RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing

2004-05-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andy wrote > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andy Ross > Sent: 13 May 2004 23:38 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing > > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > As you can see,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Vivian Meazza said: Nearly there: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/vmeazza/FlightGear/spitfireIIa-1.jpg http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/vmeazza/FlightGear/spitfireIIa-2.jpg Great progress...very nice! Very nice indeed! Erik ___ Flightgear-deve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > For an upcoming newsletter article I am [hopefully] writing an > introduction to modeling aircraft flight dynamics in YASim. > > For a subsequent issue of the newsletter I think I'd like to walk the > reader through the process of creating a s

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 14 May 2004 11:59: > I downloaded a MSFS King Air B200 by Chuck Dome and Mario Coelho. > This appears in a text file in the package: > > "I hereby declare this aircraft package to be in the Public Domain. > Anyone may use it for any nonviolent purpose, including comme

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-05-14 Thread Norman Vine
Richard Bytheway > > Since the addition of OpenAL I have been having sporadic success building FlightGear > on Win2K and Cygwin, but I think I > now have is sussed. > > I first tried installing the Creative OpenAL SDK, but that didn't appear to help. > > I installed Norman's OpenAL stuff, and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-05-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
> I have created a new OpenAL tarball that breaks ALut into a > separate DLL > > http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal_cyg.tgz > Thanks, I will try that tonight. Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 14 May 2004 11:59: I downloaded a MSFS King Air B200 by Chuck Dome and Mario Coelho. This appears in a text file in the package: "I hereby declare this aircraft package to be in the Public Domain. Anyone may use it for any nonviolent purpose, incl

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 14 May 2004 13:31: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > No, it's not GPL compatible. Public Domain alone would be GPL compatible, > > but the GPL doesn't allow additional restrictions. And, even if that sounds > > ridiculous, "may use it for any nonviolent purposes" implies the restr

[Flightgear-devel] blender 2.33a released today

2004-05-14 Thread Josh Babcock
Subject says it all. Get yer fresh hot bug fixes at http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender.31.0.html Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 14 May 2004 13:48, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Erik Hofman -- Friday 14 May 2004 13:31: > > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > No, it's not GPL compatible. Public Domain alone would be GPL > > > compatible, but the GPL doesn't allow additional restrictions. And, > > > even if that sounds ridiculou

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin and OpenAL

2004-05-14 Thread Jon Berndt
> I have created a new OpenAL tarball that breaks ALut into a separate DLL > > http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/openal_cyg.tgz > > $ tar -tzf openal_cyg.tgz > bin/ > bin/ALut.dll > bin/openal32.dll > include/ > include/AL/ > include/AL/al.h > include/AL/alc.h > include/AL/alctypes.h > includ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman said: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > * Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 14 May 2004 11:59: > > > >>I downloaded a MSFS King Air B200 by Chuck Dome and Mario Coelho. > >>This appears in a text file in the package: > >> > >>"I hereby declare this aircraft package to be in the Public Domain. > >

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS wierdness

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Ross
Josh Babcock wrote: > cvs update: move away [...] > C data/Scenery/w130n30/w122n37/1Q4.btg.gz > > Anybody have any idea what's wrong with my sandbox, or what I can > do to prevent this? It takes forever, basically I am forced to > dl all the demo scenery every time i update. It looks to me like y

[Flightgear-devel] YASIM config issue?

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Wilson
With the p51d.xml, in response to the "legacy engine" warning, I've moved entries out to the piston-engine tag and added a displacement value. See below. This is "aborting" on startup. What am I missing? Best, Jim ___ F

[Flightgear-devel] sound audible configured in aircraft files?

2004-05-14 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I see that in all the -set.xml files we specify if the FlightGear sound system should be audible or not. This seems backwards too me. Why should an aircraft configuration be able to specify if I hear sound in FlightGear or not? I'm going to remove these because this doesn't seem like a usefu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM config issue?

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: > This is "aborting" on startup. What am I missing? An abort is an XML parse failure. YASim doesn't catch the exception, and it percolates up to the top of the call stack and causes an unhelpful error. I need to fix this. In this case, though, it's just syntax. Your piston-e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS wierdness

2004-05-14 Thread Josh Babcock
Andy Ross wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: cvs update: move away [...] C data/Scenery/w130n30/w122n37/1Q4.btg.gz Anybody have any idea what's wrong with my sandbox, or what I can do to prevent this? It takes forever, basically I am forced to dl all the demo scenery every time i update. It looks to me l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM config issue?

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross said: > Jim Wilson wrote: > > This is "aborting" on startup. What am I missing? > > An abort is an XML parse failure. YASim doesn't catch the exception, > and it percolates up to the top of the call stack and causes an > unhelpful error. I need to fix this. > > In this case, though,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS wierdness

2004-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Josh Babcock -- Friday 14 May 2004 18:39: > YI didn't know there's a scenery path. Where do I > change this? I originally wanted to put them in different dirs, but I couldn't > figure out how. That's what I use: export FG_SCENERY=$FG_ROOT/LocalScenery:$HOME/.fgfs/Scenery:$FG_ROOT/Scenery:$

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/737 737-set.xml, 1.4, 1.5

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/737 In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv16470/Aircraft/737 Modified Files: 737-set.xml Log Message: Property /sim/sound/audible renamed to /sim/sound/pause Individual aircraft -set.xml files shouldn't set global sound/volume prope

[Flightgear-devel] flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Wilson
Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is getting this, before I come back to it later this weekend. Chances are these are two diffe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is getting this, before I come back to it later this weekend. Chances are th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: > Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after > the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you > switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is > getting this, before I come back to it later this weekend. Both

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Jim Wilson wrote: Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is getting this, before I come back to it later this we

[Flightgear-devel] Re: flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Friday 14 May 2004 19:34: > Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after the > sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you switch to an > external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is getting this, before > I come back to it la

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Josh Babcock
Jim Wilson wrote: Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is getting this, before I come back to it later this weekend. Chances are th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Ross
Josh Babcock wrote: > I don't get this with this morning's cvs. dc3 is looking good. The > FOV and exit dialogs are royally screwed up though. Didn't check > any other ones. Make sure you have truly current code and base package; it sounds like you're running layout-managed dialogs from the cur

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Jim Wilson -- Friday 14 May 2004 19:34: Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if anyone else is getting this, before I come

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Jim Wilson wrote: > > Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time > > after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) > > when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if > > anyone else is getting this, before I come back

[Flightgear-devel] Re: flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 14 May 2004 20:40: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > That's due to Fred's changes in animation.cxx:502. in the non-_use_personality > > if-branch _total_duration_sec is not instantiated and may be zero. This leads > > to a beeping endless loop. > > While that does look suspicious

[Flightgear-devel] Minor Animation bug...fred?

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: > * Erik Hofman -- Friday 14 May 2004 20:40: > > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > That's due to Fred's changes in animation.cxx:502. in the non-_use_personality > > > if-branch _total_duration_sec is not instantiated and may be zero. This leads > > > to a beeping endless loop. > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: flightgear hangs - anyone else?

2004-05-14 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Andy Ross wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > Today's cvs: On loading the dc3 flightgear just hangs some time > > > after the sound init. The p51d hangs (no more display updates) > > > when you switch to an external view. I'm doing a poll to see if > > > anyone else is get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Minor Animation bug...fred?

2004-05-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Ah yes, thanks for finding this. I did a different fix and confirmed the issue, but I'm not sure what this is supposed to be doing either. Changed the "subject" to maybe get Fred's attention. It should be fixed in CVS now. Erik ___ Fl

[Flightgear-devel] Great Circle Nav question

2004-05-14 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Folks, I'm trying to solve the following problem: Given the following: - latitude, longitude of departure - latitude, longitude of arrival - scheduled departure time - scheduled arrival time I want to calculate the current position of the aircraft , sssuming that it travels along a great ci

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Great Circle Nav question

2004-05-14 Thread Andy Ross
Durk Talsma wrote: > I want to calculate the current position of the aircraft , sssuming > that it travels along a great circle route between these two points > and also assuming that the current time is somewhere between arrival > and departure. Probably the simplest approximation is to convert b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing

2004-05-14 Thread Rick Ansell
On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:30:37 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Wilson wrote: > > Vivian Meazza said: > > >>Nearly there: > >> > >>http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/vmeazza/FlightGear/spitfireIIa-1.jpg > >> > >>http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/vmeazza/FlightGear/spitfireIIa-2.jpg > > > > Grea

[Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-14 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. I've been thinking of ways in which I could help out with stuff for FlightGear, given that I don't code in C++. Other than providing useful bug reports and the occasional odd suggestion, I thought of getting my feet wet by working on adding taxiways to airports that aren't currently given th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Minor Animation bug...fred?

2004-05-14 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman said: > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > Ah yes, thanks for finding this. I did a different fix and confirmed the > > issue, but I'm not sure what this is supposed to be doing either. > > > > Changed the "subject" to maybe get Fred's attention. > > It should be fixed in CVS now. > I see

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing

2004-05-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rick Ansell > Sent: 14 May 2004 21:30 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing > > > On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:30:37 +0200 > Erik Hofman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11 Good News

2004-05-14 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Sorry for the delay. Some control surfaces don't look right since the beginning, so I had to redo them. Figuring out what to do took me one day; actually doing it and doing measurments took a day; doing the script took another. The script is in the lower half section of this E-mail. Download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Performance Testing

2004-05-14 Thread Rick Ansell
On Fri, 14 May 2004 22:48:19 +0100 "Vivian Meazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Rick Ansell > > Sent: 14 May 2004 21:30 > > To: FlightGear developers discussions > I don't recall a jettison

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-14 Thread David Luff
Chris Metzler writes: > > Hi. I've been thinking of ways in which I could help out with stuff for > FlightGear, given that I don't code in C++. Other than providing useful > bug reports and the occasional odd suggestion, I thought of getting my > feet wet by working on adding taxiways to airpor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-14 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi Dave. Thanks very much for your reply. On Fri, 14 May 2004 23:37:58 +0100 David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler writes: >> >> 2. The taxiways that *are* listed in the Airport/runways.dat, >> typically for major airports, don't have taxiway identifications >> listed. For exam

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Great Circle Nav question

2004-05-14 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 14 May 2004 22:13, Andy Ross wrote: > Durk Talsma wrote: > > I want to calculate the current position of the aircraft , sssuming > > that it travels along a great circle route between these two points > > and also assuming that the current time is somewhere between arrival > > and departu