Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation documentation update

2003-11-26 Thread Frederic Bouvier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded Blender 2.30, but this version has no ac3d file support. It seems that ac3d file support is still a missing feature in Blender and on the Todo list. Do you know any other free 3d editors that can read ac3d files? Blender 2.30 is ok for ac3d files. read :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, one think/thing added: Maik Justus schrieb: Hi, I try to explain my confusion: Lets think the heli is in forward flying and the rotor is spinning counter clock wise (seen from top, like the bo 105). Relative to air the rotor blades at the left side are slower and on the right side

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-26 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maik Justus wrote: By the way: With this changes the heli is not anylonger parallel to ground (while hovering). It is tiltet to the left to compensate the tail rotor force. That sounds wrong to me. The *rotor* should be tilted, but the airframe is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread James Turner
On 25 Nov 2003, at 23:56, Jon Stockill wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, David Luff wrote: Eliminated the bloody annoying flickering. I was going to ask if you could do anything about this - not good on the eyes - particularly when zoomed in, and a large percentage of the screen is flashing. In

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Stockill
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, James Turner wrote: already got them! So I'll have to find something else to do :-) Ahaa, nice to have someone else working on additions for this side of the pond too. Just to avoid any overlap - the first batch I'll be working on are all the RAF airfields. If anyone has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
James Turner wrote: One thing I'd really like is the ability to place some generic, rectangular buildings objects down, on the airports. Obviously this outputs to a totally different place to the runways.dat file so is there any chance of eventually rolling TaxiDraw into FGSD? (I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Nov 2003, at 10:53, Frederic BOUVIER wrote: The reason I mention is, I was about to add a couple of GUI features to taxidraw (like a list box to select airports by name instead of ICAO code), but I don't really want to invest brain-space learning WxWindows if I can avoid it. Not that I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread David Luff
I'll take the liberty of replying to you all at once... On 11/26/03 at 11:02 AM James Turner wrote: Right, being able to include an aerial photo as Jon suggested, or a plan (as is available from the CAA, for major Uk airports), would obviously greatly ease taxi-way creation. I've almost

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Nov 2003, at 11:44, David Luff wrote: I've almost finished getting a 5 arc-second orange grid overlay working, which is the same as used on the CAA aerodrome charts available online (UK aip). I was also going to add functionality to call wget to get the Terrasever US aerial photos and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taxiway progress

2003-11-26 Thread David Luff
On 11/25/03 at 6:22 PM Jon Stockill wrote: With mouse control added, and the ability to directly edit the taxiway features I thought I'd have a try at something a bit more complex. I think this proves that Taxidraw is an extremely useful bit of software:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread David Luff
On 11/26/03 at 10:08 AM James Turner wrote: One thing I'd really like is the ability to place some generic, rectangular buildings objects down, on the airports. Obviously this outputs to a totally different place to the runways.dat file so is there any chance of eventually rolling TaxiDraw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taxiway progress

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Stockill
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, David Luff wrote: Now that looks *extremely* impressive. How many RAF fields are there in the FlightGear database as a rough guess? Probably somewhere around 50 - I'll get a list together. All the dispersal areas, and the changes made over the years make them rather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread David Luff
On 11/26/03 at 1:08 PM Jon Stockill wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, James Turner wrote: Right, being able to include an aerial photo as Jon suggested, or a plan (as is available from the CAA, for major Uk airports), would obviously greatly ease taxi-way creation. Hmm, that sounds useful - where

[Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread iljamod
website Hello, 1.the design of the website is really good now, but I think we need a new logo. I´m sure there are enough people with painting skills among us. Just post some ideas or pictures! 2. There is a picture gallery on the website, but lots of screenshots are very old. I think I know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ilja, I people occasionally want to send new screen shots, please do. I have a script that makes them very easy to add to the gallery page. I can't promise that every submission will be posted on the web page, but if you submit a picture that looks good, or shows something interesting, or shows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread matt
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:08:40PM +, Jon Stockill wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, James Turner wrote: Right, being able to include an aerial photo as Jon suggested, or a plan (as is available from the CAA, for major Uk airports), would obviously greatly ease taxi-way creation. Hmm,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Nasal integration docs

2003-11-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Wednesday 26 November 2003 05:30: http://www.plausible.org/andy/fg-nasal.html This and your examples (mouse handling, etc.) have totally won me over! I've already written my first nasal script $FG_ROOT/Nasal/bo105.nas print(Loading bo105.nas); rearpos =

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-26 Thread matt
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:26:46PM -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I believe they are currently directional. If someone came up with a really nice texture (or set of textures) we could probably do some work on the terragear end to optimize the runway creation code for that texture approach.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taxiway progress

2003-11-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On 11/25/03 at 6:22 PM Jon Stockill wrote: With mouse control added, and the ability to directly edit the taxiway features I thought I'd have a try at something a bit more complex. I think this proves that Taxidraw is an extremely useful bit of software:

Aw: Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread iljamod
The FlightGear logo on the top of the website. Ilja On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:38:58 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 1.the design of the website is really good now, but I think we need a new logo. I?m sure there are enough people with painting skills among us. Just post some

Aw: Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread iljamod
Just all the best aircrafts, but I haven´t got a powerful machine. Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ilja, I people occasionally want to send new screen shots, please do. I have a script that makes them very easy to add to the gallery page. I can't promise that every submission

Re: Aw: Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:22:28 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FlightGear logo on the top of the website. Yes, I know. I am familiar with it: I made it. :-) What don't you like about it? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-26 Thread Andy Ross
Martin Spott wrote: No, because the BO105 - contrary to the 'usual' Bell's for example - has a rigid rotor. Please have a look here: http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Rotorhead.html#Eurocopter Well, that explains my confusion... I guess this just shows my helicopter ignorance. My belief

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Andy, Andy Ross wrote: What is the rationale behind the decision to make them rigid on the BO105? The only advantage I can see is that you save a few axles and bearings, which are moving parts that can wear out. But you pay for it in extra stress cycles on the blade, so I can't see how this

Re: Aw: Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:22:28 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FlightGear logo on the top of the website. Yes, I know. I am familiar with it: I made it. :-) What don't you like about it? Maybe some folks aren't aware of the consolidated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taxiway progress

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Stockill
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Gene Buckle wrote: That last field is very impressive. I did notice that there are no curved corners in the taxiways like their are in the real thing. Is this on purpose? It's because I've not got around to adding them yet - I'm just too impatient and wanted to see what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Stockill
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can't find them online, try your local airfield/flying club. They'll probably allow you to photocopy their AIP for the airfield(s) you're interested in. David was right - they're available as PDFs on www.ais.org.uk - the site navigation is

[Flightgear-devel] the horizon

2003-11-26 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
Since I enjoy seeing sunset twice, I performed an experiment in FlightGear: watching the sun set at the end of the runway, then taking off and climbing to bring the sun back above the horizon to see it set again. The problem is that the sun came above the horizon too quickly, and stayed above the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread David Luff
Jon Stockill writes: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can't find them online, try your local airfield/flying club. They'll probably allow you to photocopy their AIP for the airfield(s) you're interested in. David was right - they're available as PDFs on

[Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-26 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
As I continue to ponder my horizon ideas, I am driven to ask: is the FlightGear visibility code perhaps too naive? In real life, if you are ten miles up looking down on landscape with fifteen-mile visibility, do you really only see a little five-mile-radius patch? (And: is this what the current

[Flightgear-devel] Taxidraw Request

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Stockill
Is there any chance that a centreline could be displayed on the taxiway segments? It'd make lining up very small square sections a lot easier, rather than having to check the properties every time (if this isn't possible for all the segments is it possible for just the selected one?) (Taxiway

[Flightgear-devel] Concorde

2003-11-26 Thread Major A
Hi guys, We've just had a really lucky day in Bristol today, as far as weather goes. There were some dark clouds in the West, I think we wouldn't have seen much of Concorde's last flight if it had been half an hour earlier or later! Anyway, I took some pictures of G-BOAF on its last flight,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-26 Thread Danie Heath
If I can give my opinion, 1 mile visibility sometimes looks like 20 mile visibility when your only a mere 3000 ft up in the sky ... It's a really a difficult subject this -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Craig Rhodes Sent: 26

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 10:45, Jon Stockill wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, James Turner wrote: already got them! So I'll have to find something else to do :-) Ahaa, nice to have someone else working on additions for this side of the pond too. Just to avoid any overlap - the first

Re: Aw: Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 15:37, Jon S Berndt wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:22:28 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FlightGear logo on the top of the website. Yes, I know. I am familiar with it: I made it. :-) What don't you like about it? Jon giggle Sorry;) LeeE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taxidraw Request

2003-11-26 Thread David Luff
On 11/26/03 at 7:32 PM Jon Stockill wrote: Is there any chance that a centreline could be displayed on the taxiway segments? It'd make lining up very small square sections a lot easier, rather than having to check the properties every time (if this isn't possible for all the segments is it

Time to Refactor (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread David Megginson
Melchior FRANZ wrote: This and your examples (mouse handling, etc.) have totally won me over! I've already written my first nasal script I haven't had time to play with NASAL yet, but now that it's integrated and people seem to like it, it's probably time to start refactoring FlightGear a bit.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 26 November 2003 23:03: If anyone wants to start on some analysis and make a few suggestions, or even rewrite some code [...] Not exactly what you meant, but I've written a syntax definition file for vim that displays nasal scripts with colored syntax -- for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread Jon Stockill
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Lee Elliott wrote: You said If anyone has any requests I'd be happy to add them or move them up the list. :) Not an RAF field but I've noticed that London Stanstead (EGSS) appears to have been sunk about 50ft into the ground... OK, I'll have a look and see what I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation documentation update

2003-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Blender 2.30 is ok for ac3d files. read : http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc=ModelerAndSceneryBuilderDocumentation; wikiid=2418wpid=0 -Fred Thank you, those scripts work great. Best Regards, Oliver C. ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.5 available.

2003-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lee Elliott worte: You said If anyone has any requests I'd be happy to add them or move them up the list. :) Not an RAF field but I've noticed that London Stanstead (EGSS) appears to have been sunk about 50ft into the ground... The same happened with EDGM. Best Regards, Oliver C.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 26 November 2003 23:34: Great. Let me know when you have time to port it from vim to an editor. The other editor on my system that is capable of syntax coloring, is kate. But I rarely use it, so I won't bother. $ which emacs $ which vi /usr/bin/vi m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: Great. Let me know when you have time to port it from vim to an editor. :) There's already a nasal-mode.el, actually. It's attached; it's previously been hidden in the source tarball on the nasal project website. It mostly works. I did it by taking a chainsaw to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Ilja, I people occasionally want to send new screen shots, please do. I have a script that makes them very easy to add to the gallery page. I can't promise that every submission will be posted on the web page, but if you submit a picture that looks good, or shows

Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: Originally, I defined actions using XML mainly because we didn't have a scripting language, but ideally, we should share up the labour like this: XML = declarative NASAL = imperative Completely agree. Although it should be pointed out that there's significant gray

[Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-26 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
Hi, I am trying to recieve a message using SGSocket::read. SGSocket::read returns zero bytes read until about the time I am expecting the first message to be recieved. From here on SGSocket::read returns that -1 bytes have been read from the socket. I have looked around (simgear docs, plib)

[Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-26 Thread Matevz Jekovec
I was just thinking (actually would be proud:)) if someone could add our Slovenian flag to the FlightGear logo (Slovenia terrain in FG is becoming more and more closer to the RL and I am planning to do some extensive airport fixes to match the real ones as well). I also modeled the J-22 Orao,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-26 Thread Bernie Bright
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:59:53 -0700 Seamus Thomas Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to recieve a message using SGSocket::read. SGSocket::read returns zero bytes read until about the time I am expecting the first message to be recieved. From here on SGSocket::read returns

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Nick Coleman
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 7 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:46:18 +0100 From: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs) The other editor on my system that is capable of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-26 Thread Andy Ross
Matevz Jekovec wrote: I was just thinking (actually would be proud:)) if someone could add our Slovenian flag to the FlightGear logo I, for one, think it would be immensely cool if the flag bar grew over time. If any revisions are going to be done to the list, though, it should be pointed out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-26 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
I output the error and I am getting: Transport endpoint is not connected The strange part is if I put '\n' at the end of the message and read with 'readline' the message is successfully recieved. Is this a problem with 'read'? Seamus On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Bernie Bright wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy Ross writes: I, for one, think it would be immensely cool if the flag bar grew over time. If any revisions are going to be done to the list, though, it should be pointed out that there's no maple leaf on the existing banner. Don't tell David. I told Jon when he made the logo that if he

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-26 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 27 November 2003 01:25, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Andy Ross writes: I, for one, think it would be immensely cool if the flag bar grew over time. If any revisions are going to be done to the list, though, it should be pointed out that there's no maple leaf on the existing banner.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-26 Thread Bernie Bright
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 03:43:59 + Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway to turn the console output back on? I've learnt quite a bit from looking at it and it's also helped me sort out a few problems. I understand the desire to make it quieter but I'd like it to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear SGSocket returning -1

2003-11-26 Thread Bernie Bright
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:04:50 -0700 Seamus Thomas Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I output the error and I am getting: Transport endpoint is not connected From man recv ENOTCONN The socket is associated with a connection-oriented protocol and has not been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: the horizon

2003-11-26 Thread JD Fenech
This really doesn't seem like such a difficult subject to me. If one were to use a crude approximation of a flat plane drawn out to intersect the ray from the eye to the sun, it would work, but... If you want to be really clever, use a spherical or spheroidal approximation to determine where