Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > With the YF-23 it's > very obvious. Hi Lee, In a separate message I've sent a patch to backout the target climb rate fix. I was able to stabalize the A/P by making adjustments with the fix, but the target climb rate couldn't be over 5000fpm (the YF23 is s

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] backout autopilot fix

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
This backs out only the target climb rate calculation fix for the time being. http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/newauto-patch.diff Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello Jim, > > Sorry, I missed this post at first. The porpoising is certainly related to > the elev_adj_factor - the lower it is the worse the problem. It's hardly > apparent with the c-172 or 747 but more so with the a4. Try increasing then. Gene

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37737-01.rgb,NONE,1.1737-static.ac,1.1,1.2 942050.stg,1.5,1.6

2003-07-18 Thread David Megginson
Frederic Bouvier writes: > The texture should be marked -kb in CVS. It is corrupted under windows > and makes FG segfault on loading it. As in cvs admin -kb 737-01.rgb ? If so, then it should be OK now. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, you wrote: * Michael Selig -- Friday 18 July 2003 20:15: > The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. No. It only removed heading damping from the "Helicopter View". Everything else is unchanged. > FYI -- View #3 does not 'play' well w/ my computer (Linux w/ a GeForce4

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > Martin Spott wrote: > > > > It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin. > > > > -Fred > > _All_ surfaces are very thin:) > > (geometry joke) > > LeeE Infinitely so. Best, Jim _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 cockpit data

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Manuel Bessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Maybe this is an excerpt of the well known NWA 744 Manual that is sold > on the web, eg. at http://www.esscoaircraft.com/ > (the 744 AOM is here: http://www.esscoaircraft.com/noname162.html ) Could be. I think that's the one that was $70. > > Do you k

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:20:38 -0400, John Check <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 18 July 2003 6:55 pm, Lee Elliott wrote: > > > > > > > what makes this possible, > > > > > > It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin. > > > > > > -Fred > > > > _All_ su

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-18 Thread Norman Vine
Richard A Downing writes: > > I'm working my way through some of the UK aerodromes, and have hit some problems agreeing ANY of the decimal coordinates > in the FG files with the DMS coordinates given in the UK AIP. probably worth while reading this just to make sure you have the 'maths' right h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37737-01.rgb,NONE,1.1737-static.ac,1.1,1.2 942050.stg,1.5,1.6

2003-07-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier writes: > The texture should be marked -kb in CVS. It is corrupted under windows > and makes FG segfault on loading it. > > Where is that cvswrapper that enforce the use of -kb for any rgb file ? It's on my todo list ... 2 out of town funerals and a trip to Norway for business ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 19 July 2003 00:41, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > > Martin Spott wrote: > > > > Kris Feldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to > > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Lee Elliott wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > Martin Spott wrote: > > > Kris Feldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to > > > > duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37737-01.rgb,NONE,1.1737-static.ac,1.1,1.2 942050.stg,1.5,1.6

2003-07-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
David Megginson commit in CVS: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37 > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv25197/Scenery/w130n30/w123n37 > > Modified Files: > 737-static.ac 942050.stg > Added Files: > 737-01.rgb > Log Message: > Add a Southwest 737 holding short of 28L on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 14:10, Jim Wilson wrote: > David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? > > > > http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php > > > > Well, I'd have to be interested in console gaming. But heck all you'd need > now is a PS/2 emulator and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 13:30, Jim Wilson wrote: > Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > The autopilot altitude hold seems a bit messed up though since yesterday - > > quite bad porpoising - I checked that with the 747, a4, c-172 and a couple of > > mine. Terrain following still seems o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread John Check
On Friday 18 July 2003 6:55 pm, Lee Elliott wrote: > > > > > what makes this possible, > > > > It's because the horizontal surfaces are very thin. > > > > -Fred > > _All_ surfaces are very thin:) > > (geometry joke) > That's what I like to hear, plane talk hwaah hwaah hwaaah hwah Do I ge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 22:42, Michael Selig wrote: > At 7/18/03, Jim Wilson wrote: > >Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the > >xml for the bindings: > > > >'v' - scrolls through a limited number of views. I'll just make it the first > >3 defined views. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lot's of Fun!

2003-07-18 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 July 2003 07:09, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: > > Kris Feldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > After the posting here of the Eifel tower fly-through, I tried to > > > duplicate the maneuver in MSFS. Their tower has solid sides with > > > transparency in the bitma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 cockpit data

2003-07-18 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Jim, On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:27:25PM -, Jim Wilson wrote: > This was an outstanding find. I did have a main panel map that John sent me a > while back, but this has the whole flight deck in one pdf. Now if I could > only have (for free :-)) the pages that reference each of the balloon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 21:08: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > None of the views was removed. > > Well, sort of. The number of views was increased to 6, but the maximum > value after toggling the 'v' key was still set to 5 ... Aaahh, OK. That explains a lo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, Jim Wilson wrote: Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: 'v' - scrolls through a limited number of views. I'll just make it the first 3 defined views. If the current view is greater than 3, then it'll start at 0 (the cockpit)

[Flightgear-devel] a glitch...

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
Has this occurred to anyone ? http://jvh.net/fgfs/sceneryglitch-001.jpg I was flying peacefully over the standard scenery when I saw a strange "island"... How can this be explained ? Is my scenery wrong ? -- Jorge Van Hemelryck ___ Flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Fokker 100 progress

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi. Just to let you know, this is the Fokker 100 with separate flaps (inbound and outbound), ailerons and speedbrake objects: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/fokker/ Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: Looks good to me. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Ok, I have a proposal. If this is ok with everyone I'll go ahead and do the xml for the bindings: 'v' - scrolls through a limited number of views. I'll just make it the first 3 defined views. If the current view is greater than 3, then it'll start at 0 (the cockpit). 'CTRL+v' - scrolls through

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 21:08: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > None of the views was removed. > > Well, sort of. The number of views was increased to 6, but the maximum > value after toggling the 'v' key was still set to 5 ... Aaahh, OK. That explains a lot. Didn't think of this, but "C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Michael Selig -- Friday 18 July 2003 20:15: The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. No. It only removed heading damping from the "Helicopter View". Everything else is unchanged. I think if we start creating more views, we should *add* them and not *exch

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Michael Selig -- Friday 18 July 2003 20:15: > The update that Erik made has returned the two old views. No. It only removed heading damping from the "Helicopter View". Everything else is unchanged. > FYI -- View #3 does not 'play' well w/ my computer (Linux w/ a GeForce4 Ti > 4400 card). Th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 cockpit data

2003-07-18 Thread Christopher S Horler
xpdf indeed does open it but kghostview does not... On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:26, Jim Wilson wrote: > Christopher S Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Tried to look but the pdf file won't open once I downloaded it. > > That's strange. Works for me with xpdf 1.00 and linux acroread 5.0.5. F

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Michael Selig
At 7/18/03, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 09:48: > Michael Selig wrote: > > In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase > > views we had are now ***very*** different. There's a lag effect that is > > giving me serious vertigo and there's roll n

RE: [Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:datapreferences.xml,1.117,1.118

2003-07-18 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: > > > That depends on where and when. I think that most pilots in the > eastern U.S. (you're there, aren't you, Norm?) would have been happy > even for 3 SM for much of this spring and summer, and L.A., of course, > has its smog. Somewhere like Arizona, on the other hand,

[Flightgear-devel] 4-Axis, 4-Button Joystick

2003-07-18 Thread Roland Häder
Hello. Here are my patches files. Please check them out and include them in your project. These files has been testet with a "Phoenix Joystick (4-axis, 4-buttons). Chears, Roland 4-axis.zip Description: Zip archive ___ Flightgear-devel mailing li

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thrustmaster FCS joystick config file

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote: BTW, has my "tmdc.xml" file been added to CVS, in the same Thrustmaster directory ? How can I check it easily without clearing my whole data directory and checking out the whole package ? Sorry, I'm not too familiar with CVS, and if you tell me to have a look at the manu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 5 projector wrap around display.

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
Nice... FWIW, here's what more or less the product we currently use at work: http://www.sogitec.com/anglais/produita/apogee.htm As it's on the web, I guess it's not too secret. Ours runs on a bunch of cupboard-sized computers, but it can provide rather interesting images... projected on a singl

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? > > > > http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php > > > > Dave > > > Hilarious. I wonder if MS saw that coming. > Of course they did. I remember reading an article quite a while back about an MIT student cracki

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thrustmaster FCS joystick config file

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:34:18 +0200 Jorge Van Hemelryck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, has my "tmdc.xml" file been added to CVS, in the same Thrustmaster > directory ? How can I check it easily without clearing my whole data > directory and checking out the whole package ? Sorry, I'm not too > f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery lighting

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:40:40 +0100 (BST) Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I need to do to make lighting on scenery visible over more that > very short distances? > > I've been designing a few objects in blender, converted them to AC3D, > then edited the material properties to hav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? > > http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php > Well, I'd have to be interested in console gaming. But heck all you'd need now is a PS/2 emulator and x-box would really be in trouble. IIRC these units with modified

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread Jon Berndt
> Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? > > http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php > > Dave Hilarious. I wonder if MS saw that coming. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-dev

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thrustmaster FCS joystick config file

2003-07-18 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:46:08 +0200 (CEST) Bert Driehuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've always found hat switches to be darn near impossible to use for > controlling critical things. I reluctantly use them for the view, > because it won't impact the aircraft flight path. > FYI, it seems that

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear on XBox?

2003-07-18 Thread David Culp
Anyone running FG on XBox/linux yet? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php Dave -- David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear

[Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot problem (was Instant replay system)

2003-07-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The autopilot altitude hold seems a bit messed up though since yesterday - > quite bad porpoising - I checked that with the 747, a4, c-172 and a couple of > mine. Terrain following still seems ok though. I doubt this is due to the > replay stuff. >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: datapreferences.xml,1.117,1.118

2003-07-18 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: > > Six statue miles is the generally-accepted cutoff for good VFR. > > Terminal area forecasts (TAF's) don't bother with anything over that, > > and just report P6SM (plus six statue miles). > > Nice to know but does that have any bearing on anything other then > what i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instant replay system

2003-07-18 Thread Matt Fienberg
Wow. This is *great*! And after nobody responded to my request that it wasn't even on bottom of the priority list Thanks! -Matt "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > I have implimented a first stab at an instant replay system and have > just commited it to CVS. The system continuously records your

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 18 July 2003 09:48: > Michael Selig wrote: > > In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase > > views we had are now ***very*** different. There's a lag effect that is > > giving me serious vertigo and there's roll now as well which is > > compoun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: [PATCH] navcom localizer property

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Small patch to expose the localizer property (e.g., true for ILS localizer). It's in CVS. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Replay code doesn't compile with MSVC

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Curt, MSVC ( ISO ? ) doesn't allow non integral initialisation within a class. Here below is the patch needed to compile the replay sources. This is in CVS now. Thaks for the patch. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Views --- continued

2003-07-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Selig wrote: I just did a cvs update in the process of updating some uiuc files, e.g. the recorder files which had some issues and I want to put the new ones on the fgfs cvs. In the process of doing the updates, I have found that the two chase views we had are now ***very*** different.