Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
'This basically duplicates the read loop in the apt.dat.gz loader. Itruns in 2 seconds on my linux box, but takes 40 (!) seconds on thewindows/cygwin machine. Bizarre.' The Zen Master of Algorithm Analysis would say it probably isn't so bizarre :-) - Original Message - From:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin slowness

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
Just out of WAGing curiousity, what happens when you run cygwin "--enable-dmalloc" ? Does it have any effect on thesplit time? I'm still new at this... so forgive me for any dumbass comments/ideas please - Original Message - From: Andy Ross To: FlightGear developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
I'm still a a little confused by all of this also... you can apparently use Blender with an .ac3d plugin... but some people talk about using gmax. Is there a link out there for a page(other than the FG 3D model doc page!) for the best open source way to create a model? If someone would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-28 Thread Theo Reticle
Sorry, that post was close to what I was thinking/working... I posted without actually reading your question. The breakdown of the file format is here: http://www.ac3dorg/ac3d/man/ac3dfileformat.html - Original Message - From: Drew To: FlightGear developers discussions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] Blender 2.37 released ac3d_export.pyHOWTO

2005-06-02 Thread Theo Reticle
Well that answers my .ac file question! I'm brand new to Gmax so I think it will be much easier to just work with Blender. Thanks Franz! BTW I saw something about 'let others know what models you are working'. Is anyone else working on any of the Century series fighters, other than the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [ANN] Blender 2.37

2005-06-03 Thread Theo Reticle
I was getting that same No Python window in Blender 2.36, even though I had followed all of the instructions for Python 2.4 for Windows. When I installed Blender 2.37, all of the Python stuff worked. One thing I noticed that's a little odd in XP: the Python instructions say to add Python

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Off Topic: Father's Day Card/Gift

2005-06-19 Thread Theo Reticle
If anyone needs a Father's Day card, I made this one for my Dad (one of those guys who has everything). It's non-flightsim related, but kind of tech-ish and completely free for use: http://www.wintergreen.ws/fathersday/present.html ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Short Reference Document error?

2005-06-19 Thread Theo Reticle
Hear hear. - Original Message - From: Oliver C. To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Short Reference" Document error? On Sunday 19 June 2005 22:20, Jon Berndt wrote: Aha ? In fact the