[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Chris Metzler -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:45: > I would naively expect the angle that you give the sign to correspond to > the orientation of a normal either going out of the sign face or going > into the sign face. However, there seems to be an offset between the > angle used and the heading

Re: [Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-11 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:43:19 -0400 Rob Oates wrote: > > //currently, trying to figure out terragear... Good luck. If you get it to work, please let me know. I've been stuck trying to get hgtchop (which preprocesses the SRTM data) to work for almost a month now. I worked up a bunch of small air

[Flightgear-devel] request for new screen shots

2006-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I am interested in getting a few more high quality screen shots for the v0.9.10 release. I am looking for images that show off the new terrain textures, images that show off any new airplanes or new features on airplanes, and/or images that show off some new feature in v0.9.10. A screen shot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-11 Thread Rob Oates
Cool,I really appreciate you guys's input on these textures, especially with the color adjustments.also, Mark is it possible you could maybe email me the modified textures, there are a few adjustments I would like to do to the textures. Thanks,-Rob//currently, trying to figure out terragear...On 4/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi Melchior. This is good stuff. I've changed my automated script for placing the runway distance remaining signs to use this apparatus. It works fine in principle, but I've run into a problem (bug? dunno.). I would naively expect the angle that you give the sign to correspond to the orientat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Julien Pierru
I added a couple of signs at KSFO. They might not be located according to FAA specs but it's a start. Each signs should appear on either side of the runway/taxiway, i need to add the one on the ther side. It is really tedious to do by hand (ie the ufo), but here are some screenshots: http://flamebu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS version of v0.9.10 ?

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, 11. Apr 2006 19:21 -0400 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS version of v0.9.10 ? > > On 11 Apr 2006, at 21:56, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > > Has any one produced a MacOS package of FlightGea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS version of v0.9.10 ?

2006-04-11 Thread James Turner
On 11 Apr 2006, at 21:56, Curtis L. Olson wrote:Has any one produced a MacOS package of FlightGear-v0.9.10? I produced a 'pre' binary which seemed to work ok for those who tried it, and worked for me on both 10.3.9 and 10.4.x. It has no GUI, unlike Arthur's 0.9.9 release, because I don't really wan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: bo105 oddity ?

2006-04-11 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Frederic Bouvier -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:19: > >>The instrument marked in that screenshot doesn't look right to me : > > > Doesn't look right to me, either. But that's how it is mounted in a > real bo105. No idea why. > I suspect that it is because a) they didn

[Flightgear-devel] Re: bo105 oddity ?

2006-04-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:19: > The instrument marked in that screenshot doesn't look right to me : Doesn't look right to me, either. But that's how it is mounted in a real bo105. No idea why. m. --- This SF.Net email is

[Flightgear-devel] bo105 oddity ?

2006-04-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
The instrument marked in that screenshot doesn't look right to me : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/bo105-panel.jpg I've never been inside a real bo105 though ;-) -Fred -- Frédéric Bouvier http://frfoto.free.fr Photo gallery - album photo http://www.fotolia.fr/p/2278 Other photo galle

[Flightgear-devel] Use of old maps

2006-04-11 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, I happened to come across the following ebay item whilst looking for a map which caught my eye: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1937-Ordnance-Survey-Map-42-Llandudno-and-Denbigh_W0QQitemZ8403614581QQcategoryZ121824QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem It's a 1937 OS map to a reasonably hilly area of the UK, and

[Flightgear-devel] MacOS version of v0.9.10 ?

2006-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Has any one produced a MacOS package of FlightGear-v0.9.10? Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d -

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft version numbers

2006-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
This is a heads up for a change I am making. Aircraft that don't have an author specified version number used to be tagged with the date the archive was created. This meant an aircraft package could show up with a new version number even if nothing changed internally. Now, these aircraft wil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-11 Thread Mark
Hi, I also did some tweaking on the textures. What I found is that increasing saturation does enhance contrast and makes the textures look more natural. And the texture borders aren't as visible as when you only increase contrast. Especially the mixedcrop texture benefited from more saturation. M

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Julien Pierru
Yet another overview: http://www.asy.faa.gov/safety_products/airportground/section1.html

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Sébastien MARQUE
Torsten Dreyer wrote: I think the point of Torsten ( the OP ) was that if we have a XML schema, users are then free to use the tool they want. Correct, I don't want to promote a specific tool. The reason to name one was to give those a hint who do not know where to start. You have the fre

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:22: > The next entry defines an FAA standard sign for "Runway Distance Remaining". > It uses the default size "5" (according to the spec). This size could have > been > explicitly requested with [EMAIL PROTECTED] The other alternative is [EMAIL > PROTE

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:22: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] requests a "Location Sign" (with contents "E" and "M"), Er ... with contents "T" and "B5". > Why the ugly '@' everywhere, you ask? That's to avoid clashes with glyph > names. > That way it's possible to write "[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway & runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
New round of changes & getting closer to final (yes, some overengineering, too :-) http://members.aon.at/mfranz/rwysigns.jpg [40 kB] The screenshot shows again some signs and was generated with the following settings in w130n30/w123n37/942050.stg: This is a simple entry that uses the default

[Flightgear-devel] Openal is missing stuff

2006-04-11 Thread Sid Boyce
During build it complains that AL/al.h is missing and the only header file in linux/include is alext.h gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../common/include -I../include -finline-functions -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/alsa -I/opt/kde3/include/artsc -pthread

[Flightgear-devel] still no 3D clouds in FG-0.9.10, please help.

2006-04-11 Thread Michal Fabik
Hi, I've posted this before (when I had the 0.9.10-pre2 installed) and since then I've tried pre3 and now 0.9.10 official and still no change. My 3D clouds don't work however hard I try. Someone said they're somehow related to shadows and to color depth - shadows work alright for me no matter what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible bugs in v0.9.9 (Airbus A380 and p51d) ?

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Mike Rawlins > > When starting with: > > --aircraft=p51d > > I get system crash (no splash screen) with message > > Reading xml electrical system model from > /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Generic/generic-electrical.xml > Initialising callsign using > 'Aircraft/p51d/Models/p5

RE: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> > I think the point of Torsten ( the OP ) was that if we have a > > XML schema,users are then free to use the tool they want. > > Correct, I don't want to promote a specific tool. The reason to > name one was > to give those a hint who do not know where to start. You have the > freedom of choice.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I think the point of Torsten ( the OP ) was that if we have a XML schema, > users are then free to use the tool they want. Correct, I don't want to promote a specific tool. The reason to name one was to give those a hint who do not know where to start. You have the freedom of choice. Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Sébastien MARQUE : > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > Quoting Torsten Dreyer : > > > > > >>> My favorite editor is XMLSpy, but that is my personal view. > >>> > >> ... tsts, don't know how this could happen, this info is years old and I > use > >> OXYGEN XML now. > >> I think I need a brain-org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Sébastien MARQUE
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Torsten Dreyer : My favorite editor is XMLSpy, but that is my personal view. ... tsts, don't know how this could happen, this info is years old and I use OXYGEN XML now. I think I need a brain-organizing tool ;-) XMLSpy has a free ( of charge )

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Torsten Dreyer : > > My favorite editor is XMLSpy, but that is my personal view. > ... tsts, don't know how this could happen, this info is years old and I use > OXYGEN XML now. > I think I need a brain-organizing tool ;-) XMLSpy has a free ( of charge ) version that can edit schemas. Wha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> My favorite editor is XMLSpy, but that is my personal view. ... tsts, don't know how this could happen, this info is years old and I use OXYGEN XML now. I think I need a brain-organizing tool ;-) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a