[Flightgear-devel] The PID Controller

2004-03-17 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Guys After spending a couple of days playing with this thing I have a question or two. 1 After you get the mode oscilating how do you get it to stop do you have to continue to adjust all three or do you do one at a time. 2 How do you know if you are heading in the right direction what will make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. There are probably many things that could stand to be tweaked and polished but two related items jump out at me tonight. 1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming

[Flightgear-devel] Re: RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 17 March 2004 08:58: What would make the bo105 worth to be part of the base package? I can quickly toss in a few 3D instruments from the pa28. Started already. I'll make a panel and use as many availabe 3D-Instruments as make sense. The asi matches very well, even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Luff
On 3/16/04 at 9:50 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. There are probably many things that could stand to be tweaked and polished but two related items jump out at me tonight. 1. I'm growing less enthused with our

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Luff
On 3/17/04 at 11:22 AM David Luff wrote: Then, one could type --aircraft=C172 --2d to try and get a 2d cockpit if available (would fall back to default if not), and likewise --aircraft=C172 --3d (ditto for fallback), and a lot of names would become superfluous. Just to be clear, I'm proposing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Luff
On 3/17/04 at 10:29 AM Erik Hofman wrote: The following aircraft didn't make it due to the following reason: 737 : There are already too many US aircraft. The A320 fills that gap. I strongly disagree. I think that both the 737 and A320 should go in. The 737 is a good showcase for how far

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: On 3/17/04 at 10:29 AM Erik Hofman wrote: The following aircraft didn't make it due to the following reason: 737 : There are already too many US aircraft. The A320 fills that gap. I strongly disagree. I think that both the 737 and A320 should go in. The 737 is a good

[Flightgear-devel] Re: RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Luff -- Wednesday 17 March 2004 12:22: On an (almost) totally unrelated note, I think it would be a good idea to test unknown options against aircraft names, so that, for instance, bin/fgfs --T38 would work to bring up the T38. Would patches to add this be accepted? Urks. That would

Re: [Flightgear-devel]Re: [Simgear-cvslogs]CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3dglut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Guys I don't know if this helps in any way but I did a complete rebuild(plib,simgear,flightgear) about 7 days ago under Cygwin on windows 98 and did not have any problem so unless the above area has been changed in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Culp
In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. There are probably many things that could stand to be tweaked and polished but two related items jump out at me tonight. I think now is a good time to bother everyone with the hangar idea again. If we have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread kreuzritter2000
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 07:16, Martin Spott wrote: Hello Curt, Curtis L. Olson wrote: In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. I think it would be tremendously helpful to coordinate the with the next PLib release. There have been sooo many

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson said: What is the status of the helicopters? They've seemed very crude when I've looked at them. I don't mean to be anti-helicopter, but if we are trying to cull some of the less nice stuff out of the official release, I'm not sure in their current form they would make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Martin Spott said: Hello Curt, Curtis L. Olson wrote: In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. I think it would be tremendously helpful to coordinate the with the next PLib release. There have been sooo many changes to PLib that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread kreuzritter2000
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 03:50, Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming system. I don't mind that we have the capability, but it becomes annoying to have 8 names for the same aircraft, even 2 names for the same aircraft. What would people say to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jon Berndt
I completly agree with that, please keep the aliases and remove extenion names like jsbsim, 2d/3d etc. in the --show-aircraft list. How will the situation be handled where several FDMs model the same aircraft - that day is coming if it is not here already. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread D Luff
On 17 Mar 2004 at 13:00, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * David Luff -- Wednesday 17 March 2004 12:22: On an (almost) totally unrelated note, I think it would be a good idea to test unknown options against aircraft names, so that, for instance, bin/fgfs --T38 would work to bring up the T38. Would

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread D Luff
On 17 Mar 2004 at 7:17, Jon Berndt wrote: I completly agree with that, please keep the aliases and remove extenion names like jsbsim, 2d/3d etc. in the --show-aircraft list. How will the situation be handled where several FDMs model the same aircraft - that day is coming if it is not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread kreuzritter2000
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:17, Jon Berndt wrote: I completly agree with that, please keep the aliases and remove extenion names like jsbsim, 2d/3d etc. in the --show-aircraft list. How will the situation be handled where several FDMs model the same aircraft - that day is coming if it

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft README files

2004-03-17 Thread Jon Berndt
For JSBSim some of us are thinking of release notes for each aircraft flight model we have available. This would describe notes on the flight model, sources, mention the 3D model (or lack of one), and flight hints, etc. (P-Factor, what's modeled, what's not). I think that generally release notes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread kreuzritter2000
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when starting flightgear with a different FDM model for the c172 it would look like this: ./fgfs --aircraft=c172 --fdm=yasim or ./fgfs --aircraft=c172 --fdm=jsbsim or ./fgfs --aircraft=c172 --fdm=LaRCsim I want to add like D.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Dressler
And what about this: remove description tag from alias set files which shouldn't be displayed in --show-aircrafts and show only those with non empty description. Fill description only in c172-set.xml,j3cub-set.xml etc. It is simplistic solution and all syntax can stay same. Regards, MaDr --

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Giles Robertson
Does anybody have a problem with a --fdm switch, defaulting to whatever's available if that aircraft isn't modelled with the fdm. That's the obvious extension of having a --2d and --3d switch. Giles -Original Message- From: Jon Berndt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 March 2004 13:18

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming system. I don't mind that we have the capability, but it becomes annoying to have 8 names for the same aircraft, even 2 names for the same aircraft. What would people say to nuking all the alias entries for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Dressler wrote: And what about this: remove description tag from alias set files which shouldn't be displayed in --show-aircrafts and show only those with non empty description. Fill description only in c172-set.xml,j3cub-set.xml etc. It is simplistic solution and all syntax can stay

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Megginson
David Luff wrote: I agree with the fact that there is a problem with the multiple names, but not with your proposed solution. Please don't ditch the aliases. Or to be more specific, please don't ditch the short names. Typing --aircraft=737 is so much better than --aircraft=737-jsbsim, and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt said: I completly agree with that, please keep the aliases and remove extenion names like jsbsim, 2d/3d etc. in the --show-aircraft list. How will the situation be handled where several FDMs model the same aircraft - that day is coming if it is not here already. For command

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
kreuzritter2000 said: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when starting flightgear with a different FDM model for the c172 it would look like this: ./fgfs --aircraft=c172 --fdm=yasim or ./fgfs --aircraft=c172 --fdm=jsbsim or ./fgfs --aircraft=c172

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: I wouldn't go that far. I'd call the Cub beta, since it's missing some basic panel instruments. AFAIK it has all the original instrumentation, just no modern updates. Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:05:03 -0500 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a matter of fact, I'd suggest getting rid of the yasim, jsbsim, etc. in aircraft names altogether. We have only a tiny handful of aircraft (172, 310, etc.) supported by more than one FDM; in those cases, let's just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson wrote: I wouldn't go that far. I'd call the Cub beta, since it's missing some basic panel instruments. AFAIK it has all the original instrumentation, just no modern updates. It's missing the inclinometer at the bottom of the panel -- I had thought that it was also missing the oil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Megginson
David Megginson wrote: Aside from the inclinometer, the panel needs only the primer and carb heat knobs, which aren't major. After that, we need the throttle and fuel cutoff on the right side, and that's about it. right side wasn't a typo -- I was thinking of the perspective of the pilot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Josh Babcock
David Luff wrote: On 3/16/04 at 9:50 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. There are probably many things that could stand to be tweaked and polished but two related items jump out at me tonight. 1. I'm growing less

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft README files

2004-03-17 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:19:36 -0500 Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PropertyList include=ncc1701d-set.xml What I want to know is: where is the NCC-1701D !? :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft README files

2004-03-17 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon Berndt wrote: For JSBSim some of us are thinking of release notes for each aircraft flight model we have available. This would describe notes on the flight model, sources, mention the 3D model (or lack of one), and flight hints, etc. (P-Factor, what's modeled, what's not). I think that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Josh Babcock
Josh Babcock wrote: Are we going to keep the old functionality laying around so all the power hungry cui jockeys can do this: Sorry, that's cli. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel]Re: [Simgear-cvslogs]CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3dglut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-17 Thread Robert Deters
On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Guys I don't know if this helps in any way but I did a complete rebuild(plib,simgear,flightgear) about 7 days ago under Cygwin on windows 98 and did not have any problem so unless the above area has been changed in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft README files

2004-03-17 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon S Berndt wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:19:36 -0500 Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PropertyList include=ncc1701d-set.xml What I want to know is: where is the NCC-1701D !? :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming system. I don't mind that we have the capability, but it becomes annoying to have 8 names for the same aircraft, even 2 names for the same aircraft. As I understand it, aliases are primarily a convenience for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft README files

2004-03-17 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:43:28 -0500 Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, they're out seeking new life forms. They'll be back in about five years. Now JSBSim *does* support warp core engines, right? sound of rapid keyboard clicking I'm workin' on it! ;-) Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Based on the discussion of this thread, here is the current list I have assembled for inclusion, notice that I err on the side of inclusion rather than exclusion which I think is fine, especially if we unclutter the fgrun aircraft browser. That's a pretty impressive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
That's a pretty impressive list. For presentation purposes, though, you might want to refer to the PA-28-161 as the Piper Warrior II or the Piper Cherokee Warrior II (the official name varies by year). I'll leave that to the aircraft designer. :-) They can put whatever label they want

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: 2. We have a *lot* of aircraft in the base package. I suggest we limit the base package to 2 or 3 aircraft at most IMHO better if this is only 1 aircraft though and have a supplemental aircraft package(s) for the rest Note I am concerned about the size of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The PID Controller

2004-03-17 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:16:02 +0800, Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys After spending a couple of days playing with this thing I have a question or two. 1 After you get the mode oscilating how do you get it to stop do you have to continue to adjust all three or do you do one at a

[Flightgear-devel] Cygwin FlightFear configure.ac

2004-03-17 Thread Norman Vine
HTH Norman $ cvs diff -u configure.ac Index: configure.ac === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/configure.ac,v retrieving revision 1.57 diff -u -r1.57 configure.ac --- a/configure.ac 16 Mar 2004 20:19:07 - 1.57

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Based on the discussion of this thread, here is the current list I have assembled for inclusion, [...] I think this is a choice that makes easy, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:17, Jon Berndt wrote: I completly agree with that, please keep the aliases and remove extenion names like jsbsim, 2d/3d etc. in the --show-aircraft list. How will the situation be handled where several FDMs model the same aircraft - that day is coming if it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 03:50, Curtis L. Olson wrote: In the next couple weeks I'd like to start moving seriously towards our next release. There are probably many things that could stand to be tweaked and polished but two related items jump out at me tonight. 1. I'm growing less enthused

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft README files

2004-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:35, Jon Berndt wrote: For JSBSim some of us are thinking of release notes for each aircraft flight model we have available. This would describe notes on the flight model, sources, mention the 3D model (or lack of one), and flight hints, etc. (P-Factor, what's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
Actually, the base cvs package on dial-up isn't too bad once you've done the initial checkout, and even then it can be done over several sessions. LeeE On Wednesday 17 March 2004 07:15, Durk Talsma wrote: I agree that trimming down the base package (for the release) is probably a good idea.

[Flightgear-devel] AIX linker command in SimGear

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, I'm trying to build the whole thing (TM) on AIX and I get a linker message that I don't understand: osprey: 21:15:49 /usr/local/src/SimGear/simgear/misc g++ -mcpu=604e -mtune=604e -mpowerpc-gpopt -mpowerpc-gfxopt -O3 -D_REENTRANT -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib -L/opt/freeware/lib -s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 16:37, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming system. I don't mind that we have the capability, but it becomes annoying to have 8 names for the same aircraft, even 2 names for the same aircraft.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee Elliott wrote On Wednesday 17 March 2004 16:37, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming system. I don't mind that we have the capability, but it becomes annoying to have 8 names for the same aircraft, even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 21:50, Vivian Meazza wrote: [snip...] ... I'd be inclined to hold off including the Sea Hawk, TSR-2 and B-52, for the time being at least. The Sea Hawk is currently getting a proper panel, speed-brakes and some missing gear doors, courtesy of Vivian M. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Al West
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 17:15, Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: 2. We have a *lot* of aircraft in the base package. I suggest we limit the base package to 2 or 3 aircraft at most IMHO better if this is only 1 aircraft though and have a supplemental aircraft package(s) for the

[Flightgear-devel] How to save glbuffer as jpeg

2004-03-17 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
Hi, Does anyone know of a way to save the glbuffer as a jpeg? Currently the images are saved as a ppm but this requires a lot of space. A hint on what library to use might be enough for me to figure out the rest. Seamus ___ Flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] How to save glbuffer as jpeg

2004-03-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
Doesn't Norman's JPEG Server do something like this? Richard -Original Message- Sent: Wed 17/03/2004 16:16 To: FlightGear developers discussions Cc: Subject: [Flightgear-devel] How to save glbuffer as jpeg Hi,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to save glbuffer as jpeg

2004-03-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:07:14 -, Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Doesn't Norman's JPEG Server do something like this? Richard -Original Message- Sent: Wed 17/03/2004 16:16 To: FlightGear developers discussions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Guys Al West writes On Wednesday 17 March 2004 17:15, Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: 2. We have a *lot* of aircraft in the base package. I suggest we limit the base package to 2 or 3 aircraft at most IMHO better if this is only 1 aircraft though and have a supplemental

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The PID Controller

2004-03-17 Thread Innis Cunningham
Thanks Roy Roy Vegard Ovesen writes The same can be said for derivative time (Td). Setting Td to zero would in the previous version lead to a division by zero. The new version recognices this and skips that particular piece of code (where the error is filtered). When was this new version

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin Simgear issues

2004-03-17 Thread Jonathan Polley
Norman, That seemed to fix my problem. Off to finish the build. Thanks! Jonathan Polley On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 11:30AM, Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cvs diff -u extensions.hxx 21 | tee diffs Index: extensions.hxx

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