Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 03 March 2012 21:14:45 Ian Dall wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:39 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Ian, If you wish to set your own tower position, it's pretty straight forward and can be done manually or via nasal or probably a few other mechanisms. By default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-04 Thread Jörg Emmerich
I am not sure I understand what you are trying - but: -we use something like that in ATCing -- keeping Target in view -- zooming -- relocating tower etc. -- saving and retrieving settings You may try my test ATC-ML model. Download from http://emmerich-j.de/FGFS/ATC-ML.zip see inside the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-04 Thread Ian Dall
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 07:13 -0700, Ron Jensen wrote: I think Curt was trying to point out a way you could make something work from nasal without getting into core code. I see I may have misled by mentioning a core view. This might have been taken to mean changing the C++ core although I tried

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-03 Thread Ian Dall
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 12:39 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Ian, If you wish to set your own tower position, it's pretty straight forward and can be done manually or via nasal or probably a few other mechanisms. By default flightgear will set the tower position to the nearest airfield,

[Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Ian Dall
Although FlightGear has a couple of R/C models (Rascal and Yardstick at least) and I hope to add more, none of the standard views is appropriate for learning to fly a R/C Plane. What do people think about adding an R/C Pilot View? This is very similar to a Tower View but with a position which is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Ian, If you wish to set your own tower position, it's pretty straight forward and can be done manually or via nasal or probably a few other mechanisms. By default flightgear will set the tower position to the nearest airfield, so to disable that, set: /sim/tower/auto-position = 0 Then you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Or add this little script by Anders to place the tower/view with a single mouseclick in the scenery. http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Make_nice_screenshots#Ground_to_Air Cheers, Gijs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Roland Häder
Original-Nachricht http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Make_nice_screenshots#Ground_to_Air Seems to not respond from here (Germany, censorship-provider Vodafone). -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt informieren:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Roland wrote: Seems to not respond from here (Germany, censorship-provider Vodafone). The wiki seems to have some issues today (it's very slow), not sure what's going (wr)on(g). It's certainly not just you and your provider ;-) Please try again later on.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread C. Vogel
Am 02.03.2012 20:33, schrieb Roland Häder: Original-Nachricht http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Make_nice_screenshots#Ground_to_Air Seems to not respond from here (Germany, censorship-provider Vodafone). Moin! wiki geht problemlos für mich. Provider: EWEtel,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Curtis Olson
The wiki has been running well here -- what kind of issues are you seeing? DNS? Server bandwidth/load? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:52 PM, C. Vogel texni...@web.de wrote: Am 02.03.2012 20:33, schrieb Roland Häder: Original-Nachricht

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Roland Häder
All fine now, maybe temporary slow-down. :) Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:56:00 -0600 Von: Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com An: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding an R/C pilot view

2012-03-02 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Curt wrote: The wiki has been running well here -- what kind of issues are you seeing? DNS? Server bandwidth/load? During an hour or so it was very slow on loading pages. Seems to be fixed now... :)