Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grr... I am so angry

2008-12-29 Thread Matthew Tippett
I agree with Tim here. There are many secondary benefits of time-boxed releases. Getting bugfixes and mindshare improves interactions with the user community and attracts users which ultimately attracts new developers. Of course there is a percentage effort cost to ensure broad stability - but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots for v1.9

2008-12-22 Thread Matthew Tippett
One nice value-add would be to include sufficient details to allow end users to reproduce the conditions for screenshots. Regards... Matthew On 12/22/08, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, Here are some of my screenies for the gallery! Feel free to take one or more of them.

[Flightgear-devel] Nearcamera still not rendering

2008-12-03 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, The discussion seems to have died down somewhat on this issue. As of CVS fg/sg yesterday, I do not get the near camera drawn. I would assume that not everyone is seeing this which implies an OSG or driver specific issue. Any ideas or information that needs to be gathered? Regards,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-11-30 Thread Matthew Tippett
I agree. The initial offering from flightgear is fundamentally only for Windows - the expectation under Linux is that the packages will be rolled into distributions. For the aircraft, I would suggest something akin to -base, -realistic, -fun. That would appeal to the different classes of user.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further 3D Clouds updates

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
I haven't applied the patch yet, so I can't give full specs. With CVS as of a few days ago, I did notice that OSG attributed almost double the 'update' time with 3D clouds on. I assume that Tim can comment on what The 'update' time is. I assume this means that (at least prior to your patch) the

[Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, Recently, I discovered that there seem to be almost the double cameras that there were previously. This is in the event/update/cull/draw page of the statistics page. Is this expected? I also notice that each camera seems to be 'paired' with another camera - as in the 2nd camera will not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Comments within Original Message Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Total Cameras in statistics view From: Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 26/11/08 09:57 AM Matthew Tippett wrote: Yes. In order

[Flightgear-devel] Non-orthogonal frustums for multi-camera support

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I have been wrestling with this for a few weeks now. As some of you are aware, I am slowly preparing a new multi-head demo with around 8 GPUs in it (so up to 16 heads). The new camera support is great, but there are some problems with the way the frustums work. My understanding is that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Non-orthogonal frustums for multi-camera support

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
too well at the moment - I'll send some photos later. Regards... Matthew On 11/26/08, Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Tippett wrote: Hi, I have been wrestling with this for a few weeks now. As some of you are aware, I am slowly preparing a new multi-head demo with around 8 GPUs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots: legal status

2008-11-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
I would suggest *NOT* making flightgear responsible for managing the licenses on the images in the gallery. I would suggest however that there be a requirement for the uploader to explicitly state the license that they want. It is a quagmire if you start placing restrictions beyond the standard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots: legal status

2008-11-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
unauthorized. Thanks, Ron On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 21:02 -0500, Matthew Tippett wrote: I am suggesting nothing more complex than a requirement for the description to include a license. No license information - no upload. Forcing a single license for something that is individual and clearly divisble

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Z-near problem with new code

2008-11-22 Thread Matthew Tippett
It looks like the near clip plane is out too far. CVS fg and sg from yesterday. Regards... Matthew On 11/22/08, Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hi Tim, With the new code, I have a zNear problem shown in this screenshot :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Z-near problem with new code

2008-11-22 Thread Matthew Tippett
] wrote: On samedi 22 novembre 2008, Frederic Bouvier wrote: In this screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs_near_problem_4.jpg I am seated in the c172. Yes, really ;-) -Fred Matthew Tippett a écrit : It looks like the near clip plane is out too far. CVS fg and sg from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Z-near problem with new code

2008-11-22 Thread Matthew Tippett
To add to this, when in 'Fly By' view, a fast moving aircraft will be visible on the approach, will disappear as it passes through the clip plane, the camera will pan and the aircraft will appear to emerge from the clip-plane. Regards... Matthew On 11/22/08, Matthew Tippett [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-21 Thread Matthew Tippett
Okay. So, let's look at what actions should be taken. Given that I am not a copyright owner, I have nothing at stake beyond community membership. Regarding the images. We now sufficient information for individuals to assert their copyright on the individual using them. Regarding flightgear, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
A quick review of the site doesn't indicate they are doing anything fundamentally wrong. The acknowledge that it is derived from Flight Gear and that FG is an Open Source project. I am not saying that the way they are presenting it is a nice way to do it. But it is not fundamentally different

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
One thing to be *very* careful of is assuming that flightgear has some absolute right to control what happens downstream. If this company is honoring it's responsibilities under the GPL, there is nothing that the FG community can do to prevent it happening. The GPL enshrines those rights to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up: Boost dependency

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
As per other discussions, there is nothing stopping fg from creating a set of support libraries that exist in /opt/flightgear. This can be an optional 'we admit we are on the bleeding edge' support package that can be made broadly compatible. If people are interested in a recommended approach

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
-past and cut-paste things. On Nov 21, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Matthew Tippett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to be *very* careful of is assuming that flightgear has some absolute right to control what happens downstream. If this company is honoring it's responsibilities under the GPL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up: Boost dependency

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
Sure. It is involved and complex, so I didn't want to bother people unless they wanted the information. First, get a compiler built via crosstool - http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/ That allows you to low-bar the baseline glibc and gcc (and hence libstdc++). Then build the out-of-distro packages

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

2008-11-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
Comments within. (I am personally uncomfortable including the GPL violations people until we have a clear direction from the leadership of the flightgear project as to the direction the project would like to go). On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Statistics overlay accuracy.

2008-11-12 Thread Matthew Tippett
.. As an aside, the xml loader seems to be sub-optimal - loading the same file multiple times (for each camera?). Are there any hints on that behaviour? Regards... Matthew On 11/6/08, Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Tippett wrote: Comments within. Original Message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear in IVAO network

2008-11-11 Thread Matthew Tippett
My suggestion was along these lines, however I was focusing more on the inter-organization issues than technical. The technical details in my email was matching yours, that is the FG-MP server accepts a connection from *any* trusted MP flight environment. A secure wrapper using public key

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear in IVAO network

2008-11-11 Thread Matthew Tippett
Note the subtle suggestion of the discussion here. To avoid exposing/causing concern with the GPL, keeping it completely internal and not distributing it from IVAO seems like a good idea. However, this appears to need FG to expand/revise it's MP interface to allow secure connection of external

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear in IVAO network

2008-11-10 Thread Matthew Tippett
I think the key thread passing through each posting is mentioning that the two networks should be bridged. I don't believe the FG developer/user responses indicate a desire to have FG act as a IVAO client, bypassing the existing MP network. Most of the terms used imply a bridging of the two

[Flightgear-devel] Statistics overlay accuracy.

2008-11-05 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I would like to know who to work with to push for some improvements to the statistics overlay. My two issues are 1) It appears as if environment loading is added to 'draw' statistic. 2) There are blank periods in the graph that doesn't get attributed to event, update, cull or draw.. For

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Statistics overlay accuracy.

2008-11-05 Thread Matthew Tippett
Comments within. Original Message Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Statistics overlay accuracy. From: Csaba Halász [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 05/11/08 06:11 PM On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Matthew

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Clouds - patch and progress report

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Tippett
For comparison, can anyone show some screenshots of MS FSX or X-Plane clouds? Regards... Matthew On 10/27/08, gerard robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On mardi 28 octobre 2008, Georg Vollnhals wrote: gerard robin schrieb: I did not notice any difference with my graphic card. (7800 GS )

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D Clouds - patch and progress report

2008-10-26 Thread Matthew Tippett
Out of interest, what do the clouds look like in wireframe? FWIW, if people want to know where to aim.. http://www.sundog-soft.com/ Has some very nice soft, fluffy clouds :). For the modellers/OSG people out there, here is a page that probably gives some interesting clues. Regards, Matthew

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear contest

2008-10-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
My suggestion would be a pre-recorded flight contest. http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Suggested_Prerecorded_Flights Rationale is as follows 1) Will provide great demo-fodder http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Presentation_Recipe 2) Will provide a nice basis for improving

[Flightgear-devel] x86_64 regression?

2008-10-21 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I am trying to determine if the CVS tips are broken relative to * x86_64 system, or if I have a bad build/installation. The build is from CVS tips of fg/source, fg/data and sg. The symptoms are 1) Flight data playback doesn't work (complains about no binary input) 2) No key commands

Re: [Flightgear-devel] x86_64 regression?

2008-10-21 Thread Matthew Tippett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Matthew Tippett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to determine if the CVS tips are broken relative to * x86_64 system, or if I have a bad build/installation. The build is from CVS tips of fg/source, fg/data and sg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Add optional build dependency: libsvn

2008-10-19 Thread Matthew Tippett
The package needed would be libsvn-dev or similar. This is unlikely to be installed as part of the installation of svn, however libsvn (the runtime library) will be. And the dev package is usually just a suffix. Regards... Matthew On 10/19/08, James Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Oct

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for multiscreen mode with multiplayer

2008-10-15 Thread Matthew Tippett
$10k a year for our hardware maintenance contract.) Regards, Curt. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Erwan MAS wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:01:55PM -0400, Matthew Tippett wrote: Hi, I don't know if Tim has documented the OSG Camera work that he has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for multiscreen mode with multiplayer

2008-10-15 Thread Matthew Tippett
First up, some arbitrary definitions. Multi-instance means multiple instances of flightgear running (on one machine or many). Multi-camera is using what Tim is describing here. I don't believe that multi-camera is exclusive of multi-instance. But for most users, a multi-camera setup will be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for multiscreen mode with multiplayer

2008-10-14 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I don't know if Tim has documented the OSG Camera work that he has done. it removes most of the requirements for multiple instances and runs very well on modest hardware. Of course it depends on what you are doing for the mode of operation. Regards, Matthew Original Message

[Flightgear-devel] Towards a release - Re: Revision Log / Intended developments

2008-10-12 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, Although I would still love to see a snapshot as soon as possible... It would be great to push visibly to a 1.9 release. You have a nice list formed below of items to be mentioned in release notes. But do we have a burn down list of items that need to be completed. In general, I see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery distribution

2008-10-06 Thread Matthew Tippett
Can you define 'excellent server/network infrastructure'? Is SVN what they are offering, are they open to alternate architectures? Regards... Matthew On 10/6/08, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, we have recieved an offer to use an excellent server/network infrastructure for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Matthew Tippett
This is sounding like a 'base' and a 'full' or 'extras' release packages. The base release should contain what is suggested here - a collection of best of breed aircraft for particular classes that people are interested in. The 'full' provides a collection of 'complete' aircraft, but may

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Matthew Tippett
: Matthew Tippett wrote: Likewise with scenery. The default location and whatever demo locations should ship with reasonably detailed scenery + other common locations. The 'full' brings in other common scenery, and 'extras' brings in everything else. (Integrating terragear as a thread within

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Matthew Tippett
as a bad download too. If enabled by default in a thread in fgfs, there would be many options for evaluation since feedback would be trivial to obtain. Regards... Matthew On 10/5/08, Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Tippett wrote: Yes. Terrasync. With the intent being the terrasync

[Flightgear-devel] CVS Snapshot for publicity?

2008-10-04 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I would like to raise the question of a flightgear CVS snapshot being made and hosted. There was a video recently posted of a demonstration of (what I believe is) Tim Moore's OSG based camera system (8 displays connected to one PC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brG3-yyvv9Q this was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Prospects for a new release

2008-10-04 Thread Matthew Tippett
As a new person to flightgear, but an OSS participant for the last decade and a half, and a development manager by trade I would strongly suggest the 1.9 stream numbering. The rationale for this is as follows. 1) Realistically there are bugs that exist, having a 1.8 or 1.9 is industry practice

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Snapshot for publicity?

2008-10-04 Thread Matthew Tippett
Original Message Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Snapshot for publicity? From: Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 29/09/08 11:34 PM On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Matthew Tippett wrote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back-porting to the pre-OSG branch (was Re: Only to remember)

2008-10-03 Thread Matthew Tippett
I would be pleased to get something formal released. A snapshot would mean publicity through Phoronix - to the Linux crowd, inclusion in the Phoronix Test Suite (for multi-display testing), and finally AMD would squeeze out a few videos of Tim Moore's great multi camera at least 12 heads (16 if I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multi-threading / CPU usage

2008-10-03 Thread Matthew Tippett
/08 09:51 AM On 3 Oct 2008, at 13:48, Matthew Tippett wrote: Speaking of which, another call out for multithreading... The GPU isn't the limiting factor in our tests, the CPU is. Even mid-low end systems have 2-4 cores these days, and with the multi-display demo we are continually capped

[Flightgear-devel] CVS Snapshot for publicity?

2008-09-29 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hi, I would like to raise the question of a flightgear CVS snapshot being made and hosted. There was a video recently posted of a demonstration of (what I believe is) Tim Moore's OSG based camera system (8 displays connected to one PC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brG3-yyvv9Q this was