 model (despite the fact that the same kinds of animations work fine with the YASim DC-3). I cannot find anything obvious in the config file, but perhaps Andy could take a glance. It's not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-03 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: It's not exporting any properties. :) I was lazy when I did the new XML files, and only did property exports for the aircraft that I could test visually. All that's necessary is to clone the control-output tags from the DC-3, which should be identical in all ways.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-03 Thread John Wojnaroski
It's not exporting any properties. :) I was lazy when I did the new XML files, and only did property exports for the aircraft that I could test visually. All that's necessary is to clone the control-output tags from the DC-3, which should be identical in all ways. I'll get a new one put

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual Cockpit!

2002-03-03 Thread Andy Ross
David Findlay wrote: Andy Ross wrote: I spent most of today working on a virtual cockpit interface for the panel, and I'll be damned, it works! Umm, one problem. When you look down, the panel follows the bottom of the screen. Other than that it's great. We just need the interiors of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plane above the runway

2002-03-03 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Megginson writes: David Findlay writes: It appears that the plane is above the runway at least with the c172. It's very hard to get it exactly right. Another thing that might be helpful is if the FDM's would report the amount of each gear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 310 Model

2002-03-03 Thread Andy Ross
John Wojnaroski wrote: I added the tags to the 747 file, but it appears the code is not exporting a value for the nose gear or the flap settings. Can you post what you changed? I'm not sure from the above exactly which tags went where. Certainly, if you put the right tags in the right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual Cockpit!

2002-03-03 Thread Frederic Bouvier
There is another bug: when you look down in the cockpit and then hit 'v' (external view), the 3D aircraft model then fly vertically, the nose down ! It seems that the same transformation is applied to the cockpit and the 3D model. -Fred - Original Message - From: Andy Ross [EMAIL