Re: [Flightgear-devel] options scanninng sequence

2005-12-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
Vivian Meazza wrote: Further, I do NOT want the code automatically saving my changes, we should be given the option on exit. Apart from downloading a new version of preferences.xml, is there any way back to the default values: there should be? Just delete the generated preferences.xml?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] options scanninng sequence

2005-12-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I should also point out that I received an error message when the new system couldn't load my preferences if they didn't exist. We should see an error message in this case. You received an error message and you should see an error message? Seems to me like that's the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Exceptions

2006-01-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Vance Souders wrote: Was the exception handling issue referenced below ever addressed? IIRC this was discussed and the code was correct. But Vassilii did some improvements regardless. Nine --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New JSBSim code

2006-01-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jon S. Berndt wrote: Note that I'm still not sure how this is going to work with carrier landings. The zero velocity code may get bypassed, since a carrier is normally not at zero speed. I can't remember if I accounted for that or not. Probably an easy fix, anyhow. What I don't understand

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim 0.9 followup: 737 VRP

2006-01-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
I think finally I got the right idea: look at how it's done in the old version of the file, before the update. Looks like it's neither gear, nor CG, but something in the same area. Restored the values and everything looks fine now. But there's still one thing I'm curious about. Does it just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New JSBSim code

2006-01-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
Richard Harrison wrote: I 100% agree with the way Jon has fixed this. Suggesting that there is simpler way of doing it indicates a lack of understanding of the complexities. Yes, of course. I didn't say the way it's fixed is bad, or that it doesn't work. But as I never tried to code a FDM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about --carrier=Nimitz

2006-02-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Isao Yamashita wrote: --carrier=Nimitz option doesn't work for me. FG gives me some mysterious help text like below : --carrier=[name|ID] Specify starting position on an AI carrier --parkpos=name Specify which starting position on an AI carrier (must also specify a carrier) I did uncomment

Re: [Flightgear-devel] enhanced runway lighting.

2006-02-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: It does sound like you don't specify --enable-distance-attenuation or that your hardware doesn't support GL_DISTANCE_ATTENUATION_EXT [...] That does really help ... would it make sense to add a distance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-10 3D cockpit progress

2006-02-26 Thread Stefan Seifert
dene maxwell wrote: If I chose to stay with the old version front end then I could still expect the functionality I had enjoyed to still be available. This is not the case with 098a MP. 098a MP no longer exists and having supported a household upgrade to cable 'net on the basis of being able

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft startup failure, confirmed by others (Concorde / Boeing314A)

2006-03-01 Thread Stefan Seifert
Chris Metzler wrote: Both pigeon and I are experiencing that the Concorde doesn't start. We both run Linux. Attempting to start with the Concorde gives a slightly messed-up splash screen (black blotches near the bottom), followed by an abort. Backtrace included below: This has been since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Maybe all the people who are working on the 737 need to get together and work out who is going to do what.You have as it would appear done a lot of the 737 electrical system I also know that Justin Smithies is working on the same system.I am working on the 3D cockpit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
David Luff wrote: Melchior FRANZ writes: OK, you've pricked my consciensce. I'll make a concerted effort to track that one down, since it's undoubtably one of mine :-( I thought it might have been fixed, since I haven't seen it since a couple of bug-fixes were added to that bit of code be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 small fixes

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Berndt, Jon S wrote: Second (and more important) a hopefully good guess about the VRP. I used the z value of the old 737, which seems to fit and spent half an hour trying to figure out the y value. I tested giving full left break and 90% thrust which keeps the plane spinning around the left

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: I'd like to ask: is there some development version of the 737 available? I'm tempted to fix some animations that were in the old model, but if I had to guess, I'd say they are already done and I'd hate to waste the effort. As the 737 model has recently been replaced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Stefan Seifert writes The 737-300 is missing the nose gear animations: turning and compression. Looked at it yesterday, but it's not as easy as it was with the old model because the nosewheel seems not to be a named object anymore. Have to find out how I can give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hello Stefan That is correct those two animations are missing and if you would like to do them again that would be great. Here are the objects that now make up the nose gear. ... So rotating everything from collar down should do the steering. And compressing everthing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
And of course, I forgot something in my last mail: the engine fans are missing the cylinder with the spiral in the model. Nine --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 development

2006-03-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
Justin Smithies wrote: Hi all, This may sound daft but i've setup cvs on my server to hold the 737-300 development that me , Markus and others are doing so it does not touch the FG model until the model authors are happy with changes etc and wish to commit the changes to the FG cvs.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG core dump when running Concorde

2006-03-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jon S. Berndt wrote: I suppose this points out that it would be nice to have a version of the config file that could work in multiple situations (JSBSim standalone, FlightGear, etc.) - that is, conditional usage. I'm not sure how I'd do that, yet, though. Normally I would say, that the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Graphics load (was Possible contribution for someone)

2006-04-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Paul Surgeon schrieb: Well I think the best bang for the buck would be via some sort of terrain LOD mechanism. Using primitives to draw every single feature just isn't going to scale well. Terrain LOD and primitives for every feature is not necessarily a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I set the AP altitude-hold target higher and higher, and now I'm flying with Mach 1.00 at 250,000 ft, and I'm a bit worried about heat problems once I started the landing procedure. vspeed ist constant at 2012. Contrails are shooting ahead ... even faster than the 737 ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 exposes a possible property/memory bug in real-weather-fetch

2006-04-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jon S. Berndt wrote: Using k/j or Ctrl-b or Shift-S - nothing seems to be able to stow the speedbrake/spoilers on the upper surface of the 737-300 wing. Using the j key seems to start it stowing, but it's only momentary. Then, it deploys again. This happens when I use the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Proposal for 1.0

2006-04-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I don't think we gain much from forking plib. *If* we have people interested in working on plib, those can as well ask for plib write access. (The texture compression was IMHO not advertized well, so I'm not really surprised that it was ignored.) Forgive me my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive 0.1 alpha available for testing

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
That may be a problem, that could affect FGLive, too: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/15/1451229from=rss Nine --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 08:35:51 +0900, alexander wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anders Gidenstam wrote: There are some drivers for Linux, but nothing that really works. TrackIR manufacturer wants to develop such drivers, but dislike making it open source for some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Browser: old dog, new tricks

2006-06-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I don't have a scroll mouse, because I don't like them. The middle button is too important on Unix to put a disturbing wheel there. Fortunately, there are other developers who could do this. All you need is a lot of patience, as getting plib patches committed isn't the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Thomas Förster wrote: Don't know wether svg editors will preserve unknown tags and attributes. If they do, the physical airport layout can then be changed with a standard svg drawing program (e.g. inkscape). That's the nice thing about XML: you just have to put your own tags and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ch35e ready to go into CVS

2006-07-02 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: PS: I know we can't have everything in cvs, but I keep committing until Curt pulls the emergency brake. And if it's helicopters, then I don't even hesitate for a second. :-P But why not have all available aircrafts in CVS? CVS is a source code management

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New fgjs tool

2006-07-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I found the old code quite horrible, even after the last improvements. The new method is without any doubt superior. If nobody objects, then I'll commit that tomorrow. Some things should IMHO get improved: New version attached. I added some more info about the dead

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YF-23/yasim: how to climb to 163000 ft

2006-07-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: $ fgfs --aircraft=YF-23 --airport=knuq --disable-real-weather-fetch - full throttle - climb to 8000 ft - 90 degree bank - pull stick fully back amazingly: you don't bleed off speed, but *accelerate* - at ~1630 kt (after that the speed decreases) 0 degree bank and

[Flightgear-devel] Hang on exit when using SDL output

2006-07-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
After some months of just hitting ctrl+c I finally tried to find out why FG hangs every time on exit just sitting there doing nothing. I did a backtrace on all threads and guessed, that sound may have something to do with it and it seems like I was right. I have (define devices '(sdl)) in my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autosave.xml -- aircraft specific settings

2006-08-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
AJ MacLeod wrote: Personally I don't think we need a separate file for each aircraft, but I don't have any particularly strong feelings either way on that one. I suppose it would make it very easy to return any aircraft model to standard state.. It would be not too difficult to delete the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view change crashes

2006-08-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Stefan Seifert -- Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:03: Before Melchior's work-around I could reproduce the problem with fgfs --disable-auto-coordination --aircraft=harrier --carrier=Nimitz Just switch views and it crashes. But you should still see the error

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Schweizer SGS 2-33, AI thermals and other remarks

2006-08-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Dave Culp wrote: I have some buttons on my joystick set up for this, and I do get an increased descent rate when spoilers are deployed. The sgs233 FDM uses the JSBSim property called fcs/speedbrake-pos-norm, which is controlled by the FlightGear property called controls/flight/speedbrake,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim trouble -- flight controls don't appearto be not responding

2006-09-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
Heiko Schulz wrote: There is something else I want to say about the 3d-model: Too much vertices! The exterior model got about 10.000 vertices, the interior without (!) the cockpit and seats got about 10.000 vertices- I think that's too much, my computer got problems with it. That's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reviews etc.

2006-10-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Elliott wrote: The only thing that slightly bothers me about someone passing off any of my work as part of a FlightGear 2006 Professional package is that I don't consider any of my work to be of commercial quality and I wouldn't want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlieghtGear and VATSIM

2006-11-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Wirtz wrote: Hi, does anyone know if there are considerations to add VATSIm Support to FlightGear? There have already been some threads about that topic on this mailing list. In short: adding support isn't really possible due to licensing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nose strut absorber animation, anyone worked on that?

2006-11-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon S. Berndt wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 06:21, Detlef Faber wrote: There is a property /gear/gear[0]/compression-norm (at least in yasim), you can use for that. I seem to recall seeing similar variable in JSBsim as well, but I don't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS X build for cvs-head - some weird behaviors

2006-11-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Source files that I used were: FlightGear: cvs-head (as of yesterday) PLIB-1.8.4 OpenSceneGraph: CVS-20061113 SimGear: CVS-head (as of yesterday), which I check out with cvs - d :pserver:[EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Friday 17 November 2006 09:56, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..the first line of section 0, states: 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License., in the TERMS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dene wrote: Hi Curt, thanks for re-affirming that, I am still a little unsure on some things; As long as I'm using images in a positive manner then it's OK? who makes the judgement call on whether my use is positive or not? Who do you ask to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine wrote: So the question is 1: Are screenshots a result of running the program or 2: Are screenshots a work based on the program I would argue (1) That's the point: it's arguable if it's 1 or 2. But wheter it's 1 or 2 putting the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-OSG: periodic hangs at KSFO

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Seifert wrote: With the CVS-HEAD version of FG I'm experiencing periodic hangs if I start at KSFO. I finally have found out more about the problem. It vanishes if I deactivate the Nimitz scenario. So it must be something in it, that causes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: more weirdness]

2006-12-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Also keep in mind that the xml parser will not accept the following PropertyList include=foo include=bar The question here is: is this valid XML? No it's not valid. In such cases space delimited lists are usually used: PropertyList include=foo bar Nine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Again: VATSIM and FlightGear?

2006-12-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Major A wrote: As I wrote in the original email, you don't need to. The only two things missing in the (free) demo compared to what you get on DVD is the scenery (which you don't need anyway) and joystick input after the first 6 minutes have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Import DAFIF into SQL !?

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: Want to use an sql database with flightgear at runtime? Better find an embedded database tool that is binary compatible across all platforms ... and is open source ... and compiles on all the platforms we support ... ! Well,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] retraction issues

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Campos wrote: wouldn't be good a list of standard controls? in fact, if i remember, some time ago that utility that tossed out config files for some joystick, uses properties assignment... Not any more. Nowadays it uses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery download map 'alt' tags

2007-02-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Warne wrote: Hi Curt, Just subsitute 'ALT' with 'title', thus: - ALT=e000n00 48.44 Mb 1/17/2006 + title=e000n00 48.44 Mb 1/17/2006 Not exactly. In HTML the alt attribute is mandatory and everyone who surfs with text browsers or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG MP videos

2007-02-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Julien Pierru wrote: Those videos were taken last year by pigeon. Shavlir, Dave Culp and I were flying the aircraft in these videos. They would look great on the FG home page. Good idea! They use a free flash video player (FlowPlayer). But

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: I'm not aware of a way to do that. The trick would be for me to find the original files ... which might be a trick. What's the deadline? Of course it's possible and very easy, too. http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Funny rendering bug?

2007-04-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Curtis Olson -- Thursday 05 April 2007: It really looks like it might be some sort of osg bug (or possibly our usage of osg?) Yes. I can confirm the bug, even for KSFO: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/osg-rendering.jpg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] framerate hesitations...

2007-04-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reagan Thomas wrote: I have seen some of the discussions regarding multi-threading and I understand the desire to limit the complexity of program flow. However, I think that at least *some* specific file IO should be arranged such that it is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For your weekly CVS summary log reading pleasure I hacked up a little Perl script that merges similar entries, so: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2007-04-25_23:12:42 (sydadams)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interest in adding dogfighting capability

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Palmer wrote: 1- add missles to submodels Please at least spell it correctly: missile ;) Nine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: While development over the past few years might give the preception that Flightgear is a game, Flightgear is actually meant to be a serious flight simulator. Things that go boom are cool in games, but they are also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Palmer wrote: In your experience, Harald, what has been the approximate ratio of FDM vs Graphics vs remainder code on CPU time? Has anyone done work on clocking the various subroutines in FG to determine this? (Perhaps I underestimate the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Architecture for Flightgear

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Martin Spott wrote: Personally I think some thing like distributed shared memory might fill the gap. I've been doing some literature research on this topic several years ago, the idea looks pretty promising and different OpenSource

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Curtis Olson wrote: Would you be willing to hack/fixup/modify the original script so that it produces correct results directly? The issue is that it combines files with the same cvs log message and commit date, but sometimes a commit spans a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Harald JOHNSEN wrote: That was in the situation where the MP server does the fdm computation for the client. The 10 hz comes from a ping of 100 ms between the client and the server. I think FDM caculations have to be at a certain rate,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] youtube video

2007-05-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: I've discovered that I really love the AN-2 and the new fly-by view mode! I've posted a youtube video of the FlightGear AN-2 landing at Ranger Creek, WA (taken with a cheesy digital camera pointed at my computer screen ...):

Re: [Flightgear-devel] win32 FG Bugs in PLIB and OSG Plus former FG Versions!

2007-05-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Forums Virgin Net wrote: C:\Documents and settings\userACCOUNT1\Application Data\Flightgear.org C:\Documents and settings\userACCOUNT2\Application Data\Flightgear.org Etc. It would be useful to create flightgear.osg and flightgear.plib

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Galbraith wrote: I agree that his actions are slimy, but is this action actually an allowable form of packaging this software. I am not an expert on this matter, by any stretch of the imagination, but if I put FG and all of the available

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith wrote: But he has changed the name of the product and removed all reference to FlightGear in his ad, that has to at least be a copyright infringement??? FlightGear is not public domain where any one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear source

2007-06-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I noticed, that you are still not using the new script to send the commit messages, that I sent a few weeks ago. Is there some problem with the script or did you just not come around yet to test it? Nine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 John Denker wrote: If you want to know exactly why FGFS poops out at approximately 62,000 feet, look at line 88 of Environment/environment.cxx You can contrast that with the ISA table that goes up to 278,000 feet as found e.g. at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new pseudo FDM for vehicles (osg branch)

2007-06-21 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: In a vehicle simulation, you need smooth terrain, meaning high resolution terrain. In a flight simulation, you want low resolution terrain because you are seeing so much terrain at a time. The two requirements go

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Denker wrote: Let me also point out that the word gremlin is in the dictionary. Its primary meaning explains exactly the purpose of gremlins.nas. Please consider, that not by far not all FG contributors are native English speakers and thus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Chaos in FG development [was: Bomb patch for vulcanb2]

2007-07-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 leee wrote: It is difficult to see a good answer to this issue. On the one hand, planning ahead and setting specific objectives for the FG developers to work towards would give known objectives and a clear development path but at the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Chaos in FG development [was: Bomb patch for vulcanb2]

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: Unfortunately, giving access to this last step of uploading content would involve personal passwords and the ability to affect my paypal account and a few other things that I'm somewhat nervous about handing off. Isn't there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building multiple fgfs binaries from one source tree

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AnMaster wrote: Melchior FRANZ wrote: [...] In the PLIB branch we should rather make SDL default, as freeglut is notoriously broken (repeatable keys; reportedly slower FPS(?)). And in the OSG branch [...] We shouldn't: fg/SDL breaks on Swedish

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300

2007-12-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AnMaster wrote: Well without a 3D cockpit I don't think it would fit in the base package. Basically the lack of a decent cockpit would put off users. I really liked the 737, but unfortunately it's been completely unusable for me since I got a wide

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

2007-12-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
Christian Mayer wrote: About the image size: people are looking at the screenshots with their web browser. So there are window borders, menus, navigation bar, etc. pp. that also have to fit on the monitor. And it's quite bad if the customer has to scroll to see the full beauty of our

Re: [Flightgear-devel] vsi-6 / Aerostar changes

2008-01-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Curtis Olson wrote: Don't bother listening to Melchior, he's busy coming up with absurdly long strings of obscure unix commands that are just a huge waste of time to type. You can do the same check with this much simpler command and save 26 key strokes (if you start in the aircraft

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

2008-03-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 15:16:29 Vivian Meazza wrote: I've been testing this patch for some while now. I would strongly recommend anyone who uses multiplayer to use it. There is no obvious downside, but as Till said, there is more work to be done. It really needs lots of people to give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seperated MP-servers

2008-03-24 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday, 24. March 2008, George Patterson wrote: However, if someone would like to see what has been done, please drop me a private email. Is there a Perl programmer in the audience? Yep, there is ;) If you want me to do some review or have some area where you could need some help, just

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

2008-04-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Sunday, 13. April 2008, James Sleeman wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 14:59 +0100, LeeE wrote: Does it segfault every time or is it inconsistent? I'm about a week Everytime. I'll try rolling back to an older OSG when I get a chance. Just a note: I'm having the same problem since 2.3.7. A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
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. And a time-jump would be nicer backwards regarding my age :-) I

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

2008-04-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
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 section I boot on my server: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title

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

2008-04-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday, 28. April 2008, Georg Vollnhals wrote: But checking the result is disappointing. I did it after 3 boot cycles (2 reboot and one cold boot): dhcppc2:/home/georg # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource tsc Maybe your system simply doesn't have a hpet

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Display flightdata in chase view

2008-09-01 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday 01 September 2008 15:44:50 Manfred Janßen wrote: Hi there, is it possible, to display some of the flight data, like heading, altitude, airspeed in the screen if flightgear is in chase view? And if, can you give me a short hint where to search for that? Most of the time, you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] is linux ppc version non-functional?

2008-09-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday, 16. September 2008, Saurabh Gupta wrote: this is ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] That's six generations and seven years behind current graphics hardware. I don't know too much about FG's requirements, but I'd bet that this card just doesn't match

[Flightgear-devel] Correction for the f16's VRP

2008-09-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, attached is a little patch for the f16. It's VRP is obviously wrong, when watching turns on the ground from outside. I did standard slipping-of-the-edge tests and found an x-value of -180in to improve the situation a lot. Regards, Nine ? Aircraft/f16/initfile.xml Index:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 was Call for aircraft nominations

2008-10-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Sunday, 05. October 2008, Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: Heiko Schulz wrote: Forgot ne aircraft: the F14 is really nice and has a lot of features! It should be in the package! Thanks :-) BTW: I'm currently preparing an important update, there will be a lot of changes and cleaning made on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An off topic question.

2008-10-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Friday, 17. October 2008, Tobias Nielsen wrote: I have a version in my svn repository that i am doing active development on several different machines. I am not allowed to do any commits to the repository before the code is in a somewhat stable state. For that reason i each time perform a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to lower how much scenery gets cached:

2008-11-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday, 13. November 2008, Curtis Olson wrote: How much memory do you have? Is it possible to add some memory to get yourself up to maybe at least 512Mb total? Just a side note: even 512MB is very little nowadays for FG. I'm running with 1GB and am very much looking forward to getting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] release thoughts

2008-11-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday 17 November 2008 09:20:14 James Turner wrote: In the past I've worked on binary distributions for various GL-based projects on Linux, one using VTK and one using OGRE. In both cases we ended up shipping libstdc++ as well - in order to have a chance at portability, the only externals

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d clouds interaction with overcast layer

2008-11-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday 27 November 2008 16:21:45 Frederic Bouvier wrote: - Curtis Olson a écrit : The solution is to draw transparent objects in sorted order back to front ... including clouds ... so in this case it appears that the 3d clouds are being drawn before the 2d cloud layers, and in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with 1.99.5

2008-12-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 03. December 2008, Jon Stockill wrote: Just out of interest which version of OSG are people planning to link the release against? Are we going to wait for a 2.8 release, or go with one of the 2.7 developer releases? Looking at previous OSG release dates (2.2 October, 2.4 April,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.9.1

2009-01-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday, 12. January 2009, Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: Also, using gdb prevents this segfault to appear. It looks like having a timming issue in the different processes. When it's not reproducible with gdb, you can enable core dumps with ulimit -c unlimited before running FG. If it crashes it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new JSBSim CVS for FlightGear?

2009-01-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday 12 January 2009 15:29:43 gerard robin wrote: On lundi 12 janvier 2009, Erik Hofman wrote: True, but this requires a base package update to work correctly. Which is better to delay a few days so the binary only bugfix release can get released. Ouups sorry i thought that we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS: data/Aircraft/Boeing314 Boeing314A.xml,

2009-01-21 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 21. January 2009, Martin Spott wrote: b) The GPL states that You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, [...], but You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Now, how would you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Licensing and disclaimers for aircraft models

2009-01-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday, 22. January 2009, Jon S. Berndt wrote: Since it appears as though JSBSim will use the product identifiers (e.g..Boeing 737) in a descriptive manner, and no profit will be derived from said usage, then we have no objection to inclusion of the product identifiers on the software.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Licensing and disclaimers for aircraft models

2009-01-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday, 22. January 2009, Tim Moore wrote: We can't say that all the models in the repository are covered by the GPL and have models in there that are not. This is a terrible trap for anyone wanting to use FlightGear in any professional setting. Please do not confuse the software license

Re: [Flightgear-devel] engine reconfiguration?

2009-01-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 28. January 2009, Jon S. Berndt wrote: Is there sometimes confusion as to how or where to apply changes to JSBSim code or aircraft models? Do we need to work on easing the process of integration into FlightGear? More frequent synchs? (we'd need additional volunteers, and/or I'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat (was: engine reconfiguration?)

2009-01-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 28. January 2009, John Denker wrote: On 01/28/2009 02:25 AM, Erik Hofman wrote: I didn't check it myself yet, but every once in a while I have to do a 'make clean' before 'make install' for this sort of things (both for Simgear and FlightGear) Good advice; thanks. Alas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird memory bloat

2009-01-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 28. January 2009, John Denker wrote: Ridiculing the bug report will not make the bug go away. I did not want to ridicule the report in any way. Apologies if it came like that. I just wanted to point out, that measuring memory usage unfortunately is not as easy as it looks (no,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Saving Instant Replay to a File

2009-03-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 14:16:23 Matthew Barousse wrote: Hey all, I'm currently attempting to modify flight gear, so that I may save and re-play flights, exactly like the instant replay feature, but with a save file. My next task is to implement a save-to-file feature. I was thinking the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hypothetical gpl question

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 13:34:19 Curtis Olson wrote: Here's a question: Does a 3rd party have the right to ask for the modified source code, even if none of the entities receiving the modified program don't care to ask for the source code? In short: no. The GPL doesn't require any rights for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hypothetical gpl question

2009-03-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 14:11:38 Ron Jensen wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:43 +0100, Stefan Seifert wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2009 13:34:19 Curtis Olson wrote: Here's a question: Does a 3rd party have the right to ask for the modified source code, even if none of the entities

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgjs segfault

2009-05-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday, 14. May 2009, Matthew Gibson wrote: Sorry, I can't figure out how to reply to messages on mailing lists. But I found the issue. jssuper .h and .cxx don't assume the joystick numbers are in order. They use a first and last variable, as well as an activeJoysticks number of

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