[Flightgear-devel] scenery appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-11 Thread John Denker
What steps will reproduce the problem? --lat=37.637855 --lon=-122.414915 --altitude=656 --heading=113 --fdm=ufo aircraft is stopped. zero airspeed, zero rate of turn, etc. The choice of aircraft doesn't seem to matter; this is 100% reproducible chez moi using the default c172p, the pa24-250,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Schulz
What steps will reproduce the problem? --lat=37.637855 --lon=-122.414915 --altitude=656 --heading=113 --fdm=ufo aircraft is stopped.  zero airspeed, zero rate of turn, etc. The choice of aircraft doesn't seem to matter;  this is 100% reproducible chez moi using the default c172p,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-11 Thread David Megginson
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Wel,, I would see this as a bug, if the frontside with the letter can't be read then anymore. But your pics shows it can bes till, it is just the backside which changes the color. Not a serious bug or showstopper

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-11 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, FWIW, when I'm flying, I see the shading on the scenery change drastically during the flight as the plane turns and pitches.  I think what's happened is instead of just changing the shading on the panel, we're changing the shading on the scenery too.  FGFS didn't used to do that, so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Moore
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, John Denker j...@av8n.com wrote: ... Change the view angle, either by pitching the entire aircraft or by simply tilting the pilot's view angle relative to the aircraft. What is the expected output? Scenery should not change. The ray from each object to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery appearance depends on camera tilt angle

2010-03-11 Thread Csaba Halász
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, John Denker j...@av8n.com wrote: For some tilt angles, the taxiway signs alongside taxiway charlie are dark, while at other title angles they are lit. Not that it matters but I have reported this issue already:

[Flightgear-devel] To Pause FlightGear Instance using sockets

2010-03-11 Thread Aryabrata Basu
Hello All, I am a FlightGear user and I have written a program that communicates with the FlightGear using UDP sockets. Now, I was wondering if one can pause the FlightGear instance without using the pause button 'P' via sockets while communicating with the FlightGear instance. Thanks, -- Arya.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument patches

2010-03-11 Thread syd adams
Hello James , I just updated your commits and tested , thanks. But I see another issue that bothers me ... originally I didnt initialize the parameters UNLESS the airspeed indicator had an overspeed needle ... but now even without , the alt-threshold , ias-limit ,and mach-limit are visible . That