Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:07:45 +, FGD wrote in message <9dfda0650902050307n513838b7x6f06bca893b2b...@mail.gmail.com>: > 2009/2/5 Jon Stockill > > > Tim Moore wrote: > > > > > I don't know what to say about AC3D, but Blender has such a large > > community that > > > I doubt you need to be suffe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim & sliding helicopters bug

2009-02-05 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> > To put it a bit provoking (no personal offense intended!) for the sake > > of getting the status right, this looks to me that we're never going to > > have this feature of proper tire/ground reaction simulation in > > FlightGear simply because the involved folks prefer to play around with > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
Hello , Ok, I have everything in the data folder converted to /level-lbs. (The Concorde was a bit of a nightmare) ... :) If someone could commit the patch , I'm ready to commit the data ... Thanks . -- Create and Deploy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
This is the patch to change jsbsim's level-lb to level-lbs . I'm currently going through the data folder to find all other uses ... I'll try to get it done tonight so if the patch is applied . the breakage time should be short :) I don't have the JSBsim source , just what's included with FG , but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Sounds like a good idea to me to change it to lbs. > > Jon > > Oh good . Thanks Jon . I'll send a patch after I test it better to make sure I don't break anything , and find all other uses of it , unless Anders has beat me to it :) Cheers ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
> > If we get started with that we could also change all JSBSim > aircraft using /engines/engine[x]/mp-osi for sound or animations to use > mp-inhg as both those properties are actually in inHg (I'd like to > remove the misnamed mp-osi property from JSBSim.cxx). > > Cheers, > > Anders > Ah yes , I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
And since I brought it up , yes, I'll track down and make the required animations changes . (If the other aircraft modellers have no objection). On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Sounds like a good idea to me to change it to lbs. > > Jon > > > > -Original Message- > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Sounds like a good idea to me to change it to lbs. Jon > -Original Message- > From: Anders Gidenstam [mailto:anders-...@gidenstam.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:55 PM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ... > > On Thu, 5 Feb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Spott
FGD ML wrote: > As for flight format I've never even seen one, where has that been used out > of interest? I think Tim refers to OpenFlight - probably the de-facto standard, at least a _highly_ popular format for commercial, scientific and military simulation platforms. The nice thing about Ope

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Q: OpenGL version requirement for FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-02-05 Thread Michael D. Smith
David L. Page wrote: > > What are the OpenGL version requirements for FlightGear 1.9.1? > > I haven't found a reference in FG documentation, yet. I have only seen > specifications for the latest nVidia or ATI cards. > > Best regards, > > --Dave > > > -- > David L. Page > Knoxville, Tennes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread FGD ML
2009/2/5 Tim Moore > It would be most useful to inquire in the Lightwave community what people > do for > export to games. Well this would always depend on the game in question as that is what generally calls the shots in the main. > OSG supports DirectX .x files, Flight format, Collada, eve

[Flightgear-devel] Q: OpenGL version requirement for FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-02-05 Thread David L. Page
What are the OpenGL version requirements for FlightGear 1.9.1? I haven't found a reference in FG documentation, yet. I have only seen specifications for the latest nVidia or ATI cards. Best regards, --Dave -- David L. Page Knoxville, Tennessee davidp...@ieee.org 865.607.8192 -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, syd adams wrote: > Hello , > I would like to know if the jsbsim 'consumables/fuel/tank[?]/level-lb' > property name could be changed to level-lbs for compatability sake ... > Currently I have to chech the condition of that property to properly animate > a fuel gauge and to

[Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
Hello , I would like to know if the jsbsim 'consumables/fuel/tank[?]/level-lb' property name could be changed to level-lbs for compatability sake ... Currently I have to chech the condition of that property to properly animate a fuel gauge and to me , level-lb just doesnt read right ... tanks

[Flightgear-devel] fuel gauges ...

2009-02-05 Thread syd adams
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim & sliding helicopters bug

2009-02-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Diogo Kastrup -- Thursday 05 February 2009: > The bigger problem with this approach is the Carrier, but I > don't see why it shouldn't work. Although I haven't got it > working so far. I hope this can be solved soon, so I can > send the patch as a proof of concept. IMHO it is working > pretty wel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim & sliding helicopters bug

2009-02-05 Thread Diogo Kastrup
Em Qui, 2009-02-05 às 11:34 +, Martin Spott escreveu: > To put it a bit provoking (no personal offense intended!) for the sake > of getting the status right, this looks to me that we're never going > to > have this feature of proper tire/ground reaction simulation in > FlightGear simply because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread LeeE
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, FGD ML wrote: > Hi All, > > Just got directed to your list today. Hope I'm posting this > right as that is a first for me too. Sorry if I goofed too. > > I'm one of a bunch of content makers [snip...] Re the choice of model format; have you got a .3ds exporter for L

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync - location change improvements

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Perry
Thank you, those are both useful bug reports with the approach I took. Let me come up with clean fixes for both of them and then get back to you. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Hi Alex, > > your version compiles under windows, but needs a continuous feed of messages

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim & sliding helicopters bug

2009-02-05 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> To put it a bit provoking (no personal offense intended!) for the sake > of getting the status right, this looks to me that we're never going to > have this feature of proper tire/ground reaction simulation in > FlightGear simply because the involved folks prefer to play around with > smaller,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread FGD ML
2009/2/5 Tim Moore > FGD ML wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just got directed to your list today. Hope I'm posting this right as > > that is a first for me too. Sorry if I goofed too. > Welcome! Thanks, that feels a whole lot better now! (seriously!) I'm going to work through this a part at a time

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread FGD ML
2009/2/5 Jon Stockill > Tim Moore wrote: > > > I don't know what to say about AC3D, but Blender has such a large > community that > > I doubt you need to be suffering in isolation this way. Surely this is a > known > > problem with a workaround? > > Before people spend too much time on that if yo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim & sliding helicopters bug

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon S. Berndt" wrote: >> Well, just very few years ago 'we' (TM) had a patch in our budget that >> would have allowed JSBSim to do excellent simulation of a tire's >> contact area. Some of us have seen with their own eyes that the guy >> (the submitter of the respective patch) obviously knows ab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Tim Moore wrote: > I don't know what to say about AC3D, but Blender has such a large community > that > I doubt you need to be suffering in isolation this way. Surely this is a > known > problem with a workaround? Before people spend too much time on that if you have a small sample model tha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-05 Thread Tim Moore
FGD ML wrote: > Hi All, > > Just got directed to your list today. Hope I'm posting this right as > that is a first for me too. Sorry if I goofed too. Welcome! > > I'm one of a bunch of content makers, I recently had a conversation with > Stuart, and felt it worth exploring this a bit further w