Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS compiling error CYGWIN

2005-12-15 Thread David Luff
Have you tried adding -DNOMINMAX to your CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS? Alternatively try adding #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include config.h #endif as the first include of each cxx or cpp file giving problems. I'm not using Cygwin any more BTW, so I'm posting blind, but I'm pretty sure it will turn out to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New segfault [bug] activating mini-panels (2d)

2005-12-14 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: Andy Ross wrote: It's much more enlightening if you embarass them publically. Unless it's me, of course. I'll give them my usual 30 minutes grace period. Then I'll bring down the hammer. You hear that Dave, you only have 15 minutes now! Thanks Curt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: GPS

2005-11-30 Thread David Luff
Steve Knoblock writes: Now that we are seeing a choice of GPS units, it beings to raise a similar question to the autopilot. There will be confusion over the waypoint and gps dialogs on the FG toolbar. It may be necessary to do something similar as I proposed with autopilot. Yes, I agree

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread David Luff
Joacim Persson writes: I'm curious about the choice of language/linkage for the implementation: Why have a specific vendor model hard-coded in c++? Seems more like task for xml/nasal scripts to me. ?:-P Nothing wrong with the language (c++) but isn't it a little out of place in the fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: KLN89 GPS added: cleanups [patch]

2005-11-30 Thread David Luff
Alex Romosan writes: David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Urgghh - email addy in header! I've added a KLN89 GPS unit hardcoded in C++ (OK'd by Curt). Briefly, since it's late, it's only included on the c172p 2D panel (--aircraft=c172p-2dpanel). It looks best at --geometry=1024x768

[Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-29 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, I've added a KLN89 GPS unit hardcoded in C++ (OK'd by Curt). Briefly, since it's late, it's only included on the c172p 2D panel (--aircraft=c172p-2dpanel). It looks best at --geometry=1024x768 since the fonts are at 1:1 pixellation at that resolution. As with the KAP140, it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Request to the Mac folk

2005-11-25 Thread David Luff
James Turner writes: On 25 Nov 2005, at 00:33, David Luff wrote: Thanks, that's great! Would you prefer me to upload it to SourceForge for download from there, or to simply provide a link to your webspace? There's no problem with leaving it in my webspace, but you may

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Request to the Mac folk

2005-11-24 Thread David Luff
James Turner writes: Okay, a DMG is available from my .Mac account: http://homepage.mac.com/zakalawe/.Public/taxidraw-0.3.2.dmg Thanks, that's great! Would you prefer me to upload it to SourceForge for download from there, or to simply provide a link to your webspace? This only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Request to the Mac folk

2005-11-23 Thread David Luff
James Turner writes: On 23 Nov 2005, at 00:23, James Turner wrote: Disregard this, using the current X-Plane data everything works. It's my fault for not reading the instructions. Will test some more (and, err, get some sleep) and post a link to a .dmg once I verify what happens on

[Flightgear-devel] Request to the Mac folk

2005-11-22 Thread David Luff
Hi guys, Are there any Mac developers here who might be able to make up a Mac package of TaxiDraw v0.32 for me? The last version was done an X-Plane user, but there is no Mac binary available for the current version, and the Mac is popular among X-Plane users. TaxiDraw source can be found

[Flightgear-devel] New commit ssgEntityArray not built

2005-11-04 Thread David Luff
ssgEntityArray.[ch]xx has recently been added to simgear/screen, but doesn't get compiled since there appears to be no reference to it added in Makefile.am. Is this intentional or an oversight? Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SEGV with ATIS

2005-11-02 Thread David Luff
Pigeon writes: Hi all, Running fgfs cvs, starting up normally at KSFO. Bringing up the radio dialog and switching COM1 to the ATIS frequency. Sometimes I get: ERROR - mismatch between ATC .wav and .vce file in ATCVoice.cxx Offset + length: 2890 exceeds rawdata size: 0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] dynamic dialogs (ATC example) ... or forever hold your peace.

2005-10-30 Thread David Luff
Melchior FRANZ writes: * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 23 October 2005 20:15: Is this method acceptable? (I'd convert further hard-coded dialogs in this style then.) OK. Accepted by overwhelming lack of interest and objections. Is this patch acceptable for the ATC people?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug in ATC code.

2005-10-20 Thread David Luff
On 20/10/2005 at 21:40 George Patterson wrote: Hi All, I have noticed two annoying bugs in the ATC dialog boxes. When you press ' for the first ATC dialog labelled ATC menu is displayed. (btw, Can we change that title as it's not an accurate description, perhaps ATC communication) Anyway, if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS compiling error

2005-10-19 Thread David Luff
On 19/10/2005 at 12:05 Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Erik/Durk? Since your update of simple.cxx/hxx on the 18.10.05 the newest CVS version does not compile anymore :-( Error: simple.cxx: In member function `int FGGroundNetwork::findNearestNode(double, double)': simple.cxx:1331: error: `HUGE'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instant replay broken?

2005-10-17 Thread David Luff
On 17/10/2005 at 02:01 George Patterson wrote: Yes, It's just you :-P You can stop the replay by select the View menu, select instant replay. On the Instant Replay dialog check the Disable replay. and click Ok. Believe me, I've tried that. It simply doesn't work AFAICT. On Linux the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instant replay broken?

2005-10-17 Thread David Luff
On 16/10/2005 at 18:19 Erik Hofman wrote: David Luff wrote: Is it just me, or is it completely impossible to escape from instant replay once engaged in the current CVS? You can end the repeating loop by pressing 'p' twice. Ah, OK, that works. It's not exactly intuitive though! How about I

[Flightgear-devel] Instant replay broken?

2005-10-16 Thread David Luff
Is it just me, or is it completely impossible to escape from instant replay once engaged in the current CVS? Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-15 Thread David Luff
ojoe writes: You know, I'd be happy to help do some of the taxiway work if a new format becomes available. I've been trying to work with Taxidraw, but it's kind of difficult to work in because of the underlying format (I have no problems with Taxidraw itself.) I find I spend a lot of time

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172: realism of radio transmission vs ambient noise volume

2005-10-09 Thread David Luff
Vassilii Khachaturov writes: Sorry I haven't gotten to mention this before, since this is smth that I kept noticing for months already. In the c172 aircraft, the ambient noise in the cockpit is pretty similar to what one hears w/o any headset. When one turns the radio on and tries to hear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code

2005-10-08 Thread David Luff
Jon Berndt writes: 1) Of course, it would be nice to incorporate the JSBSim changes into the current JSBSim CVS. However, as you may know, JSBSim has undergone major revisions compared to the version now in FlightGear CVS. Within weeks (maybe sooner) we should be moving the new JSBSim

[Flightgear-devel] Fix for SimGear Cygwin gcc-3.4.x compilation

2005-10-07 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, The following patch needs to be applied to fix the errors that Georg Vollnhals was getting whilst attempting to compile SimGear with gcc-3.4.x in a thread a week or so ago. Could someone with CVS access commit it please - it's the old picking up the -DNOMINMAX definition from config.h

[Flightgear-devel] RFC: Move aero data to SimGear?

2005-10-05 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, FlightGear currently contains a number of functions to provide an in-memory global representation of the Airport, navaid and com databases, and searchable access. This is only likely to grow as we add SUA, approach procedures, and whatever else (TACAN!). All the functions to load and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: FlightGear 0.9.9

2005-10-05 Thread David Luff
On 03/10/2005 at 13:35 Melchior FRANZ wrote: (C) which features need to be completed? I've got an approach-capable GPS simulation for the 2d Cessna panel almost finished that I'd like to get into the next release if at all possible. A few screenshots (view at native 1024x768 resolution for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 30, Issue 14

2005-10-05 Thread David Luff
On 05/10/2005 at 13:59 Steve Knoblock wrote: The model looks good. Do you have a model number for the unit? It looks like it says BendixKing. Bendix-King KLN 89B. There is an online manual and PC simulator (Windows only) available - you'll have to google since I don't have the links to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Weekly Snapshot (was RFC: FlightGear 0.9.9)

2005-10-05 Thread David Luff
Ampere K. Hardraade writes: On October 5, 2005 01:49 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: If someone wants to do this, and promises to keep up on it, I can put a link on the FG web site ... Curt. How should the version number progress? Should it be 0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.11, etc. or 0.9.9.1,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-02 Thread David Luff
On 02/10/2005 at 04:21 Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Dave, I installed *all* Cygwin stuff after I got the first errors some time ago because I did not really know what I need. I reinstalled it all now before trying again Graphics (one of many entries, but this should it be) 2.2.0-1 169k

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-01 Thread David Luff
Georg Vollnhals writes: RenderTexture.cpp:40: warning: ignoring #pragma warning RenderTexture.cpp:66: warning: ignoring #pragma comment RenderTexture.cpp: In member function `bool RenderTexture::BeginCapture(RenderTexture*)': RenderTexture.cpp:909: warning: unused variable 'bContextReset'

[Flightgear-devel] FGNav vs. FGNavRecord

2005-09-13 Thread David Luff
There seem to be two very similar navaid classes currently existing in the src/Navaids directory - FGNav in nav.hxx and FGNavRecord in navrecord.hxx. Is any one of these preferred / due to be depreciated? (So I don't use the wrong one). Is there any reason for the duplication / change? (Just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread David Luff
Dave Martin writes: I have a feeling as we get more road data, we're going to be seeing slight placement errors at the airports. Currently EGBB is placed over the A45 on the 0.9.8 scenery. If I can get that road mapped by GPS and a few others around it, we can probably move the airport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear freezes (float point interrupt)

2005-08-17 Thread David Luff
Ampere K. Hardraade writes: Lately, my computer has been freezing on me unpredictably while I am using FlightGear. (Note: I'm not saying FlightGear is to blame.) Normally, I just cold boot the machine. Today however, after multiple freezes, I was too angry to try again. I went away to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.3.2 released

2005-08-17 Thread David Luff
Durk Talsma writes: That's really great news! I just started working again on the AI ground network code, and was wondering what the status was with respect to the move to sourceforge/CVS. I started working version 0.3.0 and was wondering how we should go about merging this with the

[Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.3.2 released

2005-08-16 Thread David Luff
TaxiDraw-0.3.2 has been released. This release is primarily to track changes in the X-Plane data format. TaxiDraw has also moved to SourceForge, and can now be found at http://taxidraw.sf.net. As a result, the latest code can now be obtained from CVS, hopefully making it easier for others to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] suggestions/questions regarding multiplayer

2005-08-01 Thread David Luff
Harald JOHNSEN writes: Oliver Schroeder wrote: 2) chat messages [...] protocoll supports chat-messages and the ATC-module has functions to queue and display them on screen. So it should'nt be too hard to combine them and enable chat-messages. Somebody willing to give it a try?

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

2005-08-01 Thread David Luff
Martin Spott writes: Orly is a well-known airfield which means the location is vermy much expected to be correct in the airport database. If the airport layout is incorrect, then the best bet is to correct this with TaxiDraw and send the result to David Luff. Can I jump-in here and say

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux Expo, UK

2005-08-01 Thread David Luff
Christopher Horler writes: 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

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

2005-08-01 Thread David Luff
Martin Spott writes: David Luff wrote: Can I jump-in here and say to everyone that updated airports should be sent to Robin Peel now. So I assume he accepted all changes that you've been collecting until now ? All of the one's I sent him, yes, which is about half of them, including

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain Replacments trough other sources

2005-05-11 Thread David Luff
On 11/05/2005 at 09:50 Dave Culp wrote: disused airfields, OK, this would then not be the same as an airport that no longer exists? I would think some people would have a problem with having these added to the scenery. Airfields which still exist but are now disused can be submitted to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: opening window splash screen

2005-05-04 Thread David Luff
On 04/05/2005 at 23:40 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * James Turner -- Wednesday 04 May 2005 23:14: Minor partial objection - the Mac startup is dog slow (like 90 seconds to get to a usable plane in the C172 and SFO), and I think at least part of the problem is the 'init while idle' scheme - FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] keyboard changes: warp/mixture

2005-04-20 Thread David Luff
On 20/04/2005 at 12:20 Melchior FRANZ wrote: Would anyone mind if I moved increase/decrease warp to w/W and use m/M for richer/leaner mixture? An excellent idea IMO. Cheers - Dave This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses,

[Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.3.1 released.

2005-03-24 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, I've put another version of TaxiDraw up at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html This is primarily a bug-fix release - a couple of X-Plane format writing bugs are fixed so all users should upgrade. Changes from 0.3.0: * Runway shoulders are now preserved when exporting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: material animation (and the bo105 as an example)

2005-03-24 Thread David Luff
On 24/03/2005 at 13:40 Melchior FRANZ wrote: But the rest of the paralyzed developers here need to be entertained! Or are boring threads like this the reason for the silence? ;-) More likely the fact that spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, where most FG developers reside. Which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nav0/Nav1 course tracking and ILS approach code corrections

2005-03-01 Thread David Luff
On 27/02/2005 at 22:51 Hans-Georg Wunder wrote: Hi all, some days ago, I have made some proposals to correct errors in flightgear. Now, I would like to know, íf this is the right procedure to add code to the cvs or if there is an other way defined ?? The best way is to send it directly to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-02-18 Thread David Luff
On 12/02/2005 at 22:31 Hans-Georg Wunder wrote: One question I have: With the left key,I am able to move around on the map. But then I destroy the flight track. Is it a bug or just a missing feature ? A bit of both, I guess. It won't be fixed for this release, but it irritates me as well,

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

2005-02-07 Thread David Luff
On 31/01/2005 at 17:19 Chris Metzler wrote: With building positions and heights from the FAA Digital Obstruction File, and a few new buriable (thus, height-adjustable) models, here's an approach into La Guardia Rwy 04, starting over Staten Island.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] STL help requested

2005-02-07 Thread David Luff
Christian Mayer writes: The C++ Programming language 3rd ed. tells me: Basically you've got 2 options: 1 - create a class with the operator class IACOcode { string the_code; } bool operator( const IACOcode a, const IACOcode b ) { return your ordering; } mapIACOcode, ARP*

[Flightgear-devel] STL help requested

2005-02-04 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, I've run into a tricky problem when using stl map, and am hoping someone might be able to point me on the right direction. I have a map of airports, indexed by string, which is the ICAO code: mapstring, ARP* apt_map; Now, I want to emulate the 'search ahead' function of GPS code

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear-cvs

2005-02-02 Thread David Luff
On 02/02/2005 at 09:11 Vivian Meazza wrote: I'm having a problem compiling Simgear-cvs under Cygwin. The compiler snip I would suppose that this is a consequence of Erik's latest improvements to the sound. We Cygwin users are still using Norman Vine's OpenAL stuff. Any advice on fixing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac os x simgear build break with RenderTexture.cpp

2005-02-01 Thread David Luff
On 01/02/2005 at 11:45 James Turner wrote: I'm in the middle of trying to resurrect my FG build (right now it's dying during startup, oh well), but getting this integrated should be ok, assuming I can clone the existing WGL / GLX code. Atlas currently contains a copy of the SimGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-29 Thread David Luff
Lee Elliott writes: I'm using an ATI 9200 vid card with ATI's drivers and I'm getting: Seaching for extensions... GLX_SGIX_fbconfig: NO GLX_SGIX_pbuffer: NO One or more required extension(s) could not be found: GLX_SGIX_fbconfig GLX_SGIX_pbuffer Unable to continue in headless mode

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-29 Thread David Luff
David Luff writes: Lee Elliott writes: I'm using an ATI 9200 vid card with ATI's drivers and I'm getting: Seaching for extensions... GLX_SGIX_fbconfig: NO GLX_SGIX_pbuffer: NO One or more required extension(s) could not be found: GLX_SGIX_fbconfig GLX_SGIX_pbuffer

[Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-28 Thread David Luff
Hi all, I've put a release candidate of Atlas-0.3 up at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/Atlas-0.3.0-rc1.tar.gz If a few folk could take the time to download this and try it out that would be great. Changes in the last year or so: * Now reads FG-0.9.8 airport and navaid formats * Atlas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-28 Thread David Luff
On 28/01/2005 at 15:34 Roberto Inzerillo wrote: Do you think there will be some Win32 binary too? It would be very nice :-) I don't know if it's even possible (I didn't look into the code in order to determine if libraries and the source itself is portable) but I really hope so. A windows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-28 Thread David Luff
On 28/01/2005 at 09:15 Adam Dershowitz wrote: I have never tried to build Atlas before, but just tried with this release. I am working on a Mac and ./configure gives me the following errors: checking for pthread_exit in -lpthread... yes checking for glNewList in -lGLcore... no checking for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-28 Thread David Luff
On 28/01/2005 at 17:55 Jon Stockill wrote: It builds ok on Slackware Linux 10.0, --headless seems to work ok with Map - I'm running it remotely at the moment. I'll test the Atlas app when I get home and it finishes building the maps. One thing it is showing up is quite a few missing scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting

2005-01-27 Thread David Luff
On 27/01/2005 at 12:19 Curtis L. Olson wrote: snip rwy lights are dropping the frame rate Any ideas? Not on the technical side, but one thing we could do now is to ditch the green taxiway center lights. These aren't specified in the new format apt data, and the latest build has defaulted

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting

2005-01-27 Thread David Luff
On 28/01/2005 at 00:00 Paul Surgeon wrote: On Thursday, 27 January 2005 20:47, David Luff wrote: Note that the EGLL poly count is already hitting my frame rate to begin with - at daytime it's about 60 with view away from airport, 30 with view including airport. Then 10 with the lighting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain elevation question

2005-01-24 Thread David Luff
On 24/01/2005 at 21:17 Durk Talsma wrote: What I am really looking for is a hint where I can find the code in FlightGear Hi Durk, I obtain ground elevation for taxiing AI traffic in AILocalTraffic.cxx, lines 1569 - 1602 (or thereabouts). Note that this is not a cheap operation, and you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible config (file type) problem?

2005-01-23 Thread David Luff
William Earnest writes: Hello, This morning the 0.9.8 package in WinXP, running normal defaults (KSFO, c172p) starts with all instruments normal. The current CVS compiled here in Fedora 3 is much the same, but sitting on 24R, the DG looks as expected, but the mag compass is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft required to start

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 21/01/2005 at 10:05 Jim Wilson wrote: Frederic Bouvier said: Stewart Andreason a écrit : It seems this aircraft is required to start FlightGear. fgfs WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models/pa28-161.ac' for reading

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 21/01/2005 at 13:16 Frederic Bouvier wrote: To bring fgrun to 1.0 quality grade, and after receiving suggestions from Curt, I am now planning to add basic options to the wizard instead of keeping them hidden behind the Advanced button. Maybe by reducing the size of the command line textfield

Re: [Flightgear-devel] menu problems (was v1.0 musings)

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 20/01/2005 at 19:42 Stewart Andreason wrote: I've had my attitude indicator on the panel get stuck 30 degrees off level, and Debug.Reload Panel doesn't reset it. Something else perhaps is... broken as a feature? Once again, Reset doesn't fix it. This is a feature - apparently uncaged

[Flightgear-devel] AI piper load fix - v0.9.8a needed?

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
Hi all, I've commited a fix for the program crash when the piper model is not present, and apologise for that. Would a v0.9.8a release be in order? The current package almost certainly crashes for everyone who doesn't have an existing base package or extra aircraft installed, and Frederic's fix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI piper load fix - v0.9.8a needed?

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 21/01/2005 at 18:38 Durk Talsma wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 16:51, David Luff wrote: I'd like to overhaul my loading of GA aircraft models properly - instead of pulling them out of the installed aircraft, I think some dedicated AI models should be available to help avoid this kind

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI piper load fix - v0.9.8a needed?

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 21/01/2005 at 18:02 Jim Wilson wrote: David Luff said: Hi all, I've commited a fix for the program crash when the piper model is not present, and apologise for that. Would a v0.9.8a release be in order? Just the base package maybe? Weren't there some file permission issues too

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI piper load fix - v0.9.8a needed?

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 21/01/2005 at 20:04 Durk Talsma wrote: So time permitting I wouldn't mind having a stab at porting (some of) your code to interact with the AIModel system, it that is okay with you. As I mentioned yesterday, the taxiway code comes to mind. This approach might actually be mutually

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

2005-01-20 Thread David Luff
On 20/01/2005 at 10:55 Jon Berndt wrote: Ok wrong word. Let me just say that it seems to lack some magic. Setting up the p51d in Yasim was not my original intention as Jon S. Berdnt was claiming at the time I started the 3D that he had a nearly working JSBSim model. ... which I did. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.3.0 released

2005-01-07 Thread David Luff
On 1/6/05 at 5:11 PM Martin Spott wrote: David Luff wrote: TaxiDraw-0.3.0 is now released. It can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html. Thanks, David, this release apperars to be very 'handsome' ! Here are 'your' binaries: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear

[Flightgear-devel] Windsocks

2005-01-06 Thread David Luff
Can anyone who flies in the US tell me how prolific windsocks at GA airports actually are. Currently we get one at each end of the runway by default in the airport data, but I'm wondering if that's generally overkill? If an airport has a segmented circle (nicely visible from aerial photos) is

[Flightgear-devel] View window with 2d panel

2005-01-06 Thread David Luff
When using the 2D panel, it appears that the view window to the outside world gets shifted up and down depending on whether the panel is visible or not (try viewing slightly left or right and then back straight again to see it). This appears to be done without changing the position of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread David Luff
On 1/5/05 at 4:17 PM Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try it when I get home, and grab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: David Luff wrote: Wow, is that what it's meant to look like? Most of the instruments are holes through to the runway on the dhc2, the b1900d and the Citation for me on both Cygwin/ATI and Linux/NVidia OS/hardware combinations. I'd always assumed they were works

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread David Luff
Martin Spott writes: I believe there are platforms out in the wild, even not that up to date, that won't be hit that much by ploygon count I myself would love to try it out in order to see how much the polygon count has influence on the frame rate. I think you might be very right

[Flightgear-devel] RFC: Set starting runway into wind?

2004-12-28 Thread David Luff
Gentlemen, It really irritates me that the starting runway is always set closest to 270degrees instead of into the wind when the [EMAIL PROTECTED] or --random-wind options are used, unless --heading= or --runway= is specified explicity. The patch below fixes that, but it also has one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: Set starting runway into wind?

2004-12-28 Thread David Luff
David Luff writes: ... the patch below ... Note that the patch requires a recent CVS update to work - the runway search code was fixed a couple of days ago. Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Real weather fetch

2004-12-28 Thread David Luff
Dave Martin writes: ps: David you have Mail (taxiways). OK, great. If they've gone to my nottingham.ac.uk address I won't get them until tomorrow, but I'll make sure I pick them up then. Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Realistic parking

2004-12-26 Thread David Luff
Durk Talsma writes: I haven't implimented taxiway routing yet, so right now, each aircraft taxies straight from the gate to the active runway. I bet you can guess what my next logical move will be. :-) Hi Durk, Take a flight at KEMT with the ai-traffic turned on. There's some taxying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Comm radios broken

2004-12-24 Thread David Luff
Chris Metzler writes: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:18:33 + David Luff wrote: With the latest CVS of Simgear, FlightGear and base package, comm radios are completely broken, both attempting to set through the panel, http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-December

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Comm radios broken

2004-12-24 Thread David Luff
Melchior FRANZ writes: * David Luff -- Friday 24 December 2004 11:31: I can set the frequency on the radios, the problem is that there is no response from ATC. This was working a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't changed anything in the ATC end, so my guess is that something has got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat.gz replaces basic.dat.gz andrunways.dat.gz

2004-12-23 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: Innis Cunningham wrote: Does this work with Atlas now?.The last time I went to build the maps using Atlas I had to get the old default.nav files to get Atlas to work. Hmm - I fixed this for Atlas itself (in CVS), but since I don't build the symbols on the maps

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat.gz replaces basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz

2004-12-23 Thread David Luff
On 12/22/04 at 6:00 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: I just commited a change to cvs that replaces the old basic.dat.gz and runways.dat.gz files (which were in an old depricated/unsupported format) with apt.dat.gz which is in the X-Plane format. This is the format we now officially support.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat.gz replaces basic.dat.gz andrunways.dat.gz

2004-12-23 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Luff wrote: I've been keeping the Atlas CVS up-to-date with FlightGear's changes, since Per Liedman (the author) no longer has regular net access. I'll do the latest airport change, and see if I can make a release. It probably won't

[Flightgear-devel] Comm radios broken

2004-12-23 Thread David Luff
With the latest CVS of Simgear, FlightGear and base package, comm radios are completely broken, both attempting to set through the panel, and through the property tree. It would be good to get this fixed before the release, but I won't have time to look at it for a few days. What is our

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172P Model Year?

2004-12-20 Thread David Luff
On 12/18/04 at 7:15 PM Dave Martin wrote: While you're there, is there any chance of a magneto-related performance loss? ie: when you run left mags only you get a power loss. Cheers :) Hmm, I thought I already had, but it seems I'm mistaken. It's in the LaRCsim code (IO360.cxx), but never

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172P Model Year?

2004-12-20 Thread David Luff
On 12/20/04 at 11:41 PM David Luff wrote: Of course, oversights like this would get picked up more easily if an adept 3D modeller added a magneto switch to the 3d C172 Oops, found it, bottom left! and pa28-161 :-) It is missing from that though. Cheers - Dave This message has been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172P Model Year?

2004-12-18 Thread David Luff
Dave Martin writes: On Friday 17 Dec 2004 22:27, David Megginson wrote: Totally up to you, but my 172P POH is for the 1981 model However, I also discovered that the early 172s had more dihedral and a slightly different shape to the aerofoil. Comparing this the FG 172P, which has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-16 Thread David Luff
On 12/16/04 at 12:16 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Luff wrote: I've commited a work-around to the base that wraps all the symetrical runway panels in the v direction (everything except the threshold panel has identical upper and lower borders, and so can safetly be wrapped in v given

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-16 Thread David Luff
David Luff writes: I guess I'd better go and see what it looks like on an NVidea card now... Well, I've had a very good pan round the Chicago scenery in the ufo with both the old and new materials.xml on a Linux box with a Geforce3, and I can't find a shred of difference in any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-16 Thread David Luff
On 12/16/04 at 11:43 AM Martin Spott wrote: David Luff wrote: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2002-December/014095. html It requires openGL-1.2 for the patch to take effect, which I don't have on Cygwin. If your SGI is openGL-1.2 capable, then perhaps you could see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-15 Thread David Luff
On 12/5/04 at 9:21 PM Martin Spott wrote: David Luff wrote: Completely off topic, your screenshots look like you're getting dark lines at runway texture boundaries similar to what I see on an ATI machine, but not on a NVidia machine. Are you also on an ATI card, and am I correct

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

2004-12-14 Thread David Luff
On 12/14/04 at 11:06 AM Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. So, I recently got a chance to pick this back up. In principle, everything is finished: I have a set of signs which are designed as per the U.S. FAA regs (FAA AC-150-5340-18C, Standards for Airport Sign Systems, and FAA AC-150-5345-44G,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mkdir

2004-12-13 Thread David Luff
On 12/13/04 at 7:03 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 23:13, Curtis L. Olson wrote: You might want to check first if plib has this functionality already, or putting it in plib's file/directory handling library might be more appropriate. The purpose of SGPath is to be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic.dat : Airport database update

2004-12-12 Thread David Luff
On 12/12/04 at 6:00 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 17:32, Paul Surgeon wrote: Would there be any objections if I added an extra field (installed) to Airports/basic.dat ? What I want to do is keep a list of airports that are available world wide as well as those that are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home

2004-12-12 Thread David Luff
On 12/12/04 at 7:52 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 12 December 2004 19:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. I personally think that if you can get fgfs to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-05 Thread David Luff
On 12/5/04 at 5:35 PM Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: I had a quick look at my favourite airfield yesterday and I saw that the modified airport generator somehow shows similarities to TaxiDraw: They both don't render stopways. Would someone please be so kind to comment on this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery build

2004-12-05 Thread David Luff
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Luff wrote: [...] The latest TaxiDraw code shows stopways as an ugly shade of yellow ochre BTW [...] That's great ! To complete the picture, would you consider to add a visual marker for the threshold ? Probably you could later add

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-12-01 Thread David Luff
On 11/28/04 at 10:40 AM Durk Talsma wrote: I have a question. Would it be an idea to add a gate or parking editor function to taxidraw? The reason I'm asking is that I'm starting to think about ways to improve AI parking at the major airports. So eventually, for the major airports we would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-12-01 Thread David Luff
On 11/29/04 at 11:00 AM Martin Spott wrote: Hello David, David Luff wrote: This is purely a bug-fix release - there is another version in the works with some more features. The instructions to the key commands tell us which key to use in order to achieve which sort of movement (R,D,F,C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-28 Thread David Luff
Paul Surgeon writes: First we need to get away from single line taxiways. At the moment taxiways are handled like runways which limits them to rectangular shapes. In short we need a vastly improved TaxiDraw or a new replacement. The only hassle is that genairports cannot handle any new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-24 Thread David Luff
Martin Spott writes: David Luff wrote: I've put TaxiDraw-0.2.4 up at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html. ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/TaxiDraw/taxidraw-0.2.4-FreeBSD.bz2 ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/TaxiDraw/taxidraw-0.2.4-IRIX.bz2 ftp://ftp.uni

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