Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca questions

2009-07-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
There are 2 little things I moticied in the Seneca, I don't know if these are intentional : Nope - they are bugs! -- the ki525a knobs do not light at night with the other instruments. Is it like this in real ? It makes it difficult to dial a heading/obs at night. Fixed. -- whatever I set

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca questions

2009-07-19 Thread Patrice Poly
Thanks for pointing these out. Torsten Thank you ! Now , to work these SID/STARs :) -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors

[Flightgear-devel] Seneca questions

2009-07-18 Thread Patrice Poly
There are 2 little things I moticied in the Seneca, I don't know if these are intentional : -- the ki525a knobs do not light at night with the other instruments. Is it like this in real ? It makes it difficult to dial a heading/obs at night. (removing lines 37 and 38 in

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

2009-06-25 Thread Jon S. Berndt
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:59 +0200, Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Victhor wrote: Btw Jon: Reset in FlightGear yields multiple /fdm/jsbsim property subtrees. Here, too. This is a result of my experimenting with the multiple FDM feature again - which is not ready, but which

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

2009-06-25 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Jon S. Berndt wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:59 +0200, Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Victhor wrote: Btw Jon: Reset in FlightGear yields multiple /fdm/jsbsim property subtrees. Here, too. This is a result of my experimenting with the multiple FDM

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

2009-06-25 Thread Victhor
It's working again. Thanks! :D On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Jon S. Berndt wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:59 +0200, Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Victhor wrote: Btw Jon: Reset in FlightGear yields multiple /fdm/jsbsim property subtrees. Here, too. This is a result of my

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

2009-06-25 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Jon S. Berndt wrote: This is a result of my experimenting with the multiple FDM feature again - which is not ready, but which should be innocuous. Apparently it's not. Did you use the JSBSim.cxx from JSBSim CVS? I think I can fix this fairly easily. Jon, Ron Jensen

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

2009-06-25 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Jon, Ron Jensen suggested this idea as a solution for the multiple FDM subtrees. It seems to work fine in FlightGear. Would it also work for your multiple FDM work in JSBSim/CVS? Anders (and Ron), I'll test this out as soon as I can. It may be a few days. Jon Index:

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

2009-06-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:59 +0200, Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Victhor wrote: Btw Jon: Reset in FlightGear yields multiple /fdm/jsbsim property subtrees. Here, too. I also think JSBSim in FlightGear is creating initfile.xml:s again, has anyone else seen that? Yes, doing

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

2009-06-24 Thread Jon S. Berndt
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 06:59 +0200, Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Victhor wrote: Btw Jon: Reset in FlightGear yields multiple /fdm/jsbsim property subtrees. Here, too. I also think JSBSim in FlightGear is creating initfile.xml:s again, has anyone else seen that?

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

2009-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Rather long title, eh? :D I'm getting an error with the Seneca II. IndependenVar property, ice/wing in Table definition is not defined. That's all. Even with debug logs, the rest of it is just JSBSim aerodynamic tables. They stop in that error. Hmm something in JSBSim has changed that

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

2009-06-24 Thread Jon S. Berndt
: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:48 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II not working after today's simgear update that fixed the screens Rather long title, eh? :D I'm getting an error with the Seneca II

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

2009-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
We're getting more careful about properties. No longer are referenced properties merely created if they do not exist. That can lead to errors. A referenced property needs to already exist, or it needs to be declared. What makes me wonder is, that after adding property

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

2009-06-23 Thread Victhor
Rather long title, eh? :D I'm getting an error with the Seneca II. IndependenVar property, ice/wing in Table definition is not defined. That's all. Even with debug logs, the rest of it is just JSBSim aerodynamic tables. They stop in that error.

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

2009-06-23 Thread Jon S. Berndt
-devel] Seneca II not working after today's simgear update that fixed the screens Rather long title, eh? :D I'm getting an error with the Seneca II. IndependenVar property, ice/wing in Table definition is not defined. That's all. Even with debug logs, the rest of it is just JSBSim aerodynamic

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

2009-06-23 Thread Victhor Foster
] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:03 PM To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II not working after today's simgear update that fixed the screens Rather long title, eh? :D I'm getting an error with the Seneca II. IndependenVar property, ice/wing in Table

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

2009-06-23 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Victhor wrote: Rather long title, eh? :D I'm getting an error with the Seneca II. IndependenVar property, ice/wing in Table definition is not defined. That's all. Even with debug logs, the rest of it is just JSBSim aerodynamic tables. They stop in that error. It looks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II HSI problem

2009-03-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:27 +, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I have noticed that the seneca's HSI is permanently stuck at 360° Can someone please let me know if they experience the same problem? In my case this problem has been present for a long time. Can anyone help? Sorry, I forgot to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II HSI problem

2009-03-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:27 +, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I have noticed that the seneca's HSI is permanently stuck at 360° Can someone please let me know if they experience the same problem? In my case this problem has been present for a long time. Can anyone help? Sorry, I forgot to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II HSI problem

2009-03-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 14:41 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:27 +, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I have noticed that the seneca's HSI is permanently stuck at 360° Can someone please let me know if they experience the same problem? In my case this problem has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II HSI problem

2009-03-13 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Torsten Dreyer tors...@t3r.de wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:27 +, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I have noticed that the seneca's HSI is permanently stuck at 360° Can someone please let me know if they experience the same problem? In my case this problem has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II HSI problem

2009-03-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 17:41 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 14:41 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:27 +, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I have noticed that the seneca's HSI is permanently stuck at 360° Can someone please let me know if they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II tutorials - Torsten

2007-12-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
- Get the latest update from CVS - Via the Menu call Help-Start Tutorial Or - Read this http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Piper_PA34-200T_Seneca_II http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Seneca_II_Checklist

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II tutorials - Torsten

2007-12-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
somehow it seems that the used joystick axis (knobs at the joystick) do not indicate the asked maximal value to the tutorial. What do the properties /controls/engines/engine[n]/mixture and /controls/engines/engine[n]/propeller-pitch indicate when you set your relevant joystick controls to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II tutorials - Torsten

2007-12-01 Thread Fabian Grodek
Where can I find the tutorial? Fabian On 12/1/07, Georg Vollnhals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Torsten, very nice you created a lot of tutorials which really increases the value of your Seneca II as more and more interested people can learn how to do it right. I just want to inform you

[Flightgear-devel] Seneca II tutorials - Torsten

2007-11-30 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi Torsten, very nice you created a lot of tutorials which really increases the value of your Seneca II as more and more interested people can learn how to do it right. I just want to inform you that I recognized a technical problem with your engine-start(???) tutorial. It is asked to put the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-06-05 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Thanks, I've been looking for a good DATCOM+ example to help me understand the program. Yep, datcom is not really self explanatory :-( I learned a lot by using the examples from Bill's page http://www.holycows.net/datcom/ together with the users's manual USAF_DATCOM_UM.pdf, also linked on Bill's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-06-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Very nice! Can you fix this link though? I get a 403 error. http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/SenecaII.dcm fixed - sorry. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-06-03 Thread Josh Babcock
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi, I spent some time on the Seneca II model. The update is available here Very nice! Can you fix this link though? I get a 403 error. http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/SenecaII.dcm Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-06-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Keep up the good work - can we expect to see this in CVS soon? I'm lazy and much prefer cvs up to faffing about with tarballs... I am not in the position to put this into CVS but I like the idea to have it there. May I kindly ask for a volunteer CVS janitor to check it in? Thanks, Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-06-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Torsten Dreyer -- Thursday 01 June 2006 09:07: May I kindly ask for a volunteer CVS janitor to check it in? Done, thanks! Very nice aircraft. :-) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

[Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, here is my version 0.3 of the PA34-200T Seneca II. http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/ Changes: Added structural icing Added Dave Perry's wonderful prop-disc animation Animated and clickable circuitbreaker panel (still electrical nonfunction) Switchpanel: magneto switches operational (and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
If you want do see and feel the ice in action: disable real weather fetch, goto Menu-Weather Conditions and create a nasty november day in Hamburg/EDDH/HAM: on ground 1degc, dewpoint 0degc at 3000ft -6degc, dewpoint -6degc at 6000ft -10degc, dewpoint -10degc at 9000ft -15degc, dewpoint -15degc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-21 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: And the Paris scenery is not finished. I have a whole bunch of models to send to Jon. Now that the isses appear to be sorted out you could also send some some of these to me, if you like, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Torsten Dreyer schrieb: Hi, I spent some time on the Seneca II model. The update is available here http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/ Changes: ... Torsten Hi Torsten, thank you for the latest update of your Seneca II. It is not only a wonderful artwork with many details outside and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Georg thank you for the latest update of your Seneca II. It is not only a wonderful artwork with many details outside and inside (like the headphone on the right seat :-) ) and a wonderful 3d-panel but also very valuable from the real pilot proven aspect. Thanks If I am not wrong - I just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Martin Spott
Georg Vollnhals wrote: Alone to fly this aircraft is a big joy but when I combined it with the new outstanding really unbelievable *Paris* scenery (screenshots on the German FG forum) [...] Unfortunately you have to be a registered user if you want to look at the pictures. Posting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Martin Spott : Georg Vollnhals wrote: Alone to fly this aircraft is a big joy but when I combined it with the new outstanding really unbelievable *Paris* scenery (screenshots on the German FG forum) [...] Unfortunately you have to be a registered user if you want to look at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Torsten Dreyer schrieb: Got a URL? Torsten, I know that this answer is too detailed for you. But there may be some other people reading this: All objects are in Stockill's model database (and the terrain has to be downloaded from the FG scenery server, if not already installed).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/flightgear.htm This is really impressing - does anyone have a recommendation which graphics card to use in order to run FlightGear with so many textured objects at a reasonable frame rate - without disabling any other visual effects ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Martin Spott : Frederic Bouvier wrote: http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/flightgear.htm This is really impressing - does anyone have a recommendation which graphics card to use in order to run FlightGear with so many textured objects at a reasonable frame rate - without disabling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Jon Stockill
Frederic Bouvier wrote: The author of the conversion said that it is reasonably fast with a GeForce 440 MX, that has a GeForce2 core. In fact, the placement of object has been optimised to group these models with the same texture. Jon changed his export procedure for that. And objects are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:28:54 +0200 Frederic Bouvier wrote: And the Paris scenery is not finished. I have a whole bunch of models to send to Jon. Hey Fred, are the procedures that you and Emmanuel have had to go through to convert the X-Plane scenery fairly straightforward? Is it something

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi Chris, Quoting Chris Metzler : On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:28:54 +0200 Frederic Bouvier wrote: And the Paris scenery is not finished. I have a whole bunch of models to send to Jon. Hey Fred, are the procedures that you and Emmanuel have had to go through to convert the X-Plane scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Frederic Bouvier : Then you have to extract object placement. I didn't practise myself but I know that there is a tool to export ENV files to text. I also know that X-Plane 8 uses another binary format but I don't have the name handy. http://www.xsquawkbox.net/scenery/tools.php

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-19 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip First thing is to get the X-Plane to Blender plugin ( a python script ) available on the net. After, you import OBJ models and export to .AC. You'll also have to convert textures from .png to .rgb and reassign them in Blender ( coordinates are good, only names are wrong ). snip Is there

[Flightgear-devel] Seneca II updated

2006-05-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I spent some time on the Seneca II model. The update is available here http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/ Changes: - improved JSBSim FDM, performance data are now close to the POH data - made the engines supercharged - minor changes to airframe 3d model (doors may be opened, cowlings remodeled

[Flightgear-devel] Seneca?

2006-03-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Did someone say they were working on a Seneca model for FlightGear? A while back I was able to sit inside a brand new seneca and take a boatload of pictures. I have them posted here in case anyone finds them useful. I concentrated mostly on the panel but I did a couple interior and exterior

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca?

2006-03-01 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Did someone say they were working on a Seneca model for FlightGear? A while back I was able to sit inside a brand new seneca and take a boatload of pictures. Nice pictures - although you might expect that the person who's building the Seneca is himself owner of the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca model is still under construction

2006-02-15 Thread dene maxwell
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca model is still under construction Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:05:00 +0100 Hi, some of you might remember: I'm working on a Seneca-Model. This is just to show you, that I am still alive. The 3D model: outside view http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/fgfs-screen-012.jpg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca model is still under construction

2006-02-15 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Looking forward to flying it. Will it have a version compatible with FGv098a? Currently only the CVS version is supporting the JSBSim 2.0 config file format. So the config file has to be backported to the old file format. This is possible, but I will use my time to get it in the air first.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca model is still under construction

2006-02-15 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 20:05, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi, some of you might remember: I'm working on a Seneca-Model. This is just to show you, that I am still alive. The 3D model: outside view http://www.t3r.de/fg/seneca/fgfs-screen-012.jpg another outside view

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca model is still under construction

2006-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: some of you might remember: I'm working on a Seneca-Model. This is just to show you, that I am still alive. Wow ! As this seems to become one of the most realistic aircraft in FlightGear the question arises if FlightGear/JSBsim already models carb icing and heating !?

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca model is still under construction

2006-02-15 Thread Jon S. Berndt
How does the flight model feel when you kill an engine? I remember a couple of years ago that we weren't getting nearly enough drag from a windmilling propeller, either in JSBSim or in YASim, but I don't know how the code is now. David It should be much better in JSBSim, now. Thanks to