Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
think it will be too useful to submit a 2.5 year old diff. Here's a version that applies to current CVS and compiles with a tolerable amount of warnings: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Plib_ssgDList2-20050105.diff Unfortunately I don't have a clear idea on where to look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..what am I doing wrong here? patch -p1 never failed me even when the kernel said use patch -p0 . The '-psomething'-switch is not for arbitrary parameters, it has some real sense :-) Please have a look at the manpage, it doesn't make sense for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: gzip extracts pkzip files. Maybe the Linux version, nut the one shipped with IRIX. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Unzip is an archiver and runs on just about anything. Comes with several linux distributions as well. Yes, but not all. That's the point. Should we honor Windows users where there are some version of windows that ship with an ZIP extractor or honor the UNIX world that comes

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Erik Hofman wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear-devel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sent: 05 January 2005 09:00 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads Jim Wilson wrote: Unzip is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 09:22, Vivian Meazza wrote: We should do both - that seems to be the solution adopted by most web sites which offer downloads. Why should we be different? We should not expect windows or UNIX users to download and install some additional software. I could make a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on IVAO

2005-01-05 Thread Gerhard Wesp
Anyone interested? :o) Yes. Is there a protocol spec available? Cheers -Gerhard -- Gerhard Wesp o o Tel.: +41 (0) 43 5347636 Bachtobelstrasse 56 | http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~gwesp/ CH-8045 Zuerich \_/ See homepage for email address!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 09:22, Vivian Meazza wrote: We should do both - that seems to be the solution adopted by most web sites which offer downloads. Why should we be different? We should not expect windows or UNIX users

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: For some reason, I have never seen code to do this with the .tar.gz format, thought in principle it should work; the issue is that ZIPs have a table of contents that can be read without extracting all the files, whereas for a .tar.gz I think you'd have to uncompresss

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 10:44, Christian Mayer wrote: Dave Martin schrieb: I could make a really scathing comment about that using words like plib, OpenAL and SimGear... But those are for *developers* and not *users*. I was more making the point that unless a Linux *user* uses one of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman said: Jim Wilson wrote: Unzip is an archiver and runs on just about anything. Comes with several linux distributions as well. Yes, but not all. That's the point. Should we honor Windows users where there are some version of windows that ship with an ZIP extractor or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:39:49 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They also have a version with two Lycoming IO-360 for the North American market, Is that out yet? I don't know if it already made its maiden flight, but the engines are already mounted

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Plib_ssgDList2-20050105.diff Unfortunately I don't have a clear idea on where to look at in order to find out if it works correctly Well, I'll rebuild SimGear and FlightGear and I'll see later, It works for me (on IRIX

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Plib_ssgDList2-20050105.diff Unfortunately I don't have a clear idea on where to look at in order to find out if it works correctly Well, I'll rebuild SimGear and FlightGear and I'll see later, It works

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Erik Hofman wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Plib_ssgDList2-20050105.diff Unfortunately I don't have a clear idea on where to look at in order to find out if it works correctly Well, I'll rebuild SimGear and FlightGear and I'll see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: Is there a fix yet for see runway through instruments which happens on the B1900D and dhc2F? I don't think there are any instruments in those aircraft (just a hole in the panel)? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

[Flightgear-devel] 747 PFD Problem

2005-01-05 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All Has anyone else noticed that the airspeed display and the altitude display go to all zero's when the aircraft nose goes below the horizon in FG 9.6.Also on T/O roll on 28R at KSFO they go to zero when the A/C gets to about 100 kts.I guess something is broke because the problem dose not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: It should fix the see panel through fuselage problem. At best it doesn't affect frame rate, normally I would expect it to decrease slightly. Is there a fix yet for see runway through instruments which happens on the B1900D and dhc2F? Yep, this is

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Mustang

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Law
I happened across this while looking for blender inspiration: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=189884 Although the quality will not be seen in FGFS for a very long time, I think you'll agree that this guy is very talented indeed! All the best, Matthew.

[Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation kt_70.cxx, 1.1, 1.2

2005-01-05 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
Curt, See this discussion between David M. and me about setting property values in source code vs. setting them in config files. http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-November/031882.html After this I removed all set serviceable property to true from instrumentation and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d panels - newbie

2005-01-05 Thread Richard Hornby
That's encouraging. And thanks for the steer to GMax. R - Original Message - From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 3:09 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d panels - newbie On

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation kt_70.cxx, 1.1, 1.2

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: Curt, See this discussion between David M. and me about setting property values in source code vs. setting them in config files. http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-November/031882.html After this I removed all set serviceable property to true

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mustang

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 13:44, Matthew Law wrote: I happened across this while looking for blender inspiration: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=189884 Although the quality will not be seen in FGFS for a very long time, I think you'll agree that this guy is very talented indeed!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Mustang

2005-01-05 Thread Jim Wilson
Matthew Law said: I happened across this while looking for blender inspiration: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=189884 Although the quality will not be seen in FGFS for a very long time, I think you'll agree that this guy is very talented indeed! I'd just like to spend a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:57:54 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People doing business in North America usually share the impression that people 'over there' are commonly a lot more conservative when it comes to aircraft engines. And they have a strong lobby: One of the major

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation kt_70.cxx, 1.1, 1.2

2005-01-05 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:01:49 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's the solution? We can't initialize any number of arbitrary serviceable properties in the preferences.xml and I've always been nervous about doing htat anyway. If we also can't do it in code, then were are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Is there a fix yet for see runway through instruments which happens on the B1900D and dhc2F? I don't think there are any instruments in those aircraft (just a hole in the panel)? Hmmm, I thought there were instruments fitted - if not, then just ignore me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Stockill wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Is there a fix yet for see runway through instruments which happens on the B1900D and dhc2F? I don't think there are any instruments in those aircraft (just a hole in the panel)? Hmmm, I thought there were instruments fitted - if not,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try it when I get home, and grab some screenshots. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: Eventually, we'll have some new piston engines that work well and put Lycoming and Continental to shame. The problem so far, I think, is just that North Americans fly differently. From what I understand, most European private pilots with piston aircraft fly short

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:02:22 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the conversion produces horrible costs this might lower in the future because the way the engine is being assembled is going to be changed, Lowering the conversion costs will help. Another

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 15:12, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:02:22 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the conversion produces horrible costs this might lower in the future because the way the engine is being assembled is going to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try it when I get home, and grab some screenshots. The DHC2 looks good now:

[Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
It's the start of a new year, so I thought it might be fun to look back on 2004 and recall some interesting FlightGear facts and events, and then look forward a bit to the upcoming year. 1. From June 1 through the end of the year, 103,201 copies of the windows version of FG were downloaded

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: Lowering the conversion costs will help. Another point might be marketing position: right now, I can install a 135 hp Thielert in my Warrior that will give me more-or-less the same performance as the 160 hp Lycoming currently in it, only burning about 35% less fuel.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:24:20 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Warrior will never have a load like the 'bigger' ones because it lacks the reinfoced airframe, not matter which engine you mount, Is the Warrior's airframe weaker than the Archer's or Arrow's? All the best,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year

2005-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:17:53 -0600 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the start of a new year, so I thought it might be fun to look back on 2004 and recall some interesting FlightGear facts and events, and then look forward a bit to the upcoming year. Heh. I have been meaning to post

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:24:20 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Warrior will never have a load like the 'bigger' ones because it lacks the reinfoced airframe, not matter which engine you mount, Is the Warrior's airframe weaker than the Archer's or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread David Luff
On 1/5/05 at 4:17 PM Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try it when I get home, and grab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Luff wrote: On 1/5/05 at 4:17 PM Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Dave Martin wrote: Christian Mayer wrote: Dave Martin schrieb: I could make a really scathing comment about that using words like plib, OpenAL and SimGear... But those are for *developers* and not *users*. I was more making the point that unless a Linux *user* uses one of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: What version of plib are you running? I'm running 1.8.3 (latest release) here and have never noticed any problems with any of the versions of these aircraft. (They are really well done by the way.) The patch which caused the large increase in framerate appears to have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: What version of plib are you running? I'm running 1.8.3 (latest release) here and have never noticed any problems with any of the versions of these aircraft. (They are really well done by the way.) The patch which caused the large increase in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: What version of plib are you running? I'm running 1.8.3 (latest release) here and have never noticed any problems with any of the versions of these aircraft. (They are really well done by the way.) The patch which caused the large increase in

RE: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try it when I get home, and grab some screenshots. A quick look in AC3D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 18:42, Vivian Meazza wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I've never noticed any holes in the instrument panels of either of these. How about the Citation-II that looks good here too, but is by the same author ... (?) I'll try it when I

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Surgeon
I'm not a pilot so could someone more informed than myself please tell me which is the best type of manual to get if one wants to model an aircraft including the avionics? Does a POH/PIM contain the most useful info? More importantly does it describe aircraft systems as well as procedures?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Adam Dershowitz
For GA aircraft (light aircraft) the POH is pretty much all there is, other than maintenance manuals. The POH does not contain complete system information. It contains enough for a pilot to understand the OPERATION of the systems, so there are often some simplifications and approximations. So

[Flightgear-devel] Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-05 Thread DesmoSS
Greetings, I am a graduate student in Virginia working with FlightGear towards a MS inaerospace engineeringandhuman factors. I am trying to alter the existing HUDwithin FG to reflect a newly developedenergy management algorithm.Ultimately, the pilot could matchicons for bank, pitch, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 19:23, Paul Surgeon wrote: I'm not a pilot so could someone more informed than myself please tell me which is the best type of manual to get if one wants to model an aircraft including the avionics? Does a POH/PIM contain the most useful info? More importantly does

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Dershowitz schrieb: For GA aircraft (light aircraft) the POH is pretty much all there is, other than maintenance manuals. The POH does not contain complete system information. It contains enough for a pilot to understand the OPERATION of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:54, Christian Mayer wrote: Well, I've seen the manuals that come with an A310 - box of roughly 1m * 0.5m * folder-height (probably larger) full with overfilled folders. No wonder they pay Airbus drivers such great salaries. Were those just pilot manuals or did

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:58:57 -0800, Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i see the same thing (instruments are holes in the panel on the dhc2) on linux/nvidia with the latest plib from cvs. Are you running at 16 bpp or 24 bpp? Here it's linux/nvidia at 24bpp using the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Stockill wrote: David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:58:57 -0800, Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i see the same thing (instruments are holes in the panel on the dhc2) on linux/nvidia with the latest plib from cvs. Are you running at 16 bpp or 24 bpp? Here

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:58:57 -0800, Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i see the same thing (instruments are holes in the panel on the dhc2) on linux/nvidia with the latest plib from cvs. Are you running at 16 bpp or 24 bpp? If it appears to be useful we could

[Flightgear-devel] Re: plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Alex Romosan
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:58:57 -0800, Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i see the same thing (instruments are holes in the panel on the dhc2) on linux/nvidia with the latest plib from cvs. Are you running at 16 bpp or 24 bpp? 24 bpp. --alex--

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:03:38 -, Vivian wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Our Windows users (and they are probably the majority) for the most part expect everything to be done for them, and for it all to work right out of the box. Otherwise, they will give up at the first hurdle, and,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:54, Christian Mayer wrote: Well, I've seen the manuals that come with an A310 - box of roughly 1m * 0.5m * folder-height (probably larger) full with overfilled folders. No wonder they pay

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Spott wrote: David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:58:57 -0800, Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i see the same thing (instruments are holes in the panel on the dhc2) on linux/nvidia with the latest plib from cvs. Are you running at 16 bpp or 24 bpp? If it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: David Luff wrote: Wow, is that what it's meant to look like? Most of the instruments are holes through to the runway on the dhc2, the b1900d and the Citation for me on both Cygwin/ATI and Linux/NVidia OS/hardware combinations. I'd always assumed they were

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:30:04 -, Jim wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Hofman said: Jim Wilson wrote: Unzip is an archiver and runs on just about anything. Comes with several linux distributions as well. Yes, but not all. That's the point. Should we honor Windows

[Flightgear-devel] 'index' redeclared as different kind of symbol

2005-01-05 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, I've been neglecting the Solaris platform for a while (mostly in favour of FreeBSD). Now I'm back trying to build for the Sun: make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/SimGear/simgear/scene/sky/clouds3d' gcc -mcpu=hypersparc -mtune=hypersparc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:32:20 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..what am I doing wrong here? patch -p1 never failed me even when the kernel said use patch -p0 . The '-psomething'-switch is not for arbitrary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:04:28 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin Spott wrote: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Devel/Plib_ssgDList2-20050105.diff Unfortunately I don't have a clear idea on where to look at in order to find out if it works correctly

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-05 Thread DesmoSS
Thanks Christian and Chuck, I think Linux would be the most direct but my comfort level diminishesrapidly. I wouldappreciate an opportunity to review the MSVC++ path if I can get together with Chuck. Most of thisdevelopment willtake placein Suffolk, andI'm devoting the entire semester to

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear more popular than X-Plane?

2005-01-05 Thread Arthur Wiebe
Could it be possible that FlightGear is more popular than X-Plane on Mac OS X? Take a look at the included screenshot. I recently added the port from http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net to Apple Downloads and it seems people like it for some reason. While I prefer X-Plane myself I assume it's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear more popular than X-Plane?

2005-01-05 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 00:23, Arthur Wiebe wrote: Could it be possible that FlightGear is more popular than X-Plane on Mac OS X? Take a look at the included screenshot. I recently added the port from http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net to Apple Downloads and it seems people like it for

[Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
While messing around with my scripts for inserting objects into the scenery (it's now all database driven, with numerous datasets imported) I decided I could do with a few landmarks. Here's a couple of views of the first, also showing off the object positioning:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 PFD Problem

2005-01-05 Thread Jim Wilson
Innis Cunningham said: Hi All Has anyone else noticed that the airspeed display and the altitude display go to all zero's when the aircraft nose goes below the horizon in FG 9.6.Also on T/O roll on 28R at KSFO they go to zero when the A/C gets to about 100 kts.I guess something is broke

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation kt_70.cxx, 1.1, 1.2

2005-01-05 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 15:26, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:01:49 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's the solution? We can't initialize any number of arbitrary serviceable properties in the preferences.xml and I've always been nervous about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 5, 2005 02:23 pm, Paul Surgeon wrote: I'm not a pilot so could someone more informed than myself please tell me which is the best type of manual to get if one wants to model an aircraft including the avionics? If you are talking about 3D modelling, maintenance manuals and maintenance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib release

2005-01-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 5, 2005 08:09 am, Erik Hofman wrote: It works for me (on IRIX) and I don't see any artefacts so far, but I don't see any framerate improvement neither. Should I - or which improvement does the patch bring to FlightGear ? It should fix the see panel through fuselage problem. At

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Happy New Year

2005-01-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: 1. From June 1 through the end of the year, 103,201 copies of the windows version of FG were downloaded from the main FG ftp server. (The logs only go back to June '04 ...) I'm sure some of those are repeat customers or people that only tried running FG once or twice,