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Seems that the base repository is down. Has it moved or something? Thanks,
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:25 pm, Mathew McBride wrote this piece of wisdom:
Developing a ATC client for FGFS is a good solution both Short and Long
term (saying that no one with a copy of FS2002 uses it these days because
of it's interactive ATC)
I'm
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Our (ACE/ICE) multiplayer engine is ready to draw
planes in the game now, but I cant seem to figure out
how to add them to the drawing graph in a way that I
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On 01:59, venerdì 06 dicembre 2002, David Megginson wrote this piece of
wisdom:
After a few months of dithering, searching, and researching, I've
bought a used plane, a 1979 160 HP Piper Warrior II with (mostly) King
IFR radios. It will be at
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for /.ing. Flightgear.org is on the front page.
David
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 02:41 pm, Jim Wilson wrote this piece of wisdom:
Well this probably isn't very impressive. But here it is. First view
from the pilot's seat. Things are very rough at this point.
Is that a 3D cockpit or a normal one? Thanks,
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*drools over keyboard*
Very nice. But can you see the pole and light assemblies at daytime? :-)
Thanks,
David
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Has anyone thought of using bugzilla to keep track of bugs and suggestions for
FlightGear? If no one else wants to, I could administer it, since I seem to
have no time to code these days. Thanks,
David
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:19 am, Bernie Bright wrote this piece of wisdom:
We already have that facility on sourceforge but its hardly ever used.
Well maybe it needs to be setup, and linked on the press releases and front
page of the website, so
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:19 am, Bernie Bright wrote this piece of wisdom:
We already have that facility on sourceforge but its hardly ever used.
BTW I think Bugzilla, with a KDE style bug reporting wizard would be more
powerful for tracking these
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Does Plib have the capacity to do lightmapping? I've just been reading up and
doing some work on dynamic terrain lightmaps for self shadowing terrain. It
might may FGFS look a bit cooler. Thanks,
David
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I think something that will need to be done is to make sure that forest
textures blend in with the trees we are putting on them. That way the
distinction where billboarded trees are shown, and where they aren't would be
less visible. At the moment the dark conifers do not fit in with the
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:33, David Megginson entered data into a CPU register
that indicated:
Over the weekend, I finished my first take on dynamically-placed
Just noted one problem. The billboard backgrounds are transparent only for the
ground,
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:38, David Megginson entered data into a CPU register
that indicated:
Actually, you might want to animate these; it would be annoying if the
kangaroo always blocked the same runway.
Of course! Mind you in Africa the the
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:33, David Megginson wrote:
Over the weekend, I finished my first take on dynamically-placed
scenery objects. I'm attaching two screenshots:
Special thanks to Curt, whose ground-lighting code I
stole^H^H^H^H^Hused as
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 05:53, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I was just looking at the external view of the blue angels a4 ...
If someone wanted to really waste some time it might be kind of neat
to animate the helmet based on the direction of the internal
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Can the viewing angle now be set via the network interface? Thanks,
David
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 02:02, you wrote:
Christian Stock wrote:
Hi,
Let me introduce myself, before I start with what I'm interested at.
Hi!
My main goal is to convert the commercial 1:25000 topographical data for
New Zealand, I'm sitting
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On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 22:24, you wrote:
David Findlay writes:
Anyone know if multitexturing is supported by Plib?
As far as I know, it is not.
That would make airports and terrain look much better. Thanks,
Well, yes or no depending on what
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Anyone know if multitexturing is supported by Plib? That would make airports
and terrain look much better. Thanks,
David
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I believe it may be time for us to make a decision on what aircraft are going
to be in FGFS stable 1.0. At the moment there is lot's of work on lots of
different aircraft, but it will take a long time to get them perfect. Maybe
it would be a good
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Wonder if we could use some of this stuff. http://www.openatc.org
David
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As far as the SI vs. English units go, I restate my declared
neutrality. While doing calculations *in* SI units is much safer and
easier, I also see the advantages to representing them externally in
traditional units. Typical (North American,
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On Sun, 5 May 2002 12:47, you wrote:
Mark Harris has a real time realistic cloud rendering web page which
has been mentioned here before. The screen shots are quite
spectacular:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/clouds/
Mark just sent me a
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c++ -DFGFS -I../../.. -I../../../src -I/usr/local/include
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I'm posting this because a number of you have in the past privately emailed
me, my new email address will be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks,
David
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:10, you wrote:
Guys!
Wanna ask
Does anyone here try to implement trees coverage
If yes please reply me
I've been playing around with the beginings of an autogen manager in the
style of the sound manager. If I can get it
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:31, you wrote:
David Findlay writes:
This might be of use to us. Could we include this sort of data in
the FGFS scenery?
No, we cannot, with our current approach -- it would create far too
many polygons. Even moving
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Anyone getting this error with latest cvs of everything?
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/david/flightgear/FlightGear/src/Scenery'
c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 07:42, you wrote:
Well that install sucked. No Geforce2 support even - much easier to just
go with RedHat7.2 for now. :)
It does support it, you've just got to load the driver after install. But
Debian probably isn't the
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:29, you wrote:
I am wondering does the view manager work-in-progress support a simple
tower view at this stage? Having gone from our non-CVS tower view in 0.7.8
to a recent CVS checkout leaves me wishing for more.
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I would guess this is a major factor in the relatively small amount of
aircraft development for Fly! ... I know of several people who have
exterior models, but can't contemplate the effort required to assemble a
working panel.
I think this is a
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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 09:48, you wrote:
FWIW thought I'd make a few comments on the new 3D view stuff, realizing
that it is still being worked on.
Note that when you change the 3D cockpit view angle in Fly!, the panel in
effect becomes disabled and
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On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:31, you wrote:
David Findlay wrote:
Andy Ross wrote:
I spent most of today working on a virtual cockpit interface for the
panel, and I'll be damned, it works!
Umm, one problem. When you look down, the panel
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It appears that the plane is above the runway at least with the c172.
David
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:32, you wrote:
I spent most of today working on a virtual cockpit interface for the
panel, and I'll be damned, it works!
Umm, one problem. When you look down, the panel follows the bottom of the
screen. Other than that it's
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:37, you wrote:
To answer my question, I got into the code and put in
a slow motion factor. I can now fly as slowly as I
want.
Shift Z should slow it down anyway. Z doubles the speed, shift-z halves the
speed, AFAIK. At
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:57, you wrote:
Hi,
I´ve found this panel and it seem to be very cool. What do you think ?
http://www.avsim.com/pages/1000/dreamfleet/dffull.jpg
Now that's what we need, but with the yoke removed so all the switches below
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http://www.kflog.org/
Check out that for a flight logging program. If only it had flight planning
features
Anyone know if we could hook it up to FlightGear? Thanks,
David
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:26, you wrote:
David Findlay writes:
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http://www.kflog.org/
Check out that for a flight logging program. If only it had flight
planning features
Anyone know
As always, licensing is an issue for 3d models. As a compromise
I've been including all the markup in the set files so that users
only need download models from Wolframs site, unzip them and drop
'em in.
That's why we need to create models for each of the aircraft before we ship
0.8.
David
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
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:02, 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.
Well my talk at Linux.conf.au didn't go all to plan. The talk went okay, but
the projector decided to kill itself making the demos a little difficult. I
got to do a demo for the conference dinner though. A lot of people were
impressed, so we can expect to see a few in fgfs-user's soon. Also
I've noted some irregularities in the coastline data we are using. Is this
coming from the coastline extractor, or from somewhere else? Thanks,
David
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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
flying nice (and makes roads look great), landing at
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:30, you wrote:
On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:56 pm, you wrote:
Anyone got any new screenshots of coming features or anything special
that I could show during my talk next week? Thanks,
David
I can post the foils from my presentation, but I lifted a lot of those
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:51, you wrote:
David Findlay writes:
I think the other thing needed is stabilising all current
features. There's lots of little annoying bugs that need to be
reported and fixed. 0.7.9 should be released soon, then everyone
could bug hunt that version
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:09, you wrote:
Thanks to Norman Vine's unique combination of genius hackery we now
support this as an option:
http://128.101.142.57:5501/
Server up and running for a short time so check it out now before I
take it down.
Um. All I see is gibberish characters.
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:09, you wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:09, you wrote:
Thanks to Norman Vine's unique combination of genius hackery we now
support this as an option:
http://128.101.142.57:5501/
Server up and running for a short time so check it out now before I
take it
Sorry a little slow on reading the list lately. This is one I've been
using for quite a while as a desktop icon...its just something hacked out
of the webpage logo:
http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/fgfs-jims-icon.png
I'm not one to criticise David Megginson's artwork, I think this one is
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:24, you wrote:
It would be nice if we could freeze and release 0.7.9 in the next two
weeks. That way, people visiting the LWCE booth in New York will be able to
download something that looks like the version being demonstrated at the
show.
Currently, the release is
EasyXML is missing from simgear CVS, stopping a few things from building.
I was also wondering how close we are to a new release of FlightGear. What
has changed since 0.7.8?
Is there any documentation on the format of taxiway sign files? I'll be
attempting to add signs to the local Brisbane
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:24, you wrote:
I added some uruguayan airports to default.apt in the alphabetically
corresponding place:
I think you need to rebuild the relevant part of the scenery with the
modified default.apt before using the airport.
That'll give you runways. You also
Cool! Good luck. I used some screenshots from the main FGFS site,
feel free to use anything on my site.
I was just thinking, it may be cool to have page with some photo's of
developers in my slides. Anyone else agree with this? I'll at least use that
map of where the developers are if I can.
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:24, you wrote:
That would add about 2000 different aircrafts
in one night to the FGFS. There should only be
an additional FGFS file which would give those
parameters that are not found in MSFS files.
And that could be some default file for most
new planes until the
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:42, you wrote:
Not to disagree with what you said
lowsy physics.
I think the word is lousy meaning infested with lice. Appropriate ?
Yep that too. :-) well maybe no lice, but it;s not great.
David
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:20, you wrote:
It is code to enable lighting on the aircraft carrier incuding an Optical
Landing aid (fixed at 3.75 deg). It is not enabled by default unless you
add that define. As far as I know only I am using it.
Ah okay.
If you haven't already written code for
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:20, you wrote:
Dave if u nedda tree database (perfect textures)
I can give u them
Okay thanks. At the moment I just need one or two types for testing purposes
and then once that's right we can add more. Could you email me some? Thanks,
David
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:20, you wrote:
What's FG_EXPERIMENTAL_LIGHTING? And is it used by default?
It is code to enable lighting on the aircraft carrier incuding an Optical
Landing aid (fixed at 3.75 deg). It is not enabled by default unless you
add that define. As far as I know only I am
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:44, you wrote:
ok specify type of trees and height
Any hieght or res, I will transform and scale it in the sim.
i have bushes deciduous trees and pine trees
Pine trees would probably be the best to start with.
what format do you prefer? i have in tga format
SGI RGB
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:31, you wrote:
do u have multigen creator?
No, is it free and where can I get it?
if yes i can give u trees in flt format and u don't needa to build
billboards
So are they 3D trees? Wouldn't that create too many polygons, especially in
massive forrests?
or u need
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// Shamelessly stolen from Curt's ground
I'm having a little difficulty understanding the fgBillBoard function. Anyone
care to help me figure out how to change it so I can billboard any sized
rectangular billboard? Thanks,
David
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 23:21, you wrote:
David Findlay writes:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:31, you wrote:
do u have multigen creator?
No, is it free and where can I get it?
if yes i can give u trees in flt format and u don't needa to build
billboards
FYI - PLib will read some versions
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 02:19, you wrote:
Oh btw I'm leaning toward doing a c310 first...(that's the shape I started
with on this latest version).
These are the reference pictures I'm using right now (for the panel):
http://www.vickivt.com/vicki/planes/cessna%20t310q%201974_3.jpg
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:56, you wrote:
David Findlay writes:
Where in the source code are the objects loaded? I'm thinking about
whether it would be possibly to randomly chuck in trees if the material
type is a forest type. Then later add more local information on the types
of trees
Would it be possible to model skyglow in FlightGear? That way you could see
when you're approaching a city, even when you can't see it for mountains etc.
Thanks,
David
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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) turbosupercharging, so there may be some minor differences on
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:58, you wrote:
That said, I'm sure other people have much more practical priorities.
I'd guess that buildings and other ground stuff would probably top the
list. In particular, bridges and radio towers are important landmarks
(obstacles) for VFR (IFR) navigation.
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:59, you wrote:
Anyone working on an airspeed dial? If not I'll make one, probably
tomorrow.
Also have made a tiny bit of progress on a 3D panel model...but it's at the
point where it could be either a c310 or c172 with a little stretching here
and there (given my
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 02:18, you wrote:
You are outside the inverted bowl Curtis designed. You can play with the
size in SGSky. I added an altitude factor to darken the sky from blue to
deep violet to dark and increased the radius of the bowl At 125,000 the sky
is dark, and turns blue as you
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:04, you wrote:
On Sunday 02 December 2001 02:07 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:22, you wrote:
OK,
JSBSim now supports retractable gear. I have built flightgear with it
and it works. Note that if the gear are not fully down, they
essentially don't exist
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 I sent you? If not, try to find
a screenshot from a
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 05:04, you wrote:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
- At one point we were playing around with 1024x1024 textures but
consider that a single RGB texture at that resolution with
mipmapping turned on can consume about 6Mb of your cards RAM so I
think in general we
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