Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Babcock
What would those config changes tor YASim be? That sounds like something that I could do. Josh Andy Ross wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: I didn't see anything in the archives about this, so I'll ask here. Is there any good way to address the wheels on the left or the wheels on the right?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Andy Ross
Josh Babcock wrote: What would those config changes tor YASim be? That sounds like something that I could do. In the YASim aircraft descriptions, you would modify the control-input tags for the gear to point to something like /control/gear/{left|right|parking} depending on the location of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 07:12:21 -0800 Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the hard part is that this only works for YASim. I think the other FDMs get their control inputs indirectly, via the FGControls C++ class, instead of out of the property tree. This code would have to be modified before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] factory.rgb

2004-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Happy New Year 2004 to all. Yes, best wishes to all of you. It seems Models/Buildings/factory.rgb should be made binary. Done. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Babcock
OK, I guess I'm just confused about the brake numbering. I was assuming that brake[0] went with the leftmost wheel, and brake[1] went with the next one to the right et cetra, and that when I hit , the entry in keyboard.xml literaly means turn on the brake on wheel[0]. Looking at a bunch of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Andy Ross
Jon S. Berndt wrote: FCS-SetLBrake(FMAX(globals-get_controls()-get_brake(0), parking_brake)); FCS-SetRBrake(FMAX(globals-get_controls()-get_brake(1), parking_brake)); FCS-SetCBrake( globals-get_controls()-get_brake(2) ); That convention only works for tricycle gear airplanes with three wheels,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 3d cockpit

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Babcock
Actually, I think that I nuked the base makefile by unzipping the patch in that directory. That brings me back to the original problem, which is that I can't log into the CVS repository. I guess I'll just keep trying. I tried applying the patches to the regular plib distribution and they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 3d cockpit

2004-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Josh Babcock writes: Actually, I think that I nuked the base makefile by unzipping the patch in that directory. That brings me back to the original problem, which is that I can't log into the CVS repository. I guess I'll just keep trying. I tried applying the patches to the regular

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:12:26 -0800 Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That convention only works for tricycle gear airplanes with three wheels, though. The problem is that the current input mappings map the following properties to those values: /controls/wheel/gear[0]/brake -- left

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
In JSBSim, for a 747, we would associate both left main gear with the left brake input, etc. Let's not forget that the higher end equipment also has stuff like anti-skid systems which determine when/where and how the brakes are applied. So that for a 747 on rollout for a CAT III landing. the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:34:15 -0800 John Wojnaroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In JSBSim, for a 747, we would associate both left main gear with the left brake input, etc. Let's not forget that the higher end equipment also has stuff like anti-skid systems which determine when/where and how the

[Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2004-01-05 Thread Hof Markus
Hi erverybody, I want to add ILS bars and DME indication to HUD. Does anyone (and somebody does :) know which function to call in hud.cxx for DME. I used simply in hud.hxx extern double get_dist(void); but dismissed my goal w/ link error. is there any docu about Objects in FGFS? thx in

[Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Folks, I've been burried here lately and haven't had a chance to try someplace else yet, but is there no glideslope on the ils there or do I have a problem? The glide slope indicator never uncages - just stays centered (c172, C310). I have heard of places only having a localized but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Victoria Welch writes: I've been burried here lately and haven't had a chance to try someplace else yet, but is there no glideslope on the ils there or do I have a problem? The glide slope indicator never uncages - just stays centered (c172, C310). The glide slope should be working.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread David Megginson
Victoria Welch wrote: I've been burried here lately and haven't had a chance to try someplace else yet, but is there no glideslope on the ils there or do I have a problem? The glide slope indicator never uncages - just stays centered (c172, C310). I have heard of places only having a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ILS/DME in HUD

2004-01-05 Thread Hof Markus
Hi folks, now I was able to compile the new built in functoins in cockpit.cxx: // Added by Markus Hof on 5. Jan 2004 float get_dme( void ) { static const SGPropertyNode * dme_node = gGetNode(/radios/dme/distance-nm); return dme_node-getFloatValue(); //return 3.69; } works fine,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trim position and speed to external hardware

2004-01-05 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Matt, seems nobody answered (at least not on the list)... On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:08:54PM +, Matthew Law wrote: How do I export the trim position and IAS to a serial port? I'd like to use these values to drive some stepper motors which crudely simulate control load and trim

[Flightgear-devel] different planetary models

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
I believe we (JSBSim team) will soon have a rudimentary model of the Martian environment integrated within JSBSim. This leads me to a question about FlightGear/SimGear: What is the potential for modeling a planetary body that is different from earth in the following ways: 1) Different radius

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 3d cockpit

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Babcock
OK, the snapshot file solves that problem, but I think that main.o is failing to link. See here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FlightGear-0.9.3]$ make SNIP Making all in Main make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear-0.9.3/src/Main' g++ -DPKGLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib/FlightGear\ -g -O2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 3d cockpit

2004-01-05 Thread Andy Ross
Josh Babcock wrote: OK, the snapshot file solves that problem, but I think that main.o is failing to link. See here: You swapped plib versions, but still have some SimGear and/or FlightGear files compiled against the old one. In general, C++ libraries aren't binary compatible across

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Victoria Welch
On Monday 05 January 2004 13:44, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Victoria Welch writes: I've been burried here lately and haven't had a chance to try someplace else yet, but is there no glideslope on the ils there or do I have a problem? The glide slope indicator never uncages - just stays

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Victoria Welch
On Monday 05 January 2004 13:44, David Megginson wrote: Victoria Welch wrote: I've been burried here lately and haven't had a chance to try someplace else yet, but is there no glideslope on the ils there or do I have a problem? The glide slope indicator never uncages - just stays

Re: [Flightgear-devel] different planetary models

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Babcock
As to the topography, All of mars has been topographically mapped by Global Surveyor at a resolution up to 230m. Vertical acuracy is about 1m. I don't know exactly how much has been mapped at the highest resolution, but the data is freely available at

[Flightgear-devel] A320 unrealistic behavior

2004-01-05 Thread Hof Markus
Airbus family uses Flight Computers (3x FCPC [Primary] an 2xFCSC [Secondary]) to control the contr. surfaces in the right way. If no input on the sidestick is taken the aircraft will hold attitude. This is not done by FGFS - A320. Sidestick inputs behave (in normal mode like this): X-Axis:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 05 January 2004 18:12, Andy Ross wrote: Jon S. Berndt wrote: FCS-SetLBrake(FMAX(globals-get_controls()-get_brake(0), parking_brake)); FCS-SetRBrake(FMAX(globals-get_controls()-get_brake(1), parking_brake)); FCS-SetCBrake( globals-get_controls()-get_brake(2) ); That convention

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Nick Coleman
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:14:57 -0800 From: Victoria Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ? Isn't that why you always bring along a duck and a cat? The cat always lands on his feet

[Flightgear-devel] Contribution to flightgear

2004-01-05 Thread Prabhakaran Arunachalam
Hi matt, Please read and digest the docs on the flightgear website and the documentation on scenery editing at the simgear website (see the link to simgear from the flightgear site) before getting started. If you still have questions there are plenty here who will help once you've read the