Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: landmass effects cause system crash in today's CVS FlightGear

2010-04-06 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi David, I presume it's the geometry shader support that is causing this. Try to disable technique number 8 in landmass.eff regards, -Fred -- message original -- Sujet: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: landmass effects cause system crash in today's CVS FlightGear De: David Megginson

[Flightgear-devel] Replacement fpr mpserver01.flightgear.org

2010-04-06 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Hello list. Unfortunatly my sponsor for mpserver01 will quit his contract for the hardware. Thus I am in search for a replacement. If you are interrested in offering a unix host for hosting fgms (the server software, which does not need root access), please drop me an email. I'm also willing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Replacement fpr mpserver01.flightgear.org

2010-04-06 Thread Pete Morgan
Whats the bandwidth involved? This is a pretty loaded server ? pete Oliver Schroeder wrote: Hello list. Unfortunatly my sponsor for mpserver01 will quit his contract for the hardware. Thus I am in search for a replacement. If you are interrested in offering a unix host for hosting fgms

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Replacement fpr mpserver01.flightgear.org

2010-04-06 Thread Csaba Halász
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Oliver Schroeder f...@o-schroeder.de wrote: Hello list. Unfortunatly my sponsor for mpserver01 will quit his contract for the hardware. Thus I am in search for a replacement. If all else fails, we should of course still have a mpserver01, by renaming one of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Replacement fpr mpserver01.flightgear.org

2010-04-06 Thread kyle keevill
Oliver, I'd like to know this information as well. Kyle On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Pete Morgan wrote: Whats the bandwidth involved? This is a pretty loaded server ? pete Oliver Schroeder wrote: Hello list. Unfortunatly my sponsor for mpserver01 will quit his contract for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: 1. it's normal to have a plane sitting on the runway threshold with the engine idling 2. it's normal to have a plane sitting in a parking spot on the apron with the engine off 3. it's *not* normal to have a plane sitting on the runway threshold with the engine off

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread James Turner
On 6 Apr 2010, at 20:35, Martin Spott wrote: Except in the case of an accident or mechanical failure, you would *never* be sitting on the threshold with your engine off, especially at a big airport like KSFO (unless you wanted to give your plane and yourself a 747-sized colon exam). I think

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread David Megginson
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: My concern is touching the dreaded position init code, which is already baroque and complex. There's also the question of guessing a parking position when we don't have parking stand data - eg picking a point some distance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Brown
On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:06 PM, James Turner wrote: On 6 Apr 2010, at 20:35, Martin Spott wrote: Except in the case of an accident or mechanical failure, you would *never* be sitting on the threshold with your engine off, especially at a big airport like KSFO (unless you wanted to give your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Brown
On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:27 PM, David Megginson wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: My concern is touching the dreaded position init code, which is already baroque and complex. There's also the question of guessing a parking position when we don't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:27 PM, David Megginson wrote: OK, here's my suggestion: *all* aircraft start with the runway threshold with the engine idling, unless the user has overridden that. Engine on/off is a decision that it doesn't make sense leaving to individual aircraft designers, since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread James Turner
On 7 Apr 2010, at 00:27, David Megginson wrote: OK, here's my suggestion: *all* aircraft start with the runway threshold with the engine idling, unless the user has overridden that. Engine on/off is a decision that it doesn't make sense leaving to individual aircraft designers, since it's a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread David Megginson
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Peter Brown smoothwater...@adelphia.net wrote: In terms of simplicity, I would like to offer a suggestion of using one (or more) of the parking positions at airports with (current) parking positions.   If the user spawns at an airport without any preset parking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Brown
On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:05 PM, David Megginson wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Peter Brown smoothwater...@adelphia.net wrote: In terms of simplicity, I would like to offer a suggestion of using one (or more) of the parking positions at airports with (current) parking positions. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread dave perry
On 04/06/2010 06:05 PM, David Megginson wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Peter Brownsmoothwater...@adelphia.net wrote: In terms of simplicity, I would like to offer a suggestion of using one (or more) of the parking positions at airports with (current) parking positions. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:06 +0100, James Turner wrote: I've started creating some properties under /sim/realism (mostly booleans for the moment), with the expectation that at some point we can create a GUI, and also use some Nasal to batch-configure the individual settings for different