Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated 707

2013-08-19 Thread Innis Cunningham
to the 707, a model that Innis Cunningham developeda number of years back.It's available from http://gitorious.org/boeing/707 and is well wortha look, particularly for the fine cockpit and engineer station withextensive start-up tutorial.Marc has asked if it would be OK to replace the existing 707

[Flightgear-devel] AI groundnets for next release

2013-06-15 Thread Innis Cunningham
I have new groundnets and runway usage files for Singapore,Hong Kong,Bangkok,Kulalumpur,Dubai,Jakata and Bali who should I send these files to. Cheers Innis -- This SF.net email

[Flightgear-devel] Does Flightgear have a problem with Ubuntu nouveau drivers

2013-06-10 Thread Innis Cunningham
Tonight I went to use the 737NG but every time I hit the auto start the program aborted.So I tried starting manually everything worked fine the engines started and the aircraft flew fine until I tried to activate the electronic flight instruments then the program aborted.Thinking it might have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mystery Airport

2010-11-22 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Alasair What is the problem with Dubbo a quick google seems to show that YSDU is still the valid ICAO code for Dubbo and my 2.0 version shows YSDU for Dubbo in the select airport dialog. Cheers Innis For anyone working with ATC, these are further airport inconsistencies I have found

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mystery Airport

2010-11-22 Thread Innis Cunningham
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 19:42 +0800, Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Alasair What is the problem with Dubbo a quick google seems to show that YSDU is still the valid ICAO code for Dubbo and my 2.0 version shows YSDU for Dubbo in the select airport dialog. Cheers Innis In QFL.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-12 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Chris I would let it go mate.While I feel no better about people making money off my work I also feel that it is pretty much or own fault. The only way you are going to stop this guy is to make it a pain in the arse for him. Until we are prepared to fight fire with fire by releasing our

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI and Traffic Manager

2010-07-26 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi John The traffic you see a KSFO is mine the Air Canada aircraft are in the AI folder under traffic/A/ACA and the Cathay are under traffic/C/CPA almost at the end.They are supposed to move but there are so few of them that you need to be lucky to see them move.I think there is a KLM or two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI and Traffic Manager

2010-07-26 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi John I have never tried to impliment ramp activity but I think it is done by using the scenario code like was used for the tanker that used to fly in a circle over KSFO. I maybe wrong and people who know may chip in. Cheers Innis Thanks Innis, Think that answers my earlier question, in

[Flightgear-devel] IRC Chat not working

2010-06-27 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Have been trying to get onto IRC for a couple of hours each time I get a timed out message is there a problem.Other IRC sites seem to be working fine. Cheers Innis _ New, Used, Demo,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] IRC Chat not working

2010-06-27 Thread Innis Cunningham
Thanks George Hi All Have been trying to get onto IRC for a couple of hours each time I get a timed out message is there a problem.Other IRC sites seem to be working fine. Cheers Innis If you are referring to irc.flightgear.org, you are not the only one to notice. I think the

[Flightgear-devel] Thanks for the Ride

2010-05-13 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi I have tried to help with FG for about 7 years but after installing FG 2.0 I give up. As I am not a computer programmer I am not able to help with coding so I tried to help with model building and AI and scenery. With FG2.0 it would appear that the AI is currently unusable and the shading in

[Flightgear-devel] Black and White

2010-05-07 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All I tried to post yesterday with a picture but the post was knocked back for being to big. So here goes in words. I have noticed in FG2.0 that some of the AI models have very dark shading while other models seem normal. Has anyone else noticed this and or know what the problem might be.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Black and White

2010-05-07 Thread Innis Cunningham
Thanks Vivian and Heiko I will have a look at my ac files. Cheers Innis _ New, Used, Demo, Dealer or Private? Find it at CarPoint.com.au

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Depth order problem : 3d objects seen through 3d

2010-03-22 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Also another thing I ran into the other day is in a 3D cockpit with layer type glass screens the screens hide 3d objects although the 3d object is actually between the screen and you.In this case I am given to understand from Syd Adams that a alpha channel has to be added to the texture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Depth order problem : 3d objects seen through 3d

2010-03-22 Thread Innis Cunningham
:05 PM, Innis Cunningham inn...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All Also another thing I ran into the other day is in a 3D cockpit with layer type glass screens the screens hide 3d objects although the 3d object is actually between the screen and you.In this case I am given to understand from Syd Adams

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airliners and Auto Pitch-Trim

2010-03-07 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Guys I think you will find on all Boeing aircraft if the elevator is out of neutral for a set amount of time the horizontal stabilizer runs to return the elevator to the null position.Hence retriming the aircraft.Hence the name stabilizer trim I think also you will find that the tab on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airliners and Auto Pitch-Trim

2010-03-07 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Guys Another thing to keep in mind with the horizontal stabilizer is that on Boeing aircraft at least it is a reverse aerofoil so any lift is in a down direction. This is just for those that might not be aware of that. Cheers Innis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 and Mach Tug?

2010-02-17 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Heiko The real 737-300 is known to have to use of Mach trim at speed above Mach 0.61. I wonder if the behaviour I noticed is the same like the real one- if so, many thanks to David Culp!:-) And if so, how to make a Mach Trim? Yes that is correct I have just been reading my old 707

[Flightgear-devel] 747-400

2010-02-04 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Just a quick question is anyone doing anything with the 747-400 model or instruments. Cheers Innis _ Video chat with Windows Live Messenger Learn how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747-400

2010-02-04 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Gijs Hi Innis, I am working/created the KLM 744. The Pakistan 747 is not maintained by anyone AFAIK. Just a quick question is anyone doing anything with the 747-400 model or instruments. What excactly do you mean? Are they broken? I am awaitening CVS writing acces so I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Phantom set files

2010-01-31 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Csaba Thanks for that.Now next silly question were exactly is that file. I have had a look in a couple of places but can't find it. FG is caching the list of set files in the autosave.xml. It doesn't store the set file itself, though. But it does pick up set files from the whole

[Flightgear-devel] Phantom set files

2010-01-30 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi all I don't know if anyone else has come across this but a couple of times lately while doing some devel work I have had the set file go rogue on me. Today I wanted to try a jsb fdm on an aircraft that had a yasim fdm originally.So I put the yasim fdm and the set file away somewhere safe

[Flightgear-devel] Placing offsets for centers

2010-01-18 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All I am trying to place a panel that has two knobs on it using the following in the aircraft models xml file model namepanel/name pathAircraft/737-300/temp/du-panel.xml/path offsets x-m-6.694/x-m y-m-0.0/y-m z-m0.90/z-m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Placing offsets for centers

2010-01-18 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Torsten Thanks for this.Having not done much with instrument or aircraft modeling for some time now,years infact,I am having to learn all over again. Cheers Innis /animation I am just using the aileron property as a make shift to get the knobs to turn. My problem is the knobs rotate

[Flightgear-devel] Cockpit View

2009-07-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Could some one tell me how to change the cockpit view position as changing the values in the set.xml file no longer seems to work.I suspect it has something to do with Nasal view which I have no idea about. Thanks Cheers Innis

[Flightgear-devel] Double sided in Blender

2009-06-11 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello All I am trying to build a hangar with Blender 2.48 not a hard task you might say but for some reason when I join two objects to one some of the sides become single sided that is they become transparent from one side in FG.If I leave them as separate objects they show double sided in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Double sided in Blender

2009-06-11 Thread Innis Cunningham
Thanks Gary I don't think that is it I have checked the normals and flip them to no avail. Correct me if I am wrong but if the object is double sided then you should not be able to see through it from one side.As I said before when the faces concerned are separate objects they show double sided

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-15 Thread Innis Cunningham
, Not sure it is the right mailing list to post this but I have made a patch to activate the reverse on the 737-300 of FlightGear. I have seen on FG Wiki that David Culp and Innis Cunningham are the authors of the 737 model so I have put Dave on copy of this e-mail. However I do not know Innis' e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Noob Question

2009-02-11 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Guys scott.hamilton wrote On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 09:39 +1100, Jones, Andrew wrote: Hi All I'm V new here and have lots of questions... Is there a dedicated scenery design team for Australia? No not that I am aware of. A chap by the name

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO Boeing jumper

2008-10-27 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Gerard Aircraft suspended in the air around terminal buildings as been a problem virtually since the AI system was introduced. The only thing I am surprised about is that people have not seen it before. These comments Durk are just to add some history to the discussion. Hello, I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-21 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Lee On Friday 21 March 2008 01:07, Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Lee DETAILS WERE HERE On Thursday 20 March 2008 13:29, Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Lee Hi Innis, first of all, I just noticed that your replies are including e-mail addresses - if they're not obfuscated in the mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-20 Thread Innis Cunningham
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:46:36 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start LeeE wrote: That _is_ strange re getting it with the UFO. What happens if you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-20 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Lee Hi Innis, first of all, I just noticed that your replies are including e-mail addresses - if they're not obfuscated in the mailing list archives they'll be harvested for spam. Could you check your e-mailer settings to make sure they're not included in the body of the posting?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-20 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Lee DETAILS WERE HERE On Thursday 20 March 2008 13:29, Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Lee Hi Innis, first of all, I just noticed that your replies are including e-mail addresses - if they're not obfuscated in the mailing list archives they'll be harvested for spam. Could you check

[Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-19 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Have installed FG 9.10 on Ubuntu 7.10 on a 64bit machine running 32bit OS. I get this line when FG quits at installing subsystems Error loading MK VIII sound sample application-data-base-failed.wav: Failed to load wav file: I have checked openalrc for the following. (define devices

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-19 Thread Innis Cunningham
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:35:18 + Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start On Wednesday 19 March 2008 15:15, Innis Cunningham wrote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shader based random trees and improved random objects

2008-01-23 Thread Innis Cunningham
This will be a challenge for us as we move forward with development of the OSG tree. How much old hardware should we support, and how far back should we go? I think it makes sense (at a minimum) to make sure these features that require newer hardware can be turned off so that

[Flightgear-devel] 737-300

2007-12-06 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All I guess I would not be defending myself if I did not stick up for the 737-300 since I did the 3d model for it. The thing is the 737 is still the most popular commercial jet in service with the worlds airlines while the 787 has not yet flowen a commercial mile. I wonder if new people to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300

2007-12-06 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi A screenshot here: http://www.hoerbird.net/boeing737-300.3dcockpit1.jpg I have still trouble with perfomance, but I have a too old pc anyway ... That's why the developement is very slow and now cause of looking for a new job I will not really have the time to go one. So I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-17 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Josh JOSHUA WILSON Writes Innis Cunningham Writes Hi Josh Downloaded the zip file as you said no difference.But after some trouble shooting I find if I use any one or all the following instruments, EICAS,NDB,STBY ALT ,in combination with or alone I get the seg fault. If I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-17 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Josh Thanks for that everything seems to be working ok now with the new package you uploaded.Also there seems to be an improvement in frame rates from before. Cheers Innis JOSHUA WILSON writes Innis Cunningham Writes Are you saying you have just changed them or are they supposed

[Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-16 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All When I try to run the 787 I get the following. Reading model /home/innis/Flightgear/data/Aircraft/787/Models/nd.ac Returning cached model /home/innis/Flightgear/data/Aircraft/787/Models/nd.ac Reading image Segmentation fault (core dumped) If I remove the nd model and its texture and xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-16 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Josh JOSHUA WILSON Writes Hi All When I try to run the 787 I get the following. Reading model /home/innis/Flightgear/data/Aircraft/787/Models/nd.ac Returning cached model /home/innis/Flightgear/data/Aircraft/787/Models/nd.ac Reading image Segmentation fault (core dumped) If I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-05 Thread Innis Cunningham
Thanks Hans Hans Ulrich Niedermann writes Innis Cunningham wrote: I get a segmentation fault during aircraft loading of the 787 from cvs is anyone else seeing this. At the cli all I get is segmentation fault(core dump) any ideas. Its on Ubuntu 7.04 The issue with fglrx_dri.so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-05 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi John John Denker writes On 07/05/2007 09:49 PM, Innis Cunningham wrote: And the fix is.??? http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11124.html That's a little bit terse; if you need more details, please ask again. Was not trying to be terse would just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 787 Seg fault

2007-07-05 Thread Innis Cunningham
not had this problem with any other aircraft in the cvs that I have tried so far. John Denker writes On 07/05/2007 10:04 PM, Innis Cunningham wrote: would just like to know how I fix it. Basic idea: The problem is in the fglrx_dri.so module that is part of the X11 system. (It is not part

[Flightgear-devel] Building FlightGear 0.9.11 on Ubuntu 7.04

2007-06-04 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All I have transfered over to here because I have FG 9.11 working but with some gymnastics. Openal built ok Plib would not build said it could not find working GL library ended up installing plib dev package by synaptic. SimGear seemed happy with plib but could not find alut. Installed libalut

[Flightgear-devel] 737-300 in FG9.11

2007-06-04 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All I have just been having a fly with the 737-300 and noticed it creates a JSBSim FDM monitoring file everytime it is started (well I think everytime).As it can run to quite a large file in quite a small time maybe it will catch people unaware as they may not know were it is coming from.As

[Flightgear-devel] Some Strangeness

2006-07-22 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Being new to Flightgear under Linux I have noticed a problem. If I run with the sim the full size of the screen regardless of the screen resolution I have the hotspot points about 1 inch/25mm below were the yellow hotspot squares would indicate the hotspot to be. If I run with a screen

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 exposes a possible property/memory bug in rea

2006-04-05 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Jon Jon S. Berndt writes Thanks - yes, I missed your post. Thanks for the report. I'll look at the 737. So, you tried the 747 and it works properly? Just as a heads up the airground.nas file for the 737 was written by David Culp and is designed to mimic the 737's airground switch.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-0.9.10-pre3 - my experiences

2006-03-29 Thread Innis Cunningham
Michal Fabik writes It's a United Airlines one but it seem so sit there for a pretty long time - doesn't seem to be about to depart anywhere Sounds like an early version of the triffic AI and yes that aircraft could sit there for hours before it goes anywhere. Cheers Innis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-16 Thread Innis Cunningham
Stefan Seifert writes Attached is a patch for adding nosewheel steering, nosewheel compression and engine fan spin animations. It works, but I'm not sure if it's correct. For steering I only needed to rotate the nouterstrut object. In fact doing anything with the other objects does just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-14 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Stefan Stefan Seifert writes The 737-300 is missing the nose gear animations: turning and compression. Looked at it yesterday, but it's not as easy as it was with the old model because the nosewheel seems not to be a named object anymore. Have to find out how I can give it a name.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-13 Thread Innis Cunningham
Paul Surgeon writes One thing I'm not clear on is whether Innis is working on another 737. Are there two aircraft or just one that we're working on? It would be a real pity to end up with two half modeled 737s. The 737-300 is the current model that should be in the basic package the old

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Are the sourceforge lists not working?

2006-03-11 Thread Innis Cunningham
Dave Perry writes Hi David, Are you able to access any of the March activity on the flightgear list.sourceforge.net site? I see no posts after 2/27 at sourceforge. I also have nothing after 2/27 also. Cheers Innis --- This SF.Net

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Markus Markus Barenhoff writes hi there, i am currently writting a simulation of the 737-300 electrical system for flightgear. it' s still work in progress. now to my question: is there someone who would like do design the pannels? :) it would be great to have them, for testing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Stefan Seifert writes Innis Cunningham wrote: Maybe all the people who are working on the 737 need to get together and work out who is going to do what.You have as it would appear done a lot of the 737 electrical system I also know that Justin Smithies is working on the same system.I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 development (was: 737-300 electrical systems)

2006-03-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Markus Markus Barenhoff writes - Flight Instruments: I am currently working on 3D instruments for the 737 classic(not glass cockpit)but have only started on the vor guage(RMI) so the field is open for all the other instruments. One thing I would like to know is it possible currently

RE: [Flightgear-devel] inflight / on ground / on airport

2006-03-09 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Markus Markus Barenhoff writes hi, are there properties in tree where i can read from if the aircraft is currently in air, on ground or even on ground/on airport? it would be nice to have (i need it for the 737 electrical system, to switch on the external ground power on

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 engines

2006-03-06 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Jon Jon S. Berndt writes Before we go stuffing around it might be good if we find out how the real 737 fuel delivery system works(it ain't a cessna).As it stands now if you activate the fuel cutoff the engine should shtdown and that pretty much is how the real aircraft works.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 panel file

2006-03-06 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Justin While I appreciate your enthusiasm and don't care what you do with your local copy,after all thats what opensource is all about. I would not like to see features introduced into the main file that are incorrect.The one and only reason I have not had a go at doing the electrical

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737 diy cockpit

2006-03-03 Thread Innis Cunningham
Jon S. Berndt writes I also noticed that none of the electrical systems can be switched off either. I am trying to add as much realism i.e. switches etc to this as possible. Justin Smithies I think the fuel would flow to the engines anyway due to gravity. Ampere Remember

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #544 - 9 msgs

2006-02-27 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Jon Jon S. Berndtwrites Another thing you can do is to open the aircraft config file in a browser. That *should* display the XML file using the style sheet specified in the processing instruction at the top of JSBSim aircraft config files. There is a style sheet (JSBSim.xsl) at the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #544 - 9 msgs

2006-02-27 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Jon Jon S. Berndt writes Can you email me the file? As soon as I get FG to build I'll try it out - maybe in the JSBSim standalone. As AJ mentions, there may be a problem reading tabs in some locations. I also need an example of where this happens so I can try and fix that. Because

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #544 - 9 msgs

2006-02-26 Thread Innis Cunningham
syd sandy writes Personally Ive tried to generate JSBsim files for my aircraft but FG crashes before they load... thats the only major change I can think of.. I to had this problem with a FDM that Dave Culp sent me for the new 737. Here is what occured. I needed to add a spoiler property

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737 EICAS

2006-02-18 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hello Justin Justin Smithies writes Can anyone tell me where in the FG tree i can get the following variables or how i can add them to this model ? OIL T OIL Q% VIB HYD P HYD Q% Don't think they currently exist in the property tree that is why I never used them in the start. BTW what

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737 project

2006-02-02 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Justin There is already a new 737 model and 3D panel in the pipe line. Cheers Innis From: Justin Smithies writes Who all would be interested in updating or rather building a new 737 model with 3d panels etc and more working realistic features. Using the latest Boeing 737 data ? We could

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Discussion: next FlightGear release.

2006-01-28 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Curt Curtis L. Olson writes Now that the v0.9.10 scenery is done. I would like to start thinking about the next FlightGear release which will be called v0.9.10 to match the scenery. The biggest thing that comes to mind for the next release is that we need to fix up all the JSBsim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Discussion: next FlightGear release.

2006-01-28 Thread Innis Cunningham
Curtis L. Olson writes Innis Cunningham wrote: The issue is that JSBsim doesn't output the normalized control surface positions like it used to. Instead you have to add a section for each surface in the JSBsim config file to set the normalized surface values that FlightGear expects to see