On 11/23/03 at 6:09 PM Jon Stockill wrote: >There's a few pictures of the progress I've been making here: > > http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/scenery/ >
Wow, that's fantastic. Can I nag you to sent the updated taxiways to Robin Peel when you've got it finished to your satisfaction, so that all FlightGear and X-Plane users will eventually benefit. Did you make the control tower model BTW, and if so what in and can you make the source available? >Taxidraw is proving rather useful (thanks David), but I've spotted >something slightly odd - I'm unsure if it's the source data, or genapts, >but it's inserted runway 06/24 at EGXG backwards. > I completely, utterly and absolutely abdicate all responsibility there - TaxiDraw doesn't output anything about the runways :-) > <And in a previous message> >A couple of things: > >1) Changing the shifted movement/rotation keys to be 10 times more >effective really makes it a lot more usable - you can get the taxiway >pieces in position a lot quicker, then nudge gently into place with the >unshifted equivalents. > OK, I agree with you on this one and I've changed it. In the long-term I expect most users will do most of the rough positioning with the mouse, but in the short term it's so much easier to implement keyboard control. I have now implemented selection of a taxiway with the mouse though - that should make it much easier working with large airports. >2) Taxidraw outputs this: > >T EGXG xxx 53.838934 -1.186000 54.70 557 131 YCB > >but genapts falls over if it doesn't get this: > >T EGXG xxx 53.838934 -1.186000 54.70 557 131 YCB > >Nothing that a bit of hand editing didn't cure though - just needs a >couple of spaces adding. I agree with you on the width field, and I've increased the field width on that one. Have to disagree with you on the altered lon and heading spacing you've got there though - they don't agree with runways.dat, and you don't have enough room for -xxx.xxxxxx lon (lon goes to +- 180) and have one too many spaces for xxx.xx heading. I've also implemented a taxiway properties dialog so that heading, length, width and the surface and lighting attributes can be directly viewed and input. Select a taxiway and right-click anywhere, or press 'q' with a taxiway selected. Note that the length and width input is in feet, to match the source data, although internally it is converted to meters, and re-converted back for output. No validation is performed on the heading field yet, so entering other than a valid double will probably kill it! It's wrapped up in a new version at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p3-preAlpha-w32bin.zip - Windows Binary (statically linked) [278K] www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p3-preAlpha-src.tar.gz - source and makefile for Linux [44K], requires wxGTK-dev. Summary of changes from 0.0.2 to 0.0.3: Mouse can select a taxiway. Taxiway properties dialog available. Incorrect numerical width of taxiway width field in output fixed. Increased speed of shift-key movement x 10. Asphalt taxiways are shaded slightly darker than concrete one's. No differentiation is make for runway types - all runways are still uniformly shaded darker than any taxiways. Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
