[Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Durk Talsma
Hey Folks, Last weekend, I ran across a project on the internet called project AI: http://www.projectai.com/ which aims at generating realistic AI traffic paterns for Microsoft FlightSim 200[24]. Basically, the project aims at 1) creating real-world airline schedule databases; b) Creating

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Durk Talsma wrote: Hey Folks, So, I was wondering if a project like this would be interesting for FlightGear. I was already pleasantly surprised when I discovered AI airplanes, at a local Dutch airport (EHGG) when demonstrating FlightGear to a friend last week, so I assume that FlightGear can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: The main annoyance I've seen so far is that there is a slight break in the action (couple hundred milleseconds?) because the data fetching happens in the main loop and the noaa site isn't spectacularly fast. Wouldn't it make sense to put it into a separate thread -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 20:44, Erik Hofman wrote: It is supported for airports that have ATC (sorry no AI traffic at EHLE). But indeed Eelde has ATC support and therefore can handle ATC traffic at the moment. Cool! Wasn't Lelystad supposed to get ATC real soon about two years ago? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Wouldn't it make sense to put it into a separate thread - similar to the preloading of scenery chunks ? Yup, that and making smooth transitions when the weather does change would be the next two logical steps in the process. Regards, Curt -- Curtis Olson Intelligent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Yup, that and making smooth transitions when the weather does change would be the next two logical steps in the process. and probably support for a HTTP-proxy ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Wouldn't it make sense to put it into a separate thread - similar to the preloading of scenery chunks ? Yup, that and making smooth transitions when the weather does change would be the next two logical steps in the process. A shorter HTTP time-out

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Tuesday 24 February 2004 22:41: and probably support for a HTTP-proxy ? Would be nice. But this would IMHO belong into plib's netSocket. We aren't doing the http connection ourselves, it's plib (via SimGear). m. ___

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Tuesday 24 February 2004 22:55: A shorter HTTP time-out would be nice also. With a once a minute update schedule we can easily lose one or two updates, but waiting up to 10 seconds before noticing the aircraft already hit the ground is sort of annoying. Yes, but that's

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 24 February 2004 23:03: * Martin Spott -- Tuesday 24 February 2004 22:41: and probably support for a HTTP-proxy ? Would be nice. But this would IMHO belong into plib's netSocket. We aren't doing the http connection ourselves, it's plib (via SimGear). Ah,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread David Megginson
Durk Talsma wrote: Last weekend, I ran across a project on the internet called project AI: http://www.projectai.com/ which aims at generating realistic AI traffic paterns for Microsoft FlightSim 200[24]. Basically, the project aims at 1) creating real-world airline schedule databases; b)

[Flightgear-devel] fgDumpSnapShot(); producing blank screen and other corruptions

2004-02-24 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
Hi, I am trying to save images from flightgear to a file or database without explicitly using the gui. For a test of current capability I am calling fgDumpSnapShot every second but I am finding it produces saved images that are completely white or contain corruption, yet other images are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgDumpSnapShot();

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Spott
Seamus Thomas Carroll wrote: I am trying to save images from flightgear to a file or database without explicitly using the gui. For a test of current capability I am calling fgDumpSnapShot every second but I am finding it produces saved images that are completely white or contain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 24 February 2004 23:03: * Martin Spott -- Tuesday 24 February 2004 22:41: and probably support for a HTTP-proxy ? Would be nice. But this would IMHO belong into plib's netSocket. We aren't doing the http connection ourselves, it's plib

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgDumpSnapShot(); producing blank screen and other corruptions

2004-02-24 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Seamus Thomas Carroll wrote: Hi, I am trying to save images from flightgear to a file or database without explicitly using the gui. For a test of current capability I am calling fgDumpSnapShot every second but I am finding it produces saved images that are completely white or contain