Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: > Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which > I think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a > back-of-the-envelope calculation, and there are echoes of flight envelope, > too. The first thing I cou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross wrote: > It was a perfectly readable text document, [...] No, the message looks like this: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C42FC5.F549B62D > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="utf-8" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/GUI dialog.cxx, 1.12, 1.13 dialog.hxx, 1.4, 1.5 prop_picker.cxx, 1.4, 1.5 prop_picker.hxx, 1.3, 1.4

2004-05-02 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Also, the property picker is now non-modal, I presume the modality > > wasn't an intentional feature. > > It either wasn't an option then or something in pui was > broken...can't remember which. If it works...great! That's > probably been the #1 debugging

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Al West
On Sunday 02 May 2004 16:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: > Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which How about "Foxtrot Golf" ? > Secondly, we're missing suggestions for content. Suggest away, but what > I'd really like is for you to suggest and volunteer to write,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/GUI dialog.cxx, 1.12, 1.13 dialog.hxx, 1.4, 1.5 prop_picker.cxx, 1.4, 1.5 prop_picker.hxx, 1.3, 1.4

2004-05-02 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross said: > Also, the > property picker is now non-modal, I presume the modality wasn't an > intentional feature. > It either wasn't an option then or something in pui was broken...can't remember which. If it works...great! That's probably been the #1 debugging annoyance, for me anyway.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Norman Vine
Jonathan Richards writes: > > If anyone sent me an entry off-list, it would be a good idea to resend. Probably to English specific but the first thing I thought of "Eagle Tails" Note Tail and Tale are pronounced the same in English Tale: A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Propeller vs. YASim

2004-05-02 Thread Wolfram Kuss
>Spitfire Mk IIA Ah - surprising! Here is an email Rick "Fuelcock" sent me a short while ago. I hope it helps. Sorry for the poor formating. --- snip - Rather than send you the GBE code , I will direct you to the site where I got it: http://www.aeromech.usyd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread John Check
On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:25 pm, Erik Hofman wrote: > Jonathan Richards wrote: > > Firstly, a title. > > How about: "Don't panic" in nice and friendly letters? > "Resistance Is Useless" You could have a bad poem of the month. :-D > Erik > > ___ > Flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 02 May 2004 19:25:24 +0200, Erik wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jonathan Richards wrote: > > > Firstly, a title. > > How about: "Don't panic" in nice and friendly letters? ..nah, needs a devilish smiley like in that gourmet abo line in the Crocodile Dundee movie: 'Nah, need

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Sun May 2 11:08:06 CDT 2004, Jon Berndt wrote: > FlightBeer. A just reward. :-) Hmm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3286049.stm refers, I think :¬) Nonetheless, your entry is in the hat; multiple tries are allowed! I thought things were a bit quiet through the day, while I have been fidd

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear aircraft download page

2004-05-02 Thread Lee Elliott
I've set up a simple download page for downloads of the aircraft I've done for FlightGear at: http://www.overthetop.freeserve.co.uk/FlightGearAC.html Apart from the YF-23, all of the aircraft there have new names and so should co-exist with the versions currently in the CVS base package. Each

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Giles Robertson
My apologies to those who couldn't read the original message. To clarify what happened at this end: My mail service is run off a MS Exchange server. I'm not the admin (read: yes, I hate it too. Don't complain to me about it). When I'm onsite I use Outlook, which interfaces fine, and appears to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Andy Ross
Martin Spott wrote: > mail2news, inn, tin ;-)) > Aside from that, I find it very unfamiliar to post _any_ sort of > human-_un_readable messages to a mailing list. Isn't it ? It was a perfectly readable text document, it was just flagged with an encoding of UTF-8, which while more general than nec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> "Giles Robertson" wrote: >> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >> > >> > --_=_NextPart_001_01C42FC5.F549B62D >> > Content-Type: text/plain; >> >charset="utf-8" >> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >> >> >> Do you have a readable transl

RE: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread Norman Vine
Andy Ross writes: > > Erik Hofman wrote: > > There might be one step in between here, which I have been thinking of > > a bit. It would be easy to implement a bounding cylinder (2d collision > > detection) and only if there is a hit go to the bounding sphere. For > > me it looks like that approac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: > There might be one step in between here, which I have been thinking of > a bit. It would be easy to implement a bounding cylinder (2d collision > detection) and only if there is a hit go to the bounding sphere. For > me it looks like that approach would be much less costly as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION: possible or not?

2004-05-02 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2004 12:23, Gerhard Wesp wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 09:15:09AM +0200, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > > 1. Have a callback function in FGInterface which is able to provide you a > > terrain level and a surface normal for a given lat/lon pair. > > I'd even suggest also giving line

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION: possible or not?

2004-05-02 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2004 01:18, Norman Vine wrote: > Every thing you need, or perhaps I should say, everything FlightGear knows > about the local scenery is contained in in the hitlist data structure. > > SRC / Scenery / hitlist.[ch]xx > > AFAIK The only doumentation is the code it self. :) Ok, will

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Andy Ross
Martin Spott wrote: > "Giles Robertson" wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C42FC5.F549B62D > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="utf-8" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > > Do you have a readable translation available ? Your mail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Erik Hofman wrote: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > marco gugel wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >>sorry for my so late answer, but I can't connect to Internet every day! > >>My post has developed a very big discussion. Thanks to all!! > >> > >>I'm going to see the hitlist.cxx file in the hitlist directory to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
How about at a lower level, perform a sort of some sort and isolate polygons that "face" each other, put these polygons into an array, and then only perform intersection checks on the polygons in these arrays? Regards, Ampere On May 2, 2004 12:41 pm, Erik Hofman wrote: > There might be one step

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. How about: "Don't panic" in nice and friendly letters? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jim Wilson
Jonathan Richards said: > Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I > think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope > calculation, and there are echoes of flight envelope, too. > I'm severely lacking inspiration of this calibre,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: marco gugel wrote: Hi, sorry for my so late answer, but I can't connect to Internet every day! My post has developed a very big discussion. Thanks to all!! I'm going to see the hitlist.cxx file in the hitlist directory to learn more about the actual situation. Anyway, to r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Charles Puffer
Jonathan Richards wrote: On Monday 26 Apr 2004 5:39 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote, among other things: There is a *lot* of things going on with the FlightGear project at various levels and it would be nice to have a monthly or quarterly summary in newsletter form for ourselves too. I've volun

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jon Berndt
> I've volunteered to help John Wojnaroski with editing a FlightGear newsletter, This is great news. > Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I > think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope > calculation, and there are echoes o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Rick Ansell
On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:20:08 +0100 Jonathan Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I > think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope > calculation, and there are echoes of flight envelope,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
marco gugel wrote: > Hi, > sorry for my so late answer, but I can't connect to Internet every day! > My post has developed a very big discussion. Thanks to all!! > > I'm going to see the hitlist.cxx file in the hitlist directory to learn > more about the actual situation. Anyway, to realize my tru

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Monday 26 Apr 2004 5:39 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote, among other things: > There is a *lot* of things going on with the FlightGear project at > various levels and it would be nice to have a monthly or quarterly > summary in newsletter form for ourselves too. I've volunteered to help John Wojnaro

[Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION

2004-05-02 Thread marco . gugel
Hi, sorry for my so late answer, but I can't connect to Internet every day! My post has developed a very big discussion. Thanks to all!! I'm going to see the hitlist.cxx file in the hitlist directory to learn more about the actual situation. Anyway, to realize my truck driving simulator I need a c

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Heading error calculation [brain exercise]

2004-05-02 Thread Jon Berndt
> > Does anyone know of a simple algorithm to calculate the > difference between > > the desired heading and the actual heading, where the angle is given in > > degrees from 0 to 260? The stipulations are that the result > must be <= 180. > > For example, you can go from 60 to 340 degrees > (counte

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Heading error calculation [brain exercise]

2004-05-02 Thread Norman Vine
Jon Berndt writes: > > Does anyone know of a simple algorithm to calculate the difference between > the desired heading and the actual heading, where the angle is given in > degrees from 0 to 260? The stipulations are that the result must be <= 180. > For example, you can go from 60 to 340 degrees

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: "Giles Robertson" wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C42FC5.F549B62D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Do you have a readable translation available ? http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGFS and MSYS

2004-05-02 Thread Martin Spott
"Giles Robertson" wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --_=_NextPart_001_01C42FC5.F549B62D > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="utf-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Do you have a readable translation available ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's jus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heading error calculation [brain exercise]

2004-05-02 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Sun, 2 May 2004 08:01:20 -0500 Jon Berndt wrote: > Does anyone know of a simple algorithm to calculate the difference between > the desired heading and the actual heading, where the angle is given in > degrees from 0 to 260? The stipulations are that the result must be <= 180. > For example, yo

[Flightgear-devel] Heading error calculation [brain exercise]

2004-05-02 Thread Jon Berndt
Does anyone know of a simple algorithm to calculate the difference between the desired heading and the actual heading, where the angle is given in degrees from 0 to 260? The stipulations are that the result must be <= 180. For example, you can go from 60 to 340 degrees (counter-clockwise), 110 to 2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COLLISION DETECTION: possible or not?

2004-05-02 Thread Gerhard Wesp
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 09:15:09AM +0200, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > 1. Have a callback function in FGInterface which is able to provide you a > terrain level and a surface normal for a given lat/lon pair. I'd even suggest also giving linear and rotational velocities for the surface polygon(s). T

[Flightgear-devel] progress of dc3-cockpit

2004-05-02 Thread Ilja Moderau
Hi, have a look at the updated dc3 3d-cockpit: http://mitglied.lycos.de/iljamod/Models.zip some screenshots: http://mitglied.lycos.de/iljamod/cockpit.jpg http://mitglied.lycos.de/iljamod/overhead-panel.jpg http://mitglied.lycos.de/iljamod/throttle.jpg Does anybody know, what is the standard switc