[Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-14 Thread Chris Metzler
guidelines for maximum complexity of 3D models for scenery? On one hand, I want to make cool things. But OTOH, I don't want to make things which are so cool that they won't get used because they're too apt to drag framerates down into the dirt. That'll do for starters. Than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-14 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi Dave. Thanks very much for your reply. On Fri, 14 May 2004 23:37:58 +0100 David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler writes: >> >> 2. The taxiways that *are* listed in the Airport/runways.dat, >> typically for major airports, don't have taxiway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD-11 cockpit

2004-05-15 Thread Chris Metzler
to sell a poster that reproduces the cockpit instrumentation layout in detail: http://www.avsoft.net/md%2011%20stuff.htm I hope some of this is helpful. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I underst

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 15 May 2004 13:17:46 -0400 "Ampere K. Hardraade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 15, 2004 01:31 am, Chris Metzler wrote: > > The problem I have at this point is good source photos. > > In my opinion, pictures aren't really that useful. S

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 15 May 2004 16:31:03 +0100 David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler writes: >> >> Well, I'm probably talking out of my behind here, and maybe this isn't >> an issue. But I would naively think that having fgfs (or TerraGear or >> wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Metzler
an aside, is there a way to travel around the scenery and look at it other than by flying? For the purposes of inspecting how models look etc., it's nice to be able to pick a vantage point and viewing angle; is there anything like that in fgfs? -c -- Chris Metzler [

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 17 May 2004 13:27:43 -0400 Josh Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> As an aside, is there a way to travel around the scenery and look at >> it other than by flying? For the purposes of inspecting how models >> look etc., it&#x

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-17 Thread Chris Metzler
way and > downtown Baltimore. I live in the DC area and have similar interests. Maybe when I learn my way around Blender we can collaborate on some of this stuff. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a ch

[Flightgear-devel] Atlas CVS: fails to render 1024x1024 png maps

2004-05-20 Thread Chris Metzler
e. What can I do to make this work? Thanks for advice, -c P.S. Oddly, when *making* the 1024x1024 images, Map is able to display them just fine. It's only when Atlas tries to do so that problems occur. -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] WARNING: Flightgear spam attack; open relay at baron.me.umn.edu

2004-05-20 Thread Chris Metzler
d Outlook, please disconnect your > ethernet cable immediately and then get help disinfecting your system. Right now, that address doesn't respond to pings. A traceroute suggests that it's dynamically assigned to users in Florida, and possibly south Georgia. -c -- Chris Metz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] WARNING: Flightgear spam attack; open relay at baron.me.umn.edu

2004-05-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 20 May 2004 21:26:39 +0100 Jonathan Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 May 2004 8:48 pm, Chris Metzler wrote: > > On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:34:02 -0400 > > > > David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If > > > anyone one th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas CVS: fails to render 1024x1024 png maps

2004-05-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 20 May 2004 19:54:51 +0100 Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:43, Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> So it seems that 1024x1024 files are the problem. Does anyone else >> see this with a current Atlas from CVS? Any suggestions on w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:45:51 +0100 "David Luff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/17/04 at 12:58 PM Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> At any rate, as far as manually placing them and putting that >> capability in TaxiDraw, sure, that'd be cool! In the short-t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next scenery rebuild.

2004-05-24 Thread Chris Metzler
e I've been using David Luff's TaxiDraw to make taxiways for the smaller airports in the default area in hopes of contributing that work; but if that's not useful, I'll do something else. Thanks very much again; I'm really looking forward to the new scenery. -c -- Chris Metz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next scenery rebuild.

2004-05-24 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:07:06 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> The database that came with 0.9.4 had taxiways mainly just for big >> airports. Will this updated database have them for many smaller >> airpo

[Flightgear-devel] New airport data: whither KSQL?

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
that we've been adding after the fact? Thanks, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Sta

[Flightgear-devel] Many duplicates in the new airport data.

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
42.930450 -71.431655 1 W 42.942085 -71.438534 1 W 42.918162 -71.426841 1 -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Many duplicates in the new airport data.

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
sorry, didn't know these were known . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther

[Flightgear-devel] Request: the ability to use relative coordinates for static scenery objects in .stg files

2004-05-31 Thread Chris Metzler
bably going to notice that the existing runway specificationg fgfs has is wrong right away, and hold off on placing the structure. I know it's much easier to ask about this than it is to implement it; but it seems like it might save multiple instances of a lot of effort later on. Good idea?

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs CVS: build a breeze! running gives OpenAL errors galore.

2004-06-04 Thread Chris Metzler
lly does differ in such a way (I only wish I was a pilot). But I figured I'd check anyway. Any advice, especially on #1, would really be appreciated. Thanks. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Questions about scenery objects

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Metzler
haven't yet found any docs about how that works (none in data/Docs, for instance). If possible, then I might think that one could use a very very small texture (little more than color) tiled over the face of an object at large distances, then switch to something more detailed once clos

[Flightgear-devel] Question re: bug reporting/tracking/etc.

2004-06-08 Thread Chris Metzler
aintain the system, etc.). Does it feel at this point like having one would be too formalized, or needless bureaucracy, or whatever? Yours in curiosity, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understoo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question re: bug reporting/tracking/etc.

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Metzler
gfs or whether they're related to the FDM used. Hopefully that will change with time. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question re: bug reporting/tracking/etc.

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:04:54 -0700 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> Sometimes I run into issues with FlightGear -- fgfs, data, scenery, >> whatever -- that I'm reluctant to report because I'm concerned that >> the developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone read polish?

2004-06-11 Thread Chris Metzler
>From looking at the poor translation offered by the website that Jon noted, and poking around the website itself, it looks to me not like they're *selling* FG, but like they're *auctioning* it off. This looks very much like the website of an eBay-clone. -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone read polish?

2004-06-11 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:24:56 -0400 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have some friends here whose parents came from Poland and who are > in both spoken and written Polish. Uh, that should have been ". . .who are fluent in both spoken and written Polish." -c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic Manager

2004-06-11 Thread Chris Metzler
think the flight plan would be generic to any planes flying that route. True? I guess the auto-flightplan-generation will change this, but I'm just curious how it works. Thanks. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone read polish?

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Metzler
urces on the CD, or on his/her website, to be in compliance with the GPL. According to the GPL, an accompanying written offer to provide source code to interested parties, for a maximum cost equal to the cost of reproduction, is acceptable. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] radio towers (in the default scenery, and in general)

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Metzler
7;s why some are at locations where large buildings are located in real life. Is that correct? If so, why not use the FCC's Antenna Structure Registration database (http://wireless.fcc.gov/antenna/) instead? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EK2004

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:19:15 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Okay, I'm off for now: > http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/downloads/fokker100-EK04.jpg pretty. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "sni

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radio towers (in the default scenery, and in general)

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:24:21 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> And while asking about the radio towers . . .my (perhaps wrong) >> understanding is that they come from some sort of FAA obstruction >> datab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radio towers (in the default scenery, and in general)

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Metzler
or a number of reasons. Can TerraGear be told to override usage data and put grass within a region bounded by 3 or 4 locations? (I guess this question may be better asked over in terragear-devel) -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me."

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EK2004

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Metzler
through long way there from where you are? > What we won't do for a discount fare... Oh, I get it now, he's going to Euro 2004! Duh. -c (slow and envious simultaneously) -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) &qu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: default weather

2004-06-15 Thread Chris Metzler
or two would be nice. But I think having a default of nothing (except for maybe some high-altitude stuff for scenery) is good. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery problem at CYHM

2004-06-18 Thread Chris Metzler
hat's below local ground level you're in the hole. The AGL altitude is enormous -- around 33000 ft -- because that's how deep the hole is. To see this, take the UFO off of runway 30 and fly it across the hole. Watch your AGL altitude explode. I flew down the hole but didn'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] domain name

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Metzler
; I sense someone is asking for a donation... lol > > PayPal !? ;-) This is just what I was thinking. Lots of open source projects have set up PayPal accounts for collecting donations. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_help-ext&leafid=2524&answer_id=29

[Flightgear-devel] Taxiway designations in runways.dat / Robin's apt.dat. Opinions please!

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Metzler
to do. But I don't code C++and don't know about TerraGear, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. So, do people think pursuing this is a bad idea? A good idea? An idea that can be improved? I wanted to see what people thought before asking Robin Peel about it. Than

[Flightgear-devel] Does changing paintjob/livery require a duplicate aircraft?

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Metzler
ferent .ac file. And since the .ac model is uniquely specified in the .xml file for the model, which in turn is uniquely specified in the .xml file for the aircraft as a whole, a different paint job/livery effectively means a new aircraft. Is this right? -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Does changing paintjob/livery require a duplicate aircraft?

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Metzler
or scheduled AI flight plans. I was wondering how that might end up being implemented, or whether it's even possible. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Does changing paintjob/livery require a duplicate aircraft?

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Metzler
they have exactly the same content, each of the different boeing733.xml files could just read their content from elsewhere through an include) Does this make sense? Am I understanding you, Erik? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to emai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Does changing paintjob/livery require a duplicate aircraft?

2004-07-03 Thread Chris Metzler
paint jobs, in a scene at the same time (e.g. taxiing towards take-off in your Cessna behind another Cessna that looks different from yours). -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] domain name

2004-07-06 Thread Chris Metzler
)(3) status to solicit grants in the U.S. And the use to which money would be put would have to be fairly concrete (if it were to go to hire someone, it'd have to be clear what that person would accomplish -- in fact, what they'd accomplish would be the actual proposal, with hiring a perso

[Flightgear-devel] Bizarre bug with recent keyboard.xml changes

2004-07-07 Thread Chris Metzler
cockpit viewing angles, and those work fine. So I don't get it. But nevertheless, looking back left causes an immediate abort. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire

2004-07-08 Thread Chris Metzler
hack, resulting in choppy broken audio and lots of WARNING: Volume larger than 1.0 for configuration for 'engine2' Oops AL error in sample set_volume()! 2.15 for /home/cmetzler/Projects/FlightGear-0.9/data//Aircraft/Spitfire/Sounds/merlin_rpm4_1.wav type messages. -c --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire

2004-07-08 Thread Chris Metzler
hack, resulting in choppy broken audio and lots of WARNING: Volume larger than 1.0 for configuration for 'engine2' Oops AL error in sample set_volume()! 2.15 for /home/cmetzler/Projects/FlightGear-0.9/data//Aircraft/Spitfire/Sounds/merlin_rpm4_1.wav type messages. -c --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airports and basic.dat.gz

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Metzler
ving KSQL. Someone else here (Erik?) probably knows about that. But the problem is that the latest set of airport data from Robin Peel has some issues, and one of them is that San Carlos Airport (KSQL) wasn't included in the new airport dataset at all. So I expect that this will go away w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Advertisements on the FG web site?

2004-07-16 Thread Chris Metzler
g of it. I presume that you'd have to take them at their word as to whether someone who clicked through then purchased something while there? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to gi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MD11 related messages in the console

2004-07-17 Thread Chris Metzler
Models and AirTraffic. Yeah. It'd be nice for this to all be done in a consistent way. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become

[Flightgear-devel] Square monolithic textures for liveries? (was Re: Took advantage of Erik's...)

2004-07-19 Thread Chris Metzler
ent parts of the aircraft. I'm sure I'm missing something that would be obvious to someone who's more experienced at this than I am. Can someone clue me in? Thanks muchly. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me."

[Flightgear-devel] Blender question for FG modellers: AC3D export and materials/textures?

2004-07-21 Thread Chris Metzler
fter export. Is there something I'm stupidly missing here? Thanks, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized.&q

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Blender question for FG modellers: AC3D export and materials/textures?

2004-07-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:18:25 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: > >> For example, >> tweaking the diffuse/specular reflectivity parameters produces no >> change whatsoever to the .ac file exported, even though the .blend >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Blender question for FG modellers: AC3D export and materials/textures?

2004-07-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:00:23 -0400 Josh Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Boris Koenig wrote: >> Chris Metzler wrote: >>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:18:25 -0400 >>> David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Correct. Currently, th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug in newgui code

2004-07-21 Thread Chris Metzler
omes in -- resulting in the top and right margins shrinking, while the bottom and left margins stay OK. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace

[Flightgear-devel] Still need opinions/suggestions re: recommendation to Robin Peel/airport taxiway data format

2004-07-22 Thread Chris Metzler
ul 2004 16:56:32 -0400 > From: Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Taxiway designations in runways.dat / Robin's apt.dat. > Opinions please! > > Hi. I'd like folks' opinion about this. > > Right now, Robin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] --fog-fastest & --fog-disabled - the latter w/o update below horizon ?

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Metzler
think about > separating airports from scenery - at least the basics like > runways etc ...or what else is the reason for not _seeing_ > an airport which FlightGear actually knows of ? Can you rephrase this? I can't figure out what it is that you're saying here. -c -- Chris

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

2004-07-24 Thread Chris Metzler
webspace I use for just this purpose if you need it. Also, as an aside, I have a personal GPS for about the next month, if you wanna start getting positions for things. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a

[Flightgear-devel] Minor logic bug re: starting location initialization?

2004-07-27 Thread Chris Metzler
he reason I didn't see it was because I was a kilometer and a half away from where I thought. Not very important at all -- it probably takes a fairly contrived situation (like mine) to get bit by this -- but figured I'd mention it. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Minor logic bug re: starting location initialization?

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:54:28 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> Hi. It appears that in initialization, if an airport and heading are >> specified on the command line, a runway is immediately chosen based >> upon the heading, and l

[Flightgear-devel] blender --> AC3D: one texture file per object??

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Metzler
h the .ac files that come with FG, and haven't found one with more than one texture file associated with one object, and now I'm worried. Is this something Blender can do, but AC3D (and thus AC3D files) cannot? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remov

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blender --> AC3D: one texture file per object??

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:59:37 -0400 Josh Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >> For those of you who've worked on 3d modelling/texturing, please >> please please tell me I'm missing something here. >> >> I've an object I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blender --> AC3D: one texture file per object??

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:48:03 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> Oh, that sucks. That truly, truly sucks. Having finished several >> objects, I now have to go back and break each of them up into >> multiple

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

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Metzler
They can be found at: http://www.speakeasy.net/~cmetzler/fgfs-screen-002.jpg http://www.speakeasy.net/~cmetzler/fgfs-screen-003.jpg http://www.speakeasy.net/~cmetzler/fgfs-screen-004.jpg Weird stuff. What airports are these? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-07-29 Thread Chris Metzler
n a meter or so vertically, and I don't see polygons up in the air. And I don't see any problem with the DC-3. I want to say that this is something odd about your drivers, but I'm too ignorant of this stuff to be sure. Is it only ATI people that see this stuff? Do all ATI people see t

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

2004-07-29 Thread Chris Metzler
this what you see? If so, I see that sort of thing too, near most large airports. I suspect it's not a FlightGear thing so much as a TerraGear thing -- I suspect it's an artifact of the smoothing done in making things flat for the runways etc. But I dunno. -c -- Chris

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs aborted with the dc3

2004-07-29 Thread Chris Metzler
carefully at your dc3.xml file and make sure it doesn't contain > extraneous information (cvs collision warnings, etc...) FWIW, with today's CVS I couldn't reproduce this. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to em

[Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-07-30 Thread Chris Metzler
of Curt's time or hardware; it need not even be in the flightgear.org domain, although I think it'd be a good thing if it was (unfortunately, scenery.flightgear.org is occupied, hehe). Mat Churchill and I are both enthusiastic about such a scenery website. What do people think? -c --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS - problem

2004-07-31 Thread Chris Metzler
it's not > critical. I have: }# Hack, to ignore the "ghost" tanks created by the C++ code. }if(cap < 1) { continue; } } } title = tcell(fuelTable, "text", i+1, 0); that is, "< 1" rather than "<= 0.1". -c -- Chris M

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:17:48 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Metzler wrote: >> I've been waiting to post this until after the release went out, >> hoping there'd be more discussion when things were a tiny bit calmer . >> . . >> >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: how to handle add-on ground scenery distribution

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
to browse through/search through now, but it's good to have that functionality planned in from the start, rather than having to deal with it later. I'll start playing around with this stuff to see if I can set up a system that works well. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAI

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bo105 + patch

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:31:13 -0700 Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i've collected some of the > screenshots at http://caliban.lbl.gov/fgfs-heli/index.html. These are gorgeous, my compliments. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbee

2004-08-09 Thread Chris Metzler
ter growing more brain cells" or something like that. There's nothing to be gained from that crap; but there are people whose entire identity seems wrapped up in behaving so. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "

[Flightgear-devel] Two scenery design issues.

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Metzler
-- except they are, I've checked and checked. Am I misinterpreting what the angle setting (that last argument) in the .stg file means? If not, can you think of anything I can check as to why angle 0.00 isn't giving me a sign that points north or south, but instead at a weird angle? Tha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Metzler
out of date. Is there an official announcement of this somewhere? I've looked all around the NGA and NACO sites but haven't found anything. How did he hear about this? Is there any kind of timetable? Were there reasons stated? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:19:15 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Metzler wrote: > > > Is there an official announcement of this somewhere? I've looked all > > around the NGA and NACO sites but haven't found anything. How did he >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ALERT: Losing the DAFIF

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Metzler
U.S. that collections of facts aren't illegal (and thus, such removal seems very premature), maybe it's a good idea to take an evening to write such a comment. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a chil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two scenery design issues.

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Metzler
#x27;s definitely not written with a numeral in any of the texture files, it's probably OK to create additional ones by doing nothing more than replacing the texture file names with a script. Maybe I'll try that tonight. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two scenery design issues.

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Metzler
ou? It sure doesn't to me. > > Yo have to apply a _white_ (or nearly white) material to the object > because that color is the maximum color applied to an object (including > the texture). Once upon a time, I knew this. Thanks. That's what I'd ended up doing (or had to do) w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.5-1

2004-08-16 Thread Chris Metzler
ges to an upstream version, packaging changes, etc. Lots of other Debian packages have "a" or "b" or whatever added to the upstream version number without a problem. So I agree that this should work fine. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update: Robin Peel

2004-08-24 Thread Chris Metzler
to send him email? I sent him some email about the taxiway designation stuff in updates a few weeks ago, and now I'm wondering if I sent to an incorrect address . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a c

[Flightgear-devel] length measures in runways.dat

2004-08-26 Thread Chris Metzler
en placing them, one includes displaced threshholds and stopways for determining the length to consider when placing the signs. Thanks, -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I hav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sky-writing

2004-08-27 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:53:06 -0500 David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the uses of the new submodel code - sky writing :) > > http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/sky-writing.jpg Oh man! "Surrender Dorothy!" would make a great screens

Re: [Flightgear-devel] length measures in runways.dat

2004-08-27 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:55:46 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Metzler wrote: > > Are the lengths of displaced threshholds and stopways given for a > > particular runway in runways.dat included in that runway's given > > length? In other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] length measures in runways.dat

2004-08-27 Thread Chris Metzler
ewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/docs/AirNav/AptNavFAQ.FlightGear.html?rev=1.1.1.1&cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9 and it didn't have that paragraph at the end of the specification for length of displaced threshhold that's in the X-Plane copy, and that answers the question completely. Thanks muchly. -c -- Ch

[Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs + placement script "done".

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Metzler
fullscreen, I think. There's also a Python script that places them, by writing a file containing the appropriate lines to add to the tile's .stg file. Is there still interest in these? Hope so. If so, I'll go into more detail and pass them along . . . -c --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs + placement script "done".

2004-09-08 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:35:30 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> Is there still interest in these? Hope so. If so, I'll go >> into more detail and pass them along . . . > > I do think so, don't we. > I mean, thi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs + placement script "done".

2004-09-09 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:01:29 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:35:07 -0400, Chris Metzler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 5. I don't know anything about how these signs are handled outside >> the U.S. If you d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs+placementscript "done".

2004-09-09 Thread Chris Metzler
disagree? Anyway. I think the short answer is that someone'd have to commit to doing it. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have beco

Re: [Flightgear-devel] From Robin's apt/nav data site ...

2004-09-10 Thread Chris Metzler
to are old and don't say anything other than "unpack the .zip and move the files to". -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remainingsigns+placementscript

2004-09-11 Thread Chris Metzler
gt; scenery and this > worked well, until they made it into the trees and started shooting > back. > > Story goes that they used an object model based on ground troops and > were still > carrying weapons. http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.htm -c

[Flightgear-devel] sound.xml conditions for properties crossing set values.

2004-09-16 Thread Chris Metzler
quot;one hu-"). I got the impression from reading the docs in CVS that the first one above would work with once, because the mode line would guarantee that the sound got played completely through once triggered. But experimentally, that doesn't seem to be the case. What am I not getting he

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound.xml conditions for properties crossing set values.

2004-09-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:31:15 -0400 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ snip ] > <\less-than> Whoops, meant , mistyped when typing the email (but not when creating the .xml file. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound.xml conditions for properties crossing set values.

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Metzler
on't hear the sound at startup (not because it's not played, but because its volume is too low). But I can't help but wonder if there's a better/cleverer way to do this. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Scenery newcache.cxx, 1.3, 1.4 tileentry.cxx, 1.36, 1.37 tileentry.hxx, 1.11, 1.12 tilemgr.cxx, 1.40, 1.41

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Metzler
'll have to rebuild from CVS and see if I can change these to 1's, or get rid of them altogether. Cool. Thanks. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotte

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-18 Thread Chris Metzler
rchive.com could be added to > http://www.flightgear.org/mail.html where you keep reading: > "There is currently no search capability [...]") I thought everybody knew about Google. Just use the site restriction "site:flightgear.org" or even "site:baron.flightg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A voice for FG

2004-09-21 Thread Chris Metzler
expected to drop into the dirt while the speech is being done? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VIRTUAL ATC: a feedback from IVAO (A voice for FG)

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Metzler
vers (using available source) with no such restrictions on "blessed" clients. They merely were setting restrictions on who they were going to provide *their* server connections to. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me.&

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nav.dat.gz fields

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Metzler
ke VORs at all the VOR locations, etc? -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luthe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nav.dat.gz fields

2004-09-24 Thread Chris Metzler
hen suddenly one appeared in the Models directory (and at KSFO). It could use some texturing though, and at some point it might be cool to have two flavors of these things -- when they're at airports, and when they're not -- so that the ones at airports can have e.g. checkerboard textures. Ano

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATLAS ? (navaids *symbols* ?)

2004-09-25 Thread Chris Metzler
ption. I use it all the time for FG pre-flight planning . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief L

[Flightgear-devel] How is property /position/ground-elev-m assessed/constructed from the elevation data?

2004-10-11 Thread Chris Metzler
ing. In my case, one out of a hundred or so airport signs is half-buried or slightly levitating . . . -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have be

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