Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Brandon Bergren wrote: I told him to make a UFO with blinking lights. (and no trancelucencies!) Not? Have you ever seen one in real? (Did you ever wonder why that is?) Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

..OT?: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:23:24 +0100, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brandon Bergren wrote: I told him to make a UFO with blinking lights. (and no trancelucencies!) Not? Have you ever seen one in real? ..in a german grammar class some 25 years ago, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-23 Thread Brandon Bergren
David Megginson wrote: Blender has an awful lot that we don't need for building FlightGear planes -- it's really a package for creating 3D animation -- so there is a tendency for ones brain to give up and start flogging itself silly at first glance. Really, though, all you need to learn for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Martin Spott
Talking British (well, European): how about Concorde, followed by some nice little Fokker 50 or ATR? Just make sure the Concorde's wings move as it accelerates on the ground... Concorde has fixed wings - I don't think they are supposed to move ;-) The nose moves down for better sight,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Talking British (well, European): how about Concorde, followed by some nice little Fokker 50 or ATR? Just make sure the Concorde's wings move as it accelerates on the ground... Concorde has fixed wings - I don't think they are supposed to move ;-) The nose moves down for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Mike Bonar writes: Has anyone got this bird airborne? It locks up as soon as my gear lifts off the runway. I had this happen to me too in earlier versions, but the latest version works quite well. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Major A
Talking British (well, European): how about Concorde, followed by some nice little Fokker 50 or ATR? Just make sure the Concorde's wings move as it accelerates on the ground... Concorde has fixed wings - I don't think they are supposed to move ;-) The nose moves down for better sight,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Matthew
Talking British (well, European): how about Concorde, followed by some nice little Fokker 50 or ATR? Just make sure the Concorde's wings move as it accelerates on the ground... Concorde has fixed wings - I don't think they are supposed to move ;-) The nose moves down for better sight,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Matthew writes: Wing flexing? Is that possible in FG? Keep going this way and I might need to replace my Geforce 2 GTS 32MB card with something new, if its worth it (seems to be still perfoming really well though). Would be cool to see wings flex when taking off, or with turbulence etc. Have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Tony Peden
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:30, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Matthew writes: Wing flexing? Is that possible in FG? Keep going this way and I might need to replace my Geforce 2 GTS 32MB card with something new, if its worth it (seems to be still perfoming really well though). Would be cool to see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 10 Jan 2003 08:42:13 -0800, Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:30, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Matthew writes: Wing flexing? Is that possible in FG? Keep going this way and I might need to replace my Geforce 2 GTS 32MB card with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Tony Peden
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:20, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On 10 Jan 2003 08:42:13 -0800, Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:30, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Matthew writes: Wing flexing? Is that possible in FG? Keep going this way and I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 10 Jan 2003 13:12:27 -0800, Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..we _could_ interface with http://felt.sourceforge.net/ . ;-) In real time? I don't think so. One possibility, though, is to do the analysis offline and generate tip deflection as a

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I've just commited some aircraft updates from Lee Elliott to the base package cvs. The first one is the TSR2: --aircraft=tsr2-yasim. Lee did a really interesting job with the animation of the tail surfaces. I believe things like the canapy are also animated, but I haven't figure out how to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've just commited some aircraft updates from Lee Elliott to the base package cvs. This is a neat aircraft to fly and is crying for someone to add textures to the beautifly done 3d model. Indeed, Lee rocks. But seriously, someone needs to come to his home, tie him

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: I finally started playing with Blender a little last week. It's an awfully slow start, but after the first few hours you really do get the hang of it. The CVS version is building via autoconf now, by the way. I haven't looked at the code, but the build process is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Martin Spott
The first one is the TSR2: --aircraft=tsr2-yasim. Lee did a really interesting job with the animation of the tail surfaces. [...] Yep, this really looks 'terrific' (is this the correct US American way to express great pleasure ? ;-)) I have the impression he also tuned the aero model - I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Martin Spott
Indeed, Lee rocks. But seriously, someone needs to come to his home, tie him down and teach him Blender so that we can get some colors on these things. And make him do something non-british while you're at it. :) Oh, I'd say Lee has a good taste ;-) BTW, he did a B-52 - didn't he ? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Major A
Oh, I'd say Lee has a good taste ;-) BTW, he did a B-52 - didn't he ? Without looking at what was done by whom, just from the way things look: didn't he also make the A10 and the Warrior? To me, these are not British either... Great work, keep it up! Talking British (well, European): how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Erik Hofman wrote: Nice, very nice! Does this database already contain info from DAFIF (I noticed EHTW has taxiways in the database)? I just imported the contents of default.apt.gz Currently I've just got the A, R, and T lines in there - each in their own table, with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Can you rewrite this all in perl-tk (just checking) :-) FYI -- there is a long standing offer of a case of 'virtual beer' for the first successful porter of Perl TK to Cygwin Cheers Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Stockill writes: BTW, should anyone want to mess with the Airfield database I'm working on, you can find it here: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ Don't thrash it too much - it's on the end of my DSL line at the moment. The diagram generation is *almost* correct, still needs more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: BTW, should anyone want to mess with the Airfield database I'm working on, you can find it here: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ Nice, very nice! Does this database already contain info from DAFIF (I noticed EHTW has taxiways in the database)? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Andy Ross wrote: Indeed, Lee rocks. But seriously, someone needs to come to his home, tie him down and teach him Blender so that we can get some colors on these things. And make him do something non-british while you're at it. :) Non-British But we have some of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Matthew
The first one is the TSR2: --aircraft=tsr2-yasim. Lee did a really interesting job with the animation of the tail surfaces. [...] Yep, this really looks 'terrific' (is this the correct US American way to express great pleasure ? ;-)) Depends on which part of the US probably. Just don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Very nice for a first stab. Is this intended more towards browsing/selection of airports, or are you also considering the data management side ... pulling data from diverse sources, prioritizing, reconciling, etc. etc. etc. See my other post - I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Norman Vine wrote: Jon Stockill writes: BTW, should anyone want to mess with the Airfield database I'm working on, you can find it here: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ GOOD WORK :-) Out of curiosity what are you using for a back end ? Mysql. It seems capable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Stockill) [2003.01.09 16:35]: BTW, should anyone want to mess with the Airfield database I'm working on, you can find it here: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ Don't thrash it too much - it's on the end of my DSL line at the moment. The diagram generation is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread David Megginson
Jon Stockill writes: BTW, should anyone want to mess with the Airfield database I'm working on, you can find it here: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ Don't thrash it too much - it's on the end of my DSL line at the moment. This is excellent, by the way -- I apologize for not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Christian Mayer
Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Stockill) [2003.01.09 16:35]: BTW, should anyone want to mess with the Airfield database I'm working on, you can find it here: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ Don't thrash it too much - it's on the end of my DSL line at the moment.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Christian Mayer wrote: Cool, but I spotted a problem: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/view.php?ident=EDDF For some reason the airfield reference point is a long way from the actual runways. Maybe a quick average of the runway centre points would be a better centre for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Bonar
Has anyone got this bird airborne? It locks up as soon as my gear lifts off the runway. Mike On Thursday 09 January 2003 09:08, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've just commited some aircraft updates from Lee Elliott to the base package cvs. The first one is the TSR2: --aircraft=tsr2-yasim.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Major A
Has anyone got this bird airborne? It locks up as soon as my gear lifts off the runway. Yes, I've just taken one for a spin around KSFO. Is this a lockup of FlightGear (probably meaning that you have pulled the stick so far at a low speed as to crash the tail into the ground -- I'm guessing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Norman Vine wrote: Jon Stockill writes: The other problem is that it's actually drawn on a square grid, so there's gonna be increasing distortion the firther you get from the equator. Tsk Tsk ... x = lon * cos(deg2rad(ref_lat)) y = lat Oooh, ta :-) Something else

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Norman Vine
Jon Stockill writes: The other problem is that it's actually drawn on a square grid, so there's gonna be increasing distortion the firther you get from the equator. Tsk Tsk ... x = lon * cos(deg2rad(ref_lat)) y = lat :-) Norman ___