Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 01:15, Alex Romosan wrote: i noticed something even stranger. for me, if the aircraft file matches the directory name then i can load it using --aircraft=aircraft syntax (tried it with f16, f-14b, b1900d and some others). if it doesn't (p61 and x35) then i get: Cannot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread Roland Haeder
Hi James, for me, updated GIT version from this morning, the p61 works fine. :) But BTW: --show-aircraft gives me a strange listing: - SNIP --- Available aircraft: 14bis-set.xml14bis Santos DUMONT 21-set.xml Santos Dumont N 21 Demoiselle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 08:02, Roland Haeder wrote: But BTW: --show-aircraft gives me a strange listing: - SNIP --- Available aircraft: 14bis-set.xml14bis Santos DUMONT 21-set.xml Santos Dumont N 21 Demoiselle 707-set.xml Boeing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jul 2010, at 23:14, James Turner wrote: I get the same parsing error in Linux if a Aircraft-Directory is linked (Soft- Link) to fgdata/Aircraft. If I copy this Aircraft-Directory directly into fgdata/Aircraft everything works fine. A few days ago the linked Aircraft was still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread Alan Teeder
Debugging on my windows boxes fg_init.cxx line 21 is reached. if (_foundPath.str().empty()) { SG_LOG(SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT, Cannot find specified aircraft: aircraft ); return false; aircaftDir is {path=C:/Flightgear/fgdata/Aircraft} aircraft is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 09:24, Alan Teeder wrote: Debugging on my windows boxes fg_init.cxx line 21 is reached. if (_foundPath.str().empty()) { SG_LOG(SG_GENERAL, SG_ALERT, Cannot find specified aircraft: aircraft ); return false; aircaftDir is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather conditions and winds aloft not working correctly..

2010-07-21 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi Curt, I have checked the submodel wind. The calculations appear to be correct, and submodels seem to move in the direction indicated by the windsock. So if there's an error there it's at least consistent. Using submodels as contrails (which doesn't give a particularly good appearance) they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather conditions and winds aloft not working correctly..

2010-07-21 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curt, A further update - here is the error illustrated: ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk:2121/flightgear/Particles/particle-wind.jpg The red spheres are submodels with wind activated. I would say that they are reacting as expected. The contrail consists of particles with wind activated. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread Alan Teeder
-- From: James Turner zakal...@mac.com Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:51 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search On 21 Jul 2010, at 09:24, Alan Teeder

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 11:40, Alan Teeder wrote: and the result was: fgFindAircraftInDir: no such path:C:/Flightgear/fgdata/Aircraft Single stepping the debugger showed that fopen in simgear SGPath::exists() failed. Interesting - I only discovered this morning that SGPath::exists() uses

[Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph

2010-07-21 Thread Chris Baines
Hello, Can I just ask what version of OpenSceneGraph is required to compile and run Flightgear/Simgear (v2.0.0). The release page suggests that any version will do however newer versions =2.9.6 will run better but is this the case? Will the latest stable release of OpenSceneGraph (2.8.3) do?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 14:01, Chris Baines wrote: Can I just ask what version of OpenSceneGraph is required to compile and run Flightgear/Simgear (v2.0.0). The release page suggests that any version will do however newer versions =2.9.6 will run better but is this the case? Will the latest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aircraft search

2010-07-21 Thread Alex Romosan
James Turner ja...@bugless.co.uk writes: Can you email me what you get for --show-aircraft? (off list, is best) fgfs --show-aircraft Available aircraft: (that is nothing). this on linux. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather conditions and winds aloft not working correctly..

2010-07-21 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Vivian Meazza wrote: Curt, A further update – here is the error illustrated: ftp://abbeytheatre2.org.uk:2121/flightgear/Particles/particle-wind.jpg The red spheres are submodels with wind activated. I would say that they are reacting as expected. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] weather conditions and winds aloft not working correctly..

2010-07-21 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi Curt, and Torsten My initial investigations have turned up this in environment_mgr.cxx : osg::Vec3 windVec(-_environment-get_wind_from_north_fps(), -_environment-get_wind_from_east_fps(), _environment-get_wind_from_down_fps());

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crashes on reset/re-position

2010-07-21 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi James, On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 05:39:08 pm James Turner wrote: My hypothesis is that something in the AI-Traffic code doesn't like being re-positioned; if I reset/re-position very rapidly, I don't usually crash, whereas if I wait 20-30 seconds at a location, before re-positioning, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crashes on reset/re-position

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 18:47, Thorsten wrote: My hypothesis is that something in the AI-Traffic code doesn't like being re-positioned; Maybe related to issue #133 in bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=133 The AI code corrupts memory when the plane leaves

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crashes on reset/re-position

2010-07-21 Thread James Turner
On 21 Jul 2010, at 19:37, Durk Talsma wrote: My hypothesis is that something in the AI-Traffic code doesn't like being re-positioned; if I reset/re-position very rapidly, I don't usually crash, whereas if I wait 20-30 seconds at a location, before re-positioning, the crash is much more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crashes on reset/re-position

2010-07-21 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 08:42:49 pm James Turner wrote: The old code. I'm going to try Thorsten's patches in #133, but a related question - could we not make --disable-atcdcl the default? (I.e, --enable-atcdcl instead) I'm actually strongly considering this; however, the current

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crashes on reset/re-position

2010-07-21 Thread Dave
James Turner wrote: On 21 Jul 2010, at 19:37, Durk Talsma wrote: My hypothesis is that something in the AI-Traffic code doesn't like being re-positioned; if I reset/re-position very rapidly, I don't usually crash, whereas if I wait 20-30 seconds at a location, before re-positioning, the

[Flightgear-devel] plib 1.6.0?

2010-07-21 Thread HB-GRAL
Hi all Can someone please delete 'docs-mini/README.plib' in 'next' or all branches where you need plib = 1.8.4? Thanks- Yves -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G