[Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Durk Talsma
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,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14B Update

2008-10-05 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Alexis, On Sunday 05 October 2008 20:47:36 Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: Hi all, here is a major update for the Tomcat. (feed back welcome) Note about the Call for aircrafts nominations: the F-14b is heavy, and it's not going to be improved. I also plan to work on more fps-killing features.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] texture updates...

2008-10-13 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 01:35:55 Syd wrote: Could someone apply the patch please , and I'll start commiting textures . Thanks Done. Thanks! - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] eyecandy: landing lights

2008-10-14 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 22:11:50 Torsten Dreyer wrote: Some screenshots, not perfect but maybe worth sharing: http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca-landing-lights.jpg http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca-landing-lights-2.jpg Stay tuned for more - hopefully to be ready for the FSWeekend in Lelystad... Hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear contest

2008-10-25 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Curt, On Friday 24 October 2008 18:38:46 Curtis Olson wrote: I've been speaking with a manufacturer of graphics related hardware device. Let me just keep it generic for now, even if the list of names to guess from isn't very long. 2. Since this is marketing, wow, it would really make

[Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2008

2008-10-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Everybody, This is just a quick reminder: The Aviodrome aviation museum at Lelystad Airport (EHLE), is organizing FSWeekend again this coming weekend (Nov 1 2). FlightGear is organizing a booth, for the third time in succession. This year's crew will consist of Martin Spott, Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO Boeing jumper

2008-10-27 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gerard, On Monday 27 October 2008 17:37:22 gerard robin wrote: Hello, I don't know if it is just me, and the Boeing aircrafts being frightened by the French Aircrafts, i get on KSFO that funny scenery animation. The animated aircrafts, on the tarmac, randomly jump on the top of the

[Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend impressions

2008-11-02 Thread Durk Talsma
HI Folks, I just came back from the annual FSWeekend fair in Lelystad, and thought I'd share some impressions. Last week has been quite busy, so I feel very strongly about having a relaxed evening and enjoy a glass of wine (try to spot an increase in typing errors toward the end of this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend impressions

2008-11-03 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Torsten, Want pictures? http://www.t3r.de/flightpics/fsweekend2008/ Sending this from work by webmail: let's hope it works: Here's a quote from the X-plane.org forum: At FSWeekend there was a guy from the open-source flight simulator FlightGear too. He had this large FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-users] World Scenery 1.0.1 (final directory comparison )

2008-11-04 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:26:18 Syd wrote: Hi Syd, Ok my turn :) I found Ron's comment about not being welcome to create scenery a bit disturbing ... why? Just to make a slightly off thread comment: All I can say is that Ron's comments on this list have been courteous and professional

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic Manager II

2008-11-15 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 21 August 2008 23:11:12 Durk Talsma wrote: The main improvement of the current code is that I've switched to a more efficient search mechanism to link Aircraft and Flights. There are still a few things left to do before the code is ready for CVS: - Switch the file format back

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic Manager II

2008-11-16 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 16 November 2008 00:02:13 Durk Talsma wrote: I believe that the code has now matured enough to give it a wider audience. Therefore, I intend to commit this code tomorrow. I will also commit a small sample of the EHAM demo that we are working on. Done. I have also included a small

Re: [Flightgear-devel] release thoughts

2008-11-16 Thread Durk Talsma
Just to approach the perspective of a new release from a slightly different angle. I would indeed like to start piecing it all together. As I mentioned previously, my last three months have been rather hectic. Starting a new job, moving, and being without an internet connection for nearly two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-11-16 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gerard, On Sunday 16 November 2008 15:22:50 gerard robin wrote: could you include the Caudron C684 http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/f/fa/C684-1.png Great Aircraft, Model, FDM, Cockpit ... It should be able to pretend. Cheers Thanks for pointing out this little gem. I took it up

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic Manager II

2008-11-16 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 16 November 2008 20:34:48 Heiko Schulz wrote: Small? I think people with lower computer perfomance will have problems- but there is always --proportion=1.0 Ah yes, the one file I committed does contain the singlemost largest operator at EHAM. The sample is small in the sense that I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-11-28 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 05 October 2008 10:13:54 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

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-11-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Everybody, I just placed the sources and base package for the pending FlightGear 1.9 release on my webserver: http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/SimGear-1.99.5.tar.gz http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/FlightGear-1.99.5.tar.gz http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/FlightGear-data-1.99.5.tar.bz2 Please note

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-11-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Fred, On Sunday 30 November 2008 18:25:46 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Durk Talsma a écrit : Hi Everybody, I just placed the sources and base package for the pending FlightGear 1.9 release on my webserver: http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/SimGear-1.99.5.tar.gz The version number is quite

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-11-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Ron, On Sunday 30 November 2008 18:43:43 Ron Jensen wrote: Erik just synced JSBSim about 7 hours before this message. Did those updates make it into the release candidate? Yes, I did a full cvs up about three hours before rolling up the tarfiles, so I guess these latest JSBSim changes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-11-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Stuart, On Sunday 30 November 2008 20:08:12 Stuart Buchanan wrote: The lack of a helicopter seems like an omission. The bo105 is actually in the base package. It looks like it just dropped out of the list I posted. More comments later. Cheers, Durk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another simple question

2008-12-04 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:42:02 Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:20:51 -, Gordon (UK) wrote in message Now, I'm working in Visual Studio. However, how the devil do I set up [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apt-cache show ccache distcc [ Lots of uninformative text deleted ]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-12-07 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Fred, Yikes. That's probably a resulting from getting my triple screen setup working. Agreed that shouldn't go into CVS. Thanks for catching this. Cheers, Durk On Sunday 07 December 2008 12:54:17 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Frederic Bouvier a écrit : Durk Talsma a écrit : Hi Everybody

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5: Release Candidate

2008-12-07 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 07 December 2008 14:21:19 Frederic Bouvier wrote: To be clear, the problematic preferences.xml was found in FlightGear-data-1.99.5.tar.bz2 , not in CVS. Ah, yes. That's what I meant. This change slipped from my local distribution into the RC. It's never been in CVS. Sorry for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5 RC1 feedback summary

2008-12-08 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Rob, On Monday 08 December 2008 13:33:16 Rob Shearman, Jr. wrote: Durk Talsma wrote: F14 : Omnipowerful Jet Fighter; has so many features, it is very well capable of representing the category Fighter Jet - I'm still having trouble hooking up to the catapult [DT] I did too

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS/FMS/route-manager changes

2008-12-08 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi James, On Monday 08 December 2008 11:54:15 James Turner wrote: I would appreciate help on the instrument side - I know Syd has created parts of the KLN90 for the B1900, and I'll keep that working and hopefully enhance it in parallel with the KLN89B work. The two seem to share an awful lot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS/FMS/route-manager changes

2008-12-09 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 08 December 2008 21:59:53 I wrote: Can't tell whether this is related, but I just noticed a problem with the b1900d's ILS localizer. I tried a little circuit: starting off at EHAM park position B01, taxied to runway 36L, made a 90 deg right, for about a minute, then a 180 right,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5 RC1 feedback summary

2008-12-09 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Everybody, Just to follow up to my previous mail regarding the prereleases. I hope to roll out another release candidate tomorrow evening (CET). As for the aircraft selection, I would like to make the following changes: - Remove Concorde and replace by the following two aircraft: 1) On of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source Makefile.am, 1.26, 1.27

2008-12-10 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 20:42:26 gerard robin wrote: On mercredi 10 décembre 2008, Durk Talsma wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv9843 Modified Files: Makefile.am Log Message: Some final adjustments: - Remove

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.99.5 RC1 feedback summary

2008-12-10 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gerard, On Wednesday 10 December 2008 13:08:57 gerard robin wrote: Is it only philosophy, from me ? Am i alone to think like that ? Or, is there here, now, more gamer and less serious persons. ? I'm puzzled... As far as I can tell there has never been any question regaring our striving

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI traffic

2008-12-10 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Alasdair, On Wednesday 10 December 2008 22:26:14 Alasdair Campbell wrote: Browsing through the output reveals many KLM scheduled flights, many of which contain the (missing) destination LGPG. (And lots more interesting stuff) Can I suggest that LGPG be replaced with LFPG (Charles de

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-12 Thread Durk Talsma
Ladies and Gentlemen, Please find FlightGear 1.99.5-RC2 ready for download. In order to relieve my humble server, John Wojnaroski has kindly provided some space on his server to host the source and base package. Please find the relevant files here: http://www.lfstech.com/pub/flightgear/ In

[Flightgear-devel] 787 Authorship / CVS update

2008-12-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Earlier this week I received a request to update the 787 by an improved version. Obviously, I'd be happy to do so, and I believe that the GPL licence would give me the right to do so without further notice. In line with our defacto policy that every aircraft has a prime developer, I would like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Traffic Files

2008-12-14 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Jon On Sunday 14 December 2008 20:00:19 Jon Stockill wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: When importing the recently committed traffic files into the traffic database I've noticed that there is some duplication, for example: EC-HDT is defined for both CLI and IBE with different liveries. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/747-400/Models/Liveries KLM.xml, 1.1, 1.2

2008-12-15 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 15 December 2008 19:43:25 Melchior Franz wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/747-400/Models/Liveries In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv29180/Models/Liveries Modified Files: KLM.xml Log Message: fix broken xml syntax Ah, thanks for catching

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-16 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Fred, On Saturday 13 December 2008 18:50:51 Frederic Bouvier wrote: I replied that the target is next Friday. After that I may have difficulties to build a binary from where I will be. -Fred How would your availability be after Friday. As it turns out, I have a Christmas dinner this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gerard, Hello, Durk How do you schedule the period test with OSG 2.8 before rolling up the release ? OR do you avoid any test with it ? Cheers As Fred mentioned, I'm routinely building and testing FlightGear against OSG/SVN. I haven't noticed any problems. I have the impression

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-17 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Tat et al., On Tuesday 16 December 2008 18:16:29 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi guys, Personally, I think a big build up to an oddball version number like 1.99.5 is a little strange, but again, I'm not so hung up on version numbers as long as they keep increasing. It would also be odd to

[Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
Gentlemen, Please note that earlier in the week, I upgraded the 787 in CVS. Like I had mentioned previously, I would be inclined to swap the 777 in the base package for the 787. I am still open to that suggestion, but I have hardly had a chance to play with the new 787. I will try to do some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 22:18:15 I wrote: Just to make a blunt suggestion, although not completely of my own imagination: would it be an idea to release this version as 2.0?. Initially, we wanted to do a 1.9.0 release, because we felt that the OSG transition wasn't quite there yet. Since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gijs, On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:35:45 Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi Durk, I've just implented the livery selection dialog (working over MP) for the 787 yesterday. You can download it from the forum: http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=1001p=23180#p23180 If wanted, you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-19 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gijs, On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:35:45 Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi Durk, I've just implented the livery selection dialog (working over MP) for the 787 yesterday. You can download it from the forum: http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=1001p=23180#p23180 If wanted, you can

[Flightgear-devel] 1.9.0 source upload

2008-12-20 Thread Durk Talsma
Ladies Gentlemen, I would just like to announce that I have uploaded the FlightGear 1.9.0 source and base packages to an -as of yet- undisclosed location (although you can probably guess). The source packages are currently being redistributed to higher capacity servers and will hopefully be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-20 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gijs, On Friday 19 December 2008 16:52:34 Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hm, there should be nothing missing. I only included the moved textures, an enhanced systems.nas file, 787-8.ac, enhanced 787.xml and the Liveries/... files. Though you have updated more files in CVS... like the instruments .ac

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.0 ChangeLog Summary

2008-12-21 Thread Durk Talsma
Ladies and Gentlemen, Please find an announcement text and a short summary of the major developments that have been leading up to the 1.9.0 release. Please have a look and let me know if I have missed anything: If I'm correct, the binaries for the windows and Mac platforms are available, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.0 ChangeLog Summary

2008-12-21 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 21 December 2008 18:05:33 Melchior FRANZ wrote: Thanks. I've added and fixed all these points. Cheers, Durk -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots for v1.9

2008-12-23 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Heiko, On Tuesday 23 December 2008 01:43:26 Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, Here are some of my screenies for the gallery! Feel free to take one or more of them. http://www.hoerbird.net/galerie/FGFS1.9.0/index.htm Awesome screenshots indeed. These capture the WOW experience I've had quite a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots for v1.9

2008-12-23 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 17:04:29 Martin Spott wrote: The Seneca allows to simulate gear-failure, I suspect this is being shown on Durk's screenshot No. 4, ;-) FWIW, also have another look at #5. :-) Cheers, Durk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots for v1.9

2008-12-23 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 16:55:24 Thomas Förster wrote: No. 4 seems to get problems on touch down. Where's the left main wheel? Render Bug? There is a hole in the cloud behind... Funny, that hole in the clouds where the wheel is supposed to be is just a coincidence. Cheers, Durk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 1.9.0 feedback

2008-12-27 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Saturday 27 December 2008 10:11:46 Stuart Buchanan wrote: I think it's something we need to bear in mind for the next release. We'll need to put more effort to get external testing of RCs on Windows/ATI. Yes, I agree, but the problem is how to do that. For this release, we've had two

[Flightgear-devel] Possible far camera problem in Custom Triple screen setup

2008-12-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi All, After today's CVS update (~8:00AM, CET), I'm only seeing approximately 10 meters of scenery around me, using my customized camera setup (attached below). The more distant scenery is clipped off. In addition, I just noticed something that looks like a double rendering artefact: Some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Big black box

2008-12-31 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Wednesday 31 December 2008 11:11:16 Frederic Bouvier wrote: An early 1.9.1 ? -Fred -- message original -- Sujet:Re: [Flightgear-devel] Big black box De: Stuart Buchanan stuart_d_bucha...@yahoo.co.uk Date: 31.12.2008 09:51 Tim Moore wrote: Yeah, the lack of

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-11 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, Just a quick question. As far as I'm concerned, we'll be doing a 1.9.1 bug fix release soon. I would just like to get an impression how our progress is on the various problems that have been reported. I know that the black box problem is fixed now, but how are we doing on the other issues.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP Liveries for Boeing 737-300

2009-01-17 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 15 January 2009 18:18:05 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 15 January 2009: [+26 liveries] My view is that they should be kept with the aircraft. Of course, liveries should generally be kept with the aircraft. But how many? Do 50 liveries for an aircraft make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-17 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Tim, On Sunday 11 January 2009 21:07:25 Tim Moore wrote: I propose that the 1.9.1 release be made from these maint branches. This would let progress continue in CVS while hopefully achieving some stability in a maintenance release. If current committers would like write access to these

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-23 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Tim, On Friday 23 January 2009 23:40:47 Timothy Moore wrote: Durk Talsma wrote: How is this going? I've checked in a couple of fixes to the flightgear and simgear maint branches since 18 January. Tim I think we're pretty much ready. I built a binary from the git repositories

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-23 Thread Durk Talsma
On Saturday 24 January 2009 07:03:33 Durk Talsma wrote: commit b5840650706bd21a44c0bcdad4621adafa8b2bc6 Author: Tim Moore ...@xx. Date: Wed Jan 14 22:13:12 2009 +0100 Oh, I;d been planning to obfuscate you email addresses. Too early / not enough coffee yet... Sorry about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] proposed 1.9.1

2009-01-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 16 January 2009 17:50:04 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Whoops. I've created a master branch in the repository, so you can either redo the clone, or you can type git-checkout -b maint origin/maint to e.g. check out the maint branch directly. Both worked. Thanks -Fred I just managed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] proposed 1.9.1

2009-01-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:16:43 Tim Moore wrote: Yes, it's important to type the whole thing, git checkout -b maint origin/maint When you first check out the repository, git checkout maint should give you an error, because the maint branch doesn't exist locally. git-checkout -b maint

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Saturday 24 January 2009 00:10:16 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Would you mind adding this commit to the VC7.1 directory : Fri Jan 16 07:31:01 2009 UTC : Update MSVC 7.1 project Otherwise I managed to get it with git and build it. I am just waiting instructions ;-) Just to keep everybody in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:49:21 Jon S. Berndt wrote: I would hope that synching JSBSim would be seamless by now. Of course, it doesn't usually work like that. :-) The part we considered risky was that possibly quite a few aircraft needed an update to their configuration files, in order to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.9 screenshots

2009-01-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 26 January 2009 05:15:33 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..maybe this? ... http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/flight-crash-1.jpg Interesting suggestion. With my photographer's hat on, I have to say that this one really stands out from the rest of the gallery. In terms of it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A patched patch, a repatch, and a mystery

2009-01-31 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Brian, On Monday 29 December 2008 05:22:13 Brian Schack wrote: static SGPropertyNode *nav2_freq = fgGetNode(/instrumentation/nav[1]/frequencies/selected-mhz, true); static SGPropertyNode *nav2_sel_radial = fgGetNode(/instrumentation/nav[1]/radials/selected-deg,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Mainglobals.cxx, 1.61, 1.62

2009-02-01 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Daan, On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:56:14 Daan wrote: (After getting rid of my ATI card in favor of an nVidia one, see my question in the forum) ..hang on to your ATI, try it with a Linux Live CD, e.g. Ubuntu.com, and then do sudo aptitude install flightgear and try FG the way

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1 for Mac OS X

2009-02-01 Thread Durk Talsma
Hey Tat On Sunday 01 February 2009 20:32:31 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Hi there, I've released FlightGear 1.9.1 for Mac OS X. Thanks a lot! D. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge

[Flightgear-devel] Thanks!

2009-02-02 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi all, I've just gone through the Thanks file and added many names of people who have contributed to FlightGear. Criteria for inclusion are more or less: If you have made a successful contribution to FlightGear, or have done significant activities toward keeping the infrastructure of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The use of models from other formats

2009-02-07 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Ian, On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:39:13 FGD ML wrote: 2009/2/7 Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net ..ah, that's where I try to help out. ;o) I'm sorry , I have a policy of not accepting cold callers. I hope you find comfort in the fact that 99% of our fgfs-devel subscribers is simply

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nodes in FG

2009-02-19 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:45:32 seb.mar...@free.fr wrote: topaz, I suppose you are a French speaker (from posts in the French FG forum). If this is the case you can find infos about nodes and properties tree at this dedicated wiki page:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] to enhance translate animation

2009-02-21 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Torsten, Committed. Thanks! Cheers, Durk On Sunday 15 February 2009 20:01:11 Torsten Dreyer wrote: the rotate animation has two ways to define a axis 1. by using center/x-m and axis/[xyz] 2. by using axis/[xyz]1-m and axis/[xyz]2-m The translate animation only supports method 1. and

[Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-07 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi all, Haven't seen this reported yet, but yesterday I ran into a situation that leads to a 100% reproducible crash on my system, while attempting a Flight from Ottawa to Montreal: All tests were done after updating SimGear / FlightGear and base package to current CVS this morning, sat March

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-07 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi James, On Saturday 07 March 2009 10:40:20 James Turner wrote: Normally, these crashes are not related to the CullVisitor, it just happens to be a noisy part of the code, so it shows up in logs. It may indeed not be directly related, but what I did notice every time, is that while I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-09 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Geoff, On Sunday 08 March 2009 20:56:52 Geoff McLane wrote: Yep! Tried ... --aircraft=CitationX --airport=CYOW --runway=25 --fg-scenery= $HOME/Scenery-1.0.1 Thanks for you report. Good to know, I'm not the only one, at that adds to the robustness of the crash. I think it's too early to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-09 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gerard, On Monday 09 March 2009 12:06:58 gerard robin wrote: Yes with JSBSim there is the same NAN error , more or les randomly. Difficult to catch a specific cause. Do you mean that you can replicate the specific bug I reported, or that you experience random NAN errors? Cheers, Durk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-09 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 09 March 2009 07:29:47 Durk Talsma wrote: Hi Geoff, On Sunday 08 March 2009 20:56:52 Geoff McLane wrote: Yep! Tried ... --aircraft=CitationX --airport=CYOW --runway=25 --fg-scenery= $HOME/Scenery-1.0.1 Thanks for you report. Good to know, I'm not the only one, at that adds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-10 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 04:00:10 Csaba Halász wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Durk Talsma d.tal...@xs4all.nl wrote: - There's a VOR station located exactly 100.0nm from the startup position. If you fly straight to this VOR station (it's at the default NAV1 frequency), by following

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reproducible crash in mk_viii.cxx

2009-03-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Matthias, Problem solved it looks. Finally made the Flight between Ottawa and Montreal. Cheers, Durk On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:47:04 Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hi, I have checked in something that should fix that problem. Can you try again with current cvs?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag 2009

2009-03-13 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Francesco, On Friday 13 March 2009 17:39:10 Brisa Francesco wrote: Martin Spott ha scritto: FlightGear will, again, display on the LinuxTag expo this year: http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html Feel free to join or simply visit the gang at their both. Questions welcome. I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag 2009

2009-03-15 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Francesco, On Sunday 15 March 2009 11:12:46 francesco wrote: Well, I did it ! I will be there from the 25 of June till friday 26, then my wife will join me friday night and we will go to visit Berlin durig the week end :-) Hope I'll be able to meet you there. I've marked LinuxTag in my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation agradar.cxx, 1.3, 1.4 rad_alt.cxx, 1.2, 1.3 wxradar.cxx, 1.28, 1.29 wxradar.hxx, 1.20, 1.21

2009-03-22 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Tuesday 17 March 2009 23:01:38 Melchior Franz wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Instrumentation In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv17937/src/Instrumentation Modified Files: agradar.cxx rad_alt.cxx wxradar.cxx wxradar.hxx Log Message: wxradar: read

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation agradar.cxx, 1.3, 1.4 rad_alt.cxx, 1.2, 1.3 wxradar.cxx, 1.28, 1.29 wxradar.hxx, 1.20, 1.21

2009-03-22 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 22 March 2009 15:58:27 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Durk Talsma -- Sunday 22 March 2009: FWIW, I just checked in a small change that allows the AI Air Traffic controller to request the AI Aircraft to set a squawk code. Yeah, I've read that, and we've immediately discussed on IRC how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash in FlightGear\src\Airports\dynamics.cxx, patch included

2009-03-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Maik, Committed. Thanks for looking into this. BTW: At / near which airport did you see this crash? I'd like double check a few things regarding this at the crash site, if possible. Cheers, Durk On Sunday 29 March 2009 19:56:07 Maik Justus wrote: Hello, I had several crashes in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crash in FlightGear\src\A irports\dynamics.cxx , patch included

2009-03-30 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 30 March 2009 19:30:25 Maik Justus wrote: Hi, Hi Maik, ups, that should read: KSFO, about 1 *m*in after starting fg. sorry for the noise, Maik Thanks for the update. Did you install additional traffic at KSFO, or copy the old demo over? The reason I'm asking is that with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: graphics effects files

2009-04-07 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:28:34 syd adams wrote: This is getting over my head ... but I'd prefer not to see FG stagnate because of fear of the unknown ... it sounds like an interesting idea but I dont understand the code as well as some others and dont see the apocolypse coming :) Syd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: graphics effects files

2009-04-08 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 20:10:48 Melchior FRANZ wrote: - turn off the traffic manager! (I'm sure you aren't just wasting cycles there, and there just *is* a lot to do. That's not meant as criticism!) The actual drop in frame rate observed by adding lots of traffic lies somewhere in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug report: Nimitz demo and AI traffic manager

2009-04-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Vithor, On Sunday 26 April 2009 00:27:02 Victhor wrote: I updated my copy of FlightGear CVS today, and noticed two bugs. I started FG, but it would crash with a segmentation fault error. I set the log level to debug and found out that it was having trouble with nimitz_demo.xml, so I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AI/Airports/TXKF parking.xml, NONE, 1.1

2009-05-05 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 10 April 2009 23:44:09 Syd Adams wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/AI/Airports/TXKF In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv16099/TXKF Added Files: parking.xml Log Message: new airport file from msmith.. FWIW, I just added a copy of this file into the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic manager and AI scenarios

2009-05-11 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 02:54:59 Victhor wrote: Traffic manager: Warning: Successfully found a parking for a CRJ-100LR of flight type gate of airline CLH at airport EHAM Segmentation fault The trouble is that we really don't have much to respond to yet.. It doesn't look like many

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic manager and AI scenarios

2009-05-12 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Victhor, On Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:34:17 Victhor wrote: I think I should have said something useful for me. Sorry! :) BTW, I have got a full backtrace of both the scenario error and the traffic manager error. I hope it's useful. ;) Yes that is useful. Both stack traces point to an error

[Flightgear-devel] Progress report on the infamous error in TriangleIntersect NAN Problem

2009-05-15 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi All, Thanks to a report by regular Forum poster MD-TERP (a.k.a. Rob), we found a way to trigger the infamous NaN warning in a rather reliable manner. Following up on this lead, I modified OpenSceneGraph so that it deliberately segfaults when the warning message is triggered (I know, I could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Progress report on the infamous error in TriangleIntersect NAN Problem

2009-05-15 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi, On Friday 15 May 2009 20:10:01 Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, interesting to see that a small instruments can make such big troubles. What me wonders: Aircraft/Instruments-3d/mag-compass.xml isn't only used by the c172p than by other aircrafts as well. I think the pa24-250 is another user of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Progress report on the infamous error in TriangleIntersect NAN Problem

2009-05-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Tim, On Wednesday 20 May 2009 10:06:18 Tim Moore wrote: It may be helpful to dump the scene graph to a file (from the debug menu) once you're getting the NaN error. Hopefully the offending matrix will be printed with NaNs instead of valid coordinates. Tim I've added an --enable-fpe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Chicago O'Hare airport data

2009-05-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Curt, On Friday 22 May 2009 17:04:23 Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Durk, Chicago O'Hare airport has just put all their current arrival/departure information online: http://www.ohare-airport.org/ Would this be useful at all for seeding our AI traffic system? Thanks for the pointer.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Variable winds

2009-06-04 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Torsten, On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:49:59 Torsten Dreyer wrote: Enjoy your approaches Thanks for your work on this. The new interface looks sleek. I had my first chance to try it out yesterday evening. Flew into Kingston, Jamaica, after a short hop from Haiti, while encountering a 44

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SGWayPoint, SGGeod

2009-06-09 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi James, On Tuesday 09 June 2009 22:47:11 James Turner wrote: None of this should cause any user-visible change at all. I'm pretty confident about the FGviewer changes, but slightly less so about the AI traffic / schedule / groundnet changes; I ran the sim at Schiphol for some time and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Progress report on the infamous error in TriangleIntersect NAN Problem

2009-06-14 Thread Durk Talsma
Folks, Here's a rather long overdue follow-up to my own previous mail. On Tuesday 26 May 2009 22:37:45 I wrote: Thanks for your suggestions. I've been trying to track this down, but don't have anything firm yet. My current working hypothesis is that a stack corruption may be feeding bad data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NaN-reports and possible cause

2009-06-22 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Heiko, On Monday 22 June 2009 14:46:22 Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, I tried to follow the bughunting of the NaN-reports which freezes FGFS time to time. With a fresh setup of flightgear using Frederic's binaries and the datas of 05/12/2009 I had again the NaN-reports. The interesting thing was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin

2009-06-27 Thread Durk Talsma
On Saturday 27 June 2009 22:41:36 Vivian Meazza wrote: I haven't built using Cygwin for a while now. I migrated to MSVC9 because, while FG built OK, OSG wouldn't build with the then current version of gcc included in Cygwin. I'm not sure if that situation still pertains. FWIW, I've been to

[Flightgear-devel] RFC: Reading Airport Geometry from Scenery

2009-08-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Folks, In case you haven't noticed, I'm back after a few weeks absence, mainly due to vacations, conferences, etc. I'm currently picking up some work on FlightGear and one issue that I would like to move to the top of my priority list is to make sure that FlightGear has the capability to read

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC: Reading Airport Geometry from Scenery

2009-08-27 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 27 August 2009 00:17:16 Martin Spott wrote: Durk Talsma wrote: runway information from scenery/Airports/I/C/A/ICAO.geometry.xml I think this was supposed to mean 'ICAO.threshold.xml', right ? Yes, that's correct

[Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend: Lelystad, November 7, and 8, 2008

2009-08-30 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi everybody, As already mentioned previously, FSWeekend is organized again this year, and it is again my intention to organize a FlightGear booth. This year, the show highlights two themes related to Dutch aviation: 1) The 1934 London - Melbourne race, and 2), the anniversary of 100 years of

[Flightgear-devel] New FlightGear research project

2009-09-03 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Folks, As of today, we have a new computer in our lab that is dedicated to running FlightGear only. The Machine, an intel Quad Core, with 4 GiGs of RAM, and a one Terabyte drive, is equipped with two NVIDIA 9800GT video cards, running three Flatscreen Monitors. The intention of the setup

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