Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerial images

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: When I fired up FlightGear a week ago I noticed that the textures looked very dry and brown to me. I thought San Francisco would be a lot greener and reckoned it was just the guys who created the textures. Neh, I'm not brown. Tonight I was thinking of making some greener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerial images

2004-10-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Surgeon wrote: When I fired up FlightGear a week ago I noticed that the textures looked very dry and brown to me. I thought San Francisco would be a lot greener and reckoned it was just the guys who created the textures. Tonight I was thinking of making some greener looking grass textures

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trim quotes

2004-10-23 Thread Nick Coleman
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:13:56 +0100 From: Lee Elliott On Thursday 21 October 2004 22:47, Jon S Berndt wrote: Would it be grumpy of me to suggest that we try a little harder to trim quotes when replying with quotes? I've noticed that there are several emails today with 100 to 200 lines

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-23 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: On 10/22/04 at 5:11 PM Frederic Bouvier wrote: Speaking about feature requests, do you considered using libcurl instead of wget to fetch images ? That would remove those ugly console popup on windows. It's on my TODO list, since wget isn't widely installed on Windows. Patches

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifying development status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-23 Thread Paul Kahler
I'm not big on XML (done HTML before) but this: maturityalpha/maturity doesn't seem right. I would expect something more like: modeltag maturity=alpha /modeltag Where modeltag would encompase the whole model definition. Again, I'm not really familiar with just how bloated XML is supposed to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerial images

2004-10-23 Thread Paul Kahler
Actually, my grass is green all summer, and so are most of my neighbors and most businesses. I'm in Michigan and we have no shortage of water so people like to keep things green. I sometimes tell my wife not to water so much and that it's OK to let it brown a little, but it's still green. Look at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifying development status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-23 Thread Boris Koenig
Paul Kahler wrote: I'm not big on XML (done HTML before) but this: maturityalpha/maturity doesn't seem right. I would expect something more like: modeltag maturity=alpha /modeltag You are right - and wrong, actually it doesn't matter at all, logically you are of course somehat right,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Possibly, although there are a number on that list that definitely aren't closed (yet). I'll cross check some of the info when I get home to see how accurate it is. I appreciate your effort, Hmmm, typical, by the time I get around to looking at this the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-23 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Hmmm, typical, by the time I get around to looking at this the server has vanished (a traceroute stops at mlra.ucar.edu). Does anyone have a copy of the list? ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Pre_1973_stations.txt Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Hmmm, typical, by the time I get around to looking at this the server has vanished (a traceroute stops at mlra.ucar.edu). Does anyone have a copy of the list? ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Pre_1973_stations.txt Thanks. I've looked these up

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trim quotes

2004-10-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:46:38 +1000, Nick wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:13:56 +0100 From: Lee Elliott On Thursday 21 October 2004 22:47, Jon S Berndt wrote: Would it be grumpy of me to suggest that we try a little harder to trim quotes when replying

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Submodels

2004-10-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote some time ago: ... snip ... I've gone back to cvs update as of 15 Oct: all the aircraft work correctly. I conclude that this problem is caused by your new code. Unless you can confirm that the instruments work in all models in your location, or tell me exactly what I

[Flightgear-devel] Can someone give me some debugging tips?

2004-10-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
I don't want to be a pain in the @ss but this is getting very frustrating and I need to get this issue resolved. FlightGear still crashes on the joystick code even after I updated my system to a new distro and kernel. If I remove the joystick drivers FG loads without any problems. My

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Now, here comes the next feature request I have a tiny image which represents my favourite airport. I can make JPEG out of it and load it into TaxiDraw. I even can see it in TaxiDraw - but I don't have any clue about the scale of this image. Sorry, no need anymore:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Submodels

2004-10-23 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Saturday 23 October 2004 21:14, Vivian Meazza wrote: I've finally found time to revisit this problem. The FGFS is working fine with updates up to 15th Oct. Paths, etc. are good. I've updated and recompiled Simgear and Flightgear. Nothing else has been changed. Should work, right? Wrong:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data available

2004-10-23 Thread Norman Vine
Martin Spott wrote: Now, here comes the next feature request I have a tiny image which represents my favourite airport. I can make JPEG out of it and load it into TaxiDraw. I even can see it in TaxiDraw - but I don't have any clue about the scale of this image. Here is a reasonably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerial images

2004-10-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
In the wild, nobody keeps the grass, so you will see more brown rather than green. Ampere On October 23, 2004 01:04 pm, Paul Kahler wrote: Actually, my grass is green all summer, and so are most of my neighbors and most businesses. I'm in Michigan and we have no shortage of water so people

[Flightgear-devel] Default airport

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
What is the elevation of the default runway in FlightGear? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] Defaults

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
In addition, what is the temperature and atmospheric conditions at the default runway? I'd like to run a test with known conditions - i.e. I'd like to use our JSBSim internal atmosphere. I suspect that the atmospheric conditions are getting passed in by default, true? Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Default airport

2004-10-23 Thread Norman Vine
Jon Berndt writes: What is the elevation of the default runway in FlightGear? Depends on the height of the tide :-) following from Airports / basic.dat.gz A KSFO 37.618763 -122.37492613 CYN San Francisco Intl Norman ___ Flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Default airport

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
OK ... so: essentially sea level. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Vine Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 6:08 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Default airport Jon Berndt writes:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Defaults

2004-10-23 Thread Norman Vine
Jon Berndt writes: In addition, what is the temperature and atmospheric conditions at the default runway? I'd like to run a test with known conditions - i.e. I'd like to use our JSBSim internal atmosphere. I suspect that the atmospheric conditions are getting passed in by default, true?

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Defaults

2004-10-23 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm trying to find a way to force the JSBSim atmosphere to be used. I'm still not quite sure how to do that (is a property set somewhere in a -set file?). Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Vine Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004