Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:24, David Culp wrote: > > Matthew Johnson wrote: > > Animal could be a Swallow... > > African or European? > Errr..I don't know... Matt ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel A Moore
Martin Spott wrote: David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Johnson wrote: Animal could be a Swallow... African or European? As far as I know the European swallows stay in Africa during European winter - did I mix up anything ? ;-) I think the correct answer was "I donĀ“t know ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Spott
David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Matthew Johnson wrote: >> Animal could be a Swallow... > African or European? As far as I know the European swallows stay in Africa during European winter - did I mix up anything ? ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Jim Wilson
Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Very nice indeed! Still making my model, and am way too embaressed to > show anything of it. Well one of two models...Want to also release an > F104 model as in theory it should be easier to do :). Its just a missile > with a couple of small wings added

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky object sizes

2003-06-16 Thread Jim Wilson
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've read through some documents and found one fairly interesting > document on the subject which explains why we should model it ourselves > after all: > > http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/moonbig.html > > http://www.griffithobs.org/IPSMoonIllus.htm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread David Culp
> Matthew Johnson wrote: > Animal could be a Swallow... African or European? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread David Megginson
Martin Spott writes: > Been there a few times around 1990. Even the business days where > that much crowded that I decided not to spent too much effort to go > there. And most of the nice gimmicks were _much_ too expensive > (thinking of Microturbo :-) Hey, anyone interested in a political >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:25, Martin Spott wrote: > > p.s. Why isn't there an O'Reilly FlightGear book yet? What mascot > > should they use? > > Do we have a FlightGear icon for Windows-/KDE-/Gnome-Desktops ? ;-) > FlightGear icon...What would that look like, if I had the money a competition w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:31, Frederic BOUVIER wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: > > > Just an update on the A320 model : > > > > > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-02.png > > > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-03.png > > > > Hmmm, I _like_ your patriotism ;-) >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. We need people to go over paper lists and airport diagrams for > countries that don't publish air navigation data free online > (i.e. almost everyone but the U.S.) and fill in the blanks in our > navaid and airport databases. Unfortunately this invo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you haven't taken a look at our "installation and getting started > guide" (available in the docs section of the web site) please have a > read through that. It addresses many items on your list given below. > Unfortunately, for personal reasons,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Spott
Richard A Downing FBCS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since XML seems to come naturally to people around here, why not set up a > FlightGear-The-Book projectin a cvs repository? Then people can get html, > pdf and whatever else formats. Or you could use LaTeX. The "Getting Started" manual is writ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Jon S Berndt wrote > Frederic BOUVIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Martin Spott wrote: > >> > Just an update on the A320 model : > >> > >> > > >>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-02.png > >> > > >>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-03.png > > What was the f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Frederic BOUVIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Spott wrote: > Just an update on the A320 model : > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-02.png > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-03.png What was the flight model for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic BOUVIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a related topic, it is just the time of the Paris Air Show : > http://www.salon-du-bourget.fr/ Been there a few times around 1990. Even the business days where that much crowded that I decided not to spent too much effort to go there. And most of t

Re: re: [Flightgear-devel] Profiling/Graphics/Menus

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We did some profiling a while ago, but unless you're running a > superfast card (like Norman Vine), you're limited by the speed of your > GPU, not your CPU. No, I don't believe you're right here - or probably we have different interpretation of "super

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Policy when asking permission to use material

2003-06-16 Thread Jim Wilson
Frederic Bouvier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am searching material on the web to make textures, and > often, we have to ask permission to use an image or a > drawing that is not free nor in the public domain. > > Is it acceptable for us that the owner of the material > wants to restrict the usa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Martin Spott wrote: > > Just an update on the A320 model : > > > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-02.png > > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-03.png > > Hmmm, I _like_ your patriotism ;-) Thanks, On a related topic, it is just the time of the Paris Air Sho

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 64-Bit Question

2003-06-16 Thread Gerhard Wesp
> I'm not certain if the size of data types such as ints and pointers > will expand to 64-bits in the compiler. I don't find that likely since I'm pretty sure that pointers are 64 bit on most 64 bit architectures. Likewise, long int. int is normally still 32 bit. Code that assumes anything abo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Policy when asking permission to use material

2003-06-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Hello, I am searching material on the web to make textures, and often, we have to ask permission to use an image or a drawing that is not free nor in the public domain. Is it acceptable for us that the owner of the material wants to restrict the usage for FlightGear only ?

[Flightgear-devel] Policy when asking permission to use material

2003-06-16 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hello, I am searching material on the web to make textures, and often, we have to ask permission to use an image or a drawing that is not free nor in the public domain. Is it acceptable for us that the owner of the material wants to restrict the usage for FlightGear only ? I know that GPL allow t

[Flightgear-devel] Sky object sizes

2003-06-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I've read through some documents and found one fairly interesting document on the subject which explains why we should model it ourselves after all: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/moonbig.html http://www.griffithobs.org/IPSMoonIllus.html Over the years, many visitors to the l.S.U.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:FlightGear/src/Main main.cxx,1.99,1.100

2003-06-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I notice the optical illusion subtlely in flightgear as it is. Please change this back to the way it was. We shouldn't make the sun/moon artificially larger at the horizon. If you do anything, squash it a little vertically, but that's it. It also shows up in photographs,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:FlightGear/src/Main main.cxx,1.99,1.100

2003-06-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman writes: > Christian Mayer wrote: > > > The reason why the moon looks bigger is an sort of optical illusion. > > Because you've got reference points on the horizon like trees and > > building your eyes tell you the moon is quite big. And when the moon is > > high above you you don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re:[Flightgear-cvslogs]CVS:FlightGear/src/Main main.cxx,1.99,1.100

2003-06-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: Ah yes..., optical illusion are convincing http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/24jun_moonillusion.htm or else they wouldn't be called 'illusions' now would they :-) I've already read this part. But I don't really care if the effect is an illusion or not, if it is there in r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]CVS:FlightGear/src/Main main.cxx,1.99,1.100

2003-06-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Christian Mayer wrote: Any pilot flying on the back (fighter pilots do that occasionally as well air acrobats) will be like looking bended over through his legs. I didn't mention any pants ... So do you take care of that? Does the effect get smaller when the pilot begins to roll? That would be e