Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sun Azimuth [Was: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-08-07 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 07 August 2005 15:54, Erik Hofman wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: > > Is this correct or am I missing something? > > I just realized that you also need to adjust for day-of-year to > compensate for the out-of-center rotation that causes long days (and > nights) for both polar areas. > > Erik

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mojave, CA

2005-08-07 Thread Jon Berndt
> But, an FDM interface needs to do more than shove a datastructure back > and forth. There needs to be some higher level communication to tell > the remote FDM when it should reset it self or when it should trim for > in air or on the ground, and what trim conditions are requested (i.e. > start i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mojave, CA

2005-08-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Well, I prefer you to understand it as well-meant lobbying, driven by the strong feeling that FG needs this - not for me but for others who could do much more by connecting an external FDM to FG than I ever could. Just have a look at the CIGI "Interface Control Document", the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mojave, CA

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >>Indeed this sounds interesting. Does it mean that FG will get a modern, >>full-featured and stable interface for external FDM's ? > Sounds like you probably have something more specific in mind than > can be expressed in a single sentence

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
Hi Harald, I'm compiling on Windows under Cygwin. Where do I get winmm.lib from ? I can't see it within my source, and all the goggle references suggest it is included in a Microsoft or Borland IDE. I have a winmm.dll though - should I link to that? If so, how? Sorry if these questions seem a bi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mojave, CA

2005-08-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: [...] However, it has only very basic out the window graphics. I'm doing a (hopefully quick little) project to build an interface from their software to FlightGear in order to use FlightGear as the visuals. Indeed this sounds interestin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
Erik Hofman wrote: Buchanan, Stuart wrote: SimGear installed OK (I think), so I don't know whether I'm missing from timezone libraries or what. Any idea? /home/Stuart/SimGear/simgear/timing/timestamp.cxx:74: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: SimGear installed OK (I think), so I don't know whether I'm missing from timezone libraries or what. Any idea? /home/Stuart/SimGear/simgear/timing/timestamp.cxx:74: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Are you running Window

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mojave, CA

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > [...] However, it has only very basic out the window graphics. I'm > doing a (hopefully quick little) project to build an interface from > their software to FlightGear in order to use FlightGear as the visuals. Indeed this sounds interesting. Does it mean that FG wi

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Citation/Panel

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Citation/Panel > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv18501/Panel > Added Files: > Citation-II-panel.xml adf-radio.xml dme-40.xml radios.xml > transparent-bg.rgb > Log Message: > Syd Adams: > > Changes to the Cita

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
Thanks Erik - I really appreciate your quick response. I built the latest SimGear CVS snapshot, hit the same problem, then realized my LIBRARY_PATH wasn't set. Doh! Running export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/include/simgear got it to compile further, but hit the problem below. SimGea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sun Azimuth [Was: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Is this correct or am I missing something? I just realized that you also need to adjust for day-of-year to compensate for the out-of-center rotation that causes long days (and nights) for both polar areas. Erik ___ Flightgear-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: So I can't just use Simgear 0.3.8? I've successfully run make install, You can try, but usually it requires the CVS version. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
So I can't just use Simgear 0.3.8? I've successfully run make install, --- Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Buchanan, Stuart wrote: > > Thanks. > > > > I downloaded the latest "bleeding edge" snapshot > from > > the terragear.org website, which included the > patch. > > > > I had to fi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sun Azimuth [Was: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: double azimuth = -90 + 180.0*(0.5 + 0.5*daytime); Oh, well, wrong again (but you get the point by now): double azimuth = 90.0 - 180.0*fabs(1.0 - 2*daytime); Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Thanks. I downloaded the latest "bleeding edge" snapshot from the terragear.org website, which included the patch. I had to fix acinclude.md4 for the latest automake, but have hit a problem with ld. Is this another version issue? In a sense, You need SimGear (CVS versi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-07 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
Thanks. I downloaded the latest "bleeding edge" snapshot from the terragear.org website, which included the patch. I had to fix acinclude.md4 for the latest automake, but have hit a problem with ld. Is this another version issue? Output below. Thanks -Stuart Making all in e00 make[1]: Enterin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sun Azimuth [Was: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Given that 12.00 UTC is high noon and 0.00 is midnight it is now easy to determine the sun azimuth for (0,0) by using the following formula: double azimuth = -90.0 + 180 * daytime. This should be: double azimuth = -90 + 180.0*(0.5 + 0.5*daytime); Erik __

[Flightgear-devel] Sun Azimuth [Was: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I just tried an idea I had which was the following: * Unix time represents the current time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970. * There are 86400 seconds in a day By combining these tow I can get the normalized UTC time-of-day (ranging from 0.0 .. 1.0) at lat/lon (0.0 , 0.0)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain LOD clumping

2005-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Phil Cazzola wrote: I haven't looked at this since I submitted the original message, but will probably work on it again soon. Ok. I will hold off committing this until you manage to get back to it. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain LOD clumping

2005-08-07 Thread Phil Cazzola
I haven't looked at this since I submitted the original message, but will probably work on it again soon. One note: I believe (but haven't verified) that because of where the range selector is being placed in the scene graph, all the children from the same tile are using the same range.