Re: [Flightgear-devel] Support for draping roads, railroads, and streams on top of our 3d terrain

2004-10-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to create the support for draping roads, railroads and streams, one of the goals. But I don't know what is this. I have to improve the current roads, railroads and streams with new textures or I have to change something or what. Can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hi res screen shots

2004-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I just committed a set of changes to move the hi res screen capture feature back towards a useable state. The hires screenshot snapper now uses the same render code as the normal res screen shot snapper which uses the same render code as the main program. That should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] File names?

2004-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
John Wojnaroski wrote: Fred wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: Does anyone have a favorite network utility/packet sniffer? I'm looking at sniffit from the Debian package, but not all that happy with it. Ethereal but only on packets that transit through an ethernet card ( doesn't work on the loopback

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS and branch development

2004-10-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..but the idea can be inverted: Maybe a cvs signature file to flag off stuff you're happy with? So I just set my script to check for that new flag file, and on its absense, just do cvs co to last Saturday night? In situations like that one is way too busy fixing stuff to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL/SSG error with latest build

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I last built FlightGear successfully on 15 August (I hadn't realized it had been so long). I had to make one small change to get to to build today, which I've put in CVS, but now I'm having a problem with OpenGL initialization. My old binary (also built with SDL) still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Link error in main with recent cvs

2004-10-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Perry wrote: Other information: I have recent cvs of plib, openal, SimGear, FlightGear (recent=Thursday evening). plib configure switches --build=athlon openal configure switches --build=athlon --enable-alsa --enable-optimize SimGear configure switches --build=athlon --with-jpeg-factory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new version

2004-10-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Antonio Pennino wrote: It is known (+ or -) the date of release (win32 binary) of new version? If Curtis can find the time, the plan is to release it this weekend. But only _if_ Curtis can find the time. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG as scenery generator/VATSIM

2004-09-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers wrote: Hi guys, First post on the mailing list after lurking for a while. My name is Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers and I have been active for about five years in a niche of the flight sim world, the (very active) community around Aerowinx 747-400 Precision Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PropertyList - XML files - where to find the sources

2004-09-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: However, there are two new issues: 1) While it wasn't a real problem to use easyxml.cxx's readXML to simply copy a XML file's structure to a particular node within the property tree, there doesn't seem to exist a similar wrapper for WRITING XML files within easyxml.cxx -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg Vollnhals wrote: http://www.nord-com.net/vollnhals-bremen/landsat_7.htm These screenshots are rather old and made for other purposes. But you may see the limits of these low-res satellite data. They are good as a very realistic background but you loose important landmarks (smaller streets,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you should have said _GPL_

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dynamically modifiable menubar

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Generating a dynamic menu structure might be harder than you think, As you didn't yet reply to the ideas that I mentioned in this thread, I simply tried the approach that I described. Good, I am not always able to respond quickly. I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image to be suitable to be used as a texture for FlightGear ? One meter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: I'm pretty sure they exist albeit D-FOTO is a Caravan, used for photogrammetry of the nearby brown coal mining. They have a nice 19 rack inside the cabin for analysis equipment, So now you are going to provide me with all kinds of pretty pictures which can be used to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-webpage addition (tardiff created base-package patches)

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: But there's another thing in this context - it's about the VERSION file in $FG_ROOT/data not containing pre-release tags, I think Jim Wilson mentioned a couple of weeks ago that this is supposed to be like that, this however causes a problem for those users who want to apply a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PropertyList - XML files - where to find the sources

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: I have now looked into dozens of source files, but I don't seem to be able to find those files that are responsible for the XML handling, respectively loading parsing the PropertyList XML files, so I apologize in advance, but: what's the name of the classes that are used or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Martin Spott wrote: I'm pretty sure they exist albeit D-FOTO is a Caravan, used for photogrammetry of the nearby brown coal mining. They have a nice 19 rack inside the cabin for analysis equipment, So now you are going to provide me with all kinds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Mat Churchill wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: So now you are going to provide me with all kinds of pretty pictures which can be used to create textures? I'm certainly planning exactly this, have been messing around with low budget aerial photography. This device (MK1, now on MK3) http://www.projects

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: I'm sure this has been brought up before, but has anybody ever really *tried* to ask companies that sell satellite imagery on CD-ROM for their permission to use derived work (= FG textures) freely in an opensource project ? As long as not the actual product itself can be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear base package request --version parameter to fgfs

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: What do you guys (mainly SimGear FDM folks) think ? My personal preference would be to add a const char *get_version(void) function to SGSubsystem, and add a function vectorconst char*get_version(void) to SGSubsystemMgr. This would remind everyone who designs a new module

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /sim/navdb ?

2004-09-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Hi ! Guess, who's here ;-) A quick question: I'm about to finish several smaller Nasal dialogs, now I wanted to add a simple flight planning dialog using Nasal, I thought I would find the necessary elements for the combo boxes under /sim/navdb within the property tree, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /sim/navdb ?

2004-09-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: where else exported within the property tree, or is it simply not yet there ? It's not there, and it probably never will be. woohoo - don't say that: I was just about to make a terrible mess of the code ;-) No need, that has already been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ideas for a fully interactive ATC-TTS engine (was: A voice for FG)

2004-09-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: - I promise to never again send uncompressed postings to this list ;-) Promises, promises. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] CVS today

2004-09-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I made a terrible mess of the FlightGear CVS repository today by adding (what I thought was) one extra code cleanup I accidentally committed the complete local tree which contained changes that were not ready for release yet. I tried to get it compiling (which succeeded) but got a runtime

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/docs-mini README.sound, 1.2,

2004-09-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: + OpenAL setup for general use (Linux) + - + As of July 2004 it is best to add at least the following line to your + ~/.fgfsrc file on Linux because it wil find out what audio backend to + use, starting with the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with ballistic sub-model

2004-09-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: It's just occurred to me that I'm using my local version, so it's possible that I haven't asked Erik to upload one of the multitude of files it requires to alter one parameter, or there's something wrong with the files I sent in. It's definitely OK here with your model. I'll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] webpage update

2004-09-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: Boris Koenig writes: Anyway - if I'm not terribly wrong you should have CVS access, FYI I do *not* have CVS write permission And for a good reason, others might not be able to catch up with the number of CVS commits ... Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS - Problems

2004-09-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: On compiling the CVS download under Cygwin this morning I get the following error: tilemgr.cxx: In member function `void FGTileMgr::update_queues()': tilemgr.cxx:288: error: `size' undeclared (first use this function) tilemgr.cxx:288: error: (Each undeclared identifier is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Questions about problems with the particle system

2004-09-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Luca Masera wrote: Hi, I've done some work on the particle system using the primitives of PLIB. I've however some problems. The first and the second screenshots are made with the simulator freezed and the only difference is the position of the head of the pilot. Why the object change their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-webpage addition (tardiff created base-package patches)

2004-09-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Because of this obvious advantage (particularly for users with slow dial-up connections, but also for those among us who have broadband access, but don't like to wait... ) we would now like to know what the rest of you thinks about adding those tardiff based patches as an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim with Solaris8/Sparc and GCC-3.4.1

2004-09-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, I must admit that it's not completely clear to me if this stems from using GCC-3.4.1 or simply from the recent changed to JSBsim (I assume the latter) so I'd be happy if anyone could tell me: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim' [...]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim with Solaris8/Sparc and GCC-3.4.1

2004-09-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: They really should be fabs() in both cases, both GetState() and GetTolerance() return a double instead of an int. Thanks ! Any idea why this doesn't show up on other platforms ? I think the other compilers just issue a warning and convert the double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal'ing ...

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Hi ! Two things: 1)I would like to be able to display a simple text string at runtime in the upper left corner of the screen using Nasal (in order to display simple in-flight information). I could imagine that something like this already exists, i.e. for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next release - ac that don't work

2004-09-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Perry wrote: 3. f104 - no power. This used to work. I'm baffled about this one. It's not clear to me what is causing this. 4. j3cub - Aborted. This used to work. This dos work for me. If it's an assertion problem then it is caused by OpenAL. Just try to start FlightGear again and things

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Submodel question

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: For the moment, we have this line in system_mgr.cxx : // set_subsystem( submodel, new SubmodelSystem() ); Do we want to keep this line commented for the upcoming release or could we enable it ? I ask that for the next win32 binary build ? Good question. At first I left it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: We'd like to do another release of FlightGear/Simgear in the next week or two. I'm starting to roll together the first round of pre-releases. Mostly this release should fix problems and discrepancies with the v0.9.5 release of FlightGear with not a ton of new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another submodel question

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I am looking for the effect created by submodels and I still haven't saw one. The line in system_mgr.cxx is uncommented and I started with the f16 (--aircraft=f16 ) Now, what I am supposed to see. According to the f16-set.xml file, Ctrl-F is supposed to trigger flares,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another submodel question

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: I am looking for the effect created by submodels and I still haven't saw one. The line in system_mgr.cxx is uncommented and I started with the f16 (--aircraft=f16 ) Now, what I am supposed to see. According to the f16-set.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] In-cabin engine and ATC volume.

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: Finally, is there a way to make an operation dependent on two properties in an xml sound file? - I'd like to make a further drop in engine volume dependent on both /sim/current-view/internal AND /sim/general/headphones (or something like that) being true. If you mean, make and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back online

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: P.S.: Erik, I don't seem to have received a reply to my last eMail from you, just tell me if you need more clarification - otherwise some of the questions that I asked are still left open and I would like to get definite feedback regarding the probability for acceptance of my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiple instruments and systems, and configuration of these

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: Melchior seems to have started migrating stuff from the cockpit subdir to the instrumentation subdir. This should also be made configurable, just like the stuff that's already in instrumentation. Note that this was the intention of the Systems subdirectory, depreciate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back online

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..myself, I'd like to see low tech front ends to FlightGear, to run in clusters on old junk that cannot do OpenGL. High end upside, is clustered OpenGL, the kind you see in movie theaters. ;-) Just create a library that is OpenGL compatible, and you're free to do anything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VC jitter

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Hello all, ...something not too important for the TODO list perhaps... In a/c that have one or more VC views there's a visible 'jitter' when looking at parts of the a/c, most notably in my experience, with the windshield/canopy frames. While I can imagine that the amount is

Re: ..bo!, was: [Flightgear-devel] Back online

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:10:41 +0200, Erik wrote in message Just create a library that is OpenGL compatible, and you're free to do anything that frightens the rest of us. ..http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/caca-sabre.png scary enough? ;-) Great, now I have troubles getting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight replay

2004-09-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: What is the likely hood of having the ability to save flight replays in the near future? We hardly work with likely hoods. If one of the developers is bored (and feels like it) it might well be it gets included within a week. Otherwise it could take up as long as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New type of ultralight aircraft

2004-09-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Gunnstein Lye wrote: When will flightgear have a model of this?;-) http://www.yves-rossy.com/en/ (see the jet man link at the top right) That wouldn't be too hard to model. Find appropriate airfoil data (lift and drag) and we're almost set ... Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An error of running fgfs

2004-09-02 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, when I run fgfs, I got the following errors: GLUT: Fatal Error in fgfs: failed to create OpenGL rendering context. Could you please tell me why? This is often caused by the fact that FlightGear wants to run in a higher bits-per-pixel mode. You might want tot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fedora Core 2, What glut?

2004-09-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Also, you will need to grab openal (www.openal.org) from cvs and build/compile that. Unfortunately they don't have versioned releases so the best you can do is just grab their current cvs. They recently started releasing snapshots of CVS versions that are considered safe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear::EasyXML - minimum file set

2004-09-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: Can someone tell me what is the _bare_ set of SimGear files needed to allow compilation of EasyXML? I'm afraid you'll have to use the complete SimGear/simgear/xml directory for it to work correctly. Expat (the library EasyXML relies upon) has never been considered small ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why sky writing doesn't works?

2004-09-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Luca Masera wrote: Have you downloaded the latest version of the data from cvs? The puff files (puff.ac, puff.xml) should be included in ../data/models/geometry. Also, don't forget to uncomment line 21 of FlightGear/src/Systems/system_mgr.cxx to enable submodel support.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile Failure on current CVS

2004-09-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Dale E. Edmons wrote: Hi all, I just did a cvs update -d -P and tried to recompile but got the following error(s): Try updating FlightGear CVS again, I just fixed this. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shaders for flightgear

2004-08-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..in sim's, it's legal to buzz town, no? ;-) No, FAA and JAA regulations for simulators forbid that ... Erik (;-)) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] length measures in runways.dat

2004-08-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: 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 37.618096 -122.376161 27.70 7502 200 NARHN NYNN 4910 NNVN 00 is the length of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shaders for flightgear

2004-08-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Roman Grigoriev wrote: on ATI it works fine but you have to have at least geforce fx or ATI 9xxx card on other cards it doesn't work The question is: do you need this? It all sounds very nice, but I reckon that at the moment it is only useful for around 1% of our users (and developers). More

Re: [Flightgear-devel] length measures in runways.dat

2004-08-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Heh, sorry, *which* is true? There are two possibilities above. I'm guessing you mean the latter (that the length refers to the runway alone, and not the total length of paved surface)? As far as I know it is the total length of the paved surface (including displaced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bypass FG Physics and Draw Pictures from Real Data?

2004-08-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Sky Rudolph wrote: I believe that this has been addressed before, but I am unable to find it in the archives, my apologies if this has already been beat to death. I would like to use FlightGear to display data from a real aircraft. I would like to feed lat/lon/alt airspeed/attitude/control

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Loading an XML file using EasyXML

2004-08-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon S Berndt wrote: So, my question is: What is the philosophy behind loading various classes with their own data from the config file using EasyXML callbacks? You could store the data into a property tree and let every subsystem scan it's own directory. This tree could be detached from the main

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mouse frozen after running fullscreen

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: What happens on a kill/int/segfault? Can it be changed to something like a single pixel or some other unobtrusive thing instead? That should work also because it is changed to the normal cursor in the atexit() function (but I haven't tested it because it doesn't happen for me,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: What specific changes are you refering to? Fixes for the Scenery Loading dialog that now loads much faster on low end hardware because it is frame rate independent (thanks to Frederic). Lots of small fixes (joystick configurations, Nasal fuel handling

[Flightgear-devel] YASim c172 (Was: FlightGear 0.9.5-1)

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Here's another problem: $ fgfs --aircraft=c172-610x-jsbsim makes fgfs abort, because this redirects to ../c172r/c172r-jsbsim-base.xml, which tries to include c172r-base.xml. But this file is searched in c172/, not in c172r (where it could be found). This is fixed in CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Are you sure js changes are fixes ? I saw problem reports recently. They seem to have been fixed. But I wouldn't know, I don't have a joystick. I don't update plib for ages and I am not keen to do it after what I read. Moreover, we rely on plib released versions, not CVS,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Why not simply name it 0.9.5.1 (latest kernel is 2.6.8.1 as well as they found a tiny bug in 2.6.8 version). Letters behind a version could mess with things like a for Alpha, b for Beta, RC for Release Candidate and so on. I think 0.9.5.1 is the only logical explenation to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync realtime scenery loading

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: There were already few discussions about this a couple of months ago when terrasync was launched. My question is when I run terrasync and fgfs and fly where there's no terrain available yet, do I need to restart fgfs session for the new terrain to take effect, or are fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I usually plan on a full week of *all* my non-work spare time plus some to get a release out. Right now I'm getting hammered at work and at home so I don't have *any* spare time. I have to go out of town for the entire weekend which means I'll be playing catchup most of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A method for getting funds...

2004-08-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Giles Robertson wrote: My own take on funding for FlightGear is that funding FGFS itself may be difficult, but we might well be able to get corporate funding for developing SimGear as a simulation kernel. Flight Simulators don't appeal to a huge sector of the market; but an architecture on which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mouse frozen after running fullscreen

2004-08-16 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: I think that the fix will be simply to force the mouse pointer to be visible before exiting FlightGear. This is in CVS now. Could you please test it? That solves the problem completely. Thank you very much, Erik. Great! It wasn't too difficult, since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Docs/InstallGuide/html

2004-08-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Docs/InstallGuide/html In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv7474/InstallGuide/html Modified Files: getstartch2.html Log Message: Reffer to /usr/locla/share/FlightGear now. You'd better mail such changes to me

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

2004-08-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: BTW, I didn't find your change in the current CVS checout of the base package. Could you tell me the lines you changed ? The *base* package? I don't think anything changed there (I searched for /usr/local/lib in all the documents, and if it didn't show up I didn't change

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Hi, I was wondering, do others feel that the changes in the last week or so justify a new release (0.9.5-1)? I have the feeling that it does. I realize Curtis is busy for the next two weeks so it has to wait some more, but if this is desired I will hold

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Kalle Valo wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering, do others feel that the changes in the last week or so justify a new release (0.9.5-1)? If you are going to make a new release, just don't name it 0.9.5-1, please. That would create lots of confusion for both users

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data options.xml, 1.31, 1.32

2004-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Modified Files: options.xml Log Message: Remove an obsolete option for airport-id. Erik, the option require an ICAO id, so I think this is the right option and find more logical to deprecate --airport instead. There should be no difference between

[Flightgear-devel] Scenery Loading

2004-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I noticed that the fact that scenery loading is faster when pressing 'v' is caused by the fact that FlightGear doesn't bother rendering the scene in the mean time. Maybe it would be a good idea to set /sim/rendering/draw-otw to false just after the message box is displayed, and setting it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data options.xml, 1.31, 1.32

2004-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: It was just a problem of consistency between the name of the option and what it is really doing and expecting as argument. I noticed you didn't touch options.cxx yet so both are still valid. Yep. And I intend to keep it that way for at least a few months more. -- Searching

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I was wondering, do others feel that the changes in the last week or so justify a new release (0.9.5-1)? I have the feeling that it does. I realize Curtis is busy for the next two weeks so it has to wait some more, but if this is desired I will hold off any drastic changes to the code

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mouse frozen after running fullscreen

2004-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I think that the fix will be simply to force the mouse pointer to be visible before exiting FlightGear. This is in CVS now. Could you please test it? Erik -- Looking for a new Fokker Jetliner? http://www.rekkof.nl/ ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Peter L wrote: I wonder what would happen if some unaware pilot cuts the cable of an actively used cable railway in the Alps because of the lack of information. He he... You mean like the US air force a few years ago? Was it the USAF? I couldn't remember anymore, just that it happened.. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Hm..., what about the Eiffel tower, Big Ben, English Parlament, cathedrals, islam churches (sorry, I forgot how they are called :-( )? Weren't they modeled yet? There is a generic observatory model, but no database to place them correctly. The rest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Does terrasync download terrain only or scenery objects as well. Because the current terrasync repository still has the old structure IMO. (I set the terrasync root dir to fgfs/data/Scenery/Terrain to get it work, but this doesn't include objects download, as they are in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Then windsocks and radio towers will magically appear in Europe. Or anyway, they do for me :-). Are you sure about the radio towers? Curtis uses an US only database for that ... Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: terrasync and terrain/scenery

2004-08-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Thursday 12 August 2004 19:00: Vivian Meazza wrote: Then windsocks and radio towers will magically appear in Europe. Or anyway, they do for me :-). Are you sure about the radio towers? Curtis uses an US only database for that ... He probably means the beacons

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A method for getting funds...

2004-08-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Ever thought of selling art works that are used in FlightGear at very low price? http://www.turbosquid.com/ I don't think that would work because we have to make absolutely sure that the sold items are used in GPL'ed work only. Most buyers will assume they own the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-11 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Before I bash Oz any more, I'll repeat the problem that Garmin had with my own government recently. The Garmin 296 handheld GPS includes terrain obstructions (such as towers), which could save of lives; however, the Canadian government refused to provide obstruction

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A method for getting funds...

2004-08-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Can you provide more explanation? Most of the textures, models and what's not is released under the terms of the GPL. Products licensed under the GPL should remain under the GPL forever (or until the original author authorities the license change). So if you want to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two scenery design issues.

2004-08-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. I'm just finishing up a set of general-purpose runway length remaining signs, along with a python script that will insert them into appropriate .stg files as desired. I used the FAA Advisory Circulars 150/5340-18C (Standards for Airport Sign Systems) and 150/5345-44

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two scenery design issues.

2004-08-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: AC3D seems to add the material colour to the texture No, it's OpenGL that does this. With everything related to modeling you have to take into account the possibilities and requirements of OpenGL, and not that of your 3d modeler program. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Most current images seem really to be mainly computer created, but check out: http://www.airbus.com/MultimediaElements/139.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/b/ba/A380.flightdeck.750pix.jpg What's interesting though, is the integrated Chart-Database with LCD screens

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: I'm afraid you're wrong (I was referring to the latter image) - this seems actually like an airbus version of Jeppensen's electronic FlightBag - simply not relying on an external notebook anymore, but rather connected to the systems of the aircraft. Hmm, it's hard to see, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bo105 + patch

2004-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Alex, Those photos are really are nice! Wow! Mind me asking what you took them with? I like how they modeled them after Frederic's models! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XMLSound Wish List

2004-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
John Wojnaroski wrote: Looking at the xmlsound structure... Wondering if it would be useful to extend the structure and methods to add a second property and then define a set of additonal macro operators to combine the two properties with an arithmetic/logical operation to produce a result. One

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fixed xml for Saitek Cyborg Evo joystick

2004-08-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Perry wrote: I am attaching an edit of this file that should work with either Windows or Linux. As of a few days ago, the CVS file did not work at all. This has been committed now. Thanks! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] updated ThrustMaster FCS config

2004-08-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Eric L Hathaway wrote: Hello all, The following patch updates the ThrustMaster FCS joystick configuration. I have Nasal-ized the joystick bindings, drawing ideas from the Cyborg-Gold-3d-USB configuration file. I also changed some of the bindings, so the joystick setup is more like the default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spawning new AI instances

2004-08-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Is there a way to create new instances of AIAircraft or another kind on the fly, just by adding some nodes in the property tree, or running a command from the telnet interface, that is, without modifying the source code ? Is there something planned in this direction ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: My personal opinion would be to get everything at one place, preferably (but not necessarily) in a separate CVS branch at flightgear.org just like the world wide scenery right now. That would be easiest for everybody

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taildragger takeoff and landing

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:44:19 +0200, Erik wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: Erik (Ever used the bicycle to cycle up a steep hill?) ..is overhang steep enough? ;-) (or did you mean hangover ..?) :-) On a bicycle? ..yup. Classic case of _find_-a-way and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Fair enough. But with ground structures that are installable separately, it's possible for a user to pick and choose what to install. For example, someone could wish to see a set of landmarks in Paris, but not the buildings at Orly (wanting smoother framerates during

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: FlightGear-0.9.5-pre3 base patch request

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik, in order to determine how feasible it would be to even further extend tardiff.pl in one way or the other it would be useful to know what _major_ changes to the FlightGear base package are planned, or at least likely to occur within the near future, so things like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: FlightGear-0.9.5-pre3 base patch request

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: The most likely changes are updated (and new) aircraft 3d model related files. The rest is not very predictable. It comes as things go It might be useful if such changes could be documented - at least the more significant ones, do you usually make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-0.9.5-pre3 base patch request

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: weird, this seems to be related to the mailing list application (pipermail ?) - I did indeed only send the posting to the devel-list, but it (as well as all replies to it !) shows up on the users-list as well, seems to be mailheader related, because it was a reply to another

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.5

2004-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: GCC-3.4.1 for Sparc hardware isn't that bad anymore but I'd be still interested in trying out the commercial compiler by Sun, For what I've heard gcc is often the better option on Solaris because of (code) incompatibilities with gcc. I must admit, that was about four years

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-07-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: 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 structures, etc., to add to the scenery for FlightGear. Frederic's did a lot

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