Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trains?

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Pelton
On 1/30/07, Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FlightGear seems like a perfect platform to rig up their experiment. So my question is this ... to save us some time, does anyone out there have a 3d train model in their back pocket they would be willing to contribute to FlightGear? i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osg/plib, difference in collision detection

2006-12-08 Thread Tony Pelton
On 12/8/06, Heiko Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But If Flightgear want to be realistic, and we want aircrafts showing us what happen when you do something wrong you can't close your eyes about this. i see this conversation flare up on the x-plane lists from time to time. collision

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model for the F-15

2006-10-04 Thread Tony Pelton
On 9/29/06, Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I do not want this work, that I do for entertainment, to be used for Real Life (TM) military purposes. The latter is a moral position. I simply avoid this moral position by not creating any military model. :) *sigh* seems

Re: [Flightgear-devel] vatsim

2006-06-13 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/13/06, Major A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to my suggestion of linking FG and X-Plane to fly FG on VATSIM, i think better, would be to provide an integration within x-plane that would allow it to use the FG MP server system. x-plane has an SDK that would make this quite possible i think,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] vatsim

2006-06-13 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/13/06, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: The issue is that the specific elevation of a specific point on the earth can be different between sims. Ok, this is obvious and in fact is an issue of scenery fidelity, but it is not a problem that could be resolved

Re: [Flightgear-devel] vatsim

2006-06-13 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/13/06, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Pelton wrote: Read Curt's posting, i did ... and i think i _do_ understand the basics of the issue ... he simply assumes that the ground elevation at a specific location differs between two sims. Different sims have their scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] vatsim

2006-06-12 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/12/06, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Smithies wrote: On the other hand I was told that certain people didn't care about licensing and hacked the VATSIM authentication protocol for reference ...

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

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/10/06, dene maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know from my experience with FGTools, FGFS and TaxiDraw that parsing the APT file is not trivial ...the downside is of course the need for a SpecialAPT.DAT to cater for this and the inherent support and maintenance needed. it's interesting

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

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
On 6/10/06, Ralf Gerlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Writing a parser is always work we rather wouldn't be doing as we'd rather devote ourselves to working with the data than to reading or writing it from or to file. yes. using XML, any number of parsers are available, AND they can do well

[Flightgear-devel] cvs commit e-mail

2006-06-10 Thread Tony Pelton
hi all, i'm new around here. is there a list i can join, or someone i can ask, such that i could get e-mail from the CVS server when someone commits to the codebase ? i'm slowly trying to get up to speed on the codebase, and seeing what things people are working on, by seeing what code they are

[Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-09 Thread Tony Pelton
not sure if folks on this list care, or are aware ... but Ben Supnik has made a couple of RFC type posts to one of the x-plane lists, talking about a new design for the airport data coming from Robin Peel. This is apparently the spec that is emerging from those conversations.