Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds 3d

2004-01-17 Thread Christopher S Horler
Jim, > Would it be easier to add an imposter renderer to plib than to add move > simgear over to coin-3d? How complete is the VRML support? The imposter renderer, i.e.offscreen hardware accelerated rendering to a offscreen buffer to be used as a texture is not such an easy thing (tm). When you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Samstag, 17. Januar 2004 11:10, Lee Elliott wrote: > Has anyone had any recent problems compiling plib? > > I had applied the VertSplitter patch to my local copy, without any > problems, but a recent update (to include PCX support?) appeared to also > include the VertSplitter patch, but would n

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clouds 3d

2004-01-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Christopher S Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi guys (and the fairer sex if they're here), > >From Webster (m-w.com): Main Entry: fair Pronunciation: 'far, 'fer Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English fager, fair, from Old English fæger; akin to Old High German fagar beautiful Date: b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight gear troubles w/ current cvs

2004-01-17 Thread Adam Boggs
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Boggs wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am not a flightgear developer (yet) but have been playing with it a > > little bit lately. With the current CVS tree (from the evening of > > 1/18/04) I get the following errors on the console: > > > > chinook 9:44

[Flightgear-devel] Flashing white patches

2004-01-17 Thread Simon Hollier
Both of these patches should fix the fog flashing to white(black?) bug. The first one just checks for the Not a Number condition that results from acos(1+small_delta). The second patch uses atan2, but doesn't quite make it near 0 or PI at the edge cases near 1 or -1. I can't really tell the d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight gear troubles w/ current cvs

2004-01-17 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: > Adam Boggs wrote: > > WARNING: PUI: Trying to remove invalid puGroup from puGroup stack! > > This is one we have to look after, but so far no one seems brave > enough to tackle this problem. This was actually a plib bug. It got fixed about a month or so ago. I think it was h

[Flightgear-devel] Live-CD

2004-01-17 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi, I invested some hours and created a standalone version of my customized Knoppix with the latest stable flightgear version on it. As I already mentioned I have added support for OpenGL on Nvidia cards. (Most other cards are supported by the standard X11 driver set ...) The ISO-Image is 337 M

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: > Christopher S Horler wrote: > > I don't use many cvs commands, but one I use a fair bit is log. However > > I've never figured out how to make it only display the last e.g. 5 log > > entries or from a certain date... if it doesn't do it it should... > > I don't know if t

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Christopher S Horler -- Saturday 17 January 2004 15:16: > I've never figured out how to make it only display the last e.g. 5 log > entries That's AFAIK not possible, but you can look at CVS/Entries for the last version and then do something like: $ cvs log -r1.4: foo.cpp # i.e. logs fo

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Norman Vine
Christopher S Horler writes: > > > In the last few weeks only outsiders improved plib, while official > > developers mostly played dead. :-P > > That's what happens when you don't pay... and when you pay sometimes. Wait a minute in all fairness If you go back and review the history of th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Christopher S Horler
> I don't know if there is a command to display the last 5 log entries, > although you could probably do this for an individual file pretty easily > via the cvs web interface. > > In general, I have had good luck with something like the following: > > cvs log -d">10/15/2003 (that's MM/DD

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Christopher S Horler wrote: I don't use many cvs commands, but one I use a fair bit is log. However I've never figured out how to make it only display the last e.g. 5 log entries or from a certain date... if it doesn't do it it should... I don't know if there is a command to display the last 5 log

[Flightgear-devel] Clouds 3d

2004-01-17 Thread Christopher S Horler
Hi guys (and the fairer sex if they're here), Well some time ago I looked at making the 3d clouds easier to work for everyone. Then I was very busy,... Well I started looking again yesterday and I understand how the things work now, and I started writing a few test programs. I haven't used pli

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Norman Vine
Melchior FRANZ writes: > > But what does it take to be considered a plib developer? Requesting on the PLib list to become one is a good start :-) http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=382 Cheers Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Christopher S Horler
see below > Nor do I. But what does it take to be considered a plib developer? > Being officially acknowledged? Fixing bugs and submitting patches? > In the last few weeks only outsiders improved plib, while official > developers mostly played dead. :-P That's what happens when you don't pay...

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Saturday 17 January 2004 14:08: > > > http://plib.sourceforge.net/dist/current.tgz > But If you are not a PLib developer, > I really don't see why having the CVS infrastructure matters :-) Nor do I. But what does it take to be considered a plib developer? Being officially a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Norman Vine
Melchior FRANZ writes: > * Norman Vine -- Saturday 17 January 2004 13:06: > > > If you want the latest PLib just grab the nightly tarball > > http://plib.sourceforge.net/dist/current.tgz > > Does it contain the CVS infrastructure? Then it is certainly an > option. Otherwise not. Currently it doe

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 17 January 2004 12:16: > The server is working, but it seems to suffer from overload and rejects > every other connection. And BTW: the server isn't really overloaded---it reacts very quickly. It rather limits the number of allowed connections. Asking for a connection

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 11:16, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 January 2004 12:09: The error I was getting was during compilation of the optimizer and it failed on a call to ssgVertSplitter, complaining that it knew nothing about it. The compiler couldn't

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Norman Vine -- Saturday 17 January 2004 13:06: > A server is overloaded > Launch a mini DOS attack and it will respond ! OK, I admit that sleep 1 is too aggressive, but I wouldn't feel too bad about one minute ... > Please folks don't do this, SourceForge is a 'free' service > and is trying

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Norman Vine
Melchior FRANZ writes: > > The server is working, but it seems to suffer from overload and rejects > every other connection. Just do this: > > $ while true; do cvs up && exit; sleep 1; done > > And then wait a minute. :-) I just love this logic A server is overloaded Launch a mini DOS attac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 17 January 2004 11:16, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 January 2004 12:09: > > The error I was getting was during compilation of the optimizer and it > > failed on a call to ssgVertSplitter, complaining that it knew nothing > > about it. > > The compiler couldn't fi

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 January 2004 12:09: > The error I was getting was during compilation of the optimizer and it failed > on a call to ssgVertSplitter, complaining that it knew nothing about it. The compiler couldn't find it although it was there? > I'll check out a completely new cop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 17 January 2004 10:39, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 January 2004 11:10: > > To cut a long story short, I wasn't able to get the latest cvs copy of > > plib (including PCX support) to compile, > > The ssgVertSplitter.{cxx,h} files took about a week to finally appe

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 January 2004 11:10: > To cut a long story short, I wasn't able to get the latest cvs copy of plib > (including PCX support) to compile, The ssgVertSplitter.{cxx,h} files took about a week to finally appear on the anonymous cvs server. plib compiles here without probl

[Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello All, I'd like to propose a change to the way that the Terrain Following (TF) agl value is set and controlled. Currently, when TF mode is selected, the current a/c agl value is used but I'd like to change this so that this value is set, and can be changed via the property tree. What are

[Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling plib

2004-01-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Has anyone had any recent problems compiling plib? I had applied the VertSplitter patch to my local copy, without any problems, but a recent update (to include PCX support?) appeared to also include the VertSplitter patch, but would no-longer compile. The error appeared to be due to the VertSp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight gear troubles w/ current cvs

2004-01-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Adam Boggs wrote: Hello, I am not a flightgear developer (yet) but have been playing with it a little bit lately. With the current CVS tree (from the evening of 1/18/04) I get the following errors on the console: chinook 9:44pm ~ % fgfs Failed to find runway 29 at airport KBJC Error: base = 0,0 E