Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI carrier

2004-11-04 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi all, I want to share a few impressions from my first landing on the nimitz. The carrier still does not move, but the wires are working with a demo implementation in JSBSim. Pics from the replay: http://na.uni-tuebingen.de/~frohlich/carrier/ :) More will come soon! Greetings M

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 04 November 2004 17:12, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Thursday 04 November 2004 16:53: > > I have used 'cvs -z3 up -dPA' with great success when I update. > > ... and I still hope that when people write things like that, they > actually mean, that they created a ~/.cvsr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Spott
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > So... problem solved, or? Yep - thanks, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- ___ Flightgear-

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Test Results for Magnetic Dip

2004-11-04 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:21:15 -0500, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously, when the dip is over 70 degrees, it doesn't take a steep > turn to cause this effect. The question is, does the compass "hang > up" (i.e. bind and refuse to turn), or does it swing around? If it > hangs up

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Screen to cartesian co-ords?

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Surgeon
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense to me now. I'll see what I can glean from the PPE code. On Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:06, Norman Vine wrote: > RE: [Flightgear-devel] Screen to cartesian co-ords? > If you have enabled DepthBuffer operations in OpenGL > the rasterizing process keeps track of

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Screen to cartesian co-ords?

2004-11-04 Thread Norman Vine
Paul Surgeon writes: > > On Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:02, Aaron Wilson > wrote: > > Paul, > > NeHe has a good example of how to convert > the screen coordinates > > into OpenGL coordinates. > > > http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/articles/article.asp?article=13 > > > > Aaron > > I found th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screen to cartesian co-ords?

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:02, Aaron Wilson wrote: > Paul, > NeHe has a good example of how to convert the screen coordinates > into OpenGL coordinates. > http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/articles/article.asp?article=13 > > Aaron I found that article very helpful. The part I don't under

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screen to cartesian co-ords?

2004-11-04 Thread Aaron Wilson
Paul, NeHe has a good example of how to convert the screen coordinates into OpenGL coordinates. http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/articles/article.asp?article=13 Aaron At 01:13 PM 11/4/2004, you wrote: I've built a WGS84 model of the world using SimGear routines and need some way of being abl

[Flightgear-devel] Screen to cartesian co-ords?

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Surgeon
I've built a WGS84 model of the world using SimGear routines and need some way of being able to click and draw on the surface of the ellipsoid. Does anyone know an "easy" way to transform a screen co-ordinate into an OpenGL cartesian co-ordinate? (Which I can then convert to polar co-ordinates) T

[Flightgear-devel] Re: autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Thursday 04 November 2004 16:53: > I have used 'cvs -z3 up -dPA' with great success when I update. ... and I still hope that when people write things like that, they actually mean, that they created a ~/.cvsrc file and put the options there $ cat ~/.cvsrc cvs -z3 -q d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 04 November 2004 15:21, Martin Spott wrote: > Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > > Do you have the latest CVS? Filters were added to xmlauto.*xx mid > > October: > > > > http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-cvslogs/2004-October/008 > >703.html > > That's it. I already removed anythi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
-atan2(-phi,theta) This looks *very* strange. An arc tangent of a quotient of angles?? Although it works out dimension-wise, I've never seen a quotient of angles in any formula. Cheers -Gerhard Think of them as distances, really. It was meant to be the X and Y component of the rotated Z axis proj

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] "Brain" in a dish flies flight simulator

2004-11-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
Very bizarre: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/02/brain.dish/index.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Spott
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > Do you have the latest CVS? Filters were added to xmlauto.*xx mid October: > > http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-cvslogs/2004-October/008703.html That's it. I already removed anything with '*kap140*' in the filename and pulled a fresh version from CVS. A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 04 November 2004 12:21, Martin Spott wrote: > Hello, > with the default c172 I see this error: > > Reading autopilot configuration from > /home/mas/CVS/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/c172p/Systems/KAP140.xml Unknown top > level section: filter > Detected an internal inconsistancy in the autop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Spott
"Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "radeon" > EndSection This is not very much, although it _might_ work. You'd be better done with adding a BusID and a Screen. "Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote: > If I keep the "rade

[Flightgear-devel] autopilot error ?

2004-11-04 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, with the default c172 I see this error: Reading autopilot configuration from /home/mas/CVS/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/c172p/Systems/KAP140.xml Unknown top level section: filter Detected an internal inconsistancy in the autopilot configuration. See earlier errors for details. Deleting a sa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-04 Thread Gerhard Wesp
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:02:19PM -0600, Jon S Berndt wrote: > -atan2(-phi,theta) This looks *very* strange. An arc tangent of a quotient of angles?? Although it works out dimension-wise, I've never seen a quotient of angles in any formula. Cheers -Gerhard -- Gerhard Wesp o o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-04 Thread Gerhard Wesp
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:05:59PM -0500, David Megginson wrote: > theta, and psi (roll, pitch, and yaw). Given those three angles, I'd > like to determine which direction around the z axis is most directly > uphill and how steep the hill is. Elaborate please. Do you mean the angle between the p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:07:01 -0800 "Dale E. Edmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: > >> What I can tell you, though, is that DRI and OpenGL support for Matrox >> cards under Linux sucks rocks. First of all, Matrox' drivers are open, >> and their proprietary HAL module doesn't r