Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translate linear model of Pioneer UAV to JSBSim?

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Selig
At 4/11/02, you wrote: >>>Jon wrote: >>>The data is all there. In fact, the model files the UIUC guys use >>>present pretty much the same information that JSBSim does. Perhaps >>>someone could write a translator? > >On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:30 -0500 > Michael Selig wrote: > >>Some thoughts - I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway (current CVS)

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Selig
... while all these wonderful *uiuc-set.xml airplanes are now being buried alive, I have a few simple questions (multiple choice): What is the variable that dictates where the little green HUD center dot goes? (OK, things in the uiuc_gear code have an effect on this mystery variable, but the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway (current CVS)

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Berndt
> The convention for moving models for flight simulation visual system > is for the origin to be at the CG location for aircraft models. The The *initial* CG location? The CG location can change. Jon smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway (current CVS)

2002-04-11 Thread Alex Perry
> The convention for moving models for flight simulation visual system > is for the origin to be at the CG location for aircraft models. The > coordinate system that we use on our "heavy iron" visual system is +y > out the nose, +x to the right and +z up. For an industry disertation on > the subj

[Flightgear-devel] Trees

2002-04-11 Thread Marcio Shimoda
Hi! I want to plot some trees in the scenary, but how do I know where is the ground? Thanks in advance, Marcio Shimoda ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway (current CVS)

2002-04-11 Thread Bruce Finney
The convention for moving models for flight simulation visual system is for the origin to be at the CG location for aircraft models. The coordinate system that we use on our "heavy iron" visual system is +y out the nose, +x to the right and +z up. For an industry disertation on the subject there

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compile Time

2002-04-11 Thread Norman Vine
Sam Varner writes: >On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 19:44, Norman Vine wrote: >> What OS ? >> What compiler ? > >Gcc-3/Linux. It's actually the link time that takes so long. compile as much as you feel comfortable with without debugging at least plib and ssg and probably most of flightgear except for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Bernie Bright
Alex Perry wrote: > > Personally, I've always preferred that event registration takes two > parameters; the first delay time and the repeat delay time. > This lets you do one-shot as well as immediate and non-immediate modes. > Can we do something like that with Boost in future ? > Obviously we c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Bernie Bright
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > > Bernie Bright writes: > > Your analysis is correct. The old event manager executes an event when > > it is registered and then subsequently every 'interval' milliseconds. I > > can replace the old behaviour but wonder if I should. IMO registering > > an event to be

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compile Time

2002-04-11 Thread Sam Varner
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 19:44, Norman Vine wrote: > What OS ? > What compiler ? Gcc-3/Linux. It's actually the link time that takes so long. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-deve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Alex Perry
Personally, I've always preferred that event registration takes two parameters; the first delay time and the repeat delay time. This lets you do one-shot as well as immediate and non-immediate modes. Can we do something like that with Boost in future ? Obviously we can support it right now if we w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie Bright writes: > Your analysis is correct. The old event manager executes an event when > it is registered and then subsequently every 'interval' milliseconds. I > can replace the old behaviour but wonder if I should. IMO registering > an event to be run every x millseconds doesn't imply

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Bernie Bright
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > > David Megginson writes: > > All ambient lighting has suddenly vanished from my FlightGear, even > > with my previously-built binary. I still see the 2D panel and the > > runway lights, but nothing else, no matter what the time of day. > > Other 3D programs like Blende

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
hat address a couple other problems found as well. Synced to CVS 21:50 EDT 2002-04-11 Description: Minor fixes. Made some changes to get lighting correct for time of day for now. MSVC compatibility fix and returned to clearing z-buffer only in LOOKFROM (formerly pilot view). Files: http://www.sp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: > All ambient lighting has suddenly vanished from my FlightGear, even > with my previously-built binary. I still see the 2D panel and the > runway lights, but nothing else, no matter what the time of day. > Other 3D programs like Blender and TuxRacer are still working fine.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Jonathan Polley
Jim, I did what you recommended and changed "virtual const sgMat4 &get..." to "virtual const sgMat4 * get..." If I changed "virtual const sgMat4 &get..." to "virtual sgMat4 &get..." then everything worked. Jonathan Polley On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 07:02 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:

Re: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translate linear model of Pioneer UAVto JSBSim?

2002-04-11 Thread Dirty Bear
>>> Jon wrote: >>> The data is all there. In fact, the model files the UIUC >>> guys use present pretty much the same information that >>> JSBSim does. Perhaps someone could write a translator? > >On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:30 -0500 > Michael Selig wrote: > >>Some thoughts - I think it would be

re: [Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread David Megginson
David Megginson writes: > All ambient lighting has suddenly vanished from my FlightGear, even > with my previously-built binary. I still see the 2D panel and the > runway lights, but nothing else, no matter what the time of day. > Other 3D programs like Blender and TuxRacer are still working

[Flightgear-devel] Ambient lighting

2002-04-11 Thread David Megginson
All ambient lighting has suddenly vanished from my FlightGear, even with my previously-built binary. I still see the 2D panel and the runway lights, but nothing else, no matter what the time of day. Other 3D programs like Blender and TuxRacer are still working fine. Has anything else ever noticed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
Jonathan Polley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Changing the '&' to a '*' did not solve the problem. When I made Fred's > change (removing 'const' but leaving the '&') I was able to get it to > build. Ummm...did you change those to a pointer to an array of arrays? It wasn't just a matter of chan

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compile Time

2002-04-11 Thread Norman Vine
Sam Varner writes: > >I was wondering if anyone had tips on >reducing compile and startup times. What OS ? What compiler ? Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Compile Time

2002-04-11 Thread Sam Varner
I just made my first, um, "flight" dynamics model for Vamos. It doesn't do anything useful yet. But I was wondering if anyone had tips on reducing compile and startup times. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FW: More Tweaks

2002-04-11 Thread Jonathan Polley
Would it be possible to convert the property string to a token? This way, if I were to want to read the property I can avoid all the messy string processing. The token could be an index into a table or a pointer to the proper structure and the read/write routines could be overloaded to accep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Jonathan Polley
Thanks. On a related note, has anyone decided how the issues that MSVC has with JSBSim (getting confused on some of the overloading) will be resolved? Thanks again, Jonathan Polley On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 09:35 AM, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Jonathan Polley writes: >> There are older

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Jonathan Polley
Changing the '&' to a '*' did not solve the problem. When I made Fred's change (removing 'const' but leaving the '&') I was able to get it to build. Thanks! Jonathan Polley On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 12:37 AM, Jim Wilson wrote: > Jonathan on those four lines (thats all there is) change

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-11 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: > The YASim C172 idle is better -- it's down to 1000 RPM -- but it's > still about 200-300 RPM too high based on what I saw yesterday (this > is at an airfield under 400ft ASL). Yeah, it was basically a hack. There are two "core" problems that I can think of with the mo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /controls/parking-brake

2002-04-11 Thread David Megginson
Frederic Bouvier writes: > MSVC has no 'fmax' function. 'max' is ok (a macro !). Hmm -- max won't work under GCC because it's an inlined function. I guess I'll have to write out the comparison. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim update ....

2002-04-11 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:52:24 +0200 Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >make[4]: Entering directory >make[4]: *** [JSBSim.o] Error 1 > >quickstep: 18:51:57 ~> gcc --version >2.95.3 Yep, we're aware of it. I'll fix this when I get home. We use the max/min functions in other parts of JSBS

[Flightgear-devel] FW: More Tweaks

2002-04-11 Thread Norman Vine
FYI -Original Message- From: Norman Vine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:41 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: More Tweaks Tony Peden > >--- Norman Vine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jon, Tony >> >> FYI >> pr

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim update ....

2002-04-11 Thread Martin Spott
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim' g++ -DFGFS -I../../.. -I../../../src -I/opt/gnu/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/FlightGear/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -O3 -D_REENTRANT -c JSBSim.cxx JSBSim.cxx: In method `bool FGJSBsim::copy_to_JSBsim()': JSBSim

[Flightgear-devel] compile error under linux/gcc

2002-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
With the latest cvs compiling under linux with gcc version 2.95.4 I'm getting the following error. c++ -DFGFS -I../../.. -I../../../src -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -O2 -c JSBSim.cxx JSBSim.cxx: In method `bool FGJSBsim::copy_to_JSBsim()': JSBSim.cxx:335: implicit declarati

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /controls/parking-brake

2002-04-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
From: "David Megginson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've added a new property, /controls/parking-brake (also available > through FGControls). For both JSBSim and the YASim C172, this > property overrides the toe brakes for the main gear (actually, for > YASim, it is just added then clamped). in JSBSim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /controls/parking-brake

2002-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've added a new property, /controls/parking-brake (also available > through FGControls). For both JSBSim and the YASim C172, this > property overrides the toe brakes for the main gear (actually, for > YASim, it is just added then clamped). > > The

[Flightgear-devel] New mouse code

2002-04-11 Thread David Megginson
The new, configurable mouse code is now the default. If you haven't been using it already, try rebuilding and let me know if you see any problems. Unless anything comes up, we'll probably remove the old mouse code in a few days (it's still available with the configure option --with-old-mouse for

[Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-11 Thread David Megginson
The YASim C172 idle is better -- it's down to 1000 RPM -- but it's still about 200-300 RPM too high based on what I saw yesterday (this is at an airfield under 400ft ASL). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-de

[Flightgear-devel] /controls/parking-brake

2002-04-11 Thread David Megginson
I've added a new property, /controls/parking-brake (also available through FGControls). For both JSBSim and the YASim C172, this property overrides the toe brakes for the main gear (actually, for YASim, it is just added then clamped). The 'B' key now toggles the parking brake on and off. Ther

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jonathan Polley writes: > There are older issues with building under MSVC: > > Main/viewer.cxx has a #include that should be either > "fg_props.hxx" or , which ever you prefer. > > Both Network/raw_ctrls.hxx and Network/net_fdm.hxx have static constants > defined as a part of their classes.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] problem with file Engine/prop_75in2f.xml

2002-04-11 Thread Richard Bytheway
If you are using Win32 try PFE (Programmers File Editor) (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/), you can select Unix or Dos line endings as a default and when you save. It has some language awareness as well. Richard > -Original Message- > From: Jon Berndt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] problem with file Engine/prop_75in2f.xml

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Berndt
Sorry about that. I've got to find a darned editor that doesn't do that to me. I'm guilty! Jon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frederic > Bouvier > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 6:03 AM > To: FlightGear Development > Subject: [Fli

[Flightgear-devel] problem with file Engine/prop_75in2f.xml

2002-04-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hello, the file prop_75in2f.xml has been introduced in CVS with DOS/Windows line endings ( CRLF or "\r\n" ). When people like me check out with WinCVS, LF are replaced by CRLF, so the file has now CRCRLF file endings and the parser of JSBsim bombs ! A bad correction would be to put it binary (-k

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hello, removing the const before sgMat4 cure the problem. Cheers, -Fred - Original Message - From: "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems > Jonathan on those four lines (th