Re: [Flightgear-devel] transponder

2002-07-04 Thread Alex Perry
Curt asks: Ok, so within flightgear, given a 'true' altitude, how can I compute the correct flight-level / pressure-altitude for display on the transponder? The simple answer is that you ask the static port for the air pressure, which in turn will ask the environmental module what the local

Re: [Flightgear-devel] July 4

2002-07-04 Thread Alex Perry
Of course if you actually went up to see the 3d fireworks effect, then to be completely realistic you should expect an F-16 on your butt after about 5-10 minutes. If you don't go for the big ones, such as Washington DC, you'll find plenty of general aviation pilots circling and watching the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] transponder

2002-07-03 Thread Alex Perry
Alex Perry writes: (c) Remember that it reports pressure altitude and not any other altitude. Is this true? I thought it was slaved to the altimeter. If so, please scratch the last part of my previous posting. No. Your mode C hardware shares the static port with the altimeter, but uses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Small Scheme library

2002-07-03 Thread Alex Perry
If someone can supply a core ECMAScript implementation that is small and easy to embed, then we should jump on it; otherwise, the evil of holding back FlightGear development indefinitely might outweigh even the evil of using Scheme. One of the nice things about LISP (and I assume Scheme) is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] relative gear/flap sound volume

2002-07-03 Thread Alex Perry
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:04, Gene Buckle wrote: The other one I've learned from real experience (as a passenger). If while you are looking a little up and to the rear to check flap status, if you also notice a big plume of something that looks a lot like smoke coming off one or both

[Flightgear-devel] Competition for FGFS at LinuxWorld ?

2002-07-03 Thread Alex Perry
by Rick Lehrbaum -- Executive Editor, LinuxDevices.com GUESS WHO'S COMING TO LINUXWORLD? As if to fulfill Malcolm Dean's prophecy (preceding story), word spread around Linux and Open Source oriented websites like wildfire this week that Microsoft Corp. will be an exhibitor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] transponder

2002-07-02 Thread Alex Perry
I've been looking at the Bendix/King KT 70/71 (transponder) manual and plan to start implimenting this instrument. Other than tuning in a freq and having it report flight level is there anything else that I need to think about? We don't have much in the way of ATC at the moment so I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dumb suggestion

2002-06-30 Thread Alex Perry
Jim Wilson writes: That and we should probably make the pilot be able to salute. Now that would be easy, but he needs an arm first! Thumbs up first, please. Might be fun to do an eject too :-) He'll need his own FDM, then. Someone was thinking of doing a parachute, at one time. In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] US and Canadian Circuits

2002-06-20 Thread Alex Perry
I agree that closer is better, but you have left something out of the equation: if the engine failure is sudden (what we're assuming here, I think), *and* you react quickly, you have an extra 25-45kt of airspeed that you can trade for altitude before you get down to Vglide at 65 KIAS. That

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: question about fg joystick support -- whereis it?/grep question

2002-06-20 Thread Alex Perry
Grep, schmep. It can't come close to actually printing out a copy of the source code and looking through it manually. I mean, if you want accuracy, what can beat a pair of human eyes and some bright white inkjet paper? I've even got grep aliased to print all .cpp files in draft mode

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Alex Perry
Andy Ross writes: I'm not sure I understand. A given stick position corresponds very closely to a given angle of attack. Nope, only for a given airspeed. The balance between tailplane and main wing, for a given elevator position, is speed dependent. Thus phugoids. If you change the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --wind option update

2002-06-13 Thread Alex Perry
I've updated the --wind=DIR@SPEED option to allow a range for DIR or SPEED. For example, winds from 180 degrees at 10 knots gusting 15 knots would be --wind=180@10:15 I haven't had the chance to add variable wind direction to FGEnvironment yet, but the option will be accepted:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-08 Thread Alex Perry
Taking the practical viewpoint of what is actually in the avionics ... Any OBS, HSI or similar instrument: Receives an analog signal that indicates the needle position. Our FGFS instrument works the same way; an analog angle is available as a property. VOR receivers: Emits an analog signal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Comments on FGFS review summary

2002-06-07 Thread Alex Perry
the same, but only for a fraction of a second. Immediately after hitting the flap switch, I reach for the trim wheel. -- perhaps Alex Perry can let us know whether this is common for C172 pilots or I'm just developing a bad habit. I've no idea

[Flightgear-devel] Karlsruhe, LinuxTag BOF on Saturday

2002-06-07 Thread Alex Perry
Reminder: In Karlsruhe (Germany) at LinuxTag at midday 12:00 for one hour in room R2.05 in the StadtHalle of the conference center near the Dorint Hotel, where the conference streams are located. After 1pm, we have to leave the room and continue our discussions elsewhere. Plan to be

[Flightgear-devel] Comments on FGFS review summary

2002-06-06 Thread Alex Perry
From: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, let's sort the items and add a few: - Old-fashioned overall appearance Yep. Our photographic fidelity is deprecated wrt functional representation. 2001-era flight simulators have inherited a lot of the visual artistry of the 3D combat video games,

[Flightgear-devel] FlightXpress article - SuSE 8.0 is an old version

2002-06-06 Thread Alex Perry
I just went round to the SuSE booth and looked on a 8.0 demo computer. The packaged version is 0.7.8 which we released last summer, a year ago. Although they were mildly embarrassed when I pointed this out to them, I still think it would be worth submitting a formal request that the future SuSE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] enormous exe

2002-05-30 Thread Alex Perry
It has a symbol table so that the debugger would be useful. You can strip it, but it should have no impact on execution speed. Something I've been wondering about. The program that comes with the downloadable binary is about 4 megs. The program that is built from cvs is about 56 megs. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxWorld Expo Aug 12-15

2002-05-30 Thread Alex Perry
Do we have any plans to host an opensource booth at the linux world expo in SFO aug 12-15. I don't think we've discussed this one yet? I haven't heard of anybody making plans for a booth at LWCE-SF. I will not be attending - I have other plans this summer.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Missing Model Problem

2002-05-29 Thread Alex Perry
We (the two Cameron's) have already done some FDM work on a Piper Cherokee PA-28-180. I have a pretty ugly looking 3-view, but I can send Slightly off topic. There are a lot of places where we can get 3-view sets with a scale for pretty much any aircraft. It occurs to me that it should be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim solution solution?

2002-05-29 Thread Alex Perry
This may or may not have anything to do with the jet code, but with the 747-yasim, I cannot slow the plane below about 280kt in level flight at 3000ft ASL with throttles at minimum and full flaps, which makes the plane rather hard to land... Legally you shouldn't be up to 280kt at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim and 2.95.2 math (was: Rudder inverted againin yasim)

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Perry
Andy: One thing to consider is whether the autopilot is optimizing for the correct solution to the equations. There are always two solutions, one slower with higher drag and the other faster with lower drag. Depending on altitude and power, one of these can be below stall speed. Near the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ..why C++ and not C?

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Perry
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:57:09 -0500 Jonathan Polley wrote When you state your concerns about the FAA, I assume that you are talking about avionics software, probably DO-178B level C or higher. FlightGear is a combination of an aircraft FDM, a GIS database and a 3D GUI. When placed into an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim and 2.95.2 math (was: Rudder inverted againin yasim)

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Perry
Just something to file away ... big jets should have a climb mode in which the power is regulated to max climb by the autothrottles and speed is held with the pitch control. Filed it away. But not sure of the purpose of this mode. It's more efficient as follows ... The autothrottle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution issues

2002-05-27 Thread Alex Perry
Actually, I think that it starts at a very low altitude, like - meters -- that's why it reads a maximum climb. We need to find a way to delay initialization of the steam module until after the FDM is set up. Many of the other parts of the Sim get informed when a reset happens, either at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution issues

2002-05-27 Thread Alex Perry
I've been thinking that we should start a whole new source tree, src/Instrumentation/, to include the current steam and radio modules together with GPS modules, weather radar, and anything else we happen to come up with. Perhaps even autopilot could fit in here. The environment module

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Does yasim-747 work?

2002-05-27 Thread Alex Perry
Hrmph. This is getting just too weird. What (exactly) is your platform? I'm trying to get an fgfs compiled with 2.95.2 and having some difficulty due to glibc 2.2 compatibility issues. I may need to install a new distribution to make this work. Yeah that's a major pain in the butt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling from CVS

2002-05-26 Thread Alex Perry
Strange compiler errors are often the sign of faulty hardware or overclocking. Or, when recompiling FGFS from scratch, of insufficient CPU cooling. A friend had trouble with his PC because the power supply was poor. I swear the most mysterious things happen on my computer. You may not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution issues

2002-05-26 Thread Alex Perry
seems to be reporting bogus values (it sits at the maximum climb rate stop). Depending on which VSI you're using and where you initialize for altitude, this might be real. The simulator initializes with sea level pressure. ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Compile problem?

2002-05-25 Thread Alex Perry
Is anyone else seeing this? Works fine for me on Debian/Woody. ../../src/FDM/YASim/libYASim.a(FGFDM.o): In function `logstream_base type_info function': /usr/local/cvs/FlightGear/src/FDM/YASim/FGFDM.hpp(.text+0xae): undefined reference to `yasim::Airplane::setElevatorControl(int)'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3-yasim model: engines?

2002-05-22 Thread Alex Perry
Another issue is that, on landing with the dc3-yasim at a rather high speed (so that the angle of attack is near 0), the tail instantly falls onto the runway, but the aircraft nevertheless doesn't take off again, although the angle of attack just increased rapidly. Although I haven't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 takeoff roll: partial solution

2002-05-22 Thread Alex Perry
You started up the engines, firewalled the throttle, let the RPMs stablize, released the brakes, and the aircraft pitched *up*??? That's clearly unphysical. Why ? The nose pitches down with power and brake application. So, releasing the brakes makes the nose pitch up.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: YASim 747 solution failure [was: Failed toload 3D model]

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Perry
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try being lighter on the controls, and try a set of rudder pedals if you haven't already. I honestly haven't had any serious difficulties maneuvering the plane. hard to have that kind of a setup at work :-( almost unflyable was an unfair

Re: [Flightgear-devel] latest CVS doesn't run on linux

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Perry
Xlib: extension GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest missing on display :0.0. GLUT: Fatal Error in fgfs: visual with necessary capabilities not found. Hah! Try running something that uses full texturing such as gloss; the differences in private requests between GL implementations generally appear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] uncool easter egg

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Perry
Tony comments: OK, ha, ha, funny, funny. Joke's over. For you maybe ... 8-) I really think that grabbing files off the network without explicit permission from the user is a bad idea, even when it's all in good fun. 1. Putting the magic download into the base package CVS would have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] uncool easter egg

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Perry
I definitely agree. It's a violation of almost every netiquette rule, that is concerned to virus-like behaviour or bandwith respect of others. I disagree. Almost _every_ new Microsoft-based program checks its home website, sometimes for logging and sometimes anonymous as in this case. It is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] uncool easter egg

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Perry
I definitely agree. It's a violation of almost every netiquette rule, that is concerned to virus-like behaviour or bandwith respect of others. I disagree. Almost _every_ new Microsoft-based program checks its home website, sometimes for logging and sometimes anonymous as in this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failed to load 3D model

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Perry
How about we have a missing model in the same way as we have a missing texture ? A ten meter cube with that texture on each side ? I get a Fatal error when trying to use some aircraft because I don't have the 3D model installed. For example, I don't have the Harrier or the Beech99 models

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failed to load 3D model

2002-05-19 Thread Alex Perry
Alex Perry writes: How about we have a missing model in the same way as we have a missing texture ? A ten meter cube with that texture on each side ? I remember a blue and yellow glider I thought that was the default model, i.e. the one that is used if you don't specify otherwise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong

2002-05-18 Thread Alex Perry
Do you retry now with plib, SimGear and FlightGear in sync. What are your actual error messages ? Further on that topic, I've got a script redoing that I need about once every couple of months. It does CVS with explicit -APd against the six trees, builds simgear from clean with reinstall,

[Flightgear-devel] Video flight recorder

2002-05-17 Thread Alex Perry
1. Is the scripting now capable of repeatably controlling a flight, so that I can tweak and practice it before using it for demonstration ? 2. What are our collective capabilities for making a video tape recording of a flight that has been stored as a python script ahead of time ? 3.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: improved cloud support

2002-05-17 Thread Alex Perry
5. cirrus ( cirrus is not specified in METAR ) CI in this area we have a lot of BKN CI 200 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Environment subsystem status

2002-05-16 Thread Alex Perry
Christian said: (Note: degrees are still valid as they are *internationally* well known. slugs aren't) Yes they are ... each country's definition depends on local climate and fauna, ranging from one gram, through one ounce to as high as one pound. I don't know of a slug being one kilogram but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plotting/logging tool

2002-05-16 Thread Alex Perry
My fault partially, sorry. a while ago I asked about a plotting tool of which I had seen on this mailing list that it would be integrated into FlightGear. I saw in the latest news messages that the logging was updated in version 0.7.10 of FG but I can't find anything that looks like a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off topic] Babylonian finger counting

2002-05-16 Thread Alex Perry
I read that it's how they counted on their fingers. Using your thumb, touch the top third (near the tip) of each finger for 1-4, the middle third (between the two knuckles) of each finger for 5-8, and the bottom third for 9-12. I'm not sure how they combined the second hand with that, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems Interfacing FG to a GPS

2002-05-13 Thread Alex Perry
Has anyone had any success interfacing FG with a GPS? I have been attempting to interface FG with my garmin handheld. However, after reading the first line of serial data, FG crashes. The first line of data is read and parsed correctly but FG crashes before the second line of data is read.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Man-Made obstructions

2002-05-12 Thread Alex Perry
Now, it *does* happen that we know the locations of an awful lot of NDB, VOR, and ILS transmitters world-wide, and we could easily add those to the scenery. I should point out that a lot of pilots (who I now copy) often navigate by pilotage (i.e. visually looking at the scenery) using the VOR

[Flightgear-devel] No booth ... but a workshop

2002-05-12 Thread Alex Perry
Lack of time to take out a week to fly to Germany and back - lack of money to buy airline tickets and a week of hotel bills. Probably lack of money to buy the hotel bill; AFAIK does anyone who gives a speech travel for free (ask Alex). Yes. I hope you can do it next year. So I have a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gusting winds

2002-05-07 Thread Alex Perry
In real life, I've been having a hard time with my landings on the circuit ('suck' might be the most appropriate term). (1) Ask to have a night lesson. The air will be a lot smoother and you can practice things like roundout and ground effect operations. ..early mornings

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gusting winds

2002-05-06 Thread Alex Perry
In real life, I've been having a hard time with my landings on the circuit ('suck' might be the most appropriate term). Minor suggestions ... (1) Ask to have a night lesson. The air will be a lot smoother and you can practice things like roundout and ground effect operations. (2) Wait a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gusting winds

2002-05-06 Thread Alex Perry
fgfs --wind=270@15 --prop:/environment/params/gust-wind-speed-kt=25 I can't try it right now; the 3D panel is broken for me and the 2D view environment sets the clip planes to be unusable for 16 bit depth buffering when I get close to ground effect. Disconcerting ... I'll try later again.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Cessna 172R or 172M/N/P?

2002-04-30 Thread Alex Perry
A while ago, Alex suggested that we would be better modelling the 172M/N/P (I think), since those are more common. In retrospect, I agree, for a slightly different reason -- I don't think that we have access to the right numbers for a 172R. Actually, I suggest we fork the C172 into a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud rendering

2002-04-28 Thread Alex Perry
Any volenteers? http://www.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/clouds/RTCRDownload.html I remember that someone posted a link to a forward scattering method about six months ago, dunno whether it was this one. It seemed to be unfeasible for use on single computers in an ad-hoc fashion. The integral

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View Oddity Between MagicCarpet and JSBSim

2002-04-26 Thread Alex Perry
Yep. We already do that. But the empty-weight, unloaded CG doesn't change. Surely, when I switch from the VFR panel to the IFR panel, the FDM adds a POINT_MASS in the appropriate place ... ? No ? 8-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread Alex Perry
You should have a look at the bindings in your joystick.xml file as there a bunch of defaults in there that you probably won't like. I locally have a chproducts.xml file which is used inside the preferences.xml file instead of the standard joystick.xml file, so that CVS doesn't keep whingeing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread Alex Perry
That's a thought. Let me put some comments in there first though ... On Friday 26 April 2002 10:50 pm, Alex Perry wrote: You should have a look at the bindings in your joystick.xml file as there a bunch of defaults in there that you probably won't like. I locally have a chproducts.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread Alex Perry
For example, say I'm a long-time X-Plane user and just can't live with the default FG key bindings. I could create my very own ~/.fgfs/keyboard.xml and completely override the master file. That's exactly why the keymappings are broken out of the preferences.xml You can have two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property viewer segfaulting

2002-04-26 Thread Alex Perry
Actually I would call this a FGFS problem in that FGFS is asking for a character that is not present in the PLib font that is being used. The PLib Font system does not claim to be a universal font renderer in fact just the oposite in that it gives you only the characters that it can pack

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: Enhanced Magic Carpet)

2002-04-25 Thread Alex Perry
(make sure you switch to external view), to see the result of 90 seconds' work in Blender. Are you going to do an interior view ? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: Enhanced Magic Carpet)

2002-04-25 Thread Alex Perry
Especially in multiplayer mode ... Alex Perry writes: (make sure you switch to external view), to see the result of 90 seconds' work in Blender. Are you going to do an interior view ? David, Here after doing a full cvs update -d of the base package and the fgfs source, I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: Enhanced Magic Carpet)

2002-04-25 Thread Alex Perry
Alex Perry writes: Are you going to do an interior view ? Do flying saucers have windows? Most of the ones in films do. You might want to pick your favorite film and use that as the model, whatever it is. There's a good chance someone else has already done the 3D model for it in any case

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d Cessna 310 u3a

2002-04-25 Thread Alex Perry
For screen shots - if you don't mind my showing off a bit ;-) Night time - http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/u3anight.png Wow ... what did you make the tires of ... Tritium ? 8-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3Dcockpit

2002-04-23 Thread Alex Perry
Yes, but there is more to it than (a) an implied 0 for the third coordinate (b) an arbitrary choice for dimensional units because the 3D model uses the z buffer for overlay, while the panel uses drawing order. In order for the panel to be drawn correctly by the 3D SSG tree, we have to imply

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

2002-04-23 Thread Alex Perry
These patches are against the 1.5 CVS, not the 1.4 release, so there may be problems. Here they are: http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-smoothing.dif http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-transparency.dif I get the 1.4.2, execute 'patch plib-smoothing.dif'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3Dcockpit

2002-04-22 Thread Alex Perry
Many multihead capable video cards will only do 3D acceleration on the main head. If the instrument panel is placed on the second head, it had better use 2D GL calls. Therefore, the panel has to intrinsically be a 2D database. I had heard this before, so I was expecting disaster

Re: [Flightgear-devel] perplexing make error

2002-04-21 Thread Alex Perry
I managed to sort out the problems and get things to compile. I was forced to remove my altered versions of fg_init.cxx and options.cxx. It refused to merge them, or replace them, or compile them, or whatever. But by removing my files, it recvsed the cvs versions and it compiled. I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: USB yoke and pedals?

2002-04-20 Thread Alex Perry
matthew law writes: I'm thinking of treating myself to CH Products' (http://www.chproducts.com/) USB Pro Pedals and USB flight Yoke (the one with throttle, mixture, and prop levers). FlightGear likes them just fine, but you might need to apply a few Linux kernel patches to get them

[Flightgear-devel] LINUXTAG 2002

2002-04-20 Thread Alex Perry
I propose that the PLIB project takes a community booth at LinuxTag http://www.linuxtag.org June 6-9 this summer in Karlsruhe Germany. This PLIB USERS booth would be a place for the dozen-odd projects that conspicuously incorporate plib (and any others that join in) to show off their projects,

[Flightgear-devel] LINUXTAG 2002 - BoF for FlightGear

2002-04-20 Thread Alex Perry
We have a one hour slot, June 8 at 11am, for a Birds-of-a-Feather session: http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2002/workshops.php3 All welcome and invited - bring a working system if you can ... I have not requested a booth for FlightGear yet, because (a) I'm still not sure whether

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-15 Thread Alex Perry
[... Andrew Ross wrote ...] Here's a gedanken experiment [...] A _what_ ? Is this a valid word in your language ? I'm asking because it definitely has german roots, the word 'gedanken' That's funny, It is a popular word in the USA. Not sure whether this is due to too many people

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-14 Thread Alex Perry
To be fair, however, what many people call unflyable around here isn't anywhere near the case. The most recent JSBSim complaint, for example, only took two clicks of keyboard aileron to correct at climbout speeds. I was talking to a pilot friend of mine the other day. He was telling me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

2002-04-12 Thread Alex Perry
Can we check the bounding sphere of the model and, if the viewpoint is outside it, use the nearest point of the sphere as a candidate for the clip plane ? Doesn't help for pilot viewpoint, but should for trailing. David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Curtis L. Olson writes: Could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: animated windsock

2002-04-12 Thread Alex Perry
The sock itself is rigid rather than collapsible, and it simply rotates with the wind direction and tilts from 75deg down for no wind to straight out for 15kt. That's not right -- at 6kt, it should be inclined only 30deg down for a standard windsock -- but at least it's something. You

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Alex Perry
Personally, I've always preferred that event registration takes two parameters; the first delay time and the repeat delay time. This lets you do one-shot as well as immediate and non-immediate modes. Can we do something like that with Boost in future ? Obviously we can support it right now if we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway (current CVS)

2002-04-11 Thread Alex Perry
The convention for moving models for flight simulation visual system is for the origin to be at the CG location for aircraft models. The coordinate system that we use on our heavy iron visual system is +y out the nose, +x to the right and +z up. For an industry disertation on the subject

[Flightgear-devel] segfault (linux)

2002-04-10 Thread Alex Perry
... Cannot open file: /usr/local/lib/FlightGear/Scenery/Objects.txt Initializing splash screen Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 1748)] fgReshape (width=1024, height=768) at main.cxx:1243 1243

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim piston engine

2002-04-10 Thread Alex Perry
It is gradual. In fact, if you think about it, it has to be. A propeller that presented the same AoA at every point along the blade would have to change its degree of twist as the advance ratio changed. I was just wondering whether the twist happened to correspond to the AOA-plus-advance so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfault (linux)

2002-04-10 Thread Alex Perry
Yep, that apparently fixed it. Curt said: Make sure you have the latest base package ... I think some default properties changed. I don't think this should lead to a segfault, but apparently it does ... Alex Perry writes: ... Cannot open file: /usr/local/lib/FlightGear/Scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim piston engine

2002-04-09 Thread Alex Perry
If you look carefully, you'll actually see the RPM drop very slightly before it starts increasing. The physical reason for this is that the blades are unstalling. As the flow attaches to them, they experience a sharp increase in induced drag. I was pretty pleased to notice this little

[Flightgear-devel] size of symbol

2002-04-08 Thread Alex Perry
Do we care about this error ? /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `current_model' changed from 4 to 8 in ../../src/Model/libModel.a(acmodel.o) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim piston engine

2002-04-08 Thread Alex Perry
Nope; you can fairly easily get the RPM over 2700 in a fast cruise descent, but there is no way you'll manage over 2500 at Vy, never mind Vx. Andy Ross writes: Basically, if I understand the request, it should be sufficient to set the takeoff-rpm value to 2100 or so, while leaving the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim piston engine

2002-04-08 Thread Alex Perry
You should talk to Andy and look at the prop model; the faster you go, the faster the prop can turn. Fast cruise descents can overspeed. I'm not at home and can't look up the exact numbers, sorry. Alex Perry writes: Nope; you can fairly easily get the RPM over 2700 in a fast cruise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-07 Thread Alex Perry
Gadds. I don't know...even with an almost completely idle cpu occaisonally I seem to have these weird performance discrepencies. It isn't heat, so who knows. Maybe its something weird about the kernel. Later without changing anything it looked much better, aproximately a 10% improvement

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Flight

2002-04-06 Thread Alex Perry
Landing gear steering *gain* is another one of those things. As far as the differential steering with braking, I don't know what to say other than we may have to take another look at that section of code. Jon, add it to the to-be-measured list. I can go and taxi in circles on the transient

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Flight

2002-04-06 Thread Alex Perry
Although I've said before that I wouldn't do it, Grin ... sounds like you had a good (and generic) intro flight. I had expected that in an introductory flight the instructor would [...] Nope; what you got is pretty standard. A good flight instructor tends to blend into the background. You

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Flight

2002-04-06 Thread Alex Perry
Left and right brakes are also bound to ',' and '.' on the keyboard, and you can bind them to joystick buttons if you want, but then you're stuck with a choice between no brakes and full brakes. Another option is to bind the keys to increment the brakes by, say, 0.05, so that you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving carrier, and Repositioning questions

2002-04-05 Thread Alex Perry
. In hindsight, we might have preferred to not I volunteer to change the JSBSim usage of the 'FG' prefix to anything you want :-) 15-minutes-of-sed'ly-yr's 15 minutes? $ find . -name *.[ch]?? -o -name *.h \ perl -pi.bak -e 's/FG/JSB/g' 10 seconds to write, 14.83 minutes to fix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM/Viewer mismatch

2002-04-03 Thread Alex Perry
I mildly disagree. I think the FGFS should require that the FDMs _and_ the aircraft models all have the reference point at the original manufacturer's defined reference point (so they all match nicely) even if this is done by a parametric offset that the FDM's configuration file has somewhere.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plotting tool

2002-04-03 Thread Alex Perry
Regarding the thread you are referring to - The code is presently with Alex Perry and he is in the process of integrating it into SimGear (?) and should be available soon. On a side note ... Curt, did you decide whether you want to have it in the CVS tree for SimGear ? If you did and you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plotting tool

2002-04-03 Thread Alex Perry
I need to pick a less popular project to be involved in ... maybe a python to cobol translator written in prolog. Which reminds me ... does Mesa have support for AALIB yet ? Several people have been complaining about having to run FGFS under X and/or Windows. I know that AALIB supports both

Re: [Flightgear-devel] cvs update doesn't update changed files?

2002-03-31 Thread Alex Perry
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:40:48AM -0700, Keith Wiley wrote: So assume I started with no project directory and I did a cvs update, which created the directory and checkout everything. That worked, I successfully built. Then I did my own personal modification to fg_init.cxx and worked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Publicity

2002-03-29 Thread Alex Perry
ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 122), 8 MB vram. PCI id is 1002:4757 or 1002:475a according to http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?s=1i=1002 ..so, on the Mesa gear demo, I should get like 1500fps on my 200MHz box and over 2000 fps once I have accelleration on my 450MHz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-29 Thread Alex Perry
I don;t know. Maybe. I have been thinking of placing fgfs in the ~/.xinitrc to start FlightGear as a window manager. Has anybody tried it already, and if so, did it work? I've done that with Quake3, and it worked fine. I routinely do that on the FGFS demo account at the booth for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Publicity

2002-03-29 Thread Alex Perry
ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 122), 8 MB vram. PCI id is 1002:4757 or 1002:475a according to http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?s=1i=1002 ..so, on the Mesa gear demo, I should get like 1500fps on my 200MHz box and over 2000 fps once I have accelleration on my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Near and Far

2002-03-28 Thread Alex Perry
Jim Wilson writes: Would it be ok with everyone to add the values for the two near and far plane settings to preferences.xml? I'd like to be able to use them in makeing eyepoint and model origin translation adjustments. I have no problem with adding them to the property tree, but I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread Alex Perry
* Norman Vine -- Thursday 28 March 2002 17:16: I could care less about those folks running FGFS in a window this is a FlightSIM and the operative word is FRAMERATE which any windowing system KILLS. Huh ... forget my other (arrogant) reply. I guess you are right. I just didn't manage

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread Alex Perry
I could care less about those folks running FGFS in a window this is a FlightSIM and the operative word is FRAMERATE which any windowing system KILLS. I'm sure the glass cockpit people will disagree with you. Certainly I do; I have a bunch of instrumentation in other windows. OK my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 Build Progress

2002-03-28 Thread Alex Perry
*connects to http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ and downloads VNC for the PC and Mac* *installs VNC in both computers* Buys the second license to the appropriate version of Windows *does the 'happy dance'* ... it's the Microsoft tax dance. Every computer that runs, or remotely controls,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway numbers: leading zero

2002-03-28 Thread Alex Perry
In Britain, as far as I know, we always use two-digit numbers Nope, not in the US. Dunno about elsewhere. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Configurable mouse ready to go

2002-03-28 Thread Alex Perry
Norman writes: Andy Ross writes: Uh oh, we're going in circles again. Last words, I promise. :) I do not have a linux box to play with but I am almost willing to bet that a full screen undecorated window would have a somewhat similar speedup under X compared to drawing in a 'X' decorated

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