Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > > >>Ah, www.multimap.com helped me to figure out my first coordinate: > > > Wow, I wonder where they take their map data from - they are able to > display details t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > "Oliver C." wrote: > > >>I read the word "turbulence" and thought that perhaps >>this could be usefull somehow for flightgear or jsbsim but i am not shure >>about that, so i mention it here maybe you know it better if this co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: >> Ah, www.multimap.com helped me to figure out my first coordinate: >> >> There's a windmill at: >> >> Location:Germany >> X:1294800m >> Y:6110700m >> Lat:48:12:51N (48.2142) >> Lon:11:37:52E (11.631) >> >> B

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfram Kuss schrieb: > Erik wrote: > > >>This still might be useful if you can get all the moments and >>coefficients from it. Then you would be able to create a JSBSim >>configuration file from the model geometry. > > > The idea of using the gf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: > On January 12, 2005 06:07 pm, Christian Mayer wrote: > >>I see more problems with the correct shape of the wings. The models >>won't get it right and using just some NACA profiles won't wor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Beeckman schrieb: > Are there any decent books about those Navier-Stokes equations and how > to implement them in C or java? One description of Navier Stokes are at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_equations there are also many many

[Flightgear-devel] C++ question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, can someone help me to solve thise problem: Imagine I've got this class hierachy: class A { virtual bool foo( A bar ) = 0; } class B : A { bool foo( B bar ) { ... } } int main( void ) { B foobar; } this won't compile as m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why should maps be power of 2?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > Robicd wrote: > >> I've been managing with some 3d objects to put into fgfs sceneries and >> I've found that faces' texture maps should be sized with power of 2. >> I'm using .3ds files (with .bmp maps) which don't have such

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more google adds

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > I did another round with google adds today and here's what I've come up > with which seems (to me) like it could work out. > > 1. No adds at all on the main/front page of our site. Adds only on the > subpages. Sounds fair

[Flightgear-devel] A380

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When do we have a flyable A380? It can't be that Airbus was faster than we are: http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/17/0437202.shtml?tid=126 CU, Christian ;) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thund

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A380 - Virtual Screen inside Flightgear driven by SVG commands?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver C. schrieb: > > Is it possible to implement a sort of virtual screen (like a texture but > vector driven not bitmap driven) inside the Flightgear Window that can be put > anywhere in the flightgear 3d world, for example inside of a cockpit as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A380

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: > Running Nasal code in the rendering loop to do tons of work would not be a > very good idea in my opinion. > I've looked through an A320 FCOM manual and it would take many thousands of > lines of C++ to accomplish a half funct

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the web page is comming along nicely! There's one thing that could be added: when you click on the thumbnail a normal sized picture should open. It also would be great if there'd be a thumbnail of the cockpit for that plane as well. CU, Christi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C++ question - solved

p1) and > then have the B class explicitly cast the parameter p1 to a B inside > B:foo when using the B-specific functionality of the parameter. I don't > know how to do templates, so this is what I might do until it got too > ugly. > > Hope that helps, > Paul > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8, Mac OS X build

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Brunschen schrieb: > > Hi, > > The Mac OS X build of FlightGear 0.9.8, as available from > download>, contains a file called 'How to Get to Heaven.rtf', at the > ro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8, Mac OS X build

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >> As religions differ greatly around the globe (even in the countries >> themselfes) there'll people who helped with their work that have their >> belive at least not repre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giles Robertson schrieb: > 1) Fgrun/fgfs. > For the average windows user, this is *highly* counterintuitive. In so > far as Windows has an overarching user interface and tool design > philosophy, it's integration. The concept of a GUI that launches the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >> The first point is argueable. But that we need a restart just to change >> planes is a big show stopper! > > > It depends on the goals for 1.0. If you want a version th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Bouvier schrieb: > Erik Hofman wrote : > >> Frederic Bouvier wrote: >> >>> This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the >>> meantime, a screenshot : >>> http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg >> >> >> If you're

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: > Also, I was actually thinking about Wind Turbines earlier today; are you > having them face into-wind and altering the rotation speed depending on > windspeed? They don't vary that much in real-life (they are governed) but >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > > >>There are 3 possibilities > > > This is a bit different from the wind turbines we have near EDLN > (Cologne area). If the wind is too high they feather their blades b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manuel Massing schrieb: > Hello, > > >>I do have a few questions though : >>Does the current code that you have handle texture paging? > > > Yes, textures and geometry are paged and decompressed asynchronously in the > background (seperate thread).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: > On Saturday, 29 January 2005 12:54, Christian Mayer wrote: > >>Manuel Massing schrieb: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>> >>>>I do have a few questions though : >>>>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Elliott schrieb: > Hello Dave, > > I'm using an ATI 9200 vid card with ATI's drivers and I'm > getting: > > Seaching for extensions... > GLX_SGIX_fbconfig: NO > GLX_SGIX_pbuffer: NO > > One or more required extension(s) could not be found: > G

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >>Manual Massing wrote: >> >>>Yes, textures and geometry are paged and decompressed >>>asynchronously in the background (seperate thread). The engine >>>suppor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: > On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 17:39, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > >>>Has anyone actually looked at how much of the base package is >>>taken up by SGI+ format image files? (Which have absolutely >>>abysmal compression ratios, but that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] STL help requested

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Luff schrieb: > Hi folks, > > I've run into a tricky problem when using stl map, and am hoping someone > might be able to point me on the right direction. > > I have a map of airports, indexed by string, which is the ICAO code: > > map apt_ma

[Flightgear-devel] Qt 4 will be GPLed for all supported systems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've just read at the Heise Newsticker, that Trolltech is planning to release the next version of Qt for all systems (including M$ Windows) under it's dual license. => We can start to use it!! :) The attached text (including the reasons their ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Curiosity about antialiasing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: > At the moment, is antialiasing applied to textures themselves? If so, what > will happen if antialiasing is applied to the final render/output instead? Technically the textures, as they are displayed, aren't antialiase

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Okay ... who was it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Christian Mayer -- Friday 18 February 2005 17:22: > >>Melchior FRANZ schrieb: >> >>> http://members.aon.at/mfranz/exhibit_A.jpg >> >>Ups, it happend again. Lasttime was the vict

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Okay ... who was it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: > Putting all the above into a fatigue-routine or a fatigue-class, we can make > a > call to it everytime the aircraft makes a contact with the ground. We can > make a call to it every second, too. Afterall, aicrafts c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Big Nasal Changes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Bouvier schrieb: > simgear\nasal\string.c(200) : warning C4244: 'function' : conversion > from 'double' to 'int', possible loss of data > simgear\nasal\string.c(261) : warning C4244: 'function' : conversion > from 'double' to 'int', possible l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] game engines (ghours)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: > eagle monart wrote: > >>> eagle monart a écrit : >>> > hi everyone, >>> > >>> > is there an idea of switching to another open sourcegame engine. >>> fg is >>> > real beatiful but is weak in visuals especially in terrain >>> ren

Re: [Flightgear-devel] batteries, alternators, volts, amps - electrical system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > I need to do some work beefing up our electrical system model a bit. > I'd like to add a simple model for a battery where output varies with > time and a simple alternator model where output varies with rpm. I'm a > complet

Re: [Flightgear-devel] batteries, alternators, volts, amps - electrical system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: > Just some general info that may or may not be useful. > > General aviation batteries : Typically lead acid > Commercial and military : Typically Ni-Cad (nickel cadmium) > > [...] > > On the battery side of things the discharg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Ships

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Culp schrieb: > If this is in regard to the AI ships driving onto land, the AI ships and AI > carrier can accept a flight plan, but the ability to follow the flight plan > has not yet been implemented. I won't be hard to do. Once that is done,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Bouvier schrieb: > Another nit picking : > > When an object ( say a building ) is culled because it is not in the > view, its shadow is also culled even if it is in the view. > > 2 screen shots : > > In the first, an oracle building cast it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine schrieb: > Martin Spott writes: > >>I'm currently uncertain if we really can store the _whole_ scenery in >>PostGIS. Our elevation data currently comes as raster data but maybe >>it makes sense to convert that into contour lines - which we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: code optimisation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Campbell schrieb: > Hi, > One comment and some documentation has indicted that FDM doesnt consume > much CPU. > I ask myself why? > The modelling of a generalised rigid body with six degrees of freedom in > a rotating frame of > reference should ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: > Curt forwarded from Lukas Tinkl: > >>we at SUSE recently stumbled upon this problem: some of the >>code contained in FlightGear contains a non-commercial lincese >>which forbids us from further distributing it. The consequence >>i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] feature request: MultiPlayer's Callsigns inViewport

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: > What a pity as I don't know of any good replacements and writing VOIP > software > is not a trivial task. Well, can't we "just" take the VoIP functionality e.g. from KPhone and set up our own SIP server? It "should" be easy.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sprintf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: > Jon Berndt wrote: > >> IIRC, sprintf was a problem for some. Is that still the case? I've >> compiled under Cygwin, >> Borland C++, and I think I've also compiled code that uses sprintf >> under IRIX. > sprintf is C standard -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sprintf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >> The real cross platform soultion would be the C++ std::string > > > No, you can't format (the f in printf) the string using the default C++ > string class). You hav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: decryption

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Babcock schrieb: > OK, so I ordered some flight manuals on CD from eflightmanuals.com, but > what they didn't tell me is that they send them in a proprietary > encryption scheme for PDF files that requires Windows ME of later which > I don't have.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: decryption

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: > * Which, at least for the US airplanes, are government documents and > therefore uncopyrightable. The only legal restriction on their > distribution would be their security classification, AFAIK. IANAL, > blah blah blah. S

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: very long startup time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:03:11PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > >>looking at the trace logs it looks like fgfs goes through every metar >>station out there: >> >>Initializing environment subsystem >>2005/08/22 14:56 >>KSFO 22

[Flightgear-devel] OT: X-15 Pilots Finally Get Astronaut Wings

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/08/24/1516255.shtml?tid=160&tid=14 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDDKHulhWtxOxWNFcRAuu5AKCI9YXHLI1Al3RZxuqWlm+uhCDDfQCgkfEV /UKFr/biGLZJ/iSy3+vluxg= =xAZj -END PGP SIGNAT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] RE: Turbine Engine (Concorde, Hunter, and Citation Information Needed)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > Curt, > well argued - our real-world pilots handle these engine startup and > shutdown procedures very seriously in helicopters without FADEC, ie. > Eurocopter BO105, BK117. Getting the temperatures too high (hot start, > ITT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: > On September 10, 2005 09:28 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > >>My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes >>primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside >>the USA the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: Online forums?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment. > > What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting > over to online/web-based forums? I hate forums. At a mailinglist I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: > On Saturday 15 October 2005 23:44, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I hope I don't say too much if I say that there is work planned on >>defining taxiways by means of polylines in TaxiDraw. > > > That's still very restrictive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Gerlich schrieb: > > I'm not sure how important giving back to Robin's DB is for "the > FlightGear community" but in the OpenSource manner I'd say we should try > to find a way of not doing things twice in two communities. > We should try to scra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Durk Talsma schrieb: > To get AI traffic going in the forseeable future, we could use quite > a few low-polygon count aircraft models in various paint schemes. So, I'd be > interested to know if anybody with reasonable 3d modeling skills would be >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: > Innis Cunningham wrote: > >> I would think we are better ploting our own course this may mean we are a >> bit light on to start off with but with people helping it would take >> no time at all. > > > Lots of airlines provide

Re: [Flightgear-devel] impending v0.9.9 release

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > Hi all, > > I would really like to get v0.9.9 out the door this week ... Great! Will there be a Windows binary prerelease to test it? CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Tower Simulator

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > I just ran across this document > > http://www.adacel.com/prodserv/downloads/MAXSIM.pdf > > and thought: Isn't it great that FlightGear is so flexible to provide > the visuals for such an application without modification ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] [PATCH] (announcement) throwing stale exceptions and missing copy ctor/assignment

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vassilii Khachaturov schrieb: > What has been done in the patch: > * whenever an exception object was created on a stack and then thrown > (thus causing the dtor for that object to fire!), it was replaced > with a STATIC exception object use in the sam

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any chance for NURBS taxiways?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Inzerillo schrieb: > Is there any chance we get NURBS instead of polygons for taxiways? That's not for me to decide, but I doubt that it will happen in the near future. > Of course this would be a nice improvement for any object in the > scen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure distribution calculation on planes when landing?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: > Dai Qiang wrote: > >>I'm wondering, if it's possible to calculate and record the pressure >>distribution on all parts of a plane, e.g. gears, wings etc, when >>it's landing? > > > Landing gear could be done fairly easily, as the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible new thinking for 2D/3D cockpit instruments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Hosgood schrieb: > I was deliberately thinking that you **don't** want to use OpenGL for > that sort of thing. The GPU has enough work to do rendering the view out > of the windows, it would be a waste of its time rendering instruments > for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] Scenery/tileentry.cxx: new feature: allow objects on sea tiles (& generally don't drop objects)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > If FG_SCENERY=A:B and both dirs contain a Terrain/ and Objects/ does the seperator have to be a double colon ":"? Or, more precisely, is it a ";" under Windos? A double colon would cause real trouble under Windos... (imagine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] W2K or XP?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon S Berndt schrieb: > > Anyone got a good reason why I should install W2K or XP as preferred > over the other one? The difference isn't as big as Microsoft wants you to believe. On modern hardware I'd use XP, on a bit older and slower hardware W2K

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: > However, there is some strange coloring issue: > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-001.jpg You shouldn't take drugs and then fly!!! CU, Christian :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Ming

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: New way to add commandline options

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > > I see three reasons opposing this idea: > 1.) I'm not sure but I assume you can't use ":" inside a command line > option on certain platforms (Windows). I really can't imagine any problems that it might cause under window

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Even more Scenery Objects

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/bitmap/FGFS/EDDI_01.jpg > > It's not that easy to create a screnshot of this large building without > losing major detail Watch it at night ! Yes, the version on http://fgfsdb.stocki

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Slashdot: Seasons Givings

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > > >>P.S. I can still photoshop out most of my gray hair ... :-) > > > Being an OpenSource advocate I hope that you 'GIMP' our those grey > hairs that accidentially might happen to be where you didn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Sim Reset

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vassilii Khachaturov schrieb: > IIRC a destructor can't call virtual methods, so if the interface > needs to do some kind of cleanup it can only be something pertaining > to this instance and using just the compile-time resolved calls. > I haven't look

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