Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux in real-world aviation (was: FG and VATSIM)

2007-09-17 Thread Robin
Curtis Olson wrote: 3. I'll just toss in this unrelated item ... a week ago I got to fly on a NWA A330. This aircraft had individual movie/music/game/map displays for each seat. I managed to hang/lock mine up ... apparently because the map wasn't working on this flight for some reason.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux in real-world aviation

2007-09-17 Thread Robin
Ralf Gerlich wrote: I don't know whether this should be termed a good thing. Or why should Linux-advocates be proud of their operating system being seen rebooting on two independent instances? ;-) Cheers, Ralf They would be more concerned about what was happening BEFORE the reboot. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Models formats and FlightGear

2007-09-14 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
gh.robin schreef: Hello, In spite of an existing documentation Model-HowTo, wish is accurate, wouldn't it be useful, to tell here, which mains 3D objects format can be read by FlightGear, and how the models can be made from several 3D objects format ? Before the implementation of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Planned Script for Part 3 of Movie

2007-09-13 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Attempt #2, seems my postmaster alias on my server was a little b0rked. Onderwerp: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Planned Script for Part 3 of Movie Van: Robin van Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:40:31

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Need help- Requests to aerospace industries

2007-06-13 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Heiko Schulz schreef: I did know JavaFoil but it seemed to me that is only based on NACA airfoils. Nethertheless a good chance to get the airfoil. You've got a good chance that the helicopter blade foil is actually a NACA series airfoil. For helicopters the NACA 00xx series is common

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Architecture for Flightgear

2007-05-13 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Harald JOHNSEN schreef: Martin Spott wrote: Hi Jim, Jim Campbell wrote: Some discussions have already taken place on JSBsim devel mailing list regards communication between modules of flightgear. Indeed, the idea of cutting FlightGear into modules is not a new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Architecture for Flightgear

2007-05-13 Thread Robin
Martin Spott schreef: Well, we've been driving two 'external' displays on last years LinuxTag exhibition using the 'generic' protocol. We were surprised to encounter a significant performance hit on the master machine serving two clients at 20 Hz. Throttling the thing down to 10 Hz made the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gliding/Soaring in FlightGear

2007-05-01 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Heiko Schulz schreef: Hi, as far as I know thermic is only with jsbsim and the winch/towing only with yasim. Maybe there is a possibility with an nasal script to fake thermals in yasim. Greetings HHS Wouldn't faking a winch/towing for JSBSim aircraft be easier? I don't think it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: FSweekend 2007]

2007-03-09 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Martin Spott schreef: Yep, same formula, but with improvements in the details. :-) More beer ? :-) Martin. For the least part. But I think I will be manninng our own Project Learjet stand this year. I'll be sure to drop by.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to drive the Flight Gear airplanes by radar data

2006-12-05 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Curtis Olson schreef: On 12/4/06, *唐勇* wrote: Hi,the Flight Gear can be drived by Keyboard,Mouse,Joystick etc.But my question is that how can I drive the Flight Gear by my ATC radar data.My radar data contains the flight position(lon,lat,alt) and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs + gaia (google earch client) = moving map

2006-11-23 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Melchior FRANZ schreef: * Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 23 November 2006 15:17: PS: cc to the gaia author. Thanks for that wonderful program! see here for info about fgfs: http://www.flightgear.org/ And that was a good idea ... within minutes I got a reply: |$ gaia

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Wars Mod :-)

2006-10-28 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
If there's any spacecraft I want to make a flight model for, it's Serenity from Firefly. The interior and exterior model of the vessel is actually based on real-world aviation. There is already a good 3D model available on the net, and the only thing we need to make is the aerodynamics. As

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Looking for a Dutch crew

2006-09-17 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
I'll be at the Avio that weekend as well, since we originally planned to have our own booth as cockpit builders (Project Learjet) like last year. Unfortunately we have some serious transportation issues and we can only go by public transport. But I'd be happy to drop by and help out for maybe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Looking for a Dutch crew

2006-09-17 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Martin Spott schreef: I'm be able to commit myself but you can't rely on me to supply any of the requested material. We had some posters on the LinxTag booth and if we ask nicely, then our Friends at Friedrichshafen might lend them to us for use at Lelystad. I have one or two displays to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d PFD?

2006-08-16 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
this? http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j282/Stoney3K/nd_full.png Which is my interpretation of a Primus 1000 ND. Robin - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d PFD?

2006-08-16 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Major A schreef: Robin, http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j282/Stoney3K/nd_full.png Which is my interpretation of a Primus 1000 ND. That looks very good -- is the source code available somewhere? What libraries do you use, if any (apart from the OpenGL stuff)? Andras

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d models

2006-07-28 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Jason Cox schreef: Hi all, just wondering on weather some one has looked into tapping into the 3d models that are available for downlaod from google earth? i think we maybeable to use these if we convert them as they are created by users of the sketchup program. any thoughts? Jason

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d models

2006-07-27 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Jon Stockill schreef: Jason Cox wrote: Hi all, just wondering on weather some one has looked into tapping into the 3d models that are available for downlaod from google earth? i think we maybeable to use these if we convert them as they are created by users of the sketchup

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d models

2006-07-27 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Curtis L. Olson schreef: Jon Stockill wrote: So forget converting anything from their 3d warehouse - if you want to use a model you'll need to get it direct from the author. It sounds like we need to infiltrate google with FlightGear people. Can I get some volunteers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HUD: raw gl-commands vs. plib/osg wrappers

2006-07-26 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Melchior FRANZ schreef: We had talked about abstracting out the raw gl-commands into just one file, and then to use plib wrappers to plug the HUD into the scene graph. The plib wrappers could eventually get replaced by osg wrappers. The abstraction is still a goal, and so is plugging the HUD

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MinGW/MSys compile

2006-07-11 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Compiling with FreeGLUT and linking with the library statically (libfreeglut.a) usually requires FREEGLUT_STATIC to be defined in the headers. Works for me under Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2 with my own code (not sure about the FlightGear codebase though) David Hazel schreef: I have been trying to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: LinuxWorld Expo London 2006 - Free space for .Org]

2006-07-10 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
While you're at it, why not look for a spot at the Flight Simulator Weekend, Nov. 4 and 5, 2006, Aviodrome Aviation Museum, Lelystad. (That's the weekend following the Linux World Expo). As a simbuilder I already have a place there, but I believe there's lot more room for more people. Just

[Flightgear-devel] Fwd: FlightGear network protocol

2006-06-30 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
to connect some systems together, but I'm still unsure whether that's possible. The packet format used by FlightGear is the main concern right now. Regards, Robin van Steenbergen Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: FlightGear network protocol

2006-06-30 Thread Robin van Steenbergen
Erik Hofman schreef: Hoi Robin, (...) Looks like a nice project! Thanks! Sometimes I've got the idea half of the world's flight simulator community is located somewhere around NL. The documentation is in the source code. In your case it's located in FlightGear/src/Network

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