[Flightgear-devel] Re: gui theming

2005-07-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Wednesday 13 July 2005 01:11: [dialog transparency] As far as making it user adjustable, that sounds great. It *is* user adjustable, just like most of fgfs: (1) Edit the XML file. :-) (2) $ fgfs --prop:/sim/gui/colors/background/alpha=0.8 (3) change this value in the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: gui theming

2005-07-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 13 July 2005 08:51: [dialog transparency] The GUI style is now switchable at runtime. I've put the two available styles into $FG_ROOT/gui/styles/ -- Shift-F10 cycles through all (two) styles in this directory. Of course, the new style can be chosen from the command

[Flightgear-devel] Scenery files triangles

2005-07-13 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
While looking at the scene graph I saw that the .btg files are generating a lot of leafs. This is not new, but perhaps it is becoming worse each time the source data resolution used to build the tile becomes finer. I have added a few traces in simgear's sgBinObjLoad functions, an example :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery files triangles

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Is there a reason why we are using fans and not strips for tile objects ? http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2005-June/001219.html Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery files triangles

2005-07-13 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
Erik Hofman wrote: Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Is there a reason why we are using fans and not strips for tile objects ? http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2005-June/001219.html Erik lol ok, I didn't saw that ;) Harald. ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
Harald JOHNSEN wrote ... snip ... Perhaps can we use a real ogl light for the aircraft landing light and fake light for the airport lights, and since the view is centered on the aircraft the hack could be good enought. Are you going to progress OGL lights for aircraft landing lights? I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery files triangles

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Ross
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Is there a reason why we are using fans and not strips for tile objects ? These days, it's usually faster to use indexed vertices. Strips and fans are faster because they reduce the number of vertices that need to be transformed by (and sent to) the hardware by saving 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery files triangles

2005-07-13 Thread James Turner
On 13 Jul 2005, at 15:36, Andy Ross wrote:These days, it's usually faster to use indexed vertices.  Strips and fans are faster because they reduce the number of vertices that need to be transformed by (and sent to) the hardware by "saving" 1 or 2 from the last triangle drawn.  But modern cards

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport LFPO Paris Orly Update

2005-07-13 Thread Gerard Robin
Rather than keeping on my side a new version of the Airport Paris Orly I guess that you could be interested to get it. That Airport in the existing Scenery is wrong regarding the apt.dat Here an update which suit to that apt.dat and the Scenery File e000n40 The Airport and the corresponding

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New super/turbo MP code is in

2005-07-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross Vivian Meazza wrote: Meanwhile, you are distracting Andy from updating the awaited supercharger code. Heh, fair enough. This is checked in now, with a general rewrite to clarify things and fix the bug where MP was reported before the wastegate application. The only new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New super/turbo MP code is in

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: Back from a holiday in France. The modified software tests OK here. One small snag: the MP is not ambient when the engine is not running. Strictly, this should be turning, I suppose, because a wind-milling supercharger will produce some pressure. Near enough though.

[Flightgear-devel] Linux Expo, UK

2005-07-13 Thread Christopher Horler
Hi All, Although I've not recently been active, I've just spotted something. After last years success I was wondering if anyone was interested in returning to the .org Village again? This year I can bring some hardware. Hotel arrangements - If anyone needs a hotel, I might be able to help

Re: [Flightgear-devel] France file Signs : France South Est available

2005-07-13 Thread Gerard Robin
Dedicated to Signs users: A first part of France territory is available = France South-Est at http://ghours.club.fr/france-SE.tar.gz I divided the task in four parts, will come later on = North-Est, South-Ouest, North-Ouest. -- Gerard ___

[Flightgear-devel] 3dconvert.exe

2005-07-13 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Does anyone have a copy of 3dconvert.exe built for dos/windows that they can send me [offline]? Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: