Re: [Flightgear-users] Windows FGv9.9 and FGTools

2005-11-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg Vollnhals wrote: As I am no core developer I am not sure whether they are alarmed by the number of user (4, 5, ?) who already mailed to the list with the same problem - FG 0.9.9 crash/hangup when started! This is very bad news :-( Indeed, it's shocking to see how many people did not

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG 0.9.9 problems on Windows Me, Azerty, nVidia

2005-11-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Eric Brasseur wrote: When the simulation starts I get 15 FPS which is normal on that PC. Once I circuit and turn towards the open sea, the frame rate drops suddenly to 3 FPS, which is quite harder to pilot. Turning the plane back towards plain land restores the frame rate but only after

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear 0.9.9 Crashing on startup

2005-11-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I have been using FlightGear since 0.9.4, and all previous versions of FlightGear ran fine on my old motherboard with i810. So, I'm sure his i845 would have no problem with FlightGear. I can bet that 0.9.8 would run fine on his machine while 0.9.9 doesn't. Did

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: freeglut 2.4.0/CVS and CVS fgfs problem

2005-11-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Sid Boyce wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Seems to be something in ~/.fgfsrc, without that file fgfs starts up OK and uses the CH yoke and pedals. I shall have to comment out stuff until --enable-clouds3d That one. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing

Re: [Flightgear-users] Whats a good web-site for uploading - OT - Apple

2005-11-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Dene Maxwell wrote: PS Still waiting for the address and instructions on somewhere I can put some samples. Sent me an email after the release of 0.9.9 and I will include it in the examples directory. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Sound on Linux systems

2005-11-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Kees Lemmens wrote: 3) Let FG run through artsd instead of directly to the soundcard (e.g. by using artsdsp fgfs . (Question : I am not sure if that is possible with OpenAL , can anyone comment on this ?) You can specify the following in the ~/.openalrc file (as one complete line):

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: I see the Spitfire smoke animation uses /sim/time/elapsed-sec, but I don't That should be sim/time/elapsed-sec which gets created for every single AIModel (not the missing leading slash). Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Dave Culp wrote: I see the Spitfire smoke animation uses /sim/time/elapsed-sec, but I That should be sim/time/elapsed-sec which gets created for every single AIModel (not the missing leading slash). Make that Note the missing leading slash) Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: Perhaps you could save the value sim/time/elapsed-sec when the submodel is created and then subtract that from the current sim/time/elapsed-sec whenever you wanted to know the age of that particular submodel. Then a little nasal to create another prop that the scale

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: I tried this. All submodels share the same elapsed time (the elapsed time of the first one created), so this doesn't work. Then it needs to be fixed. It has worked that way in the past. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Dave Culp wrote: I tried this. All submodels share the same elapsed time (the elapsed time of the first one created), so this doesn't work. Then it needs to be fixed. It has worked that way in the past. I see it's only available for ballistic AI objects, which shouldn't

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Dave Culp wrote: I tried this. All submodels share the same elapsed time (the elapsed time of the first one created), so this doesn't work. Then it needs to be fixed. It has worked that way in the past. I don't get it, ai-Run(dt) doesn't seem to be called anywhere

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: I don't get it, ai-Run(dt) doesn't seem to be called anywhere in the code, does adding it to FGSubmodelMgr::update solve the problem? Never mind, it's called in FGAIBallistic::update I think it should work properly as it is. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: But honestly, things would be much simpler using a little Nasal. Great, then we would have literally a thousand nasal interpreted scripts running for something as trivial as getting the time since creating, which in C is just as easy as adding dt to an internal value :-\

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Gerard ROBIN wrote: I have AI carrier exemple: Control on request elevators control when launch = Jet Blast Deflectors That would be more difficult to do on an AIModel basis, so I recommend to use global properties instead (and adding the leading slash back in). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation based on elapsed time

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: It doesn't AFAICT. It appears every bit of contrail is using one model, just drawn in a different place, so they all use the same animation instance. This would explain why they all appear to use the elapsed time of the first model? Hmm, there does seem to be something

[Flightgear-users] F-15 (Was: So what do you fly?)

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Gerard ROBIN wrote: The Su27 FDM will be a real problem, so i do use the Erik f15 FDM (good for F15 bad for Su27) Speaking of which, I've had a request for a better supported F-15 model. Does anybody want to take over maintaining that aircraft? The FDM should be really good, it just lags a

[Flightgear-users] WiKi (Was: So what do you fly?)

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi Shelton, Shelton D'Cruz wrote: I am going to test each aircraft and write down what is inadequate with that particular aircraft - from this I will put it in a HTML table format and will get it uploaded somewhere so everyone can see whats wrong with them and hence what needs to be done. So

Re: [Flightgear-users] So what do you fly?

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Shelton D'Cruz wrote: Hi Jon I would like to compile such a list so that newbies now exactly the status of each aircraft, however, others here don't think thats neccessary so I will give it a miss. Come on, don't give up that easily :-) While a compiled list of shortcomings doesn't

Re: [Flightgear-users] So what do you fly?

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: So I have some idea what time frame I might be working to do we know roughly when the next release is planed for. That's up to Curt to decide but is based on his free time. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: FlightGear CVS/Cygwin Install personnal offer

2005-11-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg Vollnhals wrote: Georg, come back to our time ASAP. It's still 2005 over here and we need all the time we can get. Thank you very much Erik - I really need *every* day of 2005 (if you knew my age it would be clear for you why ) but I'm actually sharing my PC with my son and in his

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling OpenAL under CygWin for Windows

2005-11-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Bill Galbraith wrote: I'm attempting to get FlightGear compiled on my Windows XP box. Before that, I had to get SimGear compiled, and before that, OpenAL. Can't seem to get OpenAL compiled and installed to SimGear's satisfaction. When I run ./configure for SimGear-0.3.8, I get the message

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: FlightGear CVS/Cygwin Install personnal offer

2005-11-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg, come back to our time ASAP. It's still 2005 over here and we need all the time we can get. Erik (Or in other words, your date is set to 2006) ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem running fgfs (0.9.8)

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Shelton D'Cruz wrote: Hi I have removed the previous version of FG and have got the packages for FG (mandrake 10.1) but now when I execute fgfs I get the following error message: Adding subsystem environment Adding subsystem lighting Initializing OpenAL sound manager /usr/games/fgfs:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem running fgfs (0.9.8)

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Shelton D'Cruz wrote: Hi Erik Well 0.9.4 works fine - does it not use OpenAL ?? Nope, it's used plib's SL library. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem running fgfs (0.9.8)

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Shelton D'Cruz wrote: I will look into it further, It says I have OpenAL installed but obviously not. Hmm, does Mandrake supply a separate alut library, if so you will need to install alut also. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem running fgfs (0.9.8)

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Kees Lemmens wrote: PS : isn't it a good idea to ask permission to integrate openal into flightgear and store the lib in the distro tree (as in the example above) ? It may save a lot of novices a LOT of time :-) We don't do that for the samee reason why we don't, include Mesa3D in SimGear.

Re: [Flightgear-users] cockpit sound

2005-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: Is it possible to make engine sounds quieter when the canopy is closed? Is it possible to have the engine sound different when you are in front of the intake and can hear the compressor, than when you are nearer the exhaust and hear the roar of the nozzle more? Yes, I did

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear article spotted in .au

2005-10-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: The article says, among other thigns: Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and

Re: [Flightgear-users] X-Plane/FlightGear Aircraft

2005-10-17 Thread Erik Hofman
T J wrote: Is it possible to download aircraft models designed for use with X-Plane (any version) and use them in FlightGear? It would be good if you could do this. If somebody knows how to add X-Plane Aircraft to FlightGear, could they please tell me what to do. No this isn't possible.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Gerard ROBIN wrote: did i missed anything between your answer to Harald and my last answer to you ? Probably not :-) This might be a good approach, it's just difficult to determine when to start displaying the model without running all scenarios all the time. Getting this optimized would be

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-17 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If several authors produce several tutorials and howtos, several smallish HTML files linked off a central index page gives the widest access to these efforts. Which is presumably the object of the excersize. Hmm, Ok you've convinced me. HTML it is. But I would like

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: in the sense that we can set properties and add some script that is executed the first time the tile is loaded. That would certainly be a start, but another thing I am aiming at is ferries crossing a river or a lake at the appropriate time schedule. With this approach

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod wrote: That looks really excellent! Finally we have two cohesive tutorials to point complete flying newbies to that are written with FG in mind (there are a reasonable number of these folk turn up on the IRC channel now and again) Actually, we have three (at least0. In the Docs

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Actually, we have three (at least). Actually, there's four: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Tutorials/circuit/ Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOOO! not more pdf! pdf is closed , proprietary difficult to modify, huge and generally bad. So what do you suggest as a cross-platform alternative? (And don't mention OpenOffice since it hasn't been ported to many platforms and is way overkill for just reading

[Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the aircraft carrier scenario? We could set it up in an orbit over the carrier at 5000 feet. Actually, this triggers something else I've been thinking of. Right now all scenario's take place at KSFO. If we

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Gerard ROBIN wrote: Right, we cannot get the good scenario according to the place we are. I don't use AI surrounding KSFO, instead of it i did create some AI: Helicopter (bo105 hello Melchior) flying over mont Ventoux and Nimitz Cruising in mediterranean Sea not far from Nice (from Nice we

Re: [Flightgear-users] mem leaks ?

2005-10-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Just as a heads up, Mathias has sent me a patch containing a number of memory leak fixes that where tracked down by valgrind. I hope I can commit it later today. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling simgear/flightgear in mingw/msys

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Frank Olaf wrote: metar.cxx: In member function `void SGMetar::useCurrentDate()': metar.cxx:162: error: `gmtime_r' undeclared (first use this function) metar.cxx:162: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) I think I have this fixed in CVS

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling simgear/flightgear in mingw/msys

2005-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Frank Olaf wrote: Thanks, that was impressively quick. The compilation now cleanly passes the point in question, but it now holds on a different error that also seems to be related to pthreads. The error message is quite correct, there is no config.h in the same directory as pthread.h.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Request: How to compile FGFS on Win32 + Cygwin

2005-10-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: It was removed to allow landing on carriers - you can have one or the other but not both right now. I believe (but I'm not 100% sure) that the deck of an AC has to be declared solid in the configuration files, so in theory both should be possible. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Appealing to MS Windows community

2005-10-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Heh:) ...the number of times I wish I had the wherewithal to make an animation tool - something that would allow me to test and reload model animations without having to run full FG to test each change. Especially something that would allow me to test undercarriage

Re: [Flightgear-users] Request: How to compile FGFS on Win32 + Cygwin

2005-10-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Kevin Jones wrote: OK. I use Win32 and I have Cygwin. How do I compile FGFS in this environment? Is there a cygwin compile guide? There are two approaches described here: html

Re: [Flightgear-users] Interface of simulink with FG98

2005-09-30 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Matlab 7 R14 installed including the aerospace blockset v1.6 which contains a demo model which apparently interfaces with Flightgear. The documentation says... Copy the HL20 folder from matlabroot\toolbox\aeroblks\aerodemos directory to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Does anyone know of an f16-specific autopilot?

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Matkovic wrote: Erik, What is your opinion on attempting to use the YF-23 autopilot with the F16? It would be great to have a working autopilot for the F-16. For me it doesn't matter if it comes from the YF-23 or for the J3cub :-) Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using the generic protocol for playback with playback.xml

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Has anyone else used the playback.xml generic protocol for replay? To be honest this was just a test configuration file to test the input capabilities when I wrote the generic protocol. It was meant to be extended for real playback at a later date. I guess no-one

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using the generic protocol for playback with playback.xml

2005-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: For a test configuration file, it works pretty well. I'm impressed. I'll have a look at enhancing it. Will I be able to simply add new parameters to the xml file and have them read/written appropriately, or will I need to write some C code? No, that's the main reason

Re: [Flightgear-users] Does anyone know of an f16-specific autopilot?

2005-09-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Matkovic wrote: If there's an F16-specific autopilot for flightgear, could you please let me know where I could get it? I've been using the generic autopilot without a great deal of success, obviously. The work I am involved in requires a JSBSim aircraft like the F16. Unfortunately,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Help with 1900D Files

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Hofman
T J wrote: How do I get the updated files? From the Aircraft Download Page, the files are not updated. No, and there is a good reason for that, the latest files might not work properly with previous versions of FlightGear (because of changed animations types and configuration file formats

Re: [Flightgear-users] Updating v0.9.8 via CVS

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Mike Rawlins wrote: I'm considering doing an update of my version 0.9.8 which I installed after its release in February. At that time I installed plib, simgear, and FG through CVS checkout of source and data to my system running linux (FC2). The previous few full installs (configure, make,

Re: [Flightgear-users] 1900D Progress

2005-09-13 Thread Erik Hofman
T J wrote: How is the 1900D? Is the update posted yet? It's in CVS, yes. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-users] aircraft control

2005-09-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Rick Simmons wrote: So far I have been unable to attain straight and level flight. Using keyboard control I find the rudder will not return to centre, also the cesna needs constant correction to prevent veering to left on take off. I have tried several parameters i.e. :- fgfs

Re: [Flightgear-users] wrong way for my plane

2005-08-30 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how change it to put the fuselage in the road's axis ! You will need to create a model animation file that references you original model file and rotation offset. This file gets included from your -set.xml file: Here is the animation model.xml file (which needs to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Logging feature in FlightGear

2005-08-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Dan Zelazo wrote: Hello all, I am currently running FlightGear 0.9.2 and am trying to make sense of the Logging option in the File menu. It appears from the menu that you can log aircraft states (like attitude, rates, etc.) to a .csv file. I can't seem to find any .csv files and have not

Re: [Flightgear-users] setting up the FDM

2005-08-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Since this is a JSBSim only question I've forwarded this to the jsbsim mailinglist. I would advise you to subscribe to that list also: http://jsbsim.org/ http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jsbsim-devel Erik bass pumped wrote: Hi all, Could someone give me a better idea on how the

Re: [Flightgear-users] licensing question

2005-08-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:54:42 +0200, Erik wrote in message Every once in a while I work on a small project where it could be important to get it widely accepted. In such case BSD the the license of choice. ..this used to be a wise advice in pretty much the same sense it

[Flightgear-users] Weather makers

2005-08-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I drove through Germany a few days ago and there I discovered they are the ones responsible for the weather! Cloud generation: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/images/hpim3791.jpg Wind generation: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/images/hpim3794.jpg No wonder it's cloudy in The Netherlands

Re: [Flightgear-users] licensing question

2005-08-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: It doesn't really seem to make sense to release aircraft under the GPL as they aren't really source code. If an aircraft were released under the Creative Commons license, would it be compatible enough to be part of the base package? Or does GPL work fine? GPL works fine,

Re: [Flightgear-users] slow framerates with Nvidia PICExpress underLinux solved !

2005-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: I'm not sure that the PAPI/VASI lights are the problem. The FLOLS on the carrier does the same job and they are quite vertex intensive, but don't pull the frame rate down noticeably. The difference is that the runway lights are modeled using GL_POINT_SMOOTH instead of

Re: [Flightgear-users] slow framerates with Nvidia PIC Express under Linux solved !

2005-07-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Kees Lemmens wrote: But ... yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA-7667 driver and now Flightgear works perfectly well on this system ! I even can use 1280x1024 and still have high framerates without any noticable hickups ! It looks like they use FlightGear now to test their drivers :-)

Re: [Flightgear-users] SimGear compile problem

2005-07-19 Thread Erik Hofman
John Matro wrote: I can't compile SimGear-0.3.8 on my Mandrake 10.1 Linux system. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I ran the ./configure okay. But when I run 'make check' it ends with an error. The last few lines of the screen display are below (I added some blank lines for

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling FlightGear

2005-07-17 Thread Erik Hofman
scott wrote: Well, now the next problem. The error occurs during the make of the SimGear. This is the tailing code snippet: In file included from sgstream.hxx:47, from sgstream.cxx:35: ../../simgear/misc/zfstream.hxx:33:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory This one is

Re: [Flightgear-users] aerosim and flightgear

2005-07-16 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all I am trying to run on a pc flightgear, and on the other, matlab executing the aerosim blockset. Firstly, the c172 blocksets do not have a flight gear interface. The blockset that does have an interface is aerosonde, but flightgear does not have a aersonde

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: FlightGear server field test

2005-07-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Pigeon wrote: And speaking of FlightGear server, does anyone know what's going on with http://fg-server.sourceforge.net/ ? Nothing much for over two years. It's just one of five or six attempts to create a multiplayer engine for FlightGear. None of them (except the current

Re: [Flightgear-users] Pixel Details

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Hofman
iswarya damodharan wrote: Sir, I am using Flight Gear and I am using terra gear only for scenery database. I have downloaded the sceneries from the world map provided by flight gear.You have not mention the pixel resolution. I would like to know how many meters does a single pixel represent.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Pixel Details

2005-07-13 Thread Erik Hofman
C Ridley - OnCall Solutions wrote: I would hope we do not nit pick our non-English speaking friends. Hey, I'm not blaming anybody, I just cautiously tried to explain something. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Hardware requirements

2005-07-09 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod (email lists) wrote: On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 03:58, James Vahn wrote: Pick something for me at http://zipzoomfly.com in the $50 range, if you'd be so kind. Hmm. I know there are plenty of people here with far better technical knowledge of 3D graphics and the relative merits of

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compile flightgear fails

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Dirk Vornheder wrote: Compile latest flightgear version from cvs fails: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to `ulSetError(ulSeverity, char const*, ...)' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compile flightgear fails

2005-07-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Dirk Vornheder wrote: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to `ulSetError(ulSeverity, char const*, ...)' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../libplibnet.so: undefined reference to `ulStrDup(char const*)' I've updated the Makefile in that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error in Simgear compile

2005-07-04 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: While compiling Simgear on Fedora core 3 (and core 4 earlier in the evening) I keep encountering this error: I've committed a fix for this a few minutes ago. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] a few questions about the f16

2005-06-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Bernhard Auzinger wrote: Hi everybody, when flying the f16 in a dive with full thrust, the elevator begins to bounce up and down at about 800 knots. But why? Is it the fly-by-wire system of the f16, which is holding the a/c in a stable flight attitude? Or is it a failure in the Model? It

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: the nimitz_demo HOW??

2005-06-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Josh, I'm right with you on this one. As I said, we shouldn't unnecessarily muck about with users' preferences, keyboards, joysticks, or whatever. David has a good point too: many user's will never find the refuelling, thermal or carrier stuff. I wonder how many users know

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Joystick setup

2005-06-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: against CVS/HEAD to one of the other developers. (Erik is always happy about post. ;-) You can also send the diff to the developers list (if it isn't too Bah :-) Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Elevator Angle

2005-06-23 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the extreme angles to which the elevator, or any other control surface for that matter, can deflect, for example between 25 and -15 degrees. The internal browser shows the input to the those surface positions from -1 to 1. I looked at the aircraft xml

Re: [Flightgear-users] fgfs as a Ground Control System?

2005-06-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Kitts wrote: CL I would just run with --fdm=null and pass in the CL data that you do have. Optionally you can compute estimates for things CL you don't have just to make the display prettier. Optionally i can compute? How? Is it not the FDM that does all that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: the --jpg-httpd option

2005-06-15 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've another question about flightgear. I'm playing it with my roomate in multiplayer mode and we are currently trying to fly some formation. But with the faster aircrafts (f16, YF-23) we sometimes lose each other and it takes a long time to get together again. So I

Re: [Flightgear-users] the --jpg-httpd option

2005-06-14 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does somebody know, what I have to do to be able to use the --jpg-httpd option (screenshots via http-server) with flightgear? Starting fgfs with that option doesn't work for me. I only get a message, that this option doesn't even exist. This sounds as if

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote Joystick use

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Hi all, I want to use a joystick from a remote system to control an aircraft on flightgear. I need the data to be sent to flightgear via UDP. My question is, how do I setup flightgear to receive the commands from a remote joystick? Do I use joy-client or jsclient? Or is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote Joystick use

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: That probably hasn't been tested for many years ... I wrote that up for a quick demo once. If you can get it to work great, otherwise if you are starting from scratch, you might be just as well off to use native-ctrls. Ehm, I meant the js_server program located in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Remote Joystick use

2005-06-09 Thread Erik Hofman
bass pumped wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the quick replies!!! Ehm, I meant the js_server program located in FlightGear/utils/js_server instead. I had read about that in the documentation and wanted to have a go at it... ummm... maybe I'm wrong... but I don't see the utils directory in the

Re: [Flightgear-users] AC3D Tutorials

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Bill Galbraith wrote: *WARNING!* These files are huge, and take a LONG time to download, even with a fast Internet connection. The entire series is 950 Meg. Holycows, indeed. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Query:How to install in Linux?

2005-06-02 Thread Erik Hofman
iswarya damodharan wrote: Hai I am Iswarya from ADA.We are running FlightGear in Windows OS.We would like to run Flight Gear in Linux OS. How to install in Linux OS the FlightGear.What are the packages and downloads required to use FlightGear in Linux OS. It really depends on your

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6

2005-05-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Kees Lemmens wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:07, Erik Hofman wrote: ... In my install, I have most of the files and directories (airport, aircraft, etc) in /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear so I thought it is the fg-root; in fact, in this directory, there is also that version file

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6

2005-05-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Patrick Augereau wrote: Ok; this is something that isn't clear for me; what is exactly the data directory ? The data directory is the directory that (shouls) contain all the cross-platform data files of FlightGear, like the Aircraft directory, the gui directory, etc. In my install, I have most

Re: [Flightgear-users] frame rate lower at higher screen resolution (etc.)

2005-05-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Mike Rawlins wrote: A google search on flightgear and frame rate gave me a posting that suggested trying these options that have been shown to increase frame rate by ~300% (over default settings, as tested on SGI): --control=mouse --disable-intro-music --disable-random-objects --disable-sound

Re: [Flightgear-users] newbie needs help

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Currently i wish to have some property values outputted out of the serial port and have some other property values inputted through the same serial port. How do i do that? Have two separate protocol files and configure them as in and out respectivesly

Re: [Flightgear-users] newbie needs help

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Kishore wrote: Howdy Fellas' I am a newbie to FlightGear and am impressed by its performance. My greetings to all the developers and everyone associated with the projects development. I have a few queries about the generic I/O protocol. A quick Google search informed be that the protocol can

Re: [Flightgear-users] Input-Output native-fdm

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Ozan Mahir Alpagut wrote: i've got flightgear 0.9.6 installed. i run fgfs with these parameters fgfs.exe --fg-root=C:\FlightGear\data --fg-scenery=C:\FlightGear\data\Scenery --airport-id=KSFO --aircraft=ComperSwift --control=keyboard --disable-splash-screen --disable-intro-music

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: version 0.9.8

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: If you haven't seen the most recent JSBSim Newsletter, there is an article there that you might find interesting about connecting JSBSim to Matlab/Simulink. The next issue will be getting put together shortly, and there will likely be a surprise in that issue. A pleasant

Re: [Flightgear-users] Synchronising more than 2 instances of Flightgear

2005-03-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Or you can use the --native= option once with the broadcast address. Be cautious here, I've read somewhere that Windows by default doesn't listen to the broadcasts address anymore since a particular version (I don't know which one, but I believe XP). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] in debian ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context

2005-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Jimmy Ott wrote: i'm running debian sid, with dri drm from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-unstable/ my laptop has an ATI IGP 340M graphic card. tuxracer works perfectly with opengl, only fgfs shows me the message ssgInit called without a valid OpenGL context. This is often caused

Re: [Flightgear-users] Hardware and OS performance for FlightGear

2005-02-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Miles Gazic wrote: I'm starting plans for setting up a simulator lab at work using FlightGear. I've got my company's sim to output native-fdm style messages, and when I run FlightGear with --native-fdm=socket --fdm=external, our sim drives FlightGear without problems. The next step is to decide

Re: [Flightgear-users] Okay ... who was it?

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I'll find out anyway. I can't stand people borrowing things from me and returning them like *that*! http://members.aon.at/mfranz/exhibit_A.jpg Hmm, this morning it was still in one piece ... and it was still painted yellow. Any chance the military may have something to do

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error loading scenery in 0.9.4

2005-02-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Nick Coleman wrote: You may be better posting to the flightgear-devel mail list. On the face of it, I don't see why your FDM won't work with the current version (0.9.8); it's only networking after all. The problem is that every now and then the struct that is sent over the network is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Generic Output Question...

2005-02-13 Thread Erik Hofman
David Edwards wrote: I'm using v0.9.8 of FlightGear under Windows 2000, and am trying to get FG to log position and heading information to a file using the --generic option. (OK, it being windows, I'm using the GUI tool to select this, rather than the command line...) For some reason, FG is

Re: [Flightgear-users] DATCOM error

2005-02-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Bill Galbraith wrote: I've been working on a DATCOM+ model for the A380, and discovered one of those pain in the butt errors, that caused MAJOR problems all due to one bad letter. I don't have a DATCOM user's group estabilshed, but I know a number of people on this list are using my DATCOM

Re: [Flightgear-users] Select airport from list

2005-02-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Ron Lange wrote: Hi, are the nescessary scenery files also downloaded and installed? FlightGear is delivered only with the w130n30 scenery tile. That's not the real problem. There was a software problem/bug in plib that is triggered by FlightGear. The next release should have this fixed. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Segmentation Fault - Fedora Core 3 2.6.10

2005-02-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Doug Webb wrote: I noticed that when I run configure in the FlightGear folder it can't find a library containing the function hid-init but otherwise it succeeds. Is that function necessary for FG to run? Only on BSD. I'm not aware of any other platform that needs it.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Segmentation Fault - Fedora Core 3 2.6.10

2005-02-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Doug Webb wrote: I ran the update program for Fedora Core 3 which updated the kernel, glibc and a few other things. Now FG will build but when I try to run it I get Segmentation Fault. I get the splash screen, a notice FG can't find the default runway then the Segmentation Fault. It doesn't get

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