Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Wing motion

2005-12-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Unfortunately, so far it only works with solid (unsmoothed) objects. Looks like a plib bug to me, but I have yet to find the exact reason. Ahh, that would be a shame. I'm very much looking forward to see this in action (or better yet, see it in FlightGear). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Wing motion

2005-12-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: At least that's how it currently (sort-of :-) works. In theory, aileron/flap/... movements should still work. But I haven't tested that yet. Good point, I'm afraid they don't work properly anymore since the center point and the normal axis' probably have changed after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] simgear+flightgear warning cleanup

2005-12-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Attached are 2 patches for cleaning up some build warnings, in both simgear and flightgear. Caught with gcc-4.0. Thanks Vassilli, it's been committed. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Seifert wrote: Also nice would be any review of the code :) and of course some info about how the chances are for inclusion. I must say I like the idea, but given it's current state (no windows support) I would like to postpone it until after FlightGear 1.0 is released. There are a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: What is missing for windows ? Stefan Seifert wrote: Missing is support for Windows, where the directory should be like %PROFILE%/Application Data/FlightGear (or such). Also I don't know if Windows supports the mkdir function. Would be nice if someone could port. Erik

[Flightgear-devel] Proposal: New way to add commandline options

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I was thinking, FlightGear is already able to handle way more options than advertised when running fgfs -h -v How would we all fell about minimizing the number of command line options in favor of the --prop:prop=value method and make sure all of them are explained in a document rather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Sorry to be annoying yet again, but that's what I'm best at: * Erik Hofman -- Saturday 17 December 2005 10:48: I must say I like the idea, but given it's current state (no windows support) I would like to postpone it until after FlightGear 1.0 is released. And I would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: New way to add commandline options

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I don't see the real benefit of this naming change. I rather see the burden of changing fgrun. And there are options that are not reduced to a property assignment. True, those should be kept. But the main reason I started this was because: 1. We have at least two

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Seifert wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Lighten up, I just started looking at this patch since Fred promised to fill in the missing gaps. I just noticed, that this patch could break compilation, since in sg_patch.cxx the new method is called makeDir and in the header it's still makedir. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Options saving patches

2005-12-17 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod wrote: I really hope this is made to work at least as well as the earlier patches because I think it's a _great_ feature and one that makes life with FG that little bit more pleasant... Yeah well, I was trying to outsmarten myself, and got hit in the back. It took me way longer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ouput Flight Envelope Chart?

2005-12-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Dai Qiang wrote: Hello, Is FGFS is able to output the flight envelope chart, according to the specific information defined in FDM files, by traversing the property tree? I think you would be better of with scripted runs of the standalone version of the FDM. Erik

Re: 回复: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ouput F light Envelope Chart?

2005-12-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Dai Qiang wrote: Hi Erik, Thanks for the reply. Would you please explain your point more detailedly? Well, if the only thing you want is to plot the flight envelope then it would be overkill to use a full featured flightsimulator. So it might be better to only run the FDM and feed it with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rendering multiplayer aircraft as AI aircraft

2005-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Oliver Schroeder, Mathias, and I have all been discussing merging the MP and AI code, so that we could sort out the animations and the jerky movements of MP models, and give us the capability of passing AI models over the net. Ah, I didn't know that, good to hear! Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

2005-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5142 So, the problem seems to be that pbuffer is not supported? Yes, and it also looks like the detection code is missing in RenderTexture.cpp ??! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Replay from Log File (v9.8)?

2005-12-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Alberico wrote: I'm interested in starting from ASCII time-histories of position, orientation, and possibly surface positions. I'm not sure whether 0.9.8 had the capability to read back ASCII file using the generic protocol but 0.9.9 has a playback protocol defined which could be used

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim wing incidence

2005-12-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: If this is just flipping the sign why not just grep and fix all the aircraft in CVS that specify incidence? I guess I don't understand the ritual. Maybe there was more to this change that I'm just not aware of? Most modelers (if not all) were unaware of this problem. Some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: NASAL Scripted Pushback

2005-12-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Carsten Hoefer wrote: BTW: How do I play sounds by Nasal scripts? The same way one would do animations using Nasal; Adjust properties in Nasal (they may be private properties in your own subtree of the property list, say /tmp/aircraft) and let the sound configuration file act on those

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Plugins, Was: KLN89 GPS added

2005-12-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Joacim Persson wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, David Luff wrote: I have no experience of plugin architectures, and don't feel competent to attempt it at the moment. First of all: there's obviously no panic. (If there were fifty-seven hard-linked GPS models, AP's etc it would be a problem, ;)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: Hi folks, I've added a KLN89 GPS unit hardcoded in C++ (OK'd by Curt). Well, I object. How could I tell others to postpone their contribution until after the release of FlightGear 1.0 if you are allowed to add this rather comprehensive peace of code? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Good question, indeed! How could you? There was no discussion about this topic on flightgear-devel before this order was announced, and every discussion after that was passively suppressed by ignoring valid arguments. How was this decision made and by whom? Is FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: KLN89 GPS added

2005-11-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: As demonstrated before [1], this is quite easy to do even with Nasal[2]. The only thing that needs to be implemented in fgfs is a way to tell it where to store the files. Something like FG_HOME/--fg-home. Paul was already working on that for exactly this purpose[3], but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gear animation tutorial

2005-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: Good point. I also do this, but because this model has knees (not sure what to call them) instead of oleos, I skipped it. Still, it should be Hinges I believe. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Download/Install App

2005-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Arthur Wiebe wrote: But as it seems to be a bad idea, I guess we can forget this thread. Why do you think that? I've not seen any negative responses. It's like everything else, a good idea is always welcome but like you, others might not have time to develop it (right away). Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Realistic daytime skycolor

2005-11-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I was referring to the ambient light that is casted on every object in the scene. Before dawn and after dust, everything is casted in a shade of blue. Even when the sun is up, there is a slight shade of blue on objects that are hidden behind a shadow. In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

2005-11-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: First of all, thanks for looking into this. I have just tried your patch (I assume it was commited to the CVS). Unfortunately, it didn't work. I am still getting the GLXUnsupportPrivateRequest error at exactly the same spot. I'm afraid I can't help any further.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear CVS error SG_LOG Cygwin

2005-11-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi, with the newest SimGear CVS I get this compiling error (Cygwin, gcc 3.4.4): RenderTexture.cpp:1595:44: macro SG_LOG passed 4 arguments, but takes Bah, conditional compiles don't make life easier. This should be fixed now. Erik

Re: Wheel skid sounds - Was: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Release of v0.9.9 source code

2005-11-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: No, I was responding based entirely on the e-mails. I did just take a peek, and it seems like a neat way of making the touchdown squeal if I am reading it right. What is the dt_stop section about though? dt_stop is the time in seconds after the sound has stopped, this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Realistic daytime skycolor

2005-11-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: Speaking of sky and color, I think FlightGear could use more blue in its ambient light source. Are you sure this isn't because of the humidity level which colors the sky more pale. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Release of v0.9.9 source code

2005-11-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: Won't the FDM have to tell the sound system when the wheels are skidding? You can figure out touchdown pretty easily, but not say, skidding from braking. The FDM already reveals when the brakes are applied in the property tree. One thing that still is missing (and I have

Re: Wheel skid sounds - Was: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Release of v0.9.9 source code

2005-11-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: The FDM already reveals when the brakes are applied in the property tree. One thing that still is missing (and I have a solution for the next JSBSim release) is a ground-speed property. Yeah, but just putting them on doesn't make them skid (I hope

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Realistic daytime skycolor

2005-11-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Dimitris Papavasiliou wrote: Anyway I'm working on a sort of free flightsim myself (nothing like flightgear though, more like what you would call a game) and have recently completed the implementation of the skycolor part of Preetham's paper A Practical Analytic Model for Daylight. It only

[Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

2005-11-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I might have solved the nasty RenderTexture bug for ATI cards in CVS. Anyone cares to test it? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

2005-11-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: search the string '_vsnSG_LOG' in rendertexture.cpp In case you missed the CVS log message; this is fixed now. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Realistic daytime skycolor

2005-11-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Dimitris Papavasiliou wrote: Hmmm, on closer inspection it doesn't seem to be a simple gradient indeed. Does the color depend on the weather (that is turbidity) as well? Yes. Also bear in mind that the paper also describes a way to calculate sunlight color based on sun position and other

[Flightgear-devel] IRIX binaries available

2005-11-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I've put the IRIX binaries of FlightGear 0.9.9 at the usual place: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172-le is broken

2005-11-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Bohnert Paul wrote: A file for the c172-le is missing. localhost$ fgfs --aircraft=c172-le Error reading panel: Failed to open file at /usr/local/share/FlightGear/data/Aircraft/c172/Panels/c172-trans-panel.xml (reported by SimGear XML Parser) The problem with that one is that it's not in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Release of v0.9.9 source code

2005-11-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: And finally, this is my TODO list: * try to get rid of a few more hardcoded dialogs, or at least make them accept gui colors Not that I explicitly stated no major updates to the *source* *code*. Removing code would be no problem (and neither would be putting an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Release of v0.9.9 source code

2005-11-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Seifert wrote: Another thing that's really missing (and was mentioned in the linux-user.de review) is handling of any cases other than normal flight. Redout and Blackout are a good start, but everything from structural failures to things like skid sounds if you turn too quick on ground

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.9.9 Bug

2005-11-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Adam Dershowitz wrote: I just downloaded from CVS and built 0.9.9 and have found a bug. When it comes up the sound is muted. If I click file-sound configuration it brings up the sound dialog box with Mute Sound checked. If I uncheck it I get sound. But then I can't seem to get it to again

[Flightgear-devel] ALSA optimized OpenAL

2005-11-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, In the OpenAL mailinglist someone mentioned an ALSA optimized version of OpenAL that supports multiple streams. It might be worth to check out: http://dino.e4a.it/openal-alsa/ Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [0.9.9] screenshots for flightgear.org

2005-11-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/concorde-gui.jpg [130 kB] http://members.aon.at/mfranz/seafire-nimitz.jpg [70 kB] http://members.aon.at/mfranz/clouds-winter-bo105.jpg [182 kB] http://members.aon.at/mfranz/lightning-rain-b1900d.jpg [83 kB]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] impending v0.9.9 release

2005-11-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Well, that will in effect turn off everything using the rendertexture code. I would vote against that ... This is only a temporary work around for r200 owners. Would it be possible not to initialize the rendetexture code if we don't need it, e.g. we have not 3d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] environemnt_ctrl.cxx: exception triggers SGThread assert()

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Error fetching live weather data: More than 10 stale METAR messages in a row. Stop fetching data permanently. fgfs: /usr/local/include/simgear/threads/SGThread.hxx:150: void \ SGThread::join(): Assertion `status == 0' failed. /home/m/bin/fgfs: line 239:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] environemnt_ctrl.cxx: exception triggers SGThread assert()

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Next stop: IRIX. Same problem. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Missing Data/ directory in pre3 base package

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Argh! Can we pick a different more intuitive name for this directory. It got created because the old 3d clouds demo needed it's stuff there, but we really need a more intuitive name beyond data/Data ... ! Yes, but not before 0.9.9 has been released. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] impending v0.9.9 release

2005-11-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi all, I would really like to get v0.9.9 out the door this week ... maybe committing to the final source code version on thursday or friday. I agree, it really is time to get it out. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ear Candy: intro.mp3

2005-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Kevin Jones wrote: Regarding the file /data/Sounds/intro.mp3: FlightGear doesn't use OpenAL for MP3 playback. In fact, it isn't even supported. Does that mean that the command line options --disable-intro-music and --enable-intro-music have no effect on any platform or should there be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] environemnt_ctrl.cxx: exception triggers SGThread assert()

2005-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Harald JOHNSEN -- Saturday 12 November 2005 17:09: Melchior FRANZ wrote: I've just implemented the check for stale METAR reports (to stop fetching after 10 stale reports). This triggers an assert in SGThread: It's perhaps because of the PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172-dpm.ac

2005-11-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: The message: WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/home/dave/FlightGear-0.9.9-pre2/data/Aircraft/c172r/Models/c172-dpm.ac' for reading I've already fixed this by referencing the default c172p instead. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PropertyList over network

2005-11-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Jeff McBride wrote: Hello All, I am considering using a property tree similar to that in Flightgear for a UAV ground control application, and I have a question for the developers on the list. Has anyone ever looked into creating a system to share a common property tree between two computers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Re: SEGV with ATIS

2005-11-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Pigeon wrote: Figured out the problem with ATIS voice. It's in SimGear with the code for OpenAL/Alut 1.1, whereby with in sample_openal.cxx, alutCreateBufferFromFile() does not give us the raw sound data, and ATCVoice depends on it, which leaves the data and the data size uninitialized.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem report related to strange splash screens and crashes with certain aircraft

2005-11-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Arthur Wiebe wrote: I think this report basically pins down two of my problems. First, where spash screens on startup showed up as strange color stipes. And second, where certain aircraft which define their own spash screen crash fgfs. I got this report when trying to load the c310 (pre3).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Just a quick announcement that I rolled up v0.9.9-pre3 tonight. I had screwed up and missed a file in the base package, and then some other changes got snuck into simgear/flightgear so I figured I might as well roll out another try. There's one thing I really like to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Steve Hosgood wrote: That's certainly not getting in before 0.9.9! Turns out to be wy more tricky than it looked. It would seem that the entire handling of sun/moon azimuth/altitude as it's done now in flightgear needs replacing, with the alt/az calculations themselves done in Simgear.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3 xglobe licence issue

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Ladislav Michnovic( wrote: 2005/11/11, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's one thing I really like to see solved preferably before 0.9.9 (but it is a must for 1.0) and that's the sun/moon azimuth calculation code to be replaced. If you are talking about code from xglobe ( src/Time

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3 xglobe licence issue

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I'm strongly in favor of 0.9.9. If it takes us as long to get 1.0.0 out as it took us for 0.9.9, then there will be several releases of Linux distributions during its lifetime. Risking that fgfs won't be included in any of these releases is not a good idea. (Similar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3 xglobe licence issue

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Steve Hosgood wrote: I shall go hang my head in shame somewhere quiet There's no reason for that, I didn't manage to get around it at first either. I think I have a lucky day today to discover how simple it could be done. Let me emphasize that I really appreciate it that you took the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Steve Hosgood wrote: And the following file probably should (considering that otherwise you get a complaint message on the screen when using the default aircraft): data/Aircraft/c172r/Models/c172-dpm.ac I've fixed this in the code to use the default included c172p instead. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3 xglobe licence issue

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: If you could run the clock forward a year or two or five or 10 and verify that the new code matches the results of the existing code within acceptable tolerences, then I think I'd be ok with sneaking it into v0.9.9 Both 1970 and 2025 seem to work properly. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear v0.0.9-pre3 xglobe licence issue

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Ladislav Michnovič wrote: 2005/11/11, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is the reason why I proposed to release a patch: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/sunpos.diff Great work. Thanks, but there is still moonpos.cxx which needs to be replaced. I've removed moonpos.[ch]xx

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mi_cmd_stack_list_frames: Not enough frames in stack.

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Arthur Wiebe wrote: Now when it comes to debugging stuff like this I'm a newbie. When I select the default c172p aircraft everything works fine. But if I select say the f16 or A-10 then fgfs crashes. Here's the output from gdb. http://www.codecomments.com/archive242-2004-4-170396.html The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ear Candy: intro.mp3

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Kevin Jones wrote: Hi, There's a file in the base package /data/Sounds/intro.mp3 The filename suggests this is introduction music presumably played during the FG boot. I have CVS FG compiled with Cygwin for Win32 (using Norman Vine's pre-compiled OpenAL libraries in case OpenAL is suspicious

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mi_cmd_stack_list_frames: Not enough frames in stack.

2005-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Arthur Wiebe wrote: OK, But then why when I select the A-10 or f16 fgfs crashes? But when selecting the c172p and j3cub there is no problem? The only commonality between the A-10 and f-16 is the turbine sound file?? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pending v0.9.9 release

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: RANTWe know exactly this phenomenon for several years now and to my observation very little changed in the meantime. The biggest success was to install a consensus that the pre-release phase should last at least two weeks. To my opinon two _months_ would be appropriate for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737 nosewheel animations

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Stefan Seifert wrote: Hi, attached are two small patches for giving the 737 nosewheel some animations. Namely it rotates when steering and compresses on breaking. For the latter I attached a one line patch that let's JSBsim expose compression-norm to the property tree just like YaSim. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cessna 182 and 3D Instruments Update

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Hi All, I've updated the Cessna 182 as follows. Great, we have a new c182 maintainer. - New Skylane textures to replace the old ones (which said Skyhawk on the side!) - Re-upholstered interior :) - Improved 3D cockpit with new - yokes - engine controls -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Persistant Nasal big-endian bug

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Ok, I've test compiled the simgear/nasal library using gcc on IRIX and linked it with the MIPSpro build version of FlightGear and it's working like a charm. Now remains the question, is it an exploited gcc bug/feature or is it really a MIPSpro bug? I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bus error SimGear XML Parser - 0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Arthur Wiebe wrote: Here's the output when I try to run fgfs 0.9.9-pre2 with SimGear 0.3.9-pre2 and 0.9.9-pre2 base package. Using Mac OS X hack for initializing C++ stdio... Error reading properties: Failed to open file at .//data/cloudlayers.xml (reported by SimGear XML Parser) Bus error

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/c182 c182-set.xml, 1.6,

2005-11-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Have you synced Instruments-3d ? The new C182 model requires the new yoke, flaps and trimwheel that I submitted at the same time. I assume they were all checked in at the same time. Oops, they hadn't. Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Persistant Nasal big-endian bug

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: Again: I've run fairly rigorous tests on both Sparc and PPC at this point with no failures, so I think we've pretty much ruled out endianness. Ok, I've test compiled the simgear/nasal library using gcc on IRIX and linked it with the MIPSpro build version of FlightGear and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?

2005-11-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I reserve the right to make the final determination (and all non-included aircraft will still always be available for separate download from the web site ...) Given that new aircraft have arrived on the scene since the last release, do we want to make any changes to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: possibly the Colditz glider to follow it. BTW, how come the Colditz never made it into CVS, IIRC it's GPL, and I personally thought it was a pretty neat little project. Anyway... The last message I saw about this subject indicated it wasn't ready for inclusion. After that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: Dave Culp wrote: All you experienced modelers, please tell me, is this possible? Can you set a piece of a model to flash somewhat randomly using only XML animation code? I'm pretty sure you would need to have each t-storm running its own instance of a simple Nasal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: I don't understand. Are you saying there is no need for the AIStorm because the 3D clouds and METAR will handle this? I am not familiar with either of these, so I'll have to experiment with them. Yes, the 3d clouds can draw good thunderstorm clouds and lightning and rain,

[Flightgear-devel] Persistant Nasal big-endian bug

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi Andy, Since you've not yet responded to my questions I assume you've been busy lately? So far I've tracked down the problem to the getMember() function simgear/nasal/code.c. The problem starts to appear when ctx-opTop increments from 2 to 3 in which case obj.ref.reftag isn't valid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Persistant Nasal big-endian bug

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: If it's not happening across a garbage collection, then I strongly suspect a compiler bug. Note that opTop is only modified when a new reference (with valid reftag) has been pushed on the stack. This section does look fushy to me (code.c setupFuncall()): naRef result

[Flightgear-devel] Colditz glider (Was: AI Aircraft Models)

2005-11-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Steve Hosgood wrote: I'll be quite happy for the Colditz Glider to be part of 0.9.9 Ok it's committed to CVS. It won't be part of 0.9.9 directly but it will be downloadable from the aircraft page after that. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Feature/change/update/fix list since v0.9.8

2005-11-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: You might consider adding the following: * Carrier - added working arrester wires and catapults. The carrier is selectable as a starting position. AI has been added to the carrier in the form of an operating box and an automated turn into/outof wind. TACAN

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Erik Hofman - your nice ships

2005-11-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Erik, you have a nice pic on your webside with all your aircraft placed on two medium sized ships and there is also one sailboot and a firetruck: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/3dmodels/3dmodels.png If these are models *you* have created I would ask you whether you

[Flightgear-devel] Scenery DB (Was: San Jose)

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: Since it's in the default San Francisco area you can submit it to Erik or Curt or you could sumbit it to the FlightGear scenery database. http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/ I'm just not sure if Curt will include objects from the FG scenery db into the default scenery area. Curt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: FYI: a few days ago I committed an extension to the GUI system that allows to select buttons via keyboard. Nice! It would be great to see the ESC key default to dialog exit at some point in time. It's too often I expect the dialog to close but instead get a new (exit)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: gui dialogs: selecting buttons via keyboard

2005-11-05 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Yes. But I was concerned about the double function: cancel dialog (harmless) or exit fgfs (theoretically harmless, too, but I'm quick with pressing RETURN, so it isn't). Ah, the average MS Windows users mentality. A former colleague of mine once put a common windows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Compile Error

2005-11-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Sam Ingarfield - VK6HSI wrote: ...both openal and alut are installed But there's no '-lalut' reference the linker line: ../../src/Environment/libEnvironment.a -lsgclouds3d -lsgroute -lsgsky -lsgsound -lsgephem -lsgmaterial -lsgtgdb -lsgmodel -lsgtiming -lsgio -lsgscreen -lsgmath

Re: [Flightgear-devel] build break with some .cpp to .cxx renames

2005-11-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Ima Sudonim wrote: I have co'ed all plib/simgear/flightgear files from CVS a few minutes ago. I am running autogen.sh and configure before flightgear. However I am still getting a build break on the renamed files make[3]: *** No rule to make target `multiplaymgr.cpp', needed by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SEGV with ATIS

2005-11-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Pigeon wrote: Hi all, Running fgfs cvs, starting up normally at KSFO. Bringing up the radio dialog and switching COM1 to the ATIS frequency. Sometimes I get: ERROR - mismatch between ATC .wav and .vce file in ATCVoice.cxx Are you using the separate alut package from OpenAL CVS?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list for next release

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: A texcopy function that allows one to copy one part of the texture to another would be useful. Although it would be doable, one problem with this is that the textures themselves are stored in video memory so updating them isn't as easy as it sounds. Erik

[Flightgear-devel] Heads up: Code reorganization

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
In the process of changing, adding and removing files the last few years there was the situation where four directories contained just two files, of which three directories were aircraft related, and one directory contained test code from Curt that might be better of in SimGear anyhow. This

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Compile Error

2005-11-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Sam Ingarfield - VK6HSI wrote: Evening - I am currently trying to compile FlightGear - SimGear, openl, plib etc have compiled without any errors whatsoever, but for some strange and obscure reason that i can't figure, the FG compile spits this out -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list for next release

2005-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: 2) Texture cropping for 2D panels so that Attitude Indicator ladders stay in bounds. This can be done now by using the texture animations; texrotate and textranslate See FlightGear/data/Docs/model-howto.html for more information. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wish list for next release

2005-10-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 03:23 am, Erik Hofman wrote: This can be done now by using the texture animations; texrotate and textranslate This works for 2D panels? The document only mentions animations for 3D models. Ow, that I'm not sure of. I guess it would be better

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] [BUG] tmp-ly disable buggy mag compass jamming code

2005-10-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Since this got no bad comments, and since it fixes the bug, I suggest applying the patch. The tread starter, with the patch in there: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2005-October/039770.html It's still in my TODO list, hut I wanted to think a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile prob, can't find the broken lib

2005-10-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: /usr/local/include/AL/alut.h:17:21: error: altypes.h: No such file or directory Huh, is there any chance you have two versions of the header files installed? Do I just need to get the CVS version and compile it? It should not be needed, but it does work. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] 3D cockpit near plane adjustment

2005-10-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Adjusting the near clip plane to 0.10 units (approx 3 inches) is less ambitious, a bit more forgiving for the 3D modelers, and perfectly adequate. This sounds perfectly fine to me. It's committed. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Santa's r[ae]i?ndeer

2005-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Why are the bells commented out in raindeer-sound.xml? They do sound cute. I think it's a leftover from a previous test. It's corrected now. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] cleanup of FlighGear (part ii)

2005-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Alex Romosan wrote: i tried to make sure accessor functions which return by reference act on const objects. also replaced some iterators with const_iterator and a few return/pass by reference that were missed the first time around: Thanks Alex, it's committed. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:FlightGear/src/ATCAIEntity.cxx, 1.12,

2005-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: It is entirely possible that the fault lies in the cvs version that I have here, but I think I have the correct HEAD version. It looks like your src/AIModels/AIFlightPlanCreate.cxx isn't up to date. You might want to run cvs up -PdAC AIFlightPlanCreate.cxx Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile prob, can't find the broken lib

2005-10-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Josh Babcock wrote: /usr/local/include/AL/altypes.h:22: error: conflicting declaration 'typedef signed char ALbyte' /usr/local/include/AL/al.h:63: error: 'ALbyte' has a previous declaration as 'typedef char ALbyte' visual_enviro.hxx: In constructor 'SGEnviro::SGEnviro()': Remove altypes.h,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] cleanup of FlighGear and SimGear

2005-10-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: http://caliban.lbl.gov/fgfs_patches/flightgear.diff Great work. I wonder if there is a way to profile fg/sg for this kind of inefficiencies somewhere in a tight loop. Ok, these changes have been committed. It's quite extensive but I'm rather pleased with them.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Depth buffer issues with instruments and reindeer

2005-10-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: 2) Raindeer in the santa model should be spelled reindeer. It might be a common misspelling but it is still a misspelling ;-) Ehr Alright, but only because it's you who mentioned it. I could have called it rendier instead as it's called in Dutch, but I chose to call it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Driving real instruments.

2005-10-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: How are you driving the panel? From the same box as the cockpit view (multiple FG instances?)or by using multiple machines? I'm quite interested in the possibilities of multi-display setups, but it feels a bit excessive to have a box just dedicated to displaying a

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