Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at TU Delft

2012-09-10 Thread Jan Comans
I haven't had the chance to look at your fix beyond viewing the diffs, but at first glance I'm slightly surprised it works across multiple machines/instances. I would expect that differences in initialization time would mean that at any given moment in time some instances would have made more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at TU Delft

2012-09-10 Thread Jan Comans
Really nice to read about that. I got the chance to look at a similar install of flightgear in Tübingen very close to where I live. And You may remember me - I believe we have talked about the problems you have at the fsweekend. I definitely remember. Apologies for waiting so long to get in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at TU Delft

2012-09-10 Thread Erik Hofman
On 09/10/2012 10:33 AM, Jan Comans wrote: My first try was to just switch to a fixed seed with the default random number generator during initialization. But for some reason, this didn't really work out so well. I can't exactly remember, but I think it seemed to work on my home machine, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at TU Delft

2012-09-10 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: We should have a random number generator in simgear that returns the same random number within the same period of time (I believe it was set to 1 second) to prevent short time quirks between different machines. This was specially added for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear branch

2012-09-10 Thread Vic Marriott
I'm sure someone will put me straight if I am talking rubbish, but aren't you using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here? There are only 6 .xml files which contain these 'global' settings: Models/Airport/Jetway/jetway-737-ba.xml Models/Airport/Jetway/jetway-747-ba.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at TU Delft

2012-09-10 Thread Jan Comans
We should have a random number generator in simgear that returns the same random number within the same period of time (I believe it was set to 1 second) to prevent short time quirks between different machines. This was specially added for (random) clouds. I have looked at this, but as far as