[Flightgear-devel] Rain

2011-10-15 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Just adding to the list of issues which might need attention: I've recently noticed a weird behaviour of rain - was okay on the ground, but it faded out 300 ft above ground in spite of /environment/rain-norm being set to some number. After some thinking, I think I understand why: The current

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear and 2 Arc Second elevation data

2011-10-15 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote: We're not yet there. On a first test earlier today, 'genapts' ended in a segfault with the recent changes but I ran out of time, thus I have not yet verified if the source change in 'simgear' really was the culprit, Confirmed here. And I thought first it was the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear and 2 Arc Second elevation data

2011-10-15 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote: We're not yet there. On a first test earlier today, 'genapts' ended in a segfault with the recent changes but I ran out of time, thus I have not yet verified if the source change in 'simgear' really was the culprit, Confirmed here. And I thought first it was the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Jason Cox wrote: I am hoping to try your changes as I was constantly blowing up the scenery around YWLM by using osm residental data [...] OSM residential is quite ambitious - I'd be a happy man if I succeeded building tertiary without triggering GPC segfaults in 'fgfs-construct' I think

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TerraGear - removing the 'terror' ;=))

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Whil I was trying to catch up with old *Terra*-EMail, I found this one: Geoff McLane wrote: Maybe you missed my 'little' question buried deep in my, as usual ;=(), quite log posts, but I was asking about the 'content' of mapserver simgear-cs git... simgear-cs had been a requirement for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TerraGear - removing the 'terror' ;=))

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Csaba Halász wrote: Also note, installing libgdal1-dev would have pulled in most of these automatically. BTW, for those who are running Debian, I'd recommend to pull the respective GIS packages from: http://debian.gfoss.it/ Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TerraGear - removing the 'terror' ;=))

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Geoff McLane wrote: I am sorry Martin. I read your post MANY times, but you will have to provided more clues for this old brain to cotton onto ;=)). I do not quite catch what you can mean by scenery root node? In order to tell FlightGear where to find its Scenery we're currently feeding a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGJS cannot calibrate Saitek Flight Yoke

2011-10-15 Thread Muad'Dib 25 GuitarLord
Hi Muad just to make sure: You know the wiki http://wiki.flightgear.org/Joystick ?? I did use that to set/reset my Saitek X52 with no problems. joe Hey Joe! Yes I did consult it. It solved the issue of calibrating the Yoke.It seems that some aircraft have a dead zone in reacting when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-15 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 15.10.11 10:53, schrieb Martin Spott: I think the only solution is to make GPC obsolete - either by replacing GPC by something different but functional equivalent or simply (TM ;-) by avoiding any polygon clipping in 'fgfs-construct' overall. Martin. Hi Martin Are there any

[Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread Cedric Sodhi
You may have guessd what this is about: FGDATA and GIT. When we last spoke about it, everything had been prepared to the utmost convenient state possible. I had prepared a script which basically only has to be run, to migrate the truckload of planes, ranging from fine stuff to utter junk, into

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-15 Thread James Turner
On 15 Oct 2011, at 15:22, HB-GRAL wrote: I think the only solution is to make GPC obsolete - either by replacing GPC by something different but functional equivalent or simply (TM ;-) by avoiding any polygon clipping in 'fgfs-construct' overall. Martin. Hi Martin Are there any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-15 Thread HB-GRAL
Hi James Thank you very much (and Martin of course) for diving into. I am just curious how you go to replace GPC. Cheers, Yves Am 15.10.11 17:20, schrieb James Turner: On 15 Oct 2011, at 15:22, HB-GRAL wrote: I think the only solution is to make GPC obsolete - either by replacing GPC by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Cedric Sodhi wrote: Developers have buoyantly indulged in their lethargy as ever before and passionately ignored the topic wherever it came up. I don't know everybody's favourites but, anyhow, maybe it's also a matter of preferences. Personally I'd hate having to pull dozends of repositories

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread Christopher Baines
I know of another project who's main git repository contains a script, that manages the other git repositories, this allows them to split the gigs of data they have in to more sensible chunks, without having to pull every repository individually. Though the current state will be annoying for new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 15.10.11 22:41, schrieb Christopher Baines: I know of another project who's main git repository contains a script, that manages the other git repositories, this allows them to split the gigs of data they have in to more sensible chunks, without having to pull every repository individually.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
Christopher Baines wrote: Though the current state will be annoying for new developers on average speed internet connections as afaik, git cannot clone, stop half way, then continue. Someone's providing a starter-package containing just the bare repository for download via HTTP. I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2011-10-15 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Saturday, October 15, 2011 02:41:15 PM TDO_Brandano - wrote: Really, couldn't we just split off all the aircrafts to a separate SVN repository? Or to several GIT repositories? That way they could be checked out individually. I don't think we need the level of detailed history that GIT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-15 Thread Martin Spott
HB-GRAL wrote: Am 15.10.11 10:53, schrieb Martin Spott: I think the only solution is to make GPC obsolete - either by replacing GPC by something different but functional equivalent or simply (TM ;-) by avoiding any polygon clipping in 'fgfs-construct' overall. Are there any concrete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-15 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 16.10.11 00:30, schrieb Martin Spott: HB-GRAL wrote: Am 15.10.11 10:53, schrieb Martin Spott: I think the only solution is to make GPC obsolete - either by replacing GPC by something different but functional equivalent or simply (TM ;-) by avoiding any polygon clipping in 'fgfs-construct'