Re: [Flightgear-devel] git

2011-10-06 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Michael, On 30 Sep 2011, at 12:33, Michael Sgier wrote: Durk, I only saw now the lszh ai. How should I create such for other airports? The LSZH network was done by a very early version of taxidraw and misses a lot of features that were subsequently added. I still need to find some

[Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Some observations I've made in the last couple of days: * hardcoded terrain presampling: This seems to have died on me after the last pull (probably even earlier?) - currently all I get out is zero everywhere. Since geodinfo() is now 50 times faster than it used to be, falling back to the old

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Thorsten Some observations I've made in the last couple of days: * hardcoded terrain presampling: This seems to have died on me after the last pull (probably even earlier?) - currently all I get out is zero everywhere. Since geodinfo() is now 50 times faster than it used to be, falling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Unfortunately, we don't know what causes some properties to work and others not, just that this is the case. Maybe because some properties are directly tied to C++ variables and can't have a listener. Regards, -Fred

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Frederic Unfortunately, we don't know what causes some properties to work and others not, just that this is the case. Maybe because some properties are directly tied to C++ variables and can't have a listener. That is a reasonable theory, and one which we have tried to test - but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Thorsten Renk wrote: Some observations I've made in the last couple of days: * hardcoded terrain presampling: This seems to have died on me after the last pull (probably even earlier?) - currently all I get out is zero everywhere. Since geodinfo() is now 50

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: What specifically is the hardcoded terrain presampling? http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git/gitweb.pl?p=flightgear;a=blob;f=src/Environment/terrainsampler.cxx Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:22:18 thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: Some observations I've made in the last couple of days: * hardcoded terrain presampling: This seems to have died on me after the last pull (probably even earlier?) - currently all I get out is zero everywhere. Since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 06.10.2011 09:22, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: me observations I've made in the last couple of days: * hardcoded terrain presampling: This seems to have died on me after the last pull (probably even earlier?) - currently all I get out is zero everywhere. Since geodinfo() is now 50 times

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: FLCH-Mode or How to decouple Throttles from target-speed?

2011-10-06 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hello Syd, I did a DESCEND/CLIMB mode for the b1900d autopilot , and a few others that i never did commit , but have to admit I'm not sure what you mean by decoupling the throttle ... is there a controller in the autopilot file that's taking control of the throttle at the same time ?My

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread ThorstenB
On 06.10.2011 12:43, Vivian Meazza wrote: Maybe because some properties are directly tied to C++ variables and can't have a listener. That is a reasonable theory, and one which we have tried to test - but some tied variables seem to work while others don't: is this consistent with your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 06.10.2011 17:06, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: Am 06.10.2011 09:22, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: me observations I've made in the last couple of days: * hardcoded terrain presampling: This seems to have died on me after the last pull (probably even earlier?) - currently all I get out is zero

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread James Turner
On 6 Oct 2011, at 18:17, ThorstenB wrote: However, when someone writes to the tied property using the normal property interface (setprop in Nasal or via the C++ SGProperty::setValue methods), then property's change listeners should fire normally. So, it depends on how a value is changed.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default 3d clouds in Local Weather

2011-10-06 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:36 PM, I wrote: Yes - I've managed to repro the problem. My previous fix was insufficient. I've got another fix, that I think solves the problem, but unfortunately I've  got a bunch of simgear merge requests stacked up on gitorious right now, so it may be some time

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-06 Thread James Turner
On 4 Oct 2011, at 13:53, James Turner wrote: Of course, I can't confirm or deny that suspicion until I upgrade the writer code path too :) I've committed an updated BTG reader/writer to simgear/next, which supports the current format, and a higher-versioned format with 32-bit indices. Based

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-06 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:35 PM, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: I've committed an updated BTG reader/writer to simgear/next, which supports the current format, and a higher-versioned format with 32-bit indices. Based on some conversions, 32-bit indices (all zeroes so far) compress down

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: FLCH-Mode or How to decouple Throttles from target-speed?

2011-10-06 Thread syd adams
Ok , i didnt realize autothrottle was taking over... and yes the CitationX has no autothrottle .Im in the process of fixing these issues.I probably borrowed an autopilot file to adapt for the Citation and didnt clean it up. I dont think I understood how the FLC mode worked at the time either , but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: FLCH-Mode or How to decouple Throttles from target-speed?

2011-10-06 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hello Syd, Don't worry, don't get yourself into rush. I'm working on the Dornier Do328 TP/JET, which uses a version of the Autopilot System of the Citation X. At least the main functions are the same, that's why I noticed the issues. And digging into teaches me some new things. Thanks for your

[Flightgear-devel] Terragear and 2 Arc Second elevation data

2011-10-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Hi all Can terragear handle 2 arc second elevation data ? I read only about 1 arc and 3 arc data for the terragear toolchain. Cheers, Yves -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear and 2 Arc Second elevation data

2011-10-06 Thread Curtis Olson
You might need to do some work with the tool that chops up the dem's into TerraGear tile sizes. There are different terrain formats so you might need to adapt the code to read a different format as well. This part sounds like it should be pretty straightforward if you have clear docs for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 06.10.11 11:33, schrieb Vivian Meazza: We already adjust the greyness of the sea to reflect the overcast value. (It would also be nice if the visible weather in Global matched the description a bit better: we make the sea grey when it's overcast, but the sky is still mostly blue). This

[Flightgear-devel] nasal and javascript..

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Morgan
How does nasal works within the sim.. ? why we can not use a ecma scripting engine ? Can i Use javascript in FG, smells the smae almost... I can embed nasal within an xml tag?? Why can we use V8 which is a fast scripting engine.. its rumoured.. pete

[Flightgear-devel] autopilot frame rate

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Morgan
Would it be possible to make the autopilot work at a reliable freq.. The autopilot atmo in my suspicion is bound to a frame rate.. this explains why it wobbles on my low frame rate machine.. ie laoder card.. IMHO the autopilot.. should be set at a freq eg 10hz or less and fised inc calculation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A collection of issues

2011-10-06 Thread Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E.
On Oct 6, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Vivian Meazza wrote: So, how's it done in practice for weather reports? Is there a precise attenuation definition, or is it more or less guestimated? See http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFMAN15-111.pdf It is estimated by an observer,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-06 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: If someone could incorporate the revised sg_binobj.cxx from simgear/next into simgear-cs, and verify the results with terragear, I'd be fascinated to know if the 'swirlies' are gone! Will do, thanks a lot so far ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just