Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-31 Thread Victhor Foster
I don't trust the FSF. I don't think Mr. Stallman is a nice person. (I hear all the time he doesn't take baths :P) On Sunday 31 January 2010 12:40:54 Durk Talsma wrote: I remember being involved in the discussions. I've also been thinking about the possibilities of setting up a non-profit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-31 Thread Victhor Foster
Oh I was just kidding. On 1/31/10 12:57 PM, Victhor Foster wrote: I don't trust the FSF. I don't think Mr. Stallman is a nice person. How about SPI? http://www.spi-inc.org/ Kind regards, -- Lech Karol Pawłaszek ike You will never see me fall from grace [KoRn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear movies, streaming video, ...

2010-01-31 Thread Victhor Foster
I do that as well(if I ever film a FG movie ;) ), but I don't hold the camera in my hand. I use a CD stack holder, my phone, some other random stuff and zoom :) I cheat , i use my digital camera , though its a bit tough to hold the camera in one hand and fly with the other :) On Sun, Jan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Light

2010-01-30 Thread Victhor Foster
A person called Zan on #flightgear recently came up with a light cone for FG. You might want to ask him. Our IRC server is irc.flightgear.org. Sorry, I don't remember the links for the screenshots. Hi, It´s possible in a FG aircraft add a animation (via XML), or something like, using

[Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS command bindings

2010-01-29 Thread Victhor Foster
Are there any equivalents for use in 3D instruments? It works on 2D instruments, but not with 3D ones and pick animations. If those don't exist in 3D bindings, could someone add them please? -- The Planet: dedicated and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Featurerequest [VATSIM-Network PlugIn for Flightgear]

2010-01-28 Thread Victhor Foster
AFAIK there's a person working on that, and we can't integrate VATSIM support on FG because of their NDA and obvious issues with the GPL. A proxy can be used to talk between FG and a VATSIM client, but no VATSIM code should be included with FG, only the proxy code. That's what that guy is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Featurerequest [VATSIM-Network PlugIn for Flightgear]

2010-01-28 Thread Victhor Foster
? Greetings from Stuttgart, Peter - Ursprüngliche Mail Von: Victhor Foster victhor.fos...@gmail.com An: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 28. Januar 2010, 23:20:38 Uhr Betreff: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Featurerequest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: winner Softonic Awards 2009

2010-01-27 Thread Victhor Foster
Professionalism = Good graphics and such, proper company support. Hi, Softonic is already a known site (well, at least to me) and they are reviewing and providing free software. What I find interesting is this: -Lacks the professionalism of X-Plane and Microsoft Simulator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-26 Thread Victhor Foster
I was wondering what those giant mushrooms were :P -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS find nearest.

2009-12-14 Thread Victhor Foster
Well, since this was a GPS-related thread, I decided to post this here instead of creating another thread :-) The zkv500's Turnpoint screen works properly now. However, the navigation display won't show the distance to the waypoint.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-25 Thread Victhor Foster
Uninstall PulseAudio. I used to have those problems and they're gone after I removed it. 2009/11/25 Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de: Hi Erik, Hi Erik, I have two systems running fgfs. (1)  AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with-up to-date FC10 (pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc10.i386) (2)  Intel Core 2 duo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-25 Thread Victhor Foster
improved since f10. (I'm a long-time fedora user myself as well). F10 is going to be end of life (no more updates) within a month time anyway. F12 has been great for me... 2009/11/25, Victhor Foster victhor.fos...@gmail.com: Uninstall PulseAudio. I used to have those problems and they're

Re: [Flightgear-devel] atlas global tarball

2009-11-22 Thread Victhor Foster
Is your computer too slow to generate them? There's an option in Map that speeds up the process, I think it's --headless-mode. Does someone happen to have a tarball with all the atlas generated map images handy? --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

2009-11-21 Thread Victhor Foster
Yeah, I can't connect to the server too. I'll try with another client and see if it works. Hi, Quick note: while beeing on the chat today, I noticed suddenly that I can't send any massages anymore. First I thought it was a problem of my browser (Opera), but using Firefox wasn't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

2009-11-21 Thread Victhor Foster
Yeah, it looks that the server is down. I tried Mibbit and Colloquy, both of them weren't working. Pinging the server results in a request timeout. :-/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Official IRC chat down, emergency backup working

2009-11-21 Thread Victhor Foster
Thanks! Yeah, it looks that the server is down. I tried Mibbit and Colloquy, both of them weren't working. Pinging the server results in a request timeout. :-/ Use the backup: irc.freenode.net #flightgear Ontdek nu Windows phone. De smartphone van dit moment

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up -- effects for models

2009-11-17 Thread Victhor Foster
Yeah, you're right, I didn't update the data directory. I don't do that often, because it takes ages for CVS to start update. Anyway, I'm going to update and then report the results. On 11/17/2009 01:53 AM, Victhor Foster wrote: I am experiencing this bug: Some 3D objects/models

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up -- effects for models

2009-11-17 Thread Victhor Foster
You were right, I just updated the data package and now everything works fine - I think ;) Thanks! BTW, so far I haven't had any problems with material animations. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free

[Flightgear-devel] Hansajet autopilot

2009-11-17 Thread Victhor Foster
Well, I have sent a message about that bug some time ago, but I would like to know if it has been worked on or not, maybe if the dev forgot that I sent that... :P The bug: The autopilot, when activated on NAV/heading hold mode, will cause the plane to do many barrel rolls. I think it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS

2009-11-16 Thread Victhor Foster
You need to use the Route Manager dialog. The route will only activate once the aircraft is airborne. Look at the GPS dialog. If you see that the destination airport on the current leg is your departure airport, go back to the route manager, search for your destination's ICAO code, then press

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up -- effects for models

2009-11-16 Thread Victhor Foster
I am experiencing this bug: Some 3D objects/models are untextured, while some others are. There are two screenshots showing this bug on the links below. http://img163.imageshack.us/i/fgfsscreen021.png/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up -- effects for models

2009-11-15 Thread Victhor Foster
FG works again here, but there are bugs with your code. Some models are untextured, some are textured, and the shading is weird. Like when you have the ambient value lower than rgb on a material setting on a model. The side away from the light is dark.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-31 Thread Victhor Foster
The sound is glitched here for a few planes. Ec135 is glitched on fly- by view, but F-16 isn't. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ZKV500 GPS instrument; (New?) GPS code bug

2009-10-30 Thread Victhor Foster
The turnpoint screen works again, but it won't start the selected waypoint, instead it uses the departure airport. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2009-10-25 Thread Victhor Foster
Some other people which at least heard of our project doesn't know how old our project is and are seeing it as fake or even cheap try to copy MSFS on Linux... Yeah, I know a person that thinks that way... ...and he is a MSFS user. :P

[Flightgear-devel] ZKV500 GPS instrument; (New?) GPS code bug

2009-10-21 Thread Victhor Foster
I'm pretty sure that this bug happened to me before. If the GPS is set to OBS mode, changing the course as to make the CDI needle center causes the autopilot to follow north, while leaving it at the default setting (north) causes the AP to follow the correct course. Is it supposed to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-20 Thread Victhor Foster
Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blender-3D-Graphics-Design-Animation-Studio-Software_W0QQitemZ180388068724QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Software_Software_SR?hash=item29fff77d74#ht_6467wt_1021 I'm pretty sure I didn't have to pay £6 for Blender when I got it :D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 Update!

2009-10-18 Thread Victhor Foster
Are those pics 'shopped? They have such good contrast and stuff, I can't believe it's FG, because it doesn't look like that on my PC :) BTW, good job, and, if you really did it, nice work on the pics too, they look much better than the real ones ;)

[Flightgear-devel] Hansajet/Seneca II autopilot bugs

2009-10-17 Thread Victhor Foster
Hi, I was going to takeoff on the Hansajet for a flight, when I turned the autopilot on. It was on wing level mode. It was able to stabilize the aircraft properly, but when I turned the knob to NAV mode, it produced an excessive roll angle. I was able to disengage the AP and stabilize the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New route manager?

2009-10-08 Thread Victhor Foster
Erm, I just updated CVS, but my route manager dialog looks like the same. Is that correct? BTW, I just updated source, so I think that's the problem ;) -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New route manager?

2009-10-08 Thread Victhor Foster
The problem is, CVS takes more than 30 minutes just to scan the directories, and this causes my internet connection to stop working for the meantime. When it starts the actual checkout process, the connection works again. On 8 Oct 2009, at 20:53, Victhor Foster wrote: Erm, I just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shader menu proposal

2009-10-08 Thread Victhor Foster
The new shader dialog looks good, but it doesn't want to enable the water shader. And I think it's not turning on the crop shaders as well. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shader menu proposal

2009-10-08 Thread Victhor Foster
Ok, thanks. you neede to update the Effects folder On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Victhor Foster victhor.fos...@gmail.com wrote: The new shader dialog looks good, but it doesn't want to enable the water shader. And I think it's not turning on the crop shaders as well

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] 3D Clouds update

2009-10-07 Thread Victhor Foster
Same here too. And I don't even have a good graphics card! ;) -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problematic forum discussion on an MP event

2009-09-17 Thread Victhor Foster
GTA IV sucks. Even if you have an IBM Roadrunner, it'll lag. It's very badly designed (as with all Rockstar games) ;) Besides, GTA IV is completely fictional, but the MP event is *loosely* based on a real, tragic, event. I was going to join it, just to fly around. The plane I was going to

[Flightgear-devel] Weird Sun and weather bugs

2009-09-17 Thread Victhor Foster
I don't remember when this started, I think it was a week or so. Well, the Sun bug is simple: switching time to Dawn/Dusk will cause the sun colors to start flashing between the correct colors and morning/noon/ afternoon colors. The weather bug is: after about 1 ft MSL (I think) it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navradio

2009-09-10 Thread Victhor Foster
OK, so I guess that was entirely my fault on not tuning the DME to the DME on the NDB-DME station. Blame Atlas for that! :D Sorry for starting such an OT discussion :P On 09/10/09 14:11, willie wrote: I think the pairing of a DME with a VOR is unchallenged. People (including me) are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navradio

2009-09-08 Thread Victhor Foster
One thing I would like, if it's not already avaliable: Being able to tune a DME to a NDB-DME. I can't do that in FG, although Atlas reports some NDBs as having DME capability. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navradio

2009-09-08 Thread Victhor Foster
Then it's my fault :D I don't know how to get DME frequencies, Atlas doesn't tell me that... Thanks for the information! One thing I would like, if it's not already avaliable: Being able to tune a DME to a NDB-DME. I can't do that in FG, although Atlas reports some NDBs as having DME

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navradio

2009-09-08 Thread Victhor Foster
Do I have to do so with NAV1/2? I don't seem to find any way to tune the KI226 DME without using the radio dialog/using the NAV radios. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navradio.cxx

2009-09-02 Thread Victhor Foster
Is this good? It seems to be :) I had problems with GPSes before, as the CDI would just reset to zero and even if the CDI course is the same as the GPS bearing, the A/P won't follow the course, instead following the heading bug. Which is strange, because if NAV1 isn't set to be slaved to GPS, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] include TTF with GPL compatible license into base package?

2009-08-29 Thread Victhor Foster
We already have it! Look at some planes, like the DR400. Torsten Dreyer ha scritto: Hi with the new osgText feature we can place arbitray text in the scenegraph. For that, font files are required. Not many fonts around are compatible with GPL. One that is - or seems to be - is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] include TTF with GPL compatible license into base package?

2009-08-29 Thread Victhor Foster
I was just saying that we already have this. :) Good to see that things are going to be easier now. At last I can make LED displays :D We already have it! Look at some planes, like the DR400. That's a complete different approach of adding text to the scenery. It uses textures and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Running FGFS 1st time - runs slowly - what are the system requirements

2009-08-28 Thread Victhor Foster
What specific processor? And what graphics card? I run on a 1.8 GHz AMD Sempron with 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and a built-in GeForce 6150, and I'm able to get 30 fps. I used a trick, increase the process priority, but I use Linux :) I can't believe I finally got FG compiled and running! Thanks to all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling CVS FlightGear first time-files not found: svn_autth.h, osgd.lib, fltkd.lib

2009-08-20 Thread Victhor Foster
Just a note: current CVS FG won't compile with a version of OSG lower than 2.9.4. You will need code from OSG's SVN repository. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling CVS FlightGear first time-files not found: svn_autth.h, osgd.lib, fltkd.lib

2009-08-20 Thread Victhor Foster
I just read it somewhere, I think it was on this list. I never used something older than 2.9.4 so I don't know. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Till Busch's terrain shaders

2009-08-19 Thread Victhor Foster
I tried applying the patch and editing it to change float n=0.06 + dot(nvL[0], a); to float n=0.06 + dot(nvL, a);, but my framerate hasn't improved. What's the problem? Erik Hofman wrote: I wrote: Ahh, that line should read: float n=0.06 + dot(nvL, a); instead of: float n=0.06 +

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Till Busch's terrain shaders

2009-08-19 Thread Victhor Foster
Want a backtrace? Victhor Foster wrote: I tried applying the patch and editing it to change float n=0.06 + dot(nvL[0], a); to float n=0.06 + dot(nvL, a);, but my framerate hasn't improved. What's the problem? Probably that the shaders work differently than I expected and that the error

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Can't find Plib files when linking

2009-08-18 Thread Victhor Foster
Heh, I also thought that when I checked out my CVS copy for the first time. Turns out that the directory is still the same since 0.9, so the name is a bit misleading ;) Vivian. Thanks again for your email. With version 1.9.1 I still get link errors when it tries to link with Plib. It is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] now using CVS and get error 'simgear' is not a class. Am I using wrong SimGear?

2009-08-18 Thread Victhor Foster
name and the line in fgprops.hxx is: if (node-getType() != simgear::props::STRING) I'm using SimGear 1.9.1. Is there something wrong with SimGear? Thanks, Randy - Original Message - From: Victhor Foster victhor.fos...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:27 pm Subject: Re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Using CVS of Simgear now - get file not found on jpeglib.h - am I missing something?

2009-08-18 Thread Victhor Foster
If you were on Linux, I'd guess you need libjpeg-dev. I think this should do it: http://www.ijg.org/ There's a Windows link there :) Victhor, Thanks. I'm using the CVS version of SimGear now and I get one error: file not found : jpeglib.h - included in jpgfactory.hxx Am I missing some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling Simgear: file not found jconfig.h - is it needed?

2009-08-18 Thread Victhor Foster
*/ #include jconfig.h/* widely used configuration options */ #endif Can I just take out #define JCONFIG_INCLUDED in jinclude.h and go on? Thanks, Randy - Original Message - From: Victhor Foster victhor.fos...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:34 pm Subject: Re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: a IDE for shader authoring

2009-08-17 Thread Victhor Foster
It's Windows-only, and I think it should make matters worse for ATI users ;) Hi eyecandy creators, I just found that on nvidia's developer site http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html and wonder if it is fits with the new graphic effect capabilities of FlightGear?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 6280 link errors starting with sgdMakeCoordMat4

2009-08-14 Thread Victhor Foster
There's a MSVC9 project file inside it. I don't have MSVC, so I don't know if it works. - Victhor Foster a écrit : I see that there's a VC90 folder in current CVS code, and that it has been updated recently. Simgear doesn't, tho. ? http://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/SimGear/projects

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Till Busch's terrain shaders

2009-08-08 Thread Victhor Foster
I'm also suffering from the same problem. I can get nearly 25 fps without the new shaders/rain/snow. Hi, For what it's worth, 3d clouds seem to run reasonably fast by themselves, but if you have 3d clouds + these new shader effects (or existing effects like rain/snow) then my frame

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New FDM: Vamos automotive simulation in flightgear

2009-07-29 Thread Victhor Foster
If I had better Blender skills and if this FDM is approved, maybe a 350Z will appear in FG :) Hope we don't become a driving sim :P Thorsten Hackbarth wrote: Hi, I created a new FDM based on Sam Varner's automotive simulation framework Vamos http://vamos.sourceforge.net and some yasim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New FDM: Vamos automotive simulation in flightgear

2009-07-29 Thread Victhor Foster
It's not GPL, and it looks high-poly. :/ But it's very realistic :) Victhor Foster wrote: If I had better Blender skills and if this FDM is approved, maybe a 350Z will appear in FG :) Would a Mazda RX-8 do? http://www.blenderguru.com/free-mazda-rx-8-model/ -- free to use in all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-24 Thread Victhor Foster
Can I come? I mean, on MP ;) 2009/6/24, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net: Hi, just a little reminder for those who missed the original announcement: The usual crowd is presenting FlightGear on the LinuxTag expo these days (http://www.linuxtag.org/). Typically we are around EDDF or EDDI on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II not working after today's simgear update that fixed the screens

2009-06-23 Thread Victhor Foster
That's it. The rest of the log are just JSBSim tables. 2009/6/23, Jon S. Berndt jonsber...@comcast.net: Can you print the last part of the log or anything that the console dumps - that might help. Details! :-) Jon -Original Message- From: Victhor [mailto:victhor.fos...@gmail.com]