Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Diamond Katana model

2005-09-20 Thread mat churchill
Is there anything relating to usage ? The DA42 is definitely the plane I would like to see in FG, as it is definitely the plane I would like to fly one day. Mat Martin Spott wrote: >Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > > >>There was a project from diamond aircraft and microsoft about building a >>model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lufthansa liveries

2005-09-11 Thread mat churchill
Cert%2Cnvepensg_trarevp%2Cpa%2Cpbqr%29%20NTNVAFG%20%28%27%2B%22ysza%22%27%20VA%20OBBYRNA%20ZBQR%29%29%20%20beqre%20ol%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=38&prev_id=433763&next_id=428659&tbl=AIRPORT Mat Martin Spott wrote: >mat churchill wrote: > > > >>Another screensh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lufthansa liveries

2005-09-11 Thread mat churchill
Gabor these look great. How about a mini howto on the texture creation for the livery, you seem to have got the balance just right between the look and the resolution of the texture. Another screenshot: http://projects.34sp.com/Flightgear/luthansa.jpg Clouds seem to have come a long way recently

[Flightgear-devel] Photo Scenery (txt)

2005-08-21 Thread Mat Churchill
script to automate much of the following. Unfortunately I lost a hard drive not long after doing the photo scenery, so I don't have the spreadsheets or xml files I used. Also if the area you are building has coastline I also worked out a solution for getting that to look OK. Mat Churchill *Flightge

[Flightgear-devel] Photo Scenery

2005-08-21 Thread Mat Churchill
script to automate much of the following. Unfortunately I lost a hard drive not long after doing the photo scenery, so I don't have the spreadsheets or xml files I used. Also if the area you are building has coastline I also worked out a solution for getting that to look OK. Mat Churchill

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Diamond Katana model

2005-07-17 Thread Mat Churchill
Worth a try ! Have you got any plans of the Katana ? Its very hard to find anything on the DA42 I emailed Diamond but had nothing back. Mat On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 22:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Mat, > > I'd love to get my hands on a twin turbo diesel with an all-glass panel, > but

[Flightgear-devel] Fgrun & Fgfs

2005-07-17 Thread Mat Churchill
Have been having a problem on my desktop PC where fgrun seg faults when I hit the run button, so I can only start fg from the command line. I bought a laptop last weekend and did a fresh install of plib,simgear,fg cvs & fgrun cvs using fltk 1.4 (with threads) and I'm getting the same problem. This

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Diamond Katana model

2005-07-17 Thread Mat Churchill
joe, sure you are not interested in a DA42 ? would love one of these in FG http://www.abacuspub.com/fsd/catalog/s609.htm Mat ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-deve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: More info on seg fault, How?

2005-02-24 Thread mat churchill
Is this what I should be getting ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mat]$ gdb `which fgfs` /home/mat/core.3564 GNU gdb 6.2-2mdk (Mandrakelinux) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies o

[Flightgear-devel] More info on seg fault, How?

2005-02-24 Thread mat churchill
I'm getting seg faults 25% - 50% of the time when I try to start fg. This is on a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 with the latest CVS of plib, simgear, flightgear, with the latest nvidia drivers. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mat]$ fgfs --fg-root=/home/Flightgear/data --fg-scenery=/home/Flightgear/World

[Flightgear-devel] [hash.c:395] failed read

2005-02-20 Thread Mat Churchill
Hi All, I've been away from FG for a while and have done a fresh install of CVS on Mandrake 10.1 and am getting a couple of glitches. if I start FG from Fgrun it is intermittently crashing during or before the splash screen and leaving core dump files in my home directory, this also happens from

[Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-22 Thread Mat Churchill
I just rang Europress publishers of the Getmapping "high in the sky" series (reminded by Boris's question). I spoke to Richard Charge their head of Sales. To be very clear this is different to what Boris was asking but still interesting, well at least for anyone interested in photo scenery for the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: That grid again ?

2004-09-22 Thread Mat Churchill
>Oh boy, I'm not sure I can fully explain the scheme, but I'll >summarize. I wanted a way lay the textures down in a pre-determined >fixed grid, Yes it's this grid I'm trying to get my hands on :-) >but I also wanted a way to "size" the textures in the >materials.xml file. In other words, on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Mat Churchill
Erik Hofman wrote: >So now you are going to provide me with all kinds of pretty >pictures which can be used to create textures? I'm certainly planning exactly this, have been messing around with low budget aerial photography. This device (MK1, now on MK3) http://www.projects.34sp.com/Flightgear/

[Flightgear-devel] That grid again ?

2004-09-20 Thread Mat Churchill
Hi All, I am going to have a second shot at photo scenery and have been looking at the last way I did it. I have asked this question before, but wonder if there is anyone out there who knows where I can find out how terrain texture tiles are placed in FG. It looks as if they are placed by FG and

[Flightgear-devel] Recording NMEA data & playing back ?

2004-07-14 Thread Mat Churchill
Yes seems straightforward. adding --nmea=file,out,60,/home/mat/Flightgear/data/Protocol/recordednmea to fgfsrc created the recordednmea file OK First few and last couple of lines from a climb to around 6000 feet heading west looked like this: $GPRMC,041051,A,4340.0891,N,00713.5881,E,2.5

[Flightgear-devel] Recording NMEA data & playing back ?

2004-07-13 Thread Mat Churchill
Correction last paragraph of last post was not clear. I am building a GPS NMEA recorder now. I will build the full flight logger as discussed in the bulk of my last mail if it looks possible to resolve the signal / data processing issues etc ( and all the as yet unforeseen problems ) Mat

[Flightgear-devel] Recording NMEA data & playing back ?

2004-07-13 Thread Mat Churchill
Hi All, Related to my query re real flight playback, I thought I should start at the beginning. I found this mention here on the Avsim Flightgear forum re playback. http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=198&topic_id=62&mesg_id=62&page= I am already outputting NMEA data for use b

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Real Flight PLayback ?

2004-07-11 Thread Mat Churchill
I can see several business ideas related to this along the lines of something that could be fun to develop but which also has a variety of commercial possibilities. Does anyone have any examples of how commercial collaborations with open source projects actually work in practical terms ? For inst

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Real Flight PLayback ?

2004-07-09 Thread Mat Churchill
I'd thought of drilling a hole in the ball of a serial mouse and attaching a weight on a stick to it. Mount the mouse in a cage with a spirit level on it, fix the cage in the aircraft and get a "zeroed" reading and then record mouse positions against time during flight. An upside down joystick wit

[Flightgear-devel] Real Flight PLayback ?

2004-07-09 Thread Mat Churchill
. Best Mat Churchill ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Looped AI Flight Plans

2004-05-29 Thread Mat Churchill
Hi All, Is it possible to loop an AI flight plan to create endless AI air and ground traffic ? I would like to be able to share customised Airports with others and be able to fly around other peoples custom scenery & airports. Are there plans to put AI scenarios and flight plans in the scenery f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Georegistered imagery

2004-05-26 Thread Mat Churchill
A good updated version of the Scenery Tutorial is here: http://glennm.orcon.net.nz/flightgear/fg-scenery-tutorial2.html Not sure why this has not been adopted on the main site. Earlier in the year I had some success with a simple method of placing photo scenery here are some results: http://fre

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Adding realistic textures and objects to scenery

2004-02-05 Thread mat churchill
> Hi everyone, > > I'm using FlightGear and I've seen the realistic scenery that could be used. Due to > the fact that I'm using it as a base for my thesis and the realistic scenery is good > new, I'm asking how I can create one for my country, Italy. The main question is how > I can add textu

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-30 Thread mat churchill
what others think on this. Regards Mat Churchill ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-30 Thread mat churchill
Just to clear up the visualflight question, the scenery I have built does not use the visualflight scenery rather the same source material as visualflight. This is a UK company called Getmapping that has done an almost complete aerial survey of the UK. They actually sell this data in fairly large

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread mat churchill
> That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS > Scenery add-ons? Some info here: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.html http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2004-January/006927.html Had just sligh

[Flightgear-devel] Long Lat discrepancy

2004-01-14 Thread mat churchill
Hi, I have noticed that there seems to be a discrepancy between the long / lat reading in the hud and in atlas and the long / lat I have to enter to place static or AI objects. The Hud and Atlas correspond with my OS map of the area. To place an AI plane a couple of metres from my planes starting

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Oh dear

2004-01-09 Thread mat churchill
Worrying times though, A Google search for "publicly available maps" revealed this article: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/092501p1.htm hmm Mat ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listin