Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-27 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Erik Hofman schrieb: [SNIP] I had that on the back of my mind for some time now and decided to implement it today. Lines that are not needed for FlightGear are not tokenized anymore which should provide at least some speedup again. I've also changed the if tests from strings comparison to int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-27 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Erik Hofman schrieb: Ralf Gerlich wrote: Unfortunately that seems to break skipping the blank lines which are in the standard apt.dat-files. I get an Unknown line in file:-message when the reader encounters the first blank line after the version line. Odd, I don't see that, are you using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-27 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Erik Hofman schrieb: These issues should be fixed now. That was the second alternative I wanted to propose ;-) Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Potential startup speed fix

2005-05-28 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Just to be certain, these problems are now solved, aren't they? Yes, they are. At least for me, can't speak for others...;-) Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: writing rules with --prop for nasal in fgfsrc

2005-06-13 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Gerard Robin wrote: open(/home/tux-le-boss/.fgfs/preferences.xml , O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ^^ Did you see those blanks at the end of the filename? Are these actually in the original report? Where could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: writing rules with --prop for nasal in fgfsrc

2005-06-13 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Gerard Robin schrieb: I can give to Ralf the prize, if everybody agree. Thanks, too much honor ;-) Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Custom scenery integration (was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel])

2005-07-03 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, Martin Spott schrieb: [SNIP] Actually, I _do_ agree that having preprocessed scenery _is_ an advantage. But it does have disadvantages as well: 1.) At the current state it appears (to me) nearly impossible to inject user-contributed additions into the scenery, 2.) I don't manage to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

2005-07-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, Why not just store the Elevation data in a mixed record type of a Polygon with a BLOB field ? Well, this approach certainly enables us to store and retrieve elevation data, but to my knowledge neither of both methods is suited to alter the data using the preferred tools like GRASS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

2005-07-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, Norman Vine schrieb: Martin Spott writes: Great, this is almost exactly what Frederic and I discussed while talking about his intended reorganization of FGSD :-) Hm, as long as you did not yet patent it, there is not a problem, is it? ;-) The beauty of storing things in a DB is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

2005-07-04 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, Jon Stockill schrieb: I converted a chunk of SRTM data to 10m interval contours, and overlaid this on an ordnance survey map (using mapserver) - the results are actually incredibly close - the 0 point of the two datasets is obviously slightly different, but the two datasets fit

[Flightgear-devel] Patch for fgjs.cxx and jsinput.[h,cxx]

2005-07-18 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, find attached a patch for fgjs.cxx and jsinput.[h,cxx] (current CVS). The changes are: - automatic detection of axis directionality, so that axis inputs are appropriately inverted only when necessary - fixed trim axis names for better understandability - fixed signs for flaps up/down

Re: [Flightgear-devel] suggestions/questions regarding multiplayer

2005-07-19 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, 3) artificial life at airports The server gives a lot of opportunities. One of the first things which came to my mind was artificial traffic at airports. It should be fairly easy to write clients in any (network capable) language which do simulate a client. This can be simply a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-06 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Buchanan, Stuart schrieb: Hi All, I'm trying to compile TerraGear on Cygwin, after enjoying FlightGear for a while and deciding to put something back. I've already compiled/installed SimGear, and now I'm trying to compile nurbs++ 3.0.11, which is failing with the error at the bottom of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin/Terragear/nurbs problem

2005-08-06 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Buchanan, Stuart schrieb: Hi Ralf, My terragear source doesn't include that README (I've got the 0.9.8 release as opposed to a CVS version). What version were you using? Any chance you ould point me at the README and replacement .h files? The patch is here:

[Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, some time ago I posted that I had some project for custom scenery around Lake Constance in the most southern part of Germany going. Now that the legal issues are solved I'm proud to present the first comparison screenshots :-) http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/196.0.html The standard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-18 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Oliver C. schrieb: Very nice done. Looks great. Thanks ;-) Where can i download it? I'm in the process of organising some place for the scenery files. I'll send the link when I got one. However as far as the plans go the scenery will go into the PostGIS-Database Martin Spott is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-18 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Where can i download it? The scenery is available for download at http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/195.0.html I'll try to prepare the files in a form fgadmin can grok. Until then you need to adapt the FG_SCENERY-environment variable or the --fg-scenery option passed to fgfs. Enjoy!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-19 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Gerard Robin schrieb: Great, You probably did spend a lot of time. Yes, we did ;-) However, the digitising effort is quite relaxing - clearing your mind of any thoughts which may bother you. Especially after a hard day at work ;-) And we learnt a lot about our own area - and still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-20 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Georg Vollnhals schrieb: Hi Ralf, I am a pure FlightGear user (since very early versions) and scanning the developers mailing list regularly. After your announcement I first flew the scenery from EDNY two days ago and now downloaded, installed your improvements and did several VFR

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-22 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Alex Perry schrieb: Try watching your virtual memory usage and see whether you're hitting the 2GB (or 3GB) limit within that process. If you are, it is worth patching TerraGear until it runs cleanly on all 64 bit architectures. If it isn't a memory problem, we can stick with the 32 bit for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-22 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Curtis L. Olson schrieb: [SNIP] It's been a while, but scan the fgfs-construct code for some sort of ulimit checking built into the code. I seem to recall there was some code there that would cause the process to self destruct if it sensed it was taking too long or consuming too much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-22 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi all, The generation is on the go and I'll probably release _two_ versions of the scenery this evening (UTC+2) - one with all the backstreets and one without. Nope, only one version - without all the small backstreets - most of the white lines to be seen on the Status page. However, Curt's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-24 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Georg Vollnhals schrieb: First, thank you Ralf for improving your work. I could now fly the VFR routes of the Visual Operation Chart EDNY from IVAO-DE and get clear through the mentioned reporting points. I never before flew such precise procedures just by looking out of the sim window.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS: SimGear/simgear/screen RenderTexture.cpp, 1.9,1.10

2005-09-06 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Erik Hofman schrieb: Update of /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/screen In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv2961 Modified Files: RenderTexture.cpp extensions.cxx Log Message: Mathias Fröhlich: [SNIP] Then the render texture again ... glxQueryVersion turns out to return the minimum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Jon Stockill schrieb: [SNIP] Here's a couple of pics, the first is looking west over the gherkin, and the second is looking out over regents park. Generation time was over an hour for that tile on a 1GHz athlon (the resource limits in fgfs-construct needed a significant increase). Memory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: Google has some pretty accurate taxiways for their map. Check out http://pigeond.net/flightgear/fg_server_map.html in map mode. Does anybody where Google got their data from? You can get quite detailed aerial photos for most urban areas in the USA from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: I think you misunderstood. I was referring to the taxiways under map mode, not satellite mode. If you go in map mode, you will see that Google got some pretty accurate vector data for taxiways generation. Whoop, didn't see that. In that case: Yes, I

[Flightgear-devel] Elevation Contours and DEM experiment results

2005-09-22 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi all, as we had the original discussion about elevation contours on the flightgear-devel list, I'm crossposting this to flightgear-devel and to terragear-devel, however I'd suggest replying to terragear-devel as this is essentially a TerraGear issue. After the discussion about integrating

[Flightgear-devel] weird crash in sgMakeLeaf()

2005-10-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi all, I'm getting weird SIGSEGV crashes in sgMakeLeaf, specifically in line 238 of simgear/scene/tgdb/leaf.cxx. I'm still in the progress of finding a way to reproduce this as the crash tends not to occurr sometimes, under conditions which I haven't found out yet. I suspect that it has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft artwork (!) in the 707 panel

2005-10-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, Oliver Correll schrieb: 2. To repaint the parts I took from the package There I have one questions: When I go to the aircarft museum and take some cockpit photos. Can I use them for panel painting (like the 737 panel) ?? You will need permission from the museum or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weird crash in sgMakeLeaf()

2005-10-11 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi all, I did some further analysis on this bug and I found that in line 237 of leaf.cxx texcoord = texcoords[ tex_index[i] ]; tex_index[i] is negative in the case of the crash. Specifically, the value in my case is 0x8000, which looks like a short-to-int-conversion

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [fixed] weird crash in sgMakeLeaf()

2005-10-11 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, this patch should fix the bug. Regards, Ralf Ralf Gerlich schrieb: Hi all, I did some further analysis on this bug and I found that in line 237 of leaf.cxx texcoord = texcoords[ tex_index[i] ]; tex_index[i] is negative in the case of the crash. Specifically, the value

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How does the weather work in FlightGear?

2005-10-12 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Mike Rawlins schrieb: Maybe the best solution would be to make the transition of cloud height, air temperature, and wind from one METAR to the next occur over some length of time (minute or so), rather than abruptly. If this is possible. I think this could be a good idea at least for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some new AI traffic screen shots

2005-10-12 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Durk Talsma schrieb: Hi Folks, A few days ago I promised to put some AI traffic screenshot on my website. The site's up and running again, so here they are. This looks absolutely great. When do you think we will be able to see first versions of this in the CVS or via a patch?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a question on Sound/fg_fx.cxx /sim/sound/pause processing

2005-10-13 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Jon Stockill schrieb: Oliver Schroeder wrote: Which reminds me of another thing. Is it possible to use /dev/dsp in a non-blocking mode? I want to start a second application which uses /dev/dsp while flightgear is running. I was investigating several applications which can serve as a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] a new doc file to document the realtime wx update

2005-10-13 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Vassilii Khachaturov schrieb: I suggest to name it data/Docs/README.Real-WX Real-world Weather Update = Launch fgfs with the following two command-line switches in addition to whatever else you put there: $ fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] a new doc file to document the realtime wx update

2005-10-13 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Vassilii Khachaturov schrieb: $ fgfs --prop:/environment/params/real-world-weather-fetch=true --prop:/environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere=true Why not --enable-real-weather-fetch? Because I didn't know about the shorthand option :-) :-) BTW, the second property is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-15 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, I hope I don't say too much if I say that there is work planned on defining taxiways by means of polylines in TaxiDraw. For starters I intended to create rectangles from that polyline data as appropriate, keeping the old format. Best regards, Ralf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-16 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Christian Mayer schrieb: Paul Surgeon schrieb: On Saturday 15 October 2005 23:44, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, I hope I don't say too much if I say that there is work planned on defining taxiways by means of polylines in TaxiDraw. That's still very restrictive. It's a step in the right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: [SNIP] Time might as well be spent on thinking of how we are going to convince Robin to use our new format instead of thinking of a way to expand Robin's database. I think that Robin could actually be pretty open for this:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: [SNIP] One can use rectangular or bent taxiway sections but when you get to all the weird and wonderful taxiway layouts it's impossible to do with a generic taxiway structure. This is very apparent where taxiways intersect other taxiways, runways or aprons. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Martin Spott schrieb: [SNIP] With the layout I've proposed you'll be able to determine everything that's needed: The taxiway direction and hence the direction of the centerline are determined by the perpendicular on the face sides of the junction, where the regular taxiways are being connected.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-21 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, was this resolved somehow? I'm trying to get current FlightGear+TerraGear compiled on pure Cygwin (no -mno-cygwin) and get the same problem on compiling SimGear. I have installed opengl and freeglut and I don't find the WGL_... symbols anywhere except for simgear/screen/extensions.hxx,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Winter Textures - screenshot

2005-10-22 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Dave Culp schrieb: screenshot: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/PC7-winter.jpg BTW, my lakes are still blue. Do we need an ice-water texture? The Lake of Constance - the greatest lake in German-speaking Europe - only seldomly freezes. The last so-called Seegfrörne (lake-freezing

[Flightgear-devel] New Release of Lake Constance custom scenery

2005-10-23 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello all, Ingrid has been working hard on the scenery data and we're proud to release a new version of the Lake Constance custom scenery. In fact it is not only a scenery of Lake Constance anymore. The new scenery has lots of the alps east of the Lake Constance, so you can fly from Fuessen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Winter Textures - screenshot

2005-10-23 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Arnt Karlsen schrieb: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:27:56 +0200, Ralf wrote in message I'd say we need different texture-names for lakes which freeze in the winter and those that don't. ..aye. Delay lake freezing around river mouths and speed thawing there, the currents. We want Artic ocean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Release of Lake Constance custom scenery

2005-10-25 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, Georg Vollnhals schrieb: Hi Ralf, thank you and all the Lake Constance Team Members for improving that wonderful piece of (scenery) cake for VFR flyers. I just managed due to lack of freetime to make a freeflight around LOIR (to the south and north) and could clearly see what you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS make error (Cygwin)

2005-11-07 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Kevin Jones wrote: Hi, CVS FG source at 2:30pm (UK time) Monday 7th November fails to make on Cygwin with the following error: make[2]: Entering directory blah/source/src/MultiPlayer make[2]: *** No rule to make target `tiny_xdr.cpp', needed by `tiny_xdr.o'. Stop. Can anyone help? Had

[Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, some time ago a new version of the joystick configuration file for Logitech Wingman FF 3D was committed, containing a change to the throttle-handling. Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed, jsdemo reports that the throttle axis returns +0.3 when on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joystick issues with throttleAxis()

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Dave Culp wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 12:58 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote: [SNIP] Shortly after that I couldn't get the engines down to idle. As I noticed, jsdemo reports that the throttle axis returns +0.3 when on idle. I'm using Linux on a 2.6.8 kernel. That configuration file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-14 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Martin Spott schrieb: Several people did comparisons between VMAP0 data and reality and it looks like VMAP0 is not very accurate at all in this area. I expect that we an offer a guide to the community in the not so distant future that explains how people can improve the landcover data and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [0.9.9] screenshots for flightgear.org

2005-11-19 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Georg Vollnhals schrieb: http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/FGScrSh/FGSrSh0005.jpg http://home.arcor.de/vollnhals-bremen/FGScrSh/FGSrSh0006.jpg can I trust my eyes? This must be from the lake-constance scenery...near Bregenz...cool! ;-) Ralf

[Flightgear-devel] Searching for TerraGear-Bug-Hunters

2005-11-22 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi all, about two weeks ago Curt started preparations for a scenery regeneration run using the new shapefile data from Martin Spott's Terrain Data Database. In order to be able to accept custom scenery modifications to the standard scenery we need to get this part working. This is what he

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Re] Buildings?????

2005-11-24 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Buchanan, Stuart schrieb: --- Steve Hosgood wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:01, Martin Spott wrote: I know this topic comes up from time to time, but it strikes me that the only way you can ever hope to handle the custom terrain scenery question is to cater for a two-layer approach:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Re] Buildings?????

2005-11-24 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Steve Hosgood schrieb: [SNIP] OK, so what was the original poster bothered about again? Sounds like it's all working as expected. I suppose I could complain that maybe the reliance on an environment variable to point to the scenery may be great for scenery developers, but isn't so great for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Re] Buildings?????

2005-11-24 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Thomas Förster schrieb: [SNIP] The complaint was not about being able to have customized scenery. The complaint was that there is no way of customized scenery to become part of the standard scenery. That way everyone could share the joy of nicely modelled local sceneries, not just the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Wing motion

2005-12-20 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: Unfortunately, so far it only works with solid (unsmoothed) objects. Looks like a plib bug to me, but I have yet to find the exact reason. Maybe the normals of the faces don't get interpolated as well? (Just a stab in the dark) Regards, Ralf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Wing motion

2005-12-20 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Josh Babcock schrieb: Especially if there are a lot of other objects attached to it. The B-29 has over a hundred objects attached to the wings. Each of those would have to be animated with the wings, and that would mean duplicates of all of them using the tween method. Just an idea, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next world scenery build

2005-12-20 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Paul Surgeon schrieb: We're still stuck not being able to model airports properly. TaxiDraw is a great tool but I really don't like being limited to rectangular taxiway sections - they look awful. Work is under way for major modifications to TaxiDraw, which also target different