[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear Promotion Video - Oleg's Adventures

2007-10-12 Thread Forums Virgin Net
Anyone that want's to help promote Oleg's (flightgear) adventures here is some code you can use on your websites http://www.book-stores.com/olegs-adventures.txt It is a standard YouTube video window square with blue border. YouTube is flagging a bit make's me wonder if I should even bother some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] optimized generic_pylons and .osg models

2007-10-12 Thread Tim Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Tim Moore -- Saturday 13 October 2007: >> I've added a "feature" to SimGear that substitutes a model >> with a .osg extension for other models (not .xml) when it >> exists. This seems to be a bit controversial [...] > > That'

[Flightgear-devel] YASim gear friction

2007-10-12 Thread Diogo Kastrup
Hi, This is a revival of the old thread "small bug in YASim-gears". I'm trying to improve the static gear friction using the damped spring (1 cm length) around a "stuck" point method cited by Andy Ross. The patch is already in the works and somewhat functional, but I could use some help in the fol

Re: [Flightgear-devel] optimized generic_pylons and .osg models

2007-10-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tim Moore -- Saturday 13 October 2007: > I've added a "feature" to SimGear that substitutes a model > with a .osg extension for other models (not .xml) when it > exists. This seems to be a bit controversial [...] That's quite an understatement. You asked on IRC about that and got *only* objectio

[Flightgear-devel] optimized generic_pylons and .osg models

2007-10-12 Thread Tim Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the course of investigating some of the recent complaints about "stuttering" and low frame rates I noticed that generic_pylons_01.ac and generic_pylons_02.ac are terrible in terms of OSG performance. They are based on lines, which the .ac format d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Addition of true comms in multiplayer

2007-10-12 Thread Willie Fleming
Yep Im afraid this times out for me -- thanks for confirming it wasn't just my n00bness wirth SVN :-) AFAIK Holger is away until the end of next week so Im not expecting any change till then. On linux the "stable" version fails for me with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/fgfs/fgfs/fgcom/src$ make gcc -O2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hangar start

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 12/10/2007, AnMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe add tow truck to flightgear? I wouldn't want to pull an English > Electric Lightning for example > (would it even be possible?) It's fun to see the variety of tow vehicles at airports. For airliners, of course, there are the white tugs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 12/10/2007, gerard robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only one generic property switch is necessary. > We must only, all together decide which name and where (/sim/ ??) [snip] > For instance looking at one of my model > > to have the right flying conditions, i need: > > Canopy => Down > Wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] changed runway selection behavior

2007-10-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Friday 12 October 2007: > Using the proposed change it is possible to get the original > behaviour of the method (FGRunwayList::search) with a weight > set of (0,0,0,1). The idea was to hard-code the weights once we are happy with the results, which is why I didn't consider th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] changed runway selection behavior

2007-10-12 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: > The last point is done with weighting factors, which are for > now configurable in the property tree and might need some more > adjustment. Please check problem cases and report any unwanted > behavior. I'd prefer the evaluation formula chang

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hangar start

2007-10-12 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 David Megginson wrote: > On 12/10/2007, AnMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I prefer starting with engine off (and not at threshold) so why not add >> support for starting >> somewhere else than end of runway? Starting at the gate for example

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Addition of true comms in multiplayer

2007-10-12 Thread Geoff Air
Friday, October 12, 2007. Hi Holger, I have progressed with my WIN32 port of FGCOM, but now a problem with the 910.00 'echo' ... 1. svn checkout svn://svn.dfn.de:/fgcom This continues to fail - a timeout. Can others checkout this source? I eventually downloaded and used fgcom-1.0.1.tar.gz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread gerard robin
On ven 12 octobre 2007, David Megginson wrote: > On 12/10/2007, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can have your aircraft any way you want, but don't force it on other > > designers without some real thought. Start the Spitfire and forget to > > zero the throttle, you will start on yo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 12/10/2007, drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my .fgfsrc file set up so I start on the run-up area just off the main > runway at KSFO: > > --lat=37.612451 > --lon=-122.357858 > --heading=026 > > so I have the time to do pre-flight checks (and explore the cockpit and > README's of new and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread drew
For what it's worth, I think it's great to have a choice, at start-up, between a cold and hot start (as with the c150). More than half the fun of a "sim", as opposed to a "game", is the realism of exploring the cockpit for the necessary switches and knobs to get the bloody thing going and airbor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Warrior changes

2007-10-12 Thread Detlef Faber
Am Freitag, den 12.10.2007, 07:53 -0400 schrieb David Megginson: > On 11/10/2007, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This isn't the only plane that starts in cold configuration. I think > > it would be best to be consistent - either leave it up to the plane > > designer in every case (I b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 12/10/2007, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can have your aircraft any way you want, but don't force it on other > designers without some real thought. Start the Spitfire and forget to zero > the throttle, you will start on your nose. That doesn't give a good > impression to newc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread Vivian Meazza
David Megginson > Sent: 12 October 2007 15:11 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states > > > On 12/10/2007, dave perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Welcome back. I am the one that made all the changes to > the Warrior. > > Starting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
> > I am clearly one that prefers to start with the brakes set and all > > switches off as that is the way every real flight starts. > > (An aside: In my experience, it's rare that the parking brake > is on when a real light plane is parked, because line staff > wouldn't be able to move it

[Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 12/10/2007, dave perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome back. I am the one that made all the changes to the Warrior. > Starting directions and keyboard switch equivalents are under the help > menu-Aircraft help, just like with the pa24-250. It was after you had > commented on how you like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Warrior changes

2007-10-12 Thread dave perry
David Megginson wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, the Warrior model is looking great. Hi David, Welcome back. I am the one that made all the changes to the Warrior. Starting directions and keyboard switch equivalents are under the help menu-Aircraft help, just like with the pa24-250. It was

[Flightgear-devel] Hangar start

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 12/10/2007, AnMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer starting with engine off (and not at threshold) so why not add > support for starting > somewhere else than end of runway? Starting at the gate for example (makes > sense for 787 but not for > the warrior) or in a hangar (if such exis

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Warrior changes

2007-10-12 Thread David Megginson
On 11/10/2007, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't the only plane that starts in cold configuration. I think > it would be best to be consistent - either leave it up to the plane > designer in every case (I believe in this case at least it was a > conscious decision on the part of t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Warrior changes

2007-10-12 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I prefer starting with engine off (and not at threshold) so why not add support for starting somewhere else than end of runway? Starting at the gate for example (makes sense for 787 but not for the warrior) or in a hangar (if such exist at that air