Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I like that idea. It would be nice to fly along the coast of a tropical island, look down and be able to see the white sand under the water... or flying above a coral reef and see the corals on the sea floor. =) Seperating land and water will also allow tidal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:22, Erik Hofman wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I like that idea. It would be nice to fly along the coast of a tropical island, look down and be able to see the white sand under the water... or flying above a coral reef and see the corals on the sea floor. =)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-JSB Carrier Landing Patch is available

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 11 juin 2005 14:12 +0200, Mathias Frhlich a crit : On Donnerstag 09 Juni 2005 15:29, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I have ( for my personal use ), rebuild a Patch which can be applied to the last release (today 12 GMT) of /FlightGear/source/src/FDM/JSBSim. If Jon, Mathias, JSB

[Flightgear-devel] C library timing

2005-06-12 Thread Jon Berndt
Is anyone aware of which C library calls for determining time (down to the millisecond) - either elapsed or calendar - are best used under all the platforms that FlightGear runs on? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Re: animation bug

2005-06-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Josh Babcock -- Thursday 09 June 2005 05:39: It looks like rotate animations require an x-m coord for center tags even though you can get away without y-m or z-m. What's worse, it not only fails silently, it grabs the y-m value for x-m and then uses the z-m value for

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-12 Thread Innis Cunningham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi All! I would like to contribute to flightgear project... I'm interested in converting italian scenery from MSFS (I already know that it is not possible to distribute stuff that it isn't GPL compatible) and creating an MD-82 model for flightgear... 1) Does

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL for CygWin

2005-06-12 Thread Jon Berndt
Jon Berndt wrote: I'm finally getting around to reinstalling FlightGear after a hard drive crash a couple months ago. I have this as a place to get OpenAL for Cygwin: Try this version: ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz Vivian I got that file. I untarred it

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel] Land data differences?

2005-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Pigeon wrote: http://pigeond.net/~pigeon/flightgear/fg_fg.org.png http://pigeond.net/~pigeon/flightgear/fg_gtopo30.png http://pigeond.net/~pigeon/flightgear/fg_srtm3.png Well, this looks like Curt picked more detailed coastline data for his scenery build. People have been reporting strange

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel] Land data differences?

2005-06-12 Thread Pigeon
Well, this looks like Curt picked more detailed coastline data for his scenery build. People have been reporting strange coas lines on this list, leading to airports sitting in the sea - so there obviously _are_ differences depending on what you choose. On the bright side, it seems that

[Flightgear-devel] A380 3D model FDM reference point

2005-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, just an informal note To my impression the A380 needs an offset vector for the FDM reference point in order to make it rotate around its CG. Could the author confirm ? Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel] Land data differences?

2005-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Pigeon wrote: On the bright side, it seems that Curt's scenery build is more accurate to the real world. I've checked some positions for buildings on multimap.com and it does turn out correct on the flightgear.org scenery build, while with my build, the building apparently sits in the sea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration ......patch and other

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
May be one will be interested on two others little patch which are available: http://ghours.club.fr/fgfs_little-patch.tar.gz 1/patch_fgfs-nvidia-driv.diffwhich apply to fgfs source Dedicated to FGFS and NVIDIA graphic card users. FGFS is not compatible with the last NVIDIA driver 7664

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL for CygWin

2005-06-12 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Berndt Jon Berndt wrote: I'm finally getting around to reinstalling FlightGear after a hard drive crash a couple months ago. I have this as a place to get OpenAL for Cygwin: Try this version: ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz Vivian I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C library timing

2005-06-12 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Berndt wrote: Is anyone aware of which C library calls for determining time (down to the millisecond) - either elapsed or calendar - are best used under all the platforms that FlightGear runs on? There is a plib api for accurate timing. You may not want a plib dependency in jsbsim,

[Flightgear-devel] Script to help animate engine flaps

2005-06-12 Thread Josh Babcock
Here's script to make it easier to animate all those cowl flaps on radial engines. It probably works well for waste flaps on jet engine intakes as well. Plus, I bet it works a treat on variable cross section jet nozzles too. At some point it should be up on

[Flightgear-devel] YASim engine temp

2005-06-12 Thread Josh Babcock
Is there any king of piston engine temp modeling going on in YASim yet? I see egt-degf but it looks like it's just the air temp. Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration ......patch and other

2005-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Gerard Robin wrote: 1/patch_fgfs-nvidia-driv.diffwhich apply to fgfs source [...] A part of code which animate runway landing light == vasi_lights makes that problem (the code is in simgear/scene/tgdb/pt_lights.cxx ) That patch deactivate runway landing. Gerard, you don't _really_

RE: [Flightgear-devel] C library timing

2005-06-12 Thread Jon Berndt
There is a plib api for accurate timing. You may not want a plib dependency in jsbsim, but you could take a look at which functions they use on which platforms. Curt. Thanks. I'll take a look. I've got something that seems to work well enough at the moment, but at some point I'd like to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration ......patch and other

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
dimanche 12 juin 2005 15:32 +, Martin Spott a crit : Gerard Robin wrote: 1/patch_fgfs-nvidia-driv.diffwhich apply to fgfs source [...] A part of code which animate runway landing light == vasi_lights makes that problem (the code is in simgear/scene/tgdb/pt_lights.cxx )

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim engine temp

2005-06-12 Thread Andy Ross
Josh Babcock wrote: Is there any king of piston engine temp modeling going on in YASim yet? I see egt-degf but it looks like it's just the air temp. No. There are actually many spots on engines where people like to stick thermocouples. Oil temperature and cylinder head temperature are the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:43:44 +0200, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:22, Erik Hofman wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I like that idea. It would be nice to fly along the coast of a tropical island, look down and be able to see the white sand under

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 12 juin 2005 22:07 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a crit : On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:43:44 +0200, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:22, Erik Hofman wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I like that idea. It would be nice to fly along the coast of a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 13 juin 2005 01:13 +0200, Gerard Robin a crit : Le dimanche 12 juin 2005 22:07 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a crit : On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:43:44 +0200, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:22, Erik Hofman wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-12 Thread Manuel Bessler
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:09:29PM +, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: 1) Does someone is already working on that? I believe someone had been working on the Boeing 717/MD-82, but the author of Well, I had been working on a B717... the flightmodel seemed ok, but hasn't been updated to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-12 Thread Josh Babcock
Manuel Bessler wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:09:29PM +, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: 1) Does someone is already working on that? I believe someone had been working on the Boeing 717/MD-82, but the author of Well, I had been working on a B717... the flightmodel seemed ok, but

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-12 Thread Jon Berndt
Well, I had been working on a B717... the flightmodel seemed ok, but hasn't been updated to the newer JSBSim config file formats, so it will need some work in that area. I'll be posting a converter that takes old format files into the new format - not the engines or thrusters, but those are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 11 juin 2005 09:24 -0700, Andy Ross a crit : Gerard Robin wrote: with Yasim we must find a medium way to get the same effect. About retractable gears no problems, about contact points on the fuse big problems . I'm not understanding this at all; JSBSim and YASim have all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 13, 2005 12:42 am, Manuel Bessler wrote: The stuff is still here: 1. http://cockpit.varxec.de/fgfs/fgfs_717-200.tar.bz2 2. http://cockpit.varxec.de/fgfs/fgfs_717-200_71.blend.gz They are not there. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

[Flightgear-devel] Re: My thoughts regarding aircraft system or hardware simulations

2005-06-12 Thread Mostyn Gale
*** Ampere wrote: Take the electrical system, hydraulic system, and bleed air system as the examples. All these system are basically different forms of moving something from point A, through medium B, to point C. That battery on the electrical system is similar in function to the