[Flightgear-devel] RSYNC base package not up-to-date? (Was: 3d Panel problem)

2002-07-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Hrm? I don't think that's possible in the new architecture; the panel renders into the model's scene graph, it doesn't touch the view information anymore. Are you sure you have current code? This sounds like you might be looking at a 2D panel while

[Flightgear-devel] dc3-yasim - observations from a tail-dragger pilot

2002-07-01 Thread Dave Perry
I have been using FlightGear since 7.7 and have only recently begun to follow the CVS snapshot. I worked my way through college and a flight Instructor and have about 1500 hours in real ac. I also have flown many tail-draggers. I agree with your view of the tail-dragger ac and pilots. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3-yasim - observations from a tail-draggerpilot

2002-07-01 Thread Andy Ross
Dave Perry wrote: 1. If the tail wheel is not locked, I find it much easier to take off after removing the coupling of the rudder with the brakes for both main gear from the dc3.xml. I'd be happy to junk this; David always hated it anyway. It was basically a hack to fix a problem I didn't

[Flightgear-devel] Jitterbug pinpointed

2002-07-01 Thread Andy Ross
I spent some time over the weekend struggling with the jitterbug (sorry, couldn't resist). I haven't fixed it, but I have pinpointed the issue. In essence: yes, it's a precision problem; but no, Jim's calculations aren't the problem. The problem is actually the organization of the scene graph.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The string class fights back (was: Propertybrowser bugs)

2002-07-01 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: I'm not sure that there's a good answer here. We could consider interning constant strings like property paths into constant references that don't need allocation. But stuff like getStringValue() is always going to have to allocate a new string if we want to do this

RE: [Flightgear-devel] The string class fights back (was: Property browser bugs)

2002-07-01 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: as far as I am concerned creating an ASCII property path is a waste of time and should not be used anywhere inside the 'main loop'. Inside the main loop, it's used only for things like interactive display in the property browser or through a network interface. It's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 3d Panel problem

2002-07-01 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: Well, I know that (for instance) mustang pilots had to land side-slipping, and taxi zig-zagging to get an eye on the runway. Forward slipping, probably (since that would have the plane's axis at an angle to the runway, while a side slip would have it lined up). All

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RSYNC base package not up-to-date? (Was: 3dPanel problem)

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
On Monday 01 July 2002 11:53 am, Alex Perry wrote: I think I've found the problem. I grab the base package using rsync, and that version doesn't seem to be up-to-date. Even the new crop textures aren't included yet. It's on my machine, but John Check had a cron job that pushd-updated it.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RSYNC base package not up-to-date? (Was: 3dPanel problem)

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
On Monday 01 July 2002 6:14 pm, John Check wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 11:53 am, Alex Perry wrote: I think I've found the problem. I grab the base package using rsync, and that version doesn't seem to be up-to-date. Even the new crop textures aren't included yet. It's on my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Capturing warnings

2002-07-01 Thread Julian Foad
I now have a practical solution for saving the compiler warnings: a wrapper script replacement for the compiler. rm config.cache # Otherwise it keeps the previous values of CC and CXX. GCCFLAGS=-Wall -pedantic -Wpointer-arith CC=saveoutp gcc CXX=saveoutp c++ CFLAGS=$GCCFLAGS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Capturing warnings

2002-07-01 Thread Jonathan Polley
Along the lines of adding the -pedantic option, I would like to add an ability (probably at ./configure time) to specify additional compile options. Since one of my platforms is a Mac, I would like to be able to add -wno_long_double, as it keeps telling me that their size is non-portable.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] The string class fights back (was: Property browser bugs)

2002-07-01 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Norman Vine writes: as far as I am concerned creating an ASCII property path is a waste of time and should not be used anywhere inside the 'main loop'. Inside the main loop, it's used only for things like interactive display in the property browser or through a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jitterbug pinpointed

2002-07-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Camera (orientation only, no position change) | +-- Transform (move to terrain origin) || |+-- Terrain | +-- Transform (move to model origin, orient to model frame) | +-- Aircraft Model I got started trying to figure out how

RE: [Flightgear-devel] The string class fights back (was: Property browser bugs)

2002-07-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: but see FGViewMgr::update (double dt) Yes, all those should be moved to nodes in the view class. How did this look in the last profiling run? Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] The string class fights back (was: Property browser bugs)

2002-07-01 Thread Norman Vine
Jim Wilson writes: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: but see FGViewMgr::update (double dt) Yes, all those should be moved to nodes in the view class. How did this look in the last profiling run? Can't remember FWIW - I don't really trust the profiler with Cygwin as I have learned

[Flightgear-devel] CVS base down temporarily

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
CVS for base package is down for a little bit. I'll have it back up ASAP. John ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] CVS base back up

2002-07-01 Thread John Check
Okay, we're back in business. J ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] dc3 effectiveness=nnn for both hstab and vstab

2002-07-01 Thread Dave Perry
I added an effectiveness=nnn to both the htab and vtab. I was not able to get good control once the tail was up w/o the change to vtab also. I played arround with various values between 2 and 3. I was able to get good control (vtab effectiveness) and early tail up (htab effectiveness) with