Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: base package aircraft and aliases

2004-03-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Dressler wrote: And what about this: remove description tag from alias set files which shouldn't be displayed in --show-aircrafts and show only those with non empty description. Fill description only in c172-set.xml,j3cub-set.xml etc. It is simplistic solution and all syntax can stay

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs.cxx

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Orthonormalize wrote: i assume fgfs.cxx fgfs.hxx get created by the configure script as i don't see them in the Main directory. since i can't get configure to work, is there anyway someone who is using .NET/Vc7 can send me these files? These files where moved to SimGear a while ago and

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/UIUCModel uiuc_auto_pilot.cpp, NONE, 1.1 uiuc_auto_pilot.h, NONE, 1.1 uiuc_hh_ap.cpp, NONE, 1.1 uiuc_hh_ap.h, NONE, 1.1 uiuc_rah_ap.cpp, NONE, 1.1 uiuc_rah_ap.h, NONE, 1.1 Makefile.am, 1.3, 1.4 uiuc_aerodeflections.cpp, 1.4, 1.5 uiuc_aircraft.h, 1.9, 1.10 uiuc_alh_ap.cpp, 1.1, 1.2 uiuc_alh_ap.h, 1.1, 1.2 uiuc_coef_lift.cpp, 1.3, 1.4 uiuc_coefficients.cpp, 1.6, 1.7 uiuc_coefficients.h, 1.3, 1.4 uiuc_icing_demo.cpp, 1.1, 1.2 uiuc_map_controlSurface.cpp, 1.3, 1.4 uiuc_map_ice.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_map_init.cpp, 1.4, 1.5 uiuc_map_misc.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_map_record1.cpp, 1.1.1.1, 1.2 uiuc_map_record3.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_map_record5.cpp, 1.3, 1.4 uiuc_map_record6.cpp, 1.3, 1.4 uiuc_menu_CL.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_menu_controlSurface.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_menu_ice.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_menu_init.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_menu_misc.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_pah_ap.cpp, 1.2, 1.3 uiuc_recorder.cpp, 1.8, 1.9 uiuc_wrapper.cpp, 1.12, 1.13

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/FDM/UIUCModel In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv19850/UIUCModel Hehe, just when you thought it was a while back you heard from the UIUC developers someone comes running out of their shelter just to throw a bunch of new code at you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build Problem Under Cygwin

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: On 3/15/04 at 8:41 PM Jonathan Polley wrote: I just tried to build FlightGear under Cygwin. When I build, I get the following: In file included from glut_shapes.c:59: /usr/include/w32api/GL/glu.h:230: error: syntax error before '*' token In file included from glut_shapes.c:61:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3d glut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic BOUVIER wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Modified Files: glut_shapes.c glut_shapes.h Log Message: Further refinement of the Cygwin problem as suggested by Frederic. Well, I had the impression that the code was originally good but the configure step was failing to detect and set

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Simgear-cvslogs]CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3dglut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: This is still wrong windows.h needs to be included *before* gl.h inorder for the the WINDOWS GL extensions and not the GLX extensions to be recognized How do you explain that the extensions code does work this way. Did you read the code or just the CVS log message? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs.cxx

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Orthonormalize wrote: i still see: #include Main/fgfs.hxx in the file FGLocalWeatherDatabase.h . however i don't see the file fgfs.hxx anywhere in SimGear. The WeatherCM module isn't actively maintained anymore. Try building with --without-weathercm Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel]Re: [Simgear-cvslogs]CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3dglut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: If it works then it is getting WIN32 predefined from someplace other then the compiler itself which will break a Cygwin compilation for GLX X windows OpenGL which is a separate issue AFAIK the *only* Windows compiler that does not #define WIN32 is Cygwin. This is in order

Re: Removing WeatherCM (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs.cxx)

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: The WeatherCM module isn't actively maintained anymore. Try building with --without-weathercm I talked with Curt about removing WeatherCM over a year ago, but I didn't want to go through with it in case the module sprang back to life. In the event

Re: [Flightgear-devel]Re: [Simgear-cvslogs]CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3dglut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: I still submit that what I proposed is a 'proper' solution and don't understand what you have against it as it only affects MingW and Cygwin users. I'm not against it. I just want to know why this was needed because obviously the extensions code needs the same update then.

Re: Removing WeatherCM (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs.cxx)

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Orthonormalize wrote: here are my observations: 1) the autoconf/configure process is extremely fickle. in my opinion there are way too many configurations for flightgear. the problem seems in trying to support every platform out of the box, fightgear supports no platform. i know that sounds

Re: [Flightgear-devel]Re: [Simgear-cvslogs]CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3dglut_shapes.c, 1.1, 1.2 glut_shapes.h, 1.2, 1.3

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Guys I don't know if this helps in any way but I did a complete rebuild(plib,simgear,flightgear) about 7 days ago under Cygwin on windows 98 and did not have any problem so unless the above area has been changed in the last 7 days it is not simgear or cygwin that is to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem compiling latest jsbsim

2004-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hi, I have problems compiling today's JSBsim with MSVC. I had to patch the sources like this : ; - SG_USING_STD(sqrt); +// SG_USING_STD(sqrt); because sqrt is not a member of std:: Is this declaration really necessary ? I see that math.h is included 11 lines before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Low poly model LOD request

2004-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
D Luff wrote: c172, and possibly more involved, is there any chance of putting a range LOD on the whole model that swaps it out for a very low poly version from a certain distance away? I have no idea of the work involved to create a low poly version from an existing model, so please forgive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AIRCRAFT DESIGN

2004-03-15 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curts, I am trying to undestand the aircraft development. I started reading the UFO design, I read ufo.cxx and I would like to know if there is a tool to change the UFO model. To be honest, the UFO is the worst model to look at when you want to add an aircraft because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Specular reflections/high-lights

2004-03-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Are specular reflections/high-lights only applied to the aircraft models? No, there is no distinction between objects. Everything can use specular highlights. I was wondering how well it might work if it could also be applied to water covered scenery. It won't, the surface is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Extremely sorry for previous mail.

2004-03-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Anil K. Narayanan wrote: I am extremely sorry, everybody. That empty mail was an accident. It's not like my life stopped after that message :-) Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: http://home.clara.net/wolverine/BOB/misc/Spit_Hurri_Manuals.zip To get back to the original subject, this site has an aweful lot of information on WWII warbirds, including performance charts: http://www.rdrop.com/users/hoofj/ Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]CVS: data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models

2004-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Was this in PLIB 1.6, again? The alpha transparency is fine using the CVS I am using the CVS plib and I am seeing this bug. That's interesting -- is anyone else seeing this problem? No, not for IRIX, not for Linux. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS

2004-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: Am I being ignored? I don't hope so because I think that the changes I've made makes the GPS module quite usefull for navigation. No -- apologies. I typically juggle 30-100 active items in my INBOX, aside from the 500-1000 spams I receive every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]CVS: data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models

2004-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 12 March 2004 15:59: All needles are OK. The only bug that I see is the non-transparent attitude 'needle': http://members.aon.at/mfranz/pa28.jpg The SGI image seems to be OK, though (and I'm an SGI image expert :-). I'll look into plib ... Yep,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGEngine Bug still in Flightgear cvs

2004-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone with cvs access fix this and change in file ../src/FDM/JSBSim/FGEngine.cpp in line 71 this: Name.clear(); into this: Name = ; So that the compilation works. Done. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/sgs126/Panels

2004-03-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Here are two files for the sgs126. The sgs126-jsbsim-set.xml file now starts the glider in the air by default. I think some people didn't know it is a glider, [...] I assume we already have two of them: The ASW-20 and the SGS 126 - don't we ? Yes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Declarations and compilers

2004-03-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Are there any reasons to choose one method over the other in the declaration of local variables that are used each frame? Here are some examples. Note that this hypothetical routine would be called each pass through the EOM (for example): = Method 2)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up for 3D modelers - plib cvs issue

2004-03-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: For the time being though, I propose that we try to get this default angle to a higher value. From my testing 61 degrees seems to be a good number. 61 degrees means that a 6 sided cylinder will be smoothed. Anything less (e.g. 4 or 5 sides) will be sharp sided. Many of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS X isnan() Fix

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Polley wrote: The fix for the MacOS isnan problem didn't compile. I changed it to be inline int (isinf)(double r) { return isinf(r); } inline int (isnan)(double r) { return isnan(r); } and it worked just fine (it was Real r instead of double). Real wasn't defined. I already wondered

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS: SimGear/simgear/scene/material mat.cxx, 1.16, 1.17

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Silently ignore texture files that are not present. How about putting out a warning at a very low priority level, so that people can debug problems if they need to? That would be an option ... The thing is, we now can have more than one texture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Displaying FlightGear on a Plasma Display

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Polley wrote: Plasma TVs tend to be 1280x1024 at a 16:9 aspect ratio, rather than the 4:3 (or 1:1) that it would normally expect. I am assuming that I can just adjust the field of view, but will that only adjust the horizontal field or will it adjust the vertical as well? Use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Displaying FlightGear on a Plasma Display

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Use --geometry=1280x720 to set it to 16:9. I've used this on an of on my O2 and it works as expected. Are you sure you have a _plasma_ display with 1280 columns ? I'm sure it's not plasma. But I'm not sure if that even matters. He wanted to be sure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Not Building for MacOS X Because of isnan()

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Polley wrote: For some reason, when iostream is included, it messes with the #include of math.h by undefining isnan(0, no matter the order of the include. In order for me to get cloud.cxx to build, I had to add the following lines after the #include of math.h #if defined (__APPLE__)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear talk at UseLinux, Boston, July 2004

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Great news! Usenix have accepted my abstract so I'm going to write the talk and the paper over the next few weeks. Title: The FlightGear Flight Simulator Author(s): Alexander R Perry, PAMurray Very cool. The exposure grows ... Great news indeed! Erik

[Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Hofman
http://home.clara.net/wolverine/BOB/misc/Spit_Hurri_Manuals.zip Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Erik Hofman wrote http://home.clara.net/wolverine/BOB/misc/Spit_Hurri_Manuals.zip Is this a hint ;-)? Yes. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Oddly enough, last weekend I found a book in my local bookstore on the Spitfire MkIIb, containing line drawings. I'll see if it's still there. If it is, I could do a model especially with the info in the pilot's notes. Is there a demand for a Spitfire IIB? There was a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New joystick configuration.

2004-03-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hi all, I have done a new joystick definition for my hardware. This is the thrustmaster top gun afterburner USB (what a name!) throttle/stick combination. It's committed. Thanks! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: [Fwd: Joystick XML for Logitech Extreme 3D Pro]]

2004-03-04 Thread Erik Hofman
William Earnest wrote: Original Message Subject: Joystick XML for Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:53:32 +0100 From: Johan Walles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Here's a joystick configuration file for a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. It's based on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New joystick configuration.

2004-03-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: On Donnerstag, 4. März 2004 11:37, Erik Hofman wrote: It's committed. Thanks! Oops, very fast! It made me realize there was another joystick configuration file that needed to be committed. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Authentic DC-3 Sounds

2004-03-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: There are maybe two dozen small files, quite a bit of detail. Anyone interested in taking this and configuring them for our DC-3? If so I'll pass them along. This is from about a year ago ... Jim did anything ever come of this? Would be a cool addition to the FG DC-3.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Authentic DC-3 Sounds

2004-03-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Actually I did pass those along to someone who was working on a DC3 cockpit at the time and then later dropped it. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll send a link. They are pretty good samples. Almost all are 8-bit already. If you sent them over I'll free some time

Re: [Flightgear-devel] isnan()

2004-03-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: In Linux isnan() is defined in math.h. Is this a portable function (errr macro) available to everyone? I need the following for IRIX: #include ieeefp.h Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud movement

2004-02-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm flying at 11,000' MSL in the default jsbsim C172. There are two cloud layers, one below me at 9641' MSL (few) and one above me at 14441 (scattered.) My airspeed indicator is reading about 97 kts. Winds start with 20kts @ 250 deg ground

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [OT] 747 Registration -or- does it run onlinux!?!

2004-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: What you don't see are all the emergency vehicles and foam off to the left of this view. I was kind of wondering about the angle...like where or what the photo was shot from. Pretty colors though, especially compared to Bangor in February. It is St. Maarten Princess Juliana

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud movement

2004-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi Erik, I'm Flying along at 3500' doing about 115 kias. There's a scattered cloud layer about 800' below me, however, it is outrunning me in the same direction I'm going. This amount of cloud movement can't be right, so I assert there is a bug in the cloud movement

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud movement

2004-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: The clouds are moving in the right direction at the right speed. I've checked again this today. The problem must be somewhere else. Are you sure that they're not moving relative to the aircraft, instead of relative to a fixed point on the ground? Yes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud movement

2004-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: The clouds are moving in the right direction at the right speed. I've checked again this today. The problem must be somewhere else. So you are saying that it's normal that the clouds are outrunning my aircraft They must have been doing at least

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cloud movement

2004-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'm not disagreeing with you, all I'm saying is that there are times when the clouds aren't moving correctly. :-) Next time this happens you might want to check the environment settings. The lowest wind speed is the reported one, the other layers are generated by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear CVS build error

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:39:14 +0100, Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should mention that I am using Cygwin. I think this is the problem where cygwin was installed together with XFree86. So far everybody has advised not to install XFree86 on cygwin, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: Basically you would move the texture offsets rather than the surface itself. Is this possible with 2D instruments too? I don't think so. About everybody want the 2D instruments gone ... Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: I don't think so. About everybody want the 2D instruments gone ... There will always be a place for a 2D instrument panels For Instructor panels and as the texture for flat 3D panels No need the 2D panel code for both of them. I'm not sure why you would advise on using 2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: I realize that most on this list are after a 'first person' experience but this is by no means the only use of a simulator :-) Almost all of the time I keep the possibility of a full size professional simulator in the back of my mind. The good thing about FlightGear is that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Instruments/Textures radar_misc.rgb, 1.1, 1.2

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Modified Files: radar_misc.rgb Log Message: Add support for a storm blib Excellent. As far as I know, civilian airliners carry radar that is capable only of detecting weather, not small things like aircraft. They also use a separate radar system

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Instruments/Textures radar_misc.rgb, 1.1, 1.2

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: I know that in Europe they recently added a requirement for collision detection after two civilian aircraft hit each other when the ATC had given inappropriate directions. Is that a requirement for TCAS, or for something else in addition to TCAS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stepping and other inquisitions

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:55:50 +0100 Erik Hofman wrote: It should also be working with the latest version of FlightGear. And if they patched FlightGear to support their software they *must* send you the source at your request (GPL compatibility). How interesting... I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Main fg_init.cxx, 1.86,

2004-02-27 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Great idea - unfortunately 'fgfs' now dies with a segmentation fault just a split second after the FlightGear window appears (Linux), Yes, I was using the wrong executable to test it. Give me about an hour, and I'll revert if I cannot fix the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Environment

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 February 2004 12:45: I thank you very much for implementing real weather and proxy support. This is really a great improvement ! I'm quite happy about it, too. It really gives a special feeling to start from ULLI with the real, actual weather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stepping and other inquisitions

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: Umm, I would have thought that that only applies if they redistribute their patched version of FlightGear. If they don't redistribute it, then there would be no patch. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Main options.cxx, 1.51,

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Add an option to define the proxy settings (used by metar data fetching only at this time). Usage: --proxy=user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port The notation works for me - as long as I don't have to use proxy authorization. Thanks, If authentication support

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stepping and other inquisitions

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: If they don't redistribute it, then there would be no patch. Hello Martin, For the time being, we are going to stick with the 0.9.2 version because it works. The protocol we use is the UDP-based external FDM. We form the structure NetFDM as defined

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Frederic BOUVIER wrote: Martin Spott wrote: proxy-username ? When I use libcurl to do that, there is a single field called CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD and the format is 'username:passwd'. You should try that syntax with FG. Sorry, this does not work, I get a TCP_DENIED on my

Re: PLIB on AIX; Was: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 'benchmark'

2004-02-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: anyone be so kind to look at the patch and give a suggestion how to deal/proceed with these changes ? Just be very persistent, state clearly this patch is needed for AIX before a new stable release is scheduled. Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: On 2/24/04 at 8:44 PM Erik Hofman wrote: I have followed an AI Cessna once but I lost in when it literally flew through a mountain, so I guess it is distance limited. Well that's just great, the first person to notice that AI planes fly though mountains comes from Holland

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stepping and other inquisitions

2004-02-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Joshua W. Keane wrote: Don't you just hate bugs!? The problem is that i'm using a precompiled or prebuilt version of flightgear, v0.9.2 because it is currently the version supported by the aerosim blockset for matlab/simulink. It should also be working with the latest version of FlightGear. And

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Durk Talsma wrote: Hey Folks, So, I was wondering if a project like this would be interesting for FlightGear. I was already pleasantly surprised when I discovered AI airplanes, at a local Dutch airport (EHGG) when demonstrating FlightGear to a friend last week, so I assume that FlightGear can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Wouldn't it make sense to put it into a separate thread - similar to the preloading of scenery chunks ? Yup, that and making smooth transitions when the weather does change would be the next two logical steps in the process. A shorter HTTP time-out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: floorf in panel.cxx

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Does ffloor exists for Solaris? Why do we care? Just call floor(), which is in the ANSI C standard. The extra precision won't hurt anyone, and there is zero performance difference. Because I didn't know about floor() (the manpage of floorf didn't report it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: If there aren't any major objections, I can commit these changes. The performance problems of doing a live www fetch only happen with the live weather updater is on, so there isn't any difference if you run in default mode. Sounds good, implement first, optimize

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: floorf in panel.cxx

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Dang, those should have been floor not floorf. My bad. Can you fix that Erik? Done. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] namespaces

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Like I said, this all builds fine under gcc. Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Is this for JSBSim standalone, or for FlightGear/JSBSim? For the later, the entry for borland in SimGear/simgear/compiler.h might be outdated. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/GUI AirportList.cxx, 1.5, 1.6]

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Just in case anyone is scratching their heads over this nonsense commit, I think I made a procedural mistake on my end ... missed one change in my commit last night, then had to rechange the file to get it to work correctly this morning. :-) I had been searching for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linker command line for 'metar'

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, it might be useful to add '-lxnet' to the linker command line for 'metar' - at least on Solaris I get a lot of 'undefined symbols' it I omit that: Done. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Sounds good, implement first, optimize later. The standard Unix developer's rules (from memory): 1. Make it work. 2. Make it right. 3. Make it efficient. I've worked as a consultant on too many projects where people have done these steps in reverse

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linker command line for 'metar'

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Hello, it might be useful to add '-lxnet' to the linker command line for 'metar' - at least on Solaris I get a lot of 'undefined symbols' it I omit that: the same with 'js_server', Done, Any others? ;-) Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Live Weather! A suggestion

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Pablo J. Rogina wrote: I'm very interested about the recent discussion regarding the new capabilities of FG with live weather data. Please don't stick only to getting the data from the Web. For me, it would be nice to let FG get the data also from files in the local hard disk as well (think of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 'benchmark'

2004-02-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: I'll include the necessary shared libraries (libjpeg for IRIX and GCC runtime libraries for Solaris) in a new package unter the same version number this evening, IRIX users can also install ifl_eoe.sw.c++ Erik ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I'll try and check in my changes shortly. Ok, committed. Now what we *really* need is a mechanism to update weather condtions as we fly based on the nearest weather station. First of all, thanks for adding this to the code while I was away,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I notice that the cloud layers are moving. At one point it almost looked like they were keeping up with my Cessna 172, is that intentional or did a cloud positioning bug creep in? The clouds already moved along with the wind for a couple of months, but since we've only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-22 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: I notice that the cloud layers are moving. At one point it almost looked like they were keeping up with my Cessna 172, is that intentional or did a cloud positioning bug creep in? The clouds already moved along with the wind for a couple of months

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: floorf in panel.cxx

2004-02-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's funny, since truncf has been removed yesterday. Are you talking about an old version? Absolutely the same revision and date here. I don't have any idea if 'truncf' and 'floorf' belong together but I can state that the latter is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: floorf in panel.cxx

2004-02-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Absolutely the same revision and date here. I don't have any idea if 'truncf' and 'floorf' belong together but I can state that the latter is definitely present: Does ffloor exists for Solaris? Yuck, Solaris defines truncf but not floorf! http

[Flightgear-devel] Live Weather!

2004-02-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, Thanks to Melchior I and David M. I was able to implement live weather support in FlightGear today. For now it can be used by specifying: --prop:/environment/params/real-world-weather-fetch=true Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] truncf undeclared rearing its ugly head

2004-02-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: My apologies for not following up sooner. When I later did a make clean it became an issue for me as well. I cannot tell you why at this point, except that truncf is a) non-standard and b) in glibc (on redhat). There may be some header required that isn't there, other than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am this morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing good. I'll be pretty much offline for a couple days. If I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:57:37 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote in message http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/fgfsDList.jpg I tried to find out what could make this happen, but without any success so far. Does anybody have any idea what might go wrong here? ..too much beer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Ooops I remember seeing these effects with XFree86/DRI during the pre-4.3 development phase then hardware-TL was enabled on a Radeon9100 card. Did your experiment at least serve the goal to increase the frame rate on the O2 ? It looks like it did increase the framerate.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: $ cvs diff leaf.cxx Index: leaf.cxx === RCS file: /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/scene/tgdb/leaf.cxx,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -r1.2 leaf.cxx 227c227 sgSetVec2( tmp2, texcoord[0], texcoord[1] );

Re: Patents [OT] (Was: RE: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting)

2004-02-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Richard Bytheway wrote: There was a comment on the /. discussion on this subject that the examiners have a quota of patents applications to process each week, so there is little incentive to dig too deep. I hope this is not the case, but it might be. Ok. But since the patent request was filed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC voice howto

2004-02-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: When you take the 'philosophical' route, I agree - in almost _every_ situation it's a big fault to delete detail/resolution from your raw data. On the other hand: 8 kHz, 8 bit is not that bad. German ISDN telephony has this resolution and to my impression the audible quality

[Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, After reading that OpenGL would be optimized on IRIX when using display lists I decided to do some trial runs with FlightGear. Unfortunately the exact same thing that happened to VBO's (odd colors when using VBO's) also happens to DList (at least on my O2).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] waves white flag

2004-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: I give up. Sort of. No need to IMHO. I think we now have an excellent solution. Could someone file a patent request for this? There are some gotcha's involved which could mean some other points/locations should be exposed also in the future, but that's about it. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Russell Suter wrote: Of course someone must know this relationship. That doesn't mean they must be the same point. Someone must not only know the relationship but also be able to calculate, measure, or WAG a delta x,y,z between these two frames of reference and put them in the XML wrapper file.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Eye candy - Wing Bending

2004-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
kreuzritter wrote: Upgrade: And how to simplify it and integrate it nicly into flightgear so that it is still fast enough. I also gave up the idea of limiting the number of wing sections to only 4, imho this should depend on the type of airplane, so i thought about a dynamic range of wing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Panel Instruments

2004-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I wrote: could you please add the binary tag to the textures you added in CVS. Thanks from a windows user Could someone with CVS write access add the -kb sticky tag to these files : Thank you very much I get a permission denied. This has to wait until Curtis fixes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Mally wrote: You may not be a patent lawyer, but that's a convincing sounding explanation of the legal position. PS. I'm just wondering if you have any thoughts on my earlier question, i.e. whether what's being patented has to be something non-obvious? I didn't notice anything not obvious. They

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Eye candy

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Running it under a separate FDM handler is something that the C++ code just doesn't support yet, though. It's probably not hugely difficult to make work, though. Thinking about: 1. inherit the main FDM's moments and forces 2. transpose them to the appropriate location. 3. Use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: Hmm.. conventional radar usage is perhaps a bit of a stretch but things such as automated landings use radar verification where being off by half the length of a 747 could lead to 'interesting' things .. there are other interesting uses for radar like things too that are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Eye candy

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Agreed, a simple 'ballastics' FDM would be a far better solution, but then someone's got to design code it. Which reminds me, an FDM (Yasim, UIUC/LaRCsim or JSBSim) could spawn an AIModel object which has (simple) ballistic trajectory support. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: The _only_ difference between now and what we had before is now the position may be reported at a fixed location on the aircraft by JSBsim. Before it was reported at the _current_ center of gravity which varies according to load, fuel consumption, etc. I'm sorry to be so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Eye candy

2004-02-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: Or just have a command that creates an object at a certain point with a certain velocity vector and orientation. I think you still need the moments to get a decent traject match. Erik Josh Erik Hofman wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Running it under a separate FDM handler

Re: : [Flightgear-devel] 3D aircraft model

2004-02-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: The Hawker Hunter has been committed to CVS and seems to fly quite nicely. For decent hardware. [...] I was surprized that the frame rate for the Hunter on an Octane is not that bad. It is obviously better than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Switching from Glut to SDL+OpenGL

2004-02-09 Thread Erik Hofman
kreuzritter wrote: There was a discussion in August 2003 about switching from Glut to SDL+OpenGL, what is the current status about this discussion? Are any decisions made so far? The dependencies of GLUT have been removed wherever possible. There are a few remaining areas but the fact that plib

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