Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about new view -- is this possible?
Ima Sudonim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > X-plane has a view where you can fly looking down over your scenery. > Like your flying over a map with an icon representing your plane. Nice > for VFR and for the navigationally-challengeed. A nice second view > window to have up when you're as cluless as I seem to be sometimes. > Can this be done with the property system now? It's a combination of > an atlas-like top down thing with showing the plane's heading and maybe > speed. Using the hud could be fun, too! > Yes. Referencing the "Chase View" defined in preferences.xml: change the x-offset to 200.0 and the z-offset to -1.0 and you'll be looking straight down from 200m above the aircraft. Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Question about new view -- is this possible?
X-plane has a view where you can fly looking down over your scenery. Like your flying over a map with an icon representing your plane. Nice for VFR and for the navigationally-challengeed. A nice second view window to have up when you're as cluless as I seem to be sometimes. Can this be done with the property system now? It's a combination of an atlas-like top down thing with showing the plane's heading and maybe speed. Using the hud could be fun, too! BTW, I built with 2.95 because trying to build fg on macos x with gcc3 gives wierd errors (not that I remember any of them). Maybe someone else would know the specifics? Thanks! Ima ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] VFR add-on for flightgear
This isn't SP*AM, I promise! It's related to flightgear. Well, possibly, anyway. I saw a while back saw an ad for a vfr flying app called ez-landmark. It has a database listing significant scenery objects that can be used to identify landmarks for VFR in FS 2k2. If you fly over major landmarks, the software labels it on the simulator's screen next to the object. How difficult would it be to add something similar to FlightGear? Is anyone doing such a thing already? In what component? At the very least, it could be used to label airports, ndbs, which Atlas already does so it must be in teh data. (I know, I know, I rarely know at what airport I'm landing 8-) Landed at Andrews Airforce Base by mistake in flightgear three weeks ago. Oops! Looked like regan national with longer runways!) Is there a freely available database of labeled locations (lat/lon of the Louvre, buckinham palace, the kremlin, the white house, Elvis' house,the Hollywood sign, etc) It sounds like a useful tool. The documentation on their web site says they got most of their labels from the user community. It would be nice if parks, rivers, etc. could be labeled to, but that would be harder to tie into lat/long than a building maybe. There is more information available at: http://www.abacuspub.com/ezlandmark/ if I haven't explained this correctly. I downloaded a demo, but am not interested in fs2k2 anymore. Perhaps it could be tied into Atlas? I guess the database would be independent of the scenery files themselves. I actually asked this last month but didn't follow up on it. I think it got lost in the shuffle. Sorry BTW, thanks for the help with Atlas, everything built fine with libpng and the opengl and glut frameworks. I don't know how to use the Map/MapPS stuff at all, but Atlas itself works (although flightgear framerates fall thru the floor -- I'm using --atlas=socket,out,0.5,127.0.0.1,5600,udp if anyone has any different suggestions). I haven't had much of a chance to play with it today, however, my arthritis is really bothering me 8-( Somehow I thought that a 500 MHz G3 powerpc would run it better. The powerbook only has an 8MB ATI card tho. There was one hit with a name conflict (map and Map are the same file on the macos x file system) Thanks! Ima
[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/GUI prop_picker.cxx,1.1.1.1,1.2 prop_picker.hxx,1.1.1.1,1.2
This is really cool! Looking through the changes I couldn't see...should this work with all properties? The orientation and position path data doesn't seem to update realtime. I can see lots of ways this can be used for debugging. Performance impact is minimal. Best, Jim "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/GUI > In directory seneca:/tmp/cvs-serv9955 > > Modified Files: > prop_picker.cxx prop_picker.hxx > Log Message: > James Turner: > > Here's a change to the GUI property picker I did a few weeks back. > It makes the values in the property pick 'live' (and also re-factors > the picker code to use less arrays, this should be obvious from the > diffs). A good demo is to open up the engine node and observe the rpm, > cylinder head temp, oil pressure and so on while playing with the > throttle and airspeed. It's pretty rough (some rounding of digits would > help) but useful for testing (at least I think so). I'm not sure about > the performance implications either, but it seems fine for me. > > ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Return of the BPCVS
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 9:46 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > It might just be a simple permission problem ... > > "You don't have permission to access /doc/cvsweb/dir.gif on this > server." > > Curt. The directory containing the images isn't aliased for that virtual domain in httpd.conf. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Return of the BPCVS
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Check wrote: > > > > Okay, now I know what he meant. Maybe I'll just pull the plug. > > If you mean you might shut down the CVSWeb interface, well, don't do so > just because of this little problem. It's a very nice interface to have > available, and still perfectly usable with blank squares. On the other > hand, if you think you are going to be having lots of problems with it and > don't have time or energy to investigate, then of course do whatever seems > best for you. > Oh, I knew exactly why it's like that once I understood what he was talking about, but that is way down on the list. It was late, I was cranky and I'm still tying up loose ends from the surprise server move/upgrade. > We should have said "thank you for setting it up" before starting to point > out bugs :-) > > Thank you for setting it up. > You're welcome. FWIW I expect to be migrating it to the main flightgear CVS real soon now anyway. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to access base package via CVS
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 1:54 pm, Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Turner wrote: > > Since the base cvs was brought back up, I haven't been able to update > > it: > > > > I get: > > cvs server: Updating . > > cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory > > cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory > > > > This happened on both OS-X and Linux, so I blew away my tree on OS-X > > and tried a clean checkout. Cvs login worked fine, doing co produced: > > > > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvsroot co fgfsbase > > cvs server: Updating fgfsbase > > cvs server: cannot open directory /FlightGear/FlightGear: No such file > > or directory > > cvs server: skipping directory fgfsbase > > > > Any suggestions? The lock directory got deleted when cron purged /tmp . > > Yes, try co FlightGear/FlightGear instead. No, you should follow the directions and check out fgfsbase. > > That worked for me. Not if you saw that (misspelled) error message at any time. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to access base package via CVS
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Turner wrote: > Since the base cvs was brought back up, I haven't been able to update > it: > > I get: > cvs server: Updating . > cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory > cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory > > This happened on both OS-X and Linux, so I blew away my tree on OS-X > and tried a clean checkout. Cvs login worked fine, doing co produced: > > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvsroot co fgfsbase > cvs server: Updating fgfsbase > cvs server: cannot open directory /FlightGear/FlightGear: No such file > or directory > cvs server: skipping directory fgfsbase > > Any suggestions? > Yes, try co FlightGear/FlightGear instead. That worked for me. Matt > H&H > James > -- > Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. > > > ___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Unable to access base package via CVS
Since the base cvs was brought back up, I haven't been able to update it: I get: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory This happened on both OS-X and Linux, so I blew away my tree on OS-X and tried a clean checkout. Cvs login worked fine, doing co produced: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvsroot co fgfsbase cvs server: Updating fgfsbase cvs server: cannot open directory /FlightGear/FlightGear: No such file or directory cvs server: skipping directory fgfsbase Any suggestions? H&H James -- Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Return of the BPCVS
John Check writes: > On Monday 03 February 2003 5:54 pm, Julian Foad wrote: > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:39:28 -0500, > > > John Check <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>Base package cvs is back, now with more cvsweb > > >> > > >>http://rockfish.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ > > > > > > ..imaginary folder like directory icons? ;-) > > > > I see this effect too. No image is displayed by " > HREF="FlightGear/"> > WIDTH="20" HEIGHT="22">"; just an empty square. Maybe the path > > "/doc/..." is wrong or inaccessible. > > > > - Julian > > > > Okay, now I know what he meant. Maybe I'll just pull the plug. It might just be a simple permission problem ... "You don't have permission to access /doc/cvsweb/dir.gif on this server." Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Return of the BPCVS
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:38:57 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We should have said "thank you for setting it up" before starting to > point out bugs :-) > > Thank you for setting it up. ..amen! ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Night approach
So nice but without light lobes is not really cool Now I work on it but all techniques that simulate per-pixel lighting requre vertex programs but plib in nearest future will not support it. Also I propose use vertex array range to render terrain What's your thoughts guys? Thanx in advance Roman - Original Message - From: "David Megginson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Flightgear Developers' List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:15 PM Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Night approach > Here's a nice shot of the 310 on a long, straight-in night approach to > runway 06L at CYUL (Montreal/Dorval): > > http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/cyul-06l.jpg > > > All the best, > > > David > > -- > David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ > > ___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Night approach
Here's a nice shot of the 310 on a long, straight-in night approach to runway 06L at CYUL (Montreal/Dorval): http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/cyul-06l.jpg All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] switching views (trivial)
Hi Jim, Sounds good, as long as we can still switch views by the keyboard. Mouse/joystick/keyboard can be a bit hard to juggle :) Regards, Geoff Jim Wilson wrote: Hi Geoff, I've got several changes and fixes to the viewer code, one of which changes the view manager to allow what you are describing. It is actually a little more flexible than just reversing, you can select the view through a property. This allows going forward, backward and directly to any specific view without using a special command. It's been done for a couple weeks now. I'll try and get it together and submit the changes in the next day or two. Best, Jim Geoff Reidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hi all, I always wanted to be able to hit shift "v" to be able to cycle through views the other way. That way you can toggle between 2 views without having to go through them all, which can be uncomfortable if you're about to run into a mountain or something. It looked like the code was all there to do it so I have made these minor modifications to enable it. It works fine for me but be warned I know just enough C++ to be dangerous ;) Diffs are against current cvs. There is one patch for the base: home.pacific.net.au/~greendog/flightgear/rev-view-cycle-fgfsbase.diff and one for Flightgear: home.pacific.net.au/~greendog/flightgear/rev-view-cycle-FlightGear.diff ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
