Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft attitude and view orientation

2009-11-05 Thread John Denker
On 11/05/2009 09:13 AM, Tim Moore wrote: I'm not sure that this attitude is always that of the user's own aircraft. Point taken. The thing I first called the 12:00 view -- which is sometimes equivalent to the aircraft attitude -- is not always equal to the attitude, certainly not in look-at

[Flightgear-devel] tone and decorum

2009-11-05 Thread John Denker
On 11/05/2009 11:19 AM, Curtis Olson wrote in part: Going way overboard with an over-the-top authoritative style may actually take away from any good points you are trying to make ... Point taken. By way of pathetic non-excuse, let me remark that a few years ago I was rather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tone and decorum

2009-11-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Denker -- Thursday 05 November 2009: By way of pathetic non-excuse, let me remark that a few years ago I was rather authoritatively flamed for daring to put comments in FGFS code. That's rather misleading. In fact you were criticized for: - putting whole gdb stack traces(!) before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tone and decorum

2009-11-05 Thread Curtis Olson
But be that as it may, let's continue push this discussion back towards a positive productive direction since it is all too easy to become unproductive. Ultimately we are trying to help Erik get the 3d sound straightened out... Curt. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: *

[Flightgear-devel] Quats from (lat,lon) to (0,0)

2009-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis Olson wrote: But be that as it may, let's continue push this discussion back towards a positive productive direction since it is all too easy to become unproductive. Ultimately we are trying to help Erik get the 3d sound straightened out... Which is luckily straightened out as far

[Flightgear-devel] Update to FFG7 - Oliver Hazard Perry

2009-11-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, All, Alexis Bory has just provided us with an update to the FFG 7 model. It is so good I thought it worth posting a short note. You can see it here: ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre2.org.uk/fgfs/Maritime/FFG-7.png This will form part of the USS Vinson Battle Group which we are in the process of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Maritime/Military

2009-11-05 Thread Tom P
Hi Martin, Vivian team This is an honest question, trying to understand the direction where we can evolve FG. Currently the models in data/Models seem to serve two purposes, and I'm wondering if they can be divided (kept in different repositories) based on the purpose? 1) static objects

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update to FFG7 - Oliver Hazard Perry

2009-11-05 Thread James Turner
On 5 Nov 2009, at 23:22, Vivian Meazza wrote: Alexis Bory has just provided us with an update to the FFG 7 model. It is so good I thought it worth posting a short note. You can see it here: Nice work indeed! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quats from (lat,lon) to (0,0)

2009-11-05 Thread John Denker
On 11/05/2009 04:11 PM, Erik Hofman wrote: But I do have a question I have updated the code in fgUpdateSunPos() using quats and have it properly working at (0,0) lat and lon but not at other places. I guess I need to multiply by yet another quat.. but which one? Has anyone any clue? There

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Maritime/Military

2009-11-05 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Tom P wrote: Hi Martin, Vivian team This is an honest question, trying to understand the direction where we can evolve FG. Currently the models in data/Models seem to serve two purposes, and I'm wondering if they can be divided (kept in different