Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-06-03 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le vendredi 03 juin 2005 17:02 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le vendredi 03 juin 2005 15:23 +0100, Steve Hosgood a crit : On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 14:31, Gerard ROBIN wrote: Le vendredi 03 juin 2005 14:08 +0100, Steve Hosgood a crit : OK, I give up! You should have model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-06-03 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le vendredi 03 juin 2005 19:42 -0400, Josh Babcock a crit : Josh Babcock wrote: OK, model's done, same address. Now I'm going to do the animation XML. If I'm really cool I'll be able to make the wind ribbon look good. Otherwise, just controls and control surfaces. Also, I didn't know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2-sided surfaces in ac3d format

2005-06-02 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 02 juin 2005 16:04 -0700, Drew a crit : I'm building a 3-D model of an aircraft, and for some surfaces, I decided to use 2-sided polygons to simplify things. However, when FlightGear renders the object, one side of the surface gets shaded exactly the opposite of what it should. Is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-06-02 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 02 juin 2005 20:16 -0400, Josh Babcock a crit : Josh Babcock wrote: Not quite done yet, still need some stuff in the cockpit, landing gear and some animations. I'm not planning on putting in a pilot, though if enough people want one I can give it a shot.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with todays CVS

2005-06-01 Thread Gerard ROBIN
after fighting with my new graphics card: I do confirm , the actual CVS release + Mathias Patch is OK. I just Wonder about the Carrier Landing Fonction with FDM JSBSim. Up to the release before it it was possible to patch JSBSim ( patch from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 30 mai 2005 11:36 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : well-loved no scenery below the aircraft ground cache message. I don't get it, I didn't see this behavior until after I committed the patches, when I noticed it once. Melchior has these patches also applied and didn't complain.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 30 mai 2005 12:34 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Only JSBSim doesn't. :-( cout altitude = alt endl; cout sea level radius = slr endl; cout latitude = lat endl; cout longitude= lon endl; //return; } I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 30 mai 2005 21:45 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le lundi 30 mai 2005 12:34 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Only JSBSim doesn't. :-( cout altitude = alt endl; cout sea level radius = slr endl; cout latitude = lat endl; cout

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-29 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 29 mai 2005 19:06 +0800, Innis Cunningham a crit : Hi Theo Theo Reticle writes I'm still a a little confused by all of this also... you can apparently use Blender with an .ac3d plugin... but some people talk about using gmax. Is there a link out there for a page (other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] :3d clouds, rainning, and bumped mapped cloud

2005-05-29 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, FIRST: Raining, 3d clouds and bumped mapped cloud activated all together: ==The rain goes horizontally :-/ SECOND: Scenario thunderstorm: ==Very funny to get a blue sky with few white clouds and rain failing from that blue sky. We should have more heavy clouds. :-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-29 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 29 mai 2005 15:08 +, Ampere K. Hardraade a crit : On May 29, 2005 12:16 pm, Gerard ROBIN wrote: If your whishes are: using GMAX In windows environment (is valuable with linux + wine too) It is possible to convert from .gmax to .ac If GMax native file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 28 mai 2005 10:30 +0100, Lee Elliott a crit : On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:35, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I get about 1 frame every five seconds. Same result at KEMT. Have looked through the nvidia forums but haven't seen anyone complain of problems like

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 09:35 +0100, Richard Bytheway a crit : -Original Message- Erik Hofman Norman Vine wrote: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-Se ptember/021434.html I don't see the XML files as being any different then any other source file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 14:12 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 14:00 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 May 2005 13:07: In my eyes _dropping_ ASCII XML files from the distribution should considered to be a no-go, Seconded. And then: it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 09:15 -0700, Andy Ross a crit : Dave Culp wrote: Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. My guess is this is a crash due to weird collision detection in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 18:56 +, Martin Spott a crit : Martin Spott wrote: I'll go and get one until weekend, Aaah, don't bet on that. I managed to built all prerequisites but now I get an internal compiler error when compiling FGSD sources - and I don't have a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Gerard ROBIN
I get about 1 frame every five seconds. Same result at KEMT. Have looked through the nvidia forums but haven't seen anyone complain of problems like this. Geoff Thanks for that Geoff. I've already got a couple of older drivers and I believe that all the old drivers can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AS350B3 helicopter lands on Mt. Everest peak

2005-05-25 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 25 mai 2005 15:14 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : OK, who's going to model an AS350B3? :-) http://www.eurocopter.com/publications/FO/scripts/newsFO_complet.php?lang=ENnews_id=317 m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-25 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Durk Talsma wrote: Erik, you are of course in a far better position to judge this than me. As far as I know, though there still seem to be a few design issues with the FlightGear architecture that have evolved into what they are today, yet being slightly less than ideal. For

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-25 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 25 mai 2005 20:56 +0200, Roberto Inzerillo a crit : Von: Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone wants to help bringing a new feeling to visual flights over italian territory? I am having fun building the scenery around my town with FlightGear Scenery Designer; the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone likes helping with italian scenery?

2005-05-25 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 25 mai 2005 23:31 +0200, Frederic Bouvier a crit : It is tricky but doable. Look at the release notes of version 0.3.0 on sourceforge ( click on the version in the file page ) BTW : Martin contributed an IRIX build -Fred OK i tried it without success

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AS350B3 helicopter lands on Mt. Everest peak

2005-05-25 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 25 mai 2005 18:38 -0400, Josh Babcock a crit : Well, I have the EC-135 on my short list, but I have to finish the Colditz, the Superfortress and another surprise I'm working on. I also want to do a Mosquito and a B-47 first. A 350 should be nice though, I see more and more of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDM freeze

2005-05-25 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 25 mai 2005 19:56 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Lately I've been flying around German terrain and have been getting an FDM freeze at seemingly random occasions after flying for ten minutes or so. Here's a screenshot of the freeze:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear startup time

2005-05-24 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 24 mai 2005 16:43 +0200, Erik Hofman a crit : Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Another problem not related to pure performance is that the first retrieval of metar data can block FG for a long time (perhaps one minute) when the metar server is not accessible (or when there is any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-24 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 24 mai 2005 17:42 +0200, Durk Talsma a crit : On Tuesday 24 May 2005 13:45, Melchior FRANZ wrote: (1) loading airport and navigation data; very rough guess: ~ 45% (2) initializing subsystems (atc, weather, ai, ...) ~ 30% (3) creating MipMaps (no perceived

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mirror ftps

2005-05-24 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 24 mai 2005 10:37 -0700, can kalkan a crit : when i was looking on some mirror ftps to find older sources i ve found an f-18 aircraft. first i thought it was only flight dynamics experience but it is a full animated 3d model with accurate looking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly terrain related?

2005-05-24 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 24 mai 2005 13:17 -0500, Wesley Alden Pegden a crit : Hi all, I have Gentoo Linux 2.6.9 running on a 1 GHz Pentium III, with an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 card. 1 or 2 years ago, I remember having FlightGear working properly. Now, I have no success, and someone on the IRC channel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly terrain related?

2005-05-24 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 24 mai 2005 16:42 -0500, Wesley Alden Pegden a crit : while I was at it. And magically: it worked, even though my frame rate in glxgears is only up to 750. I'm now where I remember being a few years ago, which is great Wow, thanks for all the replies! So, in any case... direct

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 22 mai 2005 10:45 +0200, Erik Hofman a crit : Mathias Frhlich wrote: I have checked in into JSBSim's cvs a change which will make the inerial acceleration in the earth fixed geodetic horizontal local frame availabel to the HUD. That patch is attached to this mail. So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: problem with signs program, convert: command not found

2005-05-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le vendredi 20 mai 2005 18:34 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Ima Sudonim -- Friday 20 May 2005 17:49: The new signs program, it's great! If it weren't that unhumble, I would agree. I enjoy it a lot. :-) I've meanwhile made a (simple) webpage for it, so that I don't have to announce

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: problem with signs program, convert: command not found

2005-05-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 22 mai 2005 15:38 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le vendredi 20 mai 2005 18:34 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Ima Sudonim -- Friday 20 May 2005 17:49: The new signs program, it's great! If it weren't that unhumble, I would agree. I enjoy it a lot. :-) I've meanwhile

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: problem with signs program, convert: command not found

2005-05-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 22 mai 2005 18:35 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Both wishes are fulfilled. New version uploaded. It's now as fast as possible (using JonS' ideas). Note that there is a bug somewhere in sg that is responsible for wrong elevation data if a location lies on a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: problem with signs program, convert: command not found

2005-05-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 22 mai 2005 20:38 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Gerard ROBIN -- Sunday 22 May 2005 19:58: connect .Fatal error: not well-formed at franceEST3, line 1, column 1 (received from SimGear XML Parser) [...] # C 4.98 49.316667 600 Sommerance # 1.94 8250 8 C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: problem with signs program, convert: command not found

2005-05-22 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 22 mai 2005 20:56 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le dimanche 22 mai 2005 20:38 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Gerard ROBIN -- Sunday 22 May 2005 19:58: connect .Fatal error: not well-formed at franceEST3, line 1, column 1 (received from SimGear XML Parser) Oh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-19 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Have you got that Plans: http://www.ean.co.uk/Data/Bygones/History/Article/WW2/Colditz/html/body_glider_plans.htm -- Gerard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: Re : [Flightgear-devel] airports and scenery

2005-05-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 10:34 +0200, BONNEVILLE David a crit : Problem solved ! The tile scenery I downloaded from the graphical interface does not contain any btg file ... I have another version of this tile I've downloaded 2 months ago and it works fine. David --- Message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any UAV models?

2005-05-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 10:52 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Does anyone know of any aircraft models for any UAV's? I don't really care if it's a fixed wing or a rotary aircraft, but I'd like to find something like a Predator or an X-35 UCAV or GLobal Hawk or Hunter or somethign along those

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any UAV models?

2005-05-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 18:23 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : Le mercredi 18 mai 2005 10:52 -0500, Dave Culp a crit : Does anyone know of any aircraft models for any UAV's? I don't really care if it's a fixed wing or a rotary aircraft, but I'd like to find something like a Predator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: city/airport/object name signs

2005-05-17 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 16 mai 2005 22:55 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 16 May 2005 12:15: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/sign.tar.gz [4 kB] http://members.aon.at/mfranz/sign-data.tar.gz [475 kB] So, if you want to add local objects, just throw them all into a new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: city/airport/object name signs

2005-05-17 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 17 mai 2005 19:58 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 17 May 2005 18:35: Oh! a recommandation for everybody: the file must not contain - I had it in the city name database, signs don't like it. I can't reproduce that. Neither database files, nor texture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGInterface is beeing called without scenery below the aircraft

2005-05-16 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 16 mai 2005 10:33 +0200, Mathias Frhlich a crit : Hi, Can you reproduce this? And, if yes, how? Greetings Mathias FIRST: To be more precise it is new for me with with the CVS version, The FG-9.8 did not gave that bug, more problems with loading Tile. SECOND: I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-16 Thread Gerard ROBIN
In siuation 3d clouds disable aircraft on runway stand by Thunderstorm - raining vertically = everything good. Thunderstorm and 3d bumped clouds - raining horizontally = not very good -- Gerard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGInterface is beeing called without scenerybelow the aircraft

2005-05-16 Thread Gerard ROBIN
It seems rare enough It is so rare on my side: twice in an hour that this could be the problem - an update results in the aircraft being exactly on a tile boundary. We know this causes problems for startup, I'll see if I can cause a deliberate fault like this - I suspect I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Simgear props dialogs

2005-05-16 Thread Gerard ROBIN
With the last CVS update It still continu working: difficulties seem mainly with Rendering option, Autopilot, Weather scenario Temporary, the solution is to add width and height property in the GUI .xml files . The second usage is correct but not centred (down-left) -- Gerard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Simgear props dialogs

2005-05-16 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 16 mai 2005 17:52 +0200, Gerard ROBIN a crit : With the last CVS update It still continu working: difficulties seem mainly with Rendering option, Autopilot, Weather scenario Temporary, the solution is to add width and height property in the GUI .xml files . The second

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Questions

2005-05-16 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 17 mai 2005 08:57 +1000, mostyn.gale a crit : ARGH My email server has been playing up. I can't send mail with outlook so I have to send it through the browser, but then it sends the mail from another address so I can't get onto the lists. Anyway I have a bit of a backlog of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 15 mai 2005 16:51 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : under Weather/Weather scenario. --prop:/sim/renering/clouds3d-enable=1 should work. I have this in my $FG_HOME/preferences.xml (which is loaded via --config): sim rendering horizon-effect

[Flightgear-devel] FGInterface is beeing called without scenery below the aircraft

2005-05-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Sometime during a flight the aircraft stop. --The animation continue for instance: Propeller rotate --I can access the menu. On the console i get the following message: FGInterface is beeing called without scenery below the aircraft I have looked for any particular situation without

Re: [Flightgear-devel] city/airport/object name signs

2005-05-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 16 mai 2005 00:57 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : $ signs --aircraft=ufo --airport=KLAX This renders texture files into the cache/ directory and places objects using these textures at the appropriate places. airports - green, bridges - red (only the four modeled bay area

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 12 mai 2005 09:46 -0400, Ben Morrison a crit : Ben Morrison writes The problem with this approach is that I have no experience with modelling aircraft. I have downloaded blender and played around with it but that's about it. How long would you say it would take you to create

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 12 mai 2005 16:33 +0200, Erik Hofman a crit : Gerard ROBIN wrote: AC3D could be a good tool at the beginning when you start with 3D modelling. But it is limited. You will discover quickly functionalities missing. Look at the A380 wings shape. you cannot do it with AC3D. Why

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Web site problems?

2005-05-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 12 mai 2005 15:11 -0400, Ben Morrison a crit : I am using Internet Explorer 6.0. The error message is Object expected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis L. Olson Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:53 PM To: FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model

2005-05-09 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 09 mai 2005 14:25 +0200, Sam Heyman a crit : Yes, that is what I tried: importing the wrl file. But in vain. The file version is VRML V2.0 utf8 and is not recognised by AC3D. So one of the guys in the team has created a new model from scratch, using 3dstudio and we now have 2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 3d clouds - strange movement

2005-05-08 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, working with CVS MAY-08 --2 o clock-- FIRST When using -enable-real-weather-fetch, i get a non permanent presence of the clouds. once every disappear , once only one disappear, once every coming back. This, randomly during a very short period of time 3 ,4 second. Sometime its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model

2005-05-08 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 08 mai 2005 23:05 +0200, Sam Heyman a crit : Hi! I am writing concerning my UAV project again. I am trying to create the 3D model and I am finding it quite hard... I have a CATIA model of the UAV (just the skin, not all the interior) and I can save a copy of it as .wrl,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model

2005-05-08 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 09 mai 2005 02:17 +0200, Sam Heyman a crit : Sam Heyman wrote: Gerard ROBIN wrote: Le dimanche 08 mai 2005 23:05 +0200, Sam Heyman a crit : Hi! I am writing concerning my UAV project again. I am trying to create the 3D model and I am finding it quite hard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problem with steering plane o WinXP

2005-05-07 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 07 mai 2005 17:11 +0200, Tymoteusz Puciek Paul a crit : You don't see what i'm trying to tell. I'm trying to tell that whole plain is shaking. I understand now !?!?!? It happened to me with one Aircraft the F104 which was jumping and dancing on the runway !!! :-) It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: opening window splash screen

2005-05-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le vendredi 06 mai 2005 11:24 +0200, Melchior FRANZ a crit : * Ampere K. Hardraade -- Thursday 05 May 2005 20:43: Just an idea: would it be possible to throw in some random and irrelevent messages in there as well, such as tying pilot's shoelase, so people can have a laugh or two while

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 3d clouds - strange movement

2005-05-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le vendredi 06 mai 2005 16:06 +0200, Karsten Krispin a crit : Hi! I've tried FG from CVS (05.05.05 haha...). Great work with the 3d-clouds. But there are two things to mention: If you bank your plane the clouds will move in the opposite direction as you turn to - They move to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problem with steering plane o WinXP

2005-05-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 07 mai 2005 01:23 +0200, Tymoteusz Puciek Paul a crit : It was the same as in all plains On 5/6/05, Tymoteusz Puciek Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i got problem with flight gear on win xp, (amd athlon xp 2600, 1,9ghz, 512 mb ram, ati radeon 9550, no joystick installed or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problem with steering plane o WinXP

2005-05-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 07 mai 2005 02:37 +0200, Tymoteusz Puciek Paul a crit : Well i know that, but let's look at cessna, when engines turned on, brakes on so it stay in place but turn controler (as whole plain) shake as he wan't to go but he can't (throttle set to 0) OK: Every aircrafts move sightly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d city

2005-05-05 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 05 mai 2005 09:09 +, eagle monart a crit : hi everyone. there is afunction of importng 3d models into sceneries. is it possible to add a full city lets say NY; modeled in 3d primatives and covered by a textures. what type of graphics card we need? Why don't you subscribes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] need to see where we are;

2005-05-04 Thread Gerard ROBIN
eagle monart a écrit : hi all i want to take a part in fg developmnt. but i ve few questions about whts going on. i searched in passed archives but need to knpw todays goals and development. there is no other source so i would appreciated if you send me info or forward me to a link 1) when

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