[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - December 2011
May I present you the last newsletter of 2011! Happy new year everyone! Just like last month, this newsletter contains some important information for contributors, so read it carefully. Altough most of the release cycle will be the same as for 2.4.0, there are some important differences with respect to aircraft. Anyone interested to write next month's interview? The idea is that contributors pick interview questions and answer them by themselves. You can either send me the interview, or put it in the newsletter yourself. Contributions for this month are welcome at the wiki. -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft issues: dg101g, Lightning
English Electric Lightning: Nothing wrong with it, but if anyone would like to add a new splash screen picture, I have a nice series from the top of a ballistic arc at around 65.000 ft with nice aerial views of Nevada. Just let me know. Hi Thorsten, Glad to hear it still works (I don't currently have a working FG build) - I'd be happy to see a new splashscreen, the existing one is pretty old... I can't recall, can we have multiple splash screens for one aircraft? I know that you get one of the random generic splashscreens if there's none defined for the aircraft you're using. Maybe it's not a feature people want, but I always thought that a little bit of variety would be nice! Cheers, AJ -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] PostGIS update @ Landcover-DB
Hi Martin, CS and CORINE download fine! (for NL at least :P) Cheers, Gijs -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft issues: dg101g, Lightning
On 01/03/2012 12:58 PM, AJ MacLeod wrote: I can't recall, can we have multiple splash screens for one aircraft? I know that you get one of the random generic splashscreens if there's none defined for the aircraft you're using. Maybe it's not a feature people want, but I always thought that a little bit of variety would be nice! BTW, what is the reason for the splash images to be small and square? At least several I remember were like that. Would not it be better for them to be 16:9, with anything important having to fit 4:3? Edheldil -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim
Hi All, I'm going through the GUI to update the Manual with the correct menu items for the upcoming release. I noticed the MP Settings dialog which I'm sure has been there for ages without me seeing it. Should this now be documented as the standard way to enable MP, abs should there be a checkbox allowing the MP server to be set without MP being active? I'll also update the dialog to make it more consistent with the rest of the UI if no one objects. On a related note I noticed that the menu option to change the lat/Lin format has been removed. Given how useful it is to have a decimal degrees read out for scenery development that seems somewhat strange. Was this intentional ? Or is it a regression? I'm thinking it would be better located under HUD properties. -Stuartn -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim
On 3 Jan 2012, at 12:54, Stuart Buchanan wrote: I noticed the MP Settings dialog which I'm sure has been there for ages without me seeing it. Should this now be documented as the standard way to enable MP, abs should there be a checkbox allowing the MP server to be set without MP being active? I'll also update the dialog to make it more consistent with the rest of the UI if no one objects. I added the feature, but there's a couple of issues - we need to hardcode a server list for this release (there's a ticket about dynamically retrieving a list of active MP servers, for post 2.6), and the pui combo box has some focus issues, to do with when it fires its valueChanged notification. In the medium-term I'll improve the pui code, but again for 2.6, making the widget 'non-live', and adding a separate connect button or checkbox is the way to go, I think. (In more detail - I tried to make the combo-box editable - so you can enter a server address manually - but when you do this, the widget seems to be reluctant to loose the keyboard focus, and hence propagate the typed value, unless you click on another text field in the dialog). Notably, simply clicking outside the widget *won't* force it to loose focus. James -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local Weather 1.4
I've just committed to origin/next a better fix for the LoD range that adjusts based on the view distance, and also attempts to account for the possible size of the cloud itself. Thanks - working fine here! Does this contain the impostor functionality already or not? Cheers, * Thorsten -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] PostGIS update @ Landcover-DB
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 17:10 +, Martin Spott wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Shapefile download might/should be working again. Please test, particularly the assigned reference system, and report. If people don't think it's worth testing, then I might think it's not worth maintaining Martin. Hi Martin, Just tried a 4x4 degrees around YGIL - N -29, S -33, W 146, E 150 Downloads from the WEB page - === (a) Custom Scenery - worked fine... zip downloaded and appears valid... and has 11 shapefiles... 44 files... (b) CLC2000v13 - got a 404 error - Not Found The requested URL /download/1e82c1e0-6193-47d1-8af4-692aa2b30017.zip was not found on this server. Repeated, with same 404, different zip - The requested URL /download/b7668570-9f06-4cf6-981a-bbb465901c5c.zip was not found on this server. (c) OpenStreetMap - appeared to work fine... a zip downloaded and appeared valid... BUT contains just one file, COPYING??? And the contents of this COPYING file was - quote Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ /quote And repeating the download got the same result!!! ;=(( (d) But doing individual layer downloads, like osm_rail, osm_river, osm_tertiary - the only 4 tried at this time, worked fine... shapefiles look good... So I got problems just with (b) CLC2000v13 and (c) OpenStreetMap... But since it was my first try with both of these, do not know if it is the result of the recent changes, or if it has existed for some time... Direct URL downloading... == Have not yet had a chance to again test direct URL down loading, but will get around to it, and advise any problems... This programmed URL downloading is the method I use normally, usually from within a script/program, and this worked fine on my last downloads a week or so back... Will test more as time permits, and the need develops ;=)) Summary === To me this is a VERY valuable service, but I guess there are just not that many people into their own scenery building, ;=(( It is quite an undertaking... And many that do sometimes use other data sources... with more detail... especially since the 'swirlies' rendering bug appears FIXED with the new BTG versions... But this could/should change as 'easier' TG tool building methods get around, and more is done on GUI scenery building tools... must find the time to continue my efforts in this regard ;=)) Everybody, and their dog, at least 'speak' frequently about the 850 apt data, with its curved taxiways... HTH. Regards, Geoff. -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] PostGIS update @ Landcover-DB
Hi Geoff, thanks for extensive testing. Just a few, short comments, as our little son is about to board his bed Geoff McLane wrote: Just tried a 4x4 degrees around YGIL - N -29, S -33, W 146, E 150 [...] (b) CLC2000v13 - got a 404 error - Not Found The requested URL /download/1e82c1e0-6193-47d1-8af4-692aa2b30017.zip was not found on this server. CLC is CORINE Land Cover, a project of the EEA, the European Environmental Agency and therefore covers Europe only. I have to admit that the error message is a bit misleading and will try to imagine a more appropriate report. (c) OpenStreetMap - appeared to work fine... a zip downloaded and appeared valid... BUT contains just one file, COPYING??? Mmmmh, I have to admit this sounds like a bug. I'll check. Thanks so far, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft issues: Vostok-1, dc-3, dhc6, CRJ700, pa24-250-CIIB
Hello, * dc-3: Very nice cockpit work - the manual needs an update though, starting the engine seems to require at least one more step than advertized (the selection of a fuel tank). Even then for some reason I got only the left engine on - repeating symmetrically what I did never started the right engine until I used the autostart function. According to the DC3-Thread in the forum (http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=13629start=90#p146252) the developement group decided not to work with helijah anymore for some known reasons. Obviously they will make further work and improvements on the DC3. But it seems not to make it's way into FGdata, at least not by helijah. Difficult situation But I'm more concerned about some licence infringement of helijah according to the same thread in the forum. I hope it is not true, though I was already aware of one infringement. (Original Airwolf-sound). * dhc6: Nice to see more details in the cockpit. Just, how the hell do I switch all the warning signs off? After starting the engines, the whole warning panel lit up (which I know from some other aircraft as a test mode), but the lights never went out. Plane was flying fine though. Look at the Overhead panel- there is a switch called caution lights- just disengage. But I'm not sure if this switch is realistic simulated. Cheers Heiko -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft issues: Cessna Citation-X
Hello, I updated my FGdata today, and wow- the Citation X has improved! Especially the Primus Display are great- the NAV map was a long missing feature! I also could see that the Autopilot has been improved and works now like it should: a real FLC-Mode! But I have problems with the locking on ILS. Whenever I engage the Aproach-Mode in ILS/NAV-Mode the aircraft make a barrel roll and heads down to ground. As an example: KSFO 28R NAV-Mode, heading-selected to intercept the LOC. Engage Aproach-Mode- when it captures the ILS, it makes the roll down to the ground. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug? Beside this issue, it would be a candidate for the Base package for me! Cheers Heiko still in work: http://www.hoerbird.net/galerie.html But already done: http://www.hoerbird.net/reisen.html -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local Weather 1.4
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Thorsten Renk wrote: Does this contain the impostor functionality already or not? No - the Impostor function will be committed after the 2.6.0 release. -Stuart -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:36 PM, James Turner wrote: On 3 Jan 2012, at 12:54, Stuart Buchanan wrote: I noticed the MP Settings dialog which I'm sure has been there for ages without me seeing it. Should this now be documented as the standard way to enable MP, abs should there be a checkbox allowing the MP server to be set without MP being active? I'll also update the dialog to make it more consistent with the rest of the UI if no one objects. I added the feature, but there's a couple of issues - we need to hardcode a server list for this release (there's a ticket about dynamically retrieving a list of active MP servers, for post 2.6), and the pui combo box has some focus issues, to do with when it fires its valueChanged notification. In the medium-term I'll improve the pui code, but again for 2.6, making the widget 'non-live', and adding a separate connect button or checkbox is the way to go, I think. OK. I'll make the appropriate hardcoded changes for the moment and update The Manual to describe using the dialog for connecting to the MP environment. I'll leave references to using other methods for users wanting to connect to private or non-standard MP servers. I'll also add a default port. -Stuart -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] PostGIS update @ Landcover-DB
Geoff McLane wrote: (c) OpenStreetMap - appeared to work fine... a zip downloaded and appeared valid... BUT contains just one file, COPYING??? Might/should be working now, at least my own test was successful, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim
On 3 Jan 2012, at 21:34, Stuart Buchanan wrote: OK. I'll make the appropriate hardcoded changes for the moment and update The Manual to describe using the dialog for connecting to the MP environment. I'll leave references to using other methods for users wanting to connect to private or non-standard MP servers. I'll also add a default port. All sounds good, thanks. James -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Release 2.6.0 git/fgdata aircraft maintenance
Hi, in preparation of the Release 2.6.0, two issues affecting Aircraft in fgdata will be fixed by a batch commit. Updates will be pushed to fgdata next week, so shortly before the 2.6.0 release branch is created. If you want to fix these issues for your aircraft yourself, you have to do it _now_ and push the update or merge request for your aircraft (before next Tuesday). * Issue #1 is stereo sound files. 98 aircraft are still affected by this issue - which is actually one more than when we discussed this in early December. Meanwhile, two aircraft were fixed (Sikorsky-76C and sopwithCamel), however, two new aircraft with the issue were added (Gloster-Whittle and Lockheed-Martin-FA-22A-Raptor). And we forgot to count the separated an2 last time... All aircraft affected by the sound issue (as of today) are listed here: http://pastebin.com/PLe3jk9Y and the full list of affected files: http://pastebin.com/uLA1Sj2C * Issue #2 is the deprecated JSBSim properties egt_deg... (instead of egt-deg...). These have triggered automatic warnings for more than a year. The issue only remains for 7 aircraft - which will also be fixed next week: 737NG600 737NG700 737NG800 737NG900 A380 Lockheed-NF104 fokker50 (Use grep -r /egt_ fgdata/Aircraft to see the remaining occurrences). If you want to resolve the issues of your aircraft yourself, see here for more info: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft_maintenance cheers, Thorsten -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:40 PM, James Turner wrote: On 3 Jan 2012, at 21:34, Stuart Buchanan wrote: OK. I'll make the appropriate hardcoded changes for the moment and update The Manual to describe using the dialog for connecting to the MP environment. I'll leave references to using other methods for users wanting to connect to private or non-standard MP servers. I'll also add a default port. All sounds good, thanks. I've just pushed an update to the MP Settings dialog. Let me know what you think. A couple of notes: 1) I've included location information for the servers, so they can be used sensibly by users to determine the correct MP server to connect to. So our instructions for new users can hopefully be simply to open the dialog, select a server close to the user, and press Connect. Another win for usability - great work James et al. ! 2) I've remove the port setting. This defaults to 5000, and isn't something that a user connecting to the standard MP servers is going to change. If someone is connecting to a non-standard server, they'll need to do so from the command line anyway 3) The only way I found to disconnect from the MP environment was to set the txhost to 0.0.0.0 (from a code read of multiplayermgr.cxx). Is there a better way to disconnect? As far as I can see, there's no way to do so gracefully at present - looks like an else branch is missing from the if() test of the txhost string. -Stuart -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting / stopping MP in-sim
Hi Stuart and James, nice work on the dialog updates. Works much better now :) Some comments: menu option is greyed out when MP is not enabled on startup (via commandline/fgrun).maybe add a note like Individual servers can be down? Could even add a button to open the mpstatus website. People don't Read That Fine Manual, so we shouldn't rely on just that. callsign only changes when re-connecting. I'd add a note about that as well. Cheers, Gijs -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft issues: Cessna Citation-X
no its a bug , Im still trying to tune that . GS hold is still pretty unstable , but Im hoping to have it better soon , I just get pulled off to other projects too easily. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote: Hello, I updated my FGdata today, and wow- the Citation X has improved! Especially the Primus Display are great- the NAV map was a long missing feature! I also could see that the Autopilot has been improved and works now like it should: a real FLC-Mode! But I have problems with the locking on ILS. Whenever I engage the Aproach-Mode in ILS/NAV-Mode the aircraft make a barrel roll and heads down to ground. As an example: KSFO 28R NAV-Mode, heading-selected to intercept the LOC. Engage Aproach-Mode- when it captures the ILS, it makes the roll down to the ground. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug? Beside this issue, it would be a candidate for the Base package for me! Cheers Heiko still in work: http://www.hoerbird.net/galerie.html But already done: http://www.hoerbird.net/reisen.html -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft issues: Vostok-1, dc-3, dhc6, CRJ700, pa24-250-CIIB
* dhc6: Nice to see more details in the cockpit. Just, how the hell do I switch all the warning signs off? After starting the engines, the whole warning panel lit up (which I know from some other aircraft as a test mode), but the lights never went out. Plane was flying fine though. Look at the Overhead panel- there is a switch called caution lights- just disengage. But I'm not sure if this switch is realistic simulated. Cheers Heiko Im guessing there's a nasal error happening there ,since i cant reproduce the problem , but i upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and have many graphic card oddities now , so im in the process of trying to solve that first. -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
