Re: [Flightgear-devel] Roadmap/brain dump

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Bergren
Curtis L. Olson wrote: It would also be nice to have a couple more aircraft that are finished from top to bottom including good flight model, good external animated 3d model, good internal 3d cockpit, decent sounds, etc. I'd like to see something like a 737, some sort of smaller commuter jet,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Roadmap/brain dump

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Bergren
As for 1.0, although its just a number, I personally think its a pretty significant number, and probably worth a bit of work polishing bugs , user interface, and installation problems out as much as possible before release. It might also make a good opportunity to test Curt's contention that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Roadmap/brain dump

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Bergren
How about including a bugreporting file in the root of the tarball with: How to recognize the metakit problem (names of symbols!) GDB 101 How to see if your segfault is video driver related (glxgears, quake, tuxracer tests) For ati people: Go sign a petition to make them fix their drivers.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Bergren
David Megginson wrote: Blender has an awful lot that we don't need for building FlightGear planes -- it's really a package for creating 3D animation -- so there is a tendency for ones brain to give up and start flogging itself silly at first glance. Really, though, all you need to learn for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Roadmap/brain dump

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Bergren
David Luff wrote: There's a lot of wobble and drift when stationary, particularly with the brakes on. This might be a floating point issue rather than a JSBSim issue though. Its much less noticable at the default startup location than some others which may be why it doesn't get mentioned. I'm

[Flightgear-devel] Simgear permissions?

2002-12-31 Thread Brandon Bergren
I was updating simgear from CVS and got this: cvs server: Updating simgear P simgear/Makefile.am P simgear/compiler.h cvs server: Updating simgear/bucket P simgear/bucket/newbucket.hxx cvs server: Updating simgear/compatibility cvs server: failed to create lock directory for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE : Binary Space Partitioning ?

2002-12-20 Thread Brandon Bergren
There is no visibility culling whatsoever in FG. (other than maybe back-face). FG depends upon distance culling instead. I don't think BSP works very well outdoors, anyway :) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot specify --aircraft in system.fgfsrc

2002-12-20 Thread Brandon Bergren
$USERPROFILE on WinNT shold resolve to the root of the users home directory. $SYSTEMROOT should resolve to the operating system root directory. If I remember right, there is a portable way to find the my documents folder. (ie, win9xnt, any language.) I know the BZFlag project is able to find

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model origin proposal

2002-12-20 Thread Brandon Bergren
How about having a small xml file for each 3d model, telling at what offset the tip of the nose is? Then, you could use the same aircraft definition file with a different 3d model without messing around with offsets too much... --Brandon ___

[Flightgear-devel] idea

2002-11-14 Thread Brandon Bergren
ARGH! I wrote this on the third, but never sent it... -- Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:27:05 -0600 From: Brandon Bergren [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Licensing issues

2002-10-18 Thread Brandon Bergren
if you ask me) I would have no obligations at all. Erik Erik, I don't think there's any movement to change the license on the base package. I believe this discussion is on moving useful code routines from fg to sg, to make simgear a more useful and attractive platform. --Brandon Bergren

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Poor English Translation

2002-10-07 Thread Brandon Bergren
. Sincerely, Brandon Bergren ?xml version=1.0? !-- FlightGear menu and options tranlations for Poor English -- PropertyList !-- Fall back -- nullThis not make translate yet/null !-- File menu -- fileFile/file save-flightPut Flight in to File/save-flight load-flightTake from File Flight