Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] [BUG] tmp-ly disable buggy mag compass jamming code

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: P.S. I put david-megginson.com on the cc list but that address has bounced; David -- are you on the flightgear-devel? if not, can somebody please post his new address for the fgfs affairs? Please stop sending plain email address to the list. David did already need

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Annoyingly the axes assignments are different from the Wingman Force 3D (assuming that file is correct), so it isn't just a case of adding a new name field to wingman-force-3d.xml. Could this be because of a different OS? That has happened before so we've added a

[Flightgear-devel] Re: New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Buchanan, Stuart -- Sunday 23 October 2005 10:14: I've created a new XML binding file for the USB version of the Wingman Force 3D joystick. Umm ... this driver file is full of obsolete commands and methods. It sets throttle only for four engines (instead of using the nasal command

[Flightgear-devel] Re: New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 23 October 2005 10:28: I'm afraid this driver needs some modernization. :-} I'm already doing that and will post a link to that modernized version. Maybe you can test that? BTW, this looks fishy, too: property/controls/engines/engine[0]/throttle/property

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] minor cleanup of ATCutils

2005-10-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
-string ConvertRwyNumToSpokenString(string s) { +string ConvertRwyNumToSpokenString(const string s) { this should be string ConvertRwyNumToSpokenString(const string s) so we don't make unnecessary copies. -double dclGetHorizontalSeparation(Point3D pos1, Point3D pos2) { +double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Melchior FRANZ a écrit : Can you try this file? http://members.aon.at/mfranz/wingman-force-3d-usb.xml It uses the new methods, adds descriptions, fixes indentation etc. Maybe I swapped throttle and rudder. Didn't know which OS you are running fgfs on. If you insist in sending a new file, try

[Flightgear-devel] Re: New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Sunday 23 October 2005 17:25: the hat is also OS-specific. From Logitech/wingman-extreme-digital-3d.xml Ahh, yes. It also use /sim/current-view/goal-pitch-offset-deg and /sim/current-view/goal-pitch-offset-deg instead of your /sim/current-view/axes/lat and / It's

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] mice.xml: fix the view recentering

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Vassilii Khachaturov -- Thursday 13 October 2005 15:40: As promised, a new version that jumps back only when the mid-button is pressed on the left-click. Thanks. Committed. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems experienced with the recent c150 updates

2005-10-23 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: I've tried out the recent c150 updates, and have observed the following problems: 1) the speeds in the help file and on the specially crafted ASI seem different from what the real Cessnas have. C150 was an inferior version to a C152, with all the speeds lower, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems experienced with the recent c150 updates

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: I've tried out the recent c150 updates, and have observed the following problems: Here's the data for the C-150: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/docs/c150.txt Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

[Flightgear-devel] Re: problems experienced with the recent c150 updates

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Harald JOHNSEN -- Sunday 23 October 2005 18:04: Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: 3) in the cockpit view, I see strange speckles around the yokes, which keep moving; you may get the idea by looking at a (still) image at http://www.tarunz.org/~vassilii/Images/fg/c150-speckles.jpg I don't know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] waterways ..W in your airport database

2005-10-23 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Surgeon wrote: I do not know of many mixed airports - Honolulu must be one of very few airports that has both hard surfaced and water runways. Well, Homer in Alaska does, but it looks like they have a separate airport code for the lake (Homer-Beluga Lake), Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user

[Flightgear-devel] Re: problems experienced with the recent c150 updates

2005-10-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Another problem I forgot to mention: before the update, I had the aircraft painted with a white-beige scheme outside (albeit one of the 2 sides was a mirror inverse of the other, including the tail number written in a mirrored font). After the update, it looks dull grayish on the outside, as if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
It's not really mine. It's just one detail that I hadn't looked at in that file, where pretty much everything was wrong. :-) Yes, not exactly the most useful of patches :) I've applied Frederic's changes to the file you changed, corrected a couple of script tags that weren't terminated and

[Flightgear-devel] Re: New joystick bindings XML file for WIngman Force 3D USB

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Buchanan, Stuart -- Sunday 23 October 2005 19:09: * * Melchior FRANZ: where pretty much everything was wrong. :-) Yes, not exactly the most useful of patches :) It wasn't that bad, only very outdated. And it's better to submit such files and fix the issues, than having no support for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems experienced with the recent c150 updates

2005-10-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
You are right, for some unknown reason to me I changed the tanks capacity. I wonder if this, along with the empty pilot seat, added to the back-tumbling? BTW, Erik's data at http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/docs/c150.txt also lists a std and long-range configuration (please ignore my c152 data as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] waterways ..W in your airport database

2005-10-23 Thread Bohnert Paul
Another mixed airport is 3WO. Runways 05W/23W have tie downs and a ramp. Runways 3/21 is limited to ski aircraft in the winter. See AirNav web site. http://www.airnav.com/airport/3WO Paul --- Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: I do not know of many mixed airports

[Flightgear-devel] [RFC] dynamic dialogs (ATC example)

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
fgfs still has a lot of hard-coded dialogs, done by calling plib's pu* functions directly. This may be justified in one or two cases (property picker), but generally it's a bad idea: - requires a lot of obscure low-level code - no use of our excellent layouter - dialogs aren't movable and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Winter Textures

2005-10-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
I've flown with the winter scenery --- it's awesome, and very relaxing. I wonder if it is correct to have the snow in Israel even in winter; perhaps the nearby local metars should be considered and ground snow only displayed when the temperature is low enough?

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] dynamic dialogs (ATC example)

2005-10-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 23 October 2005 20:15: -SGPropertyNode_ptr gui = (NewGUI *)globals-get_subsystem(gui); +NewGUI *gui = (NewGUI *)globals-get_subsystem(gui); m. :-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] New Release of Lake Constance custom scenery

2005-10-23 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello all, Ingrid has been working hard on the scenery data and we're proud to release a new version of the Lake Constance custom scenery. In fact it is not only a scenery of Lake Constance anymore. The new scenery has lots of the alps east of the Lake Constance, so you can fly from Fuessen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Winter Textures - screenshot

2005-10-23 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Arnt Karlsen schrieb: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:27:56 +0200, Ralf wrote in message I'd say we need different texture-names for lakes which freeze in the winter and those that don't. ..aye. Delay lake freezing around river mouths and speed thawing there, the currents. We want Artic ocean

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] minor cleanup of ATCutils

2005-10-23 Thread Alex Romosan
Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Surely that's a beneficial change, so please submit, whether you're talking about just the ATCutils module cleanup or of something with a wider scope. i just posted the patches but at ~100KB the message awaits the moderators approval. if it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] problems experienced with the recent c150 updates

2005-10-23 Thread Dave Culp
Sometimes at the same time I also see the aircraft tumbling backwards and having its tail going underground, controls held neutral, tailwind never exceeding 7 knots. Could this be that the model doesn't account for the pilot's weight? Tumbling backwards is usually an indication that the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Winter Textures - screenshot

2005-10-23 Thread Oliver C.
On Sunday 23 October 2005 22:16, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Arnt Karlsen schrieb: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:27:56 +0200, Ralf wrote in message I'd say we need different texture-names for lakes which freeze in the winter and those that don't. ..aye. Delay lake freezing around river mouths

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Winter Textures

2005-10-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: I've flown with the winter scenery --- it's awesome, and very relaxing. Thanks. I wonder if it is correct to have the snow in Israel even in winter; perhaps the nearby local metars should be considered and ground snow only displayed when the temperature is low

[Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer, the next steps

2005-10-23 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Hi List, after some discussions here on the list, but most of the time on irc, I have drawn some conclusions on how to improve the multiplayer mode. So, here they are. Feel free to flame me on any part which might be awfully wrong. 1) I'm currently restructoring the network code. There will

[Flightgear-devel] SCALE 4

2005-10-23 Thread Alex Perry
Ilan wrote: At the moment both the speakers committee and community relations committee are seeking contributions: Call For Papers: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/pr/pr_20050620.php Call For .Orgs:http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/pr/pr_20051017.php

[Flightgear-devel] Scale4x

2005-10-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
a little late but they've finally announced the winners for Scale3x http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/past/2005 we'll be taking the 747 sim to the new show in February running with RT Linux by RTAI/Xenomai aka fusion If you're in the area plan to come over and talk real-time stuff or just some