Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I have an application in the pipeline where I'll need to play left engine sound out of the left speaker and right engine sound out of the right ... hopefully resulting in the proper effect when an engine goes out. As far as I know, this is impossible to do directly with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread stephen
On 21 Apr 2004 at 23:43, Jon Berndt wrote: You've seen those hydraulically actuated little simulator rides? Forget that, here's a bigger one: http://tinyurl.com/2oxzd Jon Jon I have been in that plane. They have a long slide from the platform to the ground and I did go down it. :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Apr 2004, at 09:24, Erik Hofman wrote: Go with SDL's sound support. SDL itself supports OpenAL giving best of both worlds. This is not quite right, I think; like OpenGL, SDL can use OpenAL, but it doesn't wrap the OpenAL API. In general, I think OpenAL would be a big improvement, not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Erik Hofman
James Turner wrote: On 22 Apr 2004, at 09:24, Erik Hofman wrote: Go with SDL's sound support. SDL itself supports OpenAL giving best of both worlds. This is not quite right, I think; like OpenGL, SDL can use OpenAL, but it doesn't wrap the OpenAL API. Yes, that's true. But in general I expect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
James Turner wrote: PS - Congrats to Jon Stockhill and co on a truly excellent demo of Flightgear at this year's Linux User Developer Expo, which I just got back from. I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Sounds like you guys had a big hit there, now all the Linux conventions are going

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread David Luff
On 4/22/04 at 8:49 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: James Turner wrote: PS - Congrats to Jon Stockhill and co on a truly excellent demo of Flightgear at this year's Linux User Developer Expo, which I just got back from. I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Sounds like you guys had a big

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: James Turner wrote: PS - Congrats to Jon Stockhill and co on a truly excellent demo of Flightgear at this year's Linux User Developer Expo, which I just got back from. I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Oooh yes, from several announcements I have the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VRP and Camera View

2004-04-22 Thread Josh Babcock
Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Berndt wrote: If I understand the VRP correctly, for almost all the airplanes the VRP location will be 0 0 0 IFF (not a typo) the nose of the aircraft is coincident with (0,0,0) in structural coordinates, yes, your statement is true. Otherwise, wherever the nose tip

[Flightgear-devel] MD-11

2004-04-22 Thread Durk Talsma
After visiting Jon Berndt's revamped JSBsim website and getting hooked on heavies after my recent 747 tests, I decided to punch some MD-11 performance data, which I picked up from http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/ into aeromatic and --kinda to my surprise, being an aeronotical nono-- got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VRP and Camera View

2004-04-22 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:52:03 -0400 Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to be able to turn on some sort of cursor in FlightGear to show where the VRP and CG are. Maybe three lines through the point and parallel to the axis of the model. I think it would help aircraft design

[Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-22 Thread Al West
Greetings All, I think it was very successful show. I estimate we got about 80 or so people a day flying with FlightGear, around 10% managed to land. It was a shame that we were not able to use the controls within the helicopter, due to a 'feature' in HP/Compaq Machine USB controller.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11

2004-04-22 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:49:25 +0200 Durk Talsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that's right. It happened in that order :-) When I first tried loading the MD11, it appeared to initialize a few hundred feet above the ground, and Hmm. I think this would be the first thing to address. I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Horler
I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Oooh yes, from several announcements I have the impresseion that the FlightGear setup in the Wasp is really the main attraction of the whole show ! Well I found several interesting things, the .org stand was worth a visit. Flightgear occupied most of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Tracy Martin
David Luff wrote We had a fantastic time :-) There were five of us there for the two days and it was great to meet the others for the first time and put a face to virtual identities. Having the stand in a helicopter in the main hall definately created much more of an impact than we would have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread Wolfram Kuss
LoL, friends of mine where ion there last weekend. I don't think they know the picture, so I just sent them the link :-). BTW, they now have a Concorde there as well. Bye bye, Wolfram. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-22 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 22 April 2004 20:29, Al West wrote: Greetings All, I think it was very successful show. I estimate we got about 80 or so people a day flying with FlightGear, around 10% managed to land. It was a shame that we were not able to use the controls within the helicopter, due to a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11

2004-04-22 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 22 April 2004 21:34, Jon S Berndt wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:49:25 +0200 Durk Talsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that's right. It happened in that order :-) When I first tried loading the MD11, it appeared to initialize a few hundred feet above the ground, and Hmm. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
That's because it isn't a 747-400, but a 747-200; which makes me think that that might once been an actual plane. Regards, Ampere On April 22, 2004 07:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been in that plane. They have a long slide from the platform to the ground and I did go down it. :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Propeller vs. YASim

2004-04-22 Thread Wolfram Kuss
I did not see the original thread. What Spitfire version are you speaking about? Bye bye, Wolfram. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Thursday 22 Apr 2004 8:39 pm, Chris Horler wrote: Martin wrote: Curt wrote: I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Jon, Does the patch work? Or require a bit of modification? Maybe we might have to wait if Jonathon hasn't yet sent it. Cheers, Sorry, guys, I'm a bit behind the curve;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Thursday 22 Apr 2004 5:43 am, Jon Berndt wrote: You've seen those hydraulically actuated little simulator rides? Forget that, here's a bigger one: http://tinyurl.com/2oxzd See that? That's coming to next year's Linux Expo, that is! We can dream, I suppose... J.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11

2004-04-22 Thread David Culp
When I first tried loading the MD11, it appeared to initialize a few hundred feet above the ground, and When a JSBSim airplane begins in a bizarre position, or is tumbling, that means that it failed the ground trimming routine. I've found that aeromatic has a hard time generating large