[Flightgear-devel] nav radio patch

2010-03-19 Thread syd adams
Hello , This is a small patch to add a heading-pointer-offset for RMI's and HSI's that have these pointers. The reason for an offset is to illiminate the need to calculate true / magnetic headings or magnetic variation... not required as far as the needle is concerned. It rests at a 90 degree

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shaders experiments

2010-03-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi Erik, - Erik Hofman a écrit : Frederic Bouvier wrote: The relief (you mean the height of the buildings) can be adjusted in the effect file. The more important thing to me is to get the right horizontal scale. Nothing will change until the next scenery release because the scale is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-19 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I didn't seem to make any difference -- 3D buildings, trees, etc. were still floating above the roofs of the bump-map buildings. I also tried Keep in mind that relief mapping is just trickery to make something look like it is standing out from the scenery. In fact

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-19 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Erik Hofman wrote: David Megginson wrote: I didn't seem to make any difference -- 3D buildings, trees, etc. were still floating above the roofs of the bump-map buildings. I also tried Keep in mind that relief mapping is just trickery to make something look like it is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Erik Hofman a écrit : David Megginson wrote: I didn't seem to make any difference -- 3D buildings, trees, etc. were still floating above the roofs of the bump-map buildings. I also tried Keep in mind that relief mapping is just trickery to make something look like it is standing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shaders experiments

2010-03-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: looking for coverage in the sources, I can't find something related to the texture. As far as I can see, tex coords are computed by sgCalcTexCoords, and this function is called at run time only for ocean tiles. Otherwise, in is called from Terragear, in int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Pete Morgan wrote: Has/Does FlightGear participate ? http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html Just to put some closure on this thread. I had one person reply (Tim) with an offer to be a possible mentor. That

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help needed with multi-screen

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Kavya, I think you have just summarized all the limitations of the FlightGear multi-camera/view/display system. Tim Moore is the person who developed this feature (nothing existed before his efforts) and maybe he can offer more insight. I know that in the case of menus, hud, 2d instrument

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Pete Morgan wrote: Has/Does FlightGear participate ? http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short timeframe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short timeframe than anything else? AFAIK, the GSoC participants are thinking about their entry *months* in advance. Why not make a note to revist a GSoC entry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short timeframe than anything else? AFAIK, the GSoC participants are thinking about their entry *months* in advance.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Pete, For what it's worth, the forum is by far the biggest bandwidth consumer right now based on the webalizer stats. Best regards, Curt. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Pete Morgan wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Alex Perry
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: - Do we want to lock ourselves into google? These issues worry me also, and indeed pointing www.flightgear.org to fg-www.appspot.com is likely to have other problems (major 404's will need to be handled) We should be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Reagan Thomas
Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com mailto:ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short timeframe than anything else? AFAIK, the GSoC participants are thinking about their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Pete Morgan
Alex Perry wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: - Do we want to lock ourselves into google? These issues worry me also, and indeed pointing www.flightgear.org to fg-www.appspot.com is likely to have other problems (major 404's will need

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help needed with multi-screen

2010-03-19 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: I think you have just summarized all the limitations of the FlightGear multi-camera/view/display system. Tim Moore is the person who developed this feature (nothing existed before his efforts) [...] except from the multi-screen system which formerly had been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help needed with multi-screen

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Martin Spott wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: I think you have just summarized all the limitations of the FlightGear multi-camera/view/display system. Tim Moore is the person who developed this feature (nothing existed before his efforts) [...] except

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Reagan Thomas
Reagan Thomas wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com mailto:ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short timeframe than anything else? AFAIK, the GSoC participants are thinking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Is it worth setting up a GOSC wiki page to start organizing our thoughts and possible volunteers? If we wait on this we'll very likely have a repeat of this year when next year's deadline comes around. Several people have written expressing support that this is a good idea, but we need actual

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shader switches

2010-03-19 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: do I understand correctly, that the former /sim/rendering/shader-experimental property has now been completely superseded by: /sim/rendering/crop-shader /sim/rendering/landmass-shader /sim/rendering/urban-shader /sim/rendering/water-shader No response at all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: Is it worth setting up a GOSC wiki page to start organizing our thoughts and possible volunteers? If we wait on this we'll very likely have a repeat of this year when next year's deadline comes around. Several people have written expressing support

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Curtis Olson
A good mail reader can straighten it all out ... :-) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: I would think so, yes. The first thing we can teach them is how not to top post. :) -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot

2010-03-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Perhaps the PI anti-windup change could be re-visited. When the output is clamped and anti-windup is active, at xmlauto.cxx:625, the line: int_sum = clamped_output - prop_comp; seems to introduce the Kp, proportional gain factor, into the integral sum. With the proportional gain much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: A good mail reader can straighten it all out ... :-) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: I would think so, yes. The first thing we can teach them is how not to top post. :) *facepalm* g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-19 Thread willie
Curtis Olson wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com mailto:ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: Curt, could the lack of enthusiasm been more due to the short timeframe than anything else? AFAIK, the GSoC participants are thinking about their entry