[Flightgear-devel] Douglas DC-3 Dakota

2002-03-12 Thread Danie Heath
Hi all E-mailed you guys a few weeks ago about my willingness to help. I work part-time at the South African Air Force Museum, and, seeing as we operate two DC-3's, I can get you any information you need. Tell me what you need, and I can get it. The only problem is : I only work there over

[Flightgear-devel] RedHat 7.2 Enigma and Flightgear

2002-03-12 Thread Danie Heath
Hi all So my pc is back online after it passed away recently :-) but now I have a different problem (don't worry, it's not the Metakit compiling problem again.) Here's a short summary of my system : AMD 1000 MHz 256MB RAM Leadtek NVIDIA Geforce 2 MX64 OS : Redhat 7.2 Enigma Ok, so I tested my

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread Norman Vine
Andy Ross writes: > >For a quickie example, look at the places in the code that read the >view_offset and view_tilt stuff. These are the values that represent >the direction of the pilot's head, and as such should be used only by >the core view code to decide on a view direction for the 3D >proje

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Coordinates fact check

2002-03-12 Thread Norman Vine
Andy Ross writes: > >While I'm thinking about it, can someone with knowlege please let me >know that I've got the right facts for the following coordinate systems: > What I'm fuzzier on is where >the origin is when the scenery tiles are drawn (it has to be local, as >floats don't have sufficient

[Flightgear-devel] Coordinates fact check

2002-03-12 Thread Andy Ross
While I'm thinking about it, can someone with knowlege please let me know that I've got the right facts for the following coordinate systems: Model coordinates (that is, the reference frame of the local aircraft, into which the model and panel geometry will be drawn): Origin = nose of the airc

[Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread Norman Vine
Jim Wilson writes: > I could really use some help visualizing > the matrices. Which elements are which axis (in Plib)? x is 1st y is 2nd z is 3rd < up > where x cross y equals z same as OpenGL xcept there Y is up > And what does the fourth row/col represent? fourth column is scaling almo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread Andy Ross
Norman Vine wrote: > David Megginson wrote: > > Thanks -- the internal cockpit view seems much better. Now the ball's > > in Andy's court to patch up the virtual panel code (and de-quat the > > mouse code), and we're flying! > > exactly the kind of response that led me to coin the phrase >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread Jon Berndt
> It's still a little weird with a steep roll angle. Found an article on > quarternions. It seems that they can be used to solve the problem of the > rotation being off center. Not sure yet how to apply it to this problem. > Maybe if we can feed it an axis that appears a little behind the > ori

[Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: >(and de-quat the mouse code) exactly the kind of response that led me to coin the phrase "MAYDAY MAYDAY FlightGear has been hijacked" ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

re: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jim Wilson writes: > > > This seems to pretty much correct the problem. Part of the problem > > is that rotations are occuring at the firewall (model origin) which > > seems a little un-natural inside the cockpit. The rest of the > > problem is I

re: [Flightgear-devel] Hack for Virtual cockpit problem

2002-03-12 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: > This seems to pretty much correct the problem. Part of the problem > is that rotations are occuring at the firewall (model origin) which > seems a little un-natural inside the cockpit. The rest of the > problem is I am just learning how this stuff works (I know I've >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

2002-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > Jon S Berndt writes: > > > I like this new capability. I ought to be able to plot the > > logged data out of the box with my simplot program. As for > > some other formats, I wonder if someone might provide a > > couple of perl scripts to do conversions rather than

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:42: > Apologies -- I'll shrink that. I *think* it's in range for a signed > 64-bit integer, but I'm too lazy to check. Why not -1? Isn't that a sufficiently invalid number of seconds since program start? m. _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How can JSBSim start in the air with a stable manner?

2002-03-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
>aerodynamics/Flight control(and so on) are not so easy to >me. One of the so many problems is that >How can I initialize the airplane in the air in a stable >manner when JSBSim running in standalone mode? >It seems that FGTrim can accomplish that. But I do NOT >know how to use it! Greetings!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

2002-03-12 Thread David Megginson
Jon S Berndt writes: > I like this new capability. I ought to be able to plot the > logged data out of the box with my simplot program. As for > some other formats, I wonder if someone might provide a > couple of perl scripts to do conversions rather than place > that burden on FlightGea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

2002-03-12 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FlightGear now has the ability to produce multiple logs, each > recording the value of user-selected properties at a user-defined > interval. Details are available in docs-mini/README.logging; Here's > a simple example that logs the rudder and aileron

re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread David Megginson
D Luff writes: > Cygwin compile of latest CVS fails in logger.cxx, complaining that > an integer constant is out of range in line 101: > > last_time_ms(-99L) Apologies -- I'll shrink that. I *think* it's in range for a signed 64-bit integer, but I'm too lazy to check. Al

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:34: > * D Luff -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 18:08: > > last_time_ms(-99L) > > Yeah, that's a little bit too much for a "long". At least for a 32 bit long. :-) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing l

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* D Luff -- Tuesday 12 March 2002 18:08: > Cygwin compile of latest CVS fails in logger.cxx, complaining that > an integer constant is out of range in line 101: > > last_time_ms(-99L) Yeah, that's a little bit too much for a "long". Shouldn't "-1" be the obvious choice for the i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black and white flightgear

2002-03-12 Thread Christian Mayer
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > > Roman Grigoriev writes: > > Guys > > could you please advice me how to make flightgear in black and white pallete > > maybe framebuffer operation helps me? > > if someone covert or render black&white image in OGL please help me > > There might be a clever solution I

[Flightgear-devel] Compile failure of latest CVS

2002-03-12 Thread D Luff
Cygwin compile of latest CVS fails in logger.cxx, complaining that an integer constant is out of range in line 101: last_time_ms(-99L) Cheers - Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail

[Flightgear-devel] How can JSBSim start in the air with a stable manner?

2002-03-12 Thread Dirty Bear
I have learned JSBSim for quite a long time. The aerodynamics/Flight control(and so on) are not so easy to me. One of the so many problems is that How can I initialize the airplane in the air in a stable manner when JSBSim running in standalone mode? It seems that FGTrim can accomplish that. Bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

2002-03-12 Thread Alex Perry
For the people who don't use the CSV format, it would be handy to have a tag that switches over to TSV format. Gnuplot and Octave, for example are much happier with tab separation - I don't have to mention the commas. > FlightGear now has the ability to produce multiple logs, each > recording th

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: Property Logging

2002-03-12 Thread David Megginson
FlightGear now has the ability to produce multiple logs, each recording the value of user-selected properties at a user-defined interval. Details are available in docs-mini/README.logging; Here's a simple example that logs the rudder and aileron positions to steering.csv every second or so:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black and white flightgear

2002-03-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:48:53 +0300 "Roman Grigoriev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >this is not suitable for me >in addition I need to aply noise on this black and white >image Intriguing. Can you tell us what this is about? I have a hunch. Jon ___

[Flightgear-devel] black and white flightgear

2002-03-12 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Guys could you please advice me how to make flightgear in black and white pallete maybe framebuffer operation helps me? if someone covert or render black&white image in OGL please help me Thanx Bye ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape

2002-03-12 Thread Martin Dressler
On Tue 12. March 2002 14:27, you wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Martin Dressler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 12 March 2002 12:48 pm > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape > > > > On Mon 11. March 2002 09:12, you wrote: > > > * [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rationalizing view

2002-03-12 Thread Martin Dressler
On Mon 11. March 2002 18:21, you wrote: > Martin Dressler writes: > > There are some diferents how the viewer is initialized and from > > where it take new position. Your viewpoint could be static or > > change position or (and) up vector in some dependency on FDM or > > maybe time. > > Right

RE: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape

2002-03-12 Thread Richard Bytheway
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Dressler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 March 2002 12:48 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape > > > On Mon 11. March 2002 09:12, you wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Dressler) [2002.03.11 01:51]: > > > I f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape

2002-03-12 Thread Martin Dressler
On Mon 11. March 2002 09:12, you wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Dressler) [2002.03.11 01:51]: > > I find that we call fgReshape function in each RenderFrame, and it is > > IMHO needless. When you remove fgReshape from fgRenderFrame all > > resizing works, you only can't change resolution via

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build Failure with Newest fg_sound.?xx

2002-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Polley wrote: > Changing the data structure to read: > > > static const struct { > char * name; > double (*fn)(double); > } __fg_snd_fn[] = { > > caused everything to work properly. I know that this is not the proper C+ > + solution, but it worked for me. This seems appropria