[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Live-CD

2004-01-21 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi Curtis, I post my answers to the list as your questions where so good that they deserve to be answered in public :-) Cool, it seems to actually work on my machine! Great! 1. How big is the source for the CD? This might be interesting to have access to for people who would want to build

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-21 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Curt Curtis L. Olson writes FWIW (and hopefully this doesn't mean major breakage) I've been considering some changes to the autopilot infrastructure to make it more flexible. For instance, we (or at least I) could really use a mode to hold speed with pitch, or hold pitch with elevator.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Changing a model format

2004-01-21 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Tim Tim Jelliffe writes Hi guys, I have a general question regarding the creation of a model. I have been working on creating a model of a Learjet 55, using CATIA V5. This is mainly because I used this during my degree and am basically familiar with it. I am also determined to have a model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changing a model format

2004-01-21 Thread Wolfram Kuss
using CATIA V5. This is a CAD program and not a modeller, so while you can use it, it is not what CATIA was created for. I guess that CATIA does things without polygons internally and uses splines, solid objects, booleans etc instead. Probably it just creates polygons from it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Live-CD

2004-01-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Ronny Standtke wrote: Hi Curtis, I post my answers to the list as your questions where so good that they deserve to be answered in public :-) 2. It would be interesting to have flightgear startup automatically rather than just giving an icon to click on. Yes, this would be useful. I read about

[Flightgear-devel] Re:Changing a model format

2004-01-21 Thread Luca Masera
Tim Jelliffe wrote: Hi guys, I have a general question regarding the creation of a model. I have been working on creating a model of a Learjet 55, using CATIA V5. This is mainly because I used this during my degree and am basically familiar with it. I am also determined to have a model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Live-CD

2004-01-21 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would think it would be best to use FlightGear as the window manager. You could acomplish this: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2002-March/006012.html The idea is correct, the terminology not ;-) The window manager simply is an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Live-CD

2004-01-21 Thread Pieter Pareit
Op woensdag 21 januari 2004 10:10, schreef Erik Hofman: Ronny Standtke wrote: Hi Curtis, I post my answers to the list as your questions where so good that they deserve to be answered in public :-) 2. It would be interesting to have flightgear startup automatically rather than just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:09:02 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds reasonable. Is the current height above terrain in the property tree someplace? FWIW (and hopefully this doesn't mean major breakage) I've been considering some changes to the autopilot infrastructure to make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Testing help wanted (please!)

2004-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 1/20/04 at 9:59 PM Melchior FRANZ wrote: * David Luff -- Tuesday 20 January 2004 19:54: As regards the crashes, at one point I was getting an inexpicible crash right at startup, which gdb indicated was from sgLoad3dModel called from AIMgr::init. I can't understand why it would crash

Re: [Flightgear-devel] We could need a cvs directory for the world scenery files

2004-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 1/20/04 at 4:52 PM kreuzritter2000 wrote: Hello, Yesterday we discussed on the flightgear irc channel about the need of a cvs directory for the world scenery. A cvs directory for this would help adding new 3d buildings (*.ac files etc.) to the world scenery. At the moment we can do this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Testing help wanted (please!)

2004-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 1/20/04 at 9:04 PM Erik Hofman wrote: I've set up the AIModel code the publish it's internals just like a real FDM (but only the ones that are available) and told the aircraft loader routine to use /sim/ai/model[] as it property root. I think something similar would be a good thing for

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Gear - Brasil

2004-01-21 Thread Carlos Renato
Hi Curtis, I am installing Flight Gear and Iwould like to know if there is someone from Brasil that is currently working on the Flight Gear Project. Best Regards, Carlos Renato ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Testing help wanted (please!)

2004-01-21 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: On 1/20/04 at 9:04 PM Erik Hofman wrote: I've set up the AIModel code the publish it's internals just like a real FDM (but only the ones that are available) and told the aircraft loader routine to use /sim/ai/model[] as it property root. I think something similar would be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Live-CD

2004-01-21 Thread Ronny Standtke
I would think it would be best to use FlightGear as the window manager. You could acomplish this: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2002-March/006012.ht ml I think it is at least problematic to run FlightGear without a window manager. The help system is not integrated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: Let me share my thoughts about the autopilot: * I would like to see the autopilot move from c++ code into the instrument configuration xml-files. This is my general plan. Right now I have the autopilot config in a separate .xml file * The autopilot should get input

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-21 Thread Jon Berndt
* The autopilot should get input from other instruments (airspeed indicator, altimeter, attitude indicator, etc.), and not from /position/altitude-ft, /velocities/..., etc. That way the wing-leveler would be unuseable if the attitude indicator was broken. Failures in the underlying