Re: [Flightgear-devel] splash screen distortion

2005-05-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: During sim startup, about 2 or 3 seconds before the world appears, the splash image is distorted, most often stretched vertically, sometimes split in two vertically. It's been doing this for a long time, maybe a year or more, but I've been ignoring it until now. Anyone

[Flightgear-devel] terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread BONNEVILLE David
Hi there people, I think Melchior will answer me the first cause it is a city signs related question ;-) How could I get the terrain elevation at a given lat/lon at runtime ? Could you point me to the right way ? Thx David ___ Flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* BONNEVILLE David -- Monday 23 May 2005 10:52: I think Melchior will answer me the first [...] Sorry, you didn't win the coffee machine! This was too easy to guess! How could I get the terrain elevation at a given lat/lon at runtime ? Could you point me to the right way ? If I need

Re : [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread BONNEVILLE David
That is the problem ;-) I am diving into SG code, but if Norman or somebody helped by Norman know where i could find it, feel free to post a maessage :D David But if you say at runtime, you possibly mean to get terrain elevation while flying, so you can't simply teleport the aircraft to some

RE: Re : [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread Norman Vine
BONNEVILLE David writes: That is the problem ;-) I am diving into SG code, but if Norman or somebody helped by Norman know where i could find it, feel free to post a maessage :D I haven't kept current with the code but AFAIK the elevation routines live in FGFS / src / scenery /

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: If I need elevation for the signs, I run fgfs solely for this purpose. Here it's easy: Just set /position/longitude-deg and /position/latitude-deg and wait until fgfs sets the appropriate /position/ground-elev-m for it.[1] It's not as much fun as it sounds, though: I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Melchior FRANZ wrote: If I need elevation for the signs, I run fgfs solely for this purpose. Here it's easy: Just set /position/longitude-deg and /position/latitude-deg and wait until fgfs sets the appropriate /position/ground-elev-m for it.[1]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 22 May 2005 23:23:49 +0100, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:33, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2005 10:54:30 +0100, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The system that has the problem is fitted with an ATI 9200 256MB card and I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrain elevation at a given position

2005-05-23 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: That should be easier when the source overhaul will be finished. To divert a well-known (TM) phrase: Gopher it ;-)) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

[Flightgear-devel] Re: problem with signs program, convert: command not found

2005-05-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 23 May 2005 07:14: [error when running http://members.aon.at/mfranz/flightgear/getelev] No idea. This is a short simple perl script. It doesn't do much. And it works here. Bah! All my fault. Yes, it worked here. Because fgfs is a wrapper script, and is a little

Re: [Flightgear-devel] splash screen distortion

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Dershowitz
Yes, I do get the same thing. MacOS 10.3 Fg 0.9.8 -- Adam From: Dave Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:06:08 -0500 To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org Subject:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] splash screen distortion

2005-05-23 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
Dave Culp wrote: During sim startup, about 2 or 3 seconds before the world appears, the splash image is distorted, most often stretched vertically, sometimes split in two vertically. It's been doing this for a long time, maybe a year or more, but I've been ignoring it until now. Anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-23 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 23 May 2005 14:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005 23:23:49 +0100, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:33, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2005 10:54:30 +0100, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The system that has the