Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flap positions

2002-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman writes: I think we should define a fixed value for each flap position, otherwise every module looking at the value has to support (0 0.32 or 0.34 0.66 or 0.66 1.0)! How are you trying to use the information? There might be an easier

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

2002-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Marcio Shimoda wrote: What version of Plib I have to use to compile FG and Simgear? 1.4.2 should do, but you would get some side effect when viewing the propeller (most noticably in 3D cockpit mode). This requires two patches for the 1.4.2 release. When cathing the latest CVS release of PLIB

[Flightgear-devel] Non-linear animations

2002-04-20 Thread David Megginson
I've added support for interpolation tables to the 3D model animations, similar to the interpolation tables in the old 2D panel -- these tables will make non-linear animations possible and other animations simpler. For example, here is the part of the left-aileron animation now:

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Model TODO,NONE,1.1 README,1.1,1.2

2002-04-20 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: - add animations for the model as a whole - add submodels - add billboards - add UV animations Billboards-? you mean like those big signs they allow in other states? Is animation for blinking aircraft lights included in the above? No -- I

[Flightgear-devel] Reset Problem ?

2002-04-20 Thread Norman Vine
Anyone else seeing a problem when resetting while in 'chase view' Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reset Problem ?

2002-04-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone else seeing a problem when resetting while in 'chase view' Norman What I'm seeing is the xyz (eye) offsets are getting reset to whatever the view[0] (generally pilot view) has in it's config. I'll sort it out today. Anyone opposed to reset

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reset Problem ?

2002-04-20 Thread Norman Vine
Jim Wilson writes: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyone else seeing a problem when resetting while in 'chase view' Norman What I'm seeing is the xyz (eye) offsets are getting reset to whatever the view[0] (generally pilot view) has in it's config. I'll sort it out today.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

2002-04-20 Thread Marcio Shimoda
1.4.2 should do, but you would get some side effect when viewing the propeller (most noticably in 3D cockpit mode). This requires two patches for the 1.4.2 release. Where I get these patches? Thanks in advance, Marcio Shimoda ___

[Flightgear-devel] OT: USB yoke and pedals?

2002-04-20 Thread matthew law
Hi all, I'm thinking of treating myself to CH Products' (http://www.chproducts.com/) USB Pro Pedals and USB flight Yoke (the one with throttle, mixture, and prop levers). Are these supported by Flightgear under Linux and to what level (I expect that not all the levers work?). Regards,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

2002-04-20 Thread David Megginson
Marcio Shimoda writes: Where I get these patches? These patches are against the 1.5 CVS, not the 1.4 release, so there may be problems. Here they are: http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-smoothing.dif http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-transparency.dif All the best, David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS Link Error

2002-04-20 Thread Julian Foad
Paul Deppe wrote: When making the latest CVS FGFS on Cygwin/Win2k, the following link error occurs: /usr/lib/libplibul.a(ulContext.o)(.text+0x47):ulContext.cxx: undefined reference to `wglGetCurrentContext@0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I don't know the reason for it, but you

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reset Problem ?

2002-04-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: FWIW I have found that the 'reset' and 'goto airport' routines 'good' tests for making sure you still have control of the program flow :-) That's a good guess...like using restoreInitialState() that just copies all the properties as they were saved

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: USB yoke and pedals?

2002-04-20 Thread Alex Perry
matthew law writes: I'm thinking of treating myself to CH Products' (http://www.chproducts.com/) USB Pro Pedals and USB flight Yoke (the one with throttle, mixture, and prop levers). FlightGear likes them just fine, but you might need to apply a few Linux kernel patches to get them

[Flightgear-devel] Propellor speed error due to FGSubsystem::update(multi_loop)

2002-04-20 Thread Julian Foad
The error in the speed of the propellor, and other things that we might not have noticed yet, is caused by the handling of the variable multi_loop in main.cxx:fgUpdateTimeDepCalcs(). After being used to update the FDM, this multi_loop value (or the value 1 in freeze mode) is passed to the

[Flightgear-devel] LINUXTAG 2002

2002-04-20 Thread Alex Perry
I propose that the PLIB project takes a community booth at LinuxTag http://www.linuxtag.org June 6-9 this summer in Karlsruhe Germany. This PLIB USERS booth would be a place for the dozen-odd projects that conspicuously incorporate plib (and any others that join in) to show off their projects,

[Flightgear-devel] LINUXTAG 2002 - BoF for FlightGear

2002-04-20 Thread Alex Perry
We have a one hour slot, June 8 at 11am, for a Birds-of-a-Feather session: http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2002/workshops.php3 All welcome and invited - bring a working system if you can ... I have not requested a booth for FlightGear yet, because (a) I'm still not sure whether

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS Link Error

2002-04-20 Thread Norman Vine
Paul Deppe writes: When making the latest CVS FGFS on Cygwin/Win2k, the following link error occurs: /usr/lib/libplibul.a(ulContext.o)(.text+0x47):ulContext.cxx: undefined reference to `wglGetCurrentContext@0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status It looks like the link order is wrong - the

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: U3-A 3D cockpit

2002-04-20 Thread Jim Wilson
A start on 3d cockpit for the c310 U3-A is in Base package cvs. It's still has a ways to go (no seats, pedals, yokes), but you can get some idea and perhaps offer some suggestions. Have been searching the web to try and get some idea if you should be able to see any of the nose (you can't in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

2002-04-20 Thread Julian Foad
Update to my own comments: Julian Foad wrote: The spinning propellor (on c172-3d) needs a bit of work. It spins even when the model is parked and the engine stopped. If pause mode is on, it spins more slowly but still does not stop. That works now (it stops). Maybe I didn't have that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

2002-04-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Julian Foad writes: Apologies - it looks pretty good as it is, both in sunlight and at night, now that I see it as intended - i.e. very feint, so the colouring of it is not too important. In fact, the light grey colour of it looks like a highlight reflection off the blades. The only

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reset Problem ?

2002-04-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Whether we do this or leave it in mode[0] really doen't matter, but coming up with a 'white' screen after performing a reset from chase mode is unacceptable so something should be done before we make a release ! Actually the white screen was the

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear web/ftp/mail/cvs server

2002-04-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
- Uptime for seneca - Now : 05:09:55 running Linux 2.2.19pre17 One : 177 day(s), 03:15:51 running Linux 2.2.19pre17, ended Sat Apr 20 16:11:27 2002 The main flightgear server went 177 days straight without a hitch. But something went a little goofy and it was starting to accumulated some hung

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reset Problem ?

2002-04-20 Thread Norman Vine
Jim Wilson writes: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Whether we do this or leave it in mode[0] really doen't matter, but coming up with a 'white' screen after performing a reset from chase mode is unacceptable so something should be done before we make a release ! Actually the white

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cygwin/Win2k link error for wglGetCurrentContext

2002-04-20 Thread Julian Foad
Thanks guys. Apologies for implying that it might have been a problem with plib. Curt, will you change this line (see end of this message) in CVS? I've tried it and it works for me, and it looks like the right fix. - Julian Sebastian Ude wrote: I guess this is the problem. -lopengl32

[Flightgear-devel] A little help with sockets.

2002-04-20 Thread Sergio Roth
I'm testing a code to work as server for FGFS. When I run FGFS with --native=socket,out,30,linux,ftp without starting server I get the expected message of no possible conection but when I start server before FGFS it runs ok. Thus I wonder server is connecting fine but I don't get anything

[Flightgear-devel] [Plib-devel] Re: Cygwin/Win2k link error for wglGetCurrentContext

2002-04-20 Thread Sebastian Ude
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Foad) wrote: Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:58:01 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Foad) Subject: [Plib-devel] Re: Cygwin/Win2k link error for wglGetCurrentContext Thanks guys. Apologies for implying