Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight Gear

2002-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Richard S. Russell wrote: Hello Again: I was able to install SimGear. I installed it to /usr/local/source/SimGear-0.2.0/ . Is that the correct directory to install it to. When it came time to install Flight Gear...I used the following command: # ./configure

Re: [Flightgear-users] Trouble compiling Atlas (missing glut?)

2002-11-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Adam wrote: Trying to install Atlas - latest version. Installed Plib, Simgear (and even the database package). However, when I try _ ./configure --with-plib=/usr/include/plib --with-simgear=/usr/local/include/simgear --with-x

Re: [Flightgear-users] Newbie Compile Survival Tips

2002-12-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Mike Bonar wrote: After another couple of days trying to get a working compile, I realized that I could use some survival skills. A few basic questions: Can I run ./configure over and over again without any kind of backout? Yep. If make fails, do I need to run make clean before running make

Re: R: [Flightgear-users] projectors for visual systems

2003-01-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Paolo Leoncini wrote: Bruce, Yet if your interest is not towards serious flight-sim, in the sense of military training, I'd vote for DLP: high liminosity, higher contrast, good resolution per proj'r (latest Texas chips perform 720p res, i.e. 1280x720, or 1280x1024 at less than 10K€), ability

Re: [Flightgear-users] Why doesn't the DC3 work?

2003-01-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Larry wrote: What all do I need to get of the CVS version? Just the FlightGear part? If you want to compile it yourself you have to make sure SimGear, FlightGear and the base package are always in sync (use the CVS version for all these packages). Otherwise you may want to wait another

Re: [Flightgear-users] Ideas for Improvement

2003-01-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Benjamin Lee Solosy wrote: --disable-jsbsim: Disable JSBSimm FDM (in case of trouble compiling it). --disable-yasim: Disable YASim FDM (in case of trouble compiling it). --disable-larcsim: Disable LaRCsim FDM (in case of trouble compiling it). --disable-uiuc: Disable UIUC FDM (in case of

[Flightgear-users] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/ATC ATC.cxx,1.2,1.3ATC.hxx,1.3,1.4 ATCVoice.cxx,1.4,1.5 ATCVoice.hxx,1.3,1.4 ATCmgr.cxx,1.9,1.10ATCmgr.hxx,1.8,1.9 atis.cxx,1.7,1.8

2003-02-18 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/ATC In directory seneca:/tmp/cvs-serv17407 Modified Files: ATC.cxx ATC.hxx ATCVoice.cxx ATCVoice.hxx ATCmgr.cxx ATCmgr.hxx atis.cxx Log Message: Added basic support for using more than one voice. The render function is moved

Re: [Flightgear-users] Menu?

2003-03-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Adam wrote: Sorry if this question has been asked, but I've been out of touch with what's going on in flightgear for the last couple of months, and have just got a latest CVS version working again. A couple of questions: What's happened to the menu? I used to press f10 and it would come and go

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

2003-04-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Gardner wrote: On Friday, the 04th day of April, in the year of our Lord 2003, at 06:15 EH What's the Langoliers? EH EH A mini serie about a passenger aircraft traveling through a time-hole EH ending up in the past. And because it's the past they are the only EH people around. But

Re: [Flightgear-users] jsbsim vs. yasim

2003-06-06 Thread Erik Hofman
George Patterson wrote: Getting the multi-pilot thing working in Flight Gear could be more fun. There is a functional multiplayer implementation included in the latest release. Although it is using peer-to-peer rater than using a dedicated server, it's working quite well. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Advice on graphics cards please

2003-05-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Pedro Vasconcelos wrote: Erik, I was curious about what resolution are you running FGFS? I get 70-90 fps fullscreen at 1680x1050 on my Dell inspiron laptop (with a GeForce4 Go 4200 -- sweet laptop :-)). This is on the default SFO startup senario. I'm using 1024x768. But 60 is the average number

Re: [Flightgear-users] Linux compile problem (HELP!)

2003-06-01 Thread Erik Hofman
C Sanjayan Rosenmund wrote: Runing Debiam Linux (testing), and compiling from CVS as of today, plib compiles fine, Simgear compiles fine, then Flightgear gives me this: undefined reference to `c4_Storage::c4_Storage[in-charge](char const*, int)' Could we move 'depreciate MetaKit' into the top ten

Re: [Flightgear-users] measurement unit choice

2003-06-17 Thread Erik Hofman
K. Ari Krupnikov wrote: How did the FlightGear team decide what units to use internally? What were the tradeoffs? Did the available data sources and the units they use influence the decision? I need to decide what units to use in calculations for rendering SVG from DAFIF and FAA data. Since they

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building FlightGear

2003-07-09 Thread Erik Hofman
brett holcomb wrote: Thank you that helps considerably. BTW, what is zlib used for in flight gear? The scenery files for one. But basically every(?) file could be compressed using gzip. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Still no luck with CVS install

2003-08-11 Thread Erik Hofman
mat churchill wrote: Thanks Erik, How do I make fgLoadAircraft static You can crab the latest CVS version. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] I Need Help Building Scenery

2003-08-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Erik Hofman wrote: http://www.stockill.org.uk/fgfs/ No, since there was a lot of talk about working direct from the DAFIF data, which would basically have made it redundant. Pitty. I'm not sure that's a good idea. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Windows MS Sidewinder Force Feedback 2

2003-08-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Al West wrote: Hi, I am running FG on windows 2000 and have a MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Precision Pro 2 USB joystick. FG detects just a normal joystick 3 axis (pitch, roll, throttle) how do I get it to work with all four axis the PoV hat and the buttons. It could be a naming issue.

Re: [Flightgear-users] CH PRODUCTS Yoke and Pedals - details forjoystick.xml ?

2003-08-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Sid Boyce wrote: SuSE Linux 8.2 --- I have modded the kernel and compiled in the mods, lsusb sees them both, on js_demo/jstest they both look good, the Pedals as /dev/js0 and the Yoke as /dev/js1, but they do not work in fgfs (I think 0.9.2 or may be CVS got 17th. July). I can vaguely remember

Re: [Flightgear-users] Wow!: SRTM-3 + Terra + TerraFit

2003-08-25 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Here's what it looks like with SRTM-3 and Terra: http://www.megginson.com/private/meech-lake-srtm3.jpg The lake itself seems to fit really well in the SRTM data! Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] Aero-Matic update

2003-09-06 Thread Erik Hofman
David Culp wrote: Version 0.4 of Aero-Matic is out now, and includes a new aircraft category, Multi-Engine Prop Transport, which will provide a configuration file for airplanes such as the Beech 1900, B-17, Fokker 50, etc. If you don't enter a wing area for your airplane, Aero-Matic will guess

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation for models imported from msfs

2003-09-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Kameshwar To see how the animations might be done have a look at the T38-model XML file in the models folder in the T38 folder. Unfortunately you can not animate a MSFS A/C without first converting it to AC3D so you can name the things you want to animate

Re: [Flightgear-users] animation for models imported from msfs

2003-09-26 Thread Erik Hofman
K. Prasad wrote: Hi Erik, Could you please give me the binaries of this program and plib for linux? If not i'll go and compile plib on linux. Unfortunately not, I'm using IRIX myself. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flightgear view postitioned under plane looking down

2003-10-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Seamus Thomas Carroll wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to position a view point under the plane looking downwards? Ideally I would like to simulate a four axis camera mounted on the bottom of a plane looking down. I have read about modifying the chase view to look down at the plane but this

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flight Gear new user

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: Yes, we really ought to not output the base not found message when the user puts --help on the command line. Or maybe output it, but at least output the help as well! We can't output the help message because it is *in* the base package. Erik

[Flightgear-users] Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.3 announcement

2003-10-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: FlightGear 0.9.3 is now finalized and the source code (and ready to run windows package) is uploaded to the ftp server and the web site has been updated. All you developers who build prepackaged versions can go crazy now with official builds for v0.9.3 ... Debian,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Configuration file for slow machines

2003-11-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Rodrigo Gomes Flores wrote: Erik, Is this configuration for Win32? When you say put in your home directory you mean to save the html file and put in FSFG root directory? Thanks! I don't use windows myself, so this is for UNIX like operating systems. However it should be possible to put this

Re: [Flightgear-users] Low Rider effect

2003-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Richard Harke wrote: I downloaded the w130n30 scenery tile so I could have the area near to home. I tried starting up at SMF (--airport=KSMF) but I get a very disturbing rocking or bouncing effect (like a low rider) This is with the brakes on and the throttle at idle. In one case, the effect was

Re: [Flightgear-users] My screen shot.

2003-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Sacha Schlegel wrote: Hi Erik Is the Golden Gate Bridge in the latest version of the terrain? It is in the latest version of the base package. You won't get the static scenery when downloading the scenery from the flightgear webpage. Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-users] Knoppix / NVIDIA / Flightgear / newbie questions

2003-12-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Ronny Standtke wrote: Hi everybody, I could not get the scenario to start from chosen coordinates. I downloaded and installed the local area (e000n40.tar.gz) and started FlightGear, e.g. like this: $ fgfs --lat=47 --lon=7.5 After the progrum run I discovered by browsing the internal properties

Re: [Flightgear-users] Broken Scenery?

2004-01-08 Thread Erik Hofman
C Sanjayan Rosenmund wrote: Recently, I discovered that several files gave CRC errors on untarring. out of all the files, these are the only ones that exibit errors, and I have re-downloaded them three times to make sure that it was not an error in transmission. The files in question are

Re: [Flightgear-users] Compiling

2004-01-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Simon Walters wrote: I downloaded flightgear and ran the configure script. When it came to the part where it looked for glut, it said it couldn't find it, although I know exactly where the files are. How do I tell the configure script that the glut files are in /usr/include/GL? Configure doesn't

Re: [Flightgear-users] PCI vs AGP vs video memory

2004-01-26 Thread Erik Hofman
K. Ari Krupnikov wrote: How much benefit is there to using AGP? Would adding memory to a PCI card be better than using AGP? I have a choice between 64M AGP nVidia GeForce4 MX 440-SE card and a 128M PCI 5200. Which would you expect to give a better framerate in FG? How about a 256M PCI? Does it

Re: [Flightgear-users] I/O Problem

2004-01-26 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All: I have an I/O error that I need help with. I'm trying to send some basic flight parameter data out over my com port, but I keep getting and I/O write error. Specifically, FG tells me: Error writing data. Serial I/O write error: The handle is invalid. I

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: View Problems

2004-03-11 Thread Erik Hofman
James Meade wrote: Yes, when the joystick is unplugged the view still scrolls down and to the left. That is why I don't think it's a joystick prob. I will try looking for the command in the tree as was suggested, but first I think I'll try a clean install. Maybe it'll help. PS Does FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flightgear CVS config problem with SimGear CVS

2004-04-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Adam wrote: Thanks Erik - however, I'm slightly puzzled, as I don't have a config.sub file in the cvs checkout. I thought there may be a symlink or something there, but apparently not. Any ideas about where this file might be? According to locate, which would reflect my old source tree as I've

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

2004-04-15 Thread Erik Hofman
On 4/14/04 at 9:43 AM David Megginson wrote: runways 22 circuit direction R true /R /direction agl !--only need to specify agl if not 1000ft-- /agl /circuit /22 /runways Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-users] No graphics after motherboard swap - Win98

2004-04-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Pate Mark-marpate1 wrote: Hi all, Having obtained a new [for me] motherboard recently (HP VL400 733MHz), I found that I had to completely re-install windows for it to recognise the on-board soundcard. On completion of this, I installed my Herules 3D graphics card and DirectX 8 --- could this be

Re: [Flightgear-users] windows error

2004-05-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Richard Bytheway wrote: %1 is a bash construct, the Windows command shell equivalent is $1 It's actually the other way around. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] Building CVS

2004-08-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm creatig a Gentoo Linux ebuild for FlightGear CVS and I'm getting a little confused by the dependencies for FlightGear CVS. The docs (step 5 - compile, in anonymous CVS build on the web page) say we need the following: Glut Zlib Plib Metakit Simgear The page says

Re: [Flightgear-users] tracers

2004-08-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Perhaps the model could take advantage of the dist-scale animation. It makes the model scale dependant of the distance, like in radio towers for the light billboards I'm not sure. Since there could be a good number of tracers in the scenery at some point it might be wise

Re: [Flightgear-users] tracers

2004-08-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: Perhaps the model could take advantage of the dist-scale animation. It makes the model scale dependant of the distance, like in radio towers for the light billboards I'm not sure. Since there could be a good number of tracers

Re: [Flightgear-users] tracers

2004-08-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: This seems to be the way to go. Where can I find the definitions for the billboard and dist-scale animations? The billboard is defined in: FlightGear/data/Models/Geometry/tracer.xml Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-users] tracers

2004-08-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: I've got a nice colour, using your texture, but making sure that the rounds are only visible from behind ... Removing the billboard animation from the configuration file would cause that. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error in build (yesterday's CVS)

2004-09-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Horst J. Wobig wrote: - plib-1.8.3 (should I upgrade?) We always try to be compatible with at least the latest stable release of plib. If something changed in FlightGear which makes it incompatible then that has to be fixed. Erik ___ Flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] real helicopter crask

2004-10-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: We also have a few guys here who can write a good model if you have _pre-crash_ pictures of the chopper, or of similar ones. The real image itself is not relevant. What we are looking for are the attitudes the chopper assumed during the descend. In any case it was a Panther I

Re: [Flightgear-users] real helicopter crask

2004-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Are you sure it is not the Chinese's Z-9G? The Z-9G is an export version afterall. http://images.google.ca/images?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=z-9gbtnG=Search Hmm, The Chinese copy-and-paste techniques are remarkable... Erik ___

[Flightgear-users] Re: [Flightgear-announce] FlightGear v0.9.6

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Hofman
The IRIX binary package can be downloaded at the usual place now: http://www.1stweb.nl/~ehofman/fgfs Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-users] Replay (Was: real helicopter crask)

2004-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: I have updated the generic protocol to also accept input data. A small input file can be found here: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/downloads/j3cub If you put this file in /tmp you can play the flight back using the following command line: fgfs --aircraft=j3cub --timeofday

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flyable aircraft

2004-10-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Andreas wrote: It's the one from the 0.9.6 base package. Attached. I just flew it and I could reproduce it, but not always. My conditions were: - straight flight - 34000 feet of altitude - 290 knots airspeed - mach 0.85 A little left bank was preceeded by a right one. Also, the vertical speed

Re: [Flightgear-users] Simgear ERROR !!!

2004-10-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Lucian Palade wrote: Ok now i have an error for you ! so what's wrong here ? It looks like you don't have the header files of OpenAL installed. You will have to do a make install for OpenAL or install dhe openal-dev package first. Erik ()

Re: [Flightgear-users] GPS DISREGARD LAST EMAIL

2004-09-28 Thread Erik Hofman
louis holleman wrote: Once more my FG history: 1. Installed the Windoze 0.9.5a stuff, which left me with a proggy that got stuck once the flying window appeared. It simply quit time after time. 2. I then tried the 0.9.4 installer (uninstalled the previous 1 first), which ran OK (tho' with the

Re: [Flightgear-users] PC-7 Startup Fuel State

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Nick Coleman wrote: For me, flying the PC-7 runs out of fuel after about 20-30 minutes of flight. I don't know the real PC-7 at all, but the initial fuel load in pc7-set.xml of 118 gals per wing seems a little low. Am I doing something wrong, or is the startup fuel state set too low? According

Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS build of FG aborts on startup

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: Hi guys I downloaded the latest CVS version of FG and it aborts on startup during joystick initialization. Everything compiled and installed without any hassles. Any ideas? Does the same happen with different aircraft? Is there anything special in your .fgfsrc file or command

Re: [Flightgear-users] Navion - where is it?

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Wolfram Kuss wrote: Here is a 3D model: http://wolfram.kuss.bei.t-online.de/FGFS/FGFS.htm Actually it's two, but the first one is much better. I don't know how many tens of hours I stared at it while testing something in PLIB or PPE, snif! It is a very nice 3D model from a looks per poly

Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS build of FG aborts on startup

2004-10-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday, 3 October 2004 11:52, Erik Hofman wrote: Does the same happen with different aircraft? Is there anything special in your .fgfsrc file or command line option? Does setting --log-level=info shows anything else? I tried to load the 172, 737, 747, asw20 and I get

Re: [Flightgear-users] Navion - where is it?

2004-10-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Wolfram Kuss wrote: Is there a doc on the format (IOW, what tags and data to put into it for animations?). I believe this is the latest version of what is possible right now: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/fgfs-model-howto.html Erik ___ Flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] CVS build of FG aborts on startup

2004-10-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: If all of that fails then I'm afraid there might be a problem with OpenAL on your system (one way to check this is to compile FlightGear by specifying --without-threads). I tried to run configure using --without-threads but it still configures using threads. (threads : yes)

Re: [Flightgear-users] Query about FDM

2004-10-06 Thread Erik Hofman
senthil kumar wrote: Hai, I am using flightgear-0.9.4. I have a doubt, When I use FDM=ADA there is problem in landing gear (Aircraft - YF-23). I'm amazed you can actually use the YF-23 when using the ADA FDM. You will have to keep in mind that every configuration is written for a

Re: [Flightgear-users] (OT) SAFe-mail.net

2004-10-17 Thread Erik Hofman
David Culp wrote: When posting here I keep getting a bounce from [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying that I'm not on the recipient's Allowed List. I would click the secure link as instructed except it looks like it would make a great email harvesting tool. Is SAFe-mail legit? What if we all used it?

Re: [Flightgear-users] unresolved external symbol

2004-10-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Thomas Oswald wrote: dear fellow flyers, I tried to compile flight gear_0.9.5 under windows by using the visual c++.net compiler. plib and simgear comiled and linked fine, as well as compiling the flight gear sources. but when trying to link, I got about 1 ! unresolved external symbol

Re: [Flightgear-users] Flyable aircraft

2004-10-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Andreas wrote: --prop:/environment/params/real-world-weather-fetch=true These oscillations can happen when new weather is fetched. I would urge to try without this option and then report back. Ok. BTW, is there an option to make flightgear output the whole flight to a file so that you could

Re: [Flightgear-users] real helicopter crask

2004-10-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: I've committed a protocol configuration file that reads the ACMS file and puts its data in the property tree. Unfortunately there is no FDM that reads the accelerations and translates them into world coordinates so it's not very useful at the moment. One way to handle

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frame rates (was Re: Outa the box and outa sight)

2004-10-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: My framerates are, for the most part, good enough that I've been experimenting with the values in materials.xml, increasing the surface density of ground structures. I was able to double the density of all the urban structures without a significant frame rate hit (but with

Re: [Flightgear-users] high pitched noise while on the ground

2004-10-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Andreas wrote: fg-0.9.6 default aircraft Sometimes while I'm on the ground there is a very high pitched noise and the aircraft behaves like it's stuck. I have to give a lot of power for it to move around (no, the brakes are not applied). Suddenly it moves and the noise goes away. Feels like it

Re: [Flightgear-users] classifying development status of aircraftextending fgrun (was: Flyable aircraft)

2004-10-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon S Berndt wrote: Yes, in fact FlightGear does keep all aircraft in their own directory now, does it not? Yes, well .. almost. Aircraft designers (like myself) tend not to duplicate stuff but much rather point to it, even if it resides in another aircraft directory. But it *is* possible and

Re: [Flightgear-users] Spitfire issues

2004-10-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Andreas wrote: Is the program crashing on: FATAL: ac_to_gl: Unrecognised token 'crease 61.00 I thought 0.9.6 recognizes the crease token? Mine does, but ... this version issue gets a bit confusing. It does, provided you used a patched version of the CVS version of plib

Re: [Flightgear-users] Spitfire issues

2004-10-25 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:19:34PM +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: I'm not using windows. Should I aply the plib patch mentioned earlier and build FG again? If you update plib you will need to rebuild SimGear and FlightGear. Similarly, if you update SimGear you will need to

Re: [Flightgear-users] generic network input

2004-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Huber wrote: I'm trying to feed input into flightgear through the network, but without any luck. I want to use a generic protocol and only update certain fields. Is it true that flightgear doesn't support the input direction for generic i/o? Are there other ways to facillitate this? I

Re: [Flightgear-users] Base package check failed on Windows 2000

2004-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_mesgforum=198topic_id=313mesg_id=313page= Perhaps somebody can help this guy out? This sounds like he has to provide he (proper) path to the base package since it doesn't find any. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] [OT] New AN-225 under construction

2004-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/699985/L/ Looks like you can fit quite a number of Cessna's in that hangar. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] New Livery for 747

2004-10-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: I'm in favour of larger textures. Even my old 128MB Ti4200 sits with an almost empty bank of video RAM when running FlightGear. Even the original Geforce can handle 2048x2048 with the correct drivers! However I think we should still support the older hardware with fallback

Re: [Flightgear-users] Version 0.9.6 crashes on WinXP SP2

2004-10-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Yes, of course. But if many Winodows users (even with very common hardware) can't use FGFS anymore then we've lost multiplatform. Certainly there would be a problem if we were to use cutting edge stuff from OpenAl or OpenGL etc., before updated drivers are available from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifyingdevelopment status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Lee wrote: Would someone with cvs access do me a favour and add an 'alpha' status to the a/c I've done? These would be: A-10, AN-225, B-52F, BAC-TSR2, ComperSwift and YF-23 Good as that eh? ;-) Mine are all how the hell did I do that!. I'm not sure Boris caters for that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] [PATCH] classifying development status of aircraft extending fgrun

2004-10-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Would someone with cvs access do me a favour and add an 'alpha' status to the a/c I've done? These would be: A-10, AN-225, B-52F, BAC-TSR2, ComperSwift and YF-23 Done. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Imagine that we decide to go from using one ground texture for a particular surface type to four (drawn from randomly) to decrease the 'checkerboard effect'. Been there, done that. See BuiltUpCover in materials.xml and notice there are two texture tags. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] Texture sizes (was Re: New Livery for 747)

2004-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:02, Erik Hofman wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: Imagine that we decide to go from using one ground texture for a particular surface type to four (drawn from randomly) to decrease the 'checkerboard effect'. Been there, done that. See BuiltUpCover

Re: [Flightgear-users] New Livery for 747

2004-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Oops, wrong link. Here is the correct one: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=326mesg_id=330#330 If you want to test this new livery without the need to overwrite your own 747 directory, grab the following file which installs the

Re: [Flightgear-users] dutch person needed

2004-11-04 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I received a mail from a dutch speaking man (Klaas Krijgsheld [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I am able to understand it, but neither am able to help him nor know how to write it. I'll take care of this. Erik ___ Flightgear-users

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2004-11-04 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I don't speak Dutch either (at all), but here's my guess: =***= Hello Carsten Hoefer: I hope that you can read Dutch, since I don't understand enough German to put my question in German. My [zoon?] and I have both downloaded [son] FlightGear, and we both have an identical

Re: [Flightgear-users] dutch person needed

2004-11-04 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:34:39 +0100, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll take care of this. Excellent. Can you tell me what zoon means? Son. It's that easy :-) Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-users] dutch person needed

2004-11-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Steven Beeckman wrote: Zoon means son as in The son of George W. Bush senior is George W. Bush junior. I don't think there is an old W. If it's necessary I'll do the reply to Klaas Krijgsheld :-). (FYI, we speak both Dutch as French in Belgium). I've already contacted the original sender, but

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tiny Airfields

2004-11-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Nick Coleman wrote: BTW, what's the procedure for sending attachments on this list? OK, or not? Normally I would say 10Kb (approx.) is okay, otherwise use an URL instead. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] glut 3.7 still needed ?

2004-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Sid Boyce wrote: FlightGear-0.9.6 won't build on SuSE 9.2, i had the same errors on 9.1. It's linking in libGLU.so.1 from xorg-x11-Mesa-6.8.1-15 (on 9.2) even with --enable-sdl. freeglut-2.2.0-82 is installed and glut-3.7 no longer is at the URL in the docs. Glut is still needed for some test

Re: [Flightgear-users] glut 3.7 still needed ?

2004-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: For what it's worth, we can't drop glut support entirely. SDL does not play well with multiheaded systems ... i.e. if you go full screen with SDL on one of your displays, you other display is completely locked out. That's not good if you are trying

Re: [Flightgear-users] glut 3.7 still needed ?

2004-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: * When exiting, if the screen resolution has been changed it's not restored, effectively leaving you with a small window onto a large desktop, which you can pan around. This is a known limitation of SDL. Are you sure? Other SDL apps seem to return

Re: [Flightgear-users] Permission problems?

2004-11-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Sid Boyce wrote: Had a thought in the early hours, unplug the CH Yoke and Pedals and start fgfs with --control=keyboard and it works. That seems to confirm there is a problem in FlightGear-0.9.6 handling the CH yoke. I haven't got another joystick to try to see if the problem is confined to the

Re: [Flightgear-users] About Multiple Display Synchronization

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Tingting Wang wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot, I have made synchronization successfully following your advices:) Now, one machine could control other two slaved machines. But, I can't make 3 scenes conneted to a whole. Each one displays the same scene. How to adjust the angles? Which docs explain it?

Re: [Flightgear-users] Query about Resolution

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Hofman
senthil kumar wrote: Hai, When I go to the height of 2,00,000 ft, I can view the world from that height as a square area. Which doesn't match with the real world. I think it should be circular form... Am I correct? Neh, the world is a cube ... :-) The problem is that we use

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error w/ latest CVS update

2004-12-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Mr Michael Rawlins wrote: I'm getting these errors when trying to start using --aircraft=fokker100 Failed to tie property fcs/spoiler-control to object methods Failed to tie property output-value to object methods Failed to tie property output-norm to object methods Hmm, I don't think these are

Re: [Flightgear-users] Error w/ latest CVS update

2004-12-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Mr Michael Rawlins wrote: --- Erik Hofman wrote: Hmm, I don't think these are real errors but rather warnings. I'm not sure why they are generated at this moment. Does the model still show up and can you fly it? No. The FG window comes up, I hear about one second of engine, and then the FG

Re: [Flightgear-users] Joystick Error -Seg Fault

2004-12-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Mark Wells wrote: Flightgear runs great if I use the keyboard. If I plug in my CH flightstick pro, run lsusb -v (so the usb subsystem picks it up) and then run the exact same command for flightgear, I get a seg fault: /usr/bin/fgfs --fg-root=/usr/share/FlightGear --aircraft=c182 Segmentation

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from AVSIM] Failed to creat OpenGL context message encountered in Windows XP

2004-12-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=423mode=full This often happens when the color depth isn't 24-bit or 32-bit. This has been fixed just last week, so for the previous official version you will need to change the screen settings. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from AVSIM] Joy stick setup on Windows XP

2004-12-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=45mode=full http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2004-December/009702.html ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Seem like things are really starting to get complicated, especially for new users. Perhaps it will be a good idea to think about having a config-file that is loaded everytime Flightgear starts? Like ~/.fgfsrc or $FG_ROOT/data/fgfs.sysem ? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from AVSIM] Joy stick setup on Windows XP

2004-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I apologize for not doing the homework for him before brining the question to here. No problem, I just thought it would be fun to give an answer this way. :-) Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Andrew Midosn wrote: I don't know if this will be of interest to anyone, but I have started working on a 'front-end' to FlightGear. It's written in Python using the wxPython GUI library, and at the moment just lets you select an aircraft, airport and runway, although I was planning on including as

Re: [Flightgear-users] NASA Worldwind

2004-12-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: Just out of interest has anyone ever done a poll to find out who uses what OS for FG? It would be interesting and possibly useful info to see what OS's are the most popular for FG especially amongst the developer community. IRIX for development and occasionally for flying.

Re: [Flightgear-users] NASA Worldwind

2004-12-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: BTW, is everyone who posts to this list still getting spammed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am and it's a real pita. I don't see that anymore? Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-users] NASA Worldwind

2004-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: What lists is this happening on. I did send a note to this user a month or so ago, and thought the issue was resolved. Have these replies started up again, or is it only certain lists where it is happening? I think I accidentally clicked on the link in one of his

Re: [Flightgear-users] [from AVSIM] Config file parse error: C:/Program Files/FlightGear/data/system.fgfsrc '--prop: encountered in XP

2004-12-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=442mode=full Changing the content inside fgfsrc didn't work. I am out of idea. =( I think he's using fgrun. That utility will always overwrite the contents of the .fgfsrc file on Unix. Maybe the same

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