Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* Vivian Meazza -- Wednesday 27 October 2004 15:31:
BTW, how do I resurrect the USS Saratoga? Mathias and I are beginning work
on arrester wires.
FWIW: we could have better than the Saratoga. We've got permission to
redistribute the cvn-68(?; Truman?) with fgfs under
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* Russell Suter -- Wednesday 27 October 2004 21:06:
BTW, the above picture is of the Truman (CVN-75). CVN-68 is the
Nimitz.
OK. (The model contains numbers for several carriers of the Nimitz class, to
select via fgfs property. ;-)
Very nice! So, this has been
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
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this morning,
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less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes from
arrival at the hospital to delivery.
Even better for Mom!
All the best to you, mom, and family.
Jim Wilson wrote:
Does anyone have a formula handy for calculating the flight path of an
aircraft in true degrees (direction of travel as opposed to the airframe
heading)? My guess is that it'd be a matter of doing something with the
lon/lat from the previous frame. Maybe there's something
Norman Vine wrote:
Mathias Fröhlich writes:
Norman Vine wrote:
Also I can not find in the code the mechanism that will rotate the AirCraft
about any point other then the point returned by
Object.getBSphere()-getCenter() as adjusted by the translation WRT the VRP
which appears to be set
Norman Vine wrote:
Mathias Fröhlich wwrites:
On Sonntag, 15. Februar 2004 10:49, Erik Hofman wrote:
Jon Berndt wrote:
I give up. Sort of.
I hope you don't!
No need to IMHO. I think we now have an excellent solution.
Could someone file a patent request for this?
Norman Vine wrote:
Jon Berndt writes:
Could this be solved if the camera viewpoint looked at the CG instead of
the VRP? What is being done, now?
The camera viewpoint need not necessarily be either or any fixed point
i.e. the camera should be free to look around :-)
What is required is
Jim Wilson wrote:
Vivian Meazza snip said:
I'm about halfway through generating a 3d cockpit for the Seahawk model -
are you going to move the origin of the model? I'd like a heads up, it will
probably affect how I go about the rest of the work.
If the model is already animated (and/or
Jon Berndt wrote:
No. No. No. No. There need not be a prior agreement. The 3D modeler
uses whatever origin suits. It appears in many cases that's the nose.
Yes, yes.
There has to be an understanding of the difference between the frames of
reference (FDM and 3D model). If we are
Andy Ross wrote:
Russell Sutter wrote:
David Megginson wrote:
Andy Ross wrote:
I'm not sure exactly what this is for. I can (and probably
should) export the C.G. position for the view code to use
appropriately. But the VRP stuff seems like a double-correction.
It's basically
Andy Ross wrote:
Jon S. Berndt wrote:
Can the view offset or rendering code (whatever it is that draws the
3D aircraft models) move the origin of the set of vertices that
defines the model per-frame so that the CG aligns with that reported
by the FDM?
Well, yes, because they're just
One other point and then I'll shut the heck up. In the case of military
aircraft with loadouts,
you'll want to consider the visual transition between a missile on the
rail and flyout as an
example. When we first implemented this kind of thing, the missile
looked fine on the rail
but when
Jon S Berndt wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:23:56 -0700
Russell Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon S Berndt wrote:
But then, the FDM still has to report where the FDM is in a common
reference frame.
Exactly! At my company, we call this the control point and we have
standardized
Jon S Berndt wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:22:15 -0800
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon S. Berndt wrote:
Can the view offset or rendering code (whatever it is that draws the
3D aircraft models) move the origin of the set of vertices that
defines the model per-frame so that the CG aligns
Jon S Berndt wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:30:35 -
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon, I forget, what exactly is the reason for defining a VRP in the
config file? I thought that JSBSim already knew where the nose was.
We normally track:
- Initial empty weight CG
- Dynamic CG
Jon S Berndt wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:33:43 -0700
Russell Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although I strongly agree that JSBSim reporting a fixed point
relative to the aircraft is good, I'm not
particularly thrilled with the point you have chosen. I am more than
happy to agree
Uncle!
Jon S Berndt wrote:
I don't see any advantage to your approach.
By your responses, you give me no indication that you even understand
what I'm saying.
I seem to be alone in my dissent anyway... What you are planning will
work just fine.
--
Russ
Conway's Law: The structure of a system
Jon Berndt wrote:
so I'm game to take
the Nike approach and Just Do It.
That's probably wise.
I did _think_ I understood what you were
saying, though, and still wish I understood your approach.
I think it better that I scrape up some time somehow and implement
the meta file approach.
David Megginson wrote:
Andy Ross wrote:
I'm not sure exactly what this is for. I can (and probably should)
export the C.G. position for the view code to use appropriately. But
the VRP stuff seems like a double-correction. It's basically
identical to the view center offset stuff, isn't it?
Excellent! Congratulations!
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I want to share some news that I'm very excited about.
For February and March I am being paid 50% time by ATC Flight
Simulators (http://www.atcflightsim.com) to do some work for one of
their specific projects.
Looks like they use columnated
mat churchill wrote:
That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons?
Some info here:
http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.html
Frederic Bouvier wrote:
Russell Suter wrote:
mat churchill wrote:
That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped
from the MS Scenery add-ons?
Some info here:
http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/terragear-devel/2004-January/000859.h
Mally wrote:
Russ
I'm not planning on redistributing the work. The work would be for a
client of mine
who is trying to upgrade their simulator's visual database...
Are you sure that doesn't count as redistributing?
Not if they buy the images and I simply provide the labor...
--
Erik Hofman wrote:
Russell Suter wrote:
It's been a while since I've worked on SGI equipment. I'm familiar
with the O2 but I don't know what the video capabilites are.
The hardware accelerated OpenGL compares roughly to a TNT2.
Performance can increase when using a faster CPU.
The last
True, and at the moment it's probably the worst place in FlightGear
(performance wise). But it's hard to ask someone to give me the
framerate for another controlled situation.
Startup at KSFO is default.
By the way, is this with all of the buildings, etc?
--
Russ
Conway's Law: The structure
Martin Spott wrote:
Russell Suter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] I'm curious because I have a
friend that does research on a Cessna 172 simulator
that has an Onyx/IR with 3 channels. His simulator models are crap and
his visual database is worse. I'm trying to talk
him into trying
Erik Hofman wrote:
Russell Suter wrote:
True, and at the moment it's probably the worst place in FlightGear
(performance wise). But it's hard to ask someone to give me the
framerate for another controlled situation.
Startup at KSFO is default.
By the way, is this with all
Erik Hofman wrote:
Russell Suter wrote:
That's gotta be faked. I don't think even a Onyx 3000
InfinitePerformance could provide
that kind of frame rate. If so, I really gotta know...
It's not fake ...
It's just that the framerate counter doesn't stop in pause mode ...
Okay, good
Erik Hofman wrote:
Okay, good to know. So what kind of SGI do you run on and what kind
of frame rate do you
get?
That's not fair! You would laugh at me :-D
Nope. Never at you, but maybe with you... :-D
(O2 RM5200/300Mhz at 2 ~ 10 fps but waiting to put a 900Mhz CPU in
there which
That's gotta be faked. I don't think even a Onyx 3000
InfinitePerformance could provide
that kind of frame rate. If so, I really gotta know...
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Hof Markus wrote:
nice layout... is this a faked frame rate? ;-)
if not pretty good. how come?
Probably because Eric runs on
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
That reminds me, I still
want to try tying two cats together back to back and dropping them to
see what happens.
I'm sure the ASPCA will be interested is such experiments... ;)
--
Russ
Conway's Law: The structure of a system tends to mirror the
structure of the group
Is anybody using atlas ( http://atlas.sourceforge.net/ )? I'm
interested in using something like this with the flightgear
aircraft overlayed on the map. Anybody out there do anything
like that before???
--
Russ
Conway's Law: The structure of a system tends to mirror the
structure of the group
Lee Elliott wrote:
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 18:16, Russell Suter wrote:
Is anybody using atlas ( http://atlas.sourceforge.net/ )? I'm
interested in using something like this with the flightgear
aircraft overlayed on the map. Anybody out there do anything
like that before
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I would recommend doing a net search for CLOD (continuous level of
detail) and ROAM (I forget what that stands for.)
Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes.
--
Russ
Conway's Law: The structure of a system tends to mirror the
structure of the group producing it.
-- Mel
Andy Ross wrote:
Erik Hofman wrote:
While compiling on IRIX I get the following error:
[...]
To be honnest I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do here.
The hash table needs two blocks allocated: one to hold the table nodes
and one to hold the top-level table of column pointers.
David Megginson wrote:
David Culp writes:
Ok, I got the Saratoga moving across San Fransisco bay at 30 knots.
http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/saratoga_SFO_bay.jpg
It can't be landed on because the deck is not solid (however you can fly
inside and grab lunch). Is there a way to
Jim Wilson wrote:
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Tony Peden writes:
Is Arnold not a citizen?
No person except a natural born citizen,
He is not a natural-born citizen.
or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of
this Constitution,
He was not a citizen
Although interesting, this is certainly not typical! If you want to
know about
aircraft that typically operate on a carrier:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/powerhouse/airwing.html
Jon S Berndt wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:32:18 +0100 (BST)
Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tony Peden wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 09:54, Christopher S Horler wrote:
Can anyone tell me the largest a/c that can operate from an a/c carrier?
The E-2C (or the cargo version of the same plane) is probably the
biggest that currently operates from U.S. carriers.
I guess that
Lee Elliott wrote:
On Thursday 21 August 2003 18:41, Jon S Berndt wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:32:18 +0100 (BST)
Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matevz Jekovec wrote:
I think S-3 Viking.
C130
Lee Elliott wrote:
I've got an idea that the (R)A-5B Vigilante was one of the largest and
heaviest carrier based a/c.
Heaviest, that is if you consider a full load. At almost 80,000 lbs,
max takeoff weight,
you could be right.
--
Russ
Conway's Law: The structure of a system tends to
Tony Peden wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:12, Russell Suter wrote:
Tony Peden wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 09:54, Christopher S Horler wrote:
Can anyone tell me the largest a/c that can operate from an a/c carrier?
The E-2C (or the cargo version of the same plane
Actually, that would be a change to our Constitution - Article II,
Section I.
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:04:28 -,
"Jim Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
"better politicians" -
Don't worry. The esteemed Senator from Utah, Warren Hatch is proposing
a
Constitutional Amendment to change just that, along with other things,
I'm sure...
Tony Peden wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:20, David Megginson wrote:
Tony Peden writes:
Is Arnold not a citizen?
:
It looks like you need to be a citizen, 35 or older, and a resident of
at least 14 years. Arnold probably quailifies.
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 12:07, Russell Suter wrote:
Actually, that would be a change to our Constitution - Article II,
Section I.
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13
Did I say Warren, I meant Orrin...
Don't worry. The esteemed Senator from Utah, Warren Hatch is proposing
a
Constitutional Amendment to change just that, along with other things,
I'm sure...
Tony Peden wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:20, David Megginson wrote:
Tony Peden
Jon Berndt wrote:
Jim wrote:
Before we get too worked up about this... It has absolutely
nothing to do with modeling the aircraft. It is only a reference
point for positioning the 3D model in the scene. All the nose is,
sans pitot tubes and other items that are not centered,
I have the same problem with my Inspiron 8200. I see the following messages
when I startup:
WARNING: slScheduler: Needs a sound card that supports 8 bits per sample.
Audio initialization failed!
I traced it down to plib. In the slDSP::open method, in slDSP.cxx
bps=16 and
stereo=1. The
Andy Ross wrote:
Major A wrote:
BTW, does anybody know at what angle planes (other than the Harrier)
usually approach aircraft carriers?
Pitch attitude angle or glide slope angle? Pitch depends a lot on the
aircraft, somewhere between 8-12 is typical.
I've read
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