[Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-09 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi guys,

As some of you might already know, we are working on improving the 
scenery of Germany. Right now we are 3 people and I want to announce the 
first preview of our work. It is currently only Frankfurt and its 
Airport, but you can expect more to come in the future. I would be happy 
to receive some feedback.

The SVN branch is available at:

http://www.ilovelinux.de/svn/fgfs-ffm/user/


Cheers,
Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
till busch wrote:
 hi christian,
 
 sorry. that was my fault -- skimming instead of reading.
 
 the scenery looks very nice to me. i think i miss a building with a 
 pyramid-shaped roof: messeturm?. (though my memory may not be the best, since 
 i was in frankfurt only twice).
 
 cheers,
 
 -till

Hi Till,

yes, you are right. The current SVN branch is only a preview. We have 
more models which will be released when they are ready. You can expect 
much more to come, so update your working copy regularily! :-) I have 
been working on many of the Frankfurt skyscrapers and will release them 
as soon as I think they are worth it. However I am currently 
concentrating on improving the airport.

Chris


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
till busch wrote:
 hi,
 
 would you mind adding a .tar.gz or a zipfile for easier download?
 
 thanks,
 
 -till
 

Hi,

as the whole thing is still in alpha or at least beta state, I want to 
wait until it is more mature.

You can download it just as simple with
svn co http://www.ilovelinux.de/svn/fgfs-ffm/user/;
and always keep up with all changes. Maybe this was unclear in my first 
posting. The URL is an SVN repository.

HTH
Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi Gabor,

first of all thank you for this very useful feedback.

   I have noticed only one minor issue so far with the buildings of Terminal 
 2DE and 1C. When you load AI traffic data and ground map for EDDF in FG you 
 will see airplanes parking at wrong positions (behind the buildings of 
 1C, in the passenger bridges of 2DE.) 

I have AI traffic activated, but how do I make any AI planes park on the 
  positions in your screenshots? Sorry. I'm still quite new to FG.

   This problem can come from two sources, the parking positions can be 
 defined 
 wrong, or the position or scale of the buildings can be wrong. Or both. :)

If you used Google Earth, I don't think the positions are wrong. The 
dimensions of the buildings are correct as well (measured with Google 
Earth as well). I think the positioning is wrong, a fact that I didn't 
care about too much until now :-)

   What is your opinion? Can you check somehow if the buildings are placed at 
 the right position? Is it hard to move the buildings to east parallel the 
 longer side of Terminal2?

That would be no big deal and is overdue. Would you please tell me how 
to get these planes on there parking positions for reference.

Cheers,
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
Gabor Toth wrote:
 Hi Chris,
 
   extract the attached tarball into your data directory. You will also need 
 the appropritate AI aircraft (LH 737, LH 747, LH A320 LH A333). They are 
 available on Durk's site:
 
 http://www.xs4all.nl/~dtalsma/flightgear.html
 
 Regards,
 Gabor
 

WOW! Thank you. That's a completely new experience for EDDF. Any reason 
why the EDDF AI is not yet included in the official CVS?
I will fix the positions ASAP.

Chris


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi everybody. The problem is mostly solved. The update is already in 
SVN. I'm still working on making the remaining gates more accurate.

Cheers,
Chris


Gabor Toth wrote:
 Hi Chris,
 
   Let me express my appreciate to your wodwerful work. As I fly very often to 
 EDDF (in FG and IRL as well), this airport become one of my favourites.
 
   I have noticed only one minor issue so far with the buildings of Terminal 
 2DE and 1C. When you load AI traffic data and ground map for EDDF in FG you 
 will see airplanes parking at wrong positions (behind the buildings of 
 1C, in the passenger bridges of 2DE.) 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
Heiko Schulz wrote:
 Hi,
 
 as long we havn't the discussed feature - where will
 we able to download this Traffic-files? 
 
 There are some in CVS, but I sometimes heard, that
 people did their own - would be grat if anyone can
 profit from.
 
 Cheers
 HHS
 

I can offer to use my SVN for this. As there is already the structure 
for the Data directory it would be no problem to add an Ai subdir.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-11 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hello,

here is a short update:
Today I went to EDDF to take some photos of as many buildings and things 
as possible, to be able to better create textures. Some of the results 
can already be seen in SVN. However, I have one problem: There is 
reconstruction going on on gate c/d and they built a new tower-like 
thing there. I also read there will be more A380 parkings. I was not 
able to take a detailed shot of this, so if anybody is able to provide 
me with some photos of that new construction, I'd be very greateful. 
Other pictures are welcome, too :-)

Cheers,

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-11 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi Gabor,

   This problem can come from two sources, the parking positions can be 
 defined 
 wrong, or the position or scale of the buildings can be wrong. Or both. :)
 

Now with more and more parts of the terminals being added, I encounter 
more errors with the aircraft positions again (the big ones like 747 
stand partly in the building). The gate in the middle (Gate B) has this 
problem. I don't say it's not my fault. As I put the buildings together 
and position them in relation to their neighbours, errors might add up. 
So I'm still working on correcting this. But to rule out any other error 
source I just want to know how precisely you defined the parking positions?

Greetings
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[Flightgear-devel] FG CVS ebuilds for Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

I created some ebuilds for the CVS/SVN versions of FG, simgear andd OSG. 
It works as an overlay and can be downloaded via:

svn co http://ilovelinux.de/svn/fgfs-gentoo;

It runs on two machines here right now, without problems, so I tought I 
make them publically available.

Cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-12 Thread Christian Schmitt
Heiko Schulz wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I had a look too on the airport, and it looks great. 
 With AI-Traffic it looks real nice and realistic!
 
 But I noticed that the groundnetwork not match to the
 new Scenery 1.0.0 - that could maybe the problem. 
 
 Cheers
 HHS
 

Thank you.
Yes, the ground network needs some work. Planes are starting on the 
grass on the right side of the runway. Are you working on this?

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-12 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

I just corrected the building positions once more and checked everything 
with Google Earth. The parking positions are ok for our current 
buildings. However, as I already wrote, there are some changes in 
reality to make room for the A380. These new gates are spread across the 
Terminals and I have not yet looked deeper into it. However: Positions 
D121, D111, D101 and D91 changed. There are only 3 positions left, in 
addition to a bigger reconstruction of the D building.

Greetings
Chris


Gabor Toth wrote:
 Hi,
 
   Loading the attached file into Google Earth will show you the parking 
 positions at EDDF. This way you can check if they are correct.
 
   Unfortunately I do not have too much time to redo the ground network, if 
 any 
 of you can do it, I'm more than pleased. :)
 
   My idea about the performace issue is to make it scalable by the user. I 
 mean a slide bar or something in the AI menu. (eg. only every second, tenth 
 whatever AI flight to activate)
 
 Regards,
 Gabor
 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-13 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hone more question: Is there a way to set maximum sizes for aircraft 
that are allowed on a particular parking position? That would solve the 
current problem of a 747 parking on at Gate B on a position not suitable 
for that size.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Schmitt
Heiko Schulz wrote:

 Yes, have a lok into  the wiki:
 http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Interactive_Traffic
 

Thanks for this hint. As soon as I get the NEW_GUI branch of Taxidraw 
finally working here, I will maybe take a look there. But I'm still 
modelling EDDF and it is makeing good progress, as some of you might notice.

Cheers,
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Res: segmentation fault

2008-03-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
Cleber Santz wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I solve the problem with plib (removed v1.84 already instaled), but 
 now i`m getting segmentation fault when run flightgear.
 
 I think the problem is with data (fg can`t find models) but i make 
 checkout with the lastest data. I get 2 different dump, first with 
 carrier enable so i disable carrier and get a another dump.
 
 I send the 2 segmentation fault, w/o carrier, in attached files.
 
Any help ??
 
 Best regards,
 Cleber Santz.
 

Hi,

I encountered something like this yesterday, too. I did not run the 
debugger, but going back to CVS from 14-Mar-08 made FG run again. Maybe 
you should try this, too.

Cheers,
Chris


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frankfurt (EDDF) scenery SVN now available

2008-03-31 Thread Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt wrote:
 Hello,
 
 here is a short update:
 Today I went to EDDF to take some photos of as many buildings and things 
 as possible, to be able to better create textures. Some of the results 
 can already be seen in SVN. However, I have one problem: There is 
 reconstruction going on on gate c/d and they built a new tower-like 
 thing there. I also read there will be more A380 parkings. I was not 
 able to take a detailed shot of this, so if anybody is able to provide 
 me with some photos of that new construction, I'd be very greateful. 
 Other pictures are welcome, too :-)
 
 Cheers,
 
 Chris

I was lucky to find some pics of this new construction on the web. 
Together with a plan of EDDF i was able to more or less measure the 
sizes of the new Gate D and texture it. It is already in SVN.

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault on current HEAD?

2008-04-12 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Sleeman wrote:
 Am I the only one getting segfaults on a full compile of the latest HEAD
 or is it just not working at the moment.  Full update and compile of
 everything, SimGear, OSG, Plib1.8.5, flightgear with --enable-osgviewer,
 and data all up to date.  Segfaults as soon as it tries to display the
 splash screen (disabling the splash doesn't get much further).

I can confirm this problem. I had to go back to OSG 2.3.4 and recompile 
flightgear and simgear, before it started working again. Maybe 2.3.5 
works, too, but it didn't for me (forgot to recompile simgear). I don't 
want to make further tests right now, since it takes some hours on my 
machine.

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault on current HEAD?

2008-04-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
Tobias Ramforth wrote:
 Hi!
 
 Everytime.  I'll try rolling back to an older OSG when I get a chance.
 
 Are you sure you recompiled every single lib using up-to-date sources 
 (CVS/SVN)?
 I encountered a segfault, as well, but I forgot to recompile simgear.
 Double check the compilation order, too!
 
 
 Regards,
 
 Tobias
 

Today I recompiled everything, starting with an update from OSG-2.3.4 to 
HEAD. After that recompiled simgear and flightgear. Now everything is 
working as it sould again and I have the impression that it is running 
faster and smoother again.

Cheers,
Chris

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[Flightgear-devel] AI at the airport...

2008-04-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hey Durk,

Ralf just pointed me to you being the expert on AI/ATC and stuff like 
that, which is IMHO one of the most important things for a good user 
experience. :-)
As you might know we are currently doing a lot of work on EDDF. One of 
the things I am doing right now is redesigning the AI-Network. AI Planes 
are starting and landing on two runways. The runway where they start is 
not a problem, but the landings are strange: The plane lands approx. in 
the middle of the runway length and brakes. Now, in real life I would 
suppose it to take the first taxiway available to leave the runway. 
Well, it doesn't. Instead it continues on the runway till it reaches the 
last possible exit, right at the end and takes it.
Is this supposed to be normal behaviour?

Another question: Should I use a rwyuse.xml file? I have currently one 
in use, but I don't like AI planes always taking the same end of the 
runway for starting and not putting winds into consideration.

Well I hope you can help me here.

Thanks.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI at the airport...

2008-04-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Durk Talsma wrote:

 We are moving towards a more sophisticated runway exit strategy: Last year at 
 LinuxTag, Thomas Foerster and I discussed the idea of adding a performance 
 database that could be used to determine stopping distances, and I'm 
 currently working on adding support for runway entrance/exit points. 
 Ideally, I'd want taxidraw to set these automatically, but this is still on 
 my TODO list. 

So does it mean that the On the runway points I set in taxidraw are 
currently of no use?

Another issue I have is that setting a point as Cat II/II will lead to 
a segmentation fault on next FG startup.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] osg 2.4 released today

2008-04-25 Thread Christian Schmitt
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
 And according to a past agreement, this means that everyone should
 from now on expect commits that require OSG 2.4 -- to add new
 features, and to remove old workarounds.
 

Allright. I'll update the overlay :-)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft start up postion issue.

2008-04-29 Thread Christian Schmitt
Markus Zojer wrote:
 Hi all!
 
 This issue still exists. The YASim FDM places the datum of the aircraft 
 at the end of the runway as startup position, which means that all 
 aircraft with datum=nose start behind the runway. Maybe we should use 
 the CG of the aircraft as reference point or calculate some offset to 
 the existing solution, as  some airports are unusable.
 
 Thanks,
 Markus
 

Hi,

I recently talked to a guy who complained that some of the aircraft are 
also initially positioned too high above ground, which makes them fall 
down on start and in some cases crash.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some TV material from 3sat about Linuxtag 2008 AND Flightgear

2008-06-02 Thread Christian Schmitt
Holger Wirtz wrote:
 Hi,
 
 last week Flightgear was represented at Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin, 
 Germany. The TV station 3sat made some small trailers about Linux and 
 OpenSource projects. I made an mpeg2 stream which shows some projects on 
 this fair. At the end you can see some seconds of captain DT flying a 
 777 at EDDF :-)
 


Great to see! Thanks a bunch!

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT; Was: _Sport Model_

2008-08-20 Thread Christian Schmitt
Frederic Bouvier wrote:
 Migrating from CVS to SVN would already be a very good thing IMO
 
 -Fred
 

Sure enough. But if we take a migration into consideration, we sould 
probably go the GIT route. Although I'm not too experienced with git 
when it comes to committing things to it, from the git pull side, it 
looks pretty nice. I don't know however how it performs with binary 
data, which would be nice to know for flightgear-data. IMHO, the current 
solution as read-only is a good way to test it from one side and maybe 
later move more stuff to it.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2008-08-20 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 The FlightGear project has been notoriously behind about getting
 people's source code contributions into CVS - for years. We all know
 the story, it's been the same for years already, no need to repeat it
 here.
 
 So, in order not to loose the respective contributions over the time,
 such a GIT repo - be it mine or someone else's - makes the perfect tool
 that allows contributors to maintain their changes in a local branch
 while still easily keeping them in sync with the main source tree(s).
 Thus, it will be highly beneficial for the FlightGear project as a
 whole to support these developers by backing an official GIT repo
 instead of letting their enthusiasm fade out in disappointment 
 
 Guess why there are there so many private GIT repositories containing
 modified versions of FlightGear source trees !? Please think of it and
 keep up with the times.
 

Ah, great to hear this from you, Martin. This does BTW not only apply to 
the FG source code, but also to the scenery and flightplans... ;-)

Chris


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2008-08-27 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 I was persuaded to mention that GIT allows you to wrap single steps of
 your private development into independent commits to your local
 repository, even if you don't have any network access while sitting at
 the beach on a remote island 
 Once you're back to a place where you have network access, you're
 easily - without having to deal with a collection of individual patch
 files - going to push all the accumulated changes at once but still
 retaining the granularity of the individual steps.
 


... which is IMHO one of the most interesting and useful features of GIT 
for FG development, but also for scenery stuff. SVN is lacking such 
functionality.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2008-08-28 Thread Christian Schmitt
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
 * Melchior FRANZ -- 8/26/2008 3:03 PM:
 But it would make me a bit nervous if an aircraft developer commits
 several pointless updates of 5MB sound files. GIT can't compress that.
 We'd collect the whole pile on our disks. How much would disk space
 requirements grow each year?
 
 Bah, I just saw a rather cheap 1TB disk offered in the ads of a shop
 that focuses on books, music CDs and paper stuff. I guess that a
 few MB more aren't really an issue nowadays. Hereby I withdraw the
 above consideration. So what's left as an argument against switching
 to GIT right away? That's after some more discussions and tests, of
 course.  :-)
 
 And by the way: an SVN checkout keeps two copies of every single
 file. And for most files that copy takes about as much disk space as
 the *whole* history of that file in GIT, which includes all file
 revisions! (IIRC)

I just tested the fg GIT server and checked out fgdata, which is quite a 
piece of stuff. It took some time, but that's normal for the first 
checkout and not different to CVS.
The interesting thing is running du -c after the checkout on both 
different dirs:

CVS: 1696167 total
git: 1043121 total

Which clearly shows how efficient git works even with binary files and 
considering that this copy contains all the changes, as Melchior already 
stated.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2008-08-29 Thread Christian Schmitt
Thomas wrote:

 
 Thanks for that review. I'm still wary of the auto line term
 conversion and would probably favor disabling it.
 
 I'm more concerned about the 2 GB repo size limit listed in the Known
 issues in the release notes. I don't think that will work for FG.  Am
 I correct in assuming that Git under CygWin does not have that
 limitation? Anyone here tried it?

As I already wrote here yesterday, the fgdata repo needs currently 
approx 1GB of diskspace on my machine here. I don't know if msysGit 
counts this a bit differently, but for the forseeable future, we should 
be save in this regard, as fgdata is AFAIK the biggest repo we have.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

2008-08-30 Thread Christian Schmitt
Stefan C. Müller wrote:

 That's of course the safest choise for binary files. But it would 
 certainly mess up the text files.
 While most windows tools can read LF, they all write CRLF by default, 
 some even to automatic conversion (like VC). We would end up having 
 files of both types (and files with a mix inside) in the repository. And 
 then we get trouble with all the linux tools not able to handle CRLF...

Huh? From my experience it is more the other way around. I saw many 
Windows tool that displayed LF fext incorrectly but I have never seen a 
CRLF text in Linux being messed up. What exactly do you mean by all the 
linux tools?


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[Flightgear-devel] Concorde VL autopilot problem

2008-09-11 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi everybody,

I recently started flying the Concorde intensively. There seems to be a 
problem with the VL (VOR lock) autopilot. It sould follow a radial 
towards/from a VOR, which it does, but it is not steering towards the 
radial fast enough. The angle towards the radial is too small. This 
often leads to getting off course and passing a VOR several miles away, 
instead of crossing it.
I hope I could describe the problem properly. It would be great if the 
anonymous author of the concorde could take a look into it.

Thanks
Chris


PS: What a nicely modelled plane :)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Heiko Schulz wrote:

 The last errors I had were:
 
 -Bank-Angle-Callouts with real zero-angle after lift off or shortly above rwy 
 while landing.
 - the callouts 50 40 30 20 10 could be never heard at all- even 
 with a very low sink rate
 
 Low-Terrain-warning on a corrct ILS-glidepath
 

Hello,

I just want to confirm this. Especially the bank angle right after 
takeoff is a common issue. I encounter it in the Citation Bravo.
Did not take care on the callouts, but the low terrain warning 
although perfectly on a 3° glidepath are happening here, too. If i'm not 
mistaken as well on the Bravo.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Christian Schmitt
Durk Talsma wrote:
 While I'm at it. :-)
 
 With each release we include a selection of representative aircraft that 
 highlight FlightGear's capabilities. Inclusion criteria include: 
 Completeness, 
 variability across categories, realism, suitability for demo flights (think 
 of 
 aerotowing, AI/Multiplayer refueling, carrier landing, etc etc.), relative 
 ease of operation (ie don't want to intimidate new users too much), and disk 
 space (we don't want to bloat the base package too much). 
 
 
 So, with these criteria in mind, what would be your current top 10 of 
 aircraft?
 
Hi Durk,

I clearly vote for the Concorde here. It is not the easiest plane when 
it comes to all its functions that are implemented (complete engineers 
seat with a million of buttons ;-), but exactly a model like this shows 
what is possible with FG. And the player can always automate Copilot and 
Engineers tasks via a menu and thus concentrate on flying.


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[Flightgear-devel] fgrun --as-needed configure/compile problem

2010-01-25 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

I'm currently working on improving my Gentoo overlay for FG and added a live 
version of fgrun to it.
There is a problem to compile it with --as-needed enabled as LDFLAGS.

During configure it already prints:
checking for gl_start in -lfltk_gl... no

which leads to a compile error later on:

mv -f .deps/main.Tpo .deps/main.Po  

 
mv -f .deps/run_posix.Tpo .deps/run_posix.Po

 
mv -f .deps/wizard_funcs.Tpo .deps/wizard_funcs.Po  

 
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/games/share/locale\ -
march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe  -L/usr/lib64/fltk-1.1 -Wl,--as-needed -
L/usr/games/lib -lfltk -lpthread -ldl -lm -lXext -lX11 -Wl,--as-needed  -
L/usr/games/lib -o fgrun wizard.o wizard_funcs.o advanced.o advanced_funcs.o 
AirportBrowser.o AirportTable.o Fl_Table.o Fl_Table_Row.o Fl_OSG.o 
Fl_Heading_Dial.o main.o io.o fgfsrc.o logwin.o parkingloader.o settings.o 
util.o run_posix.o fgrun_pty.o -lsgmodel -lsgscreen -lsgprops -lsgxml -
lsgdebug -lsgbvh -lsgmaterial -lsgmodel -lsgutil -lsgstructure -lsgprops -
lsgtgdb -lsgmath -lsgmisc -lsgbvh -lsgio -lsgbucket -lsgmodel -lsgutil -
lplibsg -lplibul -lplibnet -losgParticle -losgSim -losgViewer -losgGA -
losgText -losgDB -losgUtil -losg -lOpenThreads -lpthread  -lfltk -lXft -lGL -
lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXi -lXext -lX11  -lm -lz -lutil -losgFX
wizard_funcs.o: In function `Wizard::preview_aircraft()':   

 
wizard_funcs.cxx:(.text+0x6c0d): undefined reference to 
`Fl_Gl_Window::make_current()'  
 
wizard_funcs.o: In function `Wizard::reset_settings()': 

 
wizard_funcs.cxx:(.text+0xab25): undefined reference to 
`Fl_Gl_Window::make_current()'  
 
Fl_OSG.o: In function `AdapterWidget::AdapterWidget(int, int, int, int, char 
const*)':   

Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0x5c8): undefined reference to `vtable for Fl_Gl_Window'  

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0x5d0): undefined reference to `Fl_Gl_Window::init()' 

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0x954): undefined reference to 
`Fl_Gl_Window::~Fl_Gl_Window()' 

Fl_OSG.o: In function `AdapterWidget::AdapterWidget(int, int, int, int, char 
const*)':   

Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0xe68): undefined reference to `vtable for Fl_Gl_Window'  

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0xe70): undefined reference to `Fl_Gl_Window::init()' 

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0x11f4): undefined reference to 
`Fl_Gl_Window::~Fl_Gl_Window()' 
   
Fl_OSG.o: In function `AdapterWidget::resize(int, int, int, int)':  

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:(.text+0x1ac): undefined reference to `Fl_Gl_Window::resize(int, 
int, int, int)' 
 
Fl_OSG.o: In function `AdapterWidget::~AdapterWidget()':

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:
(.text._ZN13AdapterWidgetD2Ev[AdapterWidget::~AdapterWidget()]+0x79): 
undefined reference to `Fl_Gl_Window::~Fl_Gl_Window()'  

Fl_OSG.cxx:
(.text._ZN13AdapterWidgetD2Ev[AdapterWidget::~AdapterWidget()]+0x42): 
undefined reference to `Fl_Gl_Window::~Fl_Gl_Window()'  

Fl_OSG.o: In function `AdapterWidget::~AdapterWidget()':

 
Fl_OSG.cxx:
(.text._ZN13AdapterWidgetD0Ev[AdapterWidget::~AdapterWidget()]+0x3c): 
undefined reference to 

[Flightgear-devel] Concorde changes (merge request)

2010-08-09 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

to make sure the anonymous original author is ok with the changes, I want to 
announce here a merge request concerning the Concorde and ask for a 
review/testing and a merge.

http://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/merge_requests/15

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simple atmospheric scattering shader for skydome

2011-04-14 Thread Christian Schmitt
Erik Hofman wrote:

 I'm not sure, it needs time to look after some things. For one it should
 be made possible for the shader to adjust the fog color located
 under /rendering/fog but at this time values written to it will be
 overwritten by the current code.
 
 Erik
 

I can only agee with Vivian here: lets get this change into GIT, so that it 
doesn't get lost as so many others in the past. The shader is not perfect 
yet, but that should not hurt, as it is disabled as a default. Those who 
want to test and improve it are free to do so.
Let me add that it's good to have people who work on things like shaders (we 
need every single one of them).

Chris
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG visualization question

2011-04-16 Thread Christian Schmitt
Durk Talsma wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 As part of visualizing the AI ground networks from 
within FlightGear, I've
 been trying to find out whether there is a simple way 
of drawing them
 using a few OSG commands. As a start, for each of the 
segments, I have a
 start and end position in latitude / longitude 
coordinates, and I would
 like to start by drawing a simple line between those, 
using an OSG
 equivalent of OpenGL drawing primitives. After 
staring at the code for
 some time, I haven't really been able to determine 
how this should be
 done, so any ideas would be welcome.

Although I have no solution for this, it might be worth 
noting that finding something to implement this, might 
also be useful to generate REAL centerlines for our 
taxiways and maybe even more...

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[Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs unknown runway surface/ segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hello,

i have recently created many bigger scenery chunks with Corine Landcover and 
OSM line data. Yesterday I wanted to do the same for all of the UK and 
Ireland. Then I encountered some problems:
I encountered unknown runway surface errors, caused by some strange 
heliport runways (see EGTG). I created a patch to circumvent this for now:
https://gitorious.org/papillon81/terragear-
cs/commit/263a1cdd537bd07e2d5a503b38043f8faee29e38

After that genapts segfaulted during EGKK processing and right until now I 
have still not much of a clue what exactly is going on. I thought it was a 
problem with compiling TG against SG and not SG-CS (all from GIT). That 
showed to be wrong. Next guess was overoptimization (-O2 and -march), yet 
unsetting this and recompiling did not solve it either. So I'm still 
investigating. A backtrace is attached. If you have any ideas i'd be glad.

Cheers
Chris


Building EGKK
Runway count = 2
Taxiway count = 241
w010n50/w001n51/2941771
18  51.154176 -000.183887 1 Light beacon
14  51.154176 -000.183887  130 0 Tower Viewpoint
19  51.145960 -000.211647 1 Windsock
19  51.150391 -000.167913 1 Windsock
19  51.150760 -000.179184 1 Windsock
Building runway = 08R
Forward displaced threshold = 1289
Reverse displaced threshold = 879
Runway num = '08'
Forward displaced threshold = 1053
Reverse displaced threshold = 1365
Runway num = '08'

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7fb8fdd in merge_left (p=0x814ba90, q=0x0, list=0x814bab0) at gpc.c:785
785 gpc.c: No such file or directory.
in gpc.c
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7fb8fdd in merge_left (p=0x814ba90, q=0x0, list=0x814bab0) at 
gpc.c:785
#1  0xb7fbae88 in gpc_polygon_clip (op=GPC_UNION, subj=0x8161fb8, 
clip=0x8151708, result=0x816ad60)
at gpc.c:1383
#2  0x080a467a in polygon_clip(anonymous enum, const TGPolygon , const 
TGPolygon ) (poly_op=POLY_UNION, 
subject=..., clip=...) at polygon.cxx:385
#3  0x080a4a08 in tgPolygonUnion (subject=..., clip=...) at polygon.cxx:441
#4  0x0809ac50 in gen_taxiway (rwy_info=..., alt_m=25.29840087890625, 
material=..., rwy_polys=0xbfffdf7c, 
texparams=0xbfffdf70, accum=0xbfffd8c0) at taxiway.cxx:103
#5  0x08051ae0 in build_runway (rwy_info=..., alt_m=value optimized out, 
rwy_polys=value optimized out, 
texparams=value optimized out, accum=0xbfffd8c0, apt_base=0xbfffd908, 
apt_clearing=0xbfffd8e4)
at build.cxx:300
#6  0x0805547a in build_airport (airport_id=..., alt_m=25.2984009, 
runways_raw=..., beacons_raw=..., 
towers_raw=..., windsocks_raw=..., root=..., elev_src=...) at 
build.cxx:614
#7  0x080860e9 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfffed24) at main.cxx:340

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs unknown runway surface/ segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:


 After that genapts segfaulted during EGKK processing [...]
 
 Did you use the 'public' apt.dat file from MapServer ?

Yes, indeed. I hope i'll be able to really get down to the problem today. I 
still have no exact clue what caused it, although I recompiled with several 
cflags settings yesterday.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs unknown runway surface/ segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 
   http://mapserver.flightgear.org/Heliport.pl
 

Well, I'd rather get it right in genapts and I'm sure it's not too difficult 
to accomplish.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt wrote:

 After that genapts segfaulted during EGKK processing and right until now I
 have still not much of a clue what exactly is going on. I thought it was a
 problem with compiling TG against SG and not SG-CS (all from GIT). That
 showed to be wrong. Next guess was overoptimization (-O2 and -march), yet
 unsetting this and recompiling did not solve it either.

After recompiling simgear and terragear multiple times with different cflags 
i guess I found out what is the problem: the use of sse/sse2 instructions by 
gcc. Here is a diff output of the internal GCC options between a non-working 
config and a working one:

 #define __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4 1
 #define __DBL_DENORM_MIN__ 4.9406564584124654e-324
 #define __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_8 1
-#define __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ 0
+#define __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ 2
 #define __unix__ 1
 #define __DBL_MIN_10_EXP__ (-307)
 #define __FINITE_MATH_ONLY__ 0
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #define __DEC32_MIN__ 1E-95DF
 #define __DBL_MAX_EXP__ 1024
 #define __DEC128_EPSILON__ 1E-33DL
-#define __SSE2_MATH__ 1
 #define __LONG_LONG_MAX__ 9223372036854775807LL
 #define __SIZEOF_SIZE_T__ 4
 #define __SIZEOF_WINT_T__ 4
@@ -73,7 +72,6 @@
 #define __ELF__ 1
 #define __FLT_RADIX__ 2
 #define __LDBL_EPSILON__ 1.08420217248550443401e-19L
-#define __SSE_MATH__ 1
 #define __SIZEOF_PTRDIFF_T__ 4
 #define __DEC32_SUBNORMAL_MIN__ 0.01E-95DF
 #define __FLT_HAS_QUIET_NAN__ 1

I encountered this problem on an Atom-based machine and an AMD Phenom 
machine. So, yes, I should probably change my cflags in this case. But given 
many distros that will ship this as binary package (compiled with SSE 
instructions enabled), the better way would be to fix it in the code.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:


 -#define __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ 0
 +#define __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ 2
 
 I think a simple -O2 should be permitted. Does it still fail with
 setting just this single option ?

The O2 flag was set for all tries but it's not the problem here. The problem 
are certain -march options. -march=core2 -mfpmath=sse for the Atom showed 
the error. Settung it to a more conservative -march=prescott makes it 
work. In this case it was a clear overoptimization. But there are other 
march settings like -march=amdfam10 for my Phenom which enable SSE.

 If I understand correctly, what you're calling a fix would be a
 workaround to circumvent a compiler/platform bug in my terminology.
 Right !?  ;-)
Correct.

 Are you running an appropriate kernel on your platform ? As far as I
 remember, the Atom processor series is just a slightly modified and
 shrinked down Pentium III processor.

My kernel is allright. If not i'd run into other issues already. Note that 
it's only EGKK where this happens.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Arnt Karlsen wrote:

 ..who's code, F|S|TG, or GCC?  Which gcc version(s) did you use here?

Where the problem lies in the code I don't know. But it would be SG or TG.
My GCC version is 4.4.5, OS is Gentoo.

 Debian has updated gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.6 yesterday and today, may
 be updating gcc-4.5 now if they didn't earlier this week, so it
 could well be the bug you've found, is being fixed, or has been
 fixed by now.

As I never encountered segfaults like this I currently think it's a SG/TG 
issue that was undetected until now. This does not mean that something has 
to be fixed as it's very small and can be circumvented by disabling SSE in 
the Makefile.

Chris

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 Well, to be more precise, it's been optimization for an incompatible
 platfom  ;-)
 The Core2 has a slightly different instruction set from the Pentium
 III, thus, if I were you, I'd let the 'native' compiler choose the
 right platform optimization for you - as long as you don't compile
 cross-platform.

I can agree, it was surely not the 100% correct setting. But for my Phenom I 
still have no clue what to do.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Curtis Olson wrote:
 
 GIS on a global scale is a really really hard thing.  There are tremendous
 challenges in terms of data set sizes, processing time, numerical
 representations, manipulating and crunching data, etc.  Terrorgear is a
 clever play on words, but any one who is ready to dive in and create a
 better scenery system is more than welcome.  The current system certainly
 has some limitations and I'd welcome updates that brought the system up to
 the next level of realism and polish ... or even replaced the current
 system
 entirely with something better.  Sorry if I'm a little overly sensitive
 today to criticism ... even it it is wrapped in humor or cleverness...


I can only agree with you here, Curt. Everyone who has worked with GIS data 
knows that it can become very complex and time consuming to process. That we 
get scenery, now even from more complex data (although with errors and 
artefacts at some places) can be considered as a miracle, given the amount 
of development time TG receives, compared to FG/SG. I also have to say that 
the sourcecode of TG is nicely documented (i'm a complete noob when it comes 
to C/C++ programming) and yet I somehow can follow the logic in the code. 
That's why I'd like do dive deeper into the airport code and see if I can do 
something there.

Building a frontend (Qt-based) as Gijs did, is a nice endeavour, but I hope 
the backend will not be forgotten and the audience will not have too 
elevated expectations.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
Csaba Halász wrote:


 It is certainly good advice to optimize for the correct processor, but
 using unsupported instructions typically result in a SIGILL not a
 SIGSEGV.
 It would help to see the actual disassembly around the fault and
 machine register contents. It smells like alignment problem.
 

Hi Jester,

I can get that for you, if you want. But what do you need?
info registers? The whole coredump file?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
Csaba Halász wrote:

 Info registers, and something like x/10i $eip   (or $rip on 64 bit)
 

Here you go (still on Atom), Phenom this evening.

(gdb) info registers
eax0x0  0
ecx0xb7e67380   -1209633920
edx0x814aab0135572144
ebx0xb7fbfff4   -1208221708
esp0xbfffc4d8   0xbfffc4d8
ebp0xbfffc4e8   0xbfffc4e8
esi0x3  3
edi0xbfffc72c   -1073756372
eip0xb7fb8fdd   0xb7fb8fdd merge_left+9
eflags 0x210286 [ PF SF IF RF ID ]
cs 0x73 115
ss 0x7b 123
ds 0x7b 123
es 0x7b 123
fs 0x0  0
gs 0x33 51



(gdb) x/10i $eip
= 0xb7fb8fdd merge_left+9:   mov0x14(%eax),%eax
   0xb7fb8fe0 merge_left+12:  movl   $0x1,0x4(%eax)
   0xb7fb8fe7 merge_left+19:  mov0x8(%ebp),%eax
   0xb7fb8fea merge_left+22:  mov0x14(%eax),%edx
   0xb7fb8fed merge_left+25:  mov0xc(%ebp),%eax
   0xb7fb8ff0 merge_left+28:  mov0x14(%eax),%eax
   0xb7fb8ff3 merge_left+31:  cmp%eax,%edx
   0xb7fb8ff5 merge_left+33:  je 0xb7fb9058 merge_left+132
   0xb7fb8ff7 merge_left+35:  mov0x8(%ebp),%eax
   0xb7fb8ffa merge_left+38:  mov0x14(%eax),%eax



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt wrote:
 Here you go (still on Atom), Phenom this evening.

Phenom:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x77bd4504 in merge_left (p=0x7c4f00, q=0x0, list=0x7c4f30) at 
gpc.c:785
#1  0x77bd6861 in gpc_polygon_clip (op=GPC_UNION, subj=0x747fb0, 
clip=0x770120, result=0x74edc0) at gpc.c:1383
#2  0x0045a3cb in polygon_clip (poly_op=POLY_UNION, subject=..., 
clip=...) at polygon.cxx:385
#3  0x0045a613 in tgPolygonUnion (subject=..., clip=...) at 
polygon.cxx:441
#4  0x0045337c in gen_taxiway (rwy_info=..., 
alt_m=25.29840087890625, material=..., rwy_polys=0x7fffb0b0, 
texparams=0x7fffb090, accum=0x7fffa180) at taxiway.cxx:103
#5  0x0040d61d in build_runway (rwy_info=..., 
alt_m=25.29840087890625, rwy_polys=0x7fffb0b0, 
texparams=0x7fffb090, accum=0x7fffa180, apt_base=0x7fffa220, 
apt_clearing=0x7fffa1d0) at build.cxx:300
#6  0x0040fbde in build_airport (airport_id=..., alt_m=25.2984009, 
runways_raw=..., beacons_raw=..., 
towers_raw=..., windsocks_raw=..., root=..., elev_src=...) at 
build.cxx:614
#7  0x00444623 in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fffda68) at main.cxx:340
(gdb) info registers
rax0x0  0
rbx0x3  3
rcx0x0  0
rdx0x7c4f30 8146736
rsi0x0  0
rdi0x7c4f00 8146688
rbp0x7fff8430   0x7fff8430
rsp0x7fff8430   0x7fff8430
r8 0x7506b0 7669424
r9 0x3  3
r100x7720def0   140737339514608
r110x206518
---Type return to continue, or q return to quit---
r120x405540 4216128
r130x7fffda60   140737488345696
r140x0  0
r150x0  0
rip0x77bd4504   0x77bd4504 merge_left+20
eflags 0x10206  [ PF IF RF ]
cs 0x33 51
ss 0x2b 43
ds 0x0  0
es 0x0  0
fs 0x0  0
gs 0x0  0



(gdb) x/10i $rip
= 0x77bd4504 merge_left+20:  mov0x20(%rax),%rax
   0x77bd4508 merge_left+24:  movl   $0x1,0x4(%rax)
   0x77bd450f merge_left+31:  mov-0x18(%rbp),%rax
   0x77bd4513 merge_left+35:  mov0x20(%rax),%rdx
   0x77bd4517 merge_left+39:  mov-0x20(%rbp),%rax
   0x77bd451b merge_left+43:  mov0x20(%rax),%rax
   0x77bd451f merge_left+47:  cmp%rax,%rdx
   0x77bd4522 merge_left+50:  je 0x77bd45a1 
merge_left+177
   0x77bd4524 merge_left+52:  mov-0x18(%rbp),%rax
   0x77bd4528 merge_left+56:  mov0x20(%rax),%rax

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
Curtis Olson wrote:

 Right, as said before, you crashed inside the gpc code.  Have you tried
 regenerating this airport using the --nudge option (increasing the value
 in small increments until you find a value that allows the airport to be
 successfully built.)
 
 Regards,
 
 Curt.

Curt, it's not a question of finishing this build, it's a fact that 
something is broken and I'd like to do my best to help get it fixed.

FYI: I found another, different segfault with EGKK:

Starting program: /usr/bin/genapts --input=./EGKK.dat --work=./test
Input file = ./EGKK.dat
Terrain sources = 
  ./test/SRTM2-Africa-3
  ./test/SRTM2-Australia-3
  ./test/SRTM2-Eurasia-3
  ./test/SRTM2-Islands-3
  ./test/SRTM2-North_America-3
  ./test/SRTM2-South_America-3
  ./test/DEM-USGS-3
  ./test/SRTM-1
  ./test/SRTM-3
  ./test/SRTM-30
Work directory = ./test
Nudge = 10
Longitude = -180:180
Latitude = -90:90
Data version = 810
Next airport = EGKK 196
End of file reached
last_apt_id.length() = 4
Building EGKK
Runway count = 0
Taxiway count = 1
w010n50/w001n51/2941771

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0040fc55 in build_airport (airport_id=..., alt_m=0, 
runways_raw=..., beacons_raw=..., towers_raw=..., 
windsocks_raw=..., root=..., elev_src=...) at build.cxx:621
621 taxiways[i].generated = true;
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0040fc55 in build_airport (airport_id=..., alt_m=0, 
runways_raw=..., beacons_raw=..., towers_raw=..., 
windsocks_raw=..., root=..., elev_src=...) at build.cxx:621
#1  0x00444e15 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffda68) at main.cxx:442



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shaders flicker

2011-04-18 Thread Christian Schmitt
David Glowsky wrote:

 Hi developers,
 
 I have a new computer, installed FG on it and have a problem with the
 graphics.
 
 The problem (beside missing runway lights) is that surfaces generated
 by a shader will flicker. This applies to terrain and aircraft

Moin David,

while I have no solution for the main problem, the following patch (kudos to 
Jester) helps here on my ATI to let runway lights shine as expected:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gamerlay.git;a=blob;f=dev-
games/simgear/files/simgear-radeon-fix-runway-
lights.patch;h=a48c4bf62cd52ffe7f1c2c71dbb8f95ac41fbb09;hb=HEAD

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs segfault

2011-04-23 Thread Christian Schmitt
Csaba Halász wrote:

 Hm, ok, that doesn't seem to be SSE related, it's just your everyday
 NULL pointer.
 Have to check source code to see how that can happen.


Did you look into this already?

Would be a good start to fix this (if the problem is not IN the gpc lib).

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - April 2011

2011-05-01 Thread Christian Schmitt
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

 
 Papillon81's git repo is not available:
 
 

Please note that the link in the Newsletter only leads to the repo overview 
on gitorious where you can see the clone URL right on top of the page. Use 
this one and all should be fine :)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: fgdata merge request 76: Improvedairport Textures

2011-05-11 Thread Christian Schmitt
Vivian Meazza wrote:


 The main problem is that the taxiway textures expose the workaround that
 we use because we don't (yet) have curved taxiways. The concrete colour
 does not blend with the old texture, which is still used for aprons etc.,
 and the edge and centre lines also serve to emphasize the problem. Here
 are a couple of examples.

I really don't see the problem here. The new textures look nicer as they 
have a slightly different colour than the apron. This looks more like planes 
are taxiing there and leave some tire traces behind.

 Note the lack of stopways. Presumably something went wrong with the merge.
 See how every segment of the taxiways is obvious. The colour of the grass
 is probably a matter of opinion, but note how it fails to merge with the
 surrounding textures, exposing the cut-in edge of the airfield. I'm very
 sorry, but IMO this all looks rather unprofessional. I would not wish to
 release this as it stands.
 

The stopways still work for me here, so there is maybe something wrong in 
your fgdata?
The taxiways in your screenshot surely look ugly but that's more due to the 
fact that they are not correctly ordered in the apt.dat file. It's not a 
problem of the new textures.
I'm sorry, but I can't reproduce those problems here

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear - file src/Lib/Optimize/genfans.cxx

2011-05-29 Thread Christian Schmitt
Geoff McLane wrote:
 It certainly works better for me ;=)) And removes
 another reason why fgfs-construct can abort
 without apparent reason!

Hi,

you mean segfaults with no apparent reason? I experience them under Linux 
when building huge scenery chunks and if your patch improves the situation, 
I'll gladly give it a try.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear - file src/Lib/Optimize/genfans.cxx

2011-05-31 Thread Christian Schmitt
Geoff, I applied both of your patches, see here: 
https://gitorious.org/papillon81/terragear-cs

Until now I had no crashes or negative effects on the resulting scenery. 
However, there IS a problem, unrelated to your patches, for which I hope to 
get some help.
I create large chunks of scenery with CORINE and OSM data. fgfs-construct 
runs quite some hours for it and i see the processing is fine. Then, after 
some time (say 6 hours), all I see in the console output are colums with 
Default=x where x is a number between 1 and 3. This goes on and on for 
hours and I stopped it yesterday. Is this supposed normal behaviour? Maybe 
the process is hanging somewhere, the CPU is buisy the whole time.

Any ideas?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear - file src/Lib/Optimize/genfans.cxx

2011-06-01 Thread Christian Schmitt
Geoff McLane wrote:

 It is certainly _NOT_ 'normal' behavior, and
 historically (I assume Curt ;=)) implemented some
 draconian 'rlimit' - setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU,timeout),
 to abort after a period of time, which is just
 NOT available in my WIN32 environment, to avoid
 such a 'forever' loop...

Hi,

while i can't give you the exact output that I reported, right now (i'm not 
on my Computer where it happened), I have dug a bit deeper into the rlimit 
stuff. I used TG with the following patch applied (partly strange): 
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gamerlay.git;a=blob;f=games-
util/terragear-cs/files/terragear-cs-
setrlimit.patch;h=bcb166cd1c6311d655416c4aacefa1b71bcd25c4;hb=e330979f290cc3b2259f124ddc9d9527d42280c5

To rule out any influence of it, I built TG without it, but the fgfs-
construct process got interrupted very early, even with a small part of 
scenery to build. So it seems like this patch is needed one or the other 
way. Maybe with other settings. What do you use there?


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear - file src/Lib/Optimize/genfans.cxx

2011-06-02 Thread Christian Schmitt
Geoff McLane wrote:

 Thanks. It is good to know that the -
 Default=x, where x = 0-2 is 'normal', but
 Chris reported that it was still running after
 6 hours, or more... and still unable to exactly
 find where this is output, in the code...

You won't be able to find Default in the sources as the output is
Landclass = x, Default being Landmass. So there might be something wrong 
in this direction.


 And Chris, you can see some of the comments
 associated with the 2009 patch to the rlimits
 code you pointed to are NOT correct!
 
 Even at that time any attempt to limit
 memory use was abandoned, and the CPU timeout
 was doubled...
 
 Like it seems you have done, this 'limit' is
 really NOT applicable to a specific area
 generation, as apposed to a whole world
 generation, using server/client, so like you,
 I 'chop' this 'rlimit' code completely...

I put the patch back in, too.

 
 Some, like Gijs, and myself, are working on
 a GUI to assist in this scenery generation,
 but the important issue IS making sure the
 TG tools work well, otherwise such a GUI is
 rather pointless...

Exactly, and as long as we don't have a new terrain engine in FG, more 
efforts have to be put into TG, if we don't want to end up in a mess, 
scenery-wise.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear terrafit memory leak

2011-08-15 Thread Christian Schmitt
Durk Talsma wrote:

  I'm explicitly deleting all the Triangle and Edge objects. This has
  improved performance a lot I'm still not able to process the entire
  Eurasian continent in one pass, after this fix, the total number of
  .fit files that can be created on my linux box has gone up from 15881
  to 94865.
 
 I hope to be able to commit these changes one way or the other.
 

Hi Durk,

glad to see you are also tackling some TG issues. I'm looking forward for 
your patches. Maybe you can also take a look at the patches in this repo 
here:
https://gitorious.org/papillon81/terragear-cs
Some of the commits might be worth integrating.

Thanks
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Slackware packages for 2.4.0

2011-08-21 Thread Christian Schmitt
Curtis Olson wrote:

 Thanks Jon!
 
 I've added this info to the flightgear.org web site.
 
 If anyone else is working on packages for other linux distributions (or
 knows of updates for other distributions) please post here or let me know
 directly.
 

I'm maintaining the Gentoo packages for our GIT versions (including tools 
like taxidraw and terragear).
Available here: 
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gamerlay.git;a=summary

A package for 2.4.0 has yet to be created.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Christian Schmitt
HB-GRAL wrote:
 
 Personally I don’t know if there is a roadmap for taxidraw anymore. You
 can edit airport data with tools like Qgis directly and with much more
 comfort. It’s sad, but I think we dont need it anymore.
 

Well, you can import apt.dat data into QGIS via GDAL. But be aware that this 
is a one-way road. Export is not possible with GDAL.
I hope I'll be able to write a postgres script to write out apt.dat text 
files. Work is advancing slowly, however.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Schmitt
Durk Talsma wrote:

 I've imported the complete revision history from CVS. At this stage, I
 haven't really made a desision about whether I should try to keep the CVS
 and gitorious projects synchronized, or whether we should abandon the CVS
 repository altogether.

I don't see why you should take the extra work to sync up both repos. First 
of all CVS is a PITA, compared to git and I don't see the benefit of further 
supporting it.
Also, having the possibility of pull requests now on gitorious is a valuable 
improvement which might lead to the development of taxidraw gaining speed 
again.

The same as with taxidraw should be done with terragear, which also lacks 
developer power and where quite some patches are scrambled over different 
places.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw

2011-09-07 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 
 Well, why did this happen ? As far as I can tell no patch submission was
 unheard.

Well, there are some patches in my TG tree that I'm using here and that 
might be worth considering:
https://gitorious.org/papillon81/terragear-cs/commits/master

Am I right that the mapserver TG repo is a copy of the CVS original? Then 
maybe a complete rebase would be in order, before pushing the whole stuff to 
its own repo.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Turner wrote:

 If you regularly pull+build 'next', please try a cmake based build, and
 report any issues you encounter - CMake should work 'out of the box' on
 Mac (Makefiles or XCode), Linux (32- and 64- bit) and Windows
 (VisualStudio  2008 and 2010 -  mingw and cygwin may need some fixes).

I have used CMake in the Gentoo packages pretty much from the start, but 
right now I'm experiencing some problems: all is good as long as I have 
libsvn support enabled in SG and FG. When I disable it in SG and want to 
recompile FG afterwards (also disabled, of course), I get a linking error 
for Terrasync:

Linking CXX executable terrasync
   
[ 47%] Building CXX object 
src/FDM/CMakeFiles/fgFDM.dir/UIUCModel/uiuc_auto_pilot.cpp.o

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-
gnu/4.5.3/../../../../lib64/libsgthreads.a(SGThread.cxx.o): In function 
`SGThread::~SGThread()':  
(.text+0x41): undefined reference to `pthread_detach'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-
gnu/4.5.3/../../../../lib64/libsgthreads.a(SGThread.cxx.o): In function 
`SGThread::start()':
(.text+0xce): undefined reference to `pthread_create'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-
gnu/4.5.3/../../../../lib64/libsgthreads.a(SGThread.cxx.o): In function 
`SGThread::join()':
(.text+0x116): undefined reference to `pthread_join'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [utils/TerraSync/terrasync] Error 1
make[1]: *** [utils/TerraSync/CMakeFiles/terrasync.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs

I don't know if this is caused by the recent cmake changes or rather by the 
threads class rewrite...

HTH
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] New experimental mapserver

2011-09-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
Curtis Olson wrote:

 I won't say this is perfect in all areas ... some areas have stray data
 points or noise in the terrain data that confuses things.  There's always
 a chance of a mismatch between airport location terrain location so that
 we
 are trying to put the airport on not quite the right underlying terrain. 
 My thoughts for future extensions of this code would be to allow for
 creating specific tuning parameters for airports that didn't behave well
 with the default parameters.

An nice example where a high slope leads to bad results would be LFLJ, 
however, it is possible in such cases to use the --max-slope option in 
genapts.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cmake

2011-09-11 Thread Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt wrote:

 I have used CMake in the Gentoo packages pretty much from the start, but
 right now I'm experiencing some problems: all is good as long as I have
 libsvn support enabled in SG and FG. When I disable it in SG and want to
 recompile FG afterwards (also disabled, of course), I get a linking error
 for Terrasync:
 

This is now solved with the latest FG git version. Thanks!

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[Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs apt.dat 850 runway support

2011-09-21 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi there,

i just want to announce that I added support for the 850 apt.dat runways to 
genapts. This work is thought as a compliment to the currently ongoing 
development towards curved taxiways.
The current state is that genapts reads runways and creates them 
accordingly.

Features:
-different designations for both runway ends
-different runway markings for both ends
-all kinds of lights (different where possible in the 850 format)

I was very glad to find already existing definitions for all kinds of new 
approach lights in the source.
Also, the possibility to assign different runway markings to both ends make 
it possible to finally create runways visually correct that are only used 
into one direction (RW 18/36 in EDDF is one example).

I'm currently working on the missing objects like PAPIs/VASIs.

As this is my first programming project, I hope I didn't mess up something 
too bad. The source is available here:
https://gitorious.org/papillon81/terragear-cs/commits/850

I cleaned up quite a bit of the runway markings code and made it more 
flexible. So it should be easier to add a wider variety of runway types in 
the future.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs apt.dat 850 runway support

2011-09-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt wrote:

 Hi there,
 
 i just want to announce that I added support for the 850 apt.dat runways
 to genapts. This work is thought as a compliment to the currently ongoing
 development towards curved taxiways.
 The current state is that genapts reads runways and creates them
 accordingly.
 

Oh, and by the way: I'm still searching for the runway texture paintkit as 
mentioned here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-
de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg25639.html

If not, we might want to take another approach on recreating them...


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-01 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Turner wrote:

 Okay, but the relevant source file (sg_binobj) appears to contain both the
 read *and* write code paths - which is really what I was asking - is the
 write logic in sg_binobj.cxx the one terragear uses, or 'something else'?
 
 James

Please be aware that TG uses SG-CS currently. I used it with the normal SG 
for a while but this was no longer possible recently. It exposed weird 
behaviour and crashes.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear and 2 Arc Second elevation data

2011-10-15 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 We're not yet there. On a first test earlier today, 'genapts' ended in
 a segfault with the recent changes   but I ran out of time, thus I
 have not yet verified if the source change in 'simgear' really was the
 culprit,


Confirmed here. And I thought first it was the new terragear Doing a 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear and 2 Arc Second elevation data

2011-10-15 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 We're not yet there. On a first test earlier today, 'genapts' ended in
 a segfault with the recent changes   but I ran out of time, thus I
 have not yet verified if the source change in 'simgear' really was the
 culprit,


Confirmed here. And I thought first it was the new terragear Doing a 
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[Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-10-25 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi there,

maybe you have noticed some exceptionally high activity in recent days/weeks 
on the Terragear repo. Well, there is one particular reason for it: It now 
supports the cmake build system and, as of today, does no longer depend on 
plib. These changes are not yet in the master tree, but can be tested in the 
topics/cmake-integration branch. Please do so, if possible, so we can iron 
out any showstoppers.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-10-26 Thread Christian Schmitt
Geoff McLane wrote:


 An error something like -
 'do not know how to make main.c from main.o'
 which I did NOT understand... seems reversed!
 
 And why 'main.c', since the Makefile.am shows
 only -
 raw2ascii_SOURCES = main.cxx rawdem.c rawdem.h
 There is no main.c here???
 

Hi,

this is caused by old .dep dirs and files lying around, which still contain 
the old names (main was renamed recently). So either restart with a fresh 
repo checkout, or do a grep for main.c in src/Prep/DemRaw2ascii and change 
it accordingly.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-10-26 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Turner wrote:

 A fair suggestion! I originally combined them because it was easier not to
 worry about PLIB when creating the CMake files, but I wasn't expecting the
 slightly-complex changes to de-PLIB the file handling code.
 
 Let me see how hard it would be, to un-pick the changes.
 

I'm pretty good at untangling git commits, but IMHO, let's only do that if 
it is clear that the current directory problems can't be rectified with 1-2 
more commits. Seperating cmake from de-plib might be far more work.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear memory usage issue

2011-10-29 Thread Christian Schmitt
Jason Cox wrote:

 is it not appropriate to issue a build of such a large area?
 should I use smaller chunks?
 should terragear not be releasing the memory after building a tile?

Generally speaking, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And yes, it 
should free unused memory after finishing a tile. This is also one of the 
(many) issues. Patches or more info are always welcome.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear memory usage issue

2011-10-31 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi Jason,

I just tried to reproduce this issue here. Generating some scenery around 
LOWI with 850 airport layouts, I only see always two SRTM files open: the 
arr.gz and fit.gz for the tile that is currently built. So no problems here. 
What confuses me a bit is you using SRTM-2 files. What is this and how does 
hgtchop handle these?

Chris

Jason Cox wrote:

 Ok so I am replying to myself.
 
 after running fgfs-construct for the last 10+ hours at nice -20 and
 still going I have the following info.
 
 I ran lsof on the PID and have found that it is still holding all SRTM2
 arr and fit files open. This is the probable cause of the memory leak
 that I am seeing.
 
 Can anyone point in the direction of where this should be unloaded and I
 will attempt to hack the code
 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear memory usage issue

2011-11-01 Thread Christian Schmitt
Jason Cox wrote:

 I would try a larger area, say 1x1 deg or larger and then and then you
 will see the list grow to include tiles that are no longer needed.
 

I created a 2x3 degree area. No problems. What terragear-cs version do you 
use and against which simgear do you compile it?

Will now test even further and create another area.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-11-02 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Turner wrote:

 I've pushed a fix to Simgear, updated the tests, and now I can run hgtchop
 happily with latest simgear and terragear.

Not only can I hgtchop, but also build scenery chunks again. So from my 
point of view the problems are solved. Are there any objections against 
pushing the changes to master? So this gets some more testing and more 
people can make use of the improvements.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-11-03 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Turner wrote:

 With some local changes to Simgear/next, but I am 'fairly sure' they don't
 relate to path/file/string handling. (Some changes in the SGOceanTile
 handling)
 

I just tested this as well (without your fix) and it works here too. Even 
when using Martin's pathnames.

glibc-2.13
gcc-4.5.3


Martin: Can you tell me under which OS this is happening? So I can try to 
reproduce it in a VM.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-11-03 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 Christian Schmitt wrote:
 
 Martin: Can you tell me under which OS this is happening? So I can try to
 reproduce it in a VM.
 
 That's stock Debian 6 alias Squeeze, the current stable, GCC-4.4.5 and
 Glibc-2.11.2, if it matters,
 

I guess it matters, because I get exactly the same error as you now in the 
Debian VM

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-11-03 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 That's stock Debian 6 alias Squeeze, the current stable, GCC-4.4.5 and
 Glibc-2.11.2, if it matters,

Ok, I observed the following: compiling the raw2ascii as Release leads to 
the error (on Debian). When compiling as Debug it works here.

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[Flightgear-devel] FGWeekend NL scenery

2011-11-05 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

for those of you who are interested in some nice EHLE flyins can download the 
custom scenery for NL with apt.dat 850 airports and OSM line data here:

https://gitorious.org/papillon81/flightgear-terrain

Have fun!

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-11-07 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:
 
 Thanks a lot, things are looking much better now !  I'll perform a few
 more tests and will report back.

Can confirm the fix as well. It works all as expected. Waiting for your last 
feedback now, Martin, before preparing the merge.

 In the meantime we managed to established a method to reliably create
 topologically clean !! CORINE land cover from the publicly available
 sources, thus we just (TM) need to find out how - reliably - not to
 crash 'fgfs-construct' when processing these detailed datasets at large
 scale  ;-)

That sounds good, but I still don't know what/where the tile border 
elevation inaccuracies exactly come from...

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear now sans plib

2011-11-08 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 I'm pretty certain the crash in 'fgfs-construct' is unrelated, just the
 usual issue we already know.  Therefore I'd vote to merge the CMake
 branch - just in case, we'd fix the remaining issues in master.

Done. If someone could remove the cmake branches, that'd be nice. :)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fixing fgfs-construct crashes

2011-11-13 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

Martin Spott wrote:
 
 Thus, if you'd be willing to put your stuff into a branch at the main
 repo, please go ahead - call us if you don't have write access.

I don't feel too good about adding even more branches directly into the main 
TG repo. The reason is this: In the process of the 850 development we have 
changed and rebased the history multiple times against TG master (mainly 
because of the cmake addition that came along and that I added to our files 
as well). This as a consequence changes the git objects and needs a forced 
push. That's allright for testing. I'd rather do the dirty work seperately 
in an own repo than polluting the TG main repo with old and unused git 
objects (which git does not throw away by itself). And no, I'd not use git 
merge for this, as this as it complicates the history and leads to all kind 
of problems later on.

To make life a bit easier, I have moved the TG 850 repo to be a clone of TG 
now, so that at least activity in our clone shows up on the main FG page. 
This should already improve the situation quite a bit.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fixing fgfs-construct crashes

2011-11-13 Thread Christian Schmitt
James Turner wrote:
 
 Okay, this all sounds like good news indeed. Martin, Chris, Peter - I
 think the steps need to be as follows - get a branch of terragear with the
 clipper changes, and probably the epsilon changes Maxime describes
 (because I've always worried, they were only needed due to GPC problems).

I like the way of getting the changes into master in tiny chunks. And I 
already tested the epsilon changes of Maxime with the NL scenery I created 
for FSWeekend.
So if you all agree, I can create a clipper/epsilon branch against master to 
get this tested first.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning codes, genapts

2011-12-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

yes, the 850 genapts supports the new approach lights. In fact, even the 850 
version did in theory, but the file format did not.

The relevant code starts here:
https://gitorious.org/~papillon81/fg/terragear850/blobs/tg850/src/Airports/GenAirports/lights.cxx#line2635

Please ignore the  not supported by data base comments. Those types 
are also supported. I only have to correct the comments.

Of course they work with FG.

Cheers,
Chris



HB-GRAL wrote:

 Hi all
 
 Another question rised up here during my faa-data to apt.dat conversion.
 Does the current (or the updated) genapts take new approach lightning
 codes into account ? Can the scenery tools read the new 8.50 runway line
 already or is this still based on 8.10 specs ?
 
 Maybe I missed this point in a discussion here, sorry for that. But to
 illustrate my question, the problem is that some lightning codes are
 not covered in 8.10 specs. What I get from FAA:
 
 # MALSR
 # MALSF
 # MALS
 # SSALR
 # SALS
 # LDIN
 # RAIL
 # MIL OVRN
 # NSTD
 # ALSF-1
 # ALSF-2
 # ODALS
 
 Now With 8.50 runway line specs I can cover most of this new codes,
 but not with 8.10, which knows only
 
 # SSALS (Simplified short approach light system)
 # SALSF (Short approach light system with sequenced flashing lights).
 # ALSF-I (Approach light system with sequenced flashing lights).
 # ALSF-II (Approach light system with sequenced flashing lights and red
 side bar lights the last 1000').
 # ODALS (Omni-directional approach light system).
 # Calvert (a British design) category 1.
 # Calvert (a British design) categories 2 and 3.
 
 I can not find any information about FLightGear implementation. This
 here http://wiki.flightgear.org/Approach_lighting_system is just a copy
 paste from wikipedia and does not say if this codes/models are part of
 the fg runway lightning system or not ?
 
 Thanks for any suggestion and comment about this.
 
 Cheers, Yves
 
 
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning codes, genapts

2011-12-17 Thread Christian Schmitt
Christian Schmitt wrote:

 Hi,
 
 [...] In fact, even the
 850 version did in theory, but the file format did not.

I mean 810, of course :)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] SPAM in the MP world

2012-02-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Stefan Gofferje wrote:

 I think, we should seriously do something about this kind of stuff before
 the MP world becomes a popular place for spammers, like e.g. have the MP
 servers filter URLs out from the MP chat...
 

No, I do not agree. But for exactly this purpose we have the ignore 
checkboxes in the pilot list, which would have solved your problem quite 
easily :)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery related: groundnetworks and parking

2012-02-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Martin Spott wrote:

 Any volunteer(s) ?  Proper representation of ground network nodes as
 PostGIS (actually OGC) geometry data type preferred.
 

Apparently you don't want any 850 centerlines as a base for this, which 
would be easy as gdal imports 850 data directly into Postgis, as you surely 
know :)
It might be a solution worth considering IMHO.

Surely a lot easier than drawing groundnetworks from scratch for bigger 
airports.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Looking at a nice project from outside

2012-02-24 Thread Christian Schmitt
flightg...@sablonier.ch wrote:

 [...] I really wish we
 could build some kind of temporary Scenery Team and discuss ideas.
 My proposal is to meet at IRC on day the next weeks to start
 organizing, or to open a temporary group or list. (Sorry, i do not
 like the forum for such).

A scenery team is no bad idea and overdue. There ARE people who have 
proven in the past that they like to work on the scenery basics and not 
only create custom scenery. I had so many contributions to the CS DB, 
that I did not catch up with the work (and am in fact still missing 
some parts).
Let me mention though that there IS a #fg_scenery channel on IRC (with 
nobody in it) and having a meeting to coordinate ideas and capacities 
surely is a good start.

In the mid- to longterm perspective I'd like to make more advancements 
on the terragear side, to enable us to rebuild single tiles when there 
are changes. This is possible already, as many of you know, but then in 
most cases the newly created tile does no longer match fit to its 
neighbours, which results in gaps. If we could iron this out, we'd be a 
whole lot further down the road...

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[Flightgear-devel] Log of Scenery IRC meeting

2012-02-26 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hello,

here is the log of the meeting we held today as a first measure to formalize 
future scenery development processes.
I deleted any mail adresses for privacy reasons.

Cheers
Chris

[17:26:58] MartinSpott I'm just interested in the log, thus if you prefer 
to chat on 'your' server, then I'm completely satisfied if you'd create a 
log
[17:27:12] papillon81 MartinSpott: that's planned anyway, yes
[17:27:46] MartinSpott Ok, then you'd better save your time and use your 
favourite server
[17:28:02] papillon81 now we are almost all here
[17:28:17] MartinSpott Ah, I was just about to leave  :-)
[17:28:30] itchi_ arf :/
[17:28:42] papillon81 whatever
[17:28:45] papillon81 let's start
[17:28:47] MartinSpott Really, I just interested in the log
[17:29:27] itchi_ MartinSpott: There where a few that had some questions
[17:30:01] itchi_ Maybe time to start no? Not that i have any particular 
question
[17:30:25] itchi_ MartinSpott: BTW, i'm David Van Mosselbeen (if you have 
read my mail on the devlist)
[17:30:30] Blackiris Yeah, ok
[17:31:28] ysablonier MartinSpott: Is there a tracker for issues/task 
world scenery related?
[17:32:54] MartinSpott Don't know, I didn't create any tracker
[17:32:57] - ysablonier heißt jetzt gral
[17:33:00] gral So.
[17:33:55] MartinSpott If you'd like to track Scenery issues, I think the 
bug-tracker @ Google is the place you're looking for
[17:34:16] MartinSpott At least that's the only one I've been monitoring 
occasionally
[17:34:23] Blackiris Martin: do you have at least some todo list about 
world scenery tasks?
[17:34:54] gral My proposal is to open another tracker for the World 
Scenery Project, more for the tasks
[17:35:36] papillon81 gral: i'd say a scenery specific tracker, which 
includes issues in TG and in the released scenery
[17:35:50] MartinSpott I'm having _my_ todo list concerning the land cover 
vectors.  Aside from that, you'll find a couple of requests on the -devel 
mailing list
[17:36:45] MartinSpott Olivier has picked up one of the items, but as far 
as I know most of the requests passed unheard
[17:37:17] gral Can I make you the owner of 
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-world-scenery/ , temporary ?
[17:37:20] Blackiris Maybe they should be written somewhere such as the 
wiki
[17:38:00] gral http://wiki.flightgear.org/World_Scenery_2.0_Project
[17:38:27] MartinSpott gral: If you're asking me, I'm certainly not taking 
any ownership  ;-)
[17:39:40] gral This was TO ALL ;-)
[17:39:40] MartinSpott I'm in the process of cleaning up by backlog so 
whoever might want to continue will get the stuff a moderately clean state
[17:40:25] papillon81 MartinSpott: what would stuff be in this case?
[17:41:12] MartinSpott Past Scenemodels submissions with open issues
[17:41:43] MartinSpott Writing yet another reminder about the airfield 
collection
[17:42:08] MartinSpott Chatting with GIS people about possible 
improvements in GRASS
[17:42:25] MartinSpott Building recent PostGIS SVN on Solaris
[17:43:06] MartinSpott Adding comments to the various (Shell) scripts and 
updating the sceneryweb and terragear-cs GIT repos accordingly
[17:43:19] psadro1 Martin, I'm a bit concerned about 
mapserver.flightgear.org.  This is pretty much your domain as well, correct?
[17:44:01] MartinSpott yup, I had very little support there  :-)
[17:44:20] itchi_ For my Belgium scenery, one of the main reasons i host 
them on Gitorious is that the airport layouts aren't right. Some are 
completely non-accurate with +-300m off. And some other are just missing 
some essential runway. So i'm a bit lost i must admit
[17:44:48] MartinSpott Adrian recently added some features to the web map, 
but aside from that I think it's my own playground
[17:45:02] psadro1 Is this your server?
[17:45:11] MartinSpott Don't expect me to join any sort of discussion 
about the private sceneries
[17:45:15] itchi_ Well, i worry about EBSG and EBTY, because they are on 
of my favorite fields which i visited and like to fly there in FG :) Even if 
i didn't fly there in real life :)
[17:45:42] MartinSpott psadro1: No, sponsored hardware and bandwidth in 
San Diego UCSD and Calit2
[17:45:55] itchi_ They aren't meant to be private at all. But if i push my 
airport objects, you will be on the wrong side of te airfield :/
[17:46:12] MartinSpott psadro1: Actually that's not just one server.
[17:46:21] MartinSpott One four-socket DB server on Solaris
[17:46:22] papillon81 MartinSpott: if I see this correctly, gral is 
working on some mapserver project, too. would you hand over the ressources 
to a person you trust?
[17:46:36] MartinSpott One web frontend (4 cores) on Linux
[17:46:38] itchi_ I like to take up an aircraft at a hangar, take off... 
and do my stuff, and set back the aircraft where i took it :)
[17:46:58] MartinSpott A supplemental TileCache running on a dedicated 
machine, but not being used exclusively for FG stuff
[17:47:12] psadro1 that's a relief.  I was a bit panicked about it when I 
read your mail on the 

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New (real time) mapping tool proposal

2012-03-02 Thread Christian Schmitt
HB-GRAL wrote:

 Now I am deeply offended. Did you ever have a closer look to FGx
 launcher? It has exactly all this already prepared for you and this
 project is open to any contribution.
 

I can understand you. And Curt, openlayers is by far a new thing. Not only 
is it used in FGx (a nice piece of software), but also on 
mapserver.flightgear.org.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Project Rembrandt - next steps

2012-03-03 Thread Christian Schmitt
Stuart Buchanan wrote:

 Given that we have 400+ aircraft that need to be updated, I think we
 also need clear documentation (on the wiki?) describing the steps you
 outline above, and in particular how to register the transparent
 surfaces.  That probably needs to be in place before the code goes
 into next.

Yes, then we can make aircraft after aircraft Rembrandt ready so that we 
have a nice pool of planes for the next release.
 
 IMO we should bite the bullet and get it into next this week if
 possible.  There's obviously some risk to our 6 month release
 schedules that we'll just have to accept.

I agree here. Let's merge the Rembrandt work into next so that every git 
user has to work with it, can find glitches and adapt shaders. There are 
people holding back their shader improvements in anticipation of Rembrandt. 
We have to merge it anyway sooner or later. Now, the likeliness of conflicts 
is lower and the speed of development will be faster.

Cheers
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Project Rembrandt - next steps

2012-03-04 Thread Christian Schmitt
Curtis Olson wrote:

 I have a local branch I've created here for some experimentation.  When
 ever I do a git pull from the gitorious repository, I do that in the
 next/master branches.  Then I switch to my local branch and type git
 merge next (or master) to make my local branch up to date with the main
 development head.
 
 There may be a better way to do that, but it's what was suggested to me,
 and seems to work and I've stuck with it.

For the sake of completeness and (possibly) nicer git history in the future 
let me say this:

There IS indeed a better way for exactly your use-case:
When switching back to your local branch after git pull in next, use git 
rebase next (or master) on your local branch. This makes sure your changes 
are always on top of your local branch and prevents those Merge commit XXX 
messages in the git history.

HTH
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] First attempt with terragear: fail! :-(

2012-03-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Gijs de Rooy wrote:

 
 Looks like OGR-decode is broken (in the Windows builds at least) since
 some time. I still don't completely understand the difference between OGR
 and Shape, both seem to deliver the same results... Maybe someone else can
 explain this?

ogr-decode uses gdal to process the shapes, which is generally a good idea 
as gdal is THE tool for such tasks. As I'm not running windows I can't help 
with improving the situation there, sorry.

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[Flightgear-devel] Next Meeting #fg_scenery

2012-03-24 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi,

the next meeting is planned for Monday, 26.3. at 16:00 UTC or 4 
PM UTC.
Don't forget about the DST starting tonight in many countries :)

Hope to see many of you.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Rembrandt] the plan

2012-03-26 Thread Christian Schmitt
Tested under Gentoo with a Radeon HD 4670 and the fglrx driver: Works. 
Render previews show up and the overall performance is nice.

I also ran a short test with the opensource radeon driver. There, the GLSL 
version 1.3 was too much for it. I got a picture however.

Can't wait to see the render previews combined :)

Chris

Frederic Bouvier wrote:

 The first batch of sources has been pushed to gitorious. These commits are
 intended mainly to check that the classical (forward) renderer is not
 broken and works as usual. They will also permit one to challenge his GPU
 and see how it behaves in front of the beast.
 
 In the plan exposed previously (see below), I skipped step 3. (define an
 XML format for a configurable renderer) as it appears to be more involved
 than expected. So what you have is a buggy step 5. :) Buggy because for
 some reason, sun light depends on the orientation of the camera. But
 you should get an image.
 
 The Rembrandt renderer is enabled with the --enable-rembrandt option.
 *ALL SHADERS SHOULD BE SET TO OFF* unless someone want to begin to
 convert other shaders.
 
 Regards,
 -Fred
 
 
 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] updates to nav.dat.gz

2012-04-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
flightg...@sablonier.ch wrote:

 Hi Crhis, Torsten
 
 What is really needed at the moment is someone starting to verify if some
 changes to our apt.dat from the past have to come to recent apt.dat
 shipped with FlightGear. Martin Spott prepared an updated apt.dat on the
 mapserver, but the changes in there have to be verified if it’s worth to
 commit this to Robin Peels database first. Some airports have probably
 better or more improvements in flightgear apt.dat version (i.e. taxiways).
 There are ~250 airports to check (see the link posted in my former post).

I'm already doing the checks (and modifications) for the german airports on 
the list. Those will be sent to Robin. 


 In this case it would make sense to unpack apt.dat, too, as many changes
 need to be done to the two files (ILS changes i.e.)
 
 Chris, you mean nav.dat here, do you?

I mean both files here. EDDF recently got a new runway and as such the namig 
scheme has changed completely. So I would like to change the runway names in 
apt.dat and the ILS data in nav.dat :)
 
 Isn’t it possible to commit flightgear apt.dat/nav.dat changes directly to
 Robin Peel/xplane database, without serving an own apt.dat and spreading
 derivatives? This caused a lot of problems the last years I guess. I.e.
 there was never a proper solution what happens to changes made by
 flightgear contributors. It would be so much easier to have ONE
 apt.dat/nav.dat source, maybe someone can contact Robin Peel to get a
 shared flightgear/xplane repository?

It IS generally (almost always) the best, to send changes directly to Robin. 
Our problem here is that we can't just update our apt.dat file with a newer 
version from Robin, as long as our scenery does not get rebuilt. What 
Torsten probably envisions with his proposal is the possibility of easier 
hotfixes for our files.

Again, we can't just update our apt.dat file with the latest version from 
xplane, as our scenery was created with a certain apt.dat file and thus 
depends on the corresponding file. Otherwise we'd have inconsistencies 
between i.e. FG's apt database and the runways showing up in our scenery.
Xplane in contrast creates all airports on the fly, when loading the 
scenery, so they can switch apt.dat files without bigger problems.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] updates to nav.dat.gz

2012-04-10 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi Yves,

flightg...@sablonier.ch wrote:

 update in general? Why is it possible to update apt. and nav.dat in xplane
 every months without (?) inconsistencies and not for FlightGear? Is there
 something that could be changed in the concept of scenery and data
 distribution for FlightGear?

Did you actually read my last message here? I tried to explain where the 
differences between FG and xplane are:
Xplane generates the airports on the fly on startup and thus can just 
exchange the apt.dat files. I guess you can imagine that this would not be a 
good idea for us currently.


 Yes, this is a honorable work you did over the last years. I will start to
 compare newer xplane data with all changes made by flightgear contributors
 on old data. This will take some time, maybe this will take 2-3 months.
 Every help is much appreciated, also some hints where to start (Europe
 because of upcoming scenery updates?).
 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] updates to nav.dat.gz

2012-04-11 Thread Christian Schmitt
ThorstenB wrote:

 But to be honest, it neither works with central terrasync scenery. We
 could never push any updates (such as introducing terrasync scenery with
 the new EDDF runway) without immediately breaking consistency with all
 previously released FG versions (= their base packages). And we cannot
 expect all users to run the same FG version - or to even update their FG
 setups (base packages) on the same day. A bunch of Linux distros still
 haven't switched to FG 2.6.0...

But we can't guarantee backwards compatibility forever for future world 
scenery releases. The main problem I currently see is a different one 
however...

 Terrasync already syncs a global /Models directory, so terrasync
 scenery can use newer or updated models. We could do the same for nav
 data. I'd be happy to extend terrasync to sync another global directory,
 i.e. /Nav (or /Nav810, /Nav850) and then extend FG to consider
 these directories first, before defaulting to (old) nav/airport/airway
 data from the base package - which then would only need to match the
 (old) base package scenery (i.e. before the users pulls terrasync data
 for the first time).

Now, it's good to see these issues getting some attention, but that is not 
the only issue we are facing:
Taxiway signs are distributed via terrasync as stg entries. apt.dat 850 
contains the taxiway definitions along with the rest of the airport data. 
What we do now in genapts850 is to convert the sign format from apt.dat to 
stg and write the corresponding files. No problem so far (and we always get 
the correct hight for the signs along the way). If a user wants to edit the 
signs, he can do it in stg, but that is a one way road. Ideally the edits 
should go back to upstream so everyone can profit from them. But there is no 
(official) way back from stg to apt.dat. I was in this situation yesterday 
and hacked together a quick script to be able to convert the signs.

Xplane's WorldEditor (WED), an opensource program, BTW, is perfectly able to 
create airport layouts, signs and taxiway routes. All of this is read and 
written back to apt.dat. So our general question should be how to handle 
this situation in the most optimal way. Should we continue implementing our 
own xml versions of the apt.dat entries or should we rather try to read as 
many properties as possible directly from an apt.dat file? And how do we 
secure the exchange of data between stg and apt.dat?

This topic is very complex and I'm sure i forgot many other important 
aspects, but this is just what i'm currently thinking about.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] updates to nav.dat.gz

2012-04-23 Thread Christian Schmitt
ThorstenB wrote:

 But to be honest, it neither works with central terrasync scenery. We
 could never push any updates (such as introducing terrasync scenery with
 the new EDDF runway) without immediately breaking consistency with all
 previously released FG versions (= their base packages).

We could, if the xml parser would not simply discard any new runways that 
are not already in the apt.dat file.
The xml files are small, can be distributed easily and are very fine-
grained, meaning that FG only has to parse the data it really needs for the 
current scenery path, instead of parsing a close-to 100 MB file on every 
startup (only for the apt data).

We could completely decouple the scenery from the base package and finally 
make it possible again to distribute updated scenery via terrasync, even in 
smaller chunks (continent-wise or whatever makes sense).

I already looked into the code and James has signalled support, so I'd like 
to hear some opinions.

 Terrasync already syncs a global /Models directory, so terrasync
 scenery can use newer or updated models. We could do the same for nav
 data. I'd be happy to extend terrasync to sync another global directory,
 i.e. /Nav (or /Nav810, /Nav850) and then extend FG to consider
 these directories first, before defaulting to (old) nav/airport/airway
 data from the base package - which then would only need to match the
 (old) base package scenery (i.e. before the users pulls terrasync data
 for the first time).

You mean to put small apt.dat/nav.dat parts into these directories?


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