Re: [Flightgear-devel] trouble with generic protocol over TCP/IP

2004-07-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Tiago Gusmão wrote: meanwhile while using tcp.xml, i noticed that using a line separator of newline actually printed the word newline (this doesn't happen in var separator), it doesn't bother me much, just reporting Good yo know. I'll investigate this. Is there any generic input support planned

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote Sent: 26 July 2004 03:13 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire To create smoke, we will need two things: smoke emitter and smoke object. The smoke emitter will allow the user to set the following properties: - X, Y, Z

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread David Megginson
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Can't you make it so that the engine feeds off the upper tank before it feeds on the lower tank? How would that affect balance? Are the tanks exactly above each other? All the best, David ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
David Megginson asked Sent: 26 July 2004 12:37 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Can't you make it so that the engine feeds off the upper tank before it feeds on the lower tank? How would that affect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread David Megginson
Vivian Meazza wrote: Not exactly. They are both on the centerline, but the CofG of the lower, smaller tank is slightly forward of the upper, larger tank. For strict accuracy, then, drawing from one tank first and then the other will not result in exactly the same flight characteristics. The

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote Sent: 25 July 2004 22:32 To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Andy Ross wrote Sent: 25 July 2004 21:07 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Vivian Meazza

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
David Megginson wrote Sent: 26 July 2004 13:27 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Vivian Meazza wrote: Not exactly. They are both on the centerline, but the CofG of the lower, smaller tank is slightly forward of the upper,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:28:46 -0400, Norman wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Boris Koenig writes: But, there seems to be a project related to openRT that is dedicated to developing the necessary hardware: http://www.saarcor.de/ This is a fascinating project but ... until these

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: The gotcha is that the engine stops when either tank is empty, rather than when there is no fuel in any tank. I can't see a way around that without tinkering with the logic of fuel.nas. No, there's actually a feature for exactly this situation: That said, the logic of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross wrote: But, since you only *have* one selectable tank, that's basically the same thing; the engine is supposed to die when the bottom tank runs out. Am I misunderstanding the problem? I think he might want some sputtering for a couple of seconds. From reading accident reports,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main fg_init.cxx, 1.104, 1.105 main.cxx, 1.171, 1.172

2004-07-26 Thread Jim Wilson
Arnt Karlsen said: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:00:08 +0100, Al wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 23 July 2004 15:23, Jim Wilson wrote: Sure enough, it's right there in Stroustrup. The strange part is never having noticed this before now. What is it with these

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --fog-fastest --fog-disabled - the latter w/o

2004-07-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Hi ! Martin Spott wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: --fog-disabled: http://flitetutor.sourceforge.net/mlist/fgfs-screen-fog-disabled.png Do you use an ATI Radeon with OpenSource DRI drivers ? This is an effect I have seen many times during major changes in the Radeon driver in the XFree86 pre-4.3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 02:28:46 -0400, Norman wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am espescially interested in the profiling results from the newer higher end cards. i.e the GForce 4 class or equivalent cards ..which is the low end limit on ATI, 3dfx etc cards, that can do at

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross wrote Sent: 26 July 2004 18:05 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Vivian Meazza wrote: The gotcha is that the engine stops when either tank is empty, rather than when there is no fuel in any tank. I can't see a way around

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Be thankful for that 30-36 fps you have. I usually have about 6-9 fps. ='( Regards, Ampere On July 26, 2004 02:58 pm, Boris Koenig wrote: On the other hand, the old ATI R128 card achieves about 70-80 fps in 800x600 resolution under _windows_ running stuff like counterstrike. While running

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Be thankful for that 30-36 fps you have. I usually have about 6-9 fps. ='( Yes, as I said: I get pretty much the same with the new nvidia card, and regarding the ATI card, I did have to disable several options to come into the 20+ FPS range, but on the other hand I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-26 Thread Tiago Gusmão
On Monday 26 July 2004 19:58, Boris Koenig wrote: Regarding profiling: what would be necessary to be done ? Are there _any_ profiler tools for 3D/openGL applications ? you might want to take a look at this: http://www.hawksoft.com/gltrace/ Regards, Tiago

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: I was thrown at first by the comment, but on further analysis the logic is fine, but the code doesn't seem to work correctly. When the top tank is empty the logic requires that, if kill-when-empty is not set, for it to be simply deselected. This isn't working: the

[Flightgear-devel] 0.9.5-pre2 Comper Swift

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Has anyone tried this delightful model under 0.9.5-pre2 recently? I get YASim failing to converge. Regards, Vivian ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.9.5-pre2 Comper Swift

2004-07-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: Has anyone tried this delightful model under 0.9.5-pre2 recently? I get YASim failing to converge. Confirmed - same problem here. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
David Megginson wrote Sent: 26 July 2004 18:34 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Andy Ross wrote: But, since you only *have* one selectable tank, that's basically the same thing; the engine is supposed to die when the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy Ross wrote Sent: 26 July 2004 22:20 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire Vivian Meazza wrote: I was thrown at first by the comment, but on further analysis the logic is fine, but the code doesn't seem to work correctly. When

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Matthew Law
Vivian Meazza wrote: I think I would expect an engine running out of fuel to rapidly lose power and wind down, not stop abruptly as it would if you opened the magneto switches. I have to say that is based on motor racing rather than aviation experience. Haven't tried it while airborne, and intend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread David Megginson
Vivian Meazza wrote: I think I would expect an engine running out of fuel to rapidly lose power and wind down, not stop abruptly as it would if you opened the magneto switches. I have to say that is based on motor racing rather than aviation experience. Haven't tried it while airborne, and intend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main fg_init.cxx, 1.104, 1.105 main.cxx, 1.171, 1.172

2004-07-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:35:47 -, Jim wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen said: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:00:08 +0100, Al wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 23 July 2004 15:23, Jim Wilson wrote: Sure enough, it's right there in Stroustrup. The

[Flightgear-devel] Stabilizer Trim

2004-07-26 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All As far as I can tell there is no property to simulate a stabilizer trim system in flightgear.If this is not the case then maybe some kind soul could point me to the said property. If there is infact no such property currently, is there some kind soul who could impliment it in flightgear. As

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Bernie Bright
Vivian Meazza wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote Sent: 26 July 2004 03:13 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire To create smoke, we will need two things: smoke emitter and smoke object. [snip] Good analysis. How much of this already exists, either in the