[Flightgear-devel] GLSL/Shaders behaviour changed in OSG 3.x

2011-09-15 Thread Emilian Huminiuc
I've noticed that with OSG 3.x, the behaviour of some shaders, especialy in relation with the alpha channel changed. Most notable in what is related to this bug: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=427 what follows is a copy of my post on that bug report: Did a bit of test

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs hangs while loading scenery

2011-09-15 Thread Michael Sgier
As soon as i change altitude of some .ac in .stg fgfs hangs at "loading scenery"   No my syntax is ok i can also cut half .stg to load ok but not more. sighwasted 2 hours on such crap...-- Doing More with Less: The N

[Flightgear-devel] Default Takeoff Runway

2011-09-15 Thread J. Holden
As an aside, someone needs to check the runway startup code, I'm sure my cessna or piper cub started on Helipad 1 at KOAK. Also will be looking at the golf course texture, it's displaying way too large. Cheers John --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap vs. G**gl

2011-09-15 Thread Martin Spott
HB-GRAL wrote: > I see now also some differences between OSM and "our" apt.dat [...] Note that OSM might be aiming at a different target, they're not necessarily building a database which meets the specific requirements in (simulated) aviation. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Repeatable random seeds

2011-09-15 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Andreas Gaeb wrote: > Am 14.09.2011 11:43, schrieb Erik Hofman: >> I've been pushing this behavior various times and scenery objects should >> always be positioned at the same location over and over again. > To clarify things up a bit, not all is broken: > - Houses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac 2.4 binary crashes

2011-09-15 Thread Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E.
On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:34 PM, James Turner wrote: > > On 13 Sep 2011, at 19:53, Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E. wrote: > >> I just downloaded the new 2.4 release for Mac. If I try to launch the app, >> it just immediately quits. >> I can successfully run this version of FlightGear from the com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap vs. G**gl

2011-09-15 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 15.09.11 18:12, schrieb Martin Spott: > HB-GRAL wrote: > >> I see now also some differences between OSM and "our" apt.dat [...] > > Note that OSM might be aiming at a different target, they're not > necessarily building a database which meets the specific requirements > in (simulated) aviation.

[Flightgear-devel] Issues with Git Pull on fgdata

2011-09-15 Thread Jason Cox
Hi all, I am need of updating my fg data but am finding that the git pull fails after a while stating that the remote end has disconnected my session. As this an extremely large download that cannot be interrupted I am just wasting large amounts of broadband allowance trying to do this. Is there a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap vs. G**gl

2011-09-15 Thread John Denker
On 09/15/2011 03:08 PM, HB-GRAL wrote: > No, it looks like the mapping with apt.dat data is inaccurate, at least > outside the United States. The following repeats an email I sent quite a while ago, which somehow seems to have gotten lost: On 09/10/2011 03:54 PM, HB-GRAL wrote: > I am just cu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issues with Git Pull on fgdata

2011-09-15 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Jason Cox wrote: > Hi all, > I am need of updating my fg data but am finding that the git pull fails > after a while stating that the remote end has disconnected my session. > As this an extremely large download that cannot be interrupted I am just > wasting large

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap vs. G**gl

2011-09-15 Thread Martin Fenelon
On Thursday 15 September 2011 22:08, HB-GRAL wrote: > No, it looks like the mapping with apt.dat data is inaccurate, at least > outside the United States. > > I checked some airports the last days. You can not say that FlightGear > or X-Plane data is accurate and the rest of the mapping world is >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap vs. G**gl

2011-09-15 Thread John Denker
On 09/15/2011 05:15 PM, Martin Fenelon wrote: > I like to think that the positional errors of many (most non US?) > aerodromes are due to mistakes made when changing from one datum to > another. Well, that's not what I think, based on looking at the data. The very first non-US example I look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap vs. G**gl

2011-09-15 Thread Curtis Olson
Right -- outside the USA, much of the x-plane airport data is hand entered and submitted by end-users with no quality control other than people are welcome to research and fix problems they find as they find them. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the entries are complete guesses or crazy typos.