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2002-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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2002-11-16 Thread Christopher S Horler
Seems to be working alright here On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 08:40, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..anyone else seen this?: https://sourceforge.net/ down ..reads:We're Sorry. The SF.net domain is temporarily pointing at this maintenance page. Please access the SourceForge.net site at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172P Progress

2002-11-16 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I've been doing a little more work on the 172p interior. When this plane gets well enough along, I'm going to suggest making it the default startup plane (in the 3D version): Wow, very nice! I agree this could (should) be the default model. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172P Progress

2002-11-16 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Note also that making this the default means switching from the c172r.xml JSBSim file, which Tony maintains, to the c172p.xml JSBSim file, which I maintain. It's not really that big a jump, since mine is plagerized 99.8% from Tony's, and Tony is welcome to take over

[Flightgear-devel] Runway Lights and Undocumented Secrets of Plib

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
I've made a couple of trivial changes to FlightGear so that runway lights turn off during the day in VMC. Plib has callbacks for branches as well as leaves, but the branch callbacks are not documented, so I had to dig trough the plib source code (they're the same ones I used for the dynamic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172P Progress

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: Note also that making this the default means switching from the c172r.xml JSBSim file, which Tony maintains, to the c172p.xml JSBSim file, which I maintain. It's not really that big a jump, since mine is plagerized 99.8% from Tony's, and Tony is welcome to take

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2002-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 16 Nov 2002 09:28:22 +, Christopher S Horler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems to be working alright here ..here too, now. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172P Progress

2002-11-16 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been doing a little more work on the 172p interior. When this plane gets well enough along, I'm going to suggest making it the default startup plane (in the 3D version): The other day I was thinking we were coming to this. :-) That would be a

[Flightgear-devel] Compiling CVS version with cygwin/gcc3.2-2....

2002-11-16 Thread Patrick Staehlin
To compile the development CVS version of FlightGear(0.9.0) i had to apply some small changes to SimGear and FlightGear. The changes need probably some additional ifdefs for other platforms but since my linux-hd crashed i can't verify that. Changes to SimGear: -- Index:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172P Progress

2002-11-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: Thanks. I'm testing it in both 16bpp and 32bpp (which is really 24bpp). In 16bpp, you cannot see the propeller disk any more when the prop is spinning -- it just turns transparent -- but that still looks OK. With a 16 bit color buffer you get 4 bits each for R, G, B,

[Flightgear-devel] Code

2002-11-16 Thread Jon Berndt
Is there a way to determine which methods/attributes in a class are unused by anybody? I'm thinking maybe there's a utility out there somewhere or a link directive. This would assist in code streamlining/cleanup. Jon smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 172P Progress

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: With a 16 bit color buffer you get 4 bits each for R, G, B, and Alpha. This turns out to be pretty poor resolution, and for things like clouds, you can get a lot of banding. For the prop disk which is mostly solid you shouldn't have to worry about banding.

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2002-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 07:16:56 -0600, Burton M. Strauss III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Arnt Karlsen Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 WIN98 Update - Nov. 2002

2002-11-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
You might try cvs update -dP rather than -Dp on the base package. Regards, Curt. Geoff McLane writes: Did cvs up -pD on plib, simgear, flightgear(0.9.0) and fgfsbase (note devel base)... Alas, after a great start - Exec:[..\Debug\FlightGear.exe] with command(s) [] FlightGear: Version

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 WIN98 Update - Nov. 2002

2002-11-16 Thread Geoff McLane
Excuse my in-attention to important CaSe detail ... read -dP instead of -Dp. Pardon moi (the stupid idiot) :-) ... ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Loading static object problems. - PATCH included

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Frederic Bouvier writes: I have discovered recently that plib has ulIsAbsolutePathName in ul.lib so you can try this patch : Committed -- thanks. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some little bugs report from an enthusiastnew user...

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: The code is using a pretty big argument to glPolygonOffset, and I've never investigated how small it can be. If someone has a little time the next time they see this issue, try changing the value of POFF_UNITS at the top of Cockpit/panel.cxx. Decrease it until the

[Flightgear-devel] Boeing 737

2002-11-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Roel Michiels writes: When you start modelling the B737, here's an excellent site by on of the Captains I flew with at Sabena. This man is highly proficient and also a simulation enthousiast. You will find lots of info concerning the real-life B737 and it's caracteristics. Hold on to this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC6 WIN98 Update - Nov. 2002

2002-11-16 Thread Geoff McLane
RE: MSVC6 compile - WIN98 SE crash - IMHO, looking at new_gui.cxx, mildly suggests - NewGUI::init () { #ifdef FGFS SGPath path = globals-get_fg_root(); path.append(/gui); readDir(path.c_str()); #else // !FGFS char path[1024]; ulMakePath(path, getenv(FG_ROOT), gui);

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Clickable 3D panel

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: I wrote: Jim Wilson wrote: How hard would it be to have a property that toggles hotspot visibility? It'd be nice to be able to turn it on and have yellow rectangles show up on the hotspots... That's not a bad idea. It's actually an astoundingly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine models: start-up and commonality betweenFDMs

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Julian Foad writes: Ah, glad you're there. If you're interested and have time to look, my current attempt is at http://www.btinternet.com/~julianfoad/fgfs/JSB_piston_engine.diff http://www.btinternet.com/~julianfoad/fgfs/engine_sound.diff What's the current status of these?

re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 737

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: A 737 would be a nice plane to have... Anybody thinking of modeling one? I doubt that the panel is any simpler than that of a 747 -- since we already have a good exterior for the 747, it would be nice to finish it off with a flight deck first. After that, my

re: [Flightgear-devel] Model allignment

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Here's a patch to fix the offsets bug. The problem was the transform was just getting added to a local instance rather than being returned by the function. This is now in the CVS -- thanks. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Error making SimGear 0.2.0...

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Norman Vine writes: Can we get this patch or its functional equivalant comitted into the CVS please so that we can support gcc 3.2 on Windows ? It's in. Thanks, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___

re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling CVS version with cygwin/gcc3.2-2....

2002-11-16 Thread David Megginson
Patrick Staehlin writes: To compile the development CVS version of FlightGear(0.9.0) i had to apply some small changes to SimGear and FlightGear. The changes need probably some additional ifdefs for other platforms but since my linux-hd crashed i can't verify that. These are in CVS

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2002-11-16 Thread C. Hotchkiss
Worked for me yesterday and just now. A puzzlement. Charlie H. Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..anyone else seen this?: https://sourceforge.net/ down ..reads:We're Sorry. The SF.net domain is temporarily pointing at this maintenance page. Please access the SourceForge.net site at https://sourceforge.net

[Flightgear-devel] dc3 main gear animation broken

2002-11-16 Thread Dave Perry
I updated Plib, SimGear, FlightGear, and the base from cvs tonight. The dc3 main gear is not positioned properly by the animation in the latest cvs. When you retract it, it goes to the proper gear down angle. When it is extended the gear, it rotates even further. I compared the dc3-dpm.xml