RE: [Flightgear-devel] Trajectory show when replay?

2004-10-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
David Culp It's difficult to get a screenshot showing the incorrect pitch because the markers are left behind so quickly. I originally used a three-axis marker with all three lines the same length but removed the longitudinal axis to reduce the clutter. As you only get a glimpse of

[Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Boris Koenig
Hi ! I was going to give implementing a simple transponder-like instrument a go, as there doesn't seem to be one yet (?) While I browsed through the Aircrafts folder in order to look into the file format I wondered whether it's also possible to specify an enlargement/zoom transformation upon mouse

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Another question is whether it's currently possible to make FlightGear change its default cursor whenever the cursor passes over a particular hotspot region, so that it is more obvious that there IS indeed a functionality connected to a certain hotspot - I found it quite hard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 10:23, Boris Koenig wrote: Particularly, I wanted to optionally make certain instruments zoom when I either move the mouse over a specific region or upon clicking on a hotspot region. Simply because it's partially kind of hard to really READ the instruments/panel -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread David Culp
Particularly, I wanted to optionally make certain instruments zoom when I either move the mouse over a specific region or upon clicking on a hotspot region. Look at the T-38 or OV-10, which have a radar instrument that can appear in two different states. In one state it is minimized and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trajectory show when replay?

2004-10-26 Thread David Culp
It's been a while since I looked at the submodel code so I don't remember if I ever added the aerostabilize configuration item. This allows the submodel to ignore aerostabilization (which is on by default), so it will maintain the initial pitch. You didn't - all submodels align

[Flightgear-devel] Can you help me about cygwin? my fgfs under cygwin is slow.

2004-10-26 Thread Matthew Gong
Hello everyone. I'm new here. nbsp; I compile the fgfs-0.9.6 under cygwin (gcc version is 3.3.3) successful.( CXXFLAGS='-O2' ) But I find that the speed of io operationnbsp;is very slowly. It takes a long time to read airport files. then I unzip the basic.dat.gz to basic.dat and write a program

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Trajectory show when replay?

2004-10-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote: David Culp It's difficult to get a screenshot showing the incorrect pitch because the markers are left behind so quickly. I originally used a three-axis marker with all three lines the same length but removed the longitudinal axis to reduce the clutter. As you only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Boris Koenig
David Culp wrote: Look at the T-38 or OV-10, which have a radar instrument that can appear in two different states. In one state it is minimized and looks like a button, and in the other state it is maximized. You could use the same XML code to make an instrument appear unzoomed or zoomed.

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] Simulation and Air Disasters

2004-10-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
Interesting story about the Airbus crash in a New York suburb in November of 2001: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/26/ntsb.flight587.ap/index.html Benzon also said that investigators found that American Airlines improperly trained its pilots to use the aircraft's rudder while recovering from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument/Panel Design (zooming instruments)

2004-10-26 Thread Lee Elliott
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:23, Boris Koenig wrote: Hi ! I was going to give implementing a simple transponder-like instrument a go, as there doesn't seem to be one yet (?) While I browsed through the Aircrafts folder in order to look into the file format I wondered whether it's also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trajectory show when replay?

2004-10-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:16:11 -0500, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's been a while since I looked at the submodel code so I don't remember if I ever added the aerostabilize configuration item. This allows the submodel to ignore aerostabilization (which is on by

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Trajectory show when replay?

2004-10-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Arnt Karlsen wrote: Sent: 26 October 2004 21:54 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trajectory show when replay? On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:16:11 -0500, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's been a while since I looked at the submodel code so

[Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Curtis Olson
I am still out of town for the rest of the week, but I thought I'd post a quick report from the AOPA convention this past weekend in the LA area. I was there with ATC flight simulators to demo their ATC-610 upgrade package which turns their old 100% analog ATC-610 into a new, modern digital

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Richard Keech
Curt, in the ATC system, on what OS platform does FG run? On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:26, Curtis Olson wrote: I am still out of town for the rest of the week, but I thought I'd post a quick report from the AOPA convention this past weekend in the LA area. I was there with ATC flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Curtis Olson
Richard Keech wrote: Curt, in the ATC system, on what OS platform does FG run? We are running it on Linux. Currently a debian install (of some mixed vintage.) I've been dabbling with Fedora Core 2 lately and have been pretty impressed with it, so I'm tempted to move that direction in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Richard Keech
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:56, Curtis Olson wrote: Richard Keech wrote: Curt, in the ATC system, on what OS platform does FG run? We are running it on Linux. Currently a debian install (of some mixed vintage.) I've been dabbling with Fedora Core 2 lately and have been pretty

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Curtis Olson
Richard Keech wrote: incidentally, FC3 will be out very soon. It should be publically available on 8 November. http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ Does up2date automatically get me to FC3 and beyond or do we need to do a complete reinstall? Curt. -- Curtis Olson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Richard Keech
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:22, Curtis Olson wrote: Does up2date automatically get me to FC3 and beyond or do we need to do a complete reinstall? you will need to re-install. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread David Megginson
Great report, Curt -- I'm glad to hear that FlightGear held up its end so well. One of the most impressive things about FlightGear is its ability to model marginal visibility fairly realistically -- watching the runway come into view in FlightGear in 1 SM visibility really is like watching the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Perhaps one may want to rent out a video camera next time, and take some video? We can snip some footages from here, some clips from there, and come up with a 30 seconds video for FlightGear. Just a thought, Ampere On October 26, 2004 08:26 pm, Curtis Olson wrote: The expo was 3 days long

[Flightgear-devel] submodels - config file

2004-10-26 Thread David Culp
My submodel config file is not getting read at startup (I'm getting file not found). Is anyone using CVS FlightGear and Linux having this problem also? Thought I'd check before I go over the config file for the fiftieth time looking for an error. Dave --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-26 Thread Curtis Olson
Chris Metzler wrote I'm wondering whether we know what the X-Plane format really *is*. Robin does a pretty good job of documenting his format on his website. Since the beginning of September, Robin Peel has been saying that a new set of files are coming out next weekend, September 18. He's busy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-26 Thread Curtis Olson
Dale E. Edmons wrote: Yes, I'm trying to use Terragear to bring some life back into an old SPX-200 system. (ie flat runways) Other than polygon count this is the biggest problem I have. Oh, well. You should be able to hack terragear to limit the max runway grade to 0% and/or limit the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:08:23 -0700 Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote I'm wondering whether we know what the X-Plane format really *is*. Robin does a pretty good job of documenting his format on his website. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I knew that; I know/knew what the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-26 Thread Curtis Olson
Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:08:23 -0700 Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler wrote I'm wondering whether we know what the X-Plane format really *is*. Robin does a pretty good job of documenting his format on his website. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread Alex Perry
From: Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was there with ATC flight simulators to demo their ATC-610 upgrade package which turns their old 100% analog ATC-610 into a new, modern digital flight simulator using FG as the visual system, and the core software infrastructure, along with proprietary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick report from AOPA

2004-10-26 Thread John Wojnaroski
Curtis Olson wrote: John Wojnaroski stopped by and it was good to finally meet him. I went out to his place today in LA to see the 747 sim he is building in his living room. snip Another thing that a *lot* of people asked about was glass cockpits. John W. has done some really good work on