RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
The reason why I don't remember exactly is that I had tried the 737 a few dozens of times with AP before that, because I was working on an improved version of the autopilot.xml dialog. m. Is this a new problem? Did it occur with 0.9.9? Jon

[Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon S. Berndt -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 07:54: The reason why I don't remember exactly is that I had tried the 737 a few dozens of times with AP before that, because I was working on an improved version of the autopilot.xml dialog. Is this a new problem? Did it occur with 0.9.9? Working

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Mark wrote: Hi Rob! First of all let me thank you for your contribution. I've been experimenting with textures in FGFS myself for a while and I know how hard it is to get to such quality textures. So keep up the good work ;-) When I had a first look at the textures I initially liked them

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs/download/orig_tex.tar.gz and: http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs/download/desert_tex.tar.gz Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch)Future of Enschede Airport Twente http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs FlightGear Flight Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] collision detection.

2006-04-04 Thread David Megginson
On 03/04/06, Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the original report might have been that you can bury a fast moving aircraft under the ground. The 100 Hz granularity of the FDM computations isn't able to detect the exact moment of collision. That's a much harder issue to solve; you'd

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:12: * * Melchior FRANZ: # use letters AZaz, for example: 3 'A' signs OBJECT_TAXI_SIGN AAA -122.357357 37.613917 0 150 BTW: The comment was actually meant seriously: use letters AZaz Or more correctly: use one or more of (A) lower-than, (B)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-04 Thread Robicd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: # use letters AZaz, for example: 3 'A' signs OBJECT_TAXI_SIGN AAA -122.357357 37.613917 0 150 BTW: The comment was actually meant seriously: use letters AZaz I hoped you forgot 09 in 09AZaz. Or more correctly: use one or more of (A) lower-than, (B) greater-than, (C)

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:09: I hope someone will consider developing that old code and make it flexible enough for covering the most cases we have in almost every airport. I'm considering that for a while now. :-) Just another question before going back to Gimp-Blender: do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-04 Thread Martin Spott
Robicd wrote: Just another question before going back to Gimp-Blender: do taxyway signs emit light in the night? It depends :-) I know different sorts of taxiway signs: Some are made from simple metal plates, some of those are illuminated from exterior at night, using a spot light that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-04 Thread Robicd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Robicd -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:09: I hope someone will consider developing that old code and make it flexible enough for covering the most cases we have in almost every airport. I'm considering that for a while now. :-) Well, a lot of scenery designers will

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
* Jon S. Berndt -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:40: Any inputs on how to duplicate this problem quick and insight into a cause would be helpful. I didn't start on ground, but with this command line (relevant parts only): $ fgfs --aircraft=737-300 --airport=KSNS --altitude=3

[Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon S. Berndt -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:02: 3) The help menu items for two of the three aircraft help selections gives the same dialog. (the bottom menu items are disabled - the two above those give the same dialog pop up). This is intentional and a fallback mechanism for aircraft without

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I notice a couple of things here: 1) According to the visuals (and the flight characteristics) the spoilers are deployed when the sim starts up with these options you give, above. BTW: what would cause spoilers to be deployed at startup? Jon

[Flightgear-devel] FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Pigeon
As mentioned in the LinuxTag mail thread earlier, I've started preparing a FG live cd. The cd is made using morphix (www.morphix.org), which is a debian based, modular live cd framework. It has a whole bunch of tools and scripts which makes the job a lot easier. It can also do things

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Pigeon
the biggest problem is the NVIDIA accelerated drivers --- IANAL, but I am unsure if it's possible to distribute it? maybe there needs to be some kind of shrink-wrapping done on your side (NV license showing during the installation etc.) I've already checked, the nvidia's drivers are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-04 Thread Robicd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=5345-44f Do these rules apply to Europe too? Roberto --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Add this (which is in my $FG_HOME/preferences.xml): --prop:/environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere=1 and don't ask *me* what it is good for. ;-) m. I don't know what this does, but all bets are off (and there's nothing I can do) unless you use the default JSBSim atmosphere model.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Martin Spott
Pigeon wrote: Things that I need input from people: - what window manager/environment should we use/should be the default? My personal favourite would come without any windows manager but instead directly start into fullscreen FlightGear. Still I acknowledge that people have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Martin Spott
Pigeon wrote: At the same time, I probably need more info and testing with ATI drivers, and I only got nvidias myself... I'll happily test-run the CD on ATI r200 and r300 systems, although I'll be out of town for some days due to holidays in April, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Pigeon schrieb: As mentioned in the LinuxTag mail thread earlier, I've started preparing a FG live cd. Great!! I'm very glad you're doing this! [SNIP] Things that I need input from people: - what window manager/environment should we use/should be the default? This

[Flightgear-devel] Bad Bravo Download (Syd Adams)

2006-04-04 Thread Stephen Miller
Syd: Have you had a chance to look at this lately? I tried again yesterday, same results. When I run this aircraft, I still get a Pa28 panel with jet engine sound. Steve --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 13:41, Pigeon wrote: - xpdf for viewing pdf (i might put evince on there as well) xpdf should be fine, I'd say - there are more exciting things to fill the extra space with. - what window manager/environment should we use/should be the default? Something

[Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon S. Berndt -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:01: * * Melchior FRANZ: --prop:/environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere=1 I don't know what this does [...] try again without the above prop spec. I remember: it's for injecting METAR temperature/pressure into the FDM. No problems without that

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Ralf Gerlich -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 16:14: I can't say anything about KDE, except that it was using up pretty much RAM the last time I checked - which must have been about four years ago ;-) If it's still that way [...] It's not, at least when compared with GNOME. It uses less memory per

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-04 Thread Mark
Erik Hofman wrote: There is really no need to abandon any good texture, either from me, form Rob or from you. It would be great to create an excellent set from all available sources, no? Erik Hi Erik. That's my idea, too. That way we can combine our efforts to create formidable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer radar

2006-04-04 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 03 April 2006 10:56, AJ MacLeod wrote: On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:15, Lee Elliott wrote: I occurred to me that if the multiplayer aircraft positions were exposed in the property tree it would be pretty (well, relatively) easy to to make a working radar instrument. You mean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow

2006-04-04 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:54, Melchior FRANZ wrote: There seems to be a problem with terrain following: - the keyboard binding (Ctrl-t) uses terrain-follow - the AP dialog uses agl-hold - half of the aircraft use terrain-follow - the other half uses agl-hold - Generic/generic-autopilot.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Mark wrote: I took a look at your hires textures. Where did you get the images of the fields in the irrcrop-textures from? All my textures were taken from spaceimaging.com I don't think I still have the original but I could look it up for you. Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch)Future

[Flightgear-devel] instrument panels on views from outside the aircraft

2006-04-04 Thread John Kluza
I am interested in adding instrument panels to views in addition to the cockpit views. In this way, the panels could be seen in all views including those from outside the aircraft. This would be particularly useful for UAV's. Is anyone aware of a way to do this? Thanks, John

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument panels on views from outside the aircraft

2006-04-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
John Kluza wrote: I am interested in adding instrument panels to views in addition to the cockpit views. In this way, the panels could be seen in all views including those from outside the aircraft. This would be particularly useful for UAV's. The default cessna mini-panel overlay might

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Textures update ...

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Rob Oates -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 04:53: Scenery Updated! Now includes Mark Akermann's updates to Glaicer, Snow, and Packice. :) Very nice. (Only the city does still not look right. But given the resistance I won't bother to comment on that any more. I fixed it locally, the rest is left as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument panels on views from outside the aircraft

2006-04-04 Thread John Kluza
Hi Curt, That cessna mini overlay is a good starting point. I used it to build my own custom vertical transparent panel that serves the purpose well. Right now I can only make it visible from views that an equivalent to the pilot's eye view from the cockpit. It seems like the view shown on

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I remember: it's for injecting METAR temperature/pressure into the FDM. No problems without that set. It's definitely a bug, but the question is where? fgfs? JSBSim? Or some disagreement in between. Or does it only work when METAR is actually activated (which it wasn't)? Anyway: the vast

[Flightgear-devel] 0.9.10 pre-release binary for OS-X

2006-04-04 Thread James Turner
I've just done a first stab of a binary release for OS-X, based on CVS as of yesterday. If you have access to a Mac with either 10.4.x or 10.3.9, please test it:http://homepage.mac.com/zakalawe/.Public/flightgear-0.9.10-pre-osx.dmgThings to keep in mind: - there is no data dir inside the bundle,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textures update ...

2006-04-04 Thread Rob Oates
Idon't know if we can use their images anymore since they where recently aquired by Geoeye. Furthermore, we now have to register (and pay) todownload their images now :( -Rob

[Flightgear-devel] Re:Bad Bravo download...

2006-04-04 Thread syd sandy
Syd: Have you had a chance to look at this lately? I tried again yesterday, same results. When I run this aircraft, I still get a Pa28 panel with jet engine sound. Steve Hi Steve , no ,sorry , I havent had a chance to check it out .There should be NO 2d panel at all.Did you download from the

[Flightgear-devel] 737-300 exposes a possible property/memory bug in real-weather-fetch

2006-04-04 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Using k/j or Ctrl-b or Shift-S - nothing seems to be able to stow the speedbrake/spoilers on the upper surface of the 737-300 wing. Using the j key seems to start it stowing, but it's only momentary. Then, it deploys again. This happens when I use the --disable-real-weather-fetch on the command

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG Live progress

2006-04-04 Thread Pigeon
One deciding factor might be the ease of configuring MP - I tested the last 0.9.10 windows prerelease on someone else's box the other day and was very impressed at how easy it was to get online. And that was using what? Is there a windows fgfs frontend too? Might be nice indeed, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: OT constructive critisism

2006-04-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:12:48 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..this experience alone gives you a different enough perspective to hear our Austrian military friend writing in english, differently _enough_ to take offense of _how_you_hear_him_,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG ftp for scenery problems

2006-04-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:16:26 -0400, Rob wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bittorrent is faster when it comes to distributing large files. Also it doesn't have a search engine (though some clients do, but it's not the same as eMule). ..ok, details or urls so I can form an

[Flightgear-devel] Re: AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Lee Elliott -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 22:49: On Monday 03 April 2006 19:54, Melchior FRANZ wrote: There seems to be a problem with terrain following: - the keyboard binding (Ctrl-t) uses terrain-follow - the AP dialog uses agl-hold The original value was 'terrain-follow' and agl-hold