Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off managed-view?

2006-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mathias Fröhlich -- Thursday 17 August 2006 07:48: From my point of view this is a total misfeature. And from my point of view it is a misfeature to bolt the pilot's head on the fuselage, which is what it looks and feels like with the old static view -- on a helicopter more so than on a fixed

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] RL Microlight Trial Flight

2006-08-17 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
Hi All, In the tradition of FGers mentioning their RL flying experience, I thought I'd mention the microlight trial flight I took yesterday. I'd already had a couple of hours in GA aircraft while on business in the USA, but here in the UK the very high cost of lessons, hire etc. is a big barrier

[Flightgear-devel] Debugging MultiPlayer

2006-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Hi together, I'd like to get the MultiPlayer setup on my wife's PeeCee up and running before I recommend use of this feature in The Manual. After spending a couple of hours with researching the interna of my NAT gateway last night, I decided to make a simpler setup for testing purpose and took two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debugging MultiPlayer

2006-08-17 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Martin Spott wrote: I'd like to get the MultiPlayer setup on my wife's PeeCee up and running before I recommend use of this feature in The Manual. I thought I wrote a chapter for the Features section of the manual already? Or were you going to include it in the main installation section?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debugging MultiPlayer

2006-08-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Martin Spott wrote: Now I would expect at least one, better each of the two pilots to see the other aircraft idling at the opposite end of the runway - but nbody's there. [SNIP] Any hint where I should start investigating ? Are you sure you enabled AI-objects? Cheers, Ralf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off managed-view?

2006-08-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Thursday 17 August 2006 12:33: I find it very irritating to have someone else moving my view direction in the simulator. You're right, this somehow resembles real live, Bingo. If we walk, or drive, or fly, or jump from branch to branch in a tree -- we don't experience

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Debugging MultiPlayer

2006-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Partially, yesterday evening I got registered as [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I see, the part behind @ points to the MP server, not to the IP from which the client connects. Yes, finally I just managed to see some people around KSFO - strange things happen with Solaris IPFilter

[Flightgear-devel] Inconsistent MP state after reset; Was: Debugging MultiPlayer

2006-08-17 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: [...] I decided to make a simpler setup for testing purpose and took two computers on the local network today. While playing with this setup, I encountered something that looks pretty funny, but (I guess) should not occur. Let me explain: I start FG on 'A' with some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model adding/download/rating system

2006-08-17 Thread Ben Clark
Long time since this thread was active :PAnyway, thinking back to this project and hoping to do something for FlightGear (taking a look at the current CVS source it all looks a little over my head).Anyway, i'll happily work on this project and host it myself, question is - is this a good idea, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off managed-view?

2006-08-17 Thread Matthias Boerner
On Thursday 17 August 2006 00:51, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Matthias Boerner -- Thursday 17 August 2006 00:15: On Wednesday 16 August 2006 22:30, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Matthias Boerner -- Wednesday 16 August 2006 22:27: Shouldn't the old style of view the default property and the new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off managed-view?

2006-08-17 Thread Matthias Boerner
On Thursday 17 August 2006 08:35, Melchior FRANZ wrote: ---snip It was too tempting. It's OK for non-developers to lurk on a development list, it's also OK for them to criticize developers, but demanding justification from those who do the work is a bit too much. Or was too much yesterday

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off managed-view?

2006-08-17 Thread Olaf Flebbe
Hi, And from my point of view it is a misfeature to bolt the pilot's head on the fuselage, which is what it looks and feels like with For my point of view it is an error to end up in a constantly rotating view. This is what I get if I restart the bo105 after a crash. Olaf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpdummy ?; Was: Debugging MultiPlayer

2006-08-17 Thread Pigeon
May I kindly ask the MP server guys to add the same mpdummy aircraft to the port 5002 unstable scene like it's already present for the stable scene ? Done :) Pigeon. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

[Flightgear-devel] Request for Linux-Info-Tag Dresden, Germany early October

2006-08-17 Thread Carsten Vogel
Dear Readers! Since I am pretty new to this FlightGearproject (approx 2 week) I'm in the mood larger than my productivity. Anyways: in about 7 weeks from now there will be Dresden's annual Linux Infotag (framed into Informatikwoche), a good background in order to present open source-projects.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to turn off managed-view?

2006-08-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
* Jon S. Berndt -- Thursday 17 August 2006 15:12: I've adjusted the landing gear values a bit. Can you explain what you mean by excessive Y acceleration? Is this while sittings till on the runway? Is it something that happens as you accelerate? Yes, on the runway and when accelerating.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] managed view option....

2006-08-17 Thread Syd
Hi all , I find the managed view very distracting... only because , since I dont have rudder pedals , I cant get off the ground without spinning like crazy until I get some forward momentum.(Yes , with auto coordination enabled ).I do like the effect during stable flight so , wouldn't a