Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-24 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon S Berndt wrote: FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 22 May 2004 18:50:19 -0500, Jon wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Jon S Berndt, Fri May 21 16:44:16 CDT 2004: FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. Gimp is always a good choice.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-23 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt said: * Jon S Berndt, Fri May 21 16:44:16 CDT 2004: FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. Gimp is always a good choice. However ... http://members.aon.at/mfranz/textarc.png (27kB)

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-22 Thread Jon Berndt
* Jon S Berndt, Fri May 21 16:44:16 CDT 2004: FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. Gimp is always a good choice. However ... http://members.aon.at/mfranz/textarc.png (27kB) m. :-] Show-off.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:01, Melchior FRANZ wrote: BTW: this is my little transparency trick: in my fgfs.mp library file I have this: color foreground, transparent; background:=black; transparent:=white; white:=255/256white; foreground:=white; which lets white actually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: OK, here's a new version, just so you can see how easy instrument face creation with MetaPost is. Note that there's a function @() defined, that maps the real instrument angles to MetaPost angles. So I could directly input all the values as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Jon S Berndt
FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 21 May 2004 23:41, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 21 May 2004 23:26: This @() function proved to be very powerfull and it made creating scales very easy. I changed this to a unary operator #. So one can now write #10 and metapost will replace this by the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Al West
On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Looks like Maik's rotor RPM numbers are off (442 RPM). I can't make sense of the dual tacho. What doesn't make sense? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: * Jim Wilson -- Thursday 20 May 2004 01:46: Melchior FRANZ said: Here's a small MetaPost file that I used to make the Bo105 rotor tacho (which is totally made up; need some expert advice first): Check out: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/438320/L/ Hey,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ wrote * Jim Wilson -- Thursday 20 May 2004 15:18: The rotor can exceed the drive shaft speed (e.g. autorotation). Is that what you are asking? No, I couldn't see where 442 would fit into that scale, and what 140 should stand for (140 RPM? ... too low; or 14000

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Al West
On Thursday 20 May 2004 14:02, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Al West -- Thursday 20 May 2004 14:43: On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Looks like Maik's rotor RPM numbers are off (442 RPM). I can't make sense of the dual tacho. What doesn't make sense? The ticks are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: hh ... now that makes sense. I couldn't read the word PERCENT. I guess one needs to be native English speaker to be able to decipher that. OK, I'll do this instrument now -- only the rotor hand, though, because there's no turbine RPM in YASim (?). Maybe I'll make the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ wrote * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 20 May 2004 16:07: Melchior FRANZ wrote only the rotor hand, though, because there's no turbine RPM in YASim (?). Maybe I'll make the turbine RPM up with Nasal ... [...] N1 N2 ? Yes, but there's no way to start/stop the turbines