Thanks - I had spotted this and it has helped in that I have managed to get the default Cessna up ..
It may have been the plugin and it may not. I had saved the base package under a different name - FlightGear CVS - and the console had reported failure to find base package, which was weird as it was all in the same tree - no changes just a straightforward download. When I changed the name it worked. Odd. BTW - does the Eurocopter work for you? I get background sounds and movement - just no aircraft / cockpit! Tks, R On 25 Sep 2008, at 18:37, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Richard Hornby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Great - a new build for us Mac users: Thanks! >> >> BUT >> >> clicking on Start Flight does nothing, > > I need more information on this. > What aircraft did you select? > What options did you specify? > > It might have something to do with the last post I made. > Here is the excerpt of my post: > >> I found a bug in osgdb_qt.so for the latest FlightGear/cvs. The >> problem is that fgfs crashes when loading Textures/Sky/broken.rgba >> for >> the aircraft that have a non-rgb (say png) splash image. >> >> I made a patch to solve this problem, and I already sent to an OSG >> developer. I hope it will be applied to svn soon. >> >> Until the next binary package is delivered, I recommend mac users who >> use FlightGear-cvs-bin-20080918 update the plugin called osgdb_qt.so. >> The plugin is available from: >> http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/wp-content/uploads/plugins/osgdb_qt.so >> >> To update the plugin, follow the instructions below: >> 1) Open /Applications folder on Finder >> 2) Control-click (or right click) the FlightGear icon and select >> "Show >> Package Contents" >> 3) Browse Contents/Resources/plugins folder >> 4) Copy (overwrite) the downloaded osgdb_qt.so to the plugin folder > > I recommend you update a plugin by following the instruction above. > If this update won't help, then the aircraft you specified might not > work on the snapshot. > Try using another one and check if that works. > > I don't guarantee that all the aircraft work on FlightGear, especially > on snapshot release. > Some might work and some might not. > > > >> and clicking on Get Aircraft goes >> direct to >> http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/aircraft-links/ >> (with >> the weird Hello World message), instead of the Aircraft directory. > > As I wrote in my post, the web page is down due to sourceforge's > database outage, > which is caused during their data migration process. > I hope the web page will be back soon. > > Anyway, here is the page cache from google search: > http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:si9uE6unWYQJ:macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/documents/aircraft-links+dave%27s+hanger+flightgear&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6 > > Here's the list of the links shown in the page, just in case. > http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/index.shtml > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/JSBSim-LTA/ > http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/hangar/hangar.html > http://www.sol2500.net/flightgear/aircraft.html > http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/tux/index-en.html > http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/hangar.htm > http://seahorse.10gbfreehost.com/flightgear_aircraft.html > > You can download aircraft from these sites, and then install the > aircraft by > selecting "Install Add-on data" from the other tab on GUI launcher. > > Tat > > p.s. > > >> On 18 Sep 2008, at 18:11, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> The latest development version of FlightGear binary package (as of >> >> Sep. 18th) is released. >> >> You can download the package from: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=126825&package_id=212565&release_id=627163 >> >> This package is basically for advanced users and is not recommended >> >> for beginners since it is not that stable yet. >> >> However, you can try the latest features of FlightGear with it. >> >> FYI, The web page for FlightGear Mac OS X is currently down due to >> >> database outage during sourceforge's big data migration. >> >> It shows weird "Hello world" message for now, but will be back in a >> >> day or two, I hope. >> >> Anyway, please go visit the macflightgear project page instead. The >> >> top page of macflightgear project page is: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/macflightgear >> >> Best, >> >> Tat >> >> p.s. >> >> Please forgive me multi-posting this to both users and dev list. >> >> I need to let mac/fg users know about the outage of webpage for >> >> avoiding confusion. >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
