Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP what data to send

2002-07-13 Thread Frederic Bouvier
From: "Christian Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Norman Vine wrote: > > Andy Ross writes: > > >But note that there is lots of opportunity for compression here; it's > > >just that dumb general-purpose algorithms like "zip" are unable to > > >find them for a single packet. A few ideas that occur to m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MP what data to send

2002-07-13 Thread Christian Mayer
Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > From: "Christian Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Norman Vine wrote: > > > Andy Ross writes: > > > >But note that there is lots of opportunity for compression here; it's > > > >just that dumb general-purpose algorithms like "zip" are unable to > > > >find them for a sing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Virtual Cities

2002-07-13 Thread David Megginson
Simon Fowler writes: > What kind of buildings and other stationary models do we need for > VFR use? What would be the easiest place to start work on them? It's not that predictable. For example, around my home airport, ATC uses a water tower, a bridge, and a slightly-isolated subdivision when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using a Saitek Cyborg Gold USB Sticksuccessfully with FG ?

2002-07-13 Thread David Megginson
Victoria Welch writes: > Presuming that the cvs version of plib did something, I'll try hacking > around with the values in .fgfsrc and see what happens. It looks enough > like it did that I have no confidence of success here, but one never > knows. When you run js_demo in the plib distro,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using a Saitek Cyborg Gold USB Stick successfully with FG ?

2002-07-13 Thread Jim Wilson
Victoria Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Assuming that I have the same results I have had in the past, I'll track > down that Docs/README.Joystick.html wherever plib hides it docs. > Interesting that looks like one with the same name in the fg docs :-). > That's in the base package...right wh

[Flightgear-devel] Input binding flexibility

2002-07-13 Thread William Earnest
Hi all, The recent addition of binding USB devices by name is great. No more crawling under the table to unplug and replug the yoke and pedals, which would come up in random order on a reboot and get assigned to different js? values. One issue is name variability. I have a dif

[Flightgear-devel] A real C172 cockpit

2002-07-13 Thread Wolfram Kuss
FWIW, FYI: http://www.therealcockpit.com/main/index.php ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using a Saitek Cyborg Gold USB Sticksuccessfully with FG ?

2002-07-13 Thread John Check
On Saturday 13 July 2002 8:26 am, Jim Wilson wrote: > Victoria Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Assuming that I have the same results I have had in the past, I'll track > > down that Docs/README.Joystick.html wherever plib hides it docs. > > Interesting that looks like one with the same name in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using a Saitek Cyborg Gold USB Sticksuccessfully with FG ?

2002-07-13 Thread Victoria Welch
On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 13:44, John Check wrote: > On Saturday 13 July 2002 8:26 am, Jim Wilson wrote: > > Victoria Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Assuming that I have the same results I have had in the past, I'll track > > > down that Docs/README.Joystick.html wherever plib hides it docs. >

[Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-13 Thread Dave Perry
Vikki, I normally use a CH Product Flight Sim Yoke, but do have the Cyborg 3D Gold USB. So I removed the yoke and plugged in the Saitek. I got values from -0.8 to +0.2 or +0.3 on all four axies running js_demo (usually in ../FlightGear/bin. Then I ran jscal /dev/js4 -c to do a calibration (

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB Stick

2002-07-13 Thread Victoria Welch
Hi Dave, On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 15:46, Dave Perry wrote: > Vikki, > I normally use a CH Product Flight Sim Yoke, but do have the Cyborg 3D > Gold USB. So I removed the yoke and plugged in the Saitek. I got > values from -0.8 to +0.2 or +0.3 on all four axies running js_demo > (usually in ../F

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A real C172 cockpit

2002-07-13 Thread Jim Wilson
Wolfram Kuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FWIW, FYI: > http://www.therealcockpit.com/main/index.php Impressive package. Expensive, but cheaper than the real thing ;-) Actually I was most impressed by the quality of the photos. Great photo work. Certainly it'd be outside the limits of fair us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A real C172 cockpit

2002-07-13 Thread Alex Perry
> Certainly it'd be outside the limits of fair use to turn those into 3d > instrument textures for Flight Gear. True, if you don't ask them. You an always ask them, and they might say yes. They might let you make up a set of FGFS instrument files that are a 1-for-1 correspondence with their prod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A real C172 cockpit

2002-07-13 Thread Jim Wilson
Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Certainly it'd be outside the limits of fair use to turn those into 3d > > instrument textures for Flight Gear. > > True, if you don't ask them. Of course. But they should be fully informed about GPL and it wouldn't suprise me if they didn't or couldn'

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Schedule

2002-07-13 Thread The Bergrens
Hi! I am Brandon Bergren. I am currently enrolled in Systems administration at Southeast Tech. in Sioux Falls, SD, for the fall semester. I got my schedule and it seems a "Curtis Olson" will be teaching me Basic Electronics on tuesdays and thursdays. I was wondering if this is the same person a

[Flightgear-devel] joysticks.xml for Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB

2002-07-13 Thread Dave Perry
Vikki, Concerning "joysticks.xml" for your Saitek. I decided to go ahead and make a "joysticks.xml" file for this joystick and try it out. This file is set up for 1 or 2 engines and it includes buttons for flaps, propeller pitch, mixture, elevator trim, external view cycle, and the "hat is se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-4 "manual"

2002-07-13 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've been doing really well recently with my A-4 landings, so I wrote > up a putative "Flight Operations Manual" to record the stuff I've > learned: > > http://www.plausible.org/a4-ops/ Andy, This is a great tutorial. I've been working on the landings, a