Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Stockill said: Wow! http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/MassiveRT/boeing777.html How long until we're using models with that level of detail then? ;-) WAG: 8 years on high end retail hardware. ;-) ..fwiw...which isn't much. Best, Jim ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Difficulty with building under Cygwin

2004-07-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Berndt wrote: Sent: 20 July 2004 06:53 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Difficulty with building under Cygwin My SimGear build was not completing. I think it has something to do with the move to OpenAL. As I was building simgear I got this:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 Model

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Ampere K. Hardraade said: On July 10, 2004 08:25 pm, Norman Vine wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade writes: Anyway we can get the plib group to look into their method for rendering? Have at it ! How do I reach them? Note PLib's scenegraph is SSG Simple Scene Graph Since this model is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Square monolithic textures for liveries? (was Re: Took ad

2004-07-20 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Chris Chris Metzler writes For example, the 737 currently comes with a United paint job. Say I wanted to create a US Air paint job for it. All you need to do is repaint the united texture with the colors of us air. The only thing is that when I did the texture mapping for the aircraft I was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.9.5 pre1 build on Fedora Core 2

2004-07-20 Thread Birger Brunswiek
I downloaded fg_os.cxx from the CVS: http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/FlightGear/src/Main/fg_os.cxx?cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9 compiled without SDL and all went fine. Birger James Gallagher wrote: Not sure if this has been reported yet, but I just built 0.9.5 pre1 on fedora core 2

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Being's new colors

2004-07-20 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Jon Jon Berndt writes This is pretty: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2004/photorelease/q3/pr_040719g.html Might be nice to see this on some of the FlightGear Boeing planes (the test ones ;^) You volunteering Jon all you need is gimp and 8 or so hours LOL. Jon Cheers Innis

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Being's new colors

2004-07-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Hi Jon Jon Berndt writes This is pretty: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2004/photorelease/q3/pr_040719g.html Might be nice to see this on some of the FlightGear Boeing planes (the test ones ;^) You volunteering Jon all you need is gimp and 8 or so hours LOL. Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Jon Berndt
I have created a new OpenAL tarball that breaks ALut into a separate DLL http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal_cyg.tgz $ tar -tzf openal_cyg.tgz bin/ bin/ALut.dll bin/openal32.dll include/ include/AL/ include/AL/al.h include/AL/alc.h include/AL/alctypes.h

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL / Cygwin

2004-07-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Note you will need a recent Cygwin DLL to use these this is untested http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal.tgz Norman: Is this file still online? Cape.com seems to think the site is offline or the file doesn't exist. Transient ISP problems? Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Richard Bytheway
From: Jon Berndt I have created a new OpenAL tarball that breaks ALut into a separate DLL http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal_cyg.tgz Is this tarball (or equivalent) still available somewhere? I had a copy, but it got lost along the way. Richard.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL / Cygwin

2004-07-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Note you will need a recent Cygwin DLL to use these this is untested http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal.tgz Norman: Is this file still online? Cape.com seems to think the site is offline or the file doesn't exist. Transient ISP problems? Maybe this is am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Richard Bytheway wrote: From: Jon Berndt I have created a new OpenAL tarball that breaks ALut into a separate DLL http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal_cyg.tgz Is this tarball (or equivalent) still available somewhere? I had a copy, but it got lost along the way.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Jon Berndt
I think this is what you are looking for : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz -Fred OK, I got it from the link that Erik supplied (thanks Erik). Now I have these files. Can you tell me where I can put them? Jon ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Jon Berndt wrote: I think this is what you are looking for : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz -Fred OK, I got it from the link that Erik supplied (thanks Erik). Now I have these files. Can you tell me where I can put them? Beware, the name seems to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Beware, the name seems to imply they are for MinGW, not CygWin The link I provided is the tarfile from Norm that was on my harddisc -Fred I have MingW installed along with CygWin. This might be problematic, then? Is FlightGear under Cygwin normally NOT MingW built? JOn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Al West
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 14:35, Jon Berndt wrote: I think this is what you are looking for : ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz -Fred OK, I got it from the link that Erik supplied (thanks Erik). Now I have these files. Can you tell me where I can put them?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How FlightGear handles 3ds

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Ampere K. Hardraade said: On July 8, 2004 09:47 am, Andy Ross wrote: Not to pass the buck, but this is really a plib question. Why did I have a feeling that I was going to get that answer? =P In the short term, I guess I can export those parts that need illumination into ac format,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Beware, the name seems to imply they are for MinGW, not CygWin The link I provided is the tarfile from Norm that was on my harddisc -Fred I have MingW installed along with CygWin. This might be problematic, then? Is FlightGear under Cygwin normally NOT MingW built? I think the

Re: Not a good idea (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?)

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: So, in the end, my advice is not to do it. If you want to make a living or partial living from FlightGear, set up a separate commercial site and be prepared to learn about CRM, tax laws, incorporation laws, legal fees, insurance, NDA's, contracts, and all the other

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-07-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Berndt Sent: 20 July 2004 14:58 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL Beware, the name seems to imply they are for MinGW, not CygWin The link I provided is the tarfile from Norm that was on my harddisc -Fred I have MingW

Re: Not a good idea (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?)

2004-07-20 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson wrote: You see, at least on the federal level you can collect quite a large sum of money as gifts before you have to put anything on your tax return. I am not intimately familiar with U.S. tax laws, but I would be very surprised if the IRS allowed Curt to count advertising revenue as a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 Sounds

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: What is the origin of the DC-3 sounds in the base package? Listening to the individual samples, they sound an awful lot more like turbine engines than piston -- granted, a few DC-3's have had turbine conversions. In the base package see the read-trev.txt file for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with compiling FlightGear-0.9.5-pre1

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
golla Minoli said: I'm new to flightgear, though I allways wanted to play it. Nearly the first thing I did on my new compu, was to try to compile FG. Unluckyly I ran into three problems. First one is with the file src/FDM/JSBSim/FGJSBBase.h. It requires numeric_limits included for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 Sounds

2004-07-20 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson wrote: What is the origin of the DC-3 sounds in the base package? Listening to the individual samples, they sound an awful lot more like turbine engines than piston -- granted, a few DC-3's have had turbine conversions. In the base package see the read-trev.txt file for credit and

Re: Not a good idea (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?)

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: Jim Wilson wrote: You see, at least on the federal level you can collect quite a large sum of money as gifts before you have to put anything on your tax return. I am not intimately familiar with U.S. tax laws, but I would be very surprised if the IRS allowed Curt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How FlightGear handles 3ds

2004-07-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 15:52, Jim Wilson wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade said: On July 8, 2004 09:47 am, Andy Ross wrote: Not to pass the buck, but this is really a plib question. Why did I have a feeling that I was going to get that answer? =P In the short term, I guess I can export

Re: [Flightgear-devel] slow start-up

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp said: Try 'hdparm -d /dev/hdxx to check status of drive Yep, DMA checks on. I'm sure Curt has the problem figured out. What to do about it is another issue. Some possible solutions: 1) Extend the appearance of the splash screen until all the loading is finished. 2)

Re: Not a good idea (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?)

2004-07-20 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson wrote: Maybe I've missed something in this thread, I am not talking about a consulting business with customers, time billing, etc. The thread started with Curt posting asking for opinions about running banner ads on flightgear.org to raise revenue. He also indicated that he'd be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 Sounds

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: Jim Wilson wrote: What is the origin of the DC-3 sounds in the base package? Listening to the individual samples, they sound an awful lot more like turbine engines than piston -- granted, a few DC-3's have had turbine conversions. In the base package see the

Re: Not a good idea (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?)

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: check with people who know. I don't know U.S. professional fees that well, but I'd guess that a full audit would leave a person at least USD 5K-10K poorer just in accounting and/or legal fees, even if the auditors do not end up finding anything wrong. Well...not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How FlightGear handles 3ds

2004-07-20 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Is it possible to have something like this: light-mappath/mon-scheme-texture.RGB/light-map Using XML to define fading in places such as the landing light and taxi light is fine, but doing so in places such as the cockpit is too much I would think. Regards, Ampere On July 20, 2004 02:51 pm,