Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mamaloucos.com>: I just rang Europress publishers of the Getmapping "high in the sky" series (reminded by Boris's question). I spoke to Richard Charge their head of Sales. To be very clear this is dif

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you should have said "_GPL_ fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Sorry for all those typos in that other posting... I'm simply not yet entirely awake :-) Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: If we are to do something similar, it will probably be a better idea to find several open source ATC-simulator development groups Well, I am not aware of *any* popular ATC simulator

[Flightgear-devel] Effortless Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Jon Stockill
If you combine calc-tile.pl and find-elevation.pl the end result is something rather useful. Feed a list like this: # Ferrybridge C SE47522459:0:ferrybridgechimney.ac SE47622464:0:ferrybridgechimney.ac SE47752467:0:coolingtower.ac SE47792478:0:coolingtower.ac SE47672481:0:coolingtower.ac SE477224

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dynamically modifiable menubar (was: /sim/navdb ?)

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Generating a dynamic menu structure might be harder than you think, As you didn't yet reply to the ideas that I mentioned in this thread, I simply tried the approach that I described. And everything seems to work somewhat now - with the small exception that I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dynamically modifiable menubar

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Generating a dynamic menu structure might be harder than you think, As you didn't yet reply to the ideas that I mentioned in this thread, I simply tried the approach that I described. Good, I am not always able to respond quickly. I have

RE: [Flightgear-devel] dynamically modifiable menubar

2004-09-23 Thread Norman Vine
Erik Hofman writes: > > Boris Koenig wrote: > > > Also, I as an additional feature I was thinking of adding > > the funcitonality to "auto-hide" the menu after a pre-defined > > amount of time, so that it disappears automatically if the > > mouse is not in that area, and appears again when I move

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Effortless Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Horst J. Wobig
Hello, Jon Stockill wrote: If you combine calc-tile.pl and find-elevation.pl the end result is something rather useful. Feed a list like this: (1) I'm just making a few perl modules and I would like to use the coding in "calc-tile.pl". Is this ok??? (2) Is it possible to store the elevation for o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Effortless Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Horst J. Wobig wrote: Hello, Jon Stockill wrote: If you combine calc-tile.pl and find-elevation.pl the end result is something rather useful. Feed a list like this: (1) I'm just making a few perl modules and I would like to use the coding in "calc-tile.pl". Is this ok??? That's not my code - it c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: This is really great from the publishers and should be taken for granted! ...not... ? Eh, yes. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image to be suitable to be used as a texture for FlightGear ? One meter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:52:06 +0200, Boris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > browse sf.net and find efforts like: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/atcj/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/airtraffic/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/jatcsimdata/ > http://sourcefor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread David Luff
On 9/23/04 at 7:13 PM Erik Hofman wrote: >Boris Koenig wrote: > >> Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies >> that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the >> details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image >> to be s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:52:06 +0200, Boris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: browse sf.net and find efforts like: http://sourceforge.net/projects/atcj/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/airtraffic/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/jatcsimdata/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Effortless Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Horst J. Wobig
Hello Jon, Jon Stockill wrote: Horst J. Wobig wrote: (2) Is it possible to store the elevation for objects in stg files *relative* to ground level at a given longitude/latitude? I looked at tileentry.cxx, but I'm not familiar enough with the FG sources/internals to say how this could be done. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] D-SAT - German Photo Scenery (UK Photo Scenery)

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image to be suitable to be used as a texture for Flig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Martin Spott
Boris Koenig wrote: > The mentioned sourceforge projects are certainly not "popular", > if I remember correctly, only one of these does actually interface > with the existing ivao/vatsim infrastructure, [...] BTW, do you know enough about these two networks to provide a short summary. I know the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Martin Spott wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: The mentioned sourceforge projects are certainly not "popular", if I remember correctly, only one of these does actually interface with the existing ivao/vatsim infrastructure, [...] BTW, do you know enough about these two networks to provide a short summa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:56:50 +0200, Boris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And there are many more hits regarding the IVAO vs. VATSIM debate. > > Personally, I consider this ridiculous: combining their efforts and > creating ONE BIG network would benefit EVERYBODY - everything would > be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Giles Robertson
Beware being like Sony. Invent a new protocol that is better and more efficient and flexible, and still nobody will use it, though, on the other hand, nobody uses Sony's protocols (ATRAC-3, Betamax), because they are eyeballed with patents. Giles Robertson -Original Message- From: Arnt Ka

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Voice stuff

2004-09-23 Thread John Wojnaroski
John writes: > >Thinking a bit about the folks playing in the virtual ATC world. Would be > >nice if FG could be included, might obviate the need for an AI system. > >Conversely, developing an AI/ATC system is good exercise for the brain > >muscle and provides a nice alternative for network-challen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:56:50 +0200, Boris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: And there are many more hits regarding the IVAO vs. VATSIM debate. Personally, I consider this ridiculous: combining their efforts and creating ONE BIG network would benefit EVERYBODY - everything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
May be you weren't guiding enough aircrafts. ;-) Ampere On September 23, 2004 03:56 pm, Boris Koenig wrote: > once I even started it myself in > order to see "where's the fun stuff" - but actually it seemed quite > boring, so maybe that was simply a bad day or I'm simply too easily > bored ;-) _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Giles Robertson wrote: Beware being like Sony. Invent a new protocol that is better and more efficient and flexible, and still nobody will use it, though, on the other hand, nobody uses Sony's protocols (ATRAC-3, Betamax), because they are eyeballed with patents. and despite from that: this would

[Flightgear-devel] Good news :-) [ linux atc sim pendant to proController available ! ]

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
But there's also some good news in this whole discussion: this morning I had an eMail in my inbox from "Richard Smith" who told me he would have written a linux based version of IVAO's ProController some time ago because he didn't want to run Windows just for playing with IVAO - he called it 'xATC'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Voice stuff

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
John Wojnaroski wrote: John writes: Thinking a bit about the folks playing in the virtual ATC world. Would be nice if FG could be included, might obviate the need for an AI system. Conversely, developing an AI/ATC system is good exercise for the brain muscle and provides a nice alternative for netw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Good news :-) [ linux atc sim pendant to proController available ! ]

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
This is what Richard's README file says: 8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>-8>- This is the first release of XAtc. It has been developed under NetBSD 1.5 / 1.6 It has been tested on a remote Linux system, and it compiled/worked (very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] oops (wrong link)

2004-09-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Richard just informed me that I posted the wrong link ... I downloaded the oldest version that I could find :-) The new one seems even to be configured using XML files. So, this one should be the latest: http://www.theforest.plus.com/software/xatc-1.3b.tar.gz Also, like I just told Richard - I've p