Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 19 août 2005 à 09:27 +0200, Ralf Gerlich a écrit :

 Yes, we did ;-) However, the digitising effort is quite relaxing - 
 clearing your mind of any thoughts which may bother you. Especially 
 after a hard day at work ;-)
 
 And we learnt a lot about our own area - and still keep learning. We 
 have a lot of towns with funny names here.
 
 Not to forget we get to fly above our home area ;-) Even on the first 
 round trips around the scenery you can still find new details you didn't 
 actually notice before during digitalisation.
 
 As soon as I get time I'll document the process somewhat, hoping to get 
 others started. This is quite a good field for improvement in FlightGear 
 if you're unable to help with the coding. Let's see what comes around 
 with Martin Spott's PostGIS server. Perhaps we'll see more improved 
 scenery from other areas of the world soon.
 
 For the US-areas appropriate base material in the form of arial photos 
 is quite easy to get (terraserver-usa.com, etc.). When I get around to 
 doing a tutorial (working with GRASS, making scenery out of it, etc.), 
 I'll try doing some part of San Francisco for the demo scenery from 
 the standard data package.
 
 Ralf
 
I have been wondering to improve a place in France in Provence
surrounding 
the Mont Ventoux, the FG scenery gives some crazy visual situations with
rivers climbing mountains or roads becoming rivers. The materials are
not good , the mont ventoux top should be desert stone and not green
grass 
Your Lake Constance result, could encourage me to work on that.
You created additional tool:  an addition to TerraGear for creating
polygons from GRASS vector lines and points.
Does that patch apply to the last terragear release? and is it
available?


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-18 Thread Gerard Robin
Le jeudi 18 août 2005 à 21:39 +0200, Ralf Gerlich a écrit :
 Hi,
 
  Where can i download it?
 
 The scenery is available for download at
 http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/195.0.html
 
 I'll try to prepare the files in a form fgadmin can grok. Until then you
 need to adapt the FG_SCENERY-environment variable or the --fg-scenery
 option passed to fgfs.
 
 Enjoy!
 
 Ralf
 
 
Great, 
You probably did spend   a lot of time.

 
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[Flightgear-devel]: Control BRAKE CENTER within JSBSim

2005-08-10 Thread Gerard Robin
I have tried to make working brake CENTER in an FG model within JSBSim
FDM without any success.

We can define in JSB AC-GEAR  NOSE, TAIL, CENTER  and LEFT RIGHT all of
then  with brake.
We do not find in FG any property about these facities, but, LEFT and
RIGHT.
May be i have missed something. 
Is it anyway to solve it ?
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[Flightgear-devel] 3DClouds versus 2DClouds

2005-08-03 Thread Gerard Robin
Everybody agree with 3DClouds, it is beautiful. I think so.
But, is any way to make the result realistic regarding the weather
(fictif or metar it is the same problem).

You will find here an exemple which makes unusable 3DClouds if we want
the good reality.
http://ghours.club.fr/2Dclouds-versus-3Dclouds.jpg


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RE: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim: Failed to tie propertypropulsion/c-thrust[0] to a pointer

2005-08-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 00:42 -0500, Jon Berndt a écrit :
  When the JSB a/c model has several engine+propeller we get
   that JSB message error:
  Failed to tie property propulsion/c-thrust[0] to a pointer
  What must be defined in Aircraft.xml to solve it.
  --
  Gerard
 
 Which version of JSBSim are you using? Is it the one currently in FlightGear 
 CVS?
 
 You'll need to tell me more about your aircraft/propeller config files (or 
 email them to
 me).
 
 Jon
 
 
1/ That message is given with JSB 9.7 
During convert from old xml to new xml
2/ That message is given with FG CVS
During start run.

It appear on every A/C which are multi engine-propeller,
 you can find it with current FG A/C = c310, Boeing314.
I get the same message with my own Beech18-C47.
If you answer what must be done on c310 i will get the answer for mine.

May be, the cause is 
the description in AC_ENGINE 
engine  0 refer to file aircraft_engine.xml 
propeller   0refer to file aircraft_prop.xml
engine  1 refer to __the_same_file aircraft_engine.xml
propeller   1 refer to __the_same_file aircraft_prop.xml

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NVIDIA 1.0-7667 breaks shadows entirely.

2005-08-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 09:53 -0700, Andy Ross a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
  Being Nvidia and X installed , i continu to search a good answer :
  After many experimentations, I did not notice any change between
  24bpp and 32 bpp.
 
 There is no difference between 24 and 32 bpp on NVidia hardware.  Both
 of them give you a 32 bit 8:8:8:8 RGBA front and backbuffer, a 32 bit
 Z depth and (now) an 8 bit stencil buffer, for a grand total of 104
 real bits per pixel.
 
 You can inspect the list of OpenGL visuals available using the
 glxinfo command line tool if you like.  The real choice underneath
 the (glut or SDL) abstraction layer is much more complicated than a
 single number.
 
 The reason that this suddenly breaks with the new drivers is that the
 new drivers have a new feature: they can now support 16 bit color
 buffers even when the desktop is at 32bpp.  But these 16 bit modes do
 *not* support 8 bit stencil, which is required for the shadow
 implementation.  So it used to by that when FlightGear asked for a
 16bpp stencil framebuffer on a 32bpp desktop, it got a 32 bit mode
 anyway.  But now, the driver can actually fulfill the request, so it
 provides a mode that won't work with shadows.
 
 FlightGear asks for a default color depth of 16bpp, but it also asks
 for stencil; this is essentially a bug.  These are not compatible
 requests on any modern GPUs, which only support 8 bit stencil in true
 color modes.
 
 Andy
 
 
Many Thanks, i begin to understand :=)
 
 

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NVIDIA 1.0-7667 breaks shadows entirely.

2005-08-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 19:17 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a écrit :
 Andy Ross wrote:
 

 
 FlightGear asks for a default color depth of 16bpp, but it also asks
 for stencil; this is essentially a bug.  These are not compatible
 requests on any modern GPUs, which only support 8 bit stencil in true
 color modes.
 
 Andy
 
 
   
 
 And I'll add that we don't ask for a stencil buffer when in 16 bits 
 mode, perhaps we should omit
 this restriction. Then the driver would have a chance to make the right 
 choice.
 
 Harald.
 
Well, i don't know if it is any relationship, but, 
FG needs absolutely to be runned on 24 depth Xserver, i mean we must
start X with 24 depth.
If not,
the command:fgfs --bpp=24  --Aircraft= ... --Airport=
gives the message error
RenderTexture Error: Couldn't find a suitable pixel format.

Shadow is working but we get an ugly texture scenery, 

May we concluded: --bpp=24 do not fully  operate on FG. Only partly ?


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Preferences.xml question

2005-08-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 13:28 -0700, Andy Ross a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
  startup
   splash-textureAircraft/harrier/harrier-splash.rgb/splash-texture
  /startup
 
 You have a splash screen image for an aircraft with no 3D model? :)
 
 Andy
 
I have 3D models, sorry, i have a lot of aircrafts which cannot be
delivered GNU/GPL.  
To answer to GPL i must redraw partly each one.
Up to now the target was to experiment FDM's.

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NVIDIA 1.0-7667 breaks shadows entirely.

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 01 août 2005 à 00:18 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
 On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:40:58 +0200, Oliver wrote in message 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  On Saturday 30 July 2005 16:25, Dave Martin wrote:
   I don't know if anyone has brought this up yet but the 1.0-7667
   driver from NVIDIA for linux breaks the drawn shadows as in they
   don't appear at all.
  
   This tested and confirmed on a FX5800U and 6600GT PCIE
  
   Dave Martin
  
  No, it works here.
  You just need to start flightgear in 24 bit mode. 
  fgfs --bpp=24
 
 ...does  --bpp=32  work any better than 24bpp for you?
 (Assuming X run at 32 on Nvidia cards)
 
 Being Nvidia and X installed , i continu to search a good answer :
After many experimentations,
I did not notice any change between 24bpp and 32 bpp.
I am not an expert in graphics development, may be the differences
depends on the GPU itself  and the capability to handle both
definitions, 
The main question could be about CPU: 
does CPU time used and is it any losses with one or the other ?  

Does somebody can give an answer ?

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[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: [Jsbsim-devel] Carrier: Aircraft Landing and Launching]

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
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De: Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Objet: [Jsbsim-devel] Carrier: Aircraft Landing and Launching
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:56:35 +0200
Hi, Jon

Up to now, JSBSim does not offer the Aircraft Landing, Launching, on
Carrier.

With the old existing JSBSim which is integrated in FG CVS ,we can do it
with a specific patch.

If somebody do not want patch, it is only on way =use  YaSim .

The new JSBSim stand alone is available. It will probably be integrated
in a near futur in FG.

Have you sheduled in a very short term before FG integration that
facility ?

I fear that we would not be able to use the old Patch.

And to have to use only YaSim.

Thanks 


BTW: Isn't it interesting to include it in your stand alone release, the
Aircraft Dynamic analysis will be very interesting,  launching and
landing are very different compared to the  usual take off,
landing.   

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mentioned at Clarin, the most printed newspaper in Spanish language

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 01 août 2005 à 09:55 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 Pablo J. wrote:
  Hi everybody,
  
  I'm very pleased to let you know that FlightGear was mentioned (although 
  consider as a game) in the Computers section of Clarin, the most 
  important newspaper in Argentina, and the newspaper in Spanish language 
  with the most printed copies every day.
 
 Nice!
 
  May be some of you is dissapointed that FG was mentioned along some 
  other free games, but for me is really very important that the link to 
  FG had appeared in such a publication in my country.
 
 I'm not that disappointed, FlightGear *can* be used as a game but it's 
 main goal is a (scientific) flight simulator.
 
 Erik
 
Is it so fat   to say in our loved http://flightgear.org/.

===What is really flightgear = scientific flight simulator.
===Who could be interested on = students, engineers, peoples who like
and want to learn how does an aircraft...  

We can understand it in http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/. We could expand
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mentioned at Clarin, the most printed newspaper in Spanish language]

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
 Message transféré 
De: Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
À: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org
Objet: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mentioned at Clarin, the most
printed newspaper in Spanish language
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:53:11 +0200
Le lundi 01 août 2005 à 09:55 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 Pablo J. wrote:
  Hi everybody,
  
  I'm very pleased to let you know that FlightGear was mentioned (although 
  consider as a game) in the Computers section of Clarin, the most 
  important newspaper in Argentina, and the newspaper in Spanish language 
  with the most printed copies every day.
 
 Nice!
 
  May be some of you is dissapointed that FG was mentioned along some 
  other free games, but for me is really very important that the link to 
  FG had appeared in such a publication in my country.
 
 I'm not that disappointed, FlightGear *can* be used as a game but it's 
 main goal is a (scientific) flight simulator.
 
 Erik
 
Is it so fat   to say in our loved http://flightgear.org/.

===What is really flightgear = scientific flight simulator.
===Who could be interested on = students, engineers, peoples who like
and want to learn how does an aircraft...  

We can understand it in http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/. We could expand
it to FlightGear
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Only Information, Documentation

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
I have found this

http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/


Probably some of you knows it.

I will put it in good place, i have found many good explainations
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Only Information, Documentation

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 01 août 2005 à 18:38 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 I have found this
 
 http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/
 
 
 Probably some of you knows it.
 
 I will put it in good place, i have found many good explainations


or better this which is the upper level 
http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/contents.html
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NVIDIA 1.0-7667 breaks shadows entirely.

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 01 août 2005 à 21:53 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :

   Being Nvidia and X installed , i continu to search a good answer :
  After many experimentations,
  I did not notice any change between 24bpp and 32 bpp.
 
 ...glxgears, FlightGear etc f/s?

Ouaf. glxgears isn't  a representative benchmark, with it we cannot
get a good performance analysis. 
I have played to demonstrate that my old ati 9200 and my other old
nvidia 5200 is better than the NVIDIA 6600GT.

assuming we use the Nvidia 7xxx  driver  (not the 6xxx)  

FG says 6600GT is x2.5 more (32 bpp or 24 seem the same performance )

Celestia says  (depending on the render choice) from x3 to x4 more
(probably 32bpp, my Xserver  is permanently 32bpp)

 
  I am not an expert in graphics development, may be the differences
  depends on the GPU itself  and the capability to handle both
  definitions, 
  The main question could be about CPU: 
  does CPU time used and is it any losses with one or the other ?  
  
  Does somebody can give an answer ?
 
 ...pass, what I learned from my own research on gpu's before buying an
 ATI 9250 clone, is ATI are native 24bpp and 24bpp only, where Nvidia
 is 1x32bpp or 2x16bpp, suggesting ATI would suck at 16bpp doing less
 than 3x8bpp and at 32bpp not being able to see or make any use of
 the top 8 bits.   
 My understanding of Nvidea is their cards should work better at 32bpp
 and 16bpp than at 24bpp, because 24bpp wastes half a 16bpp engine.
 
 
Ok , i will try to analyse it. 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim: Failed to tie property propulsion/c-thrust[0] to a pointer

2005-08-01 Thread Gerard Robin
When the JSB a/c model has several engine+propeller we get 
 that JSB message error:
Failed to tie property propulsion/c-thrust[0] to a pointer
What must be defined in Aircraft.xml to solve it.
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[Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport LFPO Paris Orly Update]

2005-07-31 Thread Gerard Robin
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De: Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Objet: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport LFPO Paris Orly Update
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:35:28 +0200
Le samedi 30 juillet 2005 à 17:58 +, Martin Spott a écrit : 
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
  That Airport in the existing Scenery is wrong regarding the apt.dat
 
 What exactly is incorrect !?
 Orly is a well-known airfield which means the location is vermy much
 expected to be correct in the airport database. If the airport layout
 is incorrect, then the best bet is to correct this with TaxiDraw and
 send the result to David Luff.
 
 Just changing parts of the binary scenery doesn't help that much
 because it will be overridden with the next scenery update.
 
 Cheers,
   Martin.

Thanks for the answer.

The scenery and the apt.dat content are not  the same.
If you try to take off on LFPO your aircraft is in the field outside of
the runway.
You cannot solve it with taxidraw, which do not operate on the runways.
I did solve it, by rebuilding the tile including LFPO with Terragear.
If you are interested on it that new version is available here
You only have to replace the old files by these new ones.
http://ghours.club.fr/LFPO-update.tar.gz

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport LFPO Paris Orly Update]

2005-07-31 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 31 juillet 2005 à 11:36 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :

  
  Just changing parts of the binary scenery doesn't help that much
  because it will be overridden with the next scenery update.
  
  Cheers,
  Martin.
 
 Thanks for the answer.
 
 The scenery and the apt.dat content are not  the same.
 If you try to take off on LFPO your aircraft is in the field outside of
 the runway.
 You cannot solve it with taxidraw, which do not operate on the runways.
 I did solve it, by rebuilding the tile including LFPO with Terragear.
 If you are interested on it that new version is available here
 You only have to replace the old files by these new ones.
 http://ghours.club.fr/LFPO-update.tar.gz
 


In addition to:
Yes... rebuilding the scenery solve it, because it has been done
with the last apt.dat.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain LOD clumping

2005-07-31 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 31 juillet 2005 à 10:39 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 I had this message still in my TODO box and looking a bit closer it 
 looks to me like MIPMAPPING should take care of this, doesn't it?
 
 Does anybody think this might be useful to include?
 
 Erik
 

   
  I have some shapshots to illustrate.  BTW, this terrain is generated from
 Mars MOLA data using a single land use (material) type.  They are
 high visibity w/ the fog and fog diming turned off.
   
  Click on the pics for larger versions:
  http://members.interfold.com/pcazzola/terrain/
   
  The top left shows the problem with having a single texture.  At a distance,
 the texture looks very tiled.  The top right picture uses a much 
  simpler texture.
 Now the problem isn't tiling, but that it is so boring up close.
  The middle left picture, is the current behavior if you set more than 1 
  texture
 in the same material.  You get some of the area w/ one and the rest w/
 the other.
  The one on the middle right has 2 textures based on distance.
  The final picture shows that there are still some issues.  The range 
  selector
   didn't change the texture directly ahead.  There is also some definite
   poping that occurs.
   
   
  
  To specify the new ranges add  1 to N range properties to the
material.  You will need to specify 1 more texture than
range values.
   
  material
   nameDefault/name
   range5000/range
   range1/range
   textureTerrain/texture1_close.rgb/texture
   textureTerrain/texture1_med.rgb/texture
   textureTerrain/texture1_far.rgb/texture
   xsize1000/xsize
   ysize1000/ysize
  /material
   
  In the code I assumed that the user would always want the first texture 
  to start at
 zero and the last texture should go to the horizon.  If you don't 
  like this,
 you can easily alter the code to have no texture up close or out far.
   
  I chose not to add a call sgApplyTextureRanges() in apt_signs.cxx, but 
  it is only
 couple of  new lines if you want the same functionality for the signs.
   
  Diff file and source code attached.
   
  Let me know if there are any blatant errors.
  Phil Cazzola

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear RenderTexture changes causing compile problems

2005-07-31 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 31 juillet 2005 à 12:12 +0200, Paul Surgeon a écrit :
 Problem fixed!
 
 SimGear WILL NOT compile with nVidia 6629 headers (like it used to).
 I updated to 7667 OpenGL headers and it compiles now.
 
 What I should do is do a diff between the 6629 and 7667 headers to find the 
 problem but I'm too tired and lazy and am happy that things now work.  ;)
 
 Paul
 
Don't mind 7669 is better than 6629.
It can be installed on the Linux kernel. 2.6.12.2
We only get difficulties  with Ac3D 5.021 which randomly don't work. 
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Preferences.xml question

2005-07-31 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 31 juillet 2005 à 11:30 -0700, Craig Martin a écrit :
 Hello group,
 
 I have modified the preferences file to start FGFS with the
 options I want, and everything is working great. One quick
 question though. I need to start the sim with the parking
 brake on, how would that line of code look in the preferences
 file?
 
 Also,
 
 I want to replace the splash screens, what are the formats? I
 see that the files are .rgb fileswhat are those? Neither
 photoshop or paint will open them?
 
 Thanks for all of the helpthis group is great.
 
 Craig
 
I know how to customise a splash screen for a specific Aircraft
You have to add in the file youraircraft-set.xml the following:

startup
 splash-textureAircraft/harrier/harrier-splash.rgb/splash-texture   
/startup

My exemple is harrier-set.xml and the splash name is harrier-splash.rgb
Format is rgb 256x256

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Free simulator of the Frecce Tricoloriaerobatic jet

2005-07-29 Thread Gerard Robin

 ..._sexy_ way to sneak in war game features: we need to model
 anti-aircraft lava ammo 'n turbine blade ash etc damage.  ;o)
 

We don't need it, only watch the TV, and wait for Iraki News. :=(
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Free simulator of the Frecce Tricoloriaerobatic jet

2005-07-29 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 29 juillet 2005 à 15:18 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
 On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:11:40 +0200, Gerard wrote in message 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
   ..._sexy_ way to sneak in war game features: we need to model
   anti-aircraft lava ammo 'n turbine blade ash etc damage.  ;o)
   
  
  We don't need it, only watch the TV, and wait for Iraki News. :=(
 
 ...bull, I see no reason any of Sissy Boy George's idiot stunts should
 stop any new FlightGear development.  
 
 ...since we do have guns now in FG, and since Slobodan's shills didn't 
 dare challenge my rulings ;o) on Geneva Convention disputes in
 soc.culture.yugoslavia, alt.war.yugoslavia etc a decade ago, I believe
 we can code both a kill score AI engine, and a war crime score AI,
 basing the latter on the full 4 Geneva Conventions. 
 
 ...and, this latter bit can get us some seriously fat funding:
 FlightGear helps war game authors teach soldiers how 
 to prevent war crimes.


No comment,
you convicted me. Let's go for startup fat funding.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Free simulator of the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic jet

2005-07-28 Thread Gerard Robin
Le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 à 08:37 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
 At this site http://hcilab.uniud.it/pan  you can download the results of a 
 joint
 project between the HCI Lab of the University of Udine
 and the aerobatic team of the Italian Air Force (the
 Frecce Tricolori).
 
 The Lab has produced a detailed, flyable model
 of the MB-339 PAN jet. The leader of the Frecce Tricolori
 (Capt. Tammaro) was a member of the development team
 and beta-tester of the model. Development took about
 1 year, at the end of which the Frecce Tricolori 
 officially approved the public release of the model.
 
 
 -
 Visita http://domini.interfree.it, il sito di Interfree dove trovare
 soluzioni semplici e complete che soddisfano le tue esigenze in Internet,
 ecco due esempi di offerte:
 
 -  Registrazione Dominio: un dominio con 1 MB di spazio disco +  2 caselle
email a soli 18,59 euro
 -  MioDominio: un dominio con 20 MB di spazio disco + 5 caselle email 
a soli 51,13 euro
 
 Vieni a trovarci!
 
 Lo Staff di Interfree 
 -
 
 
Congratulation to the Author.

The flight is wonderful, very accurate.

Only little difficulties under Linux with the Upper-case, Lower-case
mixing (direct.xml = Direct.xml, *.ase = *.ASE, instruments name, and
flap = Flap).

Arrh MS Windows.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Free simulator of the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic jet

2005-07-28 Thread Gerard Robin
Le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 à 14:39 +0100, Dave Martin a écrit :
  Congratulation to the Author.
 
  The flight is wonderful, very accurate.
 
  Only little difficulties under Linux with the Upper-case, Lower-case
  mixing (direct.xml = Direct.xml, *.ase = *.ASE, instruments name, and
  flap = Flap).
 
  Arrh MS Windows.
 
 
 I would fix the faults and make a cross-platform version available but 
 apparently the License doesn't allow this :(
 
 Dave Martin.
 
 Is it better to ask to the Author to solve it?
I did it on my side

We could wonder about the License compatibility with GNU.

FlighGear Team should probably discuss that with HCI Lab of the
University of Udine, before official FG distribution.
That licence goes against our up to now policy.
The HCI Lab licence look like many External developers MSFS Aircraft.  
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Re: smoke was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Free simulator of the Frecce Tricoloriaerobatic jet

2005-07-28 Thread Gerard Robin
Le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 à 19:07 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a écrit :


 I think Harald is working on this as an offshoot of his 3d clouds. I'm quite
 sure we can't do better with the AI ballistic approach as it stands.
 
 Vivian

 Not really working on it atm becaue I need to advance on the shader code 
 and in the meantime
 I did some profiling on FG, but yes I was thinking of adding a 'smoke' 
 animation that
 can be parametrable and with plausible physics.
 
 Harald.
 
 
When you will be working on smoke animation, i'll follow closely your
work, because i guess that could solve, and open the way for water
turbulences animation during a seaplane take off 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim won't start with w110n40 or w110n30 airports

2005-07-27 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 23:13 +0200, Mathias Fröhlich a écrit :
 Hi,
 
 sorry for the late reaction.
 Turns out to be a bad interaction between jsbsims crash detection and my
 past initialization changes.
 The attached patch fixes this by moving crash detection out of the
 initialization phase of jsbsim.
 
 Erik,
 Can you apply that please to flightgears cvs.
 I will care for JSBsim's cvs.
 
 Thanks and sorry
 
Hello Mathias,

I don't understand why do you continu to develop on that wrong crash
detection.
It is a nonsense regarding the JSB undercarriage facilities.
it is a nonsense regarding the other old crash detection process
in
FGLGear.cpp line 507 
 Here's the code: 
 // Crash detection logic (really out-of-bounds detection) 
 if (compressLength  500.0 ||
 vForce.Magnitude()  1.0 ||
 vMoment.Magnitude()  50.0 ||
 SinkRate  1.4666*30)
 {
   PutMessage(Crash Detected: Simulation FREEZE.);
   Exec-Freeze();
 }
The undercarriage definition is very flexible. It gives the facilities
to manage an aircraft customised crash animation with the help of a
nasal script.
If an improvement must be done it could be done on the old existing code
with specifics properties like that one which is coming from a Dave
mail.
crash-detection
  altitude-agl0/altitude-agl
   g-z-max11.0/g-z-max
   g-z-min5.0/g-z-min
   g-x-max20/g-x-max
   g-x-min20/g-x-min
   qbar1089.0/qbar
   pitch-rate3.7/pitch-rate
   yaw-rate3.5/yaw-rate
   mach0.99/mach
 /crash-detection


I fear, the user opinion  is not useful for the development team.
I fear the user opinion is not taken in account.
Please tell me, by that way i will continu to subscribe or not.

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RE: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim won't start with w110n40 or w110n30airports

2005-07-27 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2005 à 07:05 -0500, Jon Berndt a écrit :
  FGLGear.cpp line 507 
   Here's the code: 
   // Crash detection logic (really out-of-bounds detection) 
   if (compressLength  500.0 ||
   vForce.Magnitude()  1.0 ||
   vMoment.Magnitude()  50.0 ||
   SinkRate  1.4666*30)
   {
 PutMessage(Crash Detected: Simulation FREEZE.);
 Exec-Freeze();
   }
  The undercarriage definition is very flexible. It gives the facilities
  to manage an aircraft customised crash animation with the help of a
  nasal script.
  If an improvement must be done it could be done on the old existing code
  with specifics properties like that one which is coming from a Dave
  mail.
  crash-detection
altitude-agl0/altitude-agl
 g-z-max11.0/g-z-max
 g-z-min5.0/g-z-min
 g-x-max20/g-x-max
 g-x-min20/g-x-min
 qbar1089.0/qbar
 pitch-rate3.7/pitch-rate
 yaw-rate3.5/yaw-rate
 mach0.99/mach
   /crash-detection
 
 The out-of-bounds detection logic was a development piece of code, really. 
 That can be removed if it is causing a problem.
 
 Jon
 
 
I did NOT ask for deleting that piece of code which is rather good (and
could be improved), 
i only ask for to remove the new AGL test 
   ^^
 which delete the UNDERCARIAGE facilities.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debian Installation

2005-07-27 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2005 à 11:58 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a
écrit :
 LeeE
 
 I am trying to install plib and I got errors, it seems to be Mesa that is 
 not
 installed.
 
 
 
 cd plib-1.8.4/ 
 ../configure
 
 ..
 ..
 ..
 checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... no
 checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... no
 checking for glNewList in -lGL... no
 checking for glNewList in -lMesaGL... no
 configure: error: could not find working GL library
 
 
 Wich package is missing?
 
 Regards,
 
 FS
 
 
About GL the development package is missing.
Or coming from Debian Or coming from your Graphics card package ( ie
Nvidia package installation )
 
 

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim won't start with w110n40 or w110n30airports

2005-07-27 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2005 à 23:15 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
 On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:18:34 +0200, Gerard wrote in message 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  I did NOT ask for deleting that piece of code which is rather good
  (and could be improved), 
  i only ask for to remove the new AGL test 
 ^^
   which delete the UNDERCARIAGE facilities.
  
  Am i understandable ?
 
 ...well, not neccessarily in the precise way you intended to, if 
 you're in doubt, also write in your native language so we can 
 play with babelfish.org, a couple of your recent post reads out 
 far worse in english than what I believe you meant them to.  ;o)
 
for BabeFish.org

En français j'écrirai exactement la même chose.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas is unable to draw Airports and Runways

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 09:46 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
  It do not solve the Atlas problem.
  Only one way to run atlas map is to use the old Airports format data.
  Atlas is a very old program which is partly obsolete regarding FGFS. 
 
 Well, If you want Atlas to work with the kates data you will need to fix 
 it, don't you?
 
 I've fixed several other programs which I find useful, and so can you.
 
 Erik
 
Probably NO, i don't usually practise C language.
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 23:55 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 23:02 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
 
  AFAICT there hasn't been any significant changes to 
  Instrumentation/gps..*xx or 
  Airports/simple.*xx. There has been alot of improvements to the gui system 
  lately, so maybe my dialog has become broken. Could you try to trigger the 
  Get Nearest Airport from the property browser? Go to 
  /instrumentation/gps/wp/wp[1] and set get-nearest-airport to true. I'm 
  not able to run FG right now because of some freeglut issue (I believe) so 
  I 
  can't test this myself :-(
  
 sorry
 It has not any effect. We get nothing :=(
 Looking at the guy dialog it is the old usual nasal command. it should
 work.

I am not fully sure, 
but it is probably coming from an old update, because every July CVS
releases does not work (i keep it).
BTW: Isn't it any relationship with electrics modifications ? (turn
indicator not working, gps may be)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport an WP : Not Working

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 15:16 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 23:55 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
  Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 23:02 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
  
   AFAICT there hasn't been any significant changes to 
   Instrumentation/gps..*xx or 
   Airports/simple.*xx. There has been alot of improvements to the gui 
   system 
   lately, so maybe my dialog has become broken. Could you try to trigger 
   the 
   Get Nearest Airport from the property browser? Go to 
   /instrumentation/gps/wp/wp[1] and set get-nearest-airport to true.. 
   I'm 
   not able to run FG right now because of some freeglut issue (I believe) 
   so I 
   can't test this myself :-(
   
  sorry
  It has not any effect. We get nothing :=(
  Looking at the guy dialog it is the old usual nasal command. it should
  work.
 
 I am not fully sure, 
 but it is probably coming from an old update, because every July CVS
 releases does not work (i keep it).
 BTW: Isn't it any relationship with electrics modifications ? (turn
 indicator not working, gps may be)

The situation is really bad.

None of the Menu-Instruments-GPS-WayPoints functions are working

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas is unable to draw Airports and Runways

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 16:40 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
 On Tuesday 26 July 2005 00:02, Gerard Robin wrote:
  Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 09:38 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
   Markus Morawitz wrote:
Please can anyone help me by teaching me some history
about the Airport and NavAids file formats.
Where is the current file format being described?
  
   FlightGear started out by using a native file format for airport data
   but recently switched to the file format also used by X-Plane.
   Everything (including the file format) can be found here:
  
   http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/
  
   Erik
 
  It do not solve the Atlas problem.
  Only one way to run atlas map is to use the old Airports format data.
  Atlas is a very old program which is partly obsolete regarding FGFS.
 
 I seem to remember that the CVS version of Atlas is compatible with the new 
 airport format. Try that!

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 17:04 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
 On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:16, Gerard Robin wrote:
  I am not fully sure,
  but it is probably coming from an old update, because every July CVS
  releases does not work (i keep it).
 
 ??? Do you keep every July CVS release for the past couple of years?
 Have none of your CVS updates this July worked for you?

Ouaf Ouaf 
I am not enough crazy to keep only every old times July from every
years :=

 
  BTW: Isn't it any relationship with electrics modifications ? (turn
  indicator not working, gps may be)
 
 That could be the cause. If you again use the property browser to look at 
 /instrumentation/gps/***. Here you should see longitude and latitude values 
 changing as you move. If not then the gps might not be getting power.
 

We get nothing but Zero in /instrumentation/gps/***
Who is able to tell what must be done to solve it ?


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 18:05 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 17:04 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
  On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:16, Gerard Robin wrote:
   I am not fully sure,
   but it is probably coming from an old update, because every July CVS
   releases does not work (i keep it).
  
  ??? Do you keep every July CVS release for the past couple of years?
  Have none of your CVS updates this July worked for you?
 
 Ouaf Ouaf 
 I am not enough crazy to keep only every old times July from every
 years :=
 
  
   BTW: Isn't it any relationship with electrics modifications ? (turn
   indicator not working, gps may be)
  
  That could be the cause. If you again use the property browser to look at 
  /instrumentation/gps/***. Here you should see longitude and latitude 
  values 
  changing as you move. If not then the gps might not be getting power.
  
 
 We get nothing but Zero in /instrumentation/gps/***
 Who is able to tell what must be done to solve it ?
 
Hi Roy
I have got the answer the electrical nasal file must include the short
term patch 28 = 60 ideal volts with rpm_source : /engines/engine
[0]/rpm

you suggested it before  about turn indicator 

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 18:45 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
 On Tuesday 26 July 2005 18:25, Gerard Robin wrote:
  Hi Roy
  I have got the answer the electrical nasal file must include the short
  term patch 28 = 60 ideal volts with rpm_source : /engines/engine
  [0]/rpm
 
 In theory this hould not make any dfference because the gps is not as 
 demanding as the turn indicator. The gps should work with any electrical 
 input larger than 0. So it should work just as well on 28 as on 60. But hey, 
 if you say it's working now, then who am I to dispute that? ;-)
 

You should be right. On my side i don't understand as well.
The fact is 28 - not working   60 - working.
When your FG will be on, you will probably give a good explaination.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin

  In theory this hould not make any dfference because the gps is not as 
  demanding as the turn indicator. The gps should work with any electrical 
  input larger than 0. So it should work just as well on 28 as on 60. But 
  hey, 
  if you say it's working now, then who am I to dispute that? ;-)
  
 
 You should be right. On my side i don't understand as well.
 The fact is 28 - not working   60 - working.
 When your FG will be on, you will probably give a good explaination.

If we look at /systems/electrical/outputs/
we get gps to null when volt=28
we get gps to 60 when volt=60

in gps.cxx we find Line 102
 _electrical_node = fgGetNode(/systems/electrical/outputs/gps, true);

I am far be expert, it seems that gps needs a good electrical  value, is
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim won't start with w110n40 or w110n30 airports

2005-07-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 26 juillet 2005 à 23:13 +0200, Mathias Fröhlich a écrit :
 Hi,
 
 sorry for the late reaction.
 Turns out to be a bad interaction between jsbsims crash detection and my
 past initialization changes.
 The attached patch fixes this by moving crash detection out of the
 initialization phase of jsbsim.
 
 Erik,
 Can you apply that please to flightgears cvs.
 I will care for JSBsim's cvs.
 
 Thanks and sorry
 
Mathias
 
Or only comment, in order to come back to the good old process.

 // crashed (altitude AGL  0)
   //if (get_Altitude_AGL()  0.0) {
   // crash_message = Attempted to fly under ground.;
   // crash_handler();
   // }
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Get Nearest Airport (From Menu Equipment GPS) seems not working.
It was working with olders CVS. 
Is it any new modifications which deleted that function ?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 23:02 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :

 AFAICT there hasn't been any significant changes to Instrumentation/gps.*xx 
 or 
 Airports/simple.*xx. There has been alot of improvements to the gui system 
 lately, so maybe my dialog has become broken. Could you try to trigger the 
 Get Nearest Airport from the property browser? Go to 
 /instrumentation/gps/wp/wp[1] and set get-nearest-airport to true. I'm 
 not able to run FG right now because of some freeglut issue (I believe) so I 
 can't test this myself :-(
 
sorry
It has not any effect. We get nothing :=(
Looking at the guy dialog it is the old usual nasal command. it should
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas is unable to draw Airports and Runways

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 25 juillet 2005 à 09:38 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 Markus Morawitz wrote:
 
  Please can anyone help me by teaching me some history
  about the Airport and NavAids file formats.
  Where is the current file format being described?
 
 FlightGear started out by using a native file format for airport data 
 but recently switched to the file format also used by X-Plane. 
 Everything (including the file format) can be found here:
 
 http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/
 
 Erik
 
It do not solve the Atlas problem.
Only one way to run atlas map is to use the old Airports format data.
Atlas is a very old program which is partly obsolete regarding FGFS. 
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Get nearest Airport : Not Working

2005-07-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Get Nearest Airport (From Menu Equipment GPS) seems not working.
It was working with olders CVS. 
Is it any new modifications which deleted that function ?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: aviation movie link

2005-07-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 20 juillet 2005 à 09:53 -0500, Curtis L. Olson a écrit :
 I imagine there are a few people on this list that like to watch 
 airplanes.  There is some beautiful photography here (Requires quicktime 
 plugin ...)
 
 http://www.onesixright.com/video/aerials.html
 
 Curt.

Wonderful.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-18 Thread Gerard Robin

   
 
 Could you give some examples ? The noshadow thing is usualy used to hide 
 some artifacts
 caused by transparent geometry like windows, rotating propeler disk, 
 paintings, etc, or to reduce the
 complexity of the shadow (virtual cockpit or other complex parts of the 
 plane).
 
 Harald.
 
 
Hello Harald,
You could be interested on what i am doing about shadow animation in the
coming condition shadow.

== An aircraft don't cast shadow  when agl-ft  450.
animation
condition 
greater-than
property/position/altitude-agl-ft/property
value450/value
/greater-than
/condition 
typenoshadow/type
object-nameLysander/object-name 
 /animation

== Blend on an helicopter main rotor and rotor disc working
correctly :we deactivate cast of shadow from rotor when rotor rpm100
(it must be tuned) 

animation
condition 
greater-than
propertyrotors/main/rpm/property
value100/value
/greater-than
/condition
typenoshadow/type
object-nameRotor-Princ/object-name  
 /animation

== some moving Aircraft components could cast shadow according to their
positions on the Aircraft. That is an exemple on a Naval aircraft the
hook will cast shadow only when it is not fully retracted.

animation
condition 
equal
propertygear/tailhook/position-norm/property
value0/value
/equal   
/condition 
typenoshadow/type
object-nameHook/object-name 
 /animation

BTW: I discovered that many aircrafts have gear components or float
components (seaplane) which are not hidden when retracted (no door).
They only have to cast shadow when extended.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-18 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 19:17 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
 
 == some moving Aircraft components could cast shadow according to their
 positions on the Aircraft. That is an exemple on a Naval aircraft the
 hook will cast shadow only when it is not fully retracted.
 
   
 
 I am not sure I understand this example, or perhaps I presume that what 
 is visible should cast shadows ;p
 Anyway the condition is available now. The old form without condition 
 still exists.
 
 I have also made a few changes for tranparent objects. In the rendering 
 dialog there is a new option
 near the aircraft checkbox. When enabled the rendering of the aricraft 
 transparent parts is done
 *after* the shadowing code. In other words the transparent parts won't 
 hide shadows as it
 should be. This is how things should be and this option should be 
 enabled by default. But.
 We can agree that a window or a propeler disk is transparent but for the 
 code a transparent part
 is a part that uses a transparent material, ie an alpha channel in his 
 material or in his texture.
 In practice you will see that the new option will break shadows on a lot 
 of aircrafts. Just don't use
 rgba textures where rgb would do the same ;)
 
 Harald.
 

About the last exemple the hook retracted stay along,  outside, close to
fuse. Casting shadow in that position is not useful (I found the same
with B-17F gears components) when we extend the hook it clearly appears
and its own  shadow could be nice to activate.
Everything in order to spare CPU.
I will try now your updates
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-18 Thread Gerard Robin

  We can agree that a window or a propeler disk is transparent but for the 
  code a transparent part
  is a part that uses a transparent material, ie an alpha channel in his 
  material or in his texture.
  In practice you will see that the new option will break shadows on a lot 
  of aircrafts. Just don't use
  rgba textures where rgb would do the same ;)
  
  Harald.
  
 
 About the last exemple the hook retracted stay along,  outside, close to
 fuse. Casting shadow in that position is not useful (I found the same
 with B-17F gears components) when we extend the hook it clearly appears
 and its own  shadow could be nice to activate.
 Everything in order to spare CPU.
 I will try now your updates
 Many thanks.

Hello Harald,

Everything is working.
The results are very nice. Your idea to introduce transparency is
perfect that solve the ugly effects on propdisk and the hidden effect on
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-16 Thread Gerard Robin

 noshadow.myobjectname or animationtypenoshadow are really the same.
 But I think Mathias is talking about the fact that some object parts 
 were silently not casting shadows
 based on their name. Before the noshadow animation exist I was checking 
 for names like 'disk' for
 example so a 'propeller.disk' was not casting shadows.
 But in the current cvs only the 'noshadow' name and the noshadow 
 animation are used.
 Sorry for the confusion, I realize that I did not talk about this hidden 
 'feature'.
 
 Harald.
 
 
 
I don't understand why that animation.xml does not work, i get no shadow
on agl less than 150, it should not. 
Any idea?

animation
condition 
greater-than
property/position/altitude-agl-ft/property
value150/value
/greater-than
/condition 
typenoshadow/type
object-nameLysander/object-name 
 /animation

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-16 Thread Gerard Robin

  property/position/altitude-agl-ft/property
  value150/value
  /greater-than
  /condition 
  typenoshadow/type
  object-nameLysander/object-name 
  /animation
 
 Lysander is the whole Aircraft (group defined)
   
 
 Because the condition clause is not used by the *noshadow* kind of 
 animation. The code in animation.cxx clearly show this.
 
 -Fred
 
 
 
Yes i have seen it. (my question was rather to get some answer about the
next noshadow updates depending on Harald to do list).
That property should be like select and any others property.
Is it any technical reasons which keep off to do it?
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-16 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 16 juillet 2005 à 18:22 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
 Yes i have seen it. (my question was rather to get some answer about the
 next noshadow updates depending on Harald to do list).
 That property should be like select and any others property.
   
 
 I never thought of it as a dynamic selector, maybe I am wrong.
 
 Is it any technical reasons which keep off to do it?
   
 
 I think it can be done, we could have a condition for dynamic selection 
 in addition to the current
 static form.
 
 If yes, that will reduce the advantage of that noshadow property.
   
 
 Could you give some examples ? The noshadow thing is usualy used to hide 
 some artifacts
 caused by transparent geometry like windows, rotating propeler disk, 
 paintings, etc, or to reduce the
 complexity of the shadow (virtual cockpit or other complex parts of the 
 plane).
 
 Harald.
 
 
Oh, yes i can.
It is the result of a first approach it can be opened to discussions.

== We permanently need the maximum of fps. The shadow is mainly useful
when the aircraft can cast shadow on the ground. We don't need it when
the aircraft is  in altitude and we could deactivate shadow. 
May be only useful if we like to get shadow on the aircraft from itself
(very significant if the texture or color clear).

== In order to solve the ugly effect on the propeller disk, we could
try to deactivate some aircraft objets under conditions.

== cockpit view (view 1) gets shadows on the windscreen, cockpit
hud  it is ugly, we could deactivate it. 

May be others , i continu to test it. 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-16 Thread Gerard Robin

  Could you give some examples ? The noshadow thing is usualy used to hide 
  some artifacts
  caused by transparent geometry like windows, rotating propeler disk, 
  paintings, etc, or to reduce the
  complexity of the shadow (virtual cockpit or other complex parts of the 
  plane).
  
  Harald.
  
  
 Oh, yes i can.
 It is the result of a first approach it can be opened to discussions.
 
 == We permanently need the maximum of fps. The shadow is mainly useful
 when the aircraft can cast shadow on the ground. We don't need it when
 the aircraft is  in altitude and we could deactivate shadow. 
 May be only useful if we like to get shadow on the aircraft from itself
 (very significant if the texture or color clear).
 
 == In order to solve the ugly effect on the propeller disk, we could
 try to deactivate some aircraft objets under conditions.
 
 == cockpit view (view 1) gets shadows on the windscreen, cockpit
 hud  it is ugly, we could deactivate it. 
 
 May be others , i continu to test it. 
 
 thanks
 

In addition to, an other exemple.
the shadow goes against the blend animation.

The most significant is  the helicopter rotor (i did not test with
bo105, which should give the same difficulties, i tested it with one of
mine).
Let us go.
RotorDisk being defined with noshadow animation
=First: we start with a 0 rpm rotor gives a good shadow on the
ground.
=Second: the rotor rotate to reach the operational rpm, during that
period blend property decrease the rotor look and increase the
RotorDisk look. One should be replaced by the second.
At that stage rotor do not get the blend effect because of the shadow.
=Third: operational rpm has been reached, we can see both RotorDisk and
rotor, we should only see RotorDisk.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport LFPO Paris Orly Update

2005-07-13 Thread Gerard Robin
Rather than keeping on my side a new version of the Airport Paris Orly
I guess that you could be interested to get it. 

That Airport in the existing Scenery is wrong regarding the apt.dat
Here an update  which suit to that apt.dat and the Scenery File e000n40
The Airport and the corresponding tile as been rebuilt.

Everything done with Terragear.
You only have to replace the old files by these new ones.
http://ghours.club.fr/LFPO-update.tar.gz
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] France file Signs : France South Est available

2005-07-13 Thread Gerard Robin
Dedicated to Signs users:
A first part of France territory is available = France South-Est
at http://ghours.club.fr/france-SE.tar.gz

I divided the task in four parts, will come later on =  
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 12 juillet 2005 à 07:45 +0200, Mathias Fröhlich a écrit :

   /animation
 Yes.
 As I last looked into the shadow code, there was some heuristic based on 
 object names which made some surfaces 'noshadow' ones.
 That heuristic gives me false positives with the F-18.
 
 I would vote for dropping that heuristic completely and apply the noshadow 
 where apprioriate.
 
 Greetings
 
Mathias
 
Do you mean that using 
noshadow.myobjectname or  animationtypenoshadow
are the same and the consequence is noshadow.myobjectname is not
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[Flightgear-devel] Funny Rainning

2005-07-12 Thread Gerard Robin
I am not that has been said.
The rain is very funny: 
In the rear view and looking toward the aircraft (rear view) the rain is
coming from the sky and going down to the ground which is the normal
way.
In a front view and looking toward the aircraft (front view) the rain is
coming from the ground going to the sky which is a wrong way (as far as
i remember how does the rain)

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-11 Thread Gerard Robin

 
 The object noshadow definition (name or animation) does not keep off
 that object getting  the shadow from an other object. will it be any way
 to make it:  noshadow means == not receiving shadow, in addition to the
 existing not transmitting shadow
   
 
 No that is not possible.
 
 Harald.
 
 
 
Well, that mean, will have to choose between both following
alternatives:

1/ a beautiful aircraft shadow and an ugly Propeller Disk
2/ a beautiful Propeller Disk and no shadow

May be one could find an other way to  simulate high speed propeller
rotation, on my side, i have not any solution.

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture

2005-07-11 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 11 juillet 2005 à 08:58 -0500, Corrubia, Stacie K a écrit :
 What am I doing wrong?  I have sucessfully built scenery before but I
 wanted to change the terrain texture to desert.rgb so I set the material
 type to DryLake when using tgvpf.
 
 $terr_prep/tgvpf/tgvpf --tile=w087n30 --work-dir=LandMass
 --material=DryLake --max-segment=400 /data/vmaplv0 noamer bnd polbnda  
 
 But when I go through the final build process and look at the scenery
 the material type is ocean.  I have previously been able to build
 omitting a material type which gave me a default type which apparently
 is set to a forest type texture.  
 
 Thanks.
 Stacie

 
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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-10 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 26 juin 2005 à 20:28 +0100, Vivian Meazza a écrit :

 There's a bit of a funny with the interaction between the Hurricane
 propeller disk and the ac shadow: it makes the shadow disappear, and there's
 something throwing a shadow on to the disk, which I've not seen in real
 life, although I might not have noticed it. Is there anything I can do
 within the ac model to tidy this up?
 
 It would be nice to assign 2 of the 8 OpenGL lights to ac landing lights.
 
 Well done indeed
 
 Vivian
 
 
 
After a holiday break without computers, i come back.

The update about shadow is great. Working perfectly with my
configuration Linux 2.6.12-2 Nvidia 6600GT driver 7667 (the last one)
and --bpp=24 

I would like to congratulate Harald, many thanks for that.

I just wonder about the fact that every alpha objects make the shadow,
which is behind, disappeared (Vivian did notice it).
Every AC3D users can notice that problem = the object hierarchy must be
built in order to make the alpha objects (canopy, propeller disk  ...)
at the end of the hierarchy. 
If it is not, AC3D 3D-view don't show the objects which are behind these
alpha objects.

May be that could be an explanation and help to solve that ugly effect. 

Is it any hierarchy in FG view processing ? 
 if yes,
 may be the shadow must be put on the top of the hierarchy 

BTW: i have renamed every alpha objects noshadow..

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-10 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 10 juillet 2005 à 19:32 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
 

 transparent objects because we don't want that a totaly transparent 
 triangle stops the light (and atm
 it *is* stoping the light because it has changed the zbuffer).
 As you said modelers usually sort their model graph to handle that 
 problem but the shadow code need
 the whole scene because it uses the screen zbuffer.
 I don't see a clear solution to this problem.
 
 BTW: i have renamed every alpha objects noshadow..
 
   
 
 You can now use the noshadow animation in your models and reference 
 all the parts that should not
 cast shadow. Examle for radio-medium.xml :
  animation
   typenoshadow/type
   object-nameWires.1/object-name
   object-nameWires.2/object-name
  /animation
 
 
 Harald.
 
 
The object noshadow definition (name or animation) does not keep off
that object getting  the shadow from an other object. will it be any way
to make it:  noshadow means == not receiving shadow, in addition to the
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-07-10 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 10 juillet 2005 à 19:42 +0200, Frederic Bouvier a écrit :
 I noticed another artefact :
 http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/moving-shadow.gif ( animated gif )
 
 When moving toward the blue building, the shadow on the nearest building 
 face is moving and it seems dependant on the viewer's position.
 
 -Fred
 
Yes i did noticed it.
And i do not get shadow from the usual objects which are randomly
situated on the scenery = farmhouse, house, apartment.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turn Coordinator is out == c172r and others

2005-06-26 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 26 juin 2005 à 07:53 +0200, Roy Vegard Ovesen a écrit :
 On Sunday 26 June 2005 04:04, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
  I notice it as well, but I thought my CVS version is outdated, so I didn't
  mention it.
 
  Beside the turn coordinator, everything on the radio stack seems to be out
  as well.
 
 It's the new nasalised electrical system. The turn indicator is hardcoded to 
 expect 60 ampere as input. The new system outputs 28 volts instead (I told 
 Curt that it made more sense to output volts rather than amperes). So the 
 result is that the gyro is not spinning fast enough.
 
 I tried the radiostack just now, and it seemed to work fine.
 


 Well, what must be done to solve that ?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New turbo/supercharger code

2005-06-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 25 juin 2005 à 13:16 -0400, Josh Babcock a écrit :
 Vivian Meazza wrote:
  Josh Babcock
  
  
 
  I have a nagging memory that the Wright Cyclone R-3500 was fitted with
  reduction gearing between the crankshaft and propeller, although I can't
  find any reference to it right now. Do you have any details of the ratio?
  It's needed to migrate to the new Yasim propeller definition.
  
  You could use the R-2600 ratio, I suppose: 
  
  Propeller Reduction Gear Ration (crankshaft to propeller): 16:9
  
  That comes from here:
  
  http://wrightpattjobs.wpafb.af.mil/museum/engines/eng42a.htm
  
  V.
  
  
  
 
Only for the fun, and may be seriously i can try to calculate it with
the help of the new aeromatic propeller, i have implemented it locally.
I need: Engine RPM --  Propeller diameter (inch or feet) -- Engine power
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New turbo/supercharger code

2005-06-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 25 juin 2005 à 13:53 -0400, Josh Babcock a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
  Le samedi 25 juin 2005 à 13:16 -0400, Josh Babcock a écrit :
  
 Vivian Meazza wrote:
 
 Josh Babcock
 
 
 
 I have a nagging memory that the Wright Cyclone R-3500 was fitted with
 reduction gearing between the crankshaft and propeller, although I can't
 find any reference to it right now. Do you have any details of the ratio?
 It's needed to migrate to the new Yasim propeller definition.
 
 You could use the R-2600 ratio, I suppose: 
 
 Propeller Reduction Gear Ration (crankshaft to propeller): 16:9
 
 That comes from here:
 
 http://wrightpattjobs.wpafb.af.mil/museum/engines/eng42a.htm
 
 V.
 
 
 
 
  
  Only for the fun, and may be seriously i can try to calculate it with
  the help of the new aeromatic propeller, i have implemented it locally.
  I need: Engine RPM --  Propeller diameter (inch or feet) -- Engine power
  ( HP or KW without boost).
  
  
 2700 rpm
 16'7 (4 blades)
 2200 hp
 
 Josh
 

=
The results, i notice the calculation gives  3 blades with 2200 HP


   Inputs:
horsepower: 2200
 pitch: variable
max engine rpm: 2700
prop diameter (ft): 16.7

 Outputs:
  max prop rpm:1123.53
gear ratio:   2.40
   Cp0:0.059661
   Ct0:0.051308
   static thrust (lbs):3327.61
--

propeller name=prop
  ixx54.2414 /ixx
  diameter unit=IN200.4 /diameter
  numblades 3 /numblades
  gearratio2.40 /gearratio
  minpitch 12 /minpitch
  maxpitch 30 /maxpitch
  minrpm899 /minrpm
  maxrpm   1124 /maxrpm




Again with 2400 HP we get 4 blades (min rpm and max rpm are the same)



 Inputs:
horsepower: 2400
 pitch: variable
max engine rpm: 2700
prop diameter (ft): 16.7

 Outputs:
  max prop rpm:1123.53
gear ratio:   2.40
   Cp0:0.065084
   Ct0:0.055972
   static thrust (lbs):3630.12
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propeller name=prop
  ixx72.3219 /ixx
  diameter unit=IN200.4 /diameter
  numblades 4 /numblades
  gearratio2.40 /gearratio
  minpitch 12 /minpitch
  maxpitch 30 /maxpitch
  minrpm899 /minrpm
  maxrpm   1124 /maxrpm



I don't know if it will be useful.
 
 
 
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[Flightgear-devel] Turn Coordinator is out == c172r and others

2005-06-25 Thread Gerard Robin
Beware instrument failure !
C172r  and others aircraft have a turn coordinator out of order  :=(
seems to be property:
/instrumentation/turn-indicator/indicated-turn-rate

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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New turbo/supercharger code

2005-06-24 Thread Gerard Robin

 With Melchior's valuable help I have developed a nasal simulation of the
 Boost Control and Boost Control Cutout for the Hurricane. This should be
 committed to cvs shortly. When a preset boost value is exceeded, the Boost
 Control acts to reduce throttle opening. This action can be overridden by
 the Boost Control Cutout which allows maximum boost. The output of the Boost
 Control is smoothed by a low-pass filter selected by Melchior. You will
 notice an overshoot and some lag if the throttle is opened quickly.
 
 To make it work a patch (for cvs/head) is required to YASim - attached. A
 new attribute 'supercharger' has been added to the aircraft config file.
 When this is true, the attribute 'wastegate' no longer controls the
 supercharger output. If you want to try the update to the Hurricane, you
 will need to apply this patch. It will not adversely affect any other YASim
 model, so far as I can tell.
 
 Both the nasal and YASim patch are temporary; both will require reworking
 when Andy comes up with his revision of YASim to include the new
 supercharger code.
 
 Any testing would be welcome, although Melchior is doing his best to break
 it already! In particular any feedback on any adverse effects on other
 models would be good.
 
 Regards,
 
 Vivian 

Do we have the same project, on JSBSim ?
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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New turbo/supercharger code

2005-06-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 24 juin 2005 à 15:41 +0100, Vivian Meazza a écrit :
 Gerard
 
   With Melchior's valuable help I have developed a nasal simulation of the
   Boost Control and Boost Control Cutout for the Hurricane. This should be
   committed to cvs shortly. When a preset boost value is exceeded, the
  Boost
   Control acts to reduce throttle opening. This action can be overridden
  by
   the Boost Control Cutout which allows maximum boost. The output of the
  Boost
   Control is smoothed by a low-pass filter selected by Melchior. You will
   notice an overshoot and some lag if the throttle is opened quickly.
  
   To make it work a patch (for cvs/head) is required to YASim - attached.
  A
   new attribute 'supercharger' has been added to the aircraft config file.
   When this is true, the attribute 'wastegate' no longer controls the
   supercharger output. If you want to try the update to the Hurricane, you
   will need to apply this patch. It will not adversely affect any other
  YASim
   model, so far as I can tell.
  
   Both the nasal and YASim patch are temporary; both will require
  reworking
   when Andy comes up with his revision of YASim to include the new
   supercharger code.
  
   Any testing would be welcome, although Melchior is doing his best to
  break
   it already! In particular any feedback on any adverse effects on other
   models would be good.
  
   Regards,
  
   Vivian
  
  Do we have the same project, on JSBSim ?
  What must be done for it ?
 
 I'm not sure where the supercharger stuff is at on JSBSim. Certainly doesn't
 have a Boost Control Cutout. I'm not working on it - I've only just begun to
 understand YASim. One thing at a time :-). I'm not aware of any requirement
 in JSBSim 
 
 Right now I've only researched the RR Merlin in any detail. Enough for our
 current range of supercharged models. I don't know if Josh Babcock needs
 anything special for the B29.
 
 V.
 
 
 
Thanks, 
My question could be a question to Jon, Dave, and any JSB specialist.
I just wonder, about, the opportunity to get profit of your work for
developments on the JSB branch. The properties should be the same  on
the global FG level.  
Both FDM -YASim -JSBSim with a different philosophic approach should
give the same end results.
 
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[Flightgear-devel] Last Driver NVIDIA 7667:==approach lighting rabbit DO NOT Conflict with Graphic Card

2005-06-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 17:55 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :

  
  A better fix might be to use point lights for VASI/PAPI rather than 
  commenting them out entirely.
  
  Here's my theory.  VASI/PAPI and the  get 
  drawn with larger antialiased points.  These are unaccelerated for the 
  

  
  I suspect that they are intentionally making antialiased points 
  artificially slow in their latest drivers to prevent people like us from 
  getting away with using just a few here and there without upgrading to 
  really high priced Quadro cards.
  
  I could be wrong ... maybe there's a valid technical reason, but this 
  sounds more like a marketing thing than a driver bug from my perspective.
  
  Curt.
  
 Thank Curt
  that explanation , is the good one.
 Gerard


 I am Just Ending the test of the last NVIDIA driver 7667 june-22
The slowness in FG with VASI as vanished.
That new driver seems right when working with existing OpenGL
functionalities used by FG.
I just notice a global speed a bit less than before (7664, without
VASI).
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft ideas ?

2005-06-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 24 juin 2005 à 17:39 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
 On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:26:40 -0700 (PDT), Alex wrote in message 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  Got an idea for a new aircraft (not airplane) you'd like to try ?
  http://www.dodsbir.net/Topics/Default.asp
  Topic: A05-208
 
 ...concerns semiballistic 40-105 mm munitions with enhanced lethality
 capable of striking targets of opportunity along the modifiable
 ballistic trajectory.  
 
 ...I'd like to see such devices make full use of the 4 Geneva Conventions
 to save lives and instead maximize combat damage to the enemy, as
 wounded men are about 4 to 5 times more expensive to any military force
 than dead men.  A successful small arms femur shot takes a year to heal
 back into combatworthy status.
 
Yea, It was New BAD aircraft ideas  :=(

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last Driver NVIDIA 7667:==approach lighting rabbit DO NOT Conflict with Graphic Card

2005-06-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 24 juin 2005 à 18:53 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 17:55 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 
   
   A better fix might be to use point lights for VASI/PAPI rather than 
   commenting them out entirely.
   
   Here's my theory.  VASI/PAPI and the  get 
   drawn with larger antialiased points.  These are unaccelerated for the 
   
 
   
   I suspect that they are intentionally making antialiased points 
   artificially slow in their latest drivers to prevent people like us from 
   getting away with using just a few here and there without upgrading to 
   really high priced Quadro cards.
   
   I could be wrong ... maybe there's a valid technical reason, but this 
   sounds more like a marketing thing than a driver bug from my 
   perspective.
   
   Curt.
   
  Thank Curt
   that explanation , is the good one.
  Gerard
 
 
  I am Just Ending the test of the last NVIDIA driver 7667 june-22
 The slowness in FG with VASI as vanished.
 That new driver seems right when working with existing OpenGL
 functionalities used by FG.
 I just notice a global speed a bit less than before (7664, without
 VASI).
 Good NEWS. 
  
I forgot to say, that message is only dedicated to FG users,
Others 3D textured applications are less good with that new driver. 

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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New turbo/supercharger code

2005-06-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 24 juin 2005 à 18:13 -0500, Jon Berndt a écrit :
  Thanks, 

  Both FDM -YASim -JSBSim with a different philosophic approach should
  give the same end results.
   
  -- 
  Gerard
 
 See the FGPiston.h file in JSBSim. See the constructor in FGPiston.cpp for 
 exact specification in the new XML format (documentation pending). Here is 
 some data on what can be specified:
 
 Models Dave Luff's Turbo/Supercharged Piston engine model.
 Additional elements are required for a supercharged engine.  These can be
 left off a non-supercharged engine, ie. the changes are all backward
 compatible at present.
 
 -..
   power below the rated altitude.  When TAKEOFFBOOST is specified in the
   config file (and is above RATEDBOOST1), then the throttle position is
   interpreted as:
 
 - 0 to 0.95 : idle manifold pressure to rated boost (where attainable)
 - 0.96, 0.97, 0.98 : rated boost (where attainable).
 - 0.99, 1.0 : takeoff boost (where attainable).
 
 A typical takeoff boost for an earlyish Merlin was about 12psi, compared
 with a rated boost of 9psi.
 
 It is quite possible that other boost control settings could have been 
 used
 on some aircraft, or that takeoff/extra boost could have activated by 
 other
 means than pushing the throttle full forward through a gate, but this will
 suffice for now.
 
 Note that MAXMP is still the non-boosted max manifold pressure even for
 boosted engines - effectively this is simply a measure of the pressure 
 drop
 through the fully open throttle.
 
 
Thank
, that  is exactly, what i was looking for (i did not understood how it
could do with FG)
I must go further into it, and see how to build the property
relationship within the existing FG properties.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Ground vehicles

2005-06-23 Thread Gerard Robin
Le jeudi 23 juin 2005 à 10:15 -0500, Corrubia, Stacie K a écrit :
 To go along with the ground vehicles, is there a way to have them move
 on the terrain within the scenes?
 
 Thanks,
 Stacie
 
You could refer to ship AI !
It should work too.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear/flaps handling (b29, hurricane, ...)

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:03 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
 The joysticks and default keyboard bindings do no longer set the gear/flap
 properties directly, but both use wrapper functions in controls.nas. The
 flaps did this since a while, but behave differently now: The bindings don't
 only report flaps/gear up/down, but also when the button was released. The
 default controls functions ignore this additional information and should
 exactly behave as before. But aircraft can now easily redefine the controls
 functions to implement aircraft specific gear/flaps handling. Redefining
 key/button bindings broke all input device configs, while redefining the
 wrapper functions lets every js/kbd function where it used to be.
 
 To make the gear only move while g/G is pressed (or the gear buttons
 on the js), and immediately stop movement on release, define for example this
 in, let's say b29.nas:
 
   gear = aircraft.door.new(/controls/gear, 10);  # 10 seconds for full 
 move? 
 
   controls.gearDown = func {
   if (arg[0]  0) {
   gear.close();
   } elsif (arg[0]  0) {
   gear.open();
   } else {
   gear.stop();
   }
   }
 
 Of course, the use of the aircraft.door class isn't mandatory. But it's
 quite convenient. The moving door property is in /controls/gear/position-norm.
 
 m.
 
  If i need to keep the old process, what must be done on my side ?
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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Main Airports Conflict withGraphic Card6600GT !!!

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 09:49 -0500, Alberico, James F a écrit :
  -Original Message-
  From: Gerard ROBIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:50 PM
  To: FlightGear developers discussions
  Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Main Airports Conflict 
  withGraphic Card6600GT !!!
 
   The hardware is able to do it, with the old driver 6229 it can. 
  But the average performance is less, because that driver  
  does not suit to these new GPU with GPL 2. May be a bug in 
  the last NVIDIA driver. 
  I could explain the problem if i was more accurate about GL 
  and that light animation.
   
  --
  Gerard
  
  
 
 For what it's worth, additional info on this thread:
 
 I saw the same bad performance on an Fx 3400 with new driver.  I was not
 able to find any properties or run options to alleviate the problem (10
 fps or less, when looking at an airfield -- running with enhanced
 lighting OFF).
 
 Gerard's fix (comment out the call to get_vasi_lights_root()) worked
 great.  All is smooth now.  Thanks, Gerard!
 
 Jim
 
 
 Thanks,
And i worry than kind of solution.
It is only a 10 lines code in Simgear which slow the world of NVidia,
what a pity !  :=)
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Main Airports Conflict withGraphic Card6600GT !!!

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 10:25 -0500, Curtis L. Olson a écrit :
 Alberico, James F wrote:
 
 For what it's worth, additional info on this thread:
 
 I saw the same bad performance on an Fx 3400 with new driver.  I was not
 able to find any properties or run options to alleviate the problem (10
 fps or less, when looking at an airfield -- running with enhanced
 lighting OFF).
 
 Gerard's fix (comment out the call to get_vasi_lights_root()) worked
 great.  All is smooth now.  Thanks, Gerard!
   
 
 
 A better fix might be to use point lights for VASI/PAPI rather than 
 commenting them out entirely.
 
 Here's my theory.  VASI/PAPI and the approach lighting rabbit get 
 drawn with larger antialiased points.  These are unaccelerated for the 
 gamer level hardware (i.e. GeForce) but I found in the earlier versions 
 of the cards/drivers that you could easily get away with just drawing a 
 few larger software points and not see any kind of performance hit at 
 all ... as long as you didn't get too crazy with it.
 
 Now, nvidia does offer a hardware accelerated version of these points in 
 it's more expensive quadro line of cards intended for the professional 
 graphics market.
 
 I suspect that they are intentionally making antialiased points 
 artificially slow in their latest drivers to prevent people like us from 
 getting away with using just a few here and there without upgrading to 
 really high priced Quadro cards.
 
 I could be wrong ... maybe there's a valid technical reason, but this 
 sounds more like a marketing thing than a driver bug from my perspective.
 
 Curt.
 
Thank Curt
 that explanation , is the good one.

The question is what could be done on the fg side ?
 in order to keep the best speed in every usage of NVidia cards.

The card with old driver in FG gives an average speed from 30 to 70 fps
The card without overclock  with new driver in FG an average from 50 to
90 fps (sometime more than 100 fps).
The card with overclock less than 10% more  (~8)

With Celestia-KDE speed seem to be twice 

When we have to use the very NVidia last driver,(and not to buy a new
more expensive card) what can be done ?


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear/flaps handling (b29, hurricane, ...)

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:44 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:03 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
  The joysticks and default keyboard bindings do no longer set the gear/flap
  properties directly, but both use wrapper functions in controls.nas. The
  flaps did this since a while, but behave differently now: The bindings don't
  only report flaps/gear up/down, but also when the button was released. The
  default controls functions ignore this additional information and should
  exactly behave as before. But aircraft can now easily redefine the 
  controls
  functions to implement aircraft specific gear/flaps handling. Redefining
  key/button bindings broke all input device configs, while redefining the
  wrapper functions lets every js/kbd function where it used to be.
  
  To make the gear only move while g/G is pressed (or the gear buttons
  on the js), and immediately stop movement on release, define for example 
  this
  in, let's say b29.nas:
  
gear = aircraft.door.new(/controls/gear, 10);  # 10 seconds for full 
  move? 
  
controls.gearDown = func {
if (arg[0]  0) {
gear.close();
} elsif (arg[0]  0) {
gear.open();
} else {
gear.stop();
}
}
  
  Of course, the use of the aircraft.door class isn't mandatory. But it's
  quite convenient. The moving door property is in 
  /controls/gear/position-norm.
  
  m.
  
   If i need to keep the old process, what must be done on my side ?
 Thanks 
 In addition to my previous question which is waiting for an answer.
Is it any consequence when using  interpolation ? 
 which is very precise and very useful for every complicated animations
(ie synchronisation of door-gear and gear itself)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gear/flaps handling (b29, hurricane, ...)

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 18:44 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
 * Gerard Robin -- Wednesday 22 June 2005 16:44:
  Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:03 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
   The default controls functions ignore this additional information and 
   should
   exactly behave as before.
 
 
  If i need to keep the old process, what must be done on my side ?
 
 Sacrificing a chicken at full-moon midnight is all you need to do.
 
 m.
 
I will look at the moon, may be to night...:=)
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Main Airports Conflict withGraphic Card6600GT !!!

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 18:50 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
 Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 09:49 -0500, Alberico, James F a écrit :
   
 
  The hardware is able to do it, with the old driver 6229 it can. 
 But the average performance is less, because that driver  
 does not suit to these new GPU with GPL 2. May be a bug in 
 the last NVIDIA driver. 
 I could explain the problem if i was more accurate about GL 
 and that light animation.
   
 
 --
 Gerard
 
 
   
 
 For what it's worth, additional info on this thread:
 
 I saw the same bad performance on an Fx 3400 with new driver.  I was not
 able to find any properties or run options to alleviate the problem (10
 fps or less, when looking at an airfield -- running with enhanced
 lighting OFF).
 
 Gerard's fix (comment out the call to get_vasi_lights_root()) worked
 great.  All is smooth now.  Thanks, Gerard!
 
 Jim
 
 
 
 
  Thanks,
 And i worry than kind of solution.
 It is only a 10 lines code in Simgear which slow the world of NVidia,
 what a pity !  :=)
   
 
 change :
 glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT, GL_POINT);
 with
 glPolygonMode(GL_FRONT, GL_LINE);
 in render.cxx, its not perfect but you will be able to see lights 
 without fps loss.
 
 Harald.
 
 
 I don't understand the code itself is in Simgear !!!
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gear/flaps handling (b29, hurricane, ...)

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 19:54 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
 * Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:44:
  * Gerard Robin -- Wednesday 22 June 2005 18:46:
   Is it any consequence when using  interpolation ?
  
  No. 
 
 Oh, you mean the XML interpolation. That is even less concerned ...
 
 m.
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gear/flaps handling (b29, hurricane, ...)

2005-06-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 21:21 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
 * Gerard Robin -- Wednesday 22 June 2005 20:54:
  Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 19:54 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
   Oh, you mean the XML interpolation. That is even less concerned ...
  
  Thank, that is i hoped to ear .
 
 I don't even know why I answered such a nonsense question. How realistic
 is it that I check in a change to the controls handling that breaks the
 XML animation/interpolation code? And why didn't you just try it out?
 Next time I'll first demand that you explain why you think this could
 be the case. Bah ... 
 
 m.
 
Melchior

My grand-father told me: 
it is never nonsense questions, any questions are good :=)  
i thank you for the answer.

That probably means that every questions without any returned answer are
nonsense questions.

My question was only due to a misunderstanding about the level that
modification applied on.

I am not able to test the last of the last CVS, every time, because
you know, i need, before, to add personal patchs (in spite of having
several versions in //).

Last remark, it is better to be sure, before a modification will be
applied, rather than discovering after, to late.

Have i been able to answer to your sense question about my nonsense
questions ? that is the question.  :=)

 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: carb-heat

2005-06-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 23:39 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade a écrit :
 On June 20, 2005 09:58 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
  Melchior FRANZ wrote:
  fgfs developers aren't only pedantic, but also lazy.  :-)

 
  Errr ... busy. :-)
 
  Curt.
 
 Or chaotic. =)
 
 Ampere
 
 Oh, not so chaotic, the global result is rather good,
parallel progress could gives goods results.
Just a necessity theses // must go on and join together  :=)
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows

2005-06-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 21 juin 2005 à 11:34 +0400, Roman Grigoriev a écrit :
 to Harald JOHNSEN:
 spot lights in fgfs I had 3 years ago. they worked on vertex program and
 registercombiners but everyone afraid of vertex programs and multitexturing
 You can see some screens here http://fgfs.narod.ru
 But I work on it and now I have runway lights, landing lights, relief
 mapping , DXT compression and another cool stuff that work on fragment and
 vertex program
 But fgfs community refuse to use it :(
 to sad to hear it :((
 but I have framework to use shaders from VP1.0 to GLSL in fgfs
 but you have some influence in fgfs community so I think you can do what I
 haven't done yet - have flightgear looks better by using some modern stuff.
 we can discuss about shaders with you
 feel free to mail me
 Thanx in advance
 Bye

That is beautiful which put away any others games (flight) simulators
(don't push me to give a name)
Here is a good example of parallel development.
An energy which must be used.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows

2005-06-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 21 juin 2005 à 11:34 +0400, Roman Grigoriev a écrit :
 to Harald JOHNSEN:
 spot lights in fgfs I had 3 years ago. they worked on vertex program and
 registercombiners but everyone afraid of vertex programs and multitexturing
 You can see some screens here http://fgfs.narod.ru
 But I work on it and now I have runway lights, landing lights, relief
 mapping , DXT compression and another cool stuff that work on fragment and
 vertex program
 But fgfs community refuse to use it :(
 to sad to hear it :((
 but I have framework to use shaders from VP1.0 to GLSL in fgfs
 but you have some influence in fgfs community so I think you can do what I
 haven't done yet - have flightgear looks better by using some modern stuff.
 we can discuss about shaders with you
 feel free to mail me
 Thanx in advance
 Bye


Hello Roman, have you any patch which could be applied on fg-9.8
I guess, it could be a great pleasure to test it.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows

2005-06-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 21 juin 2005 à 16:02 +0400, Roman Grigoriev a écrit :
 - Original Message -
 From: Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org
 Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows
 
 
  Le mardi 21 juin 2005 à 11:34 +0400, Roman Grigoriev a écrit :
   to Harald JOHNSEN:
   spot lights in fgfs I had 3 years ago. they worked on vertex program and
   registercombiners but everyone afraid of vertex programs and
 multitexturing
   You can see some screens here http://fgfs.narod.ru
   But I work on it and now I have runway lights, landing lights, relief
   mapping , DXT compression and another cool stuff that work on fragment
 and
   vertex program
   But fgfs community refuse to use it :(
   to sad to hear it :((
   but I have framework to use shaders from VP1.0 to GLSL in fgfs
   but you have some influence in fgfs community so I think you can do what
 I
   haven't done yet - have flightgear looks better by using some modern
 stuff.
   we can discuss about shaders with you
   feel free to mail me
   Thanx in advance
   Bye
 
 
  Hello Roman, have you any patch which could be applied on fg-9.8
  I guess, it could be a great pleasure to test it.
 
 If you intrested in I can prepare it
 give me some time to test it with flightgear CVS
 
 
  Yes, thanks, i hope, i will not be alone to test it,
The community should be interested in.
The advantage, it is existing and working.
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows

2005-06-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 21 juin 2005 à 16:26 +0400, Roman Grigoriev a écrit :
 I found some earlier version of renderer.cxx
 I sent it w/o testing with fgfs CVS
 if It doesn't work please reply me
 but you can see my source
 
 OK, i will try to include it in fg 9.8 first,
i need only  some delay, and i will give you the answer.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] TOWER

2005-06-21 Thread Gerard Robin
Le mardi 21 juin 2005 à 12:20 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
 Hi,
 
 1) I would like to disable the messages that appear on the TOP of screen, the
 tower control.
 
 Is there any property that I could set to disable it on FGFS 0.9.4?
 
 2) I am compiling the FGfs 0.9.8 and I getting errors on JSBSim modules, is
 there anything that I can do to solve it? 
 
 
 Regards,
 
 
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: need help for convertion(importing) fron MS FS into Flightgear

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 06:19 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a écrit :
 On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:09:56 +1000, Mostyn wrote in message 
 
  
  What then you need to do is manually seperate all of the parts and
  texture them.
 
 ...first thing to do is read the license; if it isn't GPL, it cannot be
 made part of FlightGear, and your work will be wasted.  
 
 ...if you write something new from scratch, you own it, and you license
 it as you damned please, and you license under the GPL if you wanna 
 make it part of FlightGear.  ;o)
 

It is a very good recommandation which must be said again and again.

Using the existing 3D model mdl or any others which are not GNU can be
only for a first contact with that model. Somme of them are wonderful,
very detailed, their Author are certainly very well documented.
We could get profit of it during redrawing the model. 


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] need help for convertion(importing) fron MSFSinto Flightgear

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 20:37 +0800, yue xianf a écrit :
 HI Ampere k.
 
 I need one of Aircraft of Bombardier Challengers( CL600 Cl601 Cl604)
 my system is Windows2000.
 
 Clifford
 
  Well, i hope for you  , you will find the right model, i did not
worked on that Aircraft.
Good Fishing  :--)

Have you built FlightGear by yourself  ? 
 
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] need help for convertion(importing) fronMSFSinto Flightgear

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 22:07 +0800, yue xianf a écrit :
 Hi Gerard:
 
 I didn't built FlightGear by myself. I found all of the models in MS FS
 I think the hard part is the convertion,  to comfigure, it should be easier
 
 Clifford
 
 
 
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 08:51 +, Martin Spott a écrit : 
 Gerard Robin wrote:
  Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 22:10 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 
 I have the same request LFPO is wrong: -- take off  point beside the
  runway
 
  Oh yes i have tried with taxidraw, it seem only operate on the taxiway,
  not the runway. I could not modify the runway start point 
 
 There is no separate runway start point, it is _always_ automagically
 placed at the beginning of the runway. The effect you probably see is
 sitting at the end of a grass runway that is being listed _before_ the
 expected asphalt runway.
 
 To edit runways please click Edit - Unlock Runways, to change the
 list order of an airfield simply employ your favourite text editor. If
 you like to change the order or simply understand the structure of the
 airport file, please have a look here:
 
   http://www.x-plane.org/home/robinp/Apt810.htm
 
 Martin.
Martin

Concerning LFPO:
the  aircraft stand by position (--lat --long) after launching FG
is not the same than coordinate in apt.dat file   , it seem that it is
existing an other data which takes place in an other file and used by
FG during launching.

Airport LFPO
Does anybody else could try it, to be sure..(i suppose that north
European people has downloaded the France scenery).
If it is wrong on your side, it will be an indication for searching what
is wrong.

BTW: same error in my FG 9.8

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] need help for convertion(importing) fronMSFSinto Flightge

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 23:05 +0800, Innis Cunningham a écrit :
 Hi Clifford
 Well you may be in luck.See attached snapshot.
 One CL604 that I converted from Chuck Dome's great model.
 Back in FG 9.4 but it just needs to be converted for 9.8.No big
 deal just use the 737 fdm till you get a real one built.If you are
 interested give me a yell and I will send it over.
 
 Cheers
 Innis
 
   Clifford writes
 
 HI Ampere k.
 
 I need one of Aircraft of Bombardier Challengers( CL600 Cl601 Cl604)
 my system is Windows2000.
 
 Clifford
 
 Good, that demonstrate, it is existing a big Hangar  FG underground
How many aircrafts are only existing for the pleasure of one FG User ?
(on my side about 25)   :---(((
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 17:03 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
 Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 08:51 +, Martin Spott a écrit : 
  Gerard Robin wrote:
   Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 22:10 +0200, Gerard Robin a écrit :
  
  I have the same request LFPO is wrong: -- take off  point beside the
   runway
  
   Oh yes i have tried with taxidraw, it seem only operate on the taxiway,
   not the runway. I could not modify the runway start point 
  
  There is no separate runway start point, it is _always_ automagically
  placed at the beginning of the runway. The effect you probably see is
  sitting at the end of a grass runway that is being listed _before_ the
  expected asphalt runway.
  
  To edit runways please click Edit - Unlock Runways, to change the
  list order of an airfield simply employ your favourite text editor. If
  you like to change the order or simply understand the structure of the
  airport file, please have a look here:
  
http://www.x-plane.org/home/robinp/Apt810.htm
  
  Martin.
 Martin
 
 Concerning LFPO:
 the  aircraft stand by position (--lat --long) after launching FG
 is not the same than coordinate in apt.dat file   , it seem that it is
 existing an other data which takes place in an other file and used by
 FG during launching.
 
 Airport LFPO
 Does anybody else could try it, to be sure..(i suppose that north
 European people has downloaded the France scenery).
 If it is wrong on your side, it will be an indication for searching what
 is wrong.
 
 BTW: same error in my FG 9.8
 
 Thanks

I have found something:


Using taxidraw on LFPO (LFPO.btg file), i can export with TaxiDraw a
file in X-plane format, i get LFPO.dat, which should give the same
coordinates than the ones which the official apt.dat.  --  IT IS NOT 

that explain the beside position of the Aircraft.
Two possibilities: 
  apt.dat is wrong -- we can modify it with a text editor
  LFPO.btg is wrong  -- how may we modify it ?

May be many others Airports have the same error.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 18:27 +0200, Frederic Bouvier a écrit :

  May be many others Airports have the same error.
 
  Thanks for the answer
 
 Do you have the scenery that was generated with that apt.dat.
 In other words, do you get the latest version of the scenery ? ( if you 
 already
 have the latest version of apt.dat that is in CVS )
 
 -Fred
 
Yes it is supposed to be last (April ?). I can download it again  (it
takes time, the mails coming by pigeon :--) )

With apt.dat no problem i permanently update from CVS.

You probably have the last, did you try on your side about LFPO  ?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 18:56 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
  You probably have the last, did you try on your side about LFPO  ?
 
 I didn't test LFPO yet, but is there any chance this is caused by a 
 displaced threshold:
 
 http://www.jetphotos.net/images/l/lfpo_26.jpg.79618.jpg
 
 If so, the runway should be extended by a taxiway that has the same with 
 as the runway.
 
 Erik
 
  
 
 
If it impossible to update the .btg file, which is probably wrong,
apt.dat being more accurate and detailed.

Your proposal is the last solution, it will be  rather crazy  to see a
B747 ready to take off on an extra taxiway on the side of that runway
with its right wing half on the runway axis  
With UFO no problem.  I will take off with UFO from Paris Orly   :-)
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 21:10 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit :
 Gerard Robin wrote:
 
  Not so strange, we know now the data which are in LFPO.btg  have
  differents values than these which are in the official apt.dat;
  we just have to update LFPO.btg.
  How can it be done ?
 
 By rebuilding it using TerraGear.
 Perhaps it's best to wait for the next scenery build?
 
 Erik
 

OK, I can try, i have  just to build terragear, i hope that it will not
be an other difficulty.
I remember in the old past time  i tried, not successful, with many
message error during building.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Just for fun ...

2005-06-20 Thread Gerard Robin
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 23:28 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a écrit :
 * Andy Ross -- Monday 20 June 2005 23:14:
  Melchior FRANZ wrote:
   http://members.aon.at/mfranz/fgfs_gui.jpg  [80 kB]
 [...]
  Someone should start hacking at the puButton class, though.  That
  close button is starting to look kinda gimped with the cutoff highlight
  lines and no image label.
 
 Psst! As long as nobody knows what the two lines mean, it's mysterious
 and interesting.
 
 m.
 
 May i say, with his bo105, Melchior is better than every military
engineer in scientific research , he has found how to modify the
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: msvc7.1 compiling problem

2005-06-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005  06:20 +0200, Arnt Karlsen a crit :


 for a week or more, quickest way is run http://damnsmalllinux.org off
 ramdisk, boot it off a cd image with ' dsl toram ', set up networking
 and the web server, dump in those screen shots and post the url here.
 

hello Arnt
my message is out of subject: 
thanks,  for that information it could be very useful for me too.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Short Reference Document error?

2005-06-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005  20:03 +0200, Oliver C. a crit : 
 On Sunday 19 June 2005 13:50, Jon Berndt wrote:
  This short reference:
 
  http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
 
  shows the rudder control on the numeric keypad as being the 0 and ,
  (comma) keys. There is no comma on the numeric keypad. This is confusing.
 
 
 Then you have a keyboard with US layout.
 On my keyboard (German layout) there is a comma.
 
 So there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that every user has another kind 
 of keyboard layout. ;)
 
 Best Regards,
  Oliver C.
 
 
 
 
That IS the big subject.
The US definition keyboard is unusable for me .
I had to customise it to my french one.
May be FG 3.xxx  or 4. will offert localised keyboard :-)  
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005  15:32 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade a crit :
 If I found a lot of inaccuracies in an airport and want to get them fixed, 
 who 
 should I talk to?
 
 Thanks in advance,
 Ampere
 
   I have the same request LFPO is wrong: -- take off  point beside the
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Short Reference Document error?

2005-06-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005  23:27 +0200, Harald JOHNSEN a crit :
 Jon Berndt wrote:
 
 I think you are making a disingenuous assumption, here, on what I am saying. 
 It IS correct
 and clear for*European*users, yes. All that I did to the PDF document was to 
 add a _note_
 in the appropriate section in brackets that says: [U.S. keyboards use . 
 instead of
 ,]
 
   
 
 Now I don't understand. Flightgear uses a key, its the same for all 
 contries whatever keyboard you use. What changes
 is the position of this letter on the keyboard, not the key because we 
 are not using the raw keyscan.
 
 Harald.
 
 
Yes it is ONLY a position of the letter on the keyboard (everything
everywhere):
try to imagine on a french Keyboard we get for 
left brake --coma lower case  OK
right brake --dot upper case BEUH

flap down close-bracket+alt which is on the top right 
flap up   open-bracket+alt  which is on the top left-middle-left

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005  22:10 +0200, Gerard Robin a crit :
 Le dimanche 19 juin 2005  15:32 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade a crit :
  If I found a lot of inaccuracies in an airport and want to get them fixed, 
  who 
  should I talk to?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  Ampere
  
I have the same request LFPO is wrong: -- take off  point beside the
 runway
 
  Thanks 
Please get TaxiDraw from:

  http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html

and adjust the mentioned airport. Then submit the respective project
file to David Luff for inclusion into his collection,

Martin.


Oh yes i have tried with taxidraw, it seem only operate on the taxiway,
not the runway. I could not modify the runway start point 





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