Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture compression experiments in plib

2006-01-08 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Ah, I knew once someone would try TIGER data with FlightGear :-) Is there any public notion of this Scenery ? http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/testing/BaseSceneryWithTiger.tgz That's using tiger data for major roads, railways, and waterways - the water flowing down

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VFR scenery

2006-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Christian Mayer wrote: The town screenshots look great. (If you don't know, FGFS is also improving at that area in a very fast pace: http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/ tells me that we've got over 14 objects with over 200 models all over the world already) You could try to model a few buildings

Re: [Flightgear-devel] replacing existing objects in fgfsdb

2006-01-17 Thread Jon Stockill
, and give me the number in brackets then it makes it very easy to replace (that number is the FAA or FCC object ID). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems

Re: [Flightgear-devel] replacing existing objects in fgfsdb

2006-01-17 Thread Jon Stockill
the numbers in brackets (that's the FAA or FCC id) then it makes replacing the objects VERY easy. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] replacing existing objects in fgfsdb

2006-01-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: If you look up the objects you want to replace as described above and let me know the numbers in brackets (that's the FAA or FCC id) then it makes replacing the objects VERY easy. Apologies for the duplicate - I managed to run out of RAM and kill thunderbird while

Re: [Flightgear-devel] replacing existing objects in fgfsdb

2006-01-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Norman Vine wrote: Jon Stockill writes: Frederic Bouvier wrote: A search by position bounding box would be really cool. Until I get chance to add that you can actually search by partial lat/lon - so for example searching with lat=50.1 would return everything from 51.0 to 51.9

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery

2006-01-18 Thread Jon Stockill
transmitter is used for localiser positions). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: So with any luck I should have a full update of all the navaids in the database with correct elevations by this weekend. It seems I don't have any luck at the moment. I've just discovered that when using the null fdm I'm not getting updates to /position/ground-elev-m any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] two scenery ideas

2006-01-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Mark wrote: Since there is already a PostGIS database for custom scenery contribution in work, I assume this maybe could be added to that database? I agree that localized textures would be a big improvement. The city textures look good for locations in the states, but not realistic for Europe.

Re: 0.9.10 Scenery Quirks (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Discussion: next FlightGear release.)

2006-01-29 Thread Jon Stockill
David Megginson wrote: On 28/01/06, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that the v0.9.10 scenery is done. I would like to start thinking about the next FlightGear release which will be called v0.9.10 to match the scenery. I've been using the new scenery, and have noticed some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-29 Thread Jon Stockill
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Jon, On Tuesday 24 January 2006 22:45, Jon Stockill wrote: I've just discovered that when using the null fdm I'm not getting updates to /position/ground-elev-m any more. So I can't actually retrieve the terrain elevation. Is there somewhere else in the property tree I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Request for comments: Airway database

2006-02-01 Thread Jon Stockill
. It really depends how much processing would be involved to extract a route I suppose. This type of routing info certainly has further applications. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Extraneous building?

2006-02-05 Thread Jon Stockill
John Wojnaroski wrote: FYI Haven't been to KSFO for a while, but don't think this structure belongs here ;-) Perhaps something smaller that may have been mis-identified during file generation. See 942050.stg OBJECT_SHARED Models/fgfsdb/generic_skyscraper_09.ac -122.3775000 37.6186110

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A/C Tractors 3D Models

2006-02-13 Thread Jon Stockill
issues). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Q: multiplayer behind a firewall

2006-03-02 Thread Jon Stockill
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag;

2006-03-04 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: To my experience power stations are most useful when you fly over the clouds and don't want to bother with radio navigation. Simply follow the cloud-'towers' that break through the 'regular' cloud layers and you're done :-) OK, so we need to add cloud to the cooling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last Wonder of the World...

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Stockill
to have a go at a model :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last Wonder of the World...

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Stockill
Julien Pierru wrote: Jon right now I have one .ac file for each pyramid as i had the GPS coordinates for all of them, however that might not be practical, what do you think? That's exactly how they're set up in the database at the moment - I can simply replace the current models, and modify

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last Wonder of the World...

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Stockill
Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is slightly OT, but I am lazy tonight to open another topic. There is a rss feed on news, but did you ever consider putting one on the model page ? It's something I'll get around to eventually, for both models and objects. The only problem I can think of is that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots of the first few buildinds of the Archeological Scenery project

2006-03-22 Thread Jon Stockill
/?ll=37.58635,-122.247148spn=0.005688,0.009559t=h It may be strange and unexpected, but it's definitely supposed to be there, and not a misinterpretation of the FAA data. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BF109

2006-03-24 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, March 23, 2006 11:55 pm, Josh Babcock wrote: Naw, just fly backwards. Or get some red and white paint and repaint the needle. ;-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible contribution for someone

2006-04-01 Thread Jon Stockill
in a week or so - if nobody's done it by then I'll get them all added. Jon -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Use of old maps

2006-04-12 Thread Jon Stockill
Ralf Gerlich wrote: IANAL, but you might be even better off than you think. At least here in Germany, courts seem to consider only the map itself (its presentation) to be protected by copyright but not the base data (such as elevation isolines, roadlines, etc.), as the base data itself

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Use of old maps

2006-04-12 Thread Jon Stockill
Lee Elliott wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 20:23, Jon Stockill wrote: Ralf Gerlich wrote: IANAL, but you might be even better off than you think. At least here in Germany, courts seem to consider only the map itself (its presentation) to be protected by copyright but not the base data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-18 Thread Jon Stockill
processing it. Then *back up the result* you won't need to go back to that step until newer DEM data is released. Once you're at that stage you can happily run genapts, build some scenery, then throw it away and build a newer version. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Textures Part II.

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Melchior FRANZ wrote: There's a reason why hardly any graphics professional uses a flatscreen for his work. Those people insist on CRTs. My CRT was quite cheap, and doesn't seem to have a linear voltage/brightness curve, but colors are OK. Last year on the LinuxTag I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SoC

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Stockill
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Stockill
Frederic Bouvier wrote: The author of the conversion said that it is reasonably fast with a GeForce 440 MX, that has a GeForce2 core. In fact, the placement of object has been optimised to group these models with the same texture. Jon changed his export procedure for that. And objects are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) It's being done already: http://www.free-map.org.uk/ Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) It's being done already: http://www.free-map.org.uk/ Well, Freemap data is from now on being contributed to the OpenStreetMap database. I must admit that I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Is there any way people can help with this? As I already wrote in the previous posting Aside from that I'd be very happy if someone would beautify the visual apperance of the current Mapserver interface. 1.) The mapserver relies

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: LinuxWorld Expo London 2006 - Free space for .Org]

2006-07-10 Thread Jon Stockill
the booth (at least for the Texas shows.) :-) I'm sure there is a matching UK translation meaning about the same thing. Do we get a helicopter to play with this time? ;-) I'll check the dates - it was certainly a lot of fun last time - there was a lot of hard work involved too though. -- Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d models

2006-07-27 Thread Jon Stockill
to use a model you'll need to get it direct from the author. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear input devices

2006-08-31 Thread Jon Stockill
to replace it with anything similar yet. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to handoff key presses to external software?

2006-10-18 Thread Jon Stockill
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2006-10-27 Thread Jon Stockill
available in that file here: http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/modelbrowser.php?shared=1 -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG compiled ....but

2006-11-01 Thread Jon Stockill
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[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear OSG build problem

2006-11-08 Thread Jon Stockill
. Has anyone seen this before? -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear OSG build problem

2006-11-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: No, it's gcc-3.4.6, but if you're having the problem on IRIX then that is a pointer - slackware uses glut - not freeglut, and I suspect that IRIX uses glut too. Could this be caused by header differences? Has anyone else successfully built FlightGear-OSG on a system

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hobbs meter

2006-11-21 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: It does, but not in a way where you could implement a real hobbs meter on your panel. If it's available as a property then that would allow for reliability to be tied to hours (and then presumably you'd need a way to service the aircraft too). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-29 Thread Jon Stockill
Stuart Buchanan wrote: So, my tuppence worth: - Have a structure user forum, and possibly wind down the -user list in the future. I'd disagree - if anything you should create another mailing list to gate the forum messages to. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] A6M2

2007-01-04 Thread Jon Stockill
The artificial horizon in the A6M2 appears to have roll reversed. I'm not sure if the problem was introduced in one of the recent commits, or if it's been there since instruments were first added. Other than that little (somewhat confusing) niggle it's a really nice model! Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fg_sqawk Version 0.2beta

2007-02-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi all, I am (___very___) proud to present fg_sqawk-0.2beta. This is a simple prototype package for realtime voice communication for FlightGear based on VoIP (Asterisk and IAX2). You only need to make slightly changes to Flightgear. See the INSTALL file inside the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fg_sqawk Version 0.5beta

2007-05-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi, there is a new release of fg_sqawk available (see http://squonk.abacab.org/dokuwiki/fg_sqawk). This version will be tested tomorrow at 8:00 pm (CE(S)T). The changes to 0.4beta are: * Now sendig position information for radar * simple ATC client (fg_atc.pl) *

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fg_sqawk Version 0.5beta

2007-05-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Hi Jon, Jon Stockill wrote: Can you tell me where I can find libgsm source that will build a shared library? The libgsm 1.0.10 source I have only builds a static lib. You probably don't need that. Debian has libgsm1/libgsm1-dev packages which include a shared

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fg_sqawk Version 0.5beta

2007-05-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: I don't run debian - I have however just grabbed their patch to the original source, which appears to hack in autoconf support, and the ability to build shared libs (I hope it's not the same hack used to build shared plib simgear libs). The compressed patch is the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fg_sqawk Version 0.5beta

2007-05-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: I don't run debian - I have however just grabbed their patch to the original source, which appears to hack in autoconf support, and the ability to build shared libs (I hope it's not the same hack used to build shared plib simgear libs). The compressed patch is the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fg_sqawk Version 0.5beta

2007-05-16 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: Jon, On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:06:53PM +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: [...] Can you tell me where I can find libgsm source that will build a shared library? The libgsm 1.0.10 source I have only builds a static lib. Which version did you use to build the iaxcli-Linux-i686

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1 (source code) available for download and testing

2007-05-17 Thread Jon Stockill
in the manual too. I did notice I missed myself off the list though. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1-------Carriers are Flying

2007-05-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: gh.robin wrote: With FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1 it is something strange we have Flying Carriers. The carrier is correct - sea level is wrong :-)) Wait for the tide to come in. Jon - This

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: New Airports;

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: Double check there isn't any x-plane 8.50 bezier stuff in the version we use since we really aren't setup to use the new file format features yet. Done, no v8.50 style runway definitions in the new file. Well, Robin currently does not have a v8.50

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: New Airports;

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Hi Jon, Jon Stockill wrote: Any plans to update nav.dat too? If so I'll update the navaid models in the scenery database. Please see the respective changelog notice. I've been updating all four files that FlightGear picks from Robin's package. These include

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear visualization as streaming video

2007-05-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Antonio Almeida wrote: Thanks, I'll check out the latest CVS version as soon as I get around to implementing. Your experience is very similar to what I was looking for! If it is as fast as you mention then it will surely be enough to simulate a streaming video, from the viewer's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] patch for osgViewer and statistics

2007-05-25 Thread Jon Stockill
need to play with the compiler flags if you want any extra architecture specific optimisations (probably best avoided for anyone building packages). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2

[Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2007-06-12 Thread Jon Stockill
Someone's clearly got their hands on lots of extremely nice data... http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/ Anyone for a flight over Rome? -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BlackBird SR-71

2007-06-14 Thread Jon Stockill
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] new pseudo FDM for vehicles (osg branch)

2007-06-20 Thread Jon Stockill
:-) Don't bother with UK trains then, timetables or not - they are always late/cancelled at will. How you simulate that I do not know. Surely that's what /dev/random was invented for? (The buses are just as bad - The 9.05 and 9.20 just arrived at 9.27...) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] Doppler oddness

2007-06-26 Thread Jon Stockill
With a cvs build checked out about half an hour ago I've just noticed something very strange - with external views the doppler shift appears to be related to the view angle rather than the approach speed. If you select the chase view then you'll find that the sound is extremely slow from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick conf help

2007-07-17 Thread Jon Stockill
: ... The question is: Is there a way to compensate this offset in my joystick conf file? Or better: How can I fix this problem? Have you tried jscal? It looks like the same analog-usb joystick convertor I've got - it *will* need calibrating. Once done you should find it's pretty reliable. -- Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Stockill
/calc-tile.pl and scripts/perl/examples/telnet.pl is what I use for obtaining ground elevations for the scenery object database. It does require a connection to a running instance of flightgear though - so it's not exactly lightweight. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Stockill
Ron Jensen wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:18 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a given

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jeep into CVS?

2007-08-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Detlef Faber -- 8/25/2007 11:11 AM: does anybody object against putting the jeep into CVS? Nope, just on the contrary: I would have asked you to commit it. I'm not aware of any policy. After all it's just an aircraft with rather poor flying behavior ... :-) It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fgcom VoIP-package version 1.0

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: First real voice communication radio for FlightGear version 1.0 available! == About a year ago I asked my first few questions about integration of a voice communcation kit for FlightGear based on VoIP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] fgcom VoIP-package version 1.0

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: Jon, On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:38:42AM +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: [...] The major obstacle to building this on any other platform (even any other linux distribution) is your use of the debian libgsm1 package. The upstream source for this builds *only* a static

Re: [Flightgear-devel] And again: VATSIM and FG?

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: 2. In terms of who does the interfacing work, us or them. I think that boils down to who benefits. I suspect that the FlightGear users will have a bigger benefit from getting access to the vatsim world than visa versa. Based on what I've seen on the multiplayer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery file formats: SRTM elevation data source

2007-09-20 Thread Jon Stockill
David Pérez-Piñar López wrote: Hi all, This is my first submission to the list, but I've been around for a while. Not sure if this ichs the correct list to post about this; if not, please, let me know and accept my apologies. I've been able to successfully build FlightGear without

[Flightgear-devel] Composite scenery models

2007-10-02 Thread Jon Stockill
I've been experimenting with adding the fire models to other scenery objects - like the flare stack: http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/testing/flare.jpg The results are quite nice, but there does seem to be an issue with sub models and scenery objects. Using this to create the model: ?xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] oil platform...

2007-10-04 Thread Jon Stockill
AJ MacLeod wrote: If you want to practice landing on platforms, try the Cromarty Firth, which is packed with the things and is right next to several airfields - take off from EG73(Fearn) or EGPE (Inverness). You can hop along the Firth on them (the Cromarty Firth is used as parking for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] optimized generic_pylons and .osg models

2007-10-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Tim Moore wrote: Andy's suggestion doesn't work for my purposes; I don't know of a way to change all the references to generic_pylon_01.ac, etc. embedded in .stg files without rebuilding the scenery. Furthermore, this is not so much for my benefit, because Exactly the same way I did for

[Flightgear-devel] Material animation problems with osg

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Stockill
I'm having problems with material animations under the osg version of flightgear. Melchior has confirmed that it's working for him with the plib version, and that the config is correct. It's an extremely somple model that consists of 2 buttons that turn a light on and off, so the xml looks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Material animation problems with osg

2007-10-20 Thread Jon Stockill
SydSandy wrote: I havent tested this one but Ive found that I have to put the material animation first before any others for it to work It appears to be a bug in the osg version - changing bool to int and true/false to 1/0 makes everything work. Is plib doing a type conversion that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Positioning Point of View and controlling direction I look

2007-10-24 Thread Jon Stockill
Mike Yukish wrote: More questions! So how do I change the direction in which I am viewing and the position that I am viewing from? I did not see them in the list of properties, which seemed like a good guess on where they'd be. The camera balls on aircraft typically are hanging below the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling TerraGear !

2007-10-31 Thread Jon Stockill
will Pink wrote: I have the lastest CVS version of SimGear but the package doesn't include configure.ac or configure.in! Any reason why? Because it's the cvs version, and those are built by autotools Jon - This SF.net

[Flightgear-devel] Material animation problem

2007-10-31 Thread Jon Stockill
I'm having problems with the following seemingly simple bit of animation (running the cvs osg version): animation object-nameWarnLoVolt/object-name object-nameWarnGen/object-name object-nameWarnLoOil/object-name object-nameWarnFuel/object-name object-nameWarnStarter/object-name

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Programmatic control of AI traffic

2007-11-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Csaba Halász wrote: On 11/5/07, Heiko Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Though I can't help you, it sounds for me like a very good feature for FlightGear! Real weather - real traffic - would be great! Yeah! How about setting up an mp-server feeding in real traffic? Or even just AI? So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] former project policies

2007-11-21 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: CVS isn't a dumping ground for secrets. Everything there should be open. And being open also means to be understandable by as big an audience as possible. I'm just not able to learn Greek, Chinese, Swahili, ... We all hate English, but it's the lowest common

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 7 easy steps to get fgcom running

2007-11-22 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: The PTT emulation is currently only a mic mute - very bad hack. I will try to fix this inside iaxclient (so that the audio stream is blocked inside the VoIP client) but I have to discuss this on the iaxclient-dev list. I think you'll run into problems if you do this -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 7 easy steps to get fgcom running

2007-11-22 Thread Jon Stockill
Holger Wirtz wrote: Ok, I see the problem. And if the mic input is not used as a signal source but a silent stream? That may simulate a PTT function without hardware muting the mic. Yes, that would maintain the outbound stream for use as a clock source. If I want to place two calls - one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-11-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Durk Talsma wrote: This is a quick note to everybody: I'm planning to build an official FlightGear pre-release tonight. I did a full dress rehearsal last sunday and that all seemed to work well, but I still needed Curt's okay for a few remaining issues. In the mean time, if there are any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-12-01 Thread Jon Stockill
Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sébastien MARQUE wrote: Hi, I'm not a developer, but I can see from the time I began to use FG the great work that have been done. My thought is that instead of the only use of numbers to count the FG versions, maybe this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-12-01 Thread Jon Stockill
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, Great idea! We really should do this! And as first name we should take Wright- the first pilot an an aircraft *cough* Cayley Jon - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Stuart Buchanan wrote: --- Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 December 2007: - avoiding really difficult to fly aircraft in the default aircraft collection doesn't make fgfs a toy, and Oh, and to take some pressure from the bf109, I declare now the pittss1c the official

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stockill
gerard robin wrote: that one ? http://www.spyflight.co.uk/chipmunk.htm Better choice , less risk to caught a cold. Yup, that's the one. Obviously it won't be ready before the next release, but should be available to fill the taildragger gap before the first osg release. Jon

[Flightgear-devel] Slackware package for FlightGear 1.0.0

2007-12-18 Thread Jon Stockill
unable to do any extensive testing to determine if everything is working properly. I can usually read my email (though sometimes very slowly, and sometimes not at all). Congrats on the release. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] Slackware package for FlightGear 1.0.0

2007-12-18 Thread Jon Stockill
unable to do any extensive testing to determine if everything is working properly. I can usually read my email (though sometimes very slowly, and sometimes not at all). Congrats on the release. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] Slackware package for FlightGear 1.0.0

2007-12-18 Thread Jon Stockill
unable to do any extensive testing to determine if everything is working properly. I can usually read my email (though sometimes very slowly, and sometimes not at all). Congrats on the release. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ramp (for fun)

2008-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: Now that we have a jeep and a snowplow in the FlightGear fleet (and the possibility of creating other interesting surface vehicles) I feel strongly that we need a nice 3d model of a ramp in the Models/ directory. This would be the sort of ramp that Evel Knievel would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ramp (for fun)

2008-01-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis Olson wrote: What's the model name? I'm having trouble spotting it. SkiJump.xml It's nothing fancy, but the angle and shape seem to work quite well for the harrier. Jon - Check out the new SourceForge.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG(?) with broken artificial horizon in c172p

2008-01-16 Thread Jon Stockill
AnMaster wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 After a report from a windows user about broken artificial horizon after a roll in c172p and SenecaII (using 1.0), I tried this. I do not know if it is a feature or a bug, but after a roll in c172p the artificial horizon is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG(?) with broken artificial horizon in c172p

2008-01-16 Thread Jon Stockill
AnMaster wrote: Indeed it does reset, after about 10 minutes flying. So intended feature then? Yes - the instrument should be caged before attempting aerobatics. Same for directional gyros I believe. Jon - This SF.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Include OpenStreetMaps in Scenery

2008-01-29 Thread Jon Stockill
Joacher Joacherson wrote: Hello! What do you think about including the openstreetmap.org data to the FGFS Scenery? The project collects GPS tracks from various people and forges them to a digital map. But take a look at it for yourself: http://openstreetmap.org/ It's not done yet, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] http://openaerialmap.org/

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Stockill
Norman Vine wrote: Melchior FRANZ writes: ... and a short article about it: http://www.linux.com/feature/125258 Just amazing what those gremlins at telascience come up with :-) Curt needs to get busy with the UAV - not sure how long it'd take to collect data for our entire default scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual Flashmob

2008-02-02 Thread Jon Stockill
Csaba Halász wrote: A couple of volunteers risked their very lives to clear the runways among ignorant and sometimes straight-out hostile aircraft pilots :D See screenshots here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Csaba.Halasz/SnowplowFlashmob It was fun ;) There's another batch here:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Red Bull Air Race for FlightGear

2008-02-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Torsten Dreyer wrote: *** update *** I am currently working on the slalom-gate code so it can be used for the 2007 series, too. I have the racetracks for San Diego and San Francisco ready and they will be released in a few days together with the new software. To have a nice aircraft to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Red Bull Air Race for FlightGear

2008-02-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Unfortunately our scenery in the San Francisco marina area is not very accurate and the cost line looks like it has been made by a zigzag cutter. So the racetrack doesnt look half as cool as it could. Sigh. Has there been a recent SFO race? I was trying to find details

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-19 Thread Jon Stockill
gerard robin wrote: I can only say that, the right coastline is given by the tiles extracted from Scenery FG0.9.8. I suspect this is a GSHHS versus VMAP0 issue - I'm not sure which coastline was used for the 1.0.0 scenery though. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-22 Thread Jon Stockill
Tim Moore wrote: Is it practical to use the Landsat classification stuff you guys have demoed on your web pages to generate our own coastline data? It has already been done. The result is PGS (sorry for the horrid url):

[Flightgear-devel] New models

2008-03-31 Thread Jon Stockill
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 currently untextured, although

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

2008-04-28 Thread Jon Stockill
Georg Vollnhals wrote: 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

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

2008-06-10 Thread Jon Stockill
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 generate it's maps, so you are free

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