Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-26 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Apr 26, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Alex Buzin wrote: > Hi! > On Saturday, April 26, 2008 Adam Dershowitz wrote >> >> Then your extension must be handling the input differently. When >> data >> is read in from a text file, using --generic it is not possible with >> the current code to read in a doub

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-26 Thread Alex Buzin
Hi! On Saturday, April 26, 2008 Adam Dershowitz wrote > > Then your extension must be handling the input differently. When data > is read in from a text file, using --generic it is not possible with > the current code to read in a double. It is called an FG_DOUBLE in > some places in the code, bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-26 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Alex Buzin wrote: > Hi! > > On Friday, April 25, 2008 Melchior FRANZ wrote >> >> * Adam Dershowitz -- Thursday 24 April 2008: >>> I spent a while trying to track this down, and finally figured out >>> what is going on. The problem is that generic.cxx can only handle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-26 Thread Alex Buzin
Hi! On Friday, April 25, 2008 Melchior FRANZ wrote > > * Adam Dershowitz -- Thursday 24 April 2008: >> I spent a while trying to track this down, and finally figured out >> what is going on. The problem is that generic.cxx can only handle >> floats, and that is not enough resolution for latitude

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Adam Dershowitz -- Thursday 24 April 2008: > I have run into what might be different issue...and might be what you > are talking about. > > With playback data the ground slightly jumps back and forth. It looks > almost like a vibration. It seems to happen with all of the views. Yes, soun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-23 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: On Apr 21, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Adam Dershowitz -- Monday 21 April 2008: I did make the minor change that Alex suggested in this discussion: [...] and then rebuilt and it seems to be working. Is that essentially the c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-23 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Apr 21, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Adam Dershowitz -- Monday 21 April 2008: >> I did make the minor change that Alex suggested in this discussion: >> [...] >> and then rebuilt and it seems to be working. Is that essentially >> the change that you were referring to? > > It'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Adam Dershowitz -- Monday 21 April 2008: > I did make the minor change that Alex suggested in this discussion: [...] > and then rebuilt and it seems to be working. Is that essentially > the change that you were referring to? It's the correct thread. The fix isn't and will probably cause oth

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-21 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Curtis Olson -- Saturday 19 April 2008: I think Melchior is the expert on this subject. Hehe ... yes, kind of. It's probably the bug that I introduced shortly before and fixed again shortly after the 1.0 release. I don't think there's a w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-20 Thread Alex Buzin
Hi! On Saturday 19 April 2008 Curtis Olson wrote: >>Would it be possible to introduce a bit of smoothing on your end, so that >>the aircraft position updates >>are more smooth and continuous? If nothing else it would be interesting >>to see if this fixes your >>problem, and also to see how mu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Saturday 19 April 2008: > I think Melchior is the expert on this subject. Hehe ... yes, kind of. It's probably the bug that I introduced shortly before and fixed again shortly after the 1.0 release. I don't think there's a way to fix it without recompiling. Smoothing will certain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Adam, I think Melchior is the expert on this subject. My particular problem has been fixed ... it was an order dependency between when the data came in and when the view parameters were computed. By necessity, there is some smoothing in the view position for the external chase views. This co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-18 Thread Adam Dershowitz
For what it is worth, it looks like I have found, and been asking about, is an easy and reliable way to reproduce the bug discussed here: http://tinyurl.com/3muc7m Sorry I missed it before, but I did hunt around, but had it described very differently. As Curt mentioned, this is a MAJOR issue,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Dershowitz
Sorry to keep adding to the emails, but I found something else interesting. The flash doesn't seem to happen for the cockpit view, the tower view, or the fly-by view. Does the issue relate to how the other cameras locations are being calculated? The other cameras all have to move when the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flash with altitude change

2008-04-17 Thread Adam Dershowitz
On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote: > I am driving FlightGear with a text file of data. For some reason, > when I am looking at an external view, for each altitude change there > is an annoying flash. It looks like a single frame being drawn in the > wrong position. I can somet