Re: [Flightgear-devel] Loading Textures for Photo-Scenery?

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Spott
Alex Perry wrote: How does it work? Where is the source code for the serving side of the OAM stuff? As far as I remember there's an SVN link somewhere on the explanatory pages. Chris is known for doing (almost) every backend stuff in Python, which typically works - we're successfully using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with Saitek Pro Flight Yoke

2008-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Oliver Schroeder -- Thursday 02 October 2008: I noticed that fgjs is broken, it looks into /usr/local/share/FlightGear/Input/Joysticks/template.xml instead of /usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Input/Joysticks/template.xml. fgjs is correct. Don't use the data version. I wonder why people

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Only to remember

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: Yes, indeed- the shadows were outstanding- selfshadowing aircrafts - we had this feature before MSFS even! No it's gone- and the new shadows are only very small progressing... Would you consider adding your workforce and spare time to a project where you monitor - while

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Would it be feasible to reserve the 'a' for aircraft specific and 'x' for experimental features? Erik - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Thursday 02 October 2008: Would it be feasible to reserve the 'a' for aircraft specific and 'x' for experimental features? 'x' for experimental seems fine. 'a' for aircraft is a problem, as I think we should keep using that for the autopilot. There are a lot of autopilot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with Saitek Pro Flight Yoke

2008-10-02 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Am Thursday 02 October 2008 09:49:15 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: fgjs is correct. Don't use the data version. I wonder why people even think they should set $FG_ROOT to a data/ directory. Is there some obsolete documentation floating around? No, it's from the CVS Resources page on flightgear.org.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread gerard robin
On mercredi 01 octobre 2008, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * gerard robin -- Wednesday 01 October 2008: we will now need a multi help map behind the keyboard :) . :-P I have planned to offer a list of options per level on request (TAB key). But I also expect that people quickly memorize the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Only to remember

2008-10-02 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Would you consider adding your workforce and spare time to a project where you monitor - while lurking on the list - that people are getting pissed at just for having their own opinion ? Basically, the crowd gets what they deserve: As long as the perpetual [b,f]laming and false

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Thursday 02 October 2008: Sorry I send that message again, because i guess it has been lost No, it didn't get lost. And I have replied to it, but like my first message about multikey it never made it to the list. Will probably come later. Here's my response again: * gerard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Thursday 02 October 2008: Would it be feasible to reserve the 'a' for aircraft specific and 'x' for experimental features? 'x' for experimental seems fine. 'a' for aircraft is a problem, as I think we should keep using that for the

[Flightgear-devel] How I spend my spare time

2008-10-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi, in case someone care, here is what I am doing for about a year : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/yafseng_2.avi [Xvid, 7.698kb] This is very preliminary stuff and sources are not published yet. The data come from Blue Marble NG that has a resolution of 15 arc-seconds. It is an OSG program

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How I spend my spare time

2008-10-02 Thread gerard robin
On jeudi 02 octobre 2008, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hi, in case someone care, here is what I am doing for about a year : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/yafseng_2.avi [Xvid, 7.698kb] This is very preliminary stuff and sources are not published yet. The data come from Blue Marble NG that has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How I spend my spare time

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Spott
gerard robin wrote: I only wonder about the srtm4 quality, we hope that details are right, for instance the sea coastline and other water coastline. Au contraire SRTM is about ground elevation. Coastline is a different topic and experience has shown that all these nice attempts to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How I spend my spare time

2008-10-02 Thread Heiko Schulz
Au contraire SRTM is about ground elevation. Coastline is a different topic and experience has shown that all these nice attempts to automagically derive coastlines from imagery, be it SWBD or PGS, return pretty flaky results. Unfortunately Ground elevation in sea too? If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How I spend my spare time

2008-10-02 Thread gerard robin
On jeudi 02 octobre 2008, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: I only wonder about the srtm4 quality, we hope that details are right, for instance the sea coastline and other water coastline. Au contraire :) :) :) in frenchthanks SRTM is about ground elevation. Coastline is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread jean pellotier
In adition to your proposal, could you add the Tacan Setting like you offer about Radio Settings Sure. The current config is just a start. It should demonstrate the system and encourage developers to discuss the most efficient key scheme. All sections are still very basic, there's a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:22 AM, jean pellotier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice to see that tacan was added, just something's wrong: x and y have to be replaced by X and Y in the lines: scriptsettacan(arg[0], X)/script scriptsettacan(arg[0], Y)/script my 2 cents, jano. fixed and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How I spend my spare time

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Spott
Ok, apparently my response got lost - again so, here's my second attempt: gerard robin wrote: Well, i thought that costline was calculated with the intersection of the sea level (or water level) and the ground altitude. I was wrong, my imagination was (is) out of reality. :)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Thursday 02 October 2008: I didn't change the key names, so you type :rt028x and 028X is set. Which do you guys prefer, :rt028X/Y or :rt028x/y? I prefer the latter though. Lower case letters were intended and approved by the TACAN man on irc. I just didn't realize that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multikey: vi-like commands in fgfs (II)

2008-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 02 October 2008: * Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Thursday 02 October 2008: I didn't change the key names, so you type :rt028x and 028X is set. Oh, and thanks for fixing that. m. PS: sf.net mail seems to be broken. Only every other of my mails seems to get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Only to remember

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Spott
Another re-send excuse to all, who get this twice. Heiko Schulz wrote: Well, was this really the cause that the skilled developers [...] and a lot more disappeared? You'll certainly excuse that I won't cite names here. Nevertheless I can affirm that this applies at least to some members