[Flightgear-users] Re: IRC

2006-02-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Monday 13 February 2006 12:01: What client do I need? An IRC client? :-) See http://www.google.com/search?q=free+irc+clients For example: http://www.xchat.org/. On Linux/BSD you should have several available already. m.

[Flightgear-users] Re: Error finding base package after new CVS install 0.9.9

2006-02-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mike Rawlins -- Friday 17 February 2006 16:39: #6 0x0852ee27 in readXML ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at easyxml.cxx:268 #7 0x0851b77a in readProperties ([EMAIL PROTECTED], start_node=0x0, default_mode=0) at props_io.cxx:327 #8 0x0832a30b in FGInput::_scan_joystick_dir

[Flightgear-users] Re: b737

2006-02-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Didier -- Sunday 19 February 2006 22:15: is anybody work on new textures for the b737-300? This guy here has some very nice textures for the 'old' 737. Don't know if they work for the new, too: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_mesgforum=198topic_id=1108mesg_id=1401 m.

[Flightgear-users] ANN: freq update (frequency table generation)

2006-02-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Mike told me that freq wouldn't work any more. I hadn't used it in a while myself and missed the navdb format changes. I've now uploaded a new version: New, for fgfs 0.9.9: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/freq_0.9.10 [7 kB] Old and unchanged, for fgfs = 0.9.9):

[Flightgear-users] Re: Unsubscribing...

2006-02-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Paul Duncan -- Tuesday 28 February 2006 20:33: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users But I can't see anything on there about unsubscribing. To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery modes, get a reminder of your password, or ***unsubscribe***

[Flightgear-users] Re: Object sizes, controls for UFO

2006-03-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 15 March 2006 16:07: $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --prop:/models/model/path=Models/Airport/radar.xml I changed that in cvs. Use: $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --prop:cursor=Models/Airport/radar.xml m. --- This SF.Net

[Flightgear-users] Re: Help! Cannot see my OBJECT_STATIC

2006-03-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Thursday 16 March 2006 20:46: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: 1. The coordinates are 45.318967N and 75.670182E (in tile 1712593.stg) [...] 4. The diff between 1712593.stg.ORIG and 1712593.stg is this one line added: OBJECT_STATIC myObject.ac -075.670182 45.318967 0 180

[Flightgear-users] Re: Help! Cannot see my OBJECT_STATIC

2006-03-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thursday 16 March 2006 19:23: 2. FG_SCENERY=/ob/yavuz/fgYoScenery:/usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery:/ob/fgWorldScenery My guess is that this (correct) scenery path isn't correctly set. Either not exported, or overridden by an --fg-scenery option (~/.fgfsrc ?) m.

[Flightgear-users] Re: Help! Cannot see my OBJECT_STATIC

2006-03-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 17 March 2006 10:47: In CVS and later versions your suggestion won't work at all, because now scanning of further stg files is stopped after a *.btg file has been found in one of the FG_SCENERY paths. I take that back. As the last FG_SCENERY path contains the first

[Flightgear-users] Re: Help! Cannot see my OBJECT_STATIC

2006-03-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Friday 17 March 2006 11:24: After my opinion he has *not* set the *pathes* to the myObject.ac model Shouldn'd it read like OBJECT_STATIC Models/[WhereEverItisIn]/myObject.ac xxx ??? No. OBJECT_STATIC paths are relative to the directory where the tile resides,

[Flightgear-users] Re: Help! Cannot see my OBJECT_STATIC

2006-03-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Friday 17 March 2006 11:33: Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 11:24 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: They aren't. Can you provide an FG_SCENERY layout and --log-level=info logs that indicate that an Objects/ dir is skipped? I try to reproduce this and provide more info when I get home

[Flightgear-users] Re: irc.flightgear.og

2006-03-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Josh Babcock -- Sunday 19 March 2006 15:53: Seems that the server is not allowing connections because it is full :( I'm glad it doesn't handle our email. :-} m. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting

[Flightgear-users] Re: Scenery Object Editor (formerly known as UFO :-)

2006-03-22 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 22 March 2006 22:10: $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --prop:model=Models/Airport/radar.xml \ --prop:source=Model,Scenery/Objects/w130n30/w123n37 err ... Models with 's': $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --prop:model=Models/Airport/radar.xml --prop:source=Models,Scenery

[Flightgear-users] Re: 9.10-pre2

2006-03-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Monday 27 March 2006 15:55: I just installed the 0.9.10-pre2 release on a WINXP laptop. Is it supposed to include the UFO functions for installing objects in the scenery that have been added to CVS? Yes, except that this doesn't *install* anything. It only allows

[Flightgear-users] Re: 9.10-pre2

2006-03-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Monday 27 March 2006 17:56: All I get with the ? key is JOYSTICK FIRE BUTTON ... FLY BACKWARDS The M key does nothing along with the mouse left-click. Oh. Strange. Should definitely be in the next pre or the final release then. I don't think the beacon in the stg

[Flightgear-users] Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: New terrain textures by Rob Oates

2006-03-29 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* polly -- Wednesday 29 March 2006 22:41: #0 0x081c82ec in yasim::Turbulence::getTurbulence (this=0xba112a8, loc=0xbfbd4170, alt=nan(0x40), up=0xbfbd418c, turbOut=0xbfbd41b0) at Turbulence.cpp:112 YASim bug. Should be fixed in cvs and 0.9.10. (Please don't plug new messages into

[Flightgear-users] Re: Anybody know what this is?

2006-04-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:46: Could this be an airspeed or GPS based speed indicator for all directions? Or more trivially: a wind direction/speed indicator (weathercock replacement :-) m. --- This SF.Net email

[Flightgear-users] Re: .ac files and multiple textures?

2006-04-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roberto Inzerillo -- Friday 07 April 2006 12:13: I was trying to get some 3d signs objects to emit light in the night (not the whole object, just the number/letters part of the surface). In case you (or someone else) wants my first stabe at an 'original' runway/taxiway-sign font according to

[Flightgear-users] Re: .ac files and multiple textures?

2006-04-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 April 2006 17:36: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/runway.ttf [7.3 kB] Heh, and if you think it just another Grotesk/Helvetical/(yuck)Arial, it's not. Some glyphs are very distinctive, especially the digits. But then again, while airports outside the USA probably use

[Flightgear-users] FYI: nvidia driver 8756 released for Linux

2006-04-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Version: 1.0-8756 Operating System: Linux IA32 Release Date: April 7, 2006 Release Highlights - Adds support for GeForce 7300, GeForce 7400 Go, GeForce 7600 and GeForce 7900 GPUs. - Added support for running OpenGL applications while the Composite X extension is enabled; see The X

[Flightgear-users] Re: FYI: nvidia driver 8756 released for Linux

2006-04-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jonathan Gardner -- Friday 07 April 2006 19:57: On 4/7/06, Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Added support for running OpenGL applications while the Composite X extension is enabled; see The X Composite Extension appendix for details. This could be very nice. That's never

[Flightgear-users] Re: .ac files and multiple textures?

2006-04-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roberto Inzerillo -- Friday 07 April 2006 19:00: * * Melchior FRANZ: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/runway.ttf [7.3 kB] I have to say, I don't like you choose a-j for narrow digits and k-p for arrows. I'd prefer you let those chars for small letters (maybe usefull for future use) and you

[Flightgear-users] Re: Bremen-Weser VFR demo scenery now available for download

2006-04-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:00: You are perfectly right, the new UFO functions for model placement is a speedup addon for people working on a scenery. I'd like to have more functions but I know Melchior (he worked on the UFO, right?) is busy with something else by now. So ...

[Flightgear-users] Re: Bremen-Weser VFR demo scenery now available for download

2006-04-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Sunday 16 April 2006 10:48: I'd like to have a more user friendly interface for the placement technique. I am thinking about something more similar to the way modern 3d modelling software do with objects/view placement/moving/rotating. You seem to forget that the ufo is an

[Flightgear-users] Re: Flashing a light

2006-04-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Sunday 23 April 2006 23:09: !-- Placeholder for a lit lamp -- animation nameLampOn/name object-nameLamp/object-name /animation !-- Placeholder for an extinguished lamp -- animation nameLampOff/name object-nameLamp/object-name /animation What are these for?

[Flightgear-users] Re: Flashing a light

2006-04-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Monday 24 April 2006 00:50: I have confirmed that removing these place holders stops the *flashing* animation from working. Of course. You are referring to the placeholders in the timed animation. You have to rename the object-names there to objects that actually exist. I

[Flightgear-users] Re: Flashing a light

2006-04-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Monday 24 April 2006 21:19: I have confirmed that removing these place holders stops the *flashing* animation from working. The following works -- without placeholder madness. I only added added an empty LampOff object to the *.ac file: AC3Db MATERIAL Material rgb 1

[Flightgear-users] Re: Flashing a light

2006-04-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Monday 24 April 2006 22:33: saves struggling with Blender (not that i'm giving up on it :-/) And you shouldn't. I'm Blender user, too. Intimidating at first, but very powerful then. You should grab two or three tutorials from the net. As long as you haven't done the famous

[Flightgear-users] Re: AC3D null model

2006-04-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Culp -- Tuesday 25 April 2006 15:51: Anyone know what is the minimum model for AC3D? One poly? No polys? This should be enough: AC3Db OBJECT poly kids 0 Don't know if fewer would work, too, but even if the spec allowed it, I wouldn't try. Some software could be confused. :-)

[Flightgear-users] Re: new thermal scenario, null model

2006-04-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Culp -- Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:33: Any other checker-inner I can send these to? You can send this to me, if you want. m. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

[Flightgear-users] Re: ..local scenery path; what am I doing wrong here???

2006-05-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Arnt Karlsen -- Sunday 21 May 2006 20:50: --fg-scenery=/mnt/FlightGearScenery/pub/fgfs/Scenery-0.9.10 --fg-scenery=/usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery The second option overwrites the first. I you want both paths, then concatenate them:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Saitek X52

2006-06-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* alexander babichev -- Saturday 17 June 2006 15:57: Attached file works for me in Linux. I committed that to cvs and it will be part of the next release. Thanks. m. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Flightgear-users] Aircraft XML problem

2006-06-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Franck M -- Saturday 24 June 2006 10:09: I have mix FlightGear with Matlab through the aerosim toolbox in order to put my own joystick and test my dynamic model. I am trying to deal with zoom mode into matlab (Nasal request into my_aircraft-set.xml). I manage to call a Nasal request

Re: [Flightgear-users] Aircraft XML problem

2006-06-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 24 June 2006 11:30: It's quite common to forget th input or keyboard group: It's also quite common to forget the / in closing tags ... ;-) /key keyboard input PropertyList m. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems running flightgear on Suse 10.0 64bit

2006-08-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Raimund Dold -- Saturday 05 August 2006 19:50: freeglut ERROR: Function glutSetCursor called without first calling 'glutInit'. http://www.google.com/search?q=flightgear+freeglut+glutSetCursor+error m. - Take

Re: [Flightgear-users] quiting

2006-08-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Heidi Flatin -- Saturday 26 August 2006 04:13: i have downloaded a plane to flightgear and added it on when ever i load it it quits when it reches initializing subsystems i was wondering if u knew how to fix this. I suppose you are using FlightGear 0.9.9 on an Apple computer and are

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flightgear 9.10 and SuSE10.1/nvidia

2006-08-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jeff Koppe -- Saturday 26 August 2006 11:35: Now it appears that plib is not quite right for Atlas on Suse. Sigh, the ironic thing is that I had no problems at all installing fgfs on previous Suse versions. Long live Linux! Complain to SuSE. Like some other distributions they seem to

Re: [Flightgear-users] win XP cannot load the scenery - have this message

2006-08-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Antonio Pérez Errazquin -- Sunday 27 August 2006 20:22: Error: RenderTexture requires the following unsupported OpenGL extensions: WGL_ARB_extensions_string (A) Update to the latest graphics card driver (from the vendor of the chip). (B) turn off 3D clouds and volumetric shadows (C) If it

Re: [Flightgear-users] win XP cannot load the scenery - have this message

2006-08-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Charalampos Alexopoulos -- Sunday 27 August 2006 20:31: Create an empty file named autosave.xml in that directory No, don't! This isn't the problem at all. The missing file is normal at first run, and has no negative consequences. Unlike an empty file at its place. This silly message doesn't

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flightgear extreme-3d-pro.xml

2006-09-09 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Donn Washburn -- 9/9/2006 4:25 PM: I suspect a joystick default is the source of the problem Also please note that joystick.xml in /data/ has mention of a directory /Local/ which is not there nor is the file.xml. fgfs scans the $FG_ROOT/Input/Joysticks/ directory and all subdirectories for

Re: [Flightgear-users] Anybody getting ready to fly hurricane Flo out of Bermuda (TXKF)?

2006-09-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* fuba duba -- 9/10/2006 12:00 AM: The Metar service is set to 240? minutes by default in preferences.xml. This is not the update rate, but the maximum age for a METAR sets to be considered at all. Sets older than that are dropped. The update rate isn't configurable. I assume weather

Re: [Flightgear-users] Import of 3D models of buildings, trucks, etc.

2006-09-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dene -- 9/28/2006 10:37 AM: how do you handle xml variations on existing models? ...eg I have lighthouses specific to Wellington harbour that have different flash cadences, the .ac model is the same, the cadence is handled in the xml file? You can embed Nasal code in OBJECT_STATIC

Re: [Flightgear-users] Creating image files for new aircraft

2006-10-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Culp -- Monday 16 October 2006 21:07: [converting dxf to ac3d] I think you can also use blender, [...] Yes, that's kind of an easter-egg. You can't load dxf with blender foo.dxf from the command line, but you can start blender and open a dxf model with the regular Open menu entry (not via

Re: [Flightgear-users] Saitek Joystick file

2006-10-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Donn Washburn -- Thursday 19 October 2006 00:27: You might save original and try this one. WARNING: This edited driver breaks around half of all former functionality while not adding anything new. Trimming was already available, along with a lot of other useful stuff that doesn't work any more

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mutiple Liveries

2006-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
One could also abuse other animations, like the tex-translate, if all liveries would be in one huge image file. Then one could shift them through, like instruments do with number displays. But that's very inefficient and only mentioned for academic reasons. :-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] terrasync on Mac

2006-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Edward Cawley -- Tuesday 24 October 2006 17:15: I am running FG 9.10 from Terminal on a Mac ibook G4 under OS 10.4, if I run it direct with c172 it runs terrasync with no problem, now when I add a new aircraft with a command line terasync doesn't seem to work. This should definitely

Re: [Flightgear-users] terrasync on Mac

2006-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Edward Cawley -- Tuesday 24 October 2006 20:58: /Users/ecawley/FlightGear.app/Contents/MacOS/FlightGear --aircraft=T38 - FG opened and flew as normal with T38 as the plane, but when it reached the end of the default scenery block terrasync did not switch to the next scenery block. It

Re: [Flightgear-users] (Not so) clever idea...

2006-10-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Chris Wilkinson -- Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:06: * Craig Benbow wrote: * Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm a Blender noob, so there are some textured faces that only show textures on the inside That usually happens in Blender when you don't Apply scale and rotation (Ctrl-A) after

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mutiple Liveries

2006-10-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Innis Cunningham -- Thursday 26 October 2006 11:33: Well for good or bad this is the way I best understand from adding liveries in AI traffic.:-) If it's exclusively for AI, then it might be acceptable, but ... And the nasty disadvantage is ???. o you need to duplicate all textures in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mutiple Liveries

2006-10-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Innis Cunningham -- Thursday 26 October 2006 14:36: Am I missing something here?. Yes. It seems that you didn't understand what I wrote, which is OK. But you also pretend that what I wrote is wrong, which makes me believe that I'm only wasting my time here. m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Mutiple Liveries

2006-10-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Innis Cunningham -- Friday 27 October 2006 03:24: Not understanding part B means I dont understand how it is better than part A and not understanding or hardly using CVS I dont understand how creating extra skins for the aircraft impacts on CVS. It doesn't impact CVS in that case. But it's

Re: [Flightgear-users] How many airports

2006-10-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Joe Barr -- Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:31: Does anyone know how many airports are listed in apt.dat? $ apt|wc -l 20782 m. PS: apt() { zgrep ^1 $FG_ROOT/Airports/apt.dat.gz|grep -i $*|sed -r 's,^.{13},,' ; } -

Re: [Flightgear-users] failed to open file autopilot.xml

2006-11-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* stagefrog2 -- Saturday 04 November 2006 20:36: Error reading properties: Failed to open file at C:/Documents and Settings/Julianne/Application Data/ flightgear.org/autosave.xml (reported by SimGear XML Parser) How do I make this annoying message go away? You update to the

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear on Linux.com

2006-12-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* On 12/4/06, Joe Barr wrote: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/20/0533247 Now announced on linuxtoday.com. May provoke some comments there: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2006-12-05-025-26-RV-GM-SW m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] X15 model

2006-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dene -- Friday 08 December 2006 20:44: When I try and load the X15 I get a warning message ssgSGIHeader::: Failed to open 'c:/. /models/common.rgb for reading the model loads and looks as expected. Yes, that one is missing. Apparently the texture for the pilot. m.

[Flightgear-users] OBJECT_STATIC or OBJECT_SHARED (was: Re: X15 model)

2006-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dene -- Friday 08 December 2006 21:53: Which has the least impact on frame rate, loading models as OBJECT_STATIC or OBJECT_SHARED? That's a funny question. You choose one of those two types because of its other properties, not because of its impact on fps. OBJECT_SHARED: - loaded only

Re: [Flightgear-users] OBJECT_STATIC or OBJECT_SHARED

2006-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Friday 08 December 2006 22:42: Anyway, putting a great number of the same static object in a scenery has a much greater impact than a great number of shared objects because the former will fill the GPU memory and the latter will be there only once. Yes, of course. But

Re: [Flightgear-users] OBJECT_STATIC or OBJECT_SHARED

2006-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Friday 08 December 2006 23:00: In that case, SHARED is worst because memory is not freed when you leave the tile. Yes, that's what I wrote numerous times. It's a tradeoff in any case. Both versions have advantages and disadvantages. m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] OBJECT_STATIC or OBJECT_SHARED

2006-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dene -- Friday 08 December 2006 22:57: The reason I'm asking is, I've placed 24 static models of aircraft The trick here is to use low-poly versions. 24 STATIC models will use much more memory at once, but if you leave the area, you get the memory back. If you use SHARED, then you save some

Re: [Flightgear-users] linux compile error

2006-12-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Craig Goodyear -- Monday 11 December 2006 19:18: * * On 12/10/06, Craig Goodyear wrote: dialog.cxx:637: error: 'puComboBox' was not declared in this scope dialog.cxx:670: error: 'puLargeInput' was not declared in this scope dialog.cxx:697: error: 'puSelectBox' was not declared in this

Re: [Flightgear-users] linux compile error

2006-12-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 11 December 2006 19:28: plib-1.8.4-8.3.20061023cvs.fc6 installed with rpm plib-devel-1.8.4-8.3.20061023cvs.fc6 installed with rpm ^^^ But maybe RH/FC took a development snapshot *after* that last stable release. OK

Re: [Flightgear-users] linux compile error

2006-12-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Craig Goodyear -- Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:11: OpenAL error (AL_INVALID_VALUE): constructor (alBufferData) Fatal error: Failed to buffer data. It appears I have a problem with one of the prerequisite packages (openal?). Yes. I'd install the latest openal drivers. I have not been

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with autos

2006-12-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Greg Olah -- Tuesday 12 December 2006 23:41: I have been flying the Bo-105 and noticed that you cannot successfully autorotate. When I kill the engine, my Nr decays regardless of collective full down and attempting to maintain a glide speed. Autorotation works well in the development

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-0.9.10 reboot on execute

2006-12-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* probsd org -- Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:32: Yet, when I run the simulator, right after loading scenary the system reboots. FlightGear doesn't have reboot capabilities built in. Sounds more like a flaky OS. ;-) But seriously, this looks like a problem with your graphics card driver.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Aircraft Carrier

2006-12-20 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Neil Smith -- Wednesday 20 December 2006 20:38: 2. How do I find a carrier to land on, and then get a catapult launch? http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Carrier_Howto Also browse the other wiki entries. m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] SuSE Update cause FGFS problem

2007-01-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Donn Washburn -- Saturday 13 January 2007: As a warning! SuSE 10.2 Updater auto updated Xorg. Now FlightGear blows up the X server. It goes all the way back to the command line. Works here (OpenSuSE 10.2 with Xorg patch applied). What's the error message? Any success with gdb? Maybe you

Re: [Flightgear-users] ufo-model-export.xml

2007-01-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jean-Yves LEBLEU -- Friday 19 January 2007: Is there anyway to import automatically the new objects positionned with UFO from ufo-model-export.xml when you start flightgear in order to check the result ? $ fgfs --config=/home/foo/.fgfs/ufo-model-export.xml m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Redefining Joystick axes

2007-01-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bill Galbraith -- Thursday 25 January 2007: This doesn't work, and the joystick still changes the aileron value. What am I doing wrong, Could it be that the joystick file isn't used at all? Check the dialog Help-Joystick Info for the js name/bindings. and am I actually allowed to do this,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Redefining Joystick axes

2007-01-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bill Galbraith -- Thursday 25 January 2007: Okay, I'm pretty 'green' when it comes to this stuff, and I just wasn't setting the property correctly. Hmm ... but again: nothing of that sort is acceptable for fgfs, so you better don't waste too much time for making it work. :-} m.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Redefining Joystick axes

2007-01-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bill Galbraith -- Thursday 25 January 2007: or do I have to live with the definitions that come from the joystick xml files? You have to live with them *somewhere* in that aircraft's files, but you don't have to put them into the FDM config file. Instead you could write a few lines of Nasal

Re: [Flightgear-users] cvs FlightGear (osg branch) build error (SOLVED -sort of)

2007-01-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Saturday 27 January 2007: Im getting frame rates ~107 with this system setting on ground at KSFO but scenery is mostly white with flickering. I can see cockpit controls fine but not much else. Not useable in this condition. That's a good sign. Then compilation went well.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Spitfire - Progress

2007-01-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Hi, * Vivian Meazza -- Wednesday 31 January 2007: There are known problems with starting the Spitfire in cvs-OSG which I am unable to solve at present. The Seafire works fine in FG 0.9.10 and CVS AFAIK. As I told you on IRC, the only problem with the starter seems to be that the engine does

Re: [Flightgear-users] Properties don't show update

2007-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bill Galbraith -- Thursday 01 February 2007: I am running FG 0.9.10 on a Windoze XP system. I am working on a JSBSim helicopter model. When I browse internal properties, some of them update all the time, but some of them update all the time, but some only update when I first access that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building FlightGear under Cygwin

2007-02-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bill Galbraith -- Wednesday 14 February 2007: [ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Win32/] Well, I d/l'ed the two latest packages, and [...] I've also lost the ability to view internal properties. Sounds like you don't use a data snapshot from about the same time at which the binaries

Re: [Flightgear-users] Vigin 737s

2007-02-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* AJ MacLeod -- Monday 19 February 2007: On Sunday 18 February 2007 04:29, Tom Schinckel wrote: -A guide to making planes and scenery for FG. Maybe even a blender plug-in or something of the like for FG. Melchior has had a blender plug in which exports FG animation XML files for ages...

Re: [Flightgear-users] Talking Tutorials

2007-02-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Bill Galbraith -- Monday 19 February 2007: Will Festival run on a Windoze machine if I were using CygWin, or do I have to use a 'real' Unix system? I don't run MS Windows, so I can't really say. But the download page implies that not even CygWin is needed

Re: [Flightgear-users] Use arbitrary metar

2007-02-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andreas Hasenack -- Sunday 25 February 2007: Can I input an arbitrary metar in flightgear 0.9.10 (linux)? There are two ways: (1) Use the metar program that comes with fgfs. It does not only fetch METAR data from a station, but does also decode a METAR string. If you use the -c

Re: [Flightgear-users] Use arbitrary metar

2007-02-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Perry -- Sunday 25 February 2007: On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 13:04 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: $ fgfs `metar -e 183 -c LOWL 161500Z 19004KT 160V240 ...` Note that you need to specify the elevation, or the cloud layers are placed wrongly (ASL rather than AGL). How do you

Re: [Flightgear-users] Issues with Saitek Joysticks

2007-03-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dura-Zell -- Saturday 03 March 2007: I tried this in the forums some days ago but didn't recieve a single answer, This can take some time. But I think that we just don't have enough BSD users, so probably none of the forum users knew an answer. (And I'm still waiting for ATOM/RSS before I do

Re: [Flightgear-users] Issues with Saitek Joysticks

2007-03-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 04 March 2007: Maybe KDE's joystick calibrator ($ kcmshell joystick) somehow interferes with jscal!? Anyway: you can still put a jscal.sh call into ~/.profile. That's at least called when logging in, which should be enough. You'd just have to run it manually if you

Re: [Flightgear-users] Are there any differnt websites to download aircraft for flightgear?

2007-03-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nick Gold -- Tuesday 06 March 2007: i have windows XP and wondering if there is any other website that you can download aircraft to fly in flightgear? if anyone has any suggestions on where to go please email me back at [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG cvs OSG build error

2007-03-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Saturday 31 March 2007: Daniel Pekelharing wrote: /usr/local/include/osg/Drawable:425: note: virtual void osg::Drawable::drawImplementation(osg::RenderInfo) const Looks like an OSG problem. I haven't updated for a few days, and this version still works for me: $

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG cvs OSG build error

2007-03-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Saturday 31 March 2007: Melchior FRANZ wrote: These are not also problems. These files work fine with an up-to-date SimGear/FlightGear. First, thanks for the advice. However, I updated built SimGear/FlightGear ( all the stuff they depend on) within 15 min. time

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG cvs OSG build error

2007-03-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Saturday 31 March 2007: I believe there is still an issue with the nasal errors. FYI: two days ago Nasal was updated and allows now to leave group braces away in all cases where a group only contains one statement. So, instead of if (foo) { print(bar); } one can

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG cvs OSG build error

2007-03-31 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Saturday 31 March 2007: Perhaps when Im able to build FG again against the latest OSG my nasal errors will disappear. They will. On a Linux/Unix, anyway. There are currently some compilation problems on Windows, but that'll probably be fixed very soon. The working

Re: [Flightgear-users] aerostar 700 - startup errors

2007-04-06 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Saturday 07 April 2007: I had been happily flying this aircraft just a couple of hours ago. After new cvs (data) update I get a yellow stick aircraft body with blue wings Yawn ... once again: sg, fg, and data are developed in parallel. Please update *all* of them before

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG is crashing on me, saying core dump

2007-07-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nathaniel Homier -- Tuesday 10 July 2007: FG is doing some kind of crash and I was wondering if some one could tell me why and how to fix it. I updated to the latest cvs today for simgear,flightgear,data. [...] WARNING: ssgSGIHeader::: Failed to open

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG is crashing on me, saying core dump

2007-07-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Nathaniel Homier -- Wednesday 11 July 2007: Nope still crashes. Same here. The cause is a missing specific assignment operator again in the FGTaxiRoute class. :-) But after fixing that there's another crash, which I haven't been able to track down yet. It's again a problem with iterators

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG is crashing on me, saying core dump

2007-07-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Durk Talsma -- Wednesday 11 July 2007: On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:32, Melchior FRANZ wrote: The cause is a missing specific assignment operator again in the FGTaxiRoute class. :-) Bummer. I was hoping that this morning's patch would at least remove all instances of using a copy

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG is crashing on me, saying core dump

2007-07-12 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 12 July 2007: This is now partly fixed. The texture path is now reset after loading a sub-model. But bad paths would still crash fgfs. Need yet to look into that. The allocated buffer was too small for at least the dummy texture. This is now fixed. Fortunately, fg

Re: [Flightgear-users] pa28-161

2007-08-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Laurence Vanek -- Sunday 05 August 2007: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ fgfs --aircraft=pa28-161 Nasal Electrical System Initialized Warning: deleting still referenced object Segmentation fault === This was right after latest build of OSG, SimGear, FG (cvs head) Can't reproduce. Everything

Re: [Flightgear-users] Trouble compiling OSG

2007-08-05 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 06 August 2007: Nick: I couldn't work out what 'the configuration' screen was, nor meant. That's just what comes up with $ ccmake . (with double 'c'), Don't forget to set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to either Release or RelWithDebInfo, but don't let it set to Debug, as this

Re: [Flightgear-users] METAR update interval

2007-10-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Savaş Yatmaz -- Tuesday 09 October 2007: Is there any way to decrease interval between metar changes? FlightGear looks once per minute which the nearest METAR station is (from those listed in $FG_ROOT/Airports/metar.dat.gz). If a different station is the nearest, then an update will be made.

Re: [Flightgear-users] ATIS text

2007-10-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Grivell, Ian -- Thursday 25 October 2007: When I tune in to ATIS, I get audio but no corresponding text on the screen. Is there a way to turn on text display of ATIS messages? No, I'm afraid there isn't. The message is already assembled as lookup terms for the ATIS sound DB, and looks

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick suggestions

2007-10-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Friday 26 October 2007: Melchior Franz helped me out with a trick to set the saved calibration via a script on booting, [...] Nowadays I recommend to let udev do that: # echo 'KERNEL==js* RUN+=/usr/local/sbin/jscal.sh' \ /etc/udev/rules.d/91-local.rules ... whereby

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick suggestions

2007-10-27 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Georg Vollnhals -- Saturday 27 October 2007: 1. I made two rules-files I wouldn't do that. Better have one single file with all local modifications to the udev rules. (I have other rules in that file, too). That's far handier to backup and maintain, though it's certainly not the reason why it

Re: [Flightgear-users] 3D clouds problem

2007-11-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Christian Buchner -- Saturday 03 November 2007: Spot on! In the %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\flighgear.org\autosave.xml file the resolution for the clouds somehow was set to 0. Yes, that's a pain. fg/osg doesn't do clouds yet, and for some silly reason zeroes some parameters. Which screws

Re: [Flightgear-users] Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay

2007-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Thats what 'use with permission' means. They write an email to Curt or whoever can make a decision in the name of the FlightGear community, asking for permission. Nobody will refuse it for reviews/books or other 'good' use. No, you got that

Re: [Flightgear-users] Providing images for legal use (was: Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay)

2007-12-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Saturday 08 December 2007: Am Samstag 08 Dezember 2007 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: Nobody will ask for permission. Which is OK, isn't it? It's OK, yes, but not what we want. We *want* our screenshots used. (Well, I do want *mine* used -- four of them are mine.) Of course

Re: [Flightgear-users] Legal or not ?- Pro Flight Simulator aka FlightGear on Ebay

2007-12-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Friday 07 December 2007: As a first, easy measure it's probably a good idea to put a note on the website, stating that all images are copyright protected and may only be used with permission. You'd have to make that ... may only be used in context with FlightGear if the

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