Re: [Flightgear-devel] Overhauling the networking code(was:Multiplayercrashes with unknown aircrafts, any solution?)

2005-07-25 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On July 25, 2005 06:42 am, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Radar Echoing Area is (REA) and is also known as the Radar Cross Section > (RCS). It's not quite the same thing as the radar visibility range. > > RCS is a property of the target, and varies with the target aspect w.r.t. > the radar, and also the ra

[Flightgear-devel] sprintf

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Berndt
IIRC, sprintf was a problem for some. Is that still the case? I've compiled under Cygwin, Borland C++, and I think I've also compiled code that uses sprintf under IRIX. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim won't start with w110n40 or w110n30airports

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Berndt
> I don't know if there are others that use fgfs from front range > locations in Colorado, but I use it to practice instrument approaches in > this my home area and my two favorite aircraft for this are the c172p > and c310, both jsbsim models. _The yasim aircraft still work fine with > this s

[Flightgear-devel] jsbsim won't start with w110n40 or w110n30 airports

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Perry
I have posted this issue twice before. This is with plib, SimGear, fg, and data all from recent cvs. I have fgfs from cvs up-to-date on my desktop and notebook, both running Linux FC3 and both have this bug after updates from about 10 days ago. I don't know if there are others that use fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stumped by animations again

2005-07-25 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Josh Babcock > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > Hi Josh, > > > > These entries in your example... > > > > instrumentation/nav[0]/gs-needle-deflection > > 1 > > > > ...assume that your gs-needle-deflection property is in degrees. Maybe > > that property needs to be renamed with a -deg > suffix.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stumped by animations again

2005-07-25 Thread Josh Babcock
Jim Wilson wrote: > Hi Josh, > > These entries in your example... > > instrumentation/nav[0]/gs-needle-deflection > 1 > > ...assume that your gs-needle-deflection property is in degrees. Maybe that > property needs to be renamed with a -deg suffix. Well, that doesn't seem to exist, though it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas is unable to draw Airports and Runways

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 09:38 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit : > Markus Morawitz wrote: > > > Please can anyone help me by teaching me some history > > about the Airport and NavAids file formats. > > Where is the current file format being described? > > FlightGear started out by using a native fil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 23:02 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit : > AFAICT there hasn't been any significant changes to Instrumentation/gps.*xx > or > Airports/simple.*xx. There has been alot of improvements to the gui system > lately, so maybe my dialog has become broken. Could you try to tr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-25 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Monday 25 July 2005 20:49, Gerard Robin wrote: > Get Nearest Airport (From Menu Equipment GPS) seems not working. > It was working with olders CVS. > Is it any new modifications which deleted that function ? AFAICT there hasn't been any significant changes to Instrumentation/gps.*xx or Airport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Get Nearest Airport (From Menu Equipment GPS) seems not working. It was working with olders CVS. Is it any new modifications which deleted that function ? Thanks -- Gerard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Andy Ross
I wrote: > that, too, can be done in cartesian space and doesn't require a > nothing of "sunrise/set" time). Heh, s/nothing/notion/ Most of my typos are clear from context, but that one reads like gibberish, sorry. :) Andy ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Andy Ross
Steve Hosgood wrote: > Solving where the planet is in its orbit for any given calendar time > is tricky. This is just the equal area thing, right? (angular orbital velocity goes as the inverse of the distance to the focus) I kinda-sorta remember doing a parameterization of that in college way back

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:17, Andy Ross wrote: > I humbly submit that this is yet another area where an Euler (angle) > representation is a bug, not a feature. We have a sane cartesian > coordinate system for the earth. All that's needed is to define one > for the solar system* and then do reasona

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Andy Ross
Steve Hosgood wrote: > The position of any astronomical object relative to a viewer standing on > the planet's surface is usually given as "altitude" and "azimuth" - with > the true horizon and true "North" used as the references. > [...] > Additional entertainment will be provided by the fact that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Properties, by position

2005-07-25 Thread Andy Ross
Jon Berndt wrote: > Can anyone differentiate for me the concept of "position" as > contrasted to "index" in this situation? Position is arbitrary. I think it corresponds to the order of which the nodes were added to the parent. The only use I can think of for this method is enumerating over all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Overhauling the networkin code

2005-07-25 Thread Andy Ross
Oliver Schroeder wrote: > 2) A "visibility" range (Vivian called it "Radar Echoing Area"), > provided by aircraft model data. That way a eg. 747 can show up on > radar earlier than a cessna, making radar more real. > 3) A radio transmission range, i.e. the range a client is able to reach > via rad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cirrus SR20 Model?

2005-07-25 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Lee Elliott > > What I've been thinking recently about 3d models is that it might > be best to make the panel and interior first, and then model the > exterior to fit it. I say this because after making an external > model that appears to fit the 3-views, if there's any real > curvat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Properties, by position

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: In props.cxx I find this code: /** * Get a child node by position (*NOT* index). */ SGPropertyNode * getChild (int position); Can anyone differentiate for me the concept of "position" as contrasted to "index" in this situation? A position and index or not necessa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 10:35, Erik Hofman wrote: > Steve Hosgood wrote: > > > Erik: > > The position of any astronomical object relative to a viewer standing on > > the planet's surface is usually given as "altitude" and "azimuth" - with > > the true horizon and true "North" used as the references.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stumped by animations again

2005-07-25 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi Josh, These entries in your example... instrumentation/nav[0]/gs-needle-deflection 1 ...assume that your gs-needle-deflection property is in degrees. Maybe that property needs to be renamed with a -deg suffix. You used min and max instead of min-deg and max-deg when configuring a rotation

[Flightgear-devel] Properties, by position

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Berndt
In props.cxx I find this code: /** * Get a child node by position (*NOT* index). */ SGPropertyNode * getChild (int position); Can anyone differentiate for me the concept of "position" as contrasted to "index" in this situation? Jon ___ Fl

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Overhauling the networking code(was:Multiplayercrashes with unknown aircrafts, any solution?)

2005-07-25 Thread Vivian Meazza
Oliver Schroeder ... snip ... > > > The version field is a good idea. And I have another suggestion. There > should be a "info" packet, containing details of the client. I'm not > sure what information should be sent to call the packet "complete", but > I have some ideas of what should be inclu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Steve Hosgood wrote: Erik: The position of any astronomical object relative to a viewer standing on the planet's surface is usually given as "altitude" and "azimuth" - with the true horizon and true "North" used as the references. Normally, an object is said to "set" when it crosses the visible

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Overhauling the networking code(was:Multiplayer crashes with unknown aircrafts, any solution?)

2005-07-25 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: >What is missing is a clear architecture indenpendent definition of the storage >layout >Also a 'protocol version' field in the message header will be a good idea IMO. >That way clients could distinguish if and how they should look at that binary >chunk. > > The ve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:56, Erik Hofman wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Erik Hofman wrote: > > > >>Since you are already familiar with this stuff, I need the function to > >>calculate the sun position (in degrees or radians) above the horizon > >>at a certain time/lat/lon. What is this normally cal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas is unable to draw Airports and Runways

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Markus Morawitz wrote: Please can anyone help me by teaching me some history about the Airport and NavAids file formats. Where is the current file format being described? FlightGear started out by using a native file format for airport data but recently switched to the file format also used b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] feature request: MultiPlayer's Callsigns in Viewport

2005-07-25 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Paul Kahler wrote: >All this multiplayer "chat" stuff has me thinking "game". It would >probably be more in line with simulation if chatting took place on a >simulated radio. You'd not only have to be close enough to someone, but >you'd have to be on the same frequency in order to talk to them. Th