Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-24 Thread Tracy Martin
Dave wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping to catch up with you after you'd finished flying and discover what you thought of the helicopter dynamics, but missed you. I guess we've got some serious improvement to do. If you fly our helicopters occaisionally and tell us what is good and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-23 Thread Gunnstein Lye
On Thursday 22 April 2004 22:03, Tracy Martin wrote: Engine fails, lever fully down, adopt autorotation speed (depends on type flown and where the field is) keep nose into wind with pedal*, adjust rrpm ( depending on weight ) ...wait for the ground to get nearer, around 30 - 40' stick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-23 Thread David Luff
On 4/22/04 at 9:03 PM Tracy Martin wrote: . Wearing my helicopter flying/instructing hat :- ditto :) ... apart from the lack of real world autorotation. I don't usually have such a spectatular landing when practicing the real thing :) Single engine choppers glide quite nicely albeit to a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-23 Thread Phillip Jones
Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping to catch up with you after you'd finished flying and discover what you thought of the helicopter dynamics, but missed you. I guess we've got some serious improvement to do. If you fly our helicopters occaisionally and tell us what is good and bad about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I have an application in the pipeline where I'll need to play left engine sound out of the left speaker and right engine sound out of the right ... hopefully resulting in the proper effect when an engine goes out. As far as I know, this is impossible to do directly with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Apr 2004, at 09:24, Erik Hofman wrote: Go with SDL's sound support. SDL itself supports OpenAL giving best of both worlds. This is not quite right, I think; like OpenGL, SDL can use OpenAL, but it doesn't wrap the OpenAL API. In general, I think OpenAL would be a big improvement, not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Erik Hofman
James Turner wrote: On 22 Apr 2004, at 09:24, Erik Hofman wrote: Go with SDL's sound support. SDL itself supports OpenAL giving best of both worlds. This is not quite right, I think; like OpenGL, SDL can use OpenAL, but it doesn't wrap the OpenAL API. Yes, that's true. But in general I expect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
James Turner wrote: PS - Congrats to Jon Stockhill and co on a truly excellent demo of Flightgear at this year's Linux User Developer Expo, which I just got back from. I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Sounds like you guys had a big hit there, now all the Linux conventions are going

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread David Luff
On 4/22/04 at 8:49 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: James Turner wrote: PS - Congrats to Jon Stockhill and co on a truly excellent demo of Flightgear at this year's Linux User Developer Expo, which I just got back from. I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Sounds like you guys had a big

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: James Turner wrote: PS - Congrats to Jon Stockhill and co on a truly excellent demo of Flightgear at this year's Linux User Developer Expo, which I just got back from. I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Oooh yes, from several announcements I have the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Horler
I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Oooh yes, from several announcements I have the impresseion that the FlightGear setup in the Wasp is really the main attraction of the whole show ! Well I found several interesting things, the .org stand was worth a visit. Flightgear occupied most of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Tracy Martin
David Luff wrote We had a fantastic time :-) There were five of us there for the two days and it was great to meet the others for the first time and put a face to virtual identities. Having the stand in a helicopter in the main hall definately created much more of an impact than we would have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-22 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Thursday 22 Apr 2004 8:39 pm, Chris Horler wrote: Martin wrote: Curt wrote: I'm looking forward to the report. :-) Jon, Does the patch work? Or require a bit of modification? Maybe we might have to wait if Jonathon hasn't yet sent it. Cheers, Sorry, guys, I'm a bit behind the curve;

RE: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL - http://www.openal.org

2004-04-21 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: I have an application in the pipeline where I'll need to play left engine sound out of the left speaker and right engine sound out of the right ... hopefully resulting in the proper effect when an engine goes out. As far as I know, this is impossible to do