RE: [Flightgear-devel] RE: RE: Questions

2005-05-18 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Mostyn mostyn.gale writes With windows you may need a program called PPE(Pretty Poly Editor)to convert aircraft. Note this will not convert Gmax produced aircraft. Thanks for that it worked, sorta. My 133kb R22.mdl file becomes a 130mb r22.ac file. Yep it does that.A way I found of getting

[Flightgear-devel] airports and scenery

2005-05-18 Thread BONNEVILLE David
Hi people, maybe my problem should be exposed in FG user list... I've installed from scratch the 0.9.8 win release. I've downloaded the tile e000n40 from FG scenery ftp and e000n40 airport package too. I've used fgadmin to install the scenery and i unpacked the aiports package in tha airports

Re : [Flightgear-devel] airports and scenery

2005-05-18 Thread BONNEVILLE David
Problem solved ! The tile scenery I downloaded from the graphical interface does not contain any btg file ... I have another version of this tile I've downloaded 2 months ago and it works fine. David --- Message d'origine --- De : BONNEVILLE David [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : ! FlightGear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airports and scenery

2005-05-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
BONNEVILLE David a écrit : Hi people, maybe my problem should be exposed in FG user list... I've installed from scratch the 0.9.8 win release. I've downloaded the tile e000n40 from FG scenery ftp and e000n40 airport package too. I've used fgadmin to install the scenery and i unpacked the aiports

[Flightgear-devel] visual freeze

2005-05-18 Thread BONNEVILLE David
Hi again people, When I fly straight forward, I have fps drops from 20 (average) to 5. If I scope disk access, it is synchronous with fps drops. Is it due to the next tile loading ? Does Mathias patch to simgear change something at this point ? Thx David

[Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Hosgood
Over the winter of 1944/1945 certain Allied POWs were imprisoned in Colditz Castle (east of Chemnitz, Saxony). Some of the British prisoners got desperate enough to build a glider in an attic. They never launched because the war was effectively over by the time the machine was ready, but in 1999,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Steve Hosgood wrote: Disclaimer: This is a toy. It's fun, and probably isn't too far wrong from modelling the real Colditz Glider. However, I've never even *seen* the Colditz Glider replica (in the Imperial War Museum now, apparently) far less flown it. So I don't know. It is - assuming it's not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread DesmoSS
?? I would have figured the HUD symbology is FDM-independent. That would be ideal, however there seems to be a dis-connection between the EOM in the JSB models that's present in the YASim model. Of course, I'm comparing the PA-28 to the c172 models, but the PA-128 will drive the energy

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Berndt
That would be ideal, however there seems to be a dis-connection between the EOM in the JSB models that's present in the YASim model. Of course, I'm comparing the PA-28 to the c172 models, but the PA-128 will drive the energy markers within the HUD according to model velocities and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread DesmoSS
Can you be specific? Which accelerations are zero. This may be a bug. hud_ladr.cxx defines: // OBJECT MOVING RETICLE // TYPE ENERGY_MARKERS // ATTRIB - ALWAYS //energy markers - compute potential slope if(energy_marker) { if (total_vel 5.0) { t1 = 0; t2 = 0; } else { t1 =

Re: Re : [Flightgear-devel] airports and scenery

2005-05-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 10:34 +0200, BONNEVILLE David a crit : Problem solved ! The tile scenery I downloaded from the graphical interface does not contain any btg file ... I have another version of this tile I've downloaded 2 months ago and it works fine. David --- Message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:10, Jon Stockill wrote: Steve Hosgood wrote: Disclaimer: This is a toy [...] I've never even *seen* the Colditz Glider replica (in the Imperial War Museum now, apparently) [...] assuming it's not been moved it's right up on the top floor. There a few rather

Re : Re: Re : [Flightgear-devel] airports and scenery

2005-05-18 Thread BONNEVILLE David
Now everything goes fine, I have the airports, the problem was I had no btg files in my scenery/Terrain/e000n40 directory. Thx David --- Message d'origine --- De : Gerard ROBIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org Sujet : Re: Re :

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Berndt
c172 JBS Axx, Ayy, Azz seem always zero where PA-28 and A-10 YASim have values. This effectively makes t2 = 0 and defeats the pot_slope from any value other than Vx, Vy, Vz. Mike Interesting. Since I lost a hard drive recently and haven't had time to reinstall FlightGear yet, I'll have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Steve Hosgood wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:10, Jon Stockill wrote: Steve Hosgood wrote: Disclaimer: This is a toy [...] I've never even *seen* the Colditz Glider replica (in the Imperial War Museum now, apparently) [...] assuming it's not been moved it's right up on the top floor. There a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 14:42, Jon Stockill wrote: I bet you're running norton internet security aren't you :-) Nope: Mozilla 1.7.3 on linux. You'll need to fix your ad blocker. Wasn't aware I was running with anything much more than standard Mozilla defaults. I'll take a look sometime.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Steve Hosgood wrote: Wasn't aware I was running with anything much more than standard Mozilla defaults. I'll take a look sometime. Hmm, very strange - it's usually windows users that have a problem, and it's only certain versions of norton (I'm the sysadmin for that photos site btw -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: It doesn't look like it would be too hard to do a 3D model. Not having to do instruments would only make it easier. I would suggest making a custom HUD instead of grafting fake instruments onto the model. If there's interest I think I could hack out a pretty nice textured model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 15:24, Josh Babcock wrote: It doesn't look like it would be too hard to do a 3D model. Not having to do instruments would only make it easier. I would suggest making a custom HUD instead of grafting fake instruments onto the model. A HUD is *so* not 1944! Point taken of

[Flightgear-devel] Any UAV models?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Kopack
Does anyone know of any aircraft models for any UAV's? I don't really care if it's a fixed wing or a rotary aircraft, but I'd like to find something like a Predator or an X-35 UCAV or GLobal Hawk or Hunter or somethign along those lines. I really don't need much of a cockpit (if any), just a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Culp
You'll notice a non-working digital ASI crept onto the panel somehow, I've not spotted where that's coming from or I'd remove it! That's the Netto Variometer I believe. It works. Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 18 May 2005 00:06:47 +0200, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:46, Paul Furber wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 19:54 +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote: It's amazing stuff - it even vaporized a 10 meter section of my fencing. (10 meters of 2.5mm high tensile

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Hosgood
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:43, Dave Culp wrote: You'll notice a non-working digital ASI crept onto the panel somehow, I've not spotted where that's coming from or I'd remove it! That's the Netto Variometer I believe. It works. Thanks, Dave. One of yours, I believe! No offence intended,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any UAV models?

2005-05-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 10:52 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Does anyone know of any aircraft models for any UAV's? I don't really care if it's a fixed wing or a rotary aircraft, but I'd like to find something like a Predator or an X-35 UCAV or GLobal Hawk or Hunter or somethign along those

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any UAV models?

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Culp
A predator model is available here: http://www.simviation.com/fs2002military19.htm It will be in MDL format, which works in FlightGear, however if you want to animate any part of it you'll have to convert it to *.ac format. Well, not so fast :( This model appears to be in a newer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Culp
That's the Netto Variometer I believe. It works. No offence intended, but I've just removed it from what will become the next release of the Colditz Glider. It's a bit anachronistic! The other instruments were at least available in 1944/45 even if not fitted to this particular machine.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any UAV models?

2005-05-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 18:23 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 10:52 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Does anyone know of any aircraft models for any UAV's? I don't really care if it's a fixed wing or a rotary aircraft, but I'd like to find something like a Predator or an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Josh Babcock
Steve Hosgood wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 16:43, Dave Culp wrote: You'll notice a non-working digital ASI crept onto the panel somehow, I've not spotted where that's coming from or I'd remove it! That's the Netto Variometer I believe. It works. Thanks, Dave. One of yours, I believe!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 18, 2005 06:25 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: The original glider had no instruments of course. For this model, I've pinched the instruments panel from the Schweizer 2-33 that was already in Flightgear. I did this to give me some idea of airspeed, to compensate for not having the wind in my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Josh Babcock
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On May 18, 2005 06:25 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: The original glider had no instruments of course. For this model, I've pinched the instruments panel from the Schweizer 2-33 that was already in Flightgear. I did this to give me some idea of airspeed, to compensate for

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8 Segmentation fault core dumped Please Help!

2005-05-18 Thread YENEW T KASSAYE
Hello Everyone, I am participating in a project to modify some of the HUD displays and create glide slopes in FlightGear. Right now, I am having the following problems getting FlightGear0.9.8 to run from the source code I compiled using cygwin in windows XP. I compiled plib, zlib, simgear and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm a bit hazy on the reference frames, and I don't have a book handy, but it looks to me as if JSBSim doesn't calculate accelerations in the local frame (north, east, down). Maybe Jon or Mathias can weigh in on this, but looking at Propagate.h I see local-frame velocities available through

[Flightgear-devel] Scratch Build Problem

2005-05-18 Thread Jonathan Polley
I was having a problem getting FlightGear to link, so I decided to do a complete uninstall and delete of the development directories. After a clean fetch from CVS, I was able to rebuild SimGear, but FlightGear won't even configure. I get the following error: configure: error: cannot run