Re: [Flightgear-devel] P-38L-Lightning

2007-06-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 30 June 2007 09:11:36 Detlef Faber wrote: very nice Aircraft indeed Speaking of which, here is a very interesting story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6245802.stm Nick -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508

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

2007-06-19 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 22:25:24 Martin Spott wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: I also have doubts that a single fdm can accurately reproduce ship and car characteristics - [...] While you are at it, don't forget simulating railway trains - their timetables are publicly available :-) Don't

[Flightgear-devel] schedule tiles bug

2007-06-17 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Latest cvs OSG/SG/FG. I don't know if anybody else has reported this, as I cannot remember having seen it, but since about the time when sea tiles went missing (which are now fixed), I have seen this pop up in the console occasionally: Attempting to schedule tiles for bogus lon and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model Aircraft projects

2007-06-17 Thread Nick Warne
On Sunday 17 June 2007 10:44:29 gh.robin wrote: =Lancaster and Halifax WWII Bombers Wow! I can't wait to fly them! Thanks! Nick - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph 2.0

2007-06-16 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 16 June 2007 11:37:35 Martin Spott wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: I must agree. I haven't had a working flightgear for about a month because OSG-SVN/head quit building for me. How does the error message look like ? I know, unfortunately I'm repeating myself, yet it might help

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BlackBird SR-71

2007-06-14 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Gérard, On Thursday 14 June 2007 12:01:25 gh.robin wrote: Hello, everybody those who knows my URL http://perso.orange.fr/GRTux/ have noticed a lot of model, which are not longer available. I made these Aircraft some years ago , they where flying with FG 0.9.8. They were built mainly to

[Flightgear-devel] The flight of the Dragonfly

2007-06-12 Thread Nick Warne
Or sub-titled Always look where you are going Hi all, A little thing I have done based Anders stuff sorting out the jpg-httpd server: http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/fg/fgcam/dragonfly.avi (3.17MB). It is a bit choppy, and also a bit grainy as I used a low bit rate for conversion, but it still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Aircraft: Dragonfly - Linuxtag edition

2007-06-04 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 04 June 2007 17:04:20 Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi all, as promised the Dragonfly that was created during Linuxtag 2007 is in CVS (thanks, Martin!). The Dragonfly is a microlight aircraft built by Bill Moyes. It is pure fun to fly and due to it's slow flying speed it is ideal for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Aircraft: Dragonfly - Linuxtag edition

2007-06-04 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Torsten, On Monday 04 June 2007 17:04:20 Torsten Dreyer wrote: The Dragonfly is a microlight aircraft built by Bill Moyes. Have fun and please report problems (and maybe success) One thing I noticed - on the ground, apply brakes, the engine sound stops (or is silenced). Nick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying at/for LinuxTag

2007-06-02 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 02 June 2007 08:22:48 Torsten Dreyer wrote: Flying with the multiplayer option was just great and made Tempelhof a very crowded place to fly - Thanks every pilot for your support. I Hope to be in the team for LinuxTag 2008! Torsten Super pictures Torsten - thanks! It is great

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear/PLIB/CVS: Enabling 3D Clouds results in Floating point interrupt (SIGFPE)

2007-05-31 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Durk, On Thursday 31 May 2007 07:57:15 Durk Talsma wrote: View-Render Options-Enable 3D Clouds I'm getting a repeated printout saying: Floating point interrupt (SIGFPE), and FlightGear freezes. Before you change to 3D clouds, ensure one of the file size cache settings (I forget which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear/PLIB/CVS: Enabling 3D Clouds results in Floating point interrupt (SIGFPE) [PATCH]

2007-05-31 Thread Nick Warne
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:40:47 Steve Hosgood wrote: Hi Durk , make sure the cloud cache and resolution aren't zero before enabling them Please (before 0.9.11-pre2), could someone slip in some code to the effect: if (cloud_cache == 0 || resolution == 0)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying at/for LinuxTag

2007-05-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:56:23 Curtis Olson wrote: On 5/30/07, Martin Spott wrote: LinuxTag's favourite FlightGear location is EDDI - the famous Berlin Tempelhof airfield. A few of us was flying around a bit today - I will again for the next few days. Everyone would show up at a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] strange behavior of 0.9.11-pre1

2007-05-29 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 09:46:52 Ladislav Michnovič wrote: 2007/5/28, Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I changed the view strange overlaying triangles were visible on the sky. Does anybody similar problems? A while ago a few of us has come to a conclusion that it only happens with

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear building thread.

2007-05-26 Thread Nick Warne
Hi All, I decided to start a new clean thread here, so people can find what they need to build FG to perform. As we know, using the CMAKE command: cmake -i . produces a question/answer type script so you can build as a 'Release' and configure any optimisations to suit. Using: ./configure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear building thread.

2007-05-26 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Mathias, On Saturday 26 May 2007 14:18:14 Mathias Fröhlich wrote: //Set to ON to build OpenSceneGraph with float matrix instead of // double. OSG_USE_FLOAT_MATRIX:BOOL=ON //Set to ON to build OpenSceneGraph with float matrix instead of // double. OSG_USE_FLOAT_PLANE:BOOL=ON

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear building thread.

2007-05-26 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 26 May 2007 14:34:44 Mathias Fröhlich wrote: hi, On Saturday 26 May 2007, Nick Warne wrote: I hope not ;-) ... What compiler do you use? What distro? gcc version 3.4.6 Slack 10 (but heavily updated from source all bar glibc [too scared to update that]). I understand

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear building thread.

2007-05-26 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Mathias, On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:52:17 Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Well, not that I do not care for older hardware. But I think that we should better rely on double here. It eases life very much and reduces complexity in the code ... Remember this is OSG build - not FG. OK. But what

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

2007-05-25 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 25 May 2007 03:59:55 Laurence Vanek wrote: ./configure CXXFLAGS=-O3 ... If you wish to include further flags, they need to enclosed in double quotes: ./configure CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon-tbird -O3 This is my full FG configure option: ./configure

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

2007-05-23 Thread Nick Warne
Hi George, On Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:05:43 Georg Vollnhals wrote: cmake -i . Thank you for the hint, this cmake -i configuration process works very nice for me but does not improve the framerates. Oh my. After building OSG with 'Release' and then building FG with -O3, I have

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

2007-05-23 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Georg, On Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:05:43 Georg Vollnhals wrote: But where do you apply this -O3 parameter? Configure or Make when compiling the FlightGear sources? Thank you very much in advance for your help. Regards Georg EDDW Sorry, I read this too quick. You can build SG/FG with

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

2007-05-22 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 17:48:02 Nick Warne wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 23:46:34 gh.robin wrote: Configure osg with ist's new build system as a Release version. Or provide CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS and CMAKE_C_FLAGS on the command line of cmake. I run cmake with something like cmake -D

[Flightgear-devel] FG to the rescue?

2007-05-19 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, I think this has already been done? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/6670155.stm Nick ;-) - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Missing-Generic tile over the sea

2007-05-15 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 14:04:16 gh.robin wrote: Hello, The generic tiles over the sea is/are missing. Tested with last cvs SG/FG built with last svn OSG and with last cvs SG/FG built with older svn OSG (10-April 2007) here snapshot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data NEWS, 1.14, 1.15 Thanks, 1.23, 1.24 preferences.xml, 1.240, 1.241 version, 1.20, 1.21

2007-05-15 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 23:00:43 Curtis Olson wrote: Don't feel bad, we want to include everyone's contributions, but we need your help to remind us what's been done along the way. Regards, Curt. Not blowing my own trumpet, and I do not want to, but a mention for the people that run the MP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest OT/OSG/SG/FG unusable

2007-05-13 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 12 May 2007 22:01:42 Matthias Boerner wrote: Hallo Georg, I have done a fresh checkout of OSG, PLIB, SimGear and FlightGear today at 3 pm in the afternoon. Everything compiled without a problem. But I don't realize a drop in frame rates. But in contrast to my last checkout of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest OT/OSG/SG/FG unusable

2007-05-10 Thread Nick Warne
On Thursday 10 May 2007 00:23:01 gh.robin wrote: On Mon 7 May 2007 17:05, Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, There seems to be an issue, reported by a few in IRC. Latest build from SVN/CVS makes FG unusable. Frame rates are (for me) at least 60% worse. E.g. pc7 at FHAW - before 43 - today

[Flightgear-devel] Latest OT/OSG/SG/FG unusable

2007-05-07 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, There seems to be an issue, reported by a few in IRC. Latest build from SVN/CVS makes FG unusable. Frame rates are (for me) at least 60% worse. E.g. pc7 at FHAW - before 43 - today after updates, 18. Lightning at KSFO - before 19 - today after updates 6 (unusable). Nick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] limited flap usage

2007-05-04 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 04 May 2007 13:28:15 Detlef Faber wrote: Am Freitag, den 04.05.2007, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Markus Zojer: Hi everyone! Just discovered that flaps seem to be usable just for 1 time, it's possible to extend and to retract but then they refuse any further commands via keyboard. Can

[Flightgear-devel] fg-server updates!

2007-05-03 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, First, now I have a new ADSL connection with a LOT faster speed, I have revamped my server 'status' pages. This also contains the actual 'server status' report too now, so the old URL will be retired soon. Please let me know if it loads too slow to be unusable:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] chrome shader for fg/osg

2007-05-01 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:01:39 Martin Spott wrote: Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Martin Spott -- Tuesday 01 May 2007: Hmmm, should I see any difference with the BO-105 ? The bo105 doesn't use a chrome shader. There are no chrome parts yet. Well, you could add some for the exhausts ;-))

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault using aircraft pc7

2007-04-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 30 April 2007 10:59:23 Martin Spott wrote: Nick Warne wrote: I am getting this now - it is a few weeks since I last flew the pc7, so do not know what caused it to start - all other aircraft I use are OK. [...] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Who manages

Re: [Flightgear-devel] twin phantom airplane with last compile FG OSG

2007-04-28 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 28 April 2007 02:40:57 Pigeon wrote: I just finished a fresh compile of FG and OSG today, then I've found a bug (which I've been told to be solved in the past): I can pilot not only one, but two airplanes ;-) it is quite a funny bug, so I took some snapshots:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] twin phantom airplane with last compile FG OSG

2007-04-28 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 28 April 2007 03:06:26 Ron Jensen wrote: Note that mpserver03 is currently down and won't even resolve to an IP address (see http://mpserver05.flightgear.org/fgmp/status/ ) Incidently, I have just migrated to a new ISP with a faster pipe - and I have adjusted the timeout on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] twin phantom airplane with last compile FG OSG

2007-04-28 Thread Nick Warne
Hi George, On Saturday 28 April 2007 13:53:15 George Patterson wrote: At the moment this only happens when somebody notices an error - or as I did last week when I saw that mpserver01 had dropped my server from the relay, so mpserver05 wasn't showing mpserver01 pilots. It is a bit of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: FG 0.9.10 scenery download broken?]

2007-04-22 Thread Nick Warne
On Sunday 22 April 2007 11:22:29 Georg Vollnhals wrote: Original-Nachricht Betreff: FG 0.9.10 scenery download broken? Datum:Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:21:52 +0200 Von: Georg Vollnhals [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: FlightGear developers discussions

[Flightgear-devel] Segfault using aircraft pc7

2007-04-14 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, I am getting this now - it is a few weeks since I last flew the pc7, so do not know what caused it to start - all other aircraft I use are OK. Nick (gdb) run --aircraft=pc7 Starting program: /usr/bin/fgfs --aircraft=pc7 (no debugging symbols found) Model Author: Unknown Creation

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

2007-04-11 Thread Nick Warne
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 17:58:25 Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Syd Sandy wrote: I get this with varying degrees from different aircraft , with nothing else running , AI / Traffic and MP disabled , but its not consistant enough to find the problem easily... I also noticed long ago , but spend

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Fix up tacan.cxx (OSG)

2007-04-09 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, OSG only (I can't test on PLIB) The issue that Csaba found which was causing my TACAN not to work was due to mobile_valid never being set to FALSE once it got set to TRUE. The AI TACAN then never updated again as 'if (!_mobile_valid)' was never ever met. Looking at the code, I also

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Fix Eisenhower TACAN freq.

2007-04-09 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, After my attempted other patch, for love nor money I could not work out why TACAN failed with the U.S.S. Eisenhower (030Y, freq. 10935)... ...there is a typo (?) in the data/Navaids/ carrier_nav.dat.gz file. I do not know how to do diff against a gzipped file, so here it is manually:

[Flightgear-devel] New [lightning] refueling demo

2007-04-07 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, I have set up a new refueling demo, makes it a bit more interesting: http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/fg/lightning/lightning_refuel1.jpg http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/fg/lightning/lightning_refuel2.jpg I will tidy up the demo and submit if anybody is interested in this. Nick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New [lightning] refueling demo

2007-04-07 Thread Nick Warne
. Screenshots: http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/fg/lightning/lightning_refuel1.jpg http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/fg/lightning/lightning_refuel2.jpg http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/fg/lightning/lightning_refuel3.jpg Nick Warne, nick at linicks . net - 7th April, 2007 /description entry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 02:39:24 Csaba Halász wrote: Hello! Nick had some trouble with the tacan on the lightning, so I had a peek at it. Worked for me all right. However, the instrument needle works as if it were a fixed compass card indicator, which it isn't. So there should be an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007 13:29, Nick Warne wrote: OK, I know people think I am seeing things, but I just sussed out what is going on. I'm not so sure :-) Here is what happens for me. The TACAN works, but it doesn't locate the aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: The tanker in refueling_demo doesn't have TACAN at all. In fact, I think we have a bit of needless duplication with those demos, and one of them could be removed without too much pain... OK, Csaba found the bug I was seeing, and he fixed it,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

2007-04-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 06 April 2007 23:10:25 Vivian Meazza wrote: Nick Warne wrote: On Friday 06 April 2007 14:00:14 AJ MacLeod wrote: The tanker in refueling_demo doesn't have TACAN at all. In fact, I think we have a bit of needless duplication with those demos, and one of them could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Funny rendering bug?

2007-04-05 Thread Nick Warne
On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:20:26 sydsandy wrote: Also if I look in certain directions everything goes white , and I can see the 'invisible' panel area defined in the animation file for hotspot and 2 d instrument arrangements it seems to appear if the center of the transparent polygon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radar

2007-04-04 Thread Nick Warne
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:54:27 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Csaba Halász -- Wednesday 04 April 2007: Next incarnation :) Committed, thanks. I've only tested with the T38 and Lightning. Radar on the former worked, and on the latter didn't. But maybe I just missed some important detail. :-)

[Flightgear-devel] pressure-alt-ft bug

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, I noticed today I get a nasal error on starting fgfs with the c172p: Nasal runtime error: nil used in numeric context at /usr/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas, line 1438 called from: /usr/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas, line 287 Tracing through

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pressure-alt-ft bug

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 09:51:50 Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, I noticed today I get a nasal error on starting fgfs with the c172p: Nasal runtime error: nil used in numeric context at /usr/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas, line 1438 called from: /usr/share/FlightGear/data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pressure-alt-ft bug

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:04:10 Melchior FRANZ wrote: OK, so you decided to get more heat from JD ... :-} I have looked through the code in encoder.cxx and [...] Is your code really up-to-date? There is no encoder.cxx anymore since a few days. m. ha ha... OK, so yesterday I updated

[Flightgear-devel] FG carrier AI demo hard crash

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, First - latest CVS :-) OK, I took off on the carrier with the SeafireIIIc. I swung around and attempted to land. As I touched the deck (and it appeared my hook caught), FG crashed - I was left with a very light blue screen, and FG took 80 seconds or so to be killed. This was in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG carrier AI demo hard crash

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 11:41:18 Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, First - latest CVS :-) OK, I took off on the carrier with the SeafireIIIc. I swung around and attempted to land. As I touched the deck (and it appeared my hook caught), FG crashed - I was left with a very light blue screen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG carrier AI demo hard crash

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 11:50:21 Nick Warne wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007 11:41:18 Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, First - latest CVS :-) OK, I took off on the carrier with the SeafireIIIc. I swung around and attempted to land. As I touched the deck (and it appeared my hook caught

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
Hi Ron, On Monday 02 April 2007 14:19:17 Ron Jensen wrote: So, how accurate does the throttle need to be? Surely not 1.5e -5? Nick You probably should change the condition to not depend on a perfectly rigged joystick. Testing for equal is not a great idea any time you are using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
Hi John, On Monday 02 April 2007 15:31:43 John Denker wrote: So my suggestion is to figure out the /real/ throttle behavior of interest, and model that. If floating-point is even the slightest obstacle to building a realistic model, please explain. I wasn't complaining here, just raising

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possibly joystick bug condition

2007-04-02 Thread Nick Warne
On Monday 02 April 2007 16:17:31 Nick Warne wrote: Hi John, On Monday 02 April 2007 15:31:43 John Denker wrote: So my suggestion is to figure out the /real/ throttle behavior of interest, and model that. If floating-point is even the slightest obstacle to building a realistic model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another problem with fgfs-build

2007-04-01 Thread Nick Warne
On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:30:09 Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, cyprien wrote: Hi again ! After compiling everything successefully with a make all, i've launch ./install/bin/fgfs, but i've this error : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/fgfs-builder-20070222$ ./install/bin/fgfs ./install/bin/fgfs: error

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issue - peculiar

2007-03-12 Thread Nick Warne
! Also, by using the -p option of jscal, it produces commandline data that can be read back with the -s option, so all I need do is run that little script at startx (or when I plug my JS in) for it to be sorted. So resolved! Thanks for interest and help. Nick Nick Warne wrote: OK, this isn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issue - peculiar

2007-03-11 Thread Nick Warne
is wrong and changes/removes it somewhat. I don't know. Nick Nick Warne wrote: Hi all, This is _not_ a bug report, nor perhaps FG specific, but rather a discussion of a joystick issue I see - now I have seen this, it is like when you get a little stone in your shoe, but no matter how

[Flightgear-devel] Joystick issue - peculiar

2007-03-10 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, This is _not_ a bug report, nor perhaps FG specific, but rather a discussion of a joystick issue I see - now I have seen this, it is like when you get a little stone in your shoe, but no matter how much you look, you can't find the bugger - but because you know it's there, you can't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issue - peculiar

2007-03-10 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 10 March 2007 18:00:45 Stewart Andreason wrote: Can the dead band be increased? My own Thrustmaster joystick is less than consistant about the zero-center, but not like you have described. I have not looked into fixing it myself, yet. Stewart Nick Warne wrote: Hi all

[Flightgear-devel] [BUG] Spitfire throttle boost gauge fails (with fix)

2007-03-08 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Flying the Spitfire, if you get airborne and then drop the throttle to zero, the gear warning alarm klaxon sounds. Hitting 'k' or 'K' to turn this off then produces: Nasal runtime error: non-objects have no members at /usr/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/Spitfire/Models/spitfire.nas,

[Flightgear-devel] MP server status page.

2007-03-04 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, A little thing I done to check status of online servers: http://mpserver05.flightgear.org/fgmp/status/ Nick - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

[Flightgear-devel] [BUG] Scenery spelling mistake

2007-03-03 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Failed to open file /opt/fg_scenery/Objects/w010n50/w002n51/DitcotChimney1.xml 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick users 184 2005-03-06 00:48 /opt/fg_scenery/Objects/w010n50/w002n51/DidcotChimney1.xml The file is correctly spelt (Didcot, not ditcot), the call to load the file isn't.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] Scenery spelling mistake

2007-03-03 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:50:14 Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Thanks for pointing this out, we're going to fix it, Get a fresh export from Jon's Scenery Objects download site tomorrow, if you like, Martin. OK thanks, but I fixed the file myself - at least it is now

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] Scenery spelling mistake

2007-03-03 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:57:39 Nick Warne wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2007 12:50:14 Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Thanks for pointing this out, we're going to fix it, Get a fresh export from Jon's Scenery Objects download site tomorrow, if you like, Martin. OK

[Flightgear-devel] MAX_CALLSIGN_LEN

2007-02-22 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Revamping my server query page, I noticed that mp callsign names get chopped at 7 chars. The code reads: src/MultiPlayer/mpmessages.hxx 59: // XDR demands 4 byte alignment, but some compilers use8 byte alignment // so it's safe to let the overall size of a network message be a //

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MAX_CALLSIGN_LEN

2007-02-22 Thread Nick Warne
On Thursday 22 February 2007 16:13:59 Csaba Halász wrote: On 2/22/07, Nick Warne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this correct? Yes. In C you need to terminate strings by a 0 byte. So you need 8 bytes for a maximum of 7 characters. Greets, Jester Yes, I understand that - but what seems

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MAX_CALLSIGN_LEN

2007-02-22 Thread Nick Warne
missed the list off... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] MAX_CALLSIGN_LEN Date: Thursday 22 February 2007 From: Nick Warne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Csaba Halász [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 22 February 2007 16:40:57 Csaba Halász wrote: On 2/22/07, Nick

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

2007-02-05 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 03:11:01 Curtis Olson wrote: It would be nice if scenery map page could be changed so that the 'title' popup will work on all browsers :-) Back when I set that up it worked great! (on the browsers of the day.) If you can show me some sample code changes I

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

2007-02-04 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Not a nitpick, but rather a request. On the scenery map here: http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/scenery-0.9.10.html after looking at the page source, I see the 'alt' tag is used to show the file sizes - good idea! Except the 'alt' tag is not designed to produce a 'popup' text box,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults in SGShaderAnimatio n::~SGShaderAnimation (), Patch

2007-02-04 Thread Nick Warne
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 07:35:15 Frederic Bouvier wrote: Nick, Selon Nick Warne : Fred, Mathias I got this again tonight :-((( Chat [mpserve] GFS is now online, using Chat [mpserve] Aircraft/B-2/Models/b2-spirit.xml Chat [mpserve] GFS is now online, using Chat

[Flightgear-devel] Quick 'lookie' whois flying online

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, If sometimes you only need to see who is flying online, and do not wish to use and load mpmap, I knocked up a quick page: http://mpserver05.flightgear.org/fgmp/ Nick - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Quick 'lookie' whois flying online

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 02 February 2007 19:09:23 Curtis Olson wrote: On 2/2/07, Nick Warne wrote: If sometimes you only need to see who is flying online, and do not wish to use and load mpmap, I knocked up a quick page: http://mpserver05.flightgear.org/fgmp/ Impressive uptime if your web page

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another scerenio where FG labours (freeze type of thing)

2007-01-31 Thread Nick Warne
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 16:43:23 Maik Justus wrote: Hi Nick, is this with plib, osg, or both? Maik Hi Maik, This is with all, although it has been a few weeks since I built and used plib version - but it happened then too. Nick Nick Warne schrieb am 30.01.2007 20:28: On Tuesday

[Flightgear-devel] Another scerenio where FG labours (freeze type of thing)

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Similar to the issue I reported (a few weeks ago) of the 'freezes' when near other aircraft (which Mathias fixed), here is another similar one. My build is osg cvs (updated the weekend) using --enable-sdl. If a prop driven aircraft crashes nose down so the rotating prop gets embedded

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another scerenio where FG labours (freeze type of thing)

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:15:14 Curtis Olson wrote: One easy way to replicate this is to use the Spitfire on the runway - ensure brake lock is on, and open up the throttle - the aircraft will tip over nose first, and FG will then show the above problem. You might want to double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another scerenio where FG labou rs (freeze type of thing)

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:23:52 Olaf Flebbe wrote: Hi, One easy way to replicate this is to use the Spitfire on the runway - ensure brake lock is on, and open up the throttle - the aircraft will tip over nose first, and FG will then show the above problem. I cannot replicate this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults in SGShaderAnimatio n::~SGShaderAnimation (), Patch

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 26 January 2007 20:45:55 Nick Warne wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 20:14, Maik Justus wrote: Hi Fred, your patch works fine for me. Big thanks! Maik Fred, I tested with Maik while I was building. I just tested with ndim, and NO CRASH - it looks very, very good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another scerenio where FG labours (freeze type of thing)

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 21:11:21 Olaf Flebbe wrote: As far as I can remember, I have had this on all FG builds (Linux), even Glut. Nick i Double-checked, even with debug on windows: No problem. I see no drop in framerates for a release build, no trigger triggered in debug build. Hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults in SGShaderAnimation::~SGShaderAnimation(), Patch

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 26 January 2007 09:02, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hi Maik, Selon Maik Justus : Hi, the same thing with _condition. It's systematically done wrong. _textureData could be done correctly :-) _condition, _effectTexture and _textureData are not SGShaderAnimation members in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults in SGShaderAnimatio n::~SGShaderAnimation (), Patch

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 26 January 2007 19:08, Maik Justus wrote: Hi all, here is a workaround for osg. It disables the chrome shader, but as long as this causes the fatal crashes we need to commit. Unfortunately I am not compiling osg myself; I am using Olafs precompiled library. Therefore I can not dig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults in SGShaderAnimatio n::~SGShaderAnimation (), Patch

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Warne
: Selon Nick Warne : Reports from IRC say this is fixed in plib, but I can still get a 100% reliable crash with OSG build. Enter MP server using Harrier. Get someone to join/leave/join with the dhc2F. Immediate segfault on the second join. Below is my earlier mail with trace etc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Book

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 26 January 2007 23:46, Christian Mayer wrote: The quality of the text looks quite bad to me, it's about amateur writing level, I guess. The layout was done with OpenOffice which also fits in this picture. What on earth do you mean that statement? Tut. Nick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] segfaults in SGShaderAnimation::~SGShaderAnimation(), Patch

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Warne
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:05, Joacim Persson wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Maik Justus wrote: Hello, sometimes I get a segfault in function SGShaderAnimation::~SGShaderAnimation(), file simgear/scene/model/shadanim.cxx. I never get a SIGSEGV from there, but rather a SIGABORT due to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fix a few GCC warnings (i.e Shut UP GCC).

2007-01-21 Thread Nick Warne
On Sunday 21 January 2007 12:58, Nick Warne wrote: Hi All, I get a few warnings when building fgfs (gcc-3.4.6), all to do with int conversion: FGInitialCondition.cpp:806: warning: converting to `int' from `double' 806: n = document-FindElementValueAsNumber(running); fix: n = (int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PRE_OSG cvs BUG in VSI with code fix

2007-01-07 Thread Nick Warne
On Sunday 07 January 2007 17:34, gh.robin wrote: On Sun 7 January 2007 18:20, Martin Spott wrote: Nick Warne wrote: There is a typo in: src/Instrumentation/vertical_speed_indicator.cxx line 17: _static_pressure(node-getStringValue(static-pressure, /Systems/static/pressure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PRE_OSG cvs BUG in VSI with code fix

2007-01-07 Thread Nick Warne
On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:51, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:25, gh.robin wrote: You must first check it , because the existing code is working right with /Systems/static/pressure-inhg And if you don't trust me, when i say its working, look at this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Remove unused PLIB dependency

2007-01-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:15, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Martin Spott a écrit : While people are happily applying patches to FG, would someone please care for the following: done Could this break simgear? Doing a full clean build now I get this: checking plib/ul.h presence... yes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Remove unused PLIB dependency

2007-01-06 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:57, Nick Warne wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:15, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Martin Spott a écrit : While people are happily applying patches to FG, would someone please care for the following: done Could this break simgear? Doing a full clean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] implemented: interval timer (aka approach timer) [aka stopwatch]

2007-01-02 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 18:24, AJ MacLeod wrote: One shouldn't expect the documentation of a project like this to be 100% up to date, especially when referring to fairly trivial features. Development happens quite quickly in FGFS and great new features are being added all the time. It's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] implemented: interval timer (aka approachtimer) [aka stopwatch]

2007-01-02 Thread Nick Warne
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 18:50, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 19:20, Nick Warne wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 18:24, AJ MacLeod wrote: You can find the code in gui/dialogs/stopwatch.xml I have the latest CVS and I do not have that file either - plus it isn't

[Flightgear-devel] Spitfire/Seafire mag compass doesn't work in CVS - fixed

2006-12-28 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Latest CVS osg I found the magnetic compass isn't working in the Spitfire/Seafire. After a lot of faffing about (using the Hurricane compass as reference, as that worked), I found the issue... or rather diff did. --- Spitfire/Models/compass.xml 2006-12-28 14:07:08.0 + +++

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire/Seafire mag compass doesn't work in CVS- fixed

2006-12-28 Thread Nick Warne
On Thursday 28 December 2006 21:01, Vivian Meazza wrote: object-nameCompass/object-name - propertyinstrumentation/magentic-compass/indicated-heading- deg/property +propertyinstrumentation/magnetic-compass/indicated-heading- deg/property center x-m-0.02725/x-m

[Flightgear-devel] PRE_OSG cvs BUG in VSI with code fix

2006-12-27 Thread Nick Warne
Hi all, Being really new to this (6 days), after building my own version, I found all/no aircraft didn't have a working vsi gauge. After a lot of hair pulling, beer, and more beer, I found why. The pivotal point was seeing I had two 'system/static' branches - one capitised. There is a typo