Re: [Flightgear-devel] lights flaring on runways in FG

2004-08-08 Thread Peter L
Interesting, I re-installed Windoze, ATI drivers and motherboard chipset drivers. I set the frame rate at 85 fps and don't get the problems. It looks like it may be one of the options, but havn't found a combination yet. Peter - Original Message - From: "Jon Stockill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

[Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-08 Thread Harald Johnsen
> > We are talking of an FMC but of course > > I wanted to redo at least the ehsi display (for the eye candy). > Erik mentioned some time ago that it isn't yet really possible to > do simple animations using Nasal in FlightGear, at least that's > what Andy indicated when he was asked about that,

[Flightgear-devel] FMC

2004-08-08 Thread Harald Johnsen
Last mail was cut... What about the performance ? Imagine a simple gauge with a background and a needle. This could be drawn with 3 lines of Nasal code: DrawTexture(background, x,y), Rotate(angle), Drawtexture(nnedle, x,y) So it can't be slower than xml gauges. And mo

[Flightgear-devel] StarAlliance flights

2004-08-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Hi, I found a very cool (windows) screensaver: http://www.staralliance.com/star_alliance/star/content/screensaver.html It features all StarAlliance flights that are currently in the air and shows them on a world map. One it it's features is to use a programm that automatically updates the flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] openGL bindings for Nasal (was: FMC)

2004-08-08 Thread Boris Koenig
just adapted the subject to have the right people look into this thread ;-) Harald Johnsen wrote: We are talking of an FMC but of course I wanted to redo at least the ehsi display (for the eye candy). Erik mentioned some time ago that it isn't yet really possible to do simple animations using Na

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: bo105 - patch

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: > * Jeff Sinsay -- Saturday 07 August 2004 16:28: > > Yes indeed, when looking from the top down American Helicopters > > rotate-counter clockwise, while European/Russian Helis rotate > > clockwise. > > Yes, that's widely known. But nobody would seriously assume that > anyw

[Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread David
Greetings, I'm new at the mail-list and at Flight Gear. I introduce myself: I got the degree on Electronic Engineering a month ago. My Thesis was focused in the design and building of a VTOL robot. It had to be controlled by microcontroller, and remotelly by a PC. The robot, is a lightweight 4-r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:18:41 +0200, David wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I'm new at the mail-list and at Flight Gear. > > I introduce myself: > > I got the degree on Electronic Engineering a month ago. My Thesis was > focused in the design and building of a VTOL robot.

[Flightgear-devel] RE: Taildragger takeoffs and landings

2004-08-08 Thread Dave Perry
David Megginson wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I have a book deadline looming, so I don't have any big chunks of time free until after the 9th, but if you feel like tweaking the J3 Cub and DC-3 files until you like the handling better, I'll be happy to commit the changes. Ideally, we want the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
Arnt Karlsen said: > ..and you will wanna listen to David M (Magginson) on setting up Emacs; > if it can cook coffee, it can fly your chopper robots. ;-) > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html Hey that's handy! Now if *nix only had a gui environment that supported simple cut and paste of plain asc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
David said: > What IDE do you suggest me? No ide is necessary for this type of app. A good editor like emacs is fine. Half the time I just run the first gui editor I think of to do quick edits, just because they'll usually support the common shortcut keys. > What O.S.? For this use any OS you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Al West
On Monday 09 August 2004 02:35, Jim Wilson wrote: > David said: > > What IDE do you suggest me? > > No ide is necessary for this type of app. A good editor like emacs is > fine. Half the time I just run the first gui editor I think of to do quick > edits, just because they'll usually support the c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 01:36:33 -, Jim wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen said: > > > ..and you will wanna listen to David M (Magginson) on setting up > > Emacs; if it can cook coffee, it can fly your chopper robots. ;-) > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html > > Hey that's ha