[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Chris Metzler -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:45: I would naively expect the angle that you give the sign to correspond to the orientation of a normal either going out of the sign face or going into the sign face. However, there seems to be an offset between the angle used and the heading of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:18:13 +0200 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Chris Metzler -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:45: I would naively expect the angle that you give the sign to correspond to the orientation of a normal either going out of the sign face or going into the sign face. Oh, you are

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Chris Metzler -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:39: Heh, this is embarassing. First off, [...] No, it isn't. That's normal fgfs business. It makes sure that rocket scientist will remain the *minimum* qualification for fgfs developers. ;-) m.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:22: [EMAIL PROTECTED] requests a Location Sign (with contents E and M), Er ... with contents T and B5. Why the ugly '@' everywhere, you ask? That's to avoid clashes with glyph names. That way it's possible to write [EMAIL PROTECTED],Y,E,S}

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Julien Pierru
I added a couple of signs at KSFO. They might not be located according to FAA specs but it's a start. Each signs should appear on either side of the runway/taxiway, i need to add the one on the ther side. It is really tedious to do by hand (ie the ufo), but here are some screenshots:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-11 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi Melchior. This is good stuff. I've changed my automated script for placing the runway distance remaining signs to use this apparatus. It works fine in principle, but I've run into a problem (bug? dunno.). I would naively expect the angle that you give the sign to correspond to the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Sunday 09 April 2006 22:52: Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/rwysigns.jpg [27 kB] updated; shows a few new features (most people won't see a difference, though ;-) size now: [35 kB] TODO: add some simple hardware to the naked signs. (Box and stems.) I