Yes it does, but haven't got any nice textures for that yet. Any volunteers?
Vivian
From: Stuart Buchanan [mailto:stuar...@gmail.com]
Sent: 19 November 2012 10:05
To: FlightGear developers discussions
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote:
> Been doing some more eye-candy myself:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57645542/fgfs-screen-093.png
>
> using our new linear texture facility. It's not it FGdata yet, and I'm not
> even sure it's going to make the next release.
>
That looks ver
Thorsten wrote
> > Hmm . that's an underwhelming list, and I can't come up with anything
> > that's really any better. Does that encapsulate the problem?
>
> Well well, it would seem our shader-based treatment of light and the
> environment is quite competitive against what FSX has to offer:
>
> Hmm . that's an underwhelming list, and I can't come up with anything
> that's
> really any better. Does that encapsulate the problem?
Well well, it would seem our shader-based treatment of light and the
environment is quite competitive against what FSX has to offer:
http://www.flightgear.or
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:44:59 +0100, Gijs wrote in message
:
> Anyone got a Kinect or two? This would make a nice attention-grabber
> (controlling an aircraft by moving your bare hands in space) :-)
>
> http://threegearsystems.blogspot.nl/2012/11/flightgear-demo.html
>
Anyone got a Kinect or two? This would make a nice attention-grabber
(controlling an aircraft by moving your bare hands in space) :-)
http://threegearsystems.blogspot.nl/2012/11/flightgear-demo.html
Hi stuart and Jaroslav,
thanks for the aircraft page feedback!
> the quick search works on authors only
Oops, that's a bug :-)
Actually, I have two versions of the script. The other is at
http://flightgear.byethost31.com/wordpress/download/download-aircraft (don't
mind the layout, that was ju
Hi Stuart,
>
> One other nice side-effect of using a projector is that their reduced
> resolution
> relative to a LCD display means one can run more eye-candy or get better
> frame-rates.
>
Just a quick (and admittedly not completely serious) response for now:
Not quite true: I specifically
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> Beamers are great, as they can provide a view to many more spectators than
> you can gather around an ordinary screen. We did have the largest screen so
> far, but it was floating somewhere in the room, so there was no clear
> connection to ou
Gijs wrote:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Unique_Features
Hmm . that's an underwhelming list, and I can't come up with anything that's
really any better. Does that encapsulate the problem?
Our USP is that FG is FREE - yes FREE. We might not have as much eye-candy
as other sims, some of our
Hi all,
Now that my last exams of 2012 are over, I finally have some time to write a
lengthy email :-)
FSweekend
Too sad I could only join
on Saturday (due to exams), but I'm glad I did come! Meeting James,
Alexis and Christian in person was really nice, and so was the rest of the
day.
Thanks for the responses, I think I understand the issue much better.
> The eye catcher is not the gem, but things you see, and notice, from a
> distance,
> like a huge flag with "free" writen on it.
I guess it'd just be a matter of setting things up. Sure, on a laptop things
tend to get lost.
On 8 Nov 2012, at 09:04, Durk Talsma wrote:
> I just plugged in the device, linked the USB device to my virtual Windows 8
> box, where it showed up as using two devices. One of them was HID, so I think
> we're good.
>
> Also, Martin Crompton, my contact at Saitek appears to be very forthcomin
Hi Torsten,
>
> You might want to check out the event input system, I have implemented
> some time ago. It's much more flexible than our joystick input system as
> it handles more events (relative axies e.g.) and is able to send events
> _to_ the device, too (switching LED's e.g.). Tat implemen
Am 06.11.2012 22:16, schrieb Durk Talsma:
> Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had
> been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him
> whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that you
> were also working on
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Durk Talsma wrote:
> Hi Gene (and John),
>
> On 07 Nov 2012, at 15:31, geneb wrote:
>
>>
>> Durk, if you can find someone that's willing to cut the parts for you, I'd
>> be happy to donate a drawing set for my single-seat collimated display
>> system. You show up next year wit
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Durk Talsma wrote:
> No worries. :-). This is actually fairly subjective, and I'm afraid that I
> didn't explain my concern too well in my initial post. The real issue is
> salience, which you can describe as the subjective property of a percept to
> stand out from it's environm
Hi Gene (and John),
On 07 Nov 2012, at 15:31, geneb wrote:
>
> Durk, if you can find someone that's willing to cut the parts for you, I'd
> be happy to donate a drawing set for my single-seat collimated display
> system. You show up next year with THAT and I can just about guarantee
> most f
Le 07/11/2012 10:55, Renk Thorsten a écrit :
> Sorry, I don't want to talk down on the great job you guys are doing
> in presenting all this, I'm just trying to understand what it is you
> consider an eye-catcher. I'm just a bit mystified that somehow a
> feature which dominated our screenshot
sync aross all three displays.
The 737 setup is way too large to haul to a trade show, but a single seat
system is doable.
John
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Hi Thorsten,
On 07 Nov 2012, at 10:55, Renk Thorsten wrote:
Sorry, I don't want to talk down on the great job you guys are doing in
presenting all this, I'm just trying to un
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Durk Talsma wrote:
> Hi Thorsten, So, what I was actually looking for was new ways of *using*
> FlightGear, within the limitations of an internet-free environment. Our
> lan based multiplayer server was very effiective in the past, and in the
> last few years we also had som
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, AJ MacLeod wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:48:27 +0100
> Durk Talsma wrote:
>
>
> It's definitely worth putting effort into promotion of FG, I'm sure the
> vast majority of FSX (and probably X-Plane) users have almost no idea of
> what it is or is capable of and there are boun
Hi Thorsten,
On 07 Nov 2012, at 10:55, Renk Thorsten wrote:
>
> Sorry, I don't want to talk down on the great job you guys are doing in
> presenting all this, I'm just trying to understand what it is you consider an
> eye-catcher. I'm just a bit mystified that somehow a feature which dominated
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:48:27 +0100
Durk Talsma wrote:
> On a more general note, the latter argument makes it really difficult to
> convince these people that FlightGear might be worth considering. I've also
> gotten a few questions about whether there would be commercial add-ons for
> FlightGear
Hi Durk,
> Please note that I never said that we didn't *have* any major new
> features. The major difference between previous years and this year was
> that we didn't have *obvious* eye catchers. Every feature you mention is
> really a great improvement, but they are not sufficiently salien
Hi Adrian,
On 07 Nov 2012, at 09:48, Adrian Musceac wrote:
>
> What about AI traffic according to real-life schedules, for most major
> airlines? That's something FS-X doesn't do out of the box.
>
That's certainly a good feature to mention and -as you may have guessed-
something I care about
On Wednesday, November 07, 2012 10:30:47 James Turner wrote:
> Also, everything on Thorsten's lists is things that FS-X does, or has done
> even for some time. Maybe not as good (but maybe better) as our solutions,
> but again, that's no help for catching people's initial attention.
>
> James
>
On 7 Nov 2012, at 08:24, Durk Talsma wrote:
>> Surely there must be something in this list which qualifies as major
>> innovation? Surely this is not _all_ my personal bias that I like certain
>> features? :-)
>>
>
> Please note that I never said that we didn't *have* any major new features.
Hi Thorsten,
On 07 Nov 2012, at 08:52, Renk Thorsten wrote:
>
> If I'm not much mistaken, during the last year we got (in addition to
> Rembrandt):
>
> * atmospheric light scattering
> * regional texturing
> * placement masks for random objects
> * procedural texturing
> * Canvas with all the
> presenting something drastically new every year. But this year the new
> essence seemed to be missing somewhat. I didn't really feel that we had
> any major innovations to show (with the notable exception of project
> rembrandt, which ran well on Alexis' machine). With our multiscreen
>
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, TDO Brandano wrote:
>
> Ok, silly idea, but it might just work. You could try to install the
> drivers in a wineprefix and reroute the traffic to the usb device on the
> linux side so that the stream of data gets logged somewhere?
I think the smarter path, providing Saitek wo
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Durk Talsma wrote:
> Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had
> been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him
> whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that you
> were also wo
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> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...
>
>
> On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:16, Durk Talsma wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had
> > been in touch with him. My ac
On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:16, Durk Talsma wrote:
>
> Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had
> been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him
> whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that you
> were also worki
Hi Stuart,
On 06 Nov 2012, at 14:00, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
> Hi Durk and the FSWeekend crew!
>
> Firstly, thanks very much to everyone for flying the FG flag at
> FSWeekend. I can appreciate it's a huge amount of work each year.
> Great also to see a Scottish contingent. I'm still hoping to ma
Hi Durk and the FSWeekend crew!
Firstly, thanks very much to everyone for flying the FG flag at
FSWeekend. I can appreciate it's a huge amount of work each year.
Great also to see a Scottish contingent. I'm still hoping to make it
some time, and have been laying the groundwork early for next yea
Hey Thorsten et al,
Yeah, I guess it's time for some further impressions of FSWeekend from my
perspective. This year was our 7th consecutive presentation, and the first time
we had a presentation that was considerably scaled down compared to our
previous tradition of growing in size every yea
Those rumors would definitely be interesting!
On Nov 4, 2012 3:28 PM, "ThorstenB" wrote:
> Am 04.11.2012 20:39, schrieb Jon S. Berndt:
> > Did you run into Austin Meyer (X-Plane)?
>
> No, he was there last year to promote his latest release, but I'm not
> aware that he attended this year.
>
> (Th
Am 04.11.2012 20:39, schrieb Jon S. Berndt:
> Did you run into Austin Meyer (X-Plane)?
No, he was there last year to promote his latest release, but I'm not
aware that he attended this year.
(There were rumours someone had seen a "Curtis Olson" at the event, but
that is yet another story...;-)
> ... is already over now, unfortunately.
>
> For those who couldn't attend but are interested in what it was like
> (make sure to join next year!), here are some photos showing the event
> and FlightGear booth:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/70866411@N05/sets/72157631926925511/detail
> /
>
>
Hi, maybe this one:
http://www.flyengravity.com/
Cheers
>
> Does anyone have any info on the cockpit panel shown at
> about time 1:18
> in that video?
>
> I'm wondering what they used for the various displays.
>
> If it's known an e-mail address for the builder would be
> appreciated!
>
> jj
Does anyone have any info on the cockpit panel shown at about time 1:18
in that video?
I'm wondering what they used for the various displays.
If it's known an e-mail address for the builder would be appreciated!
jj
http://kingmont.com
jj
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:40 +, Heiko Schulz wrote
Hi,
found a video on Youtube, showing some scenes from the FSweekend.
And yes, we can see
FlightGear:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTo4Pfi1Mo&feature=related
It starts at 1:24 starring Durk Talsma!
There might be more videos as well!
Regards
HHS
> Hi All,
>
> Last weekend we've been organiz
Hi Wolfram,
On Monday 16 November 2009 04:20:52 pm Wolfram Kuss wrote:
> Unfortunately I dont have time to write a long impression or "clean up" my
> photos a lot, so here is simply a huge 150MB pack of fotos with a small
> text file:
> http://www.3d-raumplan.com/wk_privat/Fotos_FSWeekend.rar
>
>
Unfortunately I dont have time to write a long impression or "clean up" my
photos a lot, so here is simply a huge 150MB pack of fotos with a small
text file:
http://www.3d-raumplan.com/wk_privat/Fotos_FSWeekend.rar
It was my first FS Weekend and I was surprised at how large both the museum
and the
Hi Martin,
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 03:13:13 pm Martin Spott wrote:
> Torsten Dreyer wrote:> On the tour back to Enschede on sunday evening we
realized that our
> booth most probably pulled a _lot_ more power than the specification
> for a single plug allows ;-)
> Quite surprising that we did
Hi,
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 02:48:00 pm Torsten Dreyer wrote:
> Curt wrote:
> > I recognized Martin, Torsten, and Durk in the pictures. I assume Durk
Correct assumption. I guess you know a little about my other hobbies... :-)
FWIW, there are a few notes below the pictures, occasionally givi
Torsten Dreyer wrote:
> I was especially impressed that it is possible to bring five individual
> computers, more than 15 TFT monitors, yokes, joysticks, dozens of cables,
> several USB hubs, a projector, network switches, a UMTS router, several
> notebook computers and a coffee maker, [...]
O
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Durk Talsma wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Last weekend we've been organizing a booth at FSWeekend again. I'll try
> > to write a few more elaborate set of impressions later, however, let me
> > just say
> > that our booth was quite large this year. :-) In the mean ti
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Durk Talsma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Last weekend we've been organizing a booth at FSWeekend again. I'll try to
> write a few more elaborate set of impressions later, however, let me just
> say
> that our booth was quite large this year. :-) In the mean time, here are
Hi Wolfram,
Long time no hear, welcome back. :-)
I'm sorry I'm a little late responding, but my teaching obligations have been
a little intense the last couple of weeks. In any case, I'm looking forward to
seeing you there. I'll try to see whether I can get you a discount coupon for
the show (
Hi Wolfram, many thanks for sharing your impressions !
Martin.
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Hi Martin,
I can only guess the reason for the high price they asked for, but my
feeling from attending is:
- Their #1 priority will indeed probably be commercial companies or to
say it the other way round, it probably is not too surprising LinuxTag
is more open to Open Source projects than other
Hi Wolfram,
Wolfram Kuss wrote:
> BTW - tomorrow is a flightsim exhibition in Paderborn, Germany:
> http://www.fskonferenz.de/
> I guess noone from this newsgroup will attend?
I had planned to run a FlightGear booth last year on their event, but
unfortunately they asked more money for a small ta
Hi Durk and everyone that still knows me!
Long time no talk ;-).
I have been very busy working on "Battle of Britain", actually we just
shipped a new patch a few days ago. Sorry I didnt keep in touch.
I see quite a few names on the list from back then (Curt, Eric, Martin,
Mathias etc). Glad to see
Count me in!
Jorg
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trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you do best, core application coding. D
And don't forget T-DOSE in Eindhoven, October 3-4th!
http://www.t-dose.org
I'll be at the FSW like pretty much every year. Still have to figure out
which stand I'll participate with.
Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> Hi Durk,
>
> > First, and foremost, however, I would like to sent of a call for
> > part
Hi Durk,
> First, and foremost, however, I would like to sent of a call for
> participation. If you happen to live in or near the Netherlands, and would
> like to be part of this weekend of fun and flight, please drop me a note.
Please count me in ;)
> It would be nice if we could organiz
Martin Spott wrote:
> James Turner wrote:
>
>> Some points to keep in mind for LinuxTag booth planning, assuming
>> people are going?
>
> I'm pretty certain that we're going to keep our schedule and to be
> present on LinuxTag next year - although we yet have to find a small
> aircraft to place
Thomas F??rster wrote:
> Am Montag 03 November 2008 schrieb Martin Spott:
> > Somewhen in the past we've been starting the "FlightGear Expo
> > Checklist" page on the wiki (you won't find the page without using a
> > seach engine)
> Sometimes a little link might help... ;)
>
> http://wiki.fligh
Am Montag 03 November 2008 schrieb Martin Spott:
> Somewhen in the past we've been starting the "FlightGear Expo
> Checklist" page on the wiki (you won't find the page without using a
> seach engine)
Sometimes a little link might help... ;)
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Expo_Ch
Hi Torsten,
>> >
> Want pictures?
>
> http://www.t3r.de/flightpics/fsweekend2008/
>
>
Sending this from work by webmail: let's hope it works:
Here's a quote from the X-plane.org forum:
"At FSWeekend there was a guy from the open-source flight simulator
FlightGear too. He had this large FlightGe
James Turner wrote:
> Some points to keep in mind for LinuxTag booth planning, assuming
> people are going?
I'm pretty certain that we're going to keep our schedule and to be
present on LinuxTag next year - although we yet have to find a small
aircraft to place onto the booth :-)
Somewhen in
On 2 Nov 2008, at 23:17, Durk Talsma wrote:
> To summarize, FSWeekend 2008 has been a lot of fun for me, and I
> hope also for
> the rest of the crew. I certainly hop to organize another booth next
> year. I
> hope to post some photo's later. I will have to reconnect my server
> again, so
>
> setup. We also didn't do that many multiplayer demos this year. This year's
> booth setup was actually not really ideal for that; one get's the best
> impression when one can watch the two participating parties at the same
> time. With some minor rearrangements this should be possible, and I woul
Hi Csaba,
On Thursday 20 September 2007 16:10, Csaba Halász wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Durk Talsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is just a quick note to remind everybody that FlightGear is
> > intending to have a booth at the Dutch FlightSim event FSWeekend,
> > organized November 3 & 4 at the avi
On 9/17/07, Durk Talsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is just a quick note to remind everybody that FlightGear is intending to
> have a booth at the Dutch FlightSim event FSWeekend, organized November 3 & 4
> at the aviodrome in Lelystad.
>
> As it looks right now, Martin Spott and I will be or
Durk Talsma wrote:
> Okay, I promised some pictures now that my linux box is online again:
>
> http://durktalsma.xs4all.nl/FlightGear/fsweekend/web/
You know: The magic behind a smooth landing is a carefully prepared
approach - this counts for the Eiffel Tower as well ;-)
Martin.
--
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On Monday 06 November 2006 11:29, Martin Spott wrote:
> "Curtis Olson" wrote:
> > Good job Durk and Robin, thanks for the report and for all your work!
>
> Seconded,
> Martin.
> P.S.: ;-))
Thanks (BIG :-))! Hope you had a good trip home.
Okay, I promised some pictures now that my linux bo
> Hi John,
>
> "Jon S. Berndt" wrote:
>
>> It might be a good idea to have printed a few copies of some of the
>> technical reports that have been presented for FlightGear and related or
>> constituent parts. For instance, I presented a paper on JSBSim in 2004 at
>> the AIAA Modeling and Simulati
Hi John,
"Jon S. Berndt" wrote:
> It might be a good idea to have printed a few copies of some of the
> technical reports that have been presented for FlightGear and related or
> constituent parts. For instance, I presented a paper on JSBSim in 2004 at
> the AIAA Modeling and Simulation Conferenc
"Curtis Olson" wrote:
> Good job Durk and Robin, thanks for the report and for all your work!
Seconded,
Martin.
P.S.: ;-))
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--
> A few people took the simulator for a ride and gave suggestions for
> possible improvement:
> - Have a better graphical user interface inside FlightGear that includes
> the functionality of fgrun
> - There are not enough buildings in the scenery (especially in the Dutch
> Scenery that we were usi
I think I've said it before, IMHO it can't be said often enough, the
effort and the energy you people put into these events leaves me
breathless.
As always looking forward to the pictures and final report.
Cheers
Dene
>
---
Good job Durk and Robin, thanks for the report and for all your work! I'm looking forward to the pictures! These shows are a *lot* of fun, but also a *lot* of work and can be very exhausting.Curt.
On 11/4/06, Durk Talsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,Okay, here's is a quick update from the
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