Re: [Flightgear-devel] altAlert problems

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Spott
John Wojnaroski wrote: > Likewise, not sure where you're going with this. ATC simply reports the > current altimeter setting to the pilot. Above FL180 all altimeters are > set to 29.92 or 1013. Well, this depends on where you live. In Germany for exaple we're setting 1013.25 while passing the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altAlert problems

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 18:19 +0100, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > What I'm asking for is an equation to convert from pressure altitude to ASL > altitude. Something like > ASL_alt = f(pressure_alt, ref_pressure) > In an off-list note I indicated that what Roy is looking for is the differential of t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Z-buffering issue in 2.5D panels

2007-01-22 Thread Ron Jensen
Hi Jim, Some experimentation on my part showed the issue is the true tag in the panel definition. Setting it to false fixed the problem in the pc-7 http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/data/Aircraft/pc7/Models/pc7.xml?r1=1.7&r2=1.8 The c182 does not have this tag, the c310 has it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Z-buffering issue in 2.5D panels

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi Stuart, Sorry for the late response. The distance the instrument is from the "eye" is probably the reason for the difference. Zooming in is simply a matter of narrowing the fov making a smaller frustrum so that a particular component appears bigger on the screen. I'm talking about the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ? cockpit lighting ?

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Wilson
A while back I added material animation for changing OpenGL emissive material properties on the fly, so that a dimmer could be added to the P51D Cockpit. Subsequently it was rewritten by Melchior IIRC. Most of the aircraft doesn't actually have this configured, but if you are interested you

[Flightgear-devel] autopilot broken by recent osg branch fgfs update

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Perry
I updated both SimGear, fgfs source, and data for the osg branch yesterday. After the compiles and installs with no errors, none of the autopilots are working. This includes the default autopilot from the gui as well as the kap140 (I am testing the new version from Roy Vegard Oveson). All were w

[Flightgear-devel] VC8 OSG Build problems

2007-01-22 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, I'm having problems building CVS on Visual C++.net 2005 (again). This was working quite happily a couple of weeks ago. I've been following the instructions here: http://www.oflebbe.de/oflebbe/FlightGear/index.html Specifically using the pre-built libraries: - 3rdparty-2006-11-25.zip -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altAlert problems

2007-01-22 Thread John Wojnaroski
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: >On Sunday 21 January 2007 19:15, John Wojnaroski wrote: > > >>Likewise, not sure where you're going with this. ATC simply reports the >>current altimeter setting to the pilot. Above FL180 all altimeters are >>set to 29.92 or 1013. Encoding report aircraft altitude, o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal aircraft.nas, 1.21, 1.22

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior Franz wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv13482 > > Modified Files: > aircraft.nas > Log Message: > respect /sim/startup/save-on-exit Thanks ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its fri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] saving aircraft specific data (Hobbs meter etc.)

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Melchior, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I've now added a mechanism that saves aircraft specific data. > For example, for the bo105 into ~/.fgfs/aircraft-data/bo105.xml > (Unix) or %APPDATA%\flightgear.org\aircraft-data\bo105.xml (MS). Apparently this disables the: --prop:/sim/startup/save-on-exi

[Flightgear-devel] Concorde & saving aircraft data

2007-01-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Th., I had to remove the "userarchive" flag in Nasal/Concorde-fuel.xml: -0 +0 This would have set /presets/fuel for all aircraft. I don't know if any other aircraft uses that property at all, but "userarchive" shouldn't be used for writing generic properties. It was OK to write into

Re: [Flightgear-devel] improved engine sound for skylane (c182 and

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Spott
John Denker wrote: > Here is a patch to make the engine sound more like it > should for the skylane (c182 and c182rg) >http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/skylane-sound.diff Anyone who has FlightGear with sound to cross-check this ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective

[Flightgear-devel] weird noises during init + workaround

2007-01-22 Thread John Denker
1) I observe that sometimes while the simulator is starting up, before things are fully operational, weird noises are produced. For example, in the c182rg, gear-in-transit noises are produced for several seconds before the first display becomes visible. (According to a dump of the relev