Re: [Flightgear-users] Some Ideas for the Installation and Getting Started Documentation

2003-01-17 Thread David Luff
On 1/17/03 at 12:33 PM Michael Selig wrote: At 1/17/03, Benjamin Lee Solosy wrote: In summary, a reasonable/working set of configure options might be: ./configure --with-network-olk --with-weathercm --with-plib=/usr/include/plib --with-metakit=/usr/local/src/SimGear-0.3.1/src-libs/metakit-2.4.3

Re: [Flightgear-users] flightgear compile error

2003-02-25 Thread David Luff
On 2/24/03 at 1:43 PM Louis Garcia wrote: Trying to compile on a RH8.X box: atis.cxx: In member function `void FGATIS::UpdateTransmission()': atis.cxx:168: `temp' undeclared (first use this function) atis.cxx:168: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears

Re: [Flightgear-users] I am no longer the only bird in the sky!

2003-04-04 Thread David Luff
On 4/3/03 at 9:16 PM Jonathan Gardner wrote: All I can say is wow! Flying from KEMT and seeing other planes taxiing and flying around was a bit of a jolt. Makes fgfs a little less like The Langoliers. ;-) Thanks! At the moment the one other plane in the sky doesn't really display much

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight Gear new user

2003-10-19 Thread David Luff
Rodrigo Gomes Flores writes: I´m using Win98. Couldn´t find fgrun in the flightgear directory, I tried to find using win98 localizer but same result. Also, are you sure fgfs --help --verbose is the correct spell to get help file? I got file didn´t find. Thanks anyway Yes, we really ought

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG hangs with INVALID type found error

2004-03-23 Thread David Luff
On 3/16/04 at 3:09 PM salela wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install Flightgear on Windows 2000 Professional. I'm using the latest build available on the download website ie. FlightGear 0.9.3. My hardware should be able to handle FlightGear. The program starts as it should and bring up the

Re: [Flightgear-users] How to set a default runway for an airport?

2004-04-15 Thread David Luff
On 4/15/04 at 11:37 AM Bernie Bright wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:25:56 +0100 David Luff wrote: The main problem with a custom procedures file for each airport isn't so much handling it - ATC/AI could be modified to load CYOW.xml if it exists and look for runways 22 circuit

RE: [Flightgear-users] How to set a default runway for an airport?

2004-04-15 Thread David Luff
On 4/15/04 at 8:47 AM Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote: I think I wasn't clear in my explanation. If I startup with --airport-id=SVMI --runway=9, it works fine, with the same behaviour if I change preferences.xml. This airport has to runways, 9 and 8, defined in that order in the database. My

[Flightgear-users] ANN: TaxiDraw-0.2 released

2004-10-12 Thread David Luff
TaxiDraw-0.2 is now released. This is a major new version - all users should upgrade. Get it from: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html The documentation at the above page has also been updated. Additionally, data files from TaxiDraw can now be submitted to myself (david dot

[Flightgear-users] TaxiDraw-0.2.2 released

2004-10-19 Thread David Luff
TaxiDraw-0.2.2 is now released. Versions 0.2.2 and 0.2.1 fix several serious bugs in v0.2.0 - all users should upgrade. TaxiDraw is available from http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html Changes are as below: * 0.2.2 *** Version 0.2.2 fixes several serious bugs

Re: [Flightgear-users] Outa the box and outa sight

2004-10-21 Thread David Luff
On 10/21/04 at 9:41 AM Chris Metzler wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:30:22 +0800 Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok here's the comparison.I have two boxes sitting side by side both have Windows 98SE.One is a 850 duron with a GF4MX440 64m with 256meg of main memory running FG 9.5.The

[Flightgear-users] TaxiDraw-0.2.4 released

2004-11-24 Thread David Luff
I've put TaxiDraw-0.2.4 up at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html. This is purely a bug-fix release - there is another version in the works with some more features. Changes from 0.2.3 to 0.2.4 are: * A bug that prevented proper undoing when moving or rotating taxiways using the

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation

2004-12-07 Thread David Luff
On 12/7/04 at 9:52 AM Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Ampere K. Hardraade -- Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:48: Perhaps it will be a good idea to think about having a config-file that is loaded everytime Flightgear starts? Good Idea. We could call it system.fgfsrc, or ~/.fgfsrc, or even

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tower in the middle of the runway

2004-12-09 Thread David Luff
On 12/9/04 at 5:56 PM Stephen wrote: Hi At KGMU there is a tower in the middle of the runway in the 0.9.7 scenery. I'm using Debian linux with a CVS version from after the 0.9.6 release. Should I use some virtual dynamite :-) or is there another way to get rid of it? That's a beacon.

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from AVSIM] Config file parseerror: C:/ProgramFiles/FlightGear/data/system .fgfsrc '--prop: encountered in XP

2004-12-12 Thread David Luff
On 12/12/04 at 3:55 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: M$FS has realism sliders that affect aircraft handling and they are set to noob by default. It works just fine and I don't see why we can't do the same. I personally have nothing against providing a helping hand, such as autorudder. However, I

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread David Luff
On 12/21/04 at 8:10 AM David Megginson wrote: http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ snip What a fantastic site :-) That's FlightGear/TaxiDraw coding down the drain for a while whilst I actually fly the plane for a change! Cheers - Dave This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee

Re: [Flightgear-users] Keyboard Keys not functioning

2005-01-04 Thread David Luff
Arthur Wiebe writes: I am running FlightGear 0.9.8-pre2 and the keboard keys for controlling the throttle are not working. (9 and 3) The manual says that num lock needs to be activated but there is no such thing with Apple. All new Mac's do not have num lock. Most older machines do though.

[Flightgear-users] TaxiDraw-0.3.0 released

2005-01-06 Thread David Luff
TaxiDraw-0.3.0 is now released. It can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html. The brief changelog is as follows: *** * libcurl is used for download instead of relying on the presence of wget. * Downloaded USGS images are used as multiple tiles

Re: [Flightgear-users] how do I disable 'dynamic' textures?

2005-01-27 Thread David Luff
On 26/01/2005 at 13:54 D Wysong wrote: Another question -- can I use plib to manage what I'm doing if my texture data is already in memory instead of in a file? I poked at the classes in ssg but all I found were load() methods that used filenames. I can write a class... but if it's already

Re: [Flightgear-users] OpenGL Flightgear and Mandrake 10.0

2005-02-02 Thread David Luff
On 02/02/2005 at 15:44 Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Guys This is my first attempt at building FG under Linux so please be kind.:-) I have a dual boot system using a 2G athalon and a Nvidia FX5200. When I run configure in Plib it says no openGL. My questions are. 1)Would Mandrake be using openGL

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: aborted

2005-02-07 Thread David Luff
Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please no CC. I'm subscribed! * Christian Bendele -- Monday 07 February 2005 22:33: Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Christian Bendele -- Monday 07 February 2005 22:03: #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfffeecc in ?? () You also have to *link* with

Re: [Flightgear-users] Cool photo

2005-02-18 Thread David Luff
On 17/02/2005 at 14:42 Josh Babcock wrote: Found a link to this on fark.com. http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=777174size=Lsok=photo_nr=prev_id= next_id= Incredibly, another photographer appears to have snapped the very same landing from a different perspective moments earlier:

[Flightgear-users] TaxiDraw-0.3.1 released.

2005-03-24 Thread David Luff
Hi folks, I've put another version of TaxiDraw up at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html This is primarily a bug-fix release - a couple of X-Plane format writing bugs are fixed so all users should upgrade. Changes from 0.3.0: * Runway shoulders are now preserved when exporting

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Airports runways and Radio

2005-04-08 Thread David Luff
On 07/04/2005 at 18:07 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * darko -- Thursday 07 April 2005 17:51: Thanks very much. I'll try all this stuff this evening. btw, I play on linux, I use win$ only here, at job. so I will surely use your scripts. OK, this script here will show you which frquencies to select

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Airports runways and Radio

2005-04-08 Thread David Luff
On 08/04/2005 at 11:10 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * David Luff -- Friday 08 April 2005 10:46: The ATIS and tower lists should be reasonably complete, since they're generated from the DAFIF, as is Robin's data. He might well have a number of user additions / corrections in there though

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Atlas problem

2005-04-08 Thread David Luff
On 08/04/2005 at 11:14 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * darko -- Friday 08 April 2005 10:57: and it made 3 little images filled with random colours... no maps created. You have to add the --headless option. Otherwise you get screen garbage (and that's a *feature*! ;-) Or run it with no

Re: [Flightgear-users] Adjusting Frequency on Com Radio

2005-08-01 Thread David Luff
Jason Dempsey writes: Now, do messages ever get transmitted in the game? I've noticed that I can get the weather and call signs of airports when flying near, but no messages from the tower. Not as of yet anyway. You can do basic, VFR, interaction with the tower when arriving by pressing the

[Flightgear-users] TaxiDraw-0.3.2 released

2005-08-16 Thread David Luff
TaxiDraw-0.3.2 has been released. This release is primarily to track changes in the X-Plane data format. TaxiDraw has also moved to SourceForge, and can now be found at http://taxidraw.sf.net. As a result, the latest code can now be obtained from CVS, hopefully making it easier for others to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Enabling AI traffic into patterns/loop

2005-09-21 Thread David Luff
Mike Rawlins writes: . Hi David, I enabled ai-traffic at level 3 and set comm1 to 119.0. Still did not see any other aircraft or hear anything after flying around the pattern at KSQL for 20 minutes. snip I've been sucessful in modifying some of David Culp's AI scenarios to

Re: [Flightgear-users] Enabling AI traffic into patterns/loop

2005-09-21 Thread David Luff
Mike Rawlins writes: Yes they are set. I usually confirm that setting these parameters in the preferences.xml file makes them show as checked in the menu. What version of FG and platform are you running on? v0.9.8 as checked out from CVS last week. OS is linux Fedora Core 2.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Enabling AI traffic into patterns/loop

2005-09-23 Thread David Luff
On 23/09/2005 at 08:53 Minot Opdyke wrote: Thanks, I'll try it. I did successfully enable ATC for my cessan as suggested going from KSFO to KSQL. However The AI comm text and the ATC comm text display in the exact same spot on the screen. One superimposed on the other, making for garbled

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

2005-10-04 Thread David Luff
On 04/10/2005 at 13:16 Kevin Jones wrote: OpenAL. According to the docs on the web page I need to install the Win32 version of OpenAL. I can see a directory that seems to have some files for MSVC but I can't see any inherent support for compiling under Cygwin. OK, that's your first problem

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

2005-10-04 Thread David Luff
On 04/10/2005 at 15:59 Frank Olaf wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: There are two approaches described here: html http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/flight_gear/mingwcross-compiler_writeup.cfm?sa ve=truepname=mingwcross-compiler_writeuppurlname=mingwcross-compiler_write upwname=flight_gear

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

2005-10-04 Thread David Luff
On 04/10/2005 at 16:06 AJ MacLeod wrote: And If you're going to the bother of building FG from source, personally I can't see many reasons to build 0.9.8 - the CVS tree needs testing, particularly on less-used but important platforms like Cygwin. Indeed, you're more likely to get cvs built

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building FlightGear in a Debian box

2005-10-06 Thread David Luff
Frederic Bouvier writes: Kitts a écrit : CL Then you need to decide if you are going to build CL SimGear-0.3.8/FlightGear-0.9.8 or SimGear-cvs/FlightGear-cvs i again updated to cvs with 'cvs update -dP' on flightgear data and source and simgear source before i built simgear. Again

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building FlightGear in a Debian box

2005-10-07 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: Glad you are up and running. Just so you know, you can download the ^ I think you meant can't !!! latest source code release (such as SimGear-0.3.8.tar.gz) and then run cvs update on that because the

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

2005-10-10 Thread David Luff
David Ginger writes: Last time I looked on the website for places to fly, all the suggestions seemed to be located in the usa. From a personal perspective, I have little in interest in flying around America. I would rather fly around the small islands in Scotland, or fly at

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Two simple questions offered

2005-10-17 Thread David Luff
On 17/10/2005 at 13:50 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 17 October 2005 11:00: A lot of airports have multiple frequencies e.g. for ATIS, and fgfs does AFAIK only listen to one of them. This may explain your experience. Tried it out, and I was wrong: all frequencies work,

Re: [Flightgear-users] noob question - erratic keyboard

2005-10-31 Thread David Luff
Shelton D'Cruz writes: Also how is it possible to 1. Communicate with Tower in a controlled airspace? Press ' (the same key as MSFS). You can tune the radios first either on the panel for from the equipment-radios dialog. Cheers - Dave ___

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG at cafepress

2005-11-22 Thread David Luff
Pigeon writes: Just came across this: http://www.cafepress.com/fgfs_gear Anyone knows who started it? I think it was John Check, who is no longer active in FG, but I could be mistaken. Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-27 Thread David Luff
Paul Duncan writes: Yeah, I think you're right. So, suppose we say start off with Cessna 172 at KSFO *without* the Nimitz scenario loaded. You need a given time as well, to count the lighting effects out. Suggest --timeofday=noon. You also need consistency in FSAA and anisotropic

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread David Luff
Andy Ross writes: Carsten Hoefer wrote: when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). Is this the airport? :

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread David Luff
Josh Babcock writes: David Luff wrote: Isn't one of the Nepalese ones with a big mountain at one end (Lukla?) effectively unidirectional due to the obstacle? It can't be, since you have to take off in the opposite direction that you land. A one direction runway would have you

Re: [Flightgear-users] full screen mode taked forever to update

2005-12-10 Thread David Luff
tj writes: Any idea as to what is wrong with full screen mode. I've seen that before with FG compiled against glut/freeglut on Linux - going to fullscreen mode breaks the hardware acceleration (binary nvidia drivers). I'm compiling against sdl now, and that works fine fullscreen. It's

Re: [Flightgear-users] full screen mode taked forever to update

2005-12-10 Thread David Luff
tj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am new to flight-gear and I have a question concerning full screen mode. I am running Linux witht eh latest nVidia drives for GeForce 4 MX integrated. My X screen size is 1280x1024. When I start flight gear normally and get a wndow everything works fine. But,