Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground
Ron Jensen wrote: Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a given longitude and latitude pair. Is there a simgear function to load the associated .btg.gz terrain file and find the elevation at the given point? Or should I be looking at flightgear for an example? I'd like to keep the program quick and simple... Ultimate goal is automated object placement. Or am I re-inventing a wheel here? A combination of scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl and scripts/perl/examples/telnet.pl is what I use for obtaining ground elevations for the scenery object database. It does require a connection to a running instance of flightgear though - so it's not exactly lightweight. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground
Ron Jensen wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:18 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a given longitude and latitude pair. Is there a simgear function to load the associated .btg.gz terrain file and find the elevation at the given point? Or should I be looking at flightgear for an example? I'd like to keep the program quick and simple... Ultimate goal is automated object placement. Or am I re-inventing a wheel here? A combination of scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl and scripts/perl/examples/telnet.pl is what I use for obtaining ground elevations for the scenery object database. It does require a connection to a running instance of flightgear though - so it's not exactly lightweight. Hmm, calc-tile.pl seems to do about the same as my fgbucket.cpp. A little more verbose, and I swapped the input args so I can paste straight from airnav.com... How are you using telnet.pl to get altitudes? If you have an instance of flightgear running with a null fdm you can set the position in the properties system, then read back the terrain elevation. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:18 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: Ron Jensen wrote: Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a given longitude and latitude pair. Is there a simgear function to load the associated .btg.gz terrain file and find the elevation at the given point? Or should I be looking at flightgear for an example? I'd like to keep the program quick and simple... Ultimate goal is automated object placement. Or am I re-inventing a wheel here? A combination of scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl and scripts/perl/examples/telnet.pl is what I use for obtaining ground elevations for the scenery object database. It does require a connection to a running instance of flightgear though - so it's not exactly lightweight. Hmm, calc-tile.pl seems to do about the same as my fgbucket.cpp. A little more verbose, and I swapped the input args so I can paste straight from airnav.com... How are you using telnet.pl to get altitudes? Thanks, Ron - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Movie Short - from Aerotro
I made another Movie Short, it's using some old video from a few weeks = back, Special effects include daylight (Sky Ilumination) glare, (This = adds realism as if seen through a camera irl) Included is - Storch2 - L-1011, erobo, DCULP, AndersG in his fire Truck.=20 Just a short video, slow paced, Bread would not arrive before going = mouldy ;o) Hence the backing music! http://files.ww.com/files/37294.html Aerotro Nice movie! I was wondering, where do you get that menu that lets you switch between aircraft in multiplayer (It appears starting around 1:16 in the video)? Is it in the latest CVS? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch
* Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid we'll get complaints because the real-life-weather doesn't work any more. (No more obvious weather changes shaking the aircraft. ;-) m. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch
On 8/3/07, Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid we'll get complaints because the real-life-weather doesn't work any more. (No more obvious weather changes shaking the aircraft. ;-) A good reply would be, find a real-world crosswind situation and try to land. :-) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch
On Fri 3 August 2007 18:49, Hans Fugal wrote: On 8/3/07, Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid we'll get complaints because the real-life-weather doesn't work any more. (No more obvious weather changes shaking the aircraft. ;-) A good reply would be, find a real-world crosswind situation and try to land. :-) But you can fly through a storm and get these changes shaking the Aircraft, isn't it ? -- Gérard - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Landsat based scenery requests
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm wondering if it is possible to request landsat based scenery of some specific area (like that was done for LinuxTag and EAA Oshkosh), if yes I would like to request such scenery for the area around KSFO. That area looks really bad (with a hill in the middle of the terminal for example. Another lower priority area would be around ESOE (including the city to the east of it near the lake and the town a bit south of that) Regards AnMaster -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGs6EXWmK6ng/aMNkRCvGVAJ9Mxz8GZ7x5Fzy/vlbjQZJy9LBiGgCdG8JD 5310HSre53a1YIB41iLPBLk= =T/rQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Hey!
For the next little bit, we hope to have a UAV in the air and flying, using FlightGear as a live synthetic view of the aircraft, but also we have a net connection so this copy of flightgear is registered in the MP system. So if you look for call sign UMN1, that's us, and we are LIVE! Curt. -- Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 19:06 +0200, gh.robin wrote: On Fri 3 August 2007 18:49, Hans Fugal wrote: On 8/3/07, Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid we'll get complaints because the real-life-weather doesn't work any more. (No more obvious weather changes shaking the aircraft. ;-) A good reply would be, find a real-world crosswind situation and try to land. :-) But you can fly through a storm and get these changes shaking the Aircraft, isn't it ? From http://www.airnav.com/airport/KHIF : - CAUTION: HVY AIRLINE AND CIV TFC ON APCH AND DEP. STRICT ADHERENCE TO ATC ALT AND HDG MANDATORY. EXP TURBULENCE APCH AND LDG RWY 14 DUR MED TO HI SFC WINDS. WIND VELOCITY MAY VARY FR APCH TO DEP END OF RWY. The current weather system usually put the weather wall over the runway, I'm hoping the new interpolation patch is smart enough to change the weather fast enough... Since the two metar sources are only six miles apart I'm hoping the wind change will be very rapid, but harder to detect than the wall method. I haven't really looked at the patch (too many irons in the fire) Ron - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
