RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: YASIM Options

2002-01-28 Thread Richard Bytheway
I seeing on TV recently that they have only recently added full computer stabilisation to the Harrier. They had the presenter of the program (a qualified military pilot, but not on the Harrier) flying a two-seater. There was a switch to choose hover or normal flight, in hover mode the throttle

RE: [Flightgear-devel] plib can't find GL/gl.h

2002-02-12 Thread Richard Bytheway
I seem to remember that Cygwin does, or used to, leave the OpenGL headers in a tar.gz file in the root cygwin directory, which you then need to unpack manually. There is a readme in there as well explaining why, I can't remember the reason off the top of my head. Richard -Original

[Flightgear-devel] keyboard.xml

2002-03-11 Thread Richard Bytheway
I was having a fiddle with keyboard.xml to support a UK keyboard, and discovered that the characters £ and ¬ (which are shift-3 and shift-key to left of 1) break the XML parser. Is this intentional? Also, in the grand re-organisation of the XML files that appears to be planned, do we need to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape

2002-03-12 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Martin Dressler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 March 2002 12:48 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgReshape On Mon 11. March 2002 09:12, you wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Dressler) [2002.03.11 01:51]: I find that we

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Doc Check

2002-03-20 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip altimeter-datum-mb1013.25/altimeter-datum-mb I assume that this is the setting for the WGS-84 datum. It is the pressure setting on the altimeter, that can be adjusted by turning the knob on the altimeter. I assume that it is in mm of Hg? No, it is in millibar (mb) as

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Viewer Improvements and 3D cockpit

2002-03-25 Thread Richard Bytheway
I like this lots, I must have a play myself later. The second thing I noticed (after just how cool the panel looks) is how obvious the flat knobs are, particularly the magneto switch. I guess that a full 3D panel will fix this, but I am not volunteering to do the work :-) On a related note,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] problem with file Engine/prop_75in2f.xml

2002-04-11 Thread Richard Bytheway
If you are using Win32 try PFE (Programmers File Editor) (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/), you can select Unix or Dos line endings as a default and when you save. It has some language awareness as well. Richard -Original Message- From: Jon Berndt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

2002-04-18 Thread Richard Bytheway
starting. Richard Bytheway ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Internal compiler error

2002-10-02 Thread Richard Bytheway
Sig 11 errors during large compiles are often symptomatic of RAM problems (http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/). I don't know whether this applies to Cygwin as well as Linux, but it might. I doubt that this is a problem with the source as many people have built all the source you mention without

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OT: what to do with old 486 laptops

2002-10-09 Thread Richard Bytheway
Different product, similar question. What could you do with this? http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/CGIBIN/PRIAMLNK.CGI?CNO=1MP=PRDUPD^GIN132STNO=ST00175WHAT=info Richard -Original Message- From: Jim Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 3:19 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Wright flyer wing warping (Jim Wilson)

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Bytheway
According to this site http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/1903/construction_photos.htm (about halfway down), the fabric of the wings was structurally significant. Quote: Over 8,000 stitches were hand sewn by the volunteers. Howard DuFour Project Director, remarked, It's

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.8.0 on Win98SE

2002-10-24 Thread Richard Bytheway
Minimize the console window to minimise the effect. Richard -Original Message- From: David Luff [mailto:David.Luff;nottingham.ac.uk] Sent: 24 October 2002 11:27 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.8.0 on Win98SE On

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.8.0 on Win98SE

2002-10-25 Thread Richard Bytheway
In my experience, worst case is having the terminal (console) window open but covered (partially or completely) by another window, least bad is to have the console window selected. Best case for when the console window is not selected is to have it minimised. On NT like systems, it feels as if

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reparsing cmd lines

2002-10-25 Thread Richard Bytheway
The right fix is to have the TCP module read properties and open its socket *after* the command line is parsed, so that the command-line parsing is side-effect free (there may be other side-effects as well). Yep - specifying waypoints on the command line now causes them to be added to the

[Flightgear-devel] Aerial photos

2002-10-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
there is no airflow past the aircraft for the majority of the flight. Apologies for the jpeg format (yes I have read Steve Baker's diatribe on lossy compression for textures), I can probably arrange rescanning in a lossless format if needed. Richard Bytheway

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Clickable cockpit

2002-10-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
Agreed, I use the HUD for this purpose too. I suppose that this use is actually in lieu of a (glass) cockpit display on a second monitor. It always gives you the information you need to navigate the aircraft, regardless of the view. Richard -Original Message- From: Martin Dressler

[Flightgear-devel] Balloon Controls

2002-11-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
Moving sidewards (e.g. due to wind) is possible and the direction and amount is calculated, but I don't know the correct API calls to convert the linear movement to a change in lat/lon. During my balloon flight I noticed that the controls were much more complex that just a burner. This

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Cockpit audio system

2002-11-13 Thread Richard Bytheway
Is this allowed in flight? They make me turn my electronics off. http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5a15/action/20fc62a/ Richard Bytheway ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Got the sound working

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
I might be missing a point, but it looks like the arguments to get_soundmgr are the other way round between the two versions. Richard -Original Message- From: David Luff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2002 5:12 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Got

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Got the sound working

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 November 2002 10:13 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Got the sound working On 11/21/02 at 8:24 AM Richard Bytheway wrote: I might be missing a point, but it looks like the arguments to get_soundmgr are the other way round between the two

[Flightgear-devel] Problem Building CVS FlightGear

2002-12-04 Thread Richard Bytheway
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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Problem Building CVS FlightGear

2002-12-04 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Norman Vine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2002 1:15 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem Building CVS FlightGear Richard Bytheway writes: I have done a complete rebuild and reinstall of plib, and SimGear

[Flightgear-devel] FG on Cygwin

2003-01-03 Thread Richard Bytheway
I have not been able to compile the CVS version of FlightGear on Cygwin (W2K) since before 0.9 I have just tried wiping cygwin and starting again, still to no avail. plib (cvs snapshot tarball from 2/1/03), metakit (2.4.3 from SimGear 0.3.1) and SimGear (0.3.1) all compile and install as

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FG on Cygwin

2003-01-03 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Norman Vine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 January 2003 3:42 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG on Cygwin Richard Bytheway writes: Even I know that cout should be found with relative ease by g++. not g++ 3.x which

[Flightgear-devel] Autoconf/Makefile question (slightly OT)

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Bytheway
I spent a little while last night trying to figure out what to change to get plib/SimGear/FlightGear to install using install -cp rather than just install -c. I got horribly stuck. Can someone point me in the right direction? I want to do this so that running make all install in plib, then

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compile problem with Metakit

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
I have found the same problems. I think it is related to using gcc 3.2 on recent cygwin. gcc 3.2 doesn't look in /usr/local/* by default, so you need to add it manually (set CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately). There must be a simpler and more automated solution, but my knowledge of the auto

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compile problem with Metakit

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
I agree. If a user sucessfully builds and installs a package to it's default location, it is reasonable to expect that subsequent ./configures would find that package. Richard -Original Message- From: Michael Basler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 February 2003 10:48 am To:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compile problem with Metakit

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
OK, these tests are using SimGear and FlightGear CVS snapshots from about 29th Jan, Cygwin (similar date) on W2K, gcc 3.2. When configuring SimGear: ./configure --with-metakit=/usr/local (or ./configure --with-metakit=/usr/local/lib) both fail at the MetaKit version check. I should note

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hmmmm

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
I noticed that too. Pity that Babelfish doesn't do Welsh. Could be related to DRI? Possibly? (Why didn't I take Welsh lessons when I was at University in Swansea?) Richard -Original Message- From: Jon Stockill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 February 2003 4:21 pm To: [EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re : More on CVS

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Bytheway
From: Danie Heath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 February 2003 2:26 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Re : More on CVS Hi all, I have some more questions on CVS. If I have the version 0.9.0 base package, and I run : cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: More on CVS

2003-02-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
: More on CVS * Richard Bytheway -- Thursday 20 February 2003 16:13: Once it has created the CVS directory in the root of the local copy, you can use the regular update command cvs -z3 up -dP to carry on getting more. You do not really use cvs -z3 up -dP every time, do you? cvs has

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building SimGear against XFree86-4.3.0 packages

2003-03-10 Thread Richard Bytheway
I have editied .../simgear/sky/Makefile.am to remove clouds3d from the DIRS line. That stops it trying to build it very effectively, and is maintained on a cvs update. Richard -Original Message- From: Martin Spott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2003 2:13 pm To: [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] F16

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
Has anyone else noticed that the F16 rudder acts in the opposite direction to all other aircraft? Or is it just my system? Richard Bytheway ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: F16

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Bytheway
-devel] Re: F16 Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Bytheway wrote: Has anyone else noticed that the F16 rudder acts in the opposite direction to all other aircraft? I've never noticed it and it should be right. Does anybody else notice this? For me the rudder is fine

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: F16

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Bytheway
(GMT). See screen shot at http://sucs.org/~mocelet/fgfs/f16-hud.jpg Richard -Original Message- From: Erik Hofman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2003 1:54 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: F16 Richard Bytheway wrote: On closer inspection, I

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: P-51D 3d Model and help request

2003-03-25 Thread Richard Bytheway
As a pay-by-the-minute modem user, I would prefer not to have 200MB of data dumped into the base package CVS if possible. The cheapest my connection gets is £0.48 per hour. 200MB is about 20 hours of download time, thus costs about £10 (US$16 or so), and my phone line is busy for a day. I

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The End of Python

2003-04-01 Thread Richard Bytheway
You could conceivably write any language in Morse, you just need to run a .- to ASCII converter over the source before the compiler. I suppose it would be called -.2a Richard -Original Message- From: Jonathan Polley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2003 2:13 pm To: [EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Sky object sizes

2003-06-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
You could always have /sim/augment_reality instead, then the meaning is obvious. Richard -Original Message- From: Jim Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 June 2003 11:40 am To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky object sizes Erik Hofman

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New buildings models

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Bytheway
I would not like to think about flying anything larger than a model aircraft along the Clifton gorge. http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=clifton+suspension+bridge Richard -Original Message- From: Major A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2003 3:33 pm To: FlightGear

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New buildings models

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Bytheway
] New buildings models Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not like to think about flying anything larger than a model aircraft along the Clifton gorge. http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=clifton+suspension+bridge Didn't you know this is the primary application

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows and joysticks

2003-06-24 Thread Richard Bytheway
I use a Saitek Cyborg 3D Rumble Force, and it is better than any other PC joystick I have used (not that many in the comparison group though, and no MS products). OK, so the rumble effect doesn't get used in FG, but it is a very nice indication of WOW in IL2, and if plib ever gets to support

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Again: Threaded FlightGear ?

2003-06-24 Thread Richard Bytheway
Martin Spott wrote: I'm about to purchase a used 8-way RS/6000. Coltish as I am I'd like to run FlightGear on this machine. This won't work out as long as most of the processing in FlightGear is done in a single thread because each of the CPU's is not that fast. Things that come

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: how to fix joystick config files

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Bytheway
Julian Foad [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think what you are proposing is better than the way it is now. However, it should be easy to make it perfect. In your proposal, each binding specifies an amount of change per step, and you fix the number of steps per second (which previously was

RE: [Flightgear-devel] memory comsumption of GCC-3.3 with

2003-07-02 Thread Richard Bytheway
Using -O1 -fno-inline eases the load somewhat. Richard -Original Message- From: Martin Spott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2003 7:54 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] memory comsumption of GCC-3.3 with Frederic BOUVIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[OT] Cygwin directory structure - was RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:Help:FATAL:ac_to_gl:Unrecognisedtokenunder CYGWIN

2003-07-02 Thread Richard Bytheway
The mapping between how windows sees directories, and how cygwin sees directories is odd, but not that complicated. I will use marks to enclose commands and paths, when you type them, do not type the . What windows sees as H:\cygwin is / under cygwin. Thus H:\cygwin\home is equivalent to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Help:FATAL:ac_to_gl:Unrecognisedtokenunder CYGWIN

2003-07-02 Thread Richard Bytheway
You probably count from the top, the question is usually do you start at 0 or 1. I use Crimson Editor for editing text files - copes with DOS and UNIX line endings, and has a line number readout on the status bar. http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Richard -Original Message- From: Innis

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync access to base package - again

2003-07-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
Yes, CVS does send stuff up the line, and yes on a 56K modem this does happen at only 33.6K (best case). However, it only happens once. If you use cvs -z3 up -dP for the update, then it does compress the files. Use z9 for more compression. My solution was to run the base packages CVS for 10-20

RE: [Flightgear-devel] REference

2003-07-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
I seem to remember form the last time this came up (about 12 months ago) that there was confusion between CG meaning Centre of Gravity and Centre of Geometry. The former moves as weight is added/fuel is burned, the latter is simply a defined point, usually within the airframe. Richard

[Flightgear-devel] Duck!

2003-07-24 Thread Richard Bytheway
Duck! Incoming Slashdotting! http://games.slashdot.org/games/03/07/23/1837201.shtml?tid=127tid=186tid=206 X-plane got written up, there are a couple of links to FlightGear in the first 20 posts. Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument help

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
It looks like the switch is marked CHT Select in the top part of the image. Does this aircraft have a 4 cylinder engine by any chance? Richard -Original Message- From: WillyB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2003 8:10 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Problems compiling CVS version

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Allan West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got the latest CVS version - well as of 10am BST today. I've successfully compiled FG 0.9.2 and it's dependants. However when I come to compiling the CVS version I get errors with respect to the max() function use

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Building cvs fg - no sgPathSplit in SimGear

2003-08-15 Thread Richard Bytheway
Hmmm I've updated from CVS using Cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 co data That is the Check Out command. Once you have done a check out once (even a partial checkout), you can just cd into the data directory and run cvs up -dP to update the contents. Much

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New rendering propery added

2003-08-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
Hi, In a private discussion with Frederic Bouvier about the framerate hit of the new static scenery created by Frederic (which I still think is a fantastic job by the way) we came to the conclusion it would be a good idea to have a realism property set to adjust the level of

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Any Volunteers?

2003-08-28 Thread Richard Bytheway
From: Curtis L. Olson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon Stockill writes: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Actually you will want to run terrafit.py ... it will recurse through the specified directory and produce .fit files for any .arr files it finds. I'd already

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Outlook comments

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
We should get in touch with Linus and Alan -- they could use this technique to get Linux better established on the desktop as well. Since Alan is taking time out to do an MBA, maybe he will learn about this type of business practice anyway :-) Richard

RE: [Flightgear-devel] --ceiling option

2003-09-02 Thread Richard Bytheway
I've added a new option to set an overcast ceiling quickly on the command line: --ceiling=FT_ASL[:THICKNESS_AGL] Should that be [:THICKNESS_ACL]? I don't see what ground level has to do with the layer thickness. Richard ___ Flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] scenery update

2003-09-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
Just for info, I downloaded w130n30.tar.gz and w130n40.tar.gz and my virus scanner (Dr Solomon's VirusScan v4.5.0 on W2K) flagged both files as infected and uncleanable. I doubt that the files are actually infected since I trust Curt and they have not been on a Windows system until they hit my

RE: [Flightgear-devel] scenery update

2003-09-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
More info... See http://sucs.org/~mocelet/fgfs/fake_virus.png for a screen shot (10KB) of the error message. It appears that it is opening the .gz and looking at the tar file, and having a problem. Note that it doesn't actually identify the virus that it has found (no wonder it cannot clean

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 60 seconds of flightgear

2003-09-11 Thread Richard Bytheway
Then again 'needing' a camera todo this certainly helps justify 'needing' a digital video cam :-) But it isn't a digital video camera, just a Canon A70 still camera in it's video mode. I just bought an A40 a few months ago. I am now green with envy. Richard

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Intermittent crash when calling lightingsubsystem

2003-09-23 Thread Richard Bytheway
Me too, except I get it every time (well three out of three). Cygwin, W2K, recent CVS. I get a normal startup as far as the first set of morse beeps, then the error that David sees, and back to a prompt. Different aircraft and airports make no noticable difference. Richard -Original

RE: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings - English

2003-09-25 Thread Richard Bytheway
That appears to be a US English keyboard, A UK English has and @ transposed, as well as £ where # is on a US keyboard (both called a pound sign though). This means that select engine[1] is not between select Engine[0] and select Engine[2]. Do we need to consider different key mappings for

RE: [Flightgear-devel] key bindings - English

2003-09-25 Thread Richard Bytheway
-devel] key bindings - English Richard Bytheway wrote: That appears to be a US English keyboard, A UK English has and @ transposed, as well as £ where # is on a US keyboard (both called a pound sign though). You might call the hash (or 'gate' or 'number sign') a 'pound sign', but I

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Features on the web

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
This wasn't going to be a proof read of the features page, but it became so... In the section Extensive and Accurate World Scenery Data Base, should point three read Taxiways available for many larger airPORTS rather than aircraft? I personally would use arc second rather than arcsec, and some

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
From what I know (which is almost nothing) the simple answer is: Carefully. I had a neighbour who built model aircraft for a hobby, and would produce a top notch aeroplane each winter. Having built a 12ft wingspan monster (with radio controlled parachutist), he built a helicopter, which took 18

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Proposed Changes to Airport Data Files

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
2. In $FG_ROOT/Airports/runways.dat.gz (the runway-level data file), add two new record types, 'W' for windsock and 'C' for control tower. The W record would look like this (where 'S' stands for 'sock' rather than the other thingy, and 'L' stands for 'lighted): R KABC

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s)

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Phil Spurr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 November 2003 12:24 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s) Hi all I've recently (with help from Curt) managed to download and run the Win32 binaries and have been

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Bytheway
Try using the ignore dependencies flag on RPM to override the dependency checking. Ugly, but it might work. Alternatively, start from source and built it yourself. Richard you wrote Frustratingly, I can't get the geotiff packages to install. I have installed libproj0-4.4.5-2mdk.i586.rpm,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Electrical system work..

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
And actually, you get quite a variety of ammeter variation depending on if you are running battery only, have an alternater fail, have the alternator working, have the engine running, and or have a lot of devices and lights going. This change in current must be due to the voltage on the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
Here's an idea ... now that FlightGear is deathly quiet, I can't tell if FlightGear is doing anything when it is starting up or if my machine has hung. Maybe we could make a progress bar out of the flags of all the countries of people that have contributed to FlightGear. (?) It

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-28 Thread Richard Bytheway
I don't know whether these are any use, but here: http://www.sucs.org/~mocelet/fgfs/ are some pictures I took from a hot air balloon flight a while back. Some grass, some trees, one small north-east England town, and some livestock. Feel free to use the images for anything FlightGear

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot in jsbsim

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Bytheway
When the wings are level and the actuator (roll trim) stays out of saturation, this PI controller works great. It does not grow a bias as long as the actuator is able to do it's job, it only grows a bias when the actuator does not have enough power (deflection angle) to do it's job.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-22 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip So that's what I've come up with so far. Am I completely nuts? Any suggestions? I have no formal education in control theory, so what I know has been gleaned from here and there so I probably don't know much of the correct terminology and there are certainly tricks and things

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-26 Thread Richard Bytheway
That would be the responsibility of the autopilot designer. If he/she designed a control structure that used two separate controllers that acted on the ailerons, that would be his/her problem. In fact it might turn out to be a good thing. ;-) Does this imply that we also need a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
This is what I dont understand what is wrong with the current system which can do heading,V/S,wing leveler,vor/loc(nav),approach,and autothrottle are these not accurate enough?. Also how much more computing power will be required for what ever extra detail may be involved.A 3D modeller

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Ventura publisher (really old)

2004-01-29 Thread Richard Bytheway
These sites http://filext.com/ http://www.icdatamaster.com/ may help you identify what the files are, but it appears that they give no hints as to the internal format. You might get that once you know what it is though. They are also useful sites to see whether your extension of choice is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New Autopilot Documentation

2004-02-02 Thread Richard Bytheway
A question. When defining a cascade controller, is it important that the early stages of the controller go before the later stages in the config file? Alternatively, do the individual PID controllers get processed in the order they appear in the config file each frame, or are any dependencies

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin / SimGear / Clouds 3D compile problem

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Bytheway
I have managed to get SimGear and FlightGear to compile on Cygwin with XFree86 installed. But I cannot remember how! It may have been by running configure --with-x=no (or equivalent). I will check when I get home. Richard -Original Message- From: Roy Vegard Ovesen [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] ATC voice howto

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip Anyone got any wavefile editor recommendations BTW? I used CoolEdit (Windows) for the ATIS, but the trial period is now long gone, and when I went to buy it I found the guy had sold it to Adobe and the price had tripled. No thanks! I'm using Audacity now, but it's not entirely

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

2004-02-16 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Mally [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2004 7:12 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting You may not be a patent lawyer, but that's a convincing sounding explanation of the legal position.

[Flightgear-devel] Metakit?

2004-02-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
to build and install it before you can compile SimGear. I thought we had exorcised Metakit? Richard Bytheway ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument

2004-02-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
I noticed that the new 3D instruments on pa28-161 causes my frame rate to drop to low single digits (2-3 fps) (Windows 2000, Cygwin, Celeron 600, GeForce2MX). Panning the view so that the instruments are not in view brings it back up to about 20fps. I cannot remember what I got with the 2D

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument

2004-02-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
February 2004 2:38 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2D EFIS Instrument Richard Bytheway wrote: I noticed that the new 3D instruments on pa28-161 causes my frame rate to drop to low single digits (2-3 fps) (Windows 2000, Cygwin, Celeron 600

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

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Bytheway
honestly have you ever tried building this thing from scratch? again i'm not trying to be harsh but the build process is really quite complicated and i haven't succeeded yet. You reported earlier problems with plib/ul.h, what did you do to get past that and other earlier problems. If

RE: [Flightgear-devel] How to save glbuffer as jpeg

2004-03-17 Thread Richard Bytheway
Doesn't Norman's JPEG Server do something like this? Richard -Original Message- Sent: Wed 17/03/2004 16:16 To: FlightGear developers discussions Cc: Subject: [Flightgear-devel] How to save glbuffer as jpeg Hi,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Trademark violations could be a problem

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Mally Sent: 26 March 2004 9:38 am To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trademark violations could be a problem This issue came up with a vengence in 1999 when a certain Peter Tishma apparently persuaded American

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Application recommendations solicited

2004-03-31 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Martin Spott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2004 8:20 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Application recommendations solicited Jon S Berndt wrote: 1) Image conversion Is ayone aware of a program that does

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain textures

2004-04-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Jonathan Richards Sent: 08 April 2004 5:11 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain textures I'm trying to experiment with alternative terrain textures for the scenery which I have built for the UK, but which looks

RE: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Richard Bytheway
Assuming that you are talking about HTML here... Open the table with: table cellpadding=0 borders=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding is the space between adjacent cells borders is the width of the border around each cell cellspacing is the space between the border and the content of the cell You can

RE: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Richard Bytheway
- From: Jon S Berndt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 April 2004 3:27 pm To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:07:28 +0100 Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming that you

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Bytheway
You can find my pictures at http://photos.stockill.org.uk/ludex2004 I have to ask, what is img_0006.jpg (Captioned It's evil but it might just work.)? Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-05-13 Thread Richard Bytheway
and flightgear trees did include alut. I removed alut from the list of OpenAL libs and everything is working again. Does this mean that alut is not needed on cygwin systems? I certainly cannot find an alut library anywhere, only a header file. Richard Bytheway

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]CVS: FlightGear/src/Input input.cxx, 1.43, 1.44 input.hxx, 1.17, 1.18

2004-04-27 Thread Richard Bytheway
Could the joystick file have a section which defines virtual named axes (pitch, roll, yaw, throttle, hat_x, hat_y etc) which are mapped to the appropriate FG input (elevator, aileron, rudder, throttle, view x and view y), and then have a section for each OS which maps axis numbers to virtual

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Propeller vs. YASim

2004-05-04 Thread Richard Bytheway
I had already shown by some pretty simple math that at 2850 rmp the tips of a 1.65m radius propeller would be supersonic and therefore highly improbable, but we now know that the data of hp, gear ratio, rpm etc all tie together. Thanks Vivian Meazza I have a memory from years back

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Propeller vs. YASim

2004-05-05 Thread Richard Bytheway
-Original Message- From: Vivian Meazza Sent: 04 May 2004 7:38 pm To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Propeller vs. YASim Richard Bytheway wrote Sent: 04 May 2004 10:42 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: RE

[Flightgear-devel] Ideas for a gear model

2004-05-06 Thread Richard Bytheway
A thought occurred to me last night on the modelling of gear reactions, and a possible way to solve some or all of the related problems that have been discussed on the list over the past few months. I wasn't even trying to think about the problem so if anyone else had the same ideas at about

RE: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11

2004-05-07 Thread Richard Bytheway
From: Durk Talsma Sent: 07 May 2004 7:20 am To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11 On Friday 07 May 2004 07:56, Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Ampere See JPG for how the MD11 appeared in FG9.2 and 9.4. Maybe someone on the list has a simple answer.I

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-05-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip I have created a new OpenAL tarball that breaks ALut into a separate DLL http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal_cyg.tgz snip Thanks, I will try that tonight. Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip Size Format Frequency: Looking at JSBSim newsletter, I think that's pretty cool: 4 pages (no more) in US Letter or A4 size, and released quarterly (4 issues per year is quite a number, specially to prepare it). snip On the subject of format, could the page be A4 wide and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mapping

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip Alternatively, you could use a WYSIWYG paradigm and just make all the functions clickable and make people click over to mode 0 and use the mouse cursor. The way I see it a real pilot has to let go of something to twiddle a dial anyway, we shouldn't complain if we have to as

[Flightgear-devel] New dialogs

2004-06-07 Thread Richard Bytheway
I have noticed that if I open and close the autopilot setting dialog repeatedly, the grey panel behind the widgets gets a little smaller each time, eventually disappearing. Is anyone else seeing this? Richard Bytheway

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