Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next world scenery build

2005-12-20 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: fails in the end. After the 'standard' shapefile-based scenery has proven to work we can start tackling issues like the Great Lakes shorelines and such. The SRTM water body dataset seems to give some nice improvements on this front. It does need smoothing though, since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear/flightgear SGSky thesky shared library compile problem

2005-12-10 Thread Jon Stockill
Juergen Tretthahn wrote: Hi all :) I have a little problem compiling/running fgfs build as shared lib variant. (Yes... i know... static is the prefered build way you/the devs use.. i still try to make my daily cvs debian packages the debian-standard shared way :)) The debian standard way uses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modular / portable cockpit design

2005-12-02 Thread Jon Stockill
that you can have everything be modular (eg, the pedestal, main panel, glare shield), but still be rock solid when it's all set into place. Experience is a big factor in that... Google for Akers Barnes Cockpit. Made from MDF, just slots together. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] Scenery/tileentry.cxx: new feature: allow objects on sea tiles ( generally don't drop objects)

2005-12-02 Thread Jon Stockill
improvement (I mentioned that this failed quite sime time back, but was unable to work out why). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot

2005-11-30 Thread Jon Stockill
by clicking the buttons on the device in the cockpit. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D modelers

2005-11-22 Thread Jon Stockill
are particularly interested in then if you can tell me what you want photos of, or what you need measuring then I can try to get you the info you need when I'm next there. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel

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

2005-11-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hello everyone, FlightGear v0.9.9 is now final. The source code is propagating through to the mirrors. If you have built an 'official' binary version of FlightGear in the past, it would be great if you could build a binary for v0.9.9 as well. I'm going to make an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture::BeginCapture(): Texture is notinitialized!

2005-11-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: There should be no need to uncompress either file. Unless zlib support is missing somewhere. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

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

2005-11-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Jon, you need to use fltk with multi-threading support. Thanks. All rebuilt, and it's now working. The package has been updated. (If version numbers are cheap, package revisions are even cheaper ;-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting Started Guide - Terrain/Objects

2005-11-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Stefan Seifert wrote: I'm sure you meant /usr/share/FlightGear/... and not /var. Makes more sense to me. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Getting Started Guide - Terrain/Objects

2005-11-14 Thread Jon Stockill
in /usr/bin and the data files under /usr/share/FlightGear I *could* put the doc files in /usr/doc/Flightgear-$VERSION but since there are various references to them under FG_ROOT that's where I left them. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-14 Thread Jon Stockill
in copyright issues. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: A380 arrived in EDHI (Hamburg-Finkenwerder)

2005-11-12 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: How about a spyware popup ... Oh I see you just typed the word Paris, here are some great hotel + airfare combinations you might be interested in, and would you like me to search ebay for berets? No, not spyware - clippy :-) Jon

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

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Stockill
/.#default.xml.1.3 Aircraft/c172/Panels/.#c172-panel.xml.1.8 Aircraft/c172/Panels/.#c172-panel.xml.1.4 Models/Trees/.#deciduous-tree.ac.1.3 Scenery/Terrain/w130n30/w123n37/.#KSFO.btg.gz.1.2 -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 29

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: --- Steve Knoblock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unsure if I can help, I do hope to convert a model of the Cape May Light I made for MSFS for FG once I understand the tools. As a first pass, you could place a generic lighthouse (from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v0.9.9-pre2

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I am currently targeting the official v0.9.9 release for late next week (time permitting.) Is there any preferred version of OpenAL for this release? Just wondering if there's a recommended version for linking against for the binary packages. Also, is there an fgrun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-07 Thread Jon Stockill
for Finland, with position data kindly supplied by Esa Hyytia - you don't even need to be able to model objects to help - positions for placing models that are already available are just as useful. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Yes, it _is_ nice to have an ensemble that represents the entourage of an airport or a city centre, but a single tower somewhere in the boonies that VFR pilots typically use for navigation is a valuable addition as well

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Currently the smallest area it's broken down to is one of the 10x10 degree scenery tiles. The biggest of these files is only 500k (the whole planet fits in a 4MB tarball), so I didn't see a need to break it down any further. If you're interested

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: That might be what we have to do, but that implies a change in where scenery files are extracted relative to the scenery tree which would could cause a fair amount of confusion ... not that the current process is completely unconfusing ... It takes things back to how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Buildings ?????

2005-11-07 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: That might be what we have to do, but that implies a change in where scenery files are extracted relative to the scenery tree which would could cause a fair amount of confusion ... not that the current process is completely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2005-11-05 Thread Jon Stockill
Innis Cunningham wrote: I would think we are better ploting our own course this may mean we are a bit light on to start off with but with people helping it would take no time at all. Lots of airlines provide timetables in PDF format - fed into pdftotext and parsed with a bit of perl we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Driving real instruments.

2005-10-25 Thread Jon Stockill
and rework to handle the current loads of DC motors or servos, control, etc. (See earlier post) How about the analogue output boards on http://cockpit.varxec.net/ -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: I am not sure I follow you here, taxiway design have strict rules that you can find on the FAA site. I can assure you there are plenty of airfields out there that don't follow the rules. Many of the ones I've worked on have developed over the last 60+ years to become

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Durk Talsma wrote: - buildings placement This can be done through a combination of .stg and xml files, but this has to be done either by hand editing, or by using a dedicated scenery editor. I'm not sure if fgsd would be able to do this. This would be the only interactive application that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a question on Sound/fg_fx.cxx /sim/sound/pause processing

2005-10-13 Thread Jon Stockill
and noticed that it is not possible. esd or artsd would allow you to share the device. I suspect you'd need to start the sound daemon, then your comms s/w (which would need to use the device read/write), then flightgear (write only). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a question on Sound/fg_fx.cxx /sim/sound/pause

2005-10-13 Thread Jon Stockill
du -ks * 28 COPYING.LIB 16 CVS 12 README 3180lib 1548simpleclient IAX is also NAT friendly (it runs a single udp port at each end, unlike SIP for example). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A little emergency encountered inside FlightGear

2005-09-28 Thread Jon Stockill
on and off states, thus preventing the nose wheel from sinking into the runway. Enabling Caps-Lock and hold B alone will also work. Antilock brakes simulated with key repeat - I like it :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Build problem with today's CVS update

2005-09-18 Thread Jon Stockill
William D. Earnest wrote: Hello, Updated my source copy this morning, including the endian patches. Several tries, including a full autogen.sh in simgear and flightgear, don't yield a full compile. Simgear compiles without error reported. Flightgear builds until it gets to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: Online forums?

2005-09-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment. What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting over to online/web-based forums? I think you'll lose an *awful* lot of input. I'm really no fan of forums. Mail gets

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-11 Thread Jon Stockill
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: I think you misunderstood. I was referring to the taxiways under map mode, not satellite mode. If you go in map mode, you will see that Google got some pretty accurate vector data for taxiways generation. Whoop, didn't see that. In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread Jon Stockill
Dave Martin wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 18:36, Jon Stockill wrote: I've just finished downloading and processing all the data to get my scenery build system back up and running after a disk crash, it's building tiles for a test of the OSM roads at the moment. I'll grab some screenshots

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread Jon Stockill
Ralf Gerlich wrote: This looks quite detailed. I'm not that familiar with the London area so would you say that there is a considerable amount of smaller streets missing in there? You can see the source data here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ there are roads missing, simply because the map

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover

2005-09-10 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Herewith I appoint you to the future maintainer of OSM-data in our kindcover database :-) I should have kept my mouth shut :-) Do they log the changes in their database, do they offer any 'raw' interface ? The interface is explained here:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-09 Thread Jon Stockill
. Excellent - I'll give it a try. I'm also experimenting with some early data from openstreetmap.org to add accurate roads to scenery. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-09 Thread Jon Stockill
. (The other good news is that now I have a working system again I'll be adding more stuff to the scenery database). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-09 Thread Jon Stockill
ticket on the local bus and train networks - could be a cheap way to cover a lot of distance, with the added advantage that I get to improve scenery local to me :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crashes in GL

2005-08-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: And SG? Before you tear your system apart, AJ has just reported similar symptoms over on IRC. He's just updated to CVS HEAD. Yes, both FG and SG from 7th July. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crashes in GL

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Stockill
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Due to the death of the machine I was doing all my flightgear work on I'm currently trying to set up another machine so I can still build packages, but I've run into a bit of a problem. While my old packages work ok on this machine (it's not gonna

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crashes in GL

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Stockill
like to roll cvs (FG and SG) back to that point and see what happens. I'd be interested to compare notes I'll give that a try. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] crashes in GL

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Stockill
I rolled back cvs to 7th July, built flightgear, and still have exactly the same problem - I guess it's related to something on this system. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

2005-08-13 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Does osgPlanet allow for contour lines for elevation data instead of DEM's ? Do you have a suggestion how to convert the DEM's into a set of contour lines without creating horrible bloat or loosing precision ? The SRTM data is available in GeoTIFF format. gdal_contour

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Free simulator of the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic jet

2005-07-28 Thread Jon Stockill
. ISTR seeing some screenshots a few months ago, but nothing more after that. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] feature request: MultiPlayer's Callsigns inViewport

2005-07-23 Thread Jon Stockill
Paul Surgeon wrote: What a pity as I don't know of any good replacements and writing VOIP software is not a trivial task. So the only way it could work is if the creators of TeamSpeak released a GPL interface to their software? I guess text will just have to suffice.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Multiplayer crashes with unknown aircrafts, any solution?

2005-07-15 Thread Jon Stockill
the obvious DoS aspect if someone wanted to be malicious). -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Multiplayer crashes with unknown aircrafts, any solution?

2005-07-15 Thread Jon Stockill
of the current code could be reused. Other aircraft showing on radar would be excellent. I've been playing with the t38 refuelling scenario recently, and it's a lot of fun - definitely teaches you the value of minute stick and throttle inputs :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

2005-07-04 Thread Jon Stockill
question - is there really such a huge problem with our source data, or do we just need to be generating scenery with more polygons? -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About 3D Clouds

2005-07-02 Thread Jon Stockill
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hey You're the man! That is it. Setting bits-per-pixel to 32 makes the models throw phantastic well looking shadows! At least for my box with the binary ati driver. After things going pop on my machine it's now back working - I dropped the nvidia driver back to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: About 3D Clouds

2005-06-30 Thread Jon Stockill
anything. I swapped it for my old card (also nvidia) and noticed that runs with no shadows, but a darker screen as you describe - I put it down to the card being less capable, but I think I'll downgrade the driver and try again. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
there seem to be an awful lot of Hunter instruments on ebay at the moment - most likely due to the changes in the regulations covering flourescent paint. :-( -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: Jon Stockill wrote Vivian Meazza wrote: Have you seen the recent Aeroplane magazine? It has comprehensive series of articles on the Lightning: excellent source data. Keep at it - it just takes time - you can hijack most of the Hunter instruments for the interior

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: As he said - extensive studies of people who spent upwards of 8 hours at a time sitting in front of such instruments has shown that they're losing teeth and hair, their remaining hair is turning grey, they have mobility problems, and some are dropping

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Yet more pointless regulation to protect us from nothing. It's not just the EU, I'm having this problem in the US. I tried to get a surveying compass with tritium illumination, and found that it's banned in the US as well. This is a big deal since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
to people, but items of genuine historic interest are destroyed because they glow. Someone has their priorities seriously screwed up. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-14 Thread Jon Stockill
for an aircraft with wheels landing on a beach strip. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Completely OT (but aviation related.)

2005-06-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I was curious about the idea of removing the case from my Linksys WRT54G wireless router and powering that by battery. Supposedly it's running linux and is hackable, but I haven't played around with trying to hack into it yet. How much space do you actually have?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Completely OT (but aviation related.)

2005-06-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: anything. I'm just going to move forward slowly one step at a time and ignore most of the bright ideas from the mailing list. :-) Probably a wise move :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel]Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport beacon.xml, 1.8,

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Berndt wrote: Is the ground cache for the benefit of the FDM? The FDMs are currently the only users of the groundcache, and yes, they benefit from it. A lot. Per-wheel/contact-point ground awareness hadn't been done before Mathias implemented the ground cache. And probably it would have

[Flightgear-devel] Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Stockill
I've just updated and built todays CVS code, discovered a problem. Starting on runway 09 at EGNM with the default cessna the sim freezes a couple of seconds after the aircraft starts rolling. I don't think it's even travelled its own length. Menus are all still fully operational, and shift-esc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Stockill
Dave Culp wrote: well-loved no scenery below the aircraft ground cache message. I don't get it, I didn't see this behavior until after I committed the patches, when I noticed it once. Melchior has these patches also applied and didn't complain. Maybe this is something to do with OS,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Problems with todays CVS

2005-05-30 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Berndt wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Monday 30 May 2005 18:22: I don't get it, I didn't see this behavior until after I committed the patches, when I noticed it once. Melchior has these patches also applied and didn't complain. And I first saw it when I tried to reproduce Jon's problem. Which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport beacon.xml, 1.8,

2005-05-29 Thread Jon Stockill
entries for the objects in the base package just so everything ties up the model isn't actually stored in the database. So we've nothing to change unless the path or filename changes. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport beacon.xml, 1.8,

2005-05-29 Thread Jon Stockill
consider for any high poly structures then? -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange acceleration issues with 9.8---possibly

2005-05-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Lee Elliott wrote: I have three version here 7174, 7167 6629. Both of the 7nnn exhibit the same problem and 6629 won't compile here. Drat! Which kernel version are you using? I'm on 2.6.11 here. Check the forum - there's a patch on there for 6629 with 2.6.11. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
. Suggestions for how to do one, or (better) offers of help gratefully received! How much information do you have? Unfortunately I'm the other end of the country, so can't easily drop in to the war museum again, but I suspect they'll be the best source of info. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Steve Hosgood wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:10, Jon Stockill wrote: Steve Hosgood wrote: Disclaimer: This is a toy [...] I've never even *seen* the Colditz Glider replica (in the Imperial War Museum now, apparently) [...] assuming it's not been moved it's right up on the top floor. There a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
this weekend I'll try and make a start on that - it's a relatively simple shape, so possibly good for me learning a bit more about blender - I'm running into problems with the Grob 115 model I've started, mainly due to lack of skill in blender, but also due to a lack of detailed info. -- Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Jon Stockill
in a few days. Go for it - I don't see my attempt being that quick :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGInterface is beeing called without scenery below the aircraft

2005-05-16 Thread Jon Stockill
Mathias Frhlich wrote: Hi, Can you reproduce this? And, if yes, how? I can confirm this problem - it's rare, and I haven't been able to track down why it's happened, but the sim freezes in the same way as when the aircraft is crashed - the few times I've seen this the aircraft has been at a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGInterface is beeing called without scenerybelow the aircraft

2005-05-16 Thread Jon Stockill
suspect I could be doing a lot of flying up and down at small angles to the tile boundaries :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Jon Stockill -- Sunday 15 May 2005 01:45: Just out of interest, how do you create position models through the telnet interface? This'd be really handy for testing models. You should read flightgear-users! :-) http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2005

Re: [Flightgear-devel] City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Dave Culp wrote: I made a large (1000 meter) sign to place over the coordinates for Sembach and Enkenbach, Germany, because the scenery data for that area is not good enough for finding towns visually. http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/city_sign.jpg It would be possible to put these over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: City signs

2005-05-14 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Saturday 14 May 2005 21:46: [http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg [60 kB]] Is all this neat stuff in CVS or the scenery data? 8-) No. And I never adapted it to the new airport database format. So it isn't functional at the moment. Maybe I'll fix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-12 Thread Jon Stockill
it's just a lot nicer to use. The learning curve is a bit steep at first, but it's extremely efficient once you're used to it. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org

Re: Re : Re: [Flightgear-devel] Manipulating 3D objects

2005-05-10 Thread Jon Stockill
exactly the opposite to scaling the 3d model. Alternatively you design a building of the maximum height you want to represent, and simply sink it below the terrain to get the desired height. This is how the generic skyscrapers work in the scenery database. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: [Flightgear-devel] Manipulating 3D objects

2005-05-10 Thread Jon Stockill
BONNEVILLE David wrote: Ok I see, maybe my example was too selective ;) Could you explain me how to scale a model ? Is it possible to scale it along the three axis ? thx Yes - see model-howto.html in the docs directory. The scale animation will do this. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model

2005-05-09 Thread Jon Stockill
. Failing that blender can export ac3d files, and also supports importing of a large number of file formats - you may be able to find a common format between blender and catia. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d city

2005-05-05 Thread Jon Stockill
://fgfsdb.stockill.org/ for details. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: 60 years of Dutch liberation

2005-05-05 Thread Jon Stockill
can't go on forever, but their memories should. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New 3d clouds

2005-04-25 Thread Jon Stockill
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: - fog bug : ok I think I have not re-enable fog Sort of. The terrain seems to be hidden by fog at the appropriate range, but any objects appear to have infinite visibility, so they appear to float until the ground eventually comes into view beneath them. -- Jon Stockill

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New 3d clouds

2005-04-24 Thread Jon Stockill
than I had expected! Yes, it's slightly odd seeing the clouds appear/disappear (even when stationary - just rotating the view seems to cause the problem). However, the overall effect is fantastic - is there any way to see the precipitation model yet? Great work Harald! -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-19 Thread Jon Stockill
to keep that beast cool? If you put all those machines in a single room and turned them on, they'd probably melt through the earth's crust in an hour or two. :-) You'd need a second set of generators, twice as much sewer sludge, and an awful lot of aircon kit. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] realistic scenery

2005-04-19 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..Curt, I need an idea of how much cpu work, building the scenery, is. What kinda machine(s) did you use, and how long did it take to build the scenery? I haven't timed the latest builds real close, but figure if you throw a couple machines at it in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] realistic scenery

2005-04-19 Thread Jon Stockill
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:21, eagle monart wrote: i tried to used fgsd but terrains are made in triangles not in squares an it looks impossible to tile what you want . a It's impossible to tile textures properly in FG. FG uses an irregular triangle mesh and not square

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather - Clouds

2005-04-17 Thread Jon Stockill
Harald JOHNSEN wrote: Hi, I did some research on 3D clouds for some time and finaly got something not too bad. I've started to add that to SimGear this week end, here are the first alpha screen shots : http://sites.estvideo.net/tipunch/flightgear/images/fgfs-screen-011.jpg

[Flightgear-devel] New Navigation Legislation

2005-04-01 Thread Jon Stockill
http://www.metriccompass.com/ At least it's cheaper to update simulated instruments ;-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My first solo ....

2005-03-30 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: There's nothing better than flying, I couldn't agree more. Congratulations. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-03-06 Thread Jon Stockill
scenery export. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-03 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: jj wrote: I'd surely like to see an Observatory bulding (such as mine, see http://kingmont.com and ftp://kingmont.com for pictures of it). Jim, if you send the coordinates of your house to Jon Stockill, he can place a grain silo there in the object database. The silo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-20 Thread Jon Stockill
just discovered a selection of 3views on aerospaceweb.org (not particularly high resolution, but possibly enough to work from). Including one on this page: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/bomber/buccaneer/ :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-20 Thread Jon Stockill
development, and some of the textures are HUGE. Have any object names changed from the previous version? I found I droped straight through the deck, the hangar below, and only stopped when I hit the water. The model does look *VERY* nice though (even from the inside ;-)) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-20 Thread Jon Stockill
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-19 Thread Jon Stockill
hadn't caused any problems until now - eliminating that solved the problem. Right... where's that aircraft carrier :-) -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-19 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: Let us know how you get on. Melchior claims the first successful Seafire landing. Took off from KSFO, and nailed the seahawk to the deck on the first try, then couldn't work out how to get the thing onto the cat to launch. That secondary ASI comes in rather handy :-) -- Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-19 Thread Jon Stockill
operations. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fun with the FAA DOF.

2005-02-18 Thread Jon Stockill
this on his todo list. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fun with the FAA DOF.

2005-02-18 Thread Jon Stockill
Erik Hofman wrote: BTW. Just for the sake of completeness, the models created by Unknown are all created by me: http://fgfsdb.stockill.org/author.php?id=1 Thanks - this is now updated. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-18 Thread Jon Stockill
scratch - I'll let you know if there's still a problem. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-18 Thread Jon Stockill
--enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --with-gnu-ld --verbose --target=i486-slackware-linux --host=i486-slackware-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.4 -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

[Flightgear-devel] Segfault from todays CVS

2005-02-17 Thread Jon Stockill
/libglut.so.3 #13 0x08054d15 in fgMainInit () #14 0x0805175d in main () -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

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