[Flightgear-devel] Individual Custom Runway Textures?

2010-07-11 Thread Michael Smith
Hello, I am modeling an airfield with a grass runway, but the default grass texture isn't well suited for making the strip look realistic. Is there a way I can use a custom texture for the strip alone without changing the main textures or having to make a modification to materials.xml?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airport radio...

2010-05-02 Thread Michael Smith
On 5/2/2010 4:24 PM, syd adams wrote: Hi guys, Is it possible to add radio control to an airport or is it hard coded ? Our local airport is not controlled , but we are still required to state our intentions to the airport radio. I could probably do something with nasal , but would like to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rig of Rods

2010-04-01 Thread Michael Smith
On 4/1/2010 5:44 AM, Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, In the forum someone send a really interesting link to an OpenSource (GNU GPL v3) Simulator, which has features, which are- to be honest- really, really outstanding! http://wiki.rigsofrods.com/pages/Portal/ It contains everyting: Drive-,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot changes

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Smith
Jacob Burbach wrote: In recent cvs I get errors about having Ki or Kd in my pid controllers config. This is unfortunate, as tuning of those values stabilized my autopilot considerably. I wonder if someone can explain what changes are going on in that area of code. Are Ki and Kd forever

[Flightgear-devel] Two New Multiplayer Servers in the US.

2009-09-13 Thread Michael Smith
TB and IonCannon218 have set up two new mpservers for FG. They are both based in the United States. In Dallas, TX: mpserver05.flightgear.org are linked to 01, 02, 04, 06 and 07. (This have very low latency and very fast internet) In Wisconsin: mpserver07.flightgear.org are linked to 01, 02, 04,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Very bad surprise with last FG cvs

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Smith
i tried to demonstrate FG. :( :( cheers I think this has something to do with the camera adjustments Tim has been doing to fix the black box bug some of us had, there is a --prop you can use to adjust the camera, can't remember what it is. Maybe Tim could reply? -- Michael Smith mdsmi

[Flightgear-devel] Custom terragear scenery doesn't match

2009-01-01 Thread Michael Smith
set them when building my own scenery? -- Michael Smith mdsmi...@highland.net (mdsmith2) -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom terragear scenery doesn't match

2009-01-01 Thread Michael Smith
Martin Spott wrote: Michael Smith wrote: I have made some scenery using terragear-cs and it has built ok except for it not matching existing scenery. I was told that it was because of me not using the same arrayfit params that the original scenery was built. I suspect it doesn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nothing happen on crash

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Smith
around, I can't recall which it was but one of them sink in water. Maybe a little You have crashed, reset? dialog would be good but then the aircraft would have to give a crash property (does it already?) -- Michael Smith mdsmi...@highland.net (mdsmith2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Smith
Ok, this might be a silly question but here it goes, Will the final 1.99 release be on the main flightgear website and replace 1.0 on the site? Thanks -- Michael Smith mdsmi...@highland.net (mdsmith2) -- SF.Net email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5 RC1 feedback summary

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Smith
/listinfo/flightgear-devel I second this! It has a great cockpit, a very detailed startup procedure and great tutorials. -- Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mdsmith2) -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] update dialogs with parkpos

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Smith
://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel Very nice! I have been wanting this for a long time. Can someone commit this patch please? -- Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mdsmith2) -- SF.Net email is Sponsored

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Route manager waypoint adding

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Smith
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Route manager waypoint adding

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Smith
several times and it has completely screwed up some flights, thank you. -- Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mdsmith2) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Route manager waypoint adding

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Smith
James Turner wrote: On 3 Dec 2008, at 17:17, Michael Smith wrote: This is great, I have had this problem several times and it has completely screwed up some flights, thank you. Great to know someone else is using the route manager - do you have any other comments or feedback

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

2008-11-30 Thread Michael Smith
and we also do need a heli included by default (I myself prefer the EC135) Just my two cents. -- Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mdsmith2) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

[Flightgear-devel] Fresh CVS Flightgear and Simgear version mismatch

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Smith
A CVS snapshot of Simgear and Flightgear from tonight have a problem (so it seems). Simgear says its 1.99.4 but Flightgear wants 1.99.5. It seems easily fixed. They are both from tonight. -- Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mdsmith2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fresh CVS Flightgear and Simgear version mismatch

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Smith
Curtis Olson wrote: I've got 1.99.5 in simgear/version.h here from a fresh cvs checkout this evening. Curt. On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A CVS snapshot of Simgear and Flightgear from tonight have a problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to lower how much scenery gets cached:

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Smith
Michael Smith wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: In the pre-osg version, I believe the cache size was scaled relative to the visibility (i.e. for some particular visibilty, a certain number of tiles need to be loaded in order to cover all the visible earth, and then the cache was set to some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to lower how much scenery gets cached:

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Smith
application is taking, etc. Probably similar tools under windows, but I'm less familiar with system level debugging there. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Michael Smith wrote: Michael Smith wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: In the pre-osg version, I believe the cache size

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to lower how much scenery gets cached:

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Smith
Michael Smith wrote: I have tried plenty of things to get fg to run on this old piece of junk but I am getting tired only being able to fly water routes (i.e. island to island). If I try to fly over land, it gets slower and slower over time, so I want to know how to lower how much scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to lower how much scenery gets cached:

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Smith
of tiles being loaded. Regards, Curt. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Smith wrote: I have tried plenty of things to get fg to run on this old piece of junk but I am getting tired only being able to fly

[Flightgear-devel] How to lower how much scenery gets cached:

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Smith
to edit code here). Thanks Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs scenery generation problem

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Smith
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi Michael! Michael Smith wrote: I have my lon/lat for Bermuda (N32W065 - N33W064). [SNIP] genapts --input=data/airports/apt.dat --work=./work --min-lon=32 --max-lon=33 --min-lat=-65 --max-lat=-64 Here you should swap lat and lon. Your latitude

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs scenery generation problem

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Smith
Michael Smith wrote: Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi Michael! Michael Smith wrote: I have my lon/lat for Bermuda (N32W065 - N33W064). [SNIP] genapts --input=data/airports/apt.dat --work=./work --min-lon=32 --max-lon=33 --min-lat=-65 --max-lat=-64

[Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs scenery generation problem

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Smith
a freeware terrain viewer for the hgt file and confirmed they are my areas files) but it just doesn't put anything in the output directory. Thanks Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs scenery generation problem

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Smith
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi Michael, I'd need some more details on the steps you followed to check whether you are missing anything. Cheers, Ralf Michael Smith wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to build scenery with terragear-cs and I have got through everything sucessfully

[Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Chat Frequencies?

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Smith
. Is this suppost to work or is it something there for a futute feature or what? Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Michael Smith
Durk Talsma wrote: While I'm at it. :-) With each release we include a selection of representative aircraft that highlight FlightGear's capabilities. Inclusion criteria include: Completeness, variability across categories, realism, suitability for demo flights (think of aerotowing,

[Flightgear-devel] Add a ATC Freq to FG

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Smith
I am wanting to add a ATC Tower Freq to my favorite Airport (TXKF) and see that $FG_ROOT/ATC/default.tower looks like it would work but what is the format of the file and is there anything else I need to dy to get it working? Michael Smith

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LFPN Problem

2008-09-07 Thread Michael Smith
James Turner wrote: On 5 Sep 2008, at 17:21, James Turner wrote: Yep, that's quite a likely source - thanks for the help, I'll work out from this. Got it. If someone could kindly apply the attached patch, that'll keep this from crashing, I believe. The fix is easy since FGAirport can

[Flightgear-devel] LFPN Problem

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Smith
Greetings, This is my first post to the FG-Devel mailing list. I have a problem when I fly at or near LFPN. This is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/CVS/sources/flightgear$ src/Main/fgfs --airport=LFPN Model Author: Unknown Creation Date: 2002-01-01 Version: $Id: c172p.xml,v 1.19

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LFPN Problem

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Smith
Martin Spott wrote: Michael Smith wrote: Fatal error: unknown runway 00 at airport:LFPN (received from FGAirport::getRunwayByIdent) Segmentation fault Simple question (I don't claim that I'd be able to provide a fix), does the simulation start properly when you enter a valid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LFPN Problem

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Smith
for it to load? it only takes 30 seconds to load at any airport (iirc, fgrun slowed things down alot so that might be it.). Say again how to turn the traffic manager off, maybe I did it wrong or something. Michael Smith - This SF.Net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LFPN Problem

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Smith
Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Michael Smith wrote: Hmm, did you specfiy the runway when you started? And why does it take so long for it to load? it only takes 30 seconds to load at any airport (iirc, fgrun slowed things down alot so that might be it.). Say again how