[Flightgear-devel] FGTracker outage

2008-02-17 Thread Gabor Toth
Hello, The fgtracker service was unavailable yesterday, due to HW replacement and general OS upgrade. Now it is up and running again. Please restart MP servers to reconnect again. Also I'd like to check why don't they reconnect automatically. Is the code of MP server availabe on a public

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying over an island

2008-02-17 Thread dave perry
LeeE wrote: > On Monday 11 February 2008 13:59, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > >> * Thomas Förster -- Monday 11 February 2008: >> >>> At least I think conservative is the right term. >>> >> Oh, I didn't think that it was wrongly used. It's just that >> the decision was meant to be reasonabl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying over an island

2008-02-17 Thread Heiko Schulz
> According to google searches the 110 are realistic > for the East > coast (as a maximum), while visibilities in the West > coast of the > USA are much lower. But that should already be > contained in the > humidity. Well- at the westcoast it is not only humidity- it is moresmog ( look at pics

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying over an island

2008-02-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Torsten Dreyer -- Monday 11 February 2008: > You might also take weather phenomena into account. When there is > something like FG (fog) [...] There might be something like blown > sand [...] True, but I'm mostly interested in reconstructing visibilities >10km, so I want to try to estimate valu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] New Eye-Candy

2008-02-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curt Er ... I took me a few minutes to work out what you meant there. Glad you like it. Now I've added a little more - must be mad :-) Vivian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: 17 February 2008 03:43 To: FlightGear devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance

2008-02-17 Thread Markus Zojer
Thanks for stabilized submodels, makes them more versatile. Using 2 beams of each 5 submodels per second (max 10 submodels at a time together, norm 4 -8) I could not monitor a frame rate drop (ok, maybe in the 1-3fps scale, but that is hardly monitorable as you never know where it is coming fro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance

2008-02-17 Thread Lee Duke
Has anyone tried integrating this radar with standard terrain models such as those from the DMA? Also, it seems that integrating a "realistic" radar simulation feature into FlightGear is valuable even if it runs a little slow, because having such a model would provide developers an open source,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Looking for someone to interview

2008-02-17 Thread LeeE
On Sunday 17 February 2008 00:49, Steven Sayers wrote: > Hello, I am Steven Sayers, I co-host a new and, at least I'd > consider it up and coming podcast called "The Teen Linux Lounge". > I am personally a huge fan of what the community and developers > have done to fgfs. I come to ask any of you;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance

2008-02-17 Thread LeeE
On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:35, Vivian Meazza wrote: > Markus > > > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance > > > > LeeE wrote: > > > On Friday 15 February 2008 17:08, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > >> * R. van Steenbergen -- Friday 15 February 2008: > > >>> Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > ...

[Flightgear-devel] a patch to PLIB for Mac OS X 10.5.2

2008-02-17 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, Though this is not a problem in FlightGear, I want to share this with Mac OS X users. There is a problem in accessing network sockets on Mac OS X 10.5.2. The error I got is: Error: connect() failed in make_client_socket() SG_IO_OUT socket creation failed Error opening chan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying over an island

2008-02-17 Thread LeeE
On Sunday 17 February 2008 09:40, Tim Moore wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > | On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 8:39 AM, LeeE wrote: > > ... > > | I think I'd suspect the 110 miles figure (if that's a > | ground level value) as well, not only because that's a lot of > | atmosphere to see through but also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance

2008-02-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Markus > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance > > > LeeE wrote: > > On Friday 15 February 2008 17:08, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > >> * R. van Steenbergen -- Friday 15 February 2008: > >> > >>> Melchior FRANZ wrote: > >>> > ...you could abuse that by > launchi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object avoidance

2008-02-17 Thread Markus Zojer
LeeE wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2008 17:08, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > >> * R. van Steenbergen -- Friday 15 February 2008: >> >>> Melchior FRANZ wrote: >>> ...you could abuse that by launching an invisible, lightweight, and very fast submodel, and check where and at w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying over an island

2008-02-17 Thread Tim Moore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: | On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 8:39 AM, LeeE wrote: ... | | I think I'd suspect the 110 miles figure (if that's a ground level | value) as well, not only because that's a lot of atmosphere to see | through but also because of

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear source

2008-02-17 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2008-02-15_05:06:27 (timoore) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/AIModel/AIWingman.cxx /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/AIModel/AIWingman.hxx Wingman code from Vivian Meazza 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d