Re: [Flightgear-devel] collision avoidance

2006-06-10 Thread Mick -
Hi Gonzalo, I've managed to get Mathias' suggestion of using get_elevation_m but with strange AGL values. I used calc_gc_lon_lat from simgear/math/polar3d.hxx for getting the latitude/longitude from x-meters away, then feeding the resulting lat/lon values into get_elevation_m, but it seems th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] remove me from discussion list

2006-06-10 Thread William D. Earnest
Dustin Hilderley wrote: > I think i may have accidentally become a part of a discussion list that > is overflowing my in box > > please help me to be free of this inconvenience > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] cvs commit e-mail

2006-06-10 Thread Josh Babcock
Tony Pelton wrote: > is there a list i can join, or someone i can ask, such that i could > get e-mail from the CVS server when someone commits to the codebase ? FlightGear-CVSLogs http://www.flightgear.org/mail.html Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

[Flightgear-devel] cvs commit e-mail

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
hi all, i'm new around here. is there a list i can join, or someone i can ask, such that i could get e-mail from the CVS server when someone commits to the codebase ? i'm slowly trying to get up to speed on the codebase, and seeing what things people are working on, by seeing what code they are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 10 June 2006 20:34, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > BTW: We still have some issues regarding the FlightGear graphics engine > to solve if we want curved taxiways and generalised markings (stopbars, > etc.), don't we? Yes, TerrorGear won't do anything with the new data. Who's up for some hairy 3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Tony Pelton schrieb: > heck, even taking the records, and stuffing those records, as they are > now, into XML would be a start. > > at least then, you could find records in the XML easier, and only have > to worry about field level parsing of the data. > > that would be a step ... I wouldn'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:40:23 -0500 Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > That's the big argument that Ben Supnik gave me. He converted a single > airport to an xml represenation and it was about 2Mb just for the one > airport. Of course he used the most verbose xml variant he could > devise, but it is tr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Josh Babcock
Tony Pelton wrote: > well, if austin "wrote it", besides being amused by the thought, you'd > have to question his sanity, given the code base of parsers already > available in the wild. I'm sure that XML would also end up with a few new features, like "extend DTD while in flight" and "each eleme

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/10/06, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralf Gerlich wrote: > > That's the big argument that Ben Supnik gave me. He converted a single > airport to an xml represenation and it was about 2Mb just for the one > airport. well, i'm sure you are well aware of this Curt, but it needs t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Writing a parser is always work we rather wouldn't be doing as we'd > rather devote ourselves to working with the data than to reading or > writing it from or to file. > > What makes XML easier to parse is the presence of generic parser > libraries that physically parse the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/10/06, Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Writing a parser is always work we rather wouldn't be doing as we'd > rather devote ourselves to working with the data than to reading or > writing it from or to file. yes. using XML, any number of parsers are available, AND they can do well

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Tony Pelton schrieb: > On 6/10/06, dene maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I know from my experience with FGTools, FGFS and TaxiDraw that parsing the >>APT file is not trivial ...the downside is of course the need for a >>SpecialAPT.DAT to cater for this and the inherent support and maint

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/10/06, dene maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know from my experience with FGTools, FGFS and TaxiDraw that parsing the > APT file is not trivial ...the downside is of course the need for a > SpecialAPT.DAT to cater for this and the inherent support and maintenance > needed. it's intere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] remove me from discussion list

2006-06-10 Thread Josh Babcock
Dustin Hilderley wrote: > I think i may have accidentally become a part of a discussion list that > is overflowing my in box > > please help me to be free of this inconvenience > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >

[Flightgear-devel] remove me from discussion list

2006-06-10 Thread Dustin Hilderley
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurable HUD colors [breaks backward compatibility]

2006-06-10 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Erik Hofman -- Saturday 10 June 2006 15:30: >> Josh Babcock wrote: >>> Too bad render to texture isn't working. > >> It isn't? If you got working 3d clouds then render-to-texture is >> supported. > > Or look into src/Instrumentation/od_gauge.[ch]xx and .../wxradar.[ch]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurable HUD colors [breaks backward compatibility]

2006-06-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Saturday 10 June 2006 15:30: > Josh Babcock wrote: > > Too bad render to texture isn't working. > It isn't? If you got working 3d clouds then render-to-texture is > supported. Or look into src/Instrumentation/od_gauge.[ch]xx and .../wxradar.[ch]xx. It's used there, too. m. _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurable HUD colors [breaks backward compatibility]

2006-06-10 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 08 June 2006 20:07: >> Here's a screeshot (for the lazy bums): >> >> http://members.aon.at/mfranz/hud.jpg [81 kB] > > I've now fixed the alpha problem and made the f16-hud transparent. This > addresses Isao's valid complaints. The colors depe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:01:37 +1200, dene wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Arnt, > > If you mean time and date headers that correspond to "Real-Time" for > project teams developing "Live" like CD's they may cause > problems..you and I and the rest of the project team want KOSH to be >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Arnt, If you mean time and date headers that correspond to "Real-Time" for project teams developing "Live" like CD's they may cause problems..you and I and the rest of the project team want KOSH to be in the AirVenture configuration at the moment... but "now" doesn't fall within the time/dat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:35:02 -0400, Tony wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > not sure if folks on this list care, or are aware ... but Ben Supnik > has made a couple of RFC type posts to one of the x-plane lists, > talking about a new design for the airport data coming from Robin > Peel. > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread dene maxwell
Valid point Erik, I have run into a situation where a KOSH runway is 1/2 asphalt and 1/2 concrete...taking this to the nth degree a single runway might need to be divided into n segments each of different function...as you say " an asphalt runway with two concrete touchdown zones" or the KOSH s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Is there anybody on this list who is (or will be) following this discussion? There is one thing I would like to see added to this; It becomes pretty common for (former) Military airports over here to have an asphalt runway with two concrete touchdown zones giving best of both worlds, low frict

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tower patch

2006-06-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Olaf Flebbe -- Monday 29 May 2006 23:14: > latest workarounds in tower are not quite correct. Please apply. And what about the new ones ...? #0 0x0e348130 in ?? () #1 0x080c4ada in FGTower::CheckCircuitList (this=0xed37920, dt=0.30004) at src/ATC/tower.cxx:905 #2 0x080c7210 in F

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configurable HUD colors [breaks backward compatibility]

2006-06-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 08 June 2006 20:07: > Here's a screeshot (for the lazy bums): > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/hud.jpg [81 kB] I've now fixed the alpha problem and made the f16-hud transparent. This addresses Isao's valid complaints. The colors depend now on the background and loo