Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with panel code

2002-02-19 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 07:15 pm, you wrote: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Andy Ross writes: I have my own peeves about the panel coordinate conventions. I wrote the code after about two hours puzzling through examples in an OpenGL book, which was my first exposure to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Priorities

2002-02-18 Thread John Check
On Monday 18 February 2002 04:33 am, you wrote: Roman Grigoriev wrote: Hi! Curtis could you please tell us your priotities to next FlightGear release and It would be 0.7.10 or 0.8.0? I would like to see a 0.8.0 release (moslty bugfixes and fgat support only). This should be the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compiled binaries for 0.7.9

2002-02-18 Thread John Check
On Monday 18 February 2002 10:30 am, you wrote: D Luff writes: I can do. I assumed Norman would provide a MingW compiled one, but he doesn't seem to be around at the moment. Norman has resigned from the FlightGear project for now ... :-( Bummer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Priorities

2002-02-18 Thread John Check
On Monday 18 February 2002 01:44 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: As for me I'd like to see 1)ground explosion when plane crash the ground (I have a lot explosion textures) Hmm, I'm not sure I see a reason for this one. I'd move it down the list, but it would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LED Fonts

2002-02-18 Thread John Check
On Monday 18 February 2002 09:44 pm, you wrote: John, David, other panel designers, I have just added support for multiple panel fonts. Right now we have the default (typewriter) font and an LED font. When specifying panel text, you can include fontled/font to specify the LED font. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..fgfs-base-0.7.9.tar.gz ==fgfs-base-0.7.9pre2.tar.gz ???

2002-02-16 Thread John Check
On Saturday 16 February 2002 02:32 pm, you wrote: I'm working on it ... hope to have the official 0.7.9 uploaded to the ftp server soon. Curt. gimme 5 minoots to update the docs Arnt Karlsen writes: fgfs-base-0.7.9pre2.tar.gz 29271566 02/13/02 03:18:00 pm file is the same as todays

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.9 release

2002-02-16 Thread John Check
On Saturday 16 February 2002 03:08 pm, you wrote: Ok, web and ftp should be all updated. 0.7.9 should be all there. The official announcement will be coming soon. whew I think I'm going to go take a week's vacation now. :-) Curt. Y'gotta admit it gets a little easier each time though ;)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim C310 crashes the sim on gear retraction.

2002-02-14 Thread John Check
On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:59 am, you wrote: That's the same error I have on the C172 at simulator startup. FYI. JSBsim C310 crashes the sim on gear retraction. So ... this is an error? This is the same message I get if I do this in real life. ;-) Jon Happens in the air

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New manual available.

2002-02-14 Thread John Check
On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:38 pm, you wrote: Cameron Moore wrote: - p29: I believe binaries are also shipped with SuSE Linux, though I don't think you need to discuss how to install them. Yes they are. At least since 7.0 but I think it was ever earlier than that. CU, Christian

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gallery

2002-02-14 Thread John Check
On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:11 pm, you wrote: There are two pictures of the OpenGC glass cockpit project running with FlightGear at the FlightGear gallery page now: http://www.flightgear.org/Gallery/ Curt. Now *thats* cool ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: Can we try to make a decision of what aircraft are going to be in the 0.7.9 release, and then get them ready with panels, sounds and models? This way everything it ships with will be good. Thanks, David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tiled panel background

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 12:02 am, you wrote: It turned out to be quite easy to add multiple tiles for a panel background. This simple one could be enhanced to have more detail but it does look quite a bit better than a single 256x256 stretched accross the window.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcoming release

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 11:23 am, you wrote: Jim Wilson writes: This is what I'm getting: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/dc3-leaving-bangor.png http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/dc3-on-runway.png Does it look like the mapping is off on the right wing? Yes, it is. I had a lot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcoming release

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:24 pm, you wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: To the logical side: as long as the plane start *on* the runway it's IMO very unrealistical that the engine isn't running. Y'know, folks, this is actually a really (really) good point. :) There's nothing wrong

Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcoming release

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 04:49 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: On that note... David, do you have the source files for your instruments? I'd like to have a CVS module for the postscripts at least, so that we can regenerate fresh copies and go with 1 instrument per texture

Re: Engines start at idle (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcomingrelease)

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Thursday 14 February 2002 12:32 am, you wrote: Jim Wilson writes: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Curtis L. Olson writes: I would think that if we are going to have the engine running at startup, we really should have either the parking brake set, or the sim come

[Flightgear-devel] JSBsim C310 crashes the sim on gear retraction.

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
JSBsim C310 crashes the sim on gear retraction. $PATLA,117.30,119.0,111.80,29.0,266*69 182: GEAR_CONTACT 1 183: Crash Detected 184: GEAR_CONTACT 1 185: Crash Detected 186: GEAR_CONTACT 1 187: Crash Detected 188: GEAR_CONTACT 1 189: Crash Detected 190: GEAR_CONTACT 1 191: Crash Detected 192:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings

2002-02-12 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:53 pm, you wrote: Michael Basler writes: Question: What the heck is Ctrl-R = Toggle winding-ccw? This is a debugging aid which toggles an internal opengl state. It's useful for determining if a missing triangle is missing because it is simply non-existant,

[Flightgear-devel] Kingair?

2002-02-12 Thread John Check
Who was talking about adding a kingair? We actually have a model for that in base package already TTYL J ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X24B set typo

2002-02-12 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:01 pm, you wrote: [... jon wrote ] Correct. I intended the directory and all references to be small case: x24b The same with X15 ? Martin. When I originally added X15, I did so lowercase but, was requested I change it to uppercase. TTYL J

Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcoming release

2002-02-12 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: I consider this as a required option for novices - although I might be proven to be wrong. Anyway I'd dare to suggest making running engines a default on startup - knowing that this might be an excellent start for a flame war ;-))) I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel Help

2002-02-10 Thread John Check
On Sunday 10 February 2002 09:56 am, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 06:19, Erik Hofman wrote: Tony Peden wrote: I'm trying to put together an engineering display for the panels. At this point, I've gotten everything to work except that I can't seem to get the texture to load, all I

[Flightgear-devel] Simgear problem

2002-02-10 Thread John Check
Err... is there a separate simgear list? Anyway Todays simgear cvs: j4strngs@araka:~/Repository/SimGear ./autogen.sh Host info: Linux i686 automake: 1.4-p5 (14) Running aclocal Running autoheader Running automake --add-missing Running autoconf configure.in:21: error: possibly undefined

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back to Linux

2002-02-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 11 February 2002 01:15 am, you wrote: fgfs --fg-root=/usr/local You want the full path so you want --fgroot=/usr/local/FlightGear Okay, that worked. some problems with the xml aircraft files, but at least it got to the preference file and into the aircraft files.

[Flightgear-devel] Re:

2002-02-08 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: id 16ZDNN-0005it-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 08 Feb 2002 15:55:49 + From: D Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject:

Re:[Flightgear-devel] IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: UIUC Usage Change

2002-02-08 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: Contributions for the other init files are very welcome. When adapting the Beech99 init file for the Marchetti i encountered that there appears no real standard on where the panel files do ahve to reside. C310 panel resides in

Re:[Flightgear-devel] F-16 panel

2002-02-08 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: Here is a first glance on an F-16 panel I'm working on: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/f16-panel.rgb Erik Nice! ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GeForce4 announced at nVidia

2002-02-06 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: From: Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: TWIG 2.6.2 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] Re:

2002-02-03 Thread John Check
: - Original Message - From: John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] Something that needs to be addressed before the next release it the turn coordinator under JSBsim. Definitely a high visibility problem. Nearly everyone that demo'ed at LWCE picked up on that right away. I

[Flightgear-devel] Re:

2002-02-01 Thread John Check
://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/ Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:05:03 +0100 John Check wrote: There is a developer from Sony thats is looking at FGFS for PS/2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.9 release schedule

2002-01-31 Thread John Check
On Thursday 31 January 2002 04:09 pm, you wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik Hofman) [2002.01.31 14:14]: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik, I want to clarify that I wasn't trying to speak ill of sgi or those who use sgi computers. I was just responding to Martin Spott's suggestion that it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Post 0.7.9 priorities

2002-01-31 Thread John Check
On Thursday 31 January 2002 09:02 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:44, you wrote: Aside from stabilizing our current flight models, I think that the absolute top priority for 0.8 should be at least a minimal level of runway lighting. While the general scenery lighting makes night

[Flightgear-devel] LWCE

2002-01-29 Thread John Check
Just dropping a status report. Finally got a network drop! The .orgs at at the back of the hall this year, but the booth layout is less claustrophobic. I'll bring a camera tomorrow and post some pix. TTYL John ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

[Flightgear-devel] Re:

2002-01-29 Thread John Check
/listinfo/flightgear-devel, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:26:27 -0600 (CST) John Check writes: Just dropping a status report. Finally got a network drop! The .orgs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.7.9 release schedule

2002-01-29 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 05:08 pm, you wrote: I really, really, really want to roll out the FlightGear-0.7.9 release soon. I haven't posted an official release time table yet, but I will do that in this message. John Check writes: For sure. Just make sure you guys don't commit any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6-win32-0.7.9 Ok

2002-01-27 Thread John Check
On Sunday 27 January 2002 06:43 am, you wrote: Geoff: It appears that your machine may not be capable of running FlightGear properly. This stuff should not be happening. ... ... I ran into similar things to what you are seeing a year ago when I had a seriously underpowered

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 3-D model (partial)

2002-01-27 Thread John Check
On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:09 pm, you wrote: Wolfram Kuss writes: Ah, not bad! Just out of curiosity, how much time did you need (including learning Blender) and how many polys does it have? Snip Maybe a bit early to ask, but: Do you plan to add animation, inclusive adding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DC-3 3-D model (partial)

2002-01-26 Thread John Check
On Saturday 26 January 2002 04:09 pm, you wrote: In an effort to learn 3-D modeling, I've been tinkering with a DC-3 model in Blender -- so far, it's been much easier than I expected. The model is just roughed in -- it's untextured and far from complete (no propeller, hub, exhaust, ailerons,

[Flightgear-devel] DME FYI

2002-01-25 Thread John Check
In case anybody has been wondering where the DME display has gone on the C172 According to David M, DME on a C172 is a rarity. The C182 has it. The old vfr and ifr panels are still there, just not as the default. TTYL John ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DME FYI

2002-01-25 Thread John Check
On Friday 25 January 2002 11:40 am, you wrote: John Check writes: In case anybody has been wondering where the DME display has gone on the C172 According to David M, DME on a C172 is a rarity. The C182 has it. More specifically, the DME is not on a stock C172R panel (nor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package CVS: read lock failed

2002-01-20 Thread John Check
c172/Instruments directory, it's no longer relevant. TTYL J John Check wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2002 04:28 pm, you wrote: Does this indicate a problem on the base package CVS server? ... cvs server: Diffing Aircraft/X15/Panels cvs server: Diffing Aircraft/X15/Panels

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Fuel

2002-01-19 Thread John Check
On Saturday 19 January 2002 12:41 pm, you wrote: If you grab the latest SimGear, FlightGear, and base package from CVS, you'll notice that fuel consumption is now working on JSBSim piston-engine aircraft (well, the Cessna 310 doesn't have the right number of tanks or the right fuel capacity,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Configurable Auto pilot

2002-01-19 Thread John Check
it's 404 On Saturday 19 January 2002 05:09 pm, you wrote: This makes the current autopilot at least configurable on the verticle for different aircraft. There are two configs included, one for c172 and the other for the c310: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/newauto-020119.tar.gz There

[Flightgear-devel] LWCE Booth assignment

2002-01-11 Thread John Check
I just received our booth assignment for LWCE '02. Booth # 10 between the etherboot project and FSF which, I beleive, is where we were slotted last time. FWIW the .org pavillion seems to have moved to the back wall, as opposed to being in the center of things. Last years org pavillion location

[Flightgear-devel] Compile error latest CVS

2002-01-10 Thread John Check
Latest CVS build dies with following error make[4]: Entering directory `/home/j4strngs/Repository/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim' c++ -DFGFS -I../../.. -I../../../src -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -c FGTable.cpp FGTable.cpp: In method `void FGTable::Print()': FGTable.cpp:228:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear problem + Misc other stuff

2002-01-09 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:44 am, you wrote: schnip By the way, I started using Blender just a couple of days ago. At first The non-standard interface scared the @#$%@ out of me, but after spending an hour or two working through a couple of the dozens or hundreds of excellent,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newmat and small texture video cards

2002-01-07 Thread John Check
On Monday 07 January 2002 03:55 pm, you wrote: It would be nice if the newmat.cxx would check some global property, set in the preferences.xml, to determine the highest resolution texture that is acceptable. That way, it can load whatever file is appropriate and (if needed) force a minimum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux.conf.au Update

2002-01-07 Thread John Check
On Monday 07 January 2002 09:06 pm, you wrote: The paper submission for FlightGear at Linux.conf.au has been accepted. It will be a 1 hour talk on flightgear. So now I have to sit down and write my paper and talk, and set up demos, etc. If anyone has any fancy new features they are working

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newmat and small texture video cards

2002-01-07 Thread John Check
On Monday 07 January 2002 09:17 pm, you wrote: On Monday 07 January 2002 03:55 pm, you wrote: It would be nice if the newmat.cxx would check some global property, set in the preferences.xml, to determine the highest resolution texture that is acceptable. That way, it can load whatever

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hello? Is anyone listening?

2002-01-06 Thread John Check
On Sunday 06 January 2002 05:05 pm, you wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: Alex Perry wrote: (Here, I try to estimate the download size when doing my first ever csv update, on slow time-metered isdn. CVS (it'll take you a few weeks to get the hang of typing it right 8-) is a very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-05 Thread John Check
On Saturday 05 January 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: Borrowed text: Panel.cfg This file is a plain text file that can be edited using any text editor. This file gives FS2000 information about the model's panel. In FS2000 if you released a model without including a separate panel, you would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why not use FS2002 aircraft files?

2002-01-05 Thread John Check
On Saturday 05 January 2002 01:17 pm, you wrote: I agree! The geometry (contact points) is maybe usefull too? And the names and makes data. As said all what is good could be used. It takes lot of time to draw nice airplanes. And there is lot of none programmers who want to do that. Why not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The bouncing plane

2002-01-03 Thread John Check
On Thursday 03 January 2002 02:18 pm, you wrote: David Megginson writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: Right now when flight gear detects a crash it simply freezes the sim. The idea is that if we have motion hardware connected up, we don't want to overdrive the hardware beyond it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SITREP

2001-12-28 Thread John Check
On Friday 28 December 2001 01:41 am, you wrote: Well, I just wanted to brag on my first born (you can see him at http://unbeatenpath.net/) and let you guys know I may be a bit busy with RL for an undetermined number of days (weeks?). Thanks Congratulations on a job well done ;)

[Flightgear-devel] LWCE '02

2001-12-28 Thread John Check
Hey Guys, We're starting to get down to the wire for LWCE in NY this year so now would be a good time to let me know if you are planning to attend (or thinking about it) or help out at the booth so we can make arrangements for passes. Contact me directly for more info. TTYL John

Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-21 Thread John Check
On Friday 21 December 2001 04:34 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: While I'm at it... is there a chance we might see being able to include fully defined layers in instruments at some point? The best I can do now is layer include=whatever.xml transformations /layer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS, Flaps, gears

2001-12-14 Thread John Check
On Friday 14 December 2001 2:19 pm, you wrote: BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes: Does the c172 have retractable gears? I ask this because when I pressed the g, the retractable gear sound is played, but no effect is I noticed this, too. This is because of a short-cut

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d cockpit dimmensions

2001-12-14 Thread John Check
On Friday 14 December 2001 9:04 pm, you wrote: From what I understand the c310r is 48.5 door to door width. So I'd guess the panel itself is about 47.5 to 48 wide at its widest dimension. From what I understand radios are 6.25 wide...so while the panel in the picture below looks like its 3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug in panel_io.cxx

2001-12-14 Thread John Check
On Saturday 15 December 2001 1:52 am, you wrote: I have manually deleted the directories Aircraft/c172/Instruments and Aircraft/c310/Instruments, because cvs tells that theese directories are not anymore in the cvs repository. With this action, the program fails to load the magnetic compass

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About last cvs changes

2001-12-11 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 6:39 am, you wrote: Martin Olveyra writes: Also, it is really a good idea to delete the tag panel in preferences.xml, because the panel is setted via xxx-set.xml files (and preferences.xml has precedence) Right -- the problem with the include approach is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] system.fgfsrc

2001-12-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 10 December 2001 1:19 am, you wrote: I use to be able to startup with the just the HUD showing --prop:/sim/panel/visibility=false --prop:/sim/hud/visibility=true Now both the HUD and the Panel are displayed ? It probably has something to do with a change Curt made at my request

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: FGInterface radical surgery

2001-12-10 Thread John Check
On Monday 10 December 2001 9:18 pm, you wrote: David, I think I will support this proposal under a couple of conditions. 1) We need to be able to have multiple instances of various FDM's running concurrenty (and with your proposed changes, accessible through the property manager

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About last cvs changes

2001-12-10 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:06 am, you wrote: This is the cvs log message I want to refer to: --- Log Message: Small tweaks to initialization sequence and logic so we can default to a top level aircraft def file (c172-set.xml)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About last cvs changes

2001-12-10 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 12:29 am, you wrote: Martin Olveyra wrote: Then, run fgfs --fdm=jsb (my favourite flight model. I also noticed that the default flight model has setted back to larcsim) But, the change in the aircraft tag value doesn't take effect. The c172 is loaded

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 3:46 am, you wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:38, you wrote: John Check writes: Yes. FWIW I did find some pix with a fair to middlin' amount of detail http://www.philyoder.com/ That's a 310R, with a longer nose, more powerful engines and (I suspect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 4:23 pm, you wrote: The CVS commit logs don't provide much info. Can they be made to send the changes made, too, so people can see the actual detail of the change (as a diff -u). Sometimes people will not understand the author's description of the change, for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 5:26 pm, you wrote: David Findlay writes: Maybe it would be a good idea to state exactly which models of which aircraft we are going to have? This way we are all looking at the same thing. On the flightmodel list, I mentioned that I'm tentatively using a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parse order of configs?

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 5:35 pm, you wrote: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: John Check writes: Can somebody clue me on the order in which the config files are parsed? First preferences.xml, which picks up joystick.xml and keyboard.xml by inclusion, then whatever

Re: [Flightgear-devel] minor prob in c172-larcsim-set.xml

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 6:14 pm, you wrote: In c172-larcsim-set.xml the path for the panel is missing the subdirectory Panels. Oops. Fixed Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to select '--fdm=larcsim'

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 6:31 pm, you wrote: All of those (i.e. LaRCsim and YAsim) work for me. JSBsim currently doesn't. I'm still working on that. Same here trying to run with MingW32 although Cygwin has no problem Anyone want to go on record as being able to fly the JSBSim C172,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to select '--fdm=larcsim'

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 6:31 pm, you wrote: All of those (i.e. LaRCsim and YAsim) work for me. JSBsim currently doesn't. I'm still working on that. Same here trying to run with MingW32 although Cygwin has no problem Anyone want to go on record as being able to fly the JSBSim C172,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] external view

2001-12-08 Thread John Check
On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:07 pm, you wrote: Has anybody noted that the 3D plane model in the external view disappears when we are on air? You need to adjust the pilot (camera) offset. What's happening is you are in the middle if the model looking back. I'll put some reasonable defaults

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 engine adjustments

2001-12-08 Thread John Check
On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:43 pm, you wrote: Question: What is the procedure for adjusting mixture with a constant speed prop such as the 310 has? In the c172 I had been tweaking for max rpm and then backing off a touch to the rich side. When I adjust mixture on the c310 engines,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread John Check
On Friday 07 December 2001 3:06 pm, you wrote: Hmmm, we might want to actually double check this someplace. The other night, one of my pilot friends insisted that the c310's props spun the same direction and were *not* counter rotating. Which really compounds the single engine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear.

2001-12-07 Thread John Check
On Friday 07 December 2001 4:15 pm, you wrote: Things have been moving pretty quickly lately so I want to describe one particularly useful change in case anyone missed it. With the latest cvs code and base package you can now use a set of top level config files to start up FlightGear with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear.

2001-12-07 Thread John Check
On Friday 07 December 2001 5:13 pm, you wrote: Currently we don't have a 747 panel so perhaps someone out there might see this as an opportunity to jump in and start working on one. :-) Well, we do have the glass displays which are ideal for the 747, but you need a second machine on a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buildings or planes?

2001-12-06 Thread John Check
On Thursday 06 December 2001 8:47 pm, you wrote: Jeff wrote: So my question is: What is more important to FlightGear buildings or planes? For me? Neither: Aircraft carrier! Pretty sure Objects/Geometry/saratoga.obj is a carrier Adding a tail hook and catapult mechanism would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Retractable Gear

2001-12-02 Thread John Check
On Sunday 02 December 2001 9:15 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: A lot of stuff needs that. Which reminds me.. does preferences.xml handle logic? I was thinking it might be nice to include a section of defaults that get set when --aircraft=$multi_engine. If not, will setting prefs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-12-01 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 December 2001 8:45 am, you wrote: David Megginson writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: With the latest JSBSim, latest c310.xml, and latest panel stuff from John, I'm only able to start the left engine. The right engine will crank, but it won't catch. Any ideas what I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-12-01 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 December 2001 1:14 pm, you wrote: It's working for me with the latest CVS of both FlightGear and the base package as of Saturday morning, except for a version mismatch -- JSBSim rejects the config file in the base package because it is version 1.55 rather than 1.56. You

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-12-01 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 December 2001 3:15 pm, you wrote: It appears as though we've been going too fast ! ;-) There seems to be a few things that are not in sync. Maybe we need to hold off on new changes for a few days and iron out the directory structure? Jon Actually I was in the middle of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG Base CVS commit messages

2001-12-01 Thread John Check
On Friday 30 November 2001 11:01 pm, you wrote: John, Can you setup the fgfs-base CVS server to send commit messages to the flightgear-cvslogs list? It would be helpful to know when stuff is updated. Thanks Err... I didn't realize there was a separate list for that.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Base package CVS commit

2001-12-01 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 December 2001 11:49 pm, you wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.01 22:46]: Sat Dec 1 22:14:59 EST 2001 FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c310/Instruments magneto-switch.xml,NONE,1.1 Update of /home/cvsroot/FlightGear/FlightGear/Aircraft/c310/Instruments In directory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-11-30 Thread John Check
On Friday 30 November 2001 5:42 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: First item on my list is correct style throttle, pitch and mixture controls. Where can I get engine specs so I can redo the gauge faces? Are they readable on any of the pics I sent you? If not, try to find

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-11-30 Thread John Check
On Friday 30 November 2001 5:49 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:42, you wrote: John Check writes: First item on my list is correct style throttle, pitch and mixture controls. Where can I get engine specs so I can redo the gauge faces? Are they readable on any of the pics

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: Cessna 310 twin-prop

2001-11-30 Thread John Check
on configuration), and can cruise around 160-180kt. The aerodynamics are not right yet, but the plane is flyable (be careful to hold the nose down on climb). We don't have a proper 310 panel ready, but John Check has kindly modified the 172 panel to add instrumentation for the second engine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs base sync?

2001-11-30 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 December 2001 2:20 am, you wrote: Did a fresh build of fgfs from the CVS library @ 10pm PST. Everthing went fine. Downloaded the snapshot of the base package and installed Theres a fresh snap up really you should do a CVS checkout fgfs_base-snap.0.7.9.tar.gz

[Flightgear-devel] Re: C310 panel

2001-11-29 Thread John Check
On Thursday 29 November 2001 3:15 pm, you wrote: Here's the manifold pressure, and then I'm out the door for a while. hehe forgot about that one. I think now would be a good time to consider changing the directory structure to something like: Aircraft/ Cessna /

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radical Reorg (was Re: C310 panel)

2001-11-29 Thread John Check
$model Regards, Curt. David Megginson writes: John Check writes: hehe forgot about that one. I think now would be a good time to consider changing the directory structure to something like: Aircraft/ Cessna / Instruments c172

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Radical Reorg (was Re: C310 panel)

2001-11-29 Thread John Check
On Thursday 29 November 2001 8:11 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: Thats kind of what I mean. IMO stock instrument sets could be grouped by airframe manufacturer. Picture If you wanted to do that, it might make more sense to group them by instrument manufacturer, since there's a lot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stall horn question

2001-11-28 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 4:54 am, you wrote: John Check wrote: - In the constructor for FGSoundMgr: FGSoundMgr::FGSoundMgr() { audio_sched = new slScheduler( 8000 ); .. } Which, if I understand it right, is setting the playback rate to 8Khz. So even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stall horn question

2001-11-28 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 7:48 am, you wrote: Alex Perry writes: I just committed a new stall horn sample (finally) but I have a question. Is it supposed to be a continuous tone or is it cyclical? It is a continuous tone, for as long as the angle of attack is too

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stall horn question

2001-11-28 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 10:28 am, you wrote: John Check writes: Ah.. Thats good. Then I can make a *short* sample. BTW... this is kind of replying to myself but According to the doco for SL (probably out of date but): --- class slSample: Allows you to read sound

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stall horn question

2001-11-27 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 1:56 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2001 1:30 am, you wrote: I just committed a new stall horn sample (finally) but I have a question. Is it supposed to be a continuous tone or is it cyclical? I have the pitch and timbre matched up(although it plays

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Location of SimGear

2001-11-15 Thread John Check
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Norman Vine wrote: D Luff writes: Jon Berndt writes: Did we goof somewhere? Do we need to change something? Well, I suppose we ought to allow users to specify that the engine is running at startup. IMHO - a 'mouseless' interface to FGFS is mandatory ! so

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