Re: [Flightgear-devel] Post 0.7.9 priorities

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Jonathan Polley wrote: If I can put in my $0.02, I would like to see an effort de-couple the tasks that take place as a part of the IDLE loop. The process of loading tiles tends to slow down the frame rate quite considerably (by over 50%). Since I tend to try to stress the system, I do my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6-win32-0.7.9 Ok

2002-02-02 Thread Geoff McLane
Richard Bytheway - perf. ... RAM and/or Video Card Things to check: ... all checked and thanks for the tips n info. Tried to add the 256 MB, but ran into 'real' problems, and must leave that until later ... Still must find the 'Unika' book to find out what 'video' this is. In this fr. system

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6-win32-0.7.9 Ok

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Geoff McLane wrote: (a) Tried LARSim, but with mags on both, the starter would kick to 500 rpm, but then falls to zero again. Is there something else I should be doing? i sort of like the 'kchzz' sound as the starter kicks in ... I also can't start the engine with LaRCSim. But as JSBSim is

[Flightgear-devel] ATIS

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, the ATIS should report the correct values now (changes are in CVS already). as I don't know how to use the ATIS it'd be great if someone could check it. E.g. get a new current.txt.gz http://129.13.102.67/out/flight/current.txt.gz and fly to different airports and listen to their ATIS.

[Flightgear-devel] 3D models for YASim

2002-02-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I found this site which contains Free models of several fighter aircraft , but it uses the VRML2 format. Someone might convert them to AC3D format for use with Yasim: http://ciel.me.cmu.edu/soji/aircraft/aircrafte.html Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATIS

2002-02-02 Thread D Luff
Christian Mayer wrote: It'd also be great if someone can tell me how to use ATIS myself so that I can try it as well... Look up the atis frequency of your local airport (Googling with ATIS and the relevent airport ICAO code seems to get the frequency in the first 5 hits every time).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATIS

2002-02-02 Thread Christian Mayer
D Luff wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: It'd also be great if someone can tell me how to use ATIS myself so that I can try it as well... Look up the atis frequency of your local airport (Googling with ATIS and the relevent airport ICAO code seems to get the frequency in the first

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pitch/Yaw Problem with the Visuals?

2002-02-02 Thread Curtis L. Olson
There are a lot of conventions for doing this. Flightgear expects these relative to the local 'up' vector. This is convenient for positioning the view or positioning the 3d model of the aircraft. Regards, Curt. Jonathan Polley writes: I have been playing with the external FDM interface and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pitch/Yaw Problem with the Visuals?

2002-02-02 Thread Jonathan Polley
That is kind of what I thought, given that the database entries are pitch/roll/heading rather than pitch/roll/yaw, I just wanted to be sure. It isn't too hard of a transformation to go from body referenced to earth referenced. Jonathan Polley On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 04:51 PM,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Post 0.7.9 priorities

2002-02-02 Thread Alex Perry
Not being a pilot, I am sure that may visibility range is set too high If you want realistic numbers to try (for the US pacific coast) ... * Set the time to 3pm local and visisility to 6 statute miles. * Or 9am and 20 statute miles. * If you want to pretend it's a cold clear sunny day after