Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
thinks its a good idea, and no one has the time. I really really wish I did. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGInterface is beeing called without scenery below the aircraft

2005-05-16 Thread Chris Metzler
is crashed - the few times I've seen this the aircraft has been at a few thousand feet, with nothing to crash into though. Yeah, I had this happen to me last night for the very first time while on approach to KSFO. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-05-15 Thread Chris Metzler
menus once normally, and then having flown around for a while, bringing them up again causes them to appear in the lower left hand corner, partially off-screen, unmoveable, and transparent? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Dialog problem

2005-05-15 Thread Chris Metzler
that you didn't follow closely. Ah, OK, looks like a solution to this of the two bugs I posted about in the 3d clouds thread is already in the works. Never mind. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:04:17 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: A better way would be to generate the textures dynamically at runtime. Dynamic scenery in FG ... I must be smoking grass seeing as we can't even do multitexturing yet. I suppose you'll be working on that, then. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in theHimalayas

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 03 May 2005 23:59:15 +0200 Paul Furber wrote: Flying WNW towards the summit in the Cessna. How in the world did you get the Cessna up there! -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-17 Thread Chris Metzler
on getting a GPL'd, general-use option available. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgphSoFUpTdNm.pgp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather - Clouds

2005-04-17 Thread Chris Metzler
/fgfs-screen-011.jpg http://sites.estvideo.net/tipunch/flightgear/images/fgfs-screen-013.jpg Good work! My compliments. I have alse some code nearly ready for rain, snow and lightnings. I await stuff to try with baited virtual breath! Cool. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear version 9.2 Help Request

2005-02-17 Thread Chris Metzler
possible through the .xml file. But you don't *have* to do it that way. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

[Flightgear-devel] Fun with the FAA DOF.

2005-01-31 Thread Chris Metzler
I don't think framerates are going to be much of a problem. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fun with the FAA DOF.

2005-01-31 Thread Chris Metzler
, but I'm still tweaking it. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpn5Td3SXg4t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs + placement script done.

2005-01-29 Thread Chris Metzler
-to back) at the specific location instead of creating 152 models? Yes, it would, and I don't know why I didn't think of that. It's a trivial change to make; I should be able to do it today or tomorrow. Thanks. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Please use meaningful subject lines

2005-01-25 Thread Chris Metzler
starts to discuss lighting, they can change the subject line to Subject enhanced lighting fps (was: fgrun improvements) If *that* isn't enough, then we're talking about trying to accomodate bugged/broken mail readers. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
, or vice versa? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpSArqOZwMUd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
would increase also. I think we should always *encourage* people making stuff for FlightGear to license stuff under the GPL. But I don't think we should ostracize enthusiastic users who opt for other licenses for the things they create for the community to use. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
over its subsequent incompatibility with the GPL. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpHLfFFDbENV.pgp

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
, and this is the protection against monkey business like I mention above. However, lots of recipients won't realize or discover they can do this, even if a copy of the GPL and directions to the original content come with the redistribution. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
; and if they're continuing to obey the GPL, then their redistribution should contain or point to the original where people can see the truth about the credits. But most people won't go and look. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
are very nearby, so there's quicker aesthetic gratification. Finally, KSQL and KPAO both need work as far as their taxiway layouts are concerned; but KSQL's will come from TaxiDrawers more quickly because KPAO's main apron area is circular and enclosed by a circular taxiway. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] B1900D FDM (Test pilots req'd)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
is gorgeous, especially the cockpit). But I can't check your numbers because I'm running into the transparent gauge problem that also afflicted the dhc2F. Where the gauges should be, I see right through to the runway. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] B1900D FDM (Test pilots req'd)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:34:24 -0600 Curtis L. Olson wrote: The model was updated to work with FlightGear-0.9.8 and plib-1.8.4. Sigh . . .I should really subscribe to the CVS log mailing list. I thought I was current; but I wasn't 11 hours current. Thanks for the tip. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-17 Thread Chris Metzler
to be disappointed to find that it's in alpha with no panel and no real FDM, etc. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] crash in FGTower::CheckCircuitList() (tower.cxx:392)

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Metzler
://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-October/031481.html -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing

[Flightgear-devel] Airport codes (was Re: plib-1.8.4_RC)

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Metzler
, and why? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpFwW6Cok156.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google adwords?

2005-01-13 Thread Chris Metzler
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google adwords?

2005-01-13 Thread Chris Metzler
the worst that can happen is for them to say no, sorry, can't add you on. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-12 Thread Chris Metzler
objects I've placed where if I put them at their GPS-measured coordinates, they'd be in water, because the river's a quarter-mile off its correct location. It'd be nice to be able to pass along fixed-up tiles. Anyway, just a thought. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:13:46 + (UTC) Martin Spott wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: So to make sure I'm getting it, your plan is to have an FTP site for uploads and the website for dloads (what's the procedure for stuff making it over from one to the other)? Well, what would you expect us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:09:43 + Jon Stockill wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: Oh, one other thing. If the plan is to combine Jon's UK info with info submitted by others to develop a model location database, you might find my post from that Scenery thread interesting -- it's something I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:29:43 + (UTC) Martin Spott wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: One other possibility you might wanna consider is allowing uploads/ dloads of terrain (e.g. tiles modified through fgsd). This is not as easy as it sounds because you'd have to redo the tiles on every scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Metzler
or flightsim.com work. I think this would be pretty cool; but again, it requires extracting models and animation info from the .bgl files. And, like mentioned earlier, it requires the distribution site, of course. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Metzler
coordinates directly could get me hassled. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgp6nMgbHX3aj.pgp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Metzler
said above that's bogus) -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpvIVLO36fAC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-11 Thread Chris Metzler
/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2005-January/033478.html -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpuyex7JEuCt.pgp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Budget 'display-only' system?

2005-01-08 Thread Chris Metzler
be better spent on eBay going for a GF4 Ti 4x00 card. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpdSBqRIIjcn.pgp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Metzler
. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpyZ25YoE35E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:12:01 + Lee Elliott wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 07:35, Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:48:27 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: It would be really nice if the level of development was listed as well as a brief description about the aircraft. That would help

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery, plus an offer

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Metzler
year is that I got a new job. While I'm employed, I'm willing to buy a copy of this file annually for TerraGear to use in object placement, and work on scripts to add to TerraGear to do it, if the interest is there. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery, plus an offer

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:30:15 +0100 Erik Hofman wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: Jon, are you agreeable to getting this stuff into the downloadable scenery (that is, putting the models into the data tree and making their placement part of the TerraGear/scenery generation process)? Curt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 PFD Problem

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Metzler
reproduce this with current CVS. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpncIQwQHu0x.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Metzler
. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpO1kzM8ATH6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Metzler
? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpX2sj4lNswP.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Flightgear-devel] What was decided about the guy on -user who's bouncing everything back to sender?

2005-01-02 Thread Chris Metzler
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] guy is still bouncing back to sender everything posted to flightgear-users. Looking back through the archive, I can't decided if anything got decided about what (if anything) to do about him . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real weather fetch

2004-12-30 Thread Chris Metzler
similarities to this for a living. Unfortunately, it was in FORTRAN. Heh. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing

[Flightgear-devel] Bad elevation data in most recent scenery (was: Scenery concerns)

2004-12-28 Thread Chris Metzler
-To: set to flightgear-devel@flightgear.org) -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgp9PXHa45Xzl.pgp Description

Re: [Flightgear-devel] are we switching from blender to ac3d?

2004-12-25 Thread Chris Metzler
support them. http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?group_id=9atid=125func=detailaid=1461 -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief

Re: [Flightgear-devel] are we switching from blender to ac3d?

2004-12-25 Thread Chris Metzler
can't do this. There's a lot of other .blend functionality that ac3d can't do (e.g. procedural textures), but these two are the ones that have bitten me so far. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] are we switching from blender to ac3d?

2004-12-25 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:54:41 -0500 Norman Vine wrote: Chris Metzler writes: A plib loader for .blend would, IMHO, be an incredible boon for FG. PLib is Open Source and If it itches ... :-) Absolutely -- that's why I wrote that I don't think plib developers are opposed, but rather it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announce: FlightGear-0.9.8-pre1 and

2004-12-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:28:23 -0600 Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm sure I'm using plib-1.8.3 here without problems. Anyone else seeing a problem? I'm currently dloading, to see what the status is of CVS bugs discussed here recently . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Comm radios broken

2004-12-23 Thread Chris Metzler
-release this afternoon, and the radios in it work fine. I don't quite understand that because it came out after the patch that introduced the panel problem, but before the fix was submitted. But anyway, the panel works for me there. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather reporting stations

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:03:07 + (UTC) Martin Spott wrote: I believe I didn't grasp the difficulties she's running into ;-) I thought she wanted to know the difference between the various types of automated stations. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] Bug in CVS: radio panel hot spots no longer work

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Metzler
, radio stack switches (frequency swap, frequency tuning, etc.) don't work, while altimeter calibration, NAV radial adjust, etc., do work. I've observed this on the c172 and the c310. Reported on the 737 as well. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Error?

2004-12-17 Thread Chris Metzler
definitely not generic: I just synced to CVS and built on linux with no problem at all. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-16 Thread Chris Metzler
of surface or marking type. FWIW, I just did the same with a GF4 Ti4600, checked asphalt and concrete rwys with both materials.xml's, took snapshots from identical perspectives so I could compare them directly, and I can't see any differences . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] PATCH: two changes to data/Aircraft/737/Instruments/pfd2.xml

2004-12-16 Thread Chris Metzler
/format /chunk /chunks @@ -387,7 +388,7 @@ chunks chunk typenumber-value/type - property/instrumentation/dme/distance-nm/property + property/instrumentation/dme/indicated-distance-nm/property format%6.1f/format /chunk /chunks -- Chris

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..there _is_ Glut to be had off cvs or tarballs somewhere???

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Metzler
and the third entry was GLUT's homepage, which has a downloads link from where you can get a tarball. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief

[Flightgear-devel] CVS: data/Aircraft/737/737-set.xml -- odd change, starts with empty tanks now.

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Metzler
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next release planning ...

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Metzler
the program. - attempting to change airports from the menu does nothing. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next release planning ...

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:15:34 -0500 Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the inner marker sound immediately upon startup, while sitting on the runway, that can only be stopped by starting your takeoff roll and getting far enough along into it. AMENDMENT: as noted when this got brought up

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next release planning ...

2004-12-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:15:34 -0500 Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - attempting to load a saved state from the menu crashes the program. ADDENDUM: This appears to be a/c dependent. Flying a c172, saving the state, quitting, restarting, and loading the saved state works. Flying a c310

[Flightgear-devel] Advice needed: rwy dist rem sign installation

2004-12-14 Thread Chris Metzler
nearby wrong value that *doesn't* put the beacon on top of a runway seems like a good idea to me. -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief

[Flightgear-devel] DAFIF comment period: there will be one after all.

2004-12-13 Thread Chris Metzler
be returned to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] } or mailed to: } National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency } Mail Stop D-111, Attn: Public Release of Aeronautical Products } 4600 Sangamore Road } Bethesda, MD 20816-5003 -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:22:35 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 12 December 2004 09:05, Chris Metzler wrote: the pa28-161, I tried the pa28-161 and it seemed to work fine. Really? I just checked it again, and both NAV1 and NAV2 are dead for me. I'm running CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
their decision official or in changing it to something else, the agency in question *must* substantively address the comments received. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten

[Flightgear-devel] NAV radios still borked on three a/c

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
on all work; but three planes still have broken NAV radios: the c310 (and its children), the pa28-161, and the beech99. Lots of things don't work about the latter, including various gauges, so the problem may be something other than this transition. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] World scenery rebuild

2004-12-07 Thread Chris Metzler
://www.speakeasy.org/~cmetzler/ksdf_17Rend_seams.jpg These are present both in the old scenery and the new. You are making these now with apt.dat, right? The runways.dat format is gone? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child

[Flightgear-devel] NAV1 and NAV2 borked in CVS

2004-12-04 Thread Chris Metzler
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Inner marker sound

2004-12-04 Thread Chris Metzler
how to fix this. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpv6m9cxOQvx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-12-01 Thread Chris Metzler
, for the FAQ, see: http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/AptNavFAQ.htm -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

[Flightgear-devel] Want to confirm: X-Plane file format in immediate future?

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
I just want to confirm re: some stuff I'm doing: the next big scenery build, and the next release of fgfs, will be based on the switch from basic.dat and runways.dat to X-Plane's apt.dat? Thanks, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic Management screenshots

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
that data? Thoughts on how to convert it into flightplans of the style you use? Given the work that still needs to be done, there's clearly no urgency to this. I'm just curious what direction you're going . . . Anyway, cool stuff. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
much solving the problem as working within it; and the best solution would be to get plib to be able to only load the model once and to reference it for additional aircraft. But maybe that's really, really hard? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
than we need to? Maybe everything will be fine. -c P.S. Maybe even vmap1 would work. Or has someone tried it recently, and the results were awful? -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: openal wind.wav: correct pitch?

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
, and if there are no obvious deleterious effects (I'm ignorant about this stuff), maybe changing the stack size can be suggested to the plib folks. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
it [ snip ] -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgp1XF3p2GhAi.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
) is what Paul and Curt were unsure of, if I'm following this. Of course, this also presumes that the guy I quoted knew what he was talking about. I know *I* don't know much about this stuff, thus don't know enough to say. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-29 Thread Chris Metzler
is the availability of these two OpenGL extensions? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpeZQZYAZHXF.pgp

[Flightgear-devel] Bug in calc-tile.pl?

2004-11-13 Thread Chris Metzler
resettings of $lon be setting $x instead? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpO9Cg0aCKb6.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:07:01 -0800 Dale E. Edmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: What I can tell you, though, is that DRI and OpenGL support for Matrox cards under Linux sucks rocks. First of all, Matrox' drivers are open, and their proprietary HAL module doesn't really buy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Metzler
, sequential equations are welcome as well. Anything, really ... Could you go into detail about what kind of compass/error we're talking ? The link that he gave goes into it in detail. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Metzler
and down in its own reference frame won't correspond to what we call pitch since the plane is already banked. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Metzler
, what's the typical value of the argument of the arctan? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plea for help: geometry/trigonometry problem

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:19:09 -0500 Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check my algebra again, Checked; I can't find a mistake. As a third check, I ran it through Maple and got the same result. It appears to have the correct limiting behavior for both pitch -- 0 and roll -- 0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiheaded video cards?

2004-11-02 Thread Chris Metzler
is unsupported under Linux. No info re: your other questions, which were the meat of your post, I know, sorry. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:08:23 -0700 Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote I'm wondering whether we know what the X-Plane format really *is*. Robin does a pretty good job of documenting his format on his website. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I knew that; I know/knew what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-22 Thread Chris Metzler
some images for use in fgsd. It worked great. Incorporating the ability to fetch images into fgsd would be cool. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:12:11 +0100 David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/04 at 11:57 AM Chris Metzler wrote: Well, I guess we'll find out eventually. Converters are easy to write, if somewhat tedious. The current X-Plane format contains a flag indicating whether to include runway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw and choice of images from terraserver-usa

2004-10-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:24:45 +0200 Boris Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: [...] The Urban Areas/T=4 dataset is fabulous, btw -- it goes down to 25cm resolution (TaxiDraw fetches 1 meter resolution images, it appears). I'd recommend just changing fetch.cpp to T=4

[Flightgear-devel] Other segfaults -- the same? (was Re: segfault in AI code)

2004-10-21 Thread Chris Metzler
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Other segfaults -- the same? (was Re: segfault in AI code)

2004-10-21 Thread Chris Metzler
) at bootstrap.cxx:185 HTH. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpkRWhsT03So.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-21 Thread Chris Metzler
to (later than version 2.3.3) to compile, but gcc gives me all kinds of errors (both IRIX and Linux). I compiled the most recent one (0.2.2) under Linux just fine. With gcc-3.3, it looks like. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-19 Thread Chris Metzler
resolved? Go with theirs? Go with ours? Contact the person who sent you changes to review the situation and update? Thanks muchly. And thanks again for TaxiDraw! -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-12 Thread Chris Metzler
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[Flightgear-devel] How is property /position/ground-elev-m assessed/constructed from the elevation data?

2004-10-11 Thread Chris Metzler
of a hundred or so airport signs is half-buried or slightly levitating . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-08 Thread Chris Metzler
installed). But I may have to bite the bullet here, since framerates are the single biggest subject about which I wish I knew enough to contribute to FG. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] crease for ac3d files and speedup

2004-10-08 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:38:29 +0200 Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: OK, well, I have gotten away with using the current stable release of plib with my CVS simgear/flightgear for quite some time (not wanting to have to deal with plib's insistance on being in /usr/lib

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ESR's Smart Questions (was ATLAS ? (navaids *symbols* ?))

2004-09-27 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:40:50 +0200 Boris Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:01:06 -0400 Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK here you go :-) http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#volume Completely independently of this conversation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATLAS ? (navaids *symbols* ?)

2004-09-25 Thread Chris Metzler
-flight planning . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpBwP1pcZoBq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VIRTUAL ATC: a feedback from IVAO (A voice for FG)

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Metzler
*their* server connections to. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove snip-me. to email) As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. - Chief Luther Standing Bear pgpannWboVpPO.pgp Description: PGP

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