Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-07 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Tatsuhiro Nishioka schrieb: > Hi there, > > I want to know if the bugs that I reported before are Mac OS specific > or not. > So I want you guys to check if the following bugs occur on your > platform(s). > Hi Tat, tested this on OpenSUSE 10.2 86_64 with FG 9.11 Prerelease S76 Helicopter >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults...

2007-12-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd&Sandy schrieb: > O > > Everything was fine until I did a CVS update about 10:00 am today... > > Hi all, the NEW problem I have here is that I start under the terrain level with some a/c since a recent new CVS update (OSG and data). Sometimes FlightGear just goes into an endless loop and ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
gerard robin schrieb: > On lun 17 décembre 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: > >>> >>> http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/Rescue_1.jpg >>> >> Is the winch a trick? Never noticed... >> >> Great pic - it has my vote! >> >> Regards >> HHS >> >> > No it is not a trick, only for fun, > I will in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
gerard robin schrieb: >> Hi Gérard, >> >> do I understand this right that you managed (with some Nasal code?) that >> one can "catch" an object (ie the poor pilot) with the winch tow and get >> it (him) out of the water to the carrier? >> >> This would be spectacular - or just a misunderstanding fr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
gerard robin schrieb: > On lun 17 décembre 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: > >>> Hi Gérard, >>> >>> do I understand this right that you managed (with >>> some Nasal code?) that >>> one can "catch" an object (ie the poor pilot) with >>> the winch tow and get >>> it (him) out of the water to the carrier

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
gerard robin schrieb: > > You are right, the Torsten's Dragonfly banner-trick is a very good example. > I must take time to look at it. Good idea :) > > I only need more free time. > > Cheers > > > Sorry, I forgot you are a Nasal specialist, too :-) This gives even more hope - nobody expects

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults...

2007-12-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Tim Moore schrieb: > Since we're talking about OSG now... this may be related to the pager changes > I checked > in over the weekend. Could you post some details on this problem of yours? > > Thanks, > Tim > Hi Tim, as no other user is complaining about this new "starting sub ground-level" pro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Maik Justus schrieb: > Hi, > Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 17.12.2007 02:18: > >> * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 17 December 2007: >> >> >>> Just now (!!!) remembering Torsten's Dragonfly banner-trick (!!!) which >>> is pretty similar: >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External Cargo, was: Re: screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-18 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Vivian Meazza schrieb am 18.12.2007 00:27: >> >>> Maik wrote >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Melchior FRANZ schrieb am 17.12.2007 02:18: >>>> >>>> >>>>> * Georg Vollnhals -- Mond

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 Gallery Page

2007-12-18 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Frederic Bouvier schrieb: > Selon Frederic Bouvier: > > >> Selon Curtis Olson: >> >> >>> Here is a prototype for the v1.0 Gallery: >>> >>> http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/tmp/v1.0/ >>> >>> I've taken the best of the pictures that were submitted on the mailing list >>> and organized an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3-Dimensional forests.

2007-12-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Pavel T schrieb: > Hello Flightgear Developer(s), > I was thinking of this idea and I thought you might like it. > You might have guessed already by the subject of the e-mail. I was > thinking of maybe someone could make different versions of trees and > make someking of a tool that puts a number a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3-Dimensional forests.

2007-12-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > BTW: > You asked on the FG forum for driving cars. I made an example a long > time ago with a driving truck on the EDDW airport. This was just a proof > of concept at that time and was downloadable. Due to lacking interest I > removed it from my homepage

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FYI: new Linux nvidia driver 169.07

2007-12-20 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 20 December 2007: > >> psychedelic sky, bo105 all black. >> > > And it looks like this: > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/lsd.jpg [20.4 kB] > > m. :-) > > - >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync for Windows

2007-12-22 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Shad Young schrieb: > Chris Metzler wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:14:06 -0500 >> Shad Young wrote: >> >> >>> (even MSFS has a large open source >>> base), >>> >>> >> Just curious what you're referring to here? I have no doubt that there >> is open source/free software s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beech 99 renewed

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
D M schrieb: > Dear people, > > The development of the new Beech 99 is going nicely. Hi Dick, yes I tried the new Beech 99 and you did a nice job until now :-) > I've uploaded the latest version to: > http://download.35mb.com/kcid/beech99.zip But this site does not work for me, I got it from Ron

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beech 99 renewed

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > > There are two alternatives how to understand this > a) if you mean just deloy parachuters, look at the existing Lockheed > Hercules C130, I made some quick screenshots for you - not so nice but > you will see what I mean - not just dropping to e

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AI load_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Original-Nachricht Betreff:Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AI load_demo.xml,NONE,1.1 Datum: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:25:13 +0100 Von:Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Referenzen: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beech 99 renewed

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Vivian Meazza schrieb: >> ... >> >> b) if you are referencing to a multiplayer option so that one >> can fly the Beech 99 and some other people log in as >> parachuters and jump from your aircraft - this really would >> be a nice option for the future :-) >> > > This is almost possible righ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AI load_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Maik Justus schrieb: >> So I think some additional nasal code has to be written like for the >> banner catching with the Dragonfly. >> >> > I am working on that. > >> Or is there a "trick" I should know? >> >> >> > no, unfortunately no trick ;-( > > Regards, > Maik > > > Thank

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AIload_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Vivian Meazza schrieb: > Georg Vollnhals wrote: > > > Good to know that it works so far! The arrows are so that Maik knows which > way is up:-). We have a little more work to do to make it pick-up-able. But > you can make the load move around by altering the settings in > s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AIload_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: >> >> I JUST got this link and it is on the discussed >> subject although it >> happened in Nov. 2007: >> >> > http://www.feuerwehr-kaiserslautern.de/Einsatz/2007/november/hubschrauber.html > >> This is the very lucky result (helicopter destroyed, >> pilot unhurt) if >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AIload_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > You're generally right- but in your named case 30ft > (9m) are not much for autorotating - on the pics it > seems that he couldn't get rid of the cargo in time. > Hi HHS, I don't want to annoy you but as I think you are a real helicopter enthusiast, so I want to correct:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AIload_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > long time I wondered why my autorotatings > shortly after start (simulatinng engine failure) don't > work and I crashed. It is really nice to compare the > different helicopters in FGFS: The EC135 is hardly to > autorotate comparred to the S76c. I didn't try the > R22, but i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/AIload_demo.xml, NONE, 1.1]

2008-01-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Josh Babcock schrieb: > > > Heh, yeah. The one I trained with the guy told me that the cable wasn't > even attached to the winch. If they let it out too far it would just > wind off and fall. The last 20 feet of cable was painted red. > > Josh > > Josh, this is even better. Then you can only p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas fix

2008-01-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Cédric Lucantis schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm sorry for the OT, but I tried on atlas list and its spam filter doesn't > like my face so someone on #flightgear told me to post it here in case it > interest someone. It's just a fix for this bug (patch attached) : > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas fix

2008-01-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > Cédric Lucantis schrieb: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm sorry for the OT, but I tried on atlas list and its spam filter doesn't >> like my face so someone on #flightgear told me to post it here in case it >> interest someone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas fix

2008-01-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Cédric Lucantis schrieb: > ... > > I've no idea of what can be wrong (and don't know much about all that). In > case it might help I wrote the mail with KMail and only had this problem with > the atlas list for now. > > thanks, > Hi Cédric, it is me again, just to make clear that my various at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas fix

2008-01-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Frederic Bouvier schrieb: > Quoting Frederic Bouvier : > > >> Quoting Cédric Lucantis : >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm sorry for the OT, but I tried on atlas list and its spam filter doesn't >>> like my face so someone on #flightgear told me to post it here in case it >>> interest someone. It's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas fix

2008-01-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
LeeE schrieb: > Strange - I can post to Atlas dev ok - didn't try forwarding the > patch though. > > LeeE > > Hi LeeE, can you try forwarding Cédric's patch? I did and failed but have had never any problem posting or answering to the list - as you may know. Georg --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas fix

2008-01-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Frederic Bouvier schrieb: > Quoting LeeE : > > >> On Monday 14 January 2008 13:30, Georg Vollnhals wrote: >> >>> LeeE schrieb: >>> >>>> Strange - I can post to Atlas dev ok - didn't try forwarding >>>> the pat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shader based random trees and improved random objects

2008-01-22 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Curtis Olson schrieb: > On Jan 22, 2008 4:04 PM, Stuart Buchanan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Hi All, > > I've been working on a shader-based approach to creating random > trees with help > from Tim Moore. > > Here's a screenshot of what I've man

[Flightgear-devel] FG compile error

2008-01-23 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi, since some short time I am getting an error when compiling FlightGear CVS/OSG version. I am using - OpenSuse 10.2 Linux - OSG CVS (compiles with no problem) - SimGear CVS (compiles with no problem) - FG CVS Part of the error code: ../../src/Instrumentation/libInstrumentation.a(wxradar.o): In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG compile error

2008-01-23 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Csaba Halász schrieb: > On Jan 24, 2008 12:45 AM, Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> since some short time I am getting an error when compiling FlightGear >> CVS/OSG version. >> >> I am using >> - OpenSuse 10.2 Linux >> -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG compile error

2008-01-23 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Csaba Halász schrieb: > On Jan 24, 2008 12:45 AM, Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> since some short time I am getting an error when compiling FlightGear >> CVS/OSG version. >> >> I am using >> - OpenSuse 10.2 Linux >> -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Include OpenStreetMaps in Scenery

2008-01-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Joacher Joacherson schrieb: > Hello! > > What do you think about including the openstreetmap.org data to the FGFS > Scenery? > > Hi Joacher, sorry, this is only new for people who are new to FlightGear. :-) I fully agree that OSM data are getting better and better and have improved a lot over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ParticleEffects : Rain & Snow

2008-02-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Nicolas schrieb: > Hi, > > I have started to learn FG, SG and OSG programmation... > > Since severals months, I use FG (nickname : Nicklas with pa24-250) ; > Now, I want to try bring my help to project. > > So, I prepare a little contribution to FG project. > > My first screenshots : > > http://ww

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tree textures

2008-02-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Csaba Halász schrieb: > On Feb 9, 2008 12:29 PM, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would be pleasantly surprised if worked in materials.xml >> > > Here you go :) > > As a side effect, we could get rid of the ugly code that makes > "Terrain." out of "Terrain" at the expense of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tree textures

2008-02-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Csaba Halász schrieb: > On Feb 11, 2008 2:09 AM, Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Apart from this, the improvement of the seasonal effects is enhancing >> the FlightGear world one more step. Thank you for this work. >> > > I just did th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch v1 - Rain & Snow

2008-02-11 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Nicolas schrieb: > Hi, > > I propose my first tries... still much work to get a good > implementation. > > >From the README (into path) : > - > > This first try permits to add a basic snow and rain effects in using > particle from OSG. > > For the moment, the patch uses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tree textures

2008-02-11 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd&Sandy schrieb: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:47:26 +0100 > Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > Hi Georg , the tree problem is because I created a set of 8 instead of 4 > trees per texture for the > coniferous trees , and t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tree textures

2008-02-12 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd&Sandy schrieb: >> >> > > Hi Georg, > The winter textures are in cvs now, I'm working on those ugly trees next > and a higher resolution set to put in Textures.high . > If you spot a texture I might have missed , let me know ... > Cheers > > > Syd, thank you very much, I'll downloa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] dual control c172p prototype

2008-02-12 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Anders Gidenstam schrieb: > Just to inform that I moved this aircraft to a new location: > > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/DualControl/ > > And in case anyone is curious this is what it looks like for the pilot > and copilot: > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/DualControl/images/pilot.jpg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tree textures

2008-02-12 Thread Georg Vollnhals
>> > > Hi Georg, > The winter textures are in cvs now, I'm working on those ugly trees next > and a higher resolution set to put in Textures.high . > If you spot a texture I might have missed , let me know ... > Cheers > > > Hi Syd, after updating CVS and testing I found the city te

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tree textures

2008-02-12 Thread Georg Vollnhals
LeeE schrieb: >> The next one: >> Did you see these tree areas, seems to be something like an >> ongoing ecological desaster in FlightGear: >> >> http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/EcologicalDesaster/ >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Regards >> Georg >> > > Brings to mind the Tunguska event - > > ht

[Flightgear-devel] Syd - DHC6F

2008-02-13 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd, only one hint, if "Autostart" is selected the fuel switches should be "on" - otherwise it won't work, some people could be irritated by this. Regards Georg EDDW BTW: really very nice aircraft, see also Forum diskussion "Bush flying"

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch v1 - Rain & Snow

2008-02-13 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Nicolas schrieb: > For the moment, the patch uses the METAR informations to enable / > disable rain or snow effects. (intensity of effects is : low, meddium, > high) > > Hi Nicolas, just one more feedback, because I was so surprised and impressed when I just flew over Berlin (bad weather) and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG seasons

2008-02-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd&Sandy schrieb: > Hi everyone , > Since I've been working on trees and seasonal textures , I'd like to propose > some ideas > 1: Could we have Jester's materials.xml condition patch put in CVS ? > 2: Remove the .winter that is appended to the texture path in the source code? > 3: Add /sim/

[Flightgear-devel] Ski-jumping Su33

2008-02-25 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi, beside ski-jumping snow-plows this could be a nice feature for FlightGear: http://www.myvideo.de/watch/690 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-33 Regards Georg EDDW -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ski-jumping Su33

2008-02-26 Thread Georg Vollnhals
LeeE schrieb: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 00:54, Georg Vollnhals wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> beside ski-jumping snow-plows this could be a nice feature for >> FlightGear: >> >> http://www.myvideo.de/watch/690 >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 350 Mb movie

2008-03-01 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Curtis Olson schrieb: > I just posted a movie of one of the things I've been working on this > week. It's a light-twin flight simulator with full cockpit and 7 > visual channels (LCD displays). This movie shows an approach into > 6WA8 (Ranger Creek) along with the touch down. This movie is strai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wiki mess

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Torsten Dreyer schrieb: > Am Sonntag, 2. März 2008 14:40 schrieb Gijs de Rooy: > >> You could start with editing if you want. I'm done for now. >> > May I say that after not visiting the wiki site for a while my first > impression on the new look was: ***whow*** it looks much better than b

[Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi all, there has been a heavy storm (to hurricane) situation here in Northern Europe during the last days. A Lufthansa A 320 touched! the runway with one winglet (damaged) in the final phase of the landing when not only executing a crosswind landing but getting into a heavy unexpected gust. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Ralf Gerlich schrieb: Hi Ralf, first thank you for your reply and the hints .. and that you corrected the wrong date I gave. Of course it was MARCH, 1 and not February :-/ I did not know the "metar" tool until now and tried to find out more about how to use it. There is a little help displayed wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > I flew at this day too in FGFS but there was something > important thing missing, which was in reality the > cause of this incident: turbulences and gusts! > > In FGFS with real weather fetch there is a homogeneous > wind. O.k., I can set the turbulences manually, but > the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 03 March 2008: > >> $fgfs `metar -e 183 -c loww` >> > > Note that these are *backticks*, not single quotes (apostrophes). > On bash shells you can also write it as > > $ fgfs $(metar -e 183 -c loww) &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > Here is a pic of the incident: > > http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.file?id=536882887&filename=phpOltUWB.jpg > > Regards > HHS > > Thank you. This is clear proof how much chance had a hand in this - beside pilot's skills. Georg -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PREVIEW] Nellis AFB (KLSV)

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
alexis bory schrieb: > hi, > > I just can't wait it to be finished (one or two more weeks), here is a > preview of Nellis AFB (KLSV). > > http://croo.murgl.org/fgfs/scenery/KLSV-page/index.html > > Alexis > > Alexis, congratulations! Without wanting to offend somebody I have to say it is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 03 March 2008: > >> When searching for more documentation I read about your metar proxy ... >> long ago. >> I think this was the predecessor of the actual metar tool and the METAR >> capabilities of FG. >&g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > ... > > Then call metar and fgfs with that: > > $ fgfs `metar -e 183 -c "EDDF 022250Z 24012KT -RA FEW020 BKN032 10/09 > Q1010 NOSIG"` > ... > Hi Melchior, just for all those reading along I want to approve that your above hint works for me. Starting from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > Heiko Schulz schrieb: > >> I flew at this day too in FGFS but there was something >> important thing missing, which was in reality the >> cause of this incident: turbulences and gusts! >> >> In FGFS with real weather fetch there i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LH A320 near crash during crosswind and heavy gust

2008-03-03 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Fabian Grodek schrieb: > > > On 3/3/08, *Arnt Karlsen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:18:15 +0100, Georg wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > Heiko Schulz schrieb: > > > Here is a pic of the inc

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear getting copied in real life

2008-03-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Unbelievable, when crossing EDDW runway yesterday morning I saw that they are copying Curtis idea http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/SnowPlog/SnowPlowEDDW.png making a snow-plog race :-) Georg EDDW - This SF.net email i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP forest fire model!

2008-03-15 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Curtis Olson schrieb: > ... ... ... > > Just tossing ideas and comments your direction ... :-) Great work, > this is exciting stuff! > > Regards, > > Curt. > -- Hi, getting more and more features into the multiplayer system is really great - the only limiting factor is the causing desaster by de

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP forest fire model!

2008-03-15 Thread Georg Vollnhals
till busch schrieb: > hi georg, > > i am currently working on a patch that adds model-paging. models (ai, > multiplayer and, to some degree, scenery) will be loaded in a different > thread. this is more or less what you describe. > > some successful testing has been done already. so i hope to get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP forest fire model!

2008-03-15 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Curtis Olson schrieb: > I would like to point out that the primary performance issues induced > by the multiplayer system relate to loading new models when new people > join (some of the aircraft are quite complex and large). There are > probably secondary performance issues with rendering a large

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Till's MP patches /feedback -- WAS:MP forest fire model!

2008-03-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
till busch schrieb: > hi georg, > > i am currently working on a patch that adds model-paging. models (ai, > multiplayer and, to some degree, scenery) will be loaded in a different > thread. this is more or less what you describe. > > some successful testing has been done already. so i hope to get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Walking around

2008-03-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Detlef Faber schrieb: > Hi everybody, > > I've just committed a "Walk View" to the jeep, so a virtual passenger > can get out of the car and walk around in the scenery. > > The View follows the terrain height and the movements gets blocked by > steep slopes and scenery models (sadly not by random s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Walking around

2008-03-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Detlef Faber schrieb: > > > I forgot to mention you need to be in mouse view mode to walk around. > The walk direction is steered by the direction you look to. > > If it still doesn't work for you, please tell me where you tested it. > > Hi Detlef, thank you for the fast reply! Works like a ch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Walking around

2008-03-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 17 March 2008: > >> By the way, as my mouse modes have been reduced ever since to two >> (click-mode and lookaround-mode) I changed the nasal script to >> > > Better do not remove mouse mode 1, bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Walking around

2008-03-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > But it seems to me, that I can't get under objects- > even than they are not massiv. I can drive under > Static-aircrafts, but not walk. > > But that's peanuts > Detlef- a lot of thanks > > HHS > > But what is even better - you can walk ON an object if it has a RAMP to t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Walking around

2008-03-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > Me too :-) > > Yes- Nice feature, very nice- I'm waiting for the > first FlightGear Ego-Shooter! > Ok, there might be a lot of people thinking that FlightGear is a FLIGHTSimulator and not a WALKING or DRIVING Sim. But this nice add-on gives a lot of FUN - and if you coul

Re: [Flightgear-devel] model-paging patch - testers wanted

2008-03-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
> OK, Lee - yes, no alpha testing. In this particular case the patch is well > into beta. The alpha testing was done by me and others. I hope that you will > test it. > > And as a carrot, the quicker this is done, the quicker we can move on to > getting the other goodies and bug fixes into cvs. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ship 3d models

2008-03-29 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Ron Jensen schrieb: > I jumped in and started the Hull and cabin spaces of the Oscar Sette. > > > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/os-01.jpg > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/os-02.jpg > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/os-03.jpg > > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/os-models.tgz > > (Curt, the link has b

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Maritime // Was: Ship 3d models

2008-03-31 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi Ron, Detlef and Jon, your contributions are very valuable from the point of view of someone creating coastal scenery. Therefore I have to thank all of you. @Ron: Thank you for your permission to reuse the O.E. Sette ship. Although Detlef just presented a SAR ship which I was thinking of, the O

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New models

2008-04-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon Stockill schrieb: > Given the current enthusiasm for sea-going models I've just created: > > Models/Maritime/Misc > Models/Maritime/Civilian > Models/Maritime/Military > > They've been populated with a bunch of models converted from the Naval > Postgrad School's SAVAGE archive. The models are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2008-04-09 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Durk Talsma schrieb: > On Wednesday 09 April 2008 15:38, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > >> * Stuart Buchanan -- Wednesday 09 April 2008: >> >>> As I mentioned in my reply to Vivian, I don't want any dependency >>> on the Aircraft tree, >>> >> You don't want that, fine. And *I* don't want a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ground in FlightGear

2008-04-14 Thread Georg Vollnhals
BARANGER Emmanuel schrieb: > Hi all, > > After some tries on the Paris scenery and with nels' help on jabber, > here are a few screenshots showing how much a textured ground > dramatically improves Flightgear rendering. > > http://helijah.free.fr/ground/JPG-Version/ > > Well, for now the method is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Graphics cards for flightgear

2008-04-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
James A. Treacy schrieb: .. > For example, I'd love to get away with a Radeon 3450 (low power, > fanless and only about $50) but will get something more powerful if > needed. > > > .. > *MOST IMPORTANT* > What is the cpu and graphics card in your system and what frame rates > do you get in fligh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Graphics cards for flightgear

2008-04-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > James A. Treacy schrieb: > .. > Sorry, due to switching between several Linux OS I have installed my clock-time was corrupted. Please see my post of "14:20", earlier in time th

[Flightgear-devel] Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-26 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi all, it is just for your information that "Spiele Bild" - one of Germanys biggest gamer magazines - has put the full Windows version of FlightGear 1.0.0 on their second DVD enclosed to the (DVD version) magazine. They have a short but fair review on page 102 (1/2 page size) with two nice sc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG on a 64bit dual core machine

2008-04-26 Thread Georg Vollnhals
John Wojnaroski schrieb: > ... > > Also looking for any tips, gotchas, or watch-out-fors from anyone who > has successfully built and run FG on a 64-bit machine. > > Thanks > John W. > > > > > Hi John, just as a feedback: I am compiling FG since more than 18 months on a 64bit O/S and pro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-26 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: >> > - > > Yeah, it's amazing how many sites and magazines > reports positive about Project FlightGear! > And I'm not so curious about the poeple- the most will > maybe complain about, beacuse hey don't understand the >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-27 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Stefan Seifert schrieb: > On Saturday 26 April 2008 21:08:15 Georg Vollnhals wrote: > >> Sorry for that - my new O/S OpenSUSE 10.3 has some difficulties with my >> hardware-clock - at least using Wine changes the time and day and I have >> to correct that manually.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was: Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-27 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Stefan Seifert schrieb: > On Saturday 26 April 2008 21:08:15 Georg Vollnhals wrote: > >> Sorry for that - my new O/S OpenSUSE 10.3 has some difficulties with my >> hardware-clock - at least using Wine changes the time and day and I have >> to correct that manually.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was: Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-28 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Stefan Seifert schrieb: > On Sunday 27 April 2008 23:53:01 Georg Vollnhals wrote: > >> default 0 >> timeout 8 >> clock=hpet >> > > This is wrong. The kernel parameters are following the file name in > the "kernel" line. This is the se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was: Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-28 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi Stefan, Stefan Seifert schrieb: > > > Maybe your system simply doesn't have a hpet clocksource. For example my > system at home only has: > acpi_pm jiffies tsc > > You can get the available clocksources by issuing: > cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource > > In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was: Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-28 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon Stockill schrieb: > Assuming the machine has an internet connection - if you install ntp and > set it to sync from pool.ntp.org you'll never need to worry about such > problems again - it'll sync from an internet clock source within a few > minutes of starting up, and then stay in sync. > >

[Flightgear-devel] Jon Stockill - please read this to protect your models database from copyright problems

2008-05-01 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon Stockill - please read this to protect your models database from copyright problems Our FG friend and very busy Gijs de Roy pointed out that someone was in the process to copy 3D-models from Google and give them away to the FlightGear community as self-created. Please read these posts to

[Flightgear-devel] FG OSG 2.4 crashes

2008-05-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi, anyone out there with an idea why my new built FG OSG (2.4) CVS crashes? Due to changing my OS from OpenSUSE 10.2 to OpenSUSE 10.3 I built all components from CVS/SVN - they compiled without any problem! PLIB SVN OSG SVN OpenAL SVN SimGear (OSG)CVS FlightGear (OSG) CVS I tried a lot of hour

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG OSG 2.4 crashes

2008-05-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Georg Vollnhals -- Saturday 10 May 2008: > >> Due to changing my OS from OpenSUSE 10.2 to OpenSUSE 10.3 I built all >> components from CVS/SVN - they compiled without any problem! >> > > I run everything from CVS/SVN/HEAD on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG OSG 2.4 crashes

2008-05-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > * Georg Vollnhals -- Saturday 10 May 2008: > >> Due to changing my OS from OpenSUSE 10.2 to OpenSUSE 10.3 I built all >> components from CVS/SVN - they compiled without any problem! >> > > I run everything from CVS/SVN/HEAD on

[Flightgear-devel] French many-sided activities about photorealistic scenery for FG

2008-05-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi all, our French FlightGear friend *Oliver Jacq* asked me (because he is no member of the FG dev list) to pay your particular attention on this thread at the International FlightGear Forum: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1378&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Oliver is ve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scotland Scenery

2008-06-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi Stuart, thank you for sharing this as I am especially interested in all scenery which uses OSM data. Last year I bought a cheap handheld GPS device and collected some local data for OSM and uploaded them - but what a rapid development here around Bremen until now, very very busy people impr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-09 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Bohnert Paul schrieb: > Hi all, > > Anyone can use and distribute Open Street Maps data for free. I don't think > OSM data can be distrubuted under the GPL. > > If some one knows better please weight in. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#What_does_your_licence_allow_me_to_do.3F > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Open Street Maps Licence caution

2008-06-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Jon Stockill schrieb: > Rob Oates wrote: > >> Hi Georg, I think you are being overly strict in the interpretation. >> >> The Flightgear project currently distributes maps generated from Public >> Domain data as GPL. Why should this be any different for OSM? It to >> uses Public Domain data to

[Flightgear-devel] Microsoft Sidewider Joystick

2008-06-17 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi, this is from a problem in the German FlightGear Forum. There is a new detected name for the Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick. Could someone add this new name to the XML-file in FG CVS? /FlightGear/data/Input/Joysticks/Microsoft/sidewinder-precision-pro.xml[/quote] Microsoft SideWinder Precisio

[Flightgear-devel] Syd - Citation Bravo ADF

2008-07-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi Syd, Citation Bravo ADF: just one question - when I am clicking the hotspots on the ADF radiopanel the property "instrumentation/adf/frequencies/standby-khz" changes as intended, but the indicated frequency does not change. Is this a bug or is there any other reason I don't understand?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Syd - Citation Bravo ADF

2008-07-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd&Sandy schrieb: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:56:52 +0200 > Georg Vollnhals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> Hi Syd, >> >> Citation Bravo ADF: >> >> just one question - when I am clicking the hotspots on the ADF >> radio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna C172p "reloaded"

2008-09-16 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Heiko Schulz schrieb: > Hi, > > I couldn't longer resist, so I did a new exterior model of our default > aircraft. The exterior model should be now really accurate and up-to-date, it > has livery-select over mp, Immatriculation over MP, pre-rendered > softshadow > > Unfortunately I have no t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Georg Vollnhals
James Turner schrieb: > On 5 Oct 2008, at 09:13, Durk Talsma wrote: > > >> So, with these criteria in mind, what would be your current top 10 of >> aircraft? >> > > Before the debate gets too details, there intention was (and still is, > I think) to have at least one aircraft from the fol

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