Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Download/Install App

2005-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Arthur Wiebe wrote: But as it seems to be a bad idea, I guess we can forget this thread. Why do you think that? I've not seen any negative responses. It's like everything else, a good idea is always welcome but like you, others might not have time to develop it (right away). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Download/Install App

2005-11-27 Thread Arthur Wiebe
Why do you think that? I've not seen any negative responses. It's like everything else, a good idea is always welcome but like you, others might not have time to develop it (right away). Erik Well it may be a good idea, but just not worth the development time for most people. But if anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Download/Install App

2005-11-26 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 26 November 2005 14:25, Arthur Wiebe wrote: The idea is for an aircraft application. This application would download (preferrably an XML file) from a server, parse, and through a GUI have the ability to select aircraft, see details including previews, press a button to download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Download/Install App

2005-11-26 Thread Josh Babcock
Arthur Wiebe wrote: This is an idea that's been floating around in my head for awhile, mainly because there is currently no *very easy* way for a newbie to install new aircraft in FlightGear. Unless that user is used to going through Program\ Files in Windows and through package contents on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Download/Install App

2005-11-26 Thread Arthur Wiebe
And maybe it would also be a good idea to package aircraft and scenery in rpm or deb format. That way you don't have to worry about dependencies like how so many planes use the p51 instruments. fgadmin could run it's own rpm or deb database. Not sure how this would work on non-unix platforms,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft for v0.9.9

2005-11-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 15:25, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Aircraft authors (or other interested parties.) Take a look at the latest aircraft download page: http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/ There are quite a few aircraft with no thumbnail.jpg created for the web page. We need a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft for v0.9.9

2005-11-19 Thread Bohnert Paul
I can work on aircraft thumbnails for the download page. What is the best way to submit them? Regards, Paul Bohnert "Curtis L. Olson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aircraft authors (or other interested parties.)Take a look at the latest aircraft download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft models

2005-06-03 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le vendredi 03 juin 2005 07:33 -0500, Jon Berndt a crit : I'm interested in tallying up the existing JSBSim aircraft flight models. I'd be interested to know (either by posting here or sending me a personal email) which aircraft you have modeled. It seems there are a lot of models floating

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft models

2005-06-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 3, 2005 12:33 pm, Jon Berndt wrote: I'm interested in tallying up the existing JSBSim aircraft flight models. I'd be interested to know (either by posting here or sending me a personal email) which aircraft you have modeled. It seems there are a lot of models floating around that are

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft models

2005-06-03 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Jon Jon Berndt writes I'm interested in tallying up the existing JSBSim aircraft flight models. I'd be interested to know (either by posting here or sending me a personal email) which aircraft you have modeled. It seems there are a lot of models floating around that are not really known

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Ben Morrison
Ben Morrison writes The problem with this approach is that I have no experience with modeling aircraft. I have downloaded blender and played around with it but that's about it. How long would you say it would take you to create this model, just so I have an idea. I was also wondering if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Jon Stockill
Ben Morrison wrote: Yeah, I gave up on trying to work with Blender because of its interface. One of my co-workers likes Blender but I think it is only because it is free. I will look at AC3D. I have a registered version of AC3D, and now prefer to work in blender - once you learn the interface

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 12 mai 2005 09:46 -0400, Ben Morrison a crit : Ben Morrison writes The problem with this approach is that I have no experience with modelling aircraft. I have downloaded blender and played around with it but that's about it. How long would you say it would take you to create

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Gerard ROBIN wrote: AC3D could be a good tool at the beginning when you start with 3D modelling. But it is limited. You will discover quickly functionalities missing. Look at the A380 wings shape. you cannot do it with AC3D. Why not, is that forbidden? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le jeudi 12 mai 2005 16:33 +0200, Erik Hofman a crit : Gerard ROBIN wrote: AC3D could be a good tool at the beginning when you start with 3D modelling. But it is limited. You will discover quickly functionalities missing. Look at the A380 wings shape. you cannot do it with AC3D. Why

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Ben Morrison
This doesn't relate to this topic in anyway but the site looks like it is partially down (www.flightgear.org). The menu on the left is missing. Has anyone else noticed this? I am getting javascript errors and after viewing the source it looks like the function call MainMenu() is causing an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon Stockill wrote: Ben Morrison wrote: Yeah, I gave up on trying to work with Blender because of its interface. One of my co-workers likes Blender but I think it is only because it is free. I will look at AC3D. I have a registered version of AC3D, and now prefer to work in blender -

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Ben Morrison
Besides the small matter of getting permission from the original modeller to modify and release under the GPL.Separating out all the objects and animating them can be nearly as hard as building the model from scratch.MSFS use a different approach for animation they build different objects for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 11, 2005 09:47 am, Ben Morrison wrote: How long would you say it would take you to create this model, just so I have an idea.   It depends. How much data have you gathered? The more data you have, the less guess work you have to do, and the quicker you can get the model to look right.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Ben Morrison
When you refer to data, are you referring to the dimensions of the aircraft? If so, I have all of this data already. The problem I see is my lack of experience with Blender and the fact that I am a computer programmer not a graphics artist. If someone enjoys drawing models I would be happy to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 11, 2005 01:35 pm, Ben Morrison wrote: When you refer to data, are you referring to the dimensions of the aircraft? Sort of, but dimensions of parts on the aircraft would be a better description. =) Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Innis Cunningham
Ben Morrison writes The problem with this approach is that I have no experience with modeling aircraft. I have downloaded blender and played around with it but that's about it. How long would you say it would take you to create this model, just so I have an idea. I was also wondering if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Ben Morrison wrote: I will be working on adding the AC130-H to flightgear but I havent worked with the aircraft models yet and only have a small grasp on how it works. I was wondering has anyone else worked with a similar To be clear, are you talking about a 3d model or about a flight dynamics

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Ben Morrison
Ben Morrison wrote: I will be working on adding the AC130-H to flightgear but I haven't worked with the aircraft models yet and only have a small grasp on how it works. I was wondering has anyone else worked with a similar To be clear, are you talking about a 3d model or about a flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ben Morrison wrote: Sorry, I am not being very clear. When I asked for a good example to start with, I meant which aircraft is the most complete. For example, which has sounds, panels, landing gear and flap animations, etc. For the 3d model I think I will try to convert a model made for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:35:47 +0100, Jon wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ben Morrison wrote: Sorry, I am not being very clear. When I asked for a good example to start with, I meant which aircraft is the most complete. For example, which has sounds, panels, landing gear and flap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 10, 2005 03:59 am, Erik Hofman wrote: To be clear, are you talking about a 3d model or about a flight dynamics model (which describes how the aircraft should handle)? In case of the latter, there is already a (beta) C130 configuration file for JSBSim available:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Harald JOHNSEN
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Ben Morrison wrote: Sorry, I am not being very clear. When I asked for a good example to start with, I meant which aircraft is the most complete. For example, which has sounds, panels, landing gear and flap animations, etc. For the 3d model I think I will try to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Martin Spott
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: What type of aircraft are people using or would like to use ? Well, you'd make a crazy guy happy if you add a C150 to FlightGear but I think you should better build one that you _personally_ like. Creating an aircraft for FG is apparently a lot of work and you need a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 10, 2005 01:48 pm, Harald JOHNSEN wrote: I'd like to work on a plane too in my spare time (model, animation or panel). Do we know of some aircraft from cvs that need some work or is it better to start a new one ? Harald. There are quite a few aircrafts in the cvs that need to be work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Innis Cunningham
Ampere K. Hardraade writes On May 10, 2005 03:59 am, Erik Hofman wrote: To be clear, are you talking about a 3d model or about a flight dynamics model (which describes how the aircraft should handle)? In case of the latter, there is already a (beta) C130 configuration file for JSBSim

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Ben Ben Morrison writes Sorry, I am not being very clear. When I asked for a good example to start with, I meant which aircraft is the most complete. For example, which has sounds, panels, landing gear and flap animations, etc. For the 3d model I think I will try to convert a model made for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Harald Harald JOHNSEN writes I'd like to work on a plane too in my spare time (model, animation or panel). Do we know of some aircraft from cvs that need some work or is it better to start a new one ? What type of aircraft are people using or would like to use ? Of the two you mention

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Now, I got a little problem of my own. Initially, I couldn't compile plib because it kept saying that I am missing glList and glLookat. This was fixed after I installed mesag3, and the computer automatically removed libraries belonged to x-window and x-lib-mesa.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On January 21, 2005 09:01 am, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Innis Cunningham: Curtis L. Olson writes Innis, I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file permission,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-24 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 24, 2005 03:45 am, Erik Hofman wrote: I expect you have replaced the accelerated drivers by a software only driver now. You should have installed the mesag3-dev package only. Erik On January 24, 2005 07:32 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: As someone else mentioned, it sounds like you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 21, 2005 09:01 am, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Innis Cunningham: Curtis L. Olson writes Innis, I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file permission, capitalization, etc.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft required to start

2005-01-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Stewart Andreason a écrit : It seems this aircraft is required to start FlightGear. fgfs WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models/pa28-161.ac' for reading Abort This plane is required by the AI/ATC module and has been removed from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft required to start

2005-01-21 Thread Jim Wilson
Frederic Bouvier said: Stewart Andreason a écrit : It seems this aircraft is required to start FlightGear. fgfs WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models/pa28-161.ac' for reading Abort This plane is required by the AI/ATC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft required to start

2005-01-21 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Freitag 21 Januar 2005 08:59 schrieb Frederic Bouvier: Stewart Andreason a écrit : It seems this aircraft is required to start FlightGear. fgfs WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models/pa28-161.ac' for reading Abort This

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft required to start

2005-01-21 Thread David Luff
On 21/01/2005 at 10:05 Jim Wilson wrote: Frederic Bouvier said: Stewart Andreason a écrit : It seems this aircraft is required to start FlightGear. fgfs WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models/pa28-161.ac' for reading

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:27:42 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..this looong post with unsnipped quotes is a FG licensing FAQ candidate, so I don't snip this time. On Thursday 20 January 2005 16:13, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:54:42 +, Lee wrote in message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-21 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Innis, I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file permission, capitalization, etc. I'm running linux. If you are running windows, perhaps there is a dos/unix line ending problem in one of the files?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-21 Thread Innis Cunningham
Curtis L. Olson writes Innis, I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file permission, capitalization, etc. I'm running linux. If you are running windows, perhaps there is a dos/unix line ending problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Innis Cunningham: Curtis L. Olson writes Innis, I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file permission, capitalization, etc. I'm running linux. If you are running windows, perhaps there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:38:49 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would tend to agree with you with one exception. The default C-172 is very functional, but it is not our best model. A nice thing about including multiple aircraft is you can see some different nice things that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:38:49 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would tend to agree with you with one exception. The default C-172 is very functional, but it is not our best model. A nice thing about including multiple aircraft is you can see some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 14:42, Jim Wilson wrote: getting an aircraft working is about 2 parts theory and 1 part voodoo (the part that the basic formulas don't cover). Best, Jim Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Sir Arthur C Clarke. Dave Martin

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:48:22 +, Dave wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 22:29, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Oh, and please, those who need to eat or feed their kids, please continue to do so. :-) Curt. I find it vaguely disturbing that you feel it is okay

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:54:42 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 20:23, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've got to disagree with you regarding linking to non-GPL'd aircraft. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 14:42, Jim Wilson wrote: getting an aircraft working is about 2 parts theory and 1 part voodoo (the part that the basic formulas don't cover). Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Sir Arthur C Clarke. Ok

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 16:13, Jim Wilson wrote: Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 14:42, Jim Wilson wrote: getting an aircraft working is about 2 parts theory and 1 part voodoo (the part that the basic formulas don't cover). Any sufficiently advanced technology is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 16:13, Jim Wilson wrote: Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 14:42, Jim Wilson wrote: getting an aircraft working is about 2 parts theory and 1 part voodoo (the part that the basic formulas don't cover). Any sufficiently

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Berndt
Ok wrong word. Let me just say that it seems to lack some magic. Setting up the p51d in Yasim was not my original intention as Jon S. Berdnt was claiming at the time I started the 3D that he had a nearly working JSBSim model. ... which I did. I thought. The more I looked at the numbers for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson wrote: Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 16:13, Jim Wilson wrote: Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 14:42, Jim Wilson wrote: getting an aircraft working is about 2 parts theory and 1 part voodoo (the part that the basic formulas don't cover).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread David Megginson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:42:40 -, Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably I've got this wrong, but isn't the c-172 our most refined/realistic flightmodel? My impression of yasim, from using it for the p51d, but not as an aero engineer, is that getting an aircraft working is about 2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson said: The biggest tradeoffs seemed to be in trying to balance high end performance, (e.g. altitude, speed) against having enough drag to get reasonable behavior at lower power settings. It seems pretty common for yasim models to glide too much (excessive lift/insufficient

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread David Luff
On 20/01/2005 at 10:55 Jon Berndt wrote: Ok wrong word. Let me just say that it seems to lack some magic. Setting up the p51d in Yasim was not my original intention as Jon S. Berdnt was claiming at the time I started the 3D that he had a nearly working JSBSim model. ... which I did. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 17:37, Jim Wilson wrote: Yes, I'm aware of the theory behind fixing these issues, but from the beginning I was compensating for them and getting reasonable thrust numbers (I think you are thinking of Vivian with the spitfire). On the last round Andy made some code

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 18:01, Dave Martin wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 17:37, Jim Wilson wrote: Yes, I'm aware of the theory behind fixing these issues, but from the beginning I was compensating for them and getting reasonable thrust numbers (I think you are thinking of Vivian with the

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-20 Thread Oliver C.
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 22:28, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:08:38 +, Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While it can make things difficult, or even impossible, one can't force people to use a licence. One can't tell people what to do... I don't think anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 20 January 2005 16:13, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:54:42 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 20:23, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've got to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 20 January 2005 16:45, Jim Wilson wrote: Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 16:13, Jim Wilson wrote: Dave Martin said: On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 14:42, Jim Wilson wrote: getting an aircraft working is about 2 parts theory and 1 part voodoo (the part

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
David Luff said: On 20/01/2005 at 10:55 Jon Berndt wrote: Ok wrong word. Let me just say that it seems to lack some magic. Setting up the p51d in Yasim was not my original intention as Jon S. Berdnt was claiming at the time I started the 3D that he had a nearly working JSBSim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:57, David Megginson wrote: You know, after reading some of the other comments, I'm starting to like the idea of having just the c172p in the base package. You should try helping clueless windows users to install scenery files in the IRC channel sometime. A lot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 19:45, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Dave Martin wrote: Aha! My mistake - it appears that the ASI in the b1900d is not pressure compensated. According to the GPS, the aircraft is achieving its expected GS of 270kts. Am I understanding that correctly? Yes, you have to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 19:47, Jim Wilson wrote: We'd be a lot further or at least I'd have accomplished more along the lines of 3D modeling and enhancing animation/rendering code if I hadn't spent so much time working on something I know hardly anything about (flight modeling). This isn't to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread David Megginson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:06:13 +, Dave Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get a compensated 'TAS' output to drive the ASI because I *think* the B1900D's ASI is compensated (but I must check) I'd be pretty incredibly surprised to see an ASI doing that. Some ASIs do have a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 20 January 2005 19:47, Jim Wilson wrote: David Luff said: On 20/01/2005 at 10:55 Jon Berndt wrote: Ok wrong word. Let me just say that it seems to lack some magic. Setting up the p51d in Yasim was not my original intention as Jon S. Berdnt was claiming

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Martin
On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 20:10, David Megginson wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:06:13 +, Dave Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get a compensated 'TAS' output to drive the ASI because I *think* the B1900D's ASI is compensated (but I must check) I'd be pretty incredibly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:57:48 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c172, c172-le, c172p, c172r, c172x - I don't have the energy to sort out the dependencies so throw it all in. We should try to sort them out and include just the C172p by default -- in any case,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:02:20 +0100, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that we have an aircraft download page I think that should be all that gets included. I just realized that the list didn't include any helicopter. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I just realized that the list didn't include any helicopter. Good point. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: I just realized that the list didn't include any helicopter. Quoting Curt: bo105 - I could say a lot of nice things, but why bother, it's our only helicopter so it has to be included anyway. Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson said: I know we can debate this endlessly so I hesitate to even bring this up, but are there any particular aircraft that absolutely, positively, must be in the base package. Now that we have a separate aircraft download page, there's no need to include every aircraft in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:07:22 -, Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I think I would have considered cutting the c310, even though it is the only light twin. The u3a cockpit was my very first 3D project and it really isn't too spiffy. It would be very nice to have a civilian c310

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson said: Christian Mayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the web page is comming along nicely! There's one thing that could be added: when you click on the thumbnail a normal sized picture should open. It also would be great if there'd be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Spott
Jim Wilson wrote: [...] It would be very nice to have a civilian c310 (maybe we should just repaint the u3a and call it a c310b?). To my knowledge there _is_ a civilian C310, at least there used to be one - no idea if it's still present, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Durk Talsma wrote: Another thought: There are some other hangar pages out there like the ones made by David Culp and Wolfram Kuss. Would it be an idea to add a link to these pages at the bottom of the aircraft download page? Presumably we can't merge these pages due to licence

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Oliver C.
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 17:25, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Durk Talsma wrote: Another thought: There are some other hangar pages out there like the ones made by David Culp and Wolfram Kuss. Would it be an idea to add a link to these pages at the bottom of the aircraft download page?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:57:48 -0600 Curtis L. Olson wrote: 737 - large commercial jet. Reasonably well done. Flies pretty well. Nice 2d panel with some simple glass elements. I like the 737 -- I've probably spent as much time with it as I have with the c172. I'm sure it's giving me bad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:21:39 +0100, Oliver wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's why i think we should refuse to advertise none GPL'd aircrafts and scenery addons for flightgear on the flightgear website. ..amen! -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 17:21, Oliver C. wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 17:25, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Durk Talsma wrote: Another thought: There are some other hangar pages out there like the ones made by David Culp and Wolfram Kuss. Would it be an idea to add a link to these

Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +, Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got to disagree with you regarding linking to non-GPL'd aircraft. The best a/c I've seen for M$FS have been done by people who want to ensure that their work remains free (as in free beer) but also want to make

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 19:41, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +, Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got to disagree with you regarding linking to non-GPL'd aircraft. The best a/c I've seen for M$FS have been done by people who want to ensure that

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft included in base package

2005-01-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Chris Metzler wrote: p51d - A classic WWII fighter ... also well done. Full 3d cockpit. Just out of curiosity, what remains to be done with the Spitfire? If it's in production, are there any reasons to favor it over the P-51, or vice versa? Nothing major remains to be done, although,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've got to disagree with you regarding linking to non-GPL'd aircraft. The best a/c I've seen for M$FS have been done by people who want to ensure that their work remains free (as in free beer) but also want to

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:05, Lee Elliott wrote: The control issue is more straightforward and it's easy to see how someone might get miffed if something they spent a lot of time making, so that they could give it away to people for free, is then used by someone else for their own

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:21:39 +0100 Oliver C. wrote: Personally i think that it is not a good idea to advertise aircrafts for FlightGear that are not free. Here's the reason why: Advertising none free aircrafts or scenery addons on the flightgear website could lead to a common behaviour

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:05:18 +, Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the user community will stomp out that kind of thing pretty fast, whatever we do about linking. It looks very newbie and shareware-ish. Heh! - Sorry, but I'm not sure exactly which bits will get stomped out

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Steven Beeckman
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:05, Lee Elliott wrote: The control issue is more straightforward and it's easy to see how someone might get miffed if something they spent a lot of time making, so that they could give it away to people for free, is then used by someone else

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:36:42 +0200, Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then some scumbag comes along and collects a whole lot of these free contributions, removes the credits, labels them as his own work, puts them onto a CDs and sells them for $30 - 50 profit. This has happened several

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 20:36, Paul Surgeon wrote: If the authors released their work as GPL those low lifes wouldn't even have to change the credits and what sort of recourse would the authors have then? Paul The authors would have no recourse then. If they had willingly licenced their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 20:23, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've got to disagree with you regarding linking to non-GPL'd aircraft. The best a/c I've seen for M$FS have been done by people who want to ensure that

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:02:10 +, Dave Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the authors released their work as GPL those low lifes wouldn't even have to change the credits and what sort of recourse would the authors have then? The authors would have no recourse then. Note that he said

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 20:42, David Megginson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:05:18 +, Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the user community will stomp out that kind of thing pretty fast, whatever we do about linking. It looks very newbie and shareware-ish. Heh!

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 20:59, David Megginson wrote: The redistributors either have to include the full original distribution, unmodified (including any README files, etc.) or else they have to provide a way to get it -- that tells their customers that there's a way to get the same stuff

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:02:10 + Dave Martin wrote: The authors would have no recourse then. If they had willingly licenced their work under the GPL, they are permitting anyone to make commercial use of their models / work providing that credit is not removed Just for clarification, you

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:59:07 -0500 David Megginson wrote: Note that he said that the changed the credit to hide the origin of the sounds: that violates the GPL. Yes, if the credit they're changing is in the accompanying copyright notice. No, if it's some statement of credit in an accompanying

Re: Licensing (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads)

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Martin
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 21:21, Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:02:10 + Dave Martin wrote: The authors would have no recourse then. If they had willingly licenced their work under the GPL, they are permitting anyone to make commercial use of their models / work providing

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