Melchior FRANZ wrote:
I'm sure he meant boeing.com (hey, Stacie was first!). Now with Boeing and
Sikorsky on board, where is EADS/Airbus? Come on! We know you are here! And
Fokker!? And *cough* Diamond *cough* ... ;-)
I get the sense (from little bits and pieces I've gleaned over time)
directly. We aren't trying to eventually replace JSBsim with a
proprietary flight dynamics model here so please, I don't want anyone to
worry. :-) coughJon/cough :-) My main goal for attending this show
was to show the flexibility and adaptability of FlightGear as an
engineering and rapid
Hello Curt, thanks for your resume !
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I just got back from a Mathworks matlab/simulink symposium in LA this
week. (Thank you John, Alex, and Trisha for all your efforts! And I
have to thank Mathworks who went all out to help us get John's 747 sim
down to the show
Martin Spott wrote:
Hello Curt, thanks for your resume !
Oops, did I misclick with this stupid laptop touch pad and attach my
resume by mistake?
That sounds interesting, but it's not completely clear to me what they
acutally did to achieve this ;-)
Did they create an interface within
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Martin Spott wrote:
Hello Curt, thanks for your resume !
Oops, did I misclick with this stupid laptop touch pad and attach my
resume by mistake?
:-))
No, you didn't, I was just echoing the funny habit of a British
colleague in the way he translates the French word
* Alberico, James F -- Thursday 26 May 2005 16:42:
Erik Hofman wrote:
Harald JOHNSEN wrote:
Alberico, James F wrote:
Hi Jim,
It good to see some big names showing up on the list. This might give
the project a boost to get to the next level.
You certainly mean Harald, not me, unless
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* Alberico, James F -- Thursday 26 May 2005 16:42:
You certainly mean Harald, not me, unless you are commenting on the ugly
format of my name here. :-)
I'm sure he meant boeing.com (hey, Stacie was first!). Now with Boeing and
Yep.
Sikorsky on board, where is
I understand the fear that many companies have of open source software,
and the concern that the product that is their bread and butter might be
illegally transferred among those users. However, there's another side
to this that could be very positive for both sides. Just like giving
away free
Hi Mally,
I wasn't aware that you were an MSFS developer and since I currently do a bit of
x-country practice in MSFS with the VisualFlight scenery I'd like to congratulate you
on an awesome job!
I for one would be elated to see a commercially available version of the getmapping
derived
Mally writes:
Dave
... It would be nice to know whether visualflight regard buying the
MSFS scenery and converting it for personal FlightGear use as fair use or
not.
As you (Dave) know, I'm the developer of Visual Flight photo scenery, though
I've been on the flightgear lists
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
Dave
... It would be nice to know whether visualflight regard buying the
MSFS scenery and converting it for personal FlightGear use as fair use or
not.
As you (Dave) know, I'm the developer of Visual Flight photo scenery, though
I've been on the flightgear lists for many years under my
Mat
If you've not already read it, please read my reply to David Luff before reading
on.
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.
I'm not sure David was implying this, but it's
In any case, I think that generating textures for FlightGear from the MSFS
textures would be the ideal solution. I've not been following the
Oops, I meant to say that it would NOT be the ideal solution! Sorry about that.
Mally
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Mally,
After a phone call I have emailed Richard Cook at Coch Media the makers
of the High in the Sky distribution of the Getmapping scenery. He is
going to get back to me with a definitive answer on the EULA for this
product and has said he will speak to their partner in the product
Getmapping
Mat
From what you say there may be restrictions as to how I can legally view
the scenery having paid for a copy of it. This is something I hadn't
considered, so I will wait to hear back.
It's possible that the EULA will have a restriction against modifying the
images, but obviously I'm
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:04:25 +,
Matthew Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm interested in how you did this as I thought of extracting the
files from the MS FS VFR scenery discs I have and somehow stitching it
together for use in FGFS..?
..does the EULA allow
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
mat churchill wrote:
Had just slightly improved this method after advice from Curt on how to
stop the tile edges cutting into inclines. But have had loss of fat on
my hardrive (linked to powercut I think). If anyone knows of a good file
recovery solution that will work with reiser fs would like
* Erik Hofman -- Thursday 29 January 2004 13:57:
A good journaling file system like RiserFS would never lose (actually
99.995% of the time, and even then just very small portions of the) data.
Any reason why you don't recommend XFS instead? :-]
m.
I'm interested in how you did this as I thought of extracting the files from the MS FS
VFR scenery discs I have and somehow stitching it together for use in FGFS..?
In theory you should be able to get at the data as Reiser should still be able to give
you everything since the last time it wrote
mat churchill wrote:
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
Russell Suter wrote:
mat churchill wrote:
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.h
tml
I once been a Terraserver subscriber. I was allowed to download everything i
want
at full resolution for a short period of time.
I have now the bay area at 1m resolution in color.
You are not allowed to redistribute images but derived work is yours.
-Fred
Fred
I once been a Terraserver subscriber. I was allowed to download everything i
want
at full resolution for a short period of time.
I have now the bay area at 1m resolution in color.
You are not allowed to redistribute images but derived work is yours.
Derived work in a GIS context would
Frederic Bouvier wrote:
Russell Suter wrote:
mat churchill wrote:
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.h
Russ
I'm not planning on redistributing the work. The work would be for a
client of mine
who is trying to upgrade their simulator's visual database...
Are you sure that doesn't count as redistributing?
Mally
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The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per region. I
bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice in MSFS but I'd like
to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension script to rip these into FG for people
who have purchased the images would be
On 1/29/04 at 10:05 PM Frederic Bouvier wrote:
I once been a Terraserver subscriber. I was allowed to download everything
i
want
at full resolution for a short period of time.
I have now the bay area at 1m resolution in color.
You are not allowed to redistribute images but derived work is
Mally wrote:
Russ
I'm not planning on redistributing the work. The work would be for a
client of mine
who is trying to upgrade their simulator's visual database...
Are you sure that doesn't count as redistributing?
Not if they buy the images and I simply provide the labor...
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On 1/29/04 at 10:08 PM Matthew Law wrote:
The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per
region. I bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice
in MSFS but I'd like to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension
script to rip these into FG for
Martin Spott writes:
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is one of the reasons that relative links are a good idea. As a
made up example, a link from http://gnucash.org/en/contribute.phtml to
http://gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ should use
a
This is really a question.
I live near Jeffco (KBJC) half way between Denver and Boulder, CO and
often shoot practice ILS approaches in fgfs in this area. The new
scenery, etc., make Jeffco much more realistic from the air. There used
to be a huge hump in the middle of 29R (the main ILS
Dave Perry writes:
This is really a question.
I live near Jeffco (KBJC) half way between Denver and Boulder, CO and
often shoot practice ILS approaches in fgfs in this area. The new
scenery, etc., make Jeffco much more realistic from the air. There used
to be a huge hump in the middle
* Curtis L. Olson -- Saturday 09 August 2003 04:53:
Ooops I didn't catch that because I was explicitely specifying the
scenery path. SHould now be fixed in cvs.
It does still not work under Linux, because sgDirPathSepBad is still
defined to be ':' and hence replaced by '/' in SGPath::fix().
I
Something is not making sense to me here. What are you using for your
--fg-scenery= and --fg-root= options?
Thanks,
Curt.
Melchior FRANZ writes:
* Curtis L. Olson -- Saturday 09 August 2003 04:53:
Ooops I didn't catch that because I was explicitely specifying the
scenery path. SHould
* Curtis L. Olson -- Saturday 09 August 2003 15:11:
Something is not making sense to me here. What are you using for your
--fg-scenery= and --fg-root= options?
export FG_ROOT=/usr/local/share/flightgear
export FG_SCENERY=/home/m/.fgfs/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/Scenery
FGTileLoader::add()
Ooops I didn't catch that because I was explicitely specifying the
scenery path. SHould now be fixed in cvs.
Thanks,
Curt.
Alex Romosan writes:
Matevz Jekovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yesterday's CVS works fine on my machine (except disappearing sound,
but that's probably plib and new
Matevz Jekovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yesterday's CVS works fine on my machine (except disappearing sound,
but that's probably plib and new sound card issue).
found the bug:
diff -u -r1.2 FGTileLoader.cxx
--- FGTileLoader.cxx8 Aug 2003 20:11:22 - 1.2
+++ FGTileLoader.cxx8
* Matevz Jekovec -- Sunday 03 August 2003 11:34:
Do we have a CVS for scenery files too or are those on flightgear.org
server the latest ones?
These are the latest official ones. But you can get newer and better
scenery here:
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 03 August 2003 11:39:
These are the latest official ones. But you can get newer and better
scenery here: [...]
Well, better is relative. Some of the tiles are a serious step back.
The Madeira islands are beautiful in the original scenery, while in the
randtechnologies
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 03 August 2003 11:39:
These are the latest official ones. But you can get newer and better
scenery here: [...]
Well, better is relative. Some of the tiles are a serious step back.
Like FDM's, there is no best here.
They both have good and bad
* Erik Hofman -- Sunday 03 August 2003 13:30:
The Madeira islands are beautiful in the original scenery, while in the
randtechnologies scenery they look somewhat ridiculous:
http://members.aon.at/mfranz/madeira.jpg
You don't like the view of that?
:-D
:-)
But seriously: compare
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
But seriously: compare the two pictures, both taken with the following
settings:
http://members.aon.at/mfranz/flightgear.jpg (14 kB)
http://members.aon.at/mfranz/randtechnologies.jpg (14 kB)
Ouch!
I already had the impression something wasn't completely right
Erik Hofman writes:
I already had the impression something wasn't completely right with the
vmap0 data, but this beats everything.
The elevation doesn't come from the vmap0 data. What happens is that
we have to build with --min-triangle=0 because TerraGear cannot handle
the complexity of
David Megginson wriyes:
Erik Hofman writes:
I already had the impression something wasn't completely right with the
vmap0 data, but this beats everything.
The elevation doesn't come from the vmap0 data. What happens is that
we have to build with --min-triangle=0 because TerraGear
Norman Vine writes:
ie look at the vmap0 representation for many islands and you will find
that they are just 3 or 4 points wheas the same in GSHHS will show
things ike atols and barrier reefs for the same place
Again, it depends on where you're looking -- it's just the opposite
situation
David Megginson writes:
Norman Vine writes:
ie look at the vmap0 representation for many islands and you will find
that they are just 3 or 4 points wheas the same in GSHHS will show
things ike atols and barrier reefs for the same place
Again, it depends on where you're looking --
* Paul Deppe -- Tuesday 05 March 2002 21:53:
With the latest CVS (1400 EST 3/5/2002) on my Cygwin/Win2k system the
textures in mountainous areas seem to walk across the ground and appear
and disappear in a very strange manner. I am wondering if anyone else sees
this problem.
Same here. It's
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