[Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread James Turner
I've been spending as much time as possible over the past few days just flying around (I've had a very long gap where FG wouldn't build and I was busy with other things), but this has raised a small issue which may indicate something about my flying habits... Basically, I have not yet found an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Curiosity about antialiasing

2005-02-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: > At the moment, is antialiasing applied to textures themselves? If so, what > will happen if antialiasing is applied to the final render/output instead? Technically the textures, as they are displayed, aren't antialiase

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > Basically, I have not yet found an aircraft where the speedbrakes or > spoilers seem to work, either visually or in terms of slowing the plane > down. From looking at data/keyboard.xml, I can see the current bindings > are j/k for the spoilers, and Ctrl-B for the speedbrak

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi James James Turner writes Basically, I have not yet found an aircraft where the speedbrakes or spoilers seem to work, either visually or in terms of slowing the plane down. From looking at data/keyboard.xml, I can see the current bindings are j/k for the spoilers, and Ctrl-B for the speedbr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Feb 2005, at 11:57, Innis Cunningham wrote: Basically, I have not yet found an aircraft where the speedbrakes or spoilers seem to work, either visually or in terms of slowing the plane down. From looking at data/keyboard.xml, I can see the current bindings are j/k for the spoilers, and Ctr

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- Thursday 10 February 2005 13:09: > So, apologies for the confusion, I didn't check closely enough, and the > two aircraft I happen to have been using the most, the F16 and the > A320, don't seem to have either system installed. I use the speed brakes on the F16 regularly, also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > So, apologies for the confusion, I didn't check closely enough, and the > two aircraft I happen to have been using the most, the F16 and the > A320, don't seem to have either system installed. While we are are it, do we already have consensus on which keys to use for these

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Feb 2005, at 13:03, Martin Spott wrote: While we are are it, do we already have consensus on which keys to use for these functions - are the keys consistent across different aircraft and FDM's ? The keys do seem to be standard, j/k for spoilers and Ctrl-B for speedbrake, the issue of course

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Innis Cunningham
James Turner writes The keys do seem to be standard, j/k for spoilers and Ctrl-B for speedbrake, the issue of course is guessing for a given model which surfaces are assigned to which name. I guess 'things on the wings' are spoilers, and 'things not on the wings' are speed-brakes? Except tha

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
James Turner wrote > > While we are are it, do we already have consensus on which keys to use > > for these functions - are the keys consistent across different aircraft > > and FDM's ? > > The keys do seem to be standard, j/k for spoilers and Ctrl-B for > speedbrake, the issue of course is gues

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
"Vivian Meazza" wrote: > James Turner wrote >> > While we are are it, do we already have consensus on which keys to use >> > for these functions - are the keys consistent across different aircraft >> > and FDM's ? >> >> The keys do seem to be standard, j/k for spoilers and Ctrl-B for >> speedbra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Curiosity about antialiasing

2005-02-10 Thread Andy Ross
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > At the moment, is antialiasing applied to textures themselves? Sort of. This is the purpose behind mipmapping and filtering -- avoiding aliasing effects in texture ("texel") space. > If so, what will happen if antialiasing is applied to the final > render/output inst

[Flightgear-devel] ..dvorak(FG) key bindings, was: Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:19:08 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Vivian Meazza" wrote: > > James Turner wrote > > > > > > While we are are it, do we already have consensus on which keys > > > > to use for these functions - are the keys consistent across > > > > differe

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Giles Robertson
> Can't remember if the speedbrakes actually slow the aircraft on the > 737 but the animation should work when you hit Ctrl-B The animation works, but has no noticeable affect on airspeed or attitude for all airspeeds I tested. Energy analysis of a log file didn't show any more energy dumped, eit

[Flightgear-devel] segfault in SimGear code

2005-02-10 Thread Ron Lange
Hi, I have just updated to fg 0.9.8 and got also the most recent versions of the other stuff. Certainly. In windowed mode it is running fine, but I just start fg with game mode enabled. Result:a segfault :-( To prevent digging into your source code I just attach the gdb backtrace. Regards Ron ##

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread dave
On Thursday 10 February 2005 15:51, Giles Robertson wrote: > > Can't remember if the speedbrakes actually slow the aircraft on the > > 737 but the animation should work when you hit Ctrl-B > > The animation works, but has no noticeable affect on airspeed or > attitude for all airspeeds I tested. En

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Thursday 10 February 2005 19:19: > Great, now we have an accurate definition, we should fix the key > bindings :-) > Does everyone agree on having j/k for the spoilers ? Now, what are we > going to take for the speed brakes ? Simply using Ctrl-B is not > sufficient, because speed

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > * Martin Spott -- Thursday 10 February 2005 19:19: > > Great, now we have an accurate definition, we should fix the key > > bindings :-) > > Does everyone agree on having j/k for the spoilers ? Now, what are we > > going to take for the speed brakes ? Simply using Ctrl-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 10, 2005 08:27 am, James Turner wrote: > BTW, there is no keybinding for reverse thrust : I'm going to test with > some nasal code i found in one of the joystick files, but is there a > free key I should use? Ctrl-R perhaps? For commercial airliners at least, it will make more sense to

[Flightgear-devel] ..guys, chk out http://maps.google.com/maps?fc=1

2005-02-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..foud this in a Groklaw thread, you're supposed to be able to "fly" over this map, at least between 2 points, I'm trying to figure out how it works, it may need some plugin. ..to me, this look's like a beta thing, US and North America, it looks like it works in the newest Firefox, so update

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
"Vivian Meazza" wrote: > I'm in the process of changing the Hunter bindings to conform to the > Seahawk/Spitfire/Seafire/A4 scheme as appropriate. I don't know how the Seahawk/Spitfire/Seafire/A4 scheme looks like so I'd prefer if people change their aircraft to use a _common_ scheme, Martin. --