is the first which I assume is the beacon type,
but while some are obvious, others aren't - it'd be nice to use the
right model for each one, rather that just a generic one.
Can you elaborate on what this means? Putting models that look like VORs
at all the VOR locations, etc?
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they made it into the trees and started shooting
back.
Story goes that they used an object model based on ground troops and
were still
carrying weapons.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.htm
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in fullscreen, I think.
There's also a Python script that places them, by writing a file
containing the appropriate lines to add to the tile's .stg file.
Is there still interest in these? Hope so. If so, I'll go
into more detail and pass them along . . .
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Is there still interest in these? Hope so. If so, I'll go
into more detail and pass them along . . .
I do think so, don't we.
I mean, this is an essential part of airfields, but don't know enough
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One of the uses of the new submodel code - sky writing :)
http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/sky-writing.jpg
Oh man! Surrender Dorothy! would make a great screenshot.
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Are the lengths of displaced threshholds and stopways given for a
particular runway in runways.dat included in that runway's given
length? In other words, for this runyway:
R KSFO 01L
/AptNavFAQ.FlightGear.html?rev=1.1.1.1cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9
and it didn't have that paragraph at the end of the specification for
length of displaced threshhold that's in the X-Plane copy, and that
answers the question completely. Thanks muchly.
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includes
displaced threshholds and stopways for determining the length
to consider when placing the signs.
Thanks,
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designation stuff in updates a few weeks ago,
and now I'm wondering if I sent to an incorrect address . . .
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a or b or whatever added
to the upstream version number without a problem. So I agree
that this should work fine.
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) in the .stg file means?
If not, can you think of anything I can check as to why angle 0.00
isn't giving me a sign that points north or south, but instead
at a weird angle?
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of this somewhere? I've looked all
around the NGA and NACO sites but haven't found anything. How did he
hear about this? Is there any kind of timetable? Were there reasons
stated?
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Is there an official announcement of this somewhere? I've looked all
around the NGA and NACO sites but haven't found anything. How did he
hear about this? Is there any kind of timetable
premature), maybe it's a good idea to take an evening
to write such a comment.
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color applied to an object (including
the texture).
Once upon a time, I knew this. Thanks. That's what I'd ended up
doing (or had to do) when I went ahead and textured all the faces.
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i've collected some of the
screenshots at http://caliban.lbl.gov/fgfs-heli/index.html.
These are gorgeous, my compliments.
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I've been waiting to post this until after the release went out,
hoping there'd be more discussion when things were a tiny bit calmer .
. .
Over time, various people have done a lot of work on ground
to
have that functionality planned in from the start, rather than having
to deal with it later.
I'll start playing around with this stuff to see if I can set up a
system that works well.
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that is, 1 rather than = 0.1.
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if it was (unfortunately,
scenery.flightgear.org is occupied, hehe). Mat Churchill and I are
both enthusiastic about such a scenery website.
What do people think?
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in the air. And I don't see any problem with
the DC-3. I want to say that this is something odd about your drivers,
but I'm too ignorant of this stuff to be sure. Is it only ATI people
that see this stuff? Do all ATI people see this stuff
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that sort
of thing too, near most large airports. I suspect it's not a FlightGear
thing so much as a TerraGear thing -- I suspect it's an artifact of
the smoothing done in making things flat for the runways etc. But I
dunno.
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information (cvs collision warnings, etc...)
FWIW, with today's CVS I couldn't reproduce this.
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:54:28 +0200
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Metzler wrote:
Hi. It appears that in initialization, if an airport and heading are
specified on the command line, a runway is immediately chosen based
upon the heading, and latitude/longitude is set
with FG,
and haven't found one with more than one texture file associated
with one object, and now I'm worried. Is this something Blender
can do, but AC3D (and thus AC3D files) cannot?
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:59:37 -0400
Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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For those of you who've worked on 3d modelling/texturing, please
please please tell me I'm missing something here.
I've an object I've created in Blender. Using the UV Face Editor, I
load one
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Oh, that sucks. That truly, truly sucks. Having finished several
objects, I now have to go back and break each of them up into
multiple smaller objects. Using one unified texture, and UVmapping
://www.speakeasy.net/~cmetzler/fgfs-screen-004.jpg
Weird stuff. What airports are these?
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it was because
I was a kilometer and a half away from where I thought.
Not very important at all -- it probably takes a fairly contrived
situation (like mine) to get bit by this -- but figured I'd
mention it.
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an airport which FlightGear actually knows of ?
Can you rephrase this? I can't figure out what it is that you're
saying here.
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Subject: Taxiway designations in runways.dat / Robin's apt.dat.
Opinions please!
Hi. I'd like folks' opinion about this.
Right now, Robin Peel's apt.dat, which contains the runway and taxiway
data, comes with xxx
missing here?
Thanks,
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For example,
tweaking the diffuse/specular reflectivity parameters produces no
change whatsoever to the .ac file exported, even though the .blend
file does change.
Correct. Currently
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Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Boris Koenig wrote:
Chris Metzler wrote:
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David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Correct. Currently, the AC3D export scripts in blender do not export
specular, and emissive parameters
and left margins
stay OK.
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to someone who's more
experienced at this than I am. Can someone clue me in?
Thanks muchly.
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. It'd be nice for this to all be done in a consistent way.
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WARNING: Volume larger than 1.0 for configuration for 'engine2'
Oops AL error in sample set_volume()! 2.15 for
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cockpit viewing angles, and
those work fine. So I don't get it. But nevertheless, looking back
left causes an immediate abort.
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that person would accomplish -- in fact, what they'd
accomplish would be the actual proposal, with hiring a person to
implement it being described as simply the means).
Just some thoughts.
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Does this make sense? Am I understanding you, Erik?
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behind another Cessna that looks different from yours).
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people think pursuing this is a bad idea? A good idea? An
idea that can be improved? I wanted to see what people thought
before asking Robin Peel about it.
Thanks very much,
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file. And since the .ac
model is uniquely specified in the .xml file for the model, which in
turn is uniquely specified in the .xml file for the aircraft as a whole,
a different paint job/livery effectively means a new aircraft. Is
this right?
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plans.
I was wondering how that might end up being implemented, or whether
it's even possible.
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!? ;-)
This is just what I was thinking. Lots of open source projects
have set up PayPal accounts for collecting donations.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_help-extleafid=2524answer_id=2918693
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. The AGL altitude
is enormous -- around 33000 ft -- because that's how deep the hole is.
To see this, take the UFO off of runway 30 and fly it across the hole.
Watch your AGL altitude explode. I flew down the hole but didn't find
ground at the bottom.
Weirdness.
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large buildings
are located in real life. Is that correct? If so, why not use the
FCC's Antenna Structure Registration database (http://wireless.fcc.gov/antenna/)
instead?
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Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I'm off for now:
http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/downloads/fokker100-EK04.jpg
pretty.
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And while asking about the radio towers . . .my (perhaps wrong)
understanding is that they come from some sort of FAA obstruction
database; that's why some are at locations where large buildings
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Oh, I get it now, he's going to Euro 2004! Duh.
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a non-metar weather scenario or two or
three would be good.
I ditto this. In addition to no weather and METAR extracted, having
a scenario or two would be nice. But I think having a default of nothing
(except for maybe some high-altitude stuff for scenery) is good.
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by the website that Jon
noted, and poking around the website itself, it looks to me not
like they're *selling* FG, but like they're *auctioning* it off.
This looks very much like the website of an eBay-clone.
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I have some friends here whose parents came from Poland and who are
in both spoken and written Polish.
Uh, that should have been . . .who are fluent in both spoken and
written Polish.
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will change this, but I'm just curious
how it works.
Thanks.
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Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Metzler wrote:
Sometimes I run into issues with FlightGear -- fgfs, data, scenery,
whatever -- that I'm reluctant to report because I'm concerned that
the developers already know about them;
Indeed, that's a good
it feel at this point like
having one would be too formalized, or needless bureaucracy, or
whatever?
Yours in curiosity,
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, for instance).
If possible, then I might think that one could use a very very small
texture (little more than color) tiled over the face of an object at
large distances, then switch to something more detailed once closer.
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in such a way (I only wish I was
a pilot). But I figured I'd check anyway.
Any advice, especially on #1, would really be appreciated.
Thanks.
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that the
existing runway specificationg fgfs has is wrong right away, and
hold off on placing the structure.
I know it's much easier to ask about this than it is to implement it;
but it seems like it might save multiple instances of a lot of effort
later on.
Good idea? Lousy idea?
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Thanks,
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in the default
area in hopes of contributing that work; but if that's not useful,
I'll do something else.
Thanks very much again; I'm really looking forward to the new scenery.
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On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:07:06 -0500
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Metzler wrote:
The database that came with 0.9.4 had taxiways mainly just for big
airports. Will this updated database have them for many smaller
airports as well? I ask because I've been using David Luff's
On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:45:51 +0100
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On 5/17/04 at 12:58 PM Chris Metzler wrote:
At any rate, as far as manually placing them and putting that
capability in TaxiDraw, sure, that'd be cool! In the short-term,
though, I have another request: a scrollbar
?
Thanks for advice,
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P.S. Oddly, when *making* the 1024x1024 images, Map is able to
display them just fine. It's only when Atlas tries to do so that
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to pings. A traceroute suggests
that it's dynamically assigned to users in Florida, and possibly south
Georgia.
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 21:26:39 +0100
Jonathan Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 20 May 2004 8:48 pm, Chris Metzler wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:34:02 -0400
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip If
anyone one the list has the IP address 24.214.247.18 right now
On Thu, 20 May 2004 19:54:51 +0100
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:43, Chris Metzler wrote:
So it seems that 1024x1024 files are the problem. Does anyone else
see this with a current Atlas from CVS? Any suggestions on what I
can do to fix this? Obviously
On Sat, 15 May 2004 13:17:46 -0400
Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 15, 2004 01:31 am, Chris Metzler wrote:
The problem I have at this point is good source photos.
In my opinion, pictures aren't really that useful. Sure, they may give
you information on various details
On Sat, 15 May 2004 16:31:03 +0100
David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Well, I'm probably talking out of my behind here, and maybe this isn't
an issue. But I would naively think that having fgfs (or TerraGear or
whatever) place signs on the basis of taxiway identifiers
by flying? For the purposes of inspecting how models
look etc., it's nice to be able to pick a vantage point and viewing
angle; is there anything like that in fgfs?
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 13:27:43 -0400
Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Metzler wrote:
As an aside, is there a way to travel around the scenery and look at
it other than by flying? For the purposes of inspecting how models
look etc., it's nice to be able to pick a vantage point
Baltimore.
I live in the DC area and have similar interests. Maybe when I learn
my way around Blender we can collaborate on some of this stuff.
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want to make things which are so cool that they won't get
used because they're too apt to drag framerates down into the
dirt.
That'll do for starters. Thanks for any info you can give; hope
my input is welcome.
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Hi Dave. Thanks very much for your reply.
On Fri, 14 May 2004 23:37:58 +0100
David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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2. The taxiways that *are* listed in the Airport/runways.dat,
typically for major airports, don't have taxiway identifications
listed. For example
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