On Donnerstag 17 Februar 2005 16:28, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Hosgood :
> > On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:09, Steve Hosgood wrote:
> > Sounds bizarre, but this is quite reproduceable: if you *don't* have the
> > w010n50 scenery tile loaded and use the command-line params --lat=51.6
> > --
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 16:17, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
> The tile boundary is not at integral degrees. They can be at .125, .250, .375,
> .5, .625, .75 and .875 ( every 1/8 of a degree )
>
Ah, it applies at that level does it? I suppose that's logical.
OK, may I propose:
/* KLUDGE: FIXME: avoid ha
Quoting Steve Hosgood :
> Might I propose the FGFS gods avoid causing pointless grief for newbies
> and insert a fragment of code in the command-line parsing to the effect
> of:
>
> /* KLUDGE: FIXME: avoid hang when starting on a tile boundary */
> if (startup_long == floor(startup_long)) startup_
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:28, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
> There is a numerical problem at startup. Try --lat=51.6 --lon=-4.001
>
> -Fred
AAAGH!
So simple, and I never tried such a thing!
Dammit, I grovelled through the -devel and -users archives for quite a
while to see if this was already known (i
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:13, Steve Hosgood wrote:
> PS: Lat 51.6, Long 10.1 is over the Atlantic Ocean just west of Ireland.
> It is of course also outside the named scenery tile. I've not tried a
> start location over the sea *inside* the tile. I'll get back to y'all on
> that one
>
Sorry: p
Quoting Steve Hosgood :
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:09, Steve Hosgood wrote:
> Sounds bizarre, but this is quite reproduceable: if you *don't* have the
> w010n50 scenery tile loaded and use the command-line params --lat=51.6
> --lon=-4.0 to start FlightGear, then it starts up just fine.
There is a
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:09, Steve Hosgood wrote:
Sounds bizarre, but this is quite reproduceable: if you *don't* have the
w010n50 scenery tile loaded and use the command-line params --lat=51.6
--lon=-4.0 to start FlightGear, then it starts up just fine.
However, if you *do* have that scenery tile
