Re: [Flightgear-devel] Negative-drag-bug in 20 aircraft models

2010-02-23 Thread Andreas-Z
I'm currently maintaining the 737-300, and it has this issue as well but I wonder if a fix might make the model worse. Though it comes much closer to the Vr, it needs plenty of force on the elevator to rotate and lift off. And with that bug fixed I fear it will getting worse than now.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DELETE DUPLICATE FG DATA FILES

2010-02-23 Thread Geoff McLane
On 2/11/10 6:40 PM, Geoff McLane wrote: Hi Curt, Melchior, Emmanuel, Syd, Detlef, Erik, or ... As requested before, to HELP WIN32 users, could we PLEASE have only ONE of EACH of the following PAIRS in FG data ;=() From a WIN32 FG data update Feb 23, 2010, and as noted in cvs logs... I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Brown
Just to make available some more images if anyone wants to create splashes from them, I found a few of these to have nice lighting effects with the setting sun. http://s512.photobucket.com/albums/t325/barefootr/FlightGear%20Screen%20Shots/ Peter On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:47 AM, John Denker wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-23 Thread syd adams
I dont like the gradient bar ... looks more like a thick layer of smog :) Just out of curiosity , what's the white bar above the bottom Flightgear ? On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Reagan Thomas thomas...@gmail.com wrote: HB-GRAL wrote: I am just playing around a bit with this Allerta.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DELETE DUPLICATE FG DATA FILES

2010-02-23 Thread Dave
Geoff McLane wrote: snip As stated before, since WIN32 is NOT case sensitive to file names, this causes CVS to always print a message of the form - cvs update: move away file-name; it is in the way and only ONE file is downloaded - probably not always the 'right' one ;=((. snip Ah, I'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SGFile::readline

2010-02-23 Thread John Denker
On 02/15/2010 03:19 AM, Tim Moore in part wrote: readline() is pretty gross; The best way to remove the grossness is to extirpate readline and replace it with something that has a nicer interface ... such as returning a std::string. I wrote a getline function to do this. Much cleaner. No

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SGFile::readline

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Moore
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:36 PM, John Denker j...@av8n.com wrote: I tried asking for suggestions and/or review off-list, but it appears that mail to timoor...@gmail.com never goes through. Is it a list-mail address only? No. Sometimes I'm busier and/or lamer than other times. I did get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DELETE DUPLICATE FG DATA FILES

2010-02-23 Thread Martin Spott
Geoff McLane wrote: So 62.5% done! Just three (3) to go :-)) 1: [a380.rgb] vs [A380.rgb] in [A380/Models] 2: [COWLING.rgb] vs [COWLING.RGB] in [A380/Textures/Livery/House] 3: [ENDPLATE.rgb] vs [ENDPLATE.RGB] in [A380/Textures/Livery/House] I wonder who's been adding/maintaining the A380.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-23 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Brown wrote: Just to make available some more images if anyone wants to create splashes from them, I found a few of these to have nice lighting effects with the setting sun. http://s512.photobucket.com/albums/t325/barefootr/FlightGear%20Screen%20Shots/ Is this really one of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DELETE DUPLICATE FG DATA FILES

2010-02-23 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:51 +, Martin Spott wrote: Geoff McLane wrote: So 62.5% done! Just three (3) to go :-)) 1: [a380.rgb] vs [A380.rgb] in [A380/Models] 2: [COWLING.rgb] vs [COWLING.RGB] in [A380/Textures/Livery/House] 3: [ENDPLATE.rgb] vs [ENDPLATE.RGB] in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Brown
It's the Fouga Magister, from GRTux's site. It is not included in the base package, but like Dave Culp's and Gary Neely's aircraft, IMHO ...some of the best models designed for FlightGear and used by many in FlightGear... are not included in the base package. While some may disagree with me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-23 Thread Gary Neely
I believe it makes the most sense for the featured aircraft to be both commonly recognizable and present in the Flightgear repository. It might confuse some people if they go looking for the featured aircraft and didn't find it in the official downloads page. The Concorde and the 747 make fine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-23 Thread syd adams
I'm wondering what is the significance of the curious white or yellow parallelogram seen near the Flightgear lettering in some of the most recent batch of suggested images? This may be what Syd was asking about as well. -Gary Yes , I wondered if I had missed a logo change , or if this was