[Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread ThorstenB
Hi, maybe I can raise some more attention to a specific bug, which keeps me from using FG properly. I have also heard a number of other people complaining. If I could vote, I'd like to vote for this issue to be the currently most annoying FlightGear bug: Scenery tiles keep disappearing (when flyin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:47:38 +0200, ThorstenB wrote in message : > Hi, > > maybe I can raise some more attention to a specific bug, which keeps > me from using FG properly. I have also heard a number of other people > complaining. If I could vote, I'd like to vote for this issue to be > the curr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:57:11 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20100918165711.24d2d...@a45.fmb.no>: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:47:38 +0200, ThorstenB wrote in message > : > > > Hi, > > > > maybe I can raise some more attention to a specific bug, which keeps > > me from using FG properly. I have also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread Durk Talsma
H Thorsten, On Saturday, September 18, 2010 01:47:38 pm ThorstenB wrote: > Hi, > > So, please, any help on this bug, any hints on what I could check, > which FlightGear modules could be related, any ideas on how to locate > this issue are welcome. > To the best of my knowledge, this is a (more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread ThorstenB
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:57:11 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20100918165711.24d2d...@a45.fmb.no>: > ..can happen in RL too, this is when you swear a wee bit, pick up > your flight plan and pick our best alternate destination from it > just like the RL guys does. Knock knock, Neo. The effect here is

[Flightgear-devel] Yasim, Quadcopter and MatLab

2010-09-18 Thread Julien Peeters
Hi readers, For my first post on this mailing-list I am looking for people who already have built a working model for a quadcopter using the Yasim FDM. I am a student in electronics and embedded systems and I aim to build one for an experiment. Next, I would like to do such "hardware in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim, Quadcopter and MatLab

2010-09-18 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Julien, please find enclosed the yasim configuration for a quadcopter. Regards, Maik Julien Peeters schrieb am 18.09.2010 22:47: Hi readers, For my first post on this mailing-list I am looking for people who already have built a working model for a quadcopter using the Yasim FDM. I a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Weather

2010-09-18 Thread Martin Spott
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: >> I'd be interested to run such a comparison myself. Could you translate >> the described conditions into a set of command line parameters against >> 'default' FlightGear/GIT startup so I/we can make sure not to interfere >> with local customizations ? > > I don't t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread ThorstenB
On Saturday, September 18, 2010 18:32 Durk Talsma wrote: > Given, my observation that cycling through all the viewpoints, will restore > the visibility of tiles that have gone lost, and flag tiles that were visible > during the previous view cycle invisible, makes me suspect that something in > the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Coooperation FlightGear/Fly! Legacy

2010-09-18 Thread Martin Spott
steph...@simvol.org wrote: > [...], I would like to know if someone would agree to > contact by email the two main developers to discuss with them about the > elements of FlightGear which could be integrated, in order to allow > Fly! Legacy to be 100% independent. You've chosen a rather 'ambit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Thorsten, I think you are on the right track by looking at the tile cache. The original design used a distance based metric for removing the tiles that are the furthest away, but somewhere along the way we got talked into switching this to a time stamp based approach. Along the way we added s

[Flightgear-devel] Disappearing scenery

2010-09-18 Thread Jörg Emmerich
Just to second that: As ATC in EDDF I had several people experience that "totally white scenery" - especially 1 guy coming regularly from EETN to EDDF - he experienced that about 1 out of 3. And it usually happens just during final. In the meantime that guy experiences lots of FGFS-crashes alread