RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear news letter

2004-05-21 Thread Richard Bytheway
snip Size Format Frequency: Looking at JSBSim newsletter, I think that's pretty cool: 4 pages (no more) in US Letter or A4 size, and released quarterly (4 issues per year is quite a number, specially to prepare it). snip On the subject of format, could the page be A4 wide and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple windows problem again - heading stillnot working

2004-05-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Keeyoung, I just tried with the Windows 0.9.4 version and the CVS one and both work for me. The heading is set as well as the pitch. With the 0.9.4 version, if you use fgrun, add /sim/view/config/heading-offset-deg=45 /sim/view/config/pitch-offset-deg=3 in the 'properties' page of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim C-172 Performance

2004-05-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon S Berndt wrote: 3) This one just occurred to me: I wonder if the control inputs from stick and rudder are linear? Or, are they perhaps graduated? In our FCS model, we take the joystick input and map it linearly to the range of values that the control surfaces can see - essentially. It might

Re: [Flightgear-devel] WARNING: Flightgear spam attack

2004-05-21 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: (Or, in other words) all right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? I think they are the reason we are playing games today. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-21 Thread Jim Wilson
Ampere K. Hardraade said: Are we using spline for the taxi way at the moment? No we are not. Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airportstuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Jim Wilson wrote: Ampere K. Hardraade said: Are we using spline for the taxi way at the moment? No we are not. We are using nurbs only to interpolate the terrain at the airport area. -Fred ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] WARNING: Flightgear spam attack; open relay at baron.me.umn.edu

2004-05-21 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson said: The worst b*ds in this whole mess are not the virus writers, slimey as they are, or Microsoft, incompetent as they are; rather, it's the enterprise anti-virus software vendors, who sell systems that automatically send useless virus warnings every time a message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple windows problem again - heading still not working

2004-05-21 Thread Jim Wilson
Keeyoung Choi (???) said: Hi I posted a message that adjusting the offset for the side windows is not working with the new version. Curt suggested a method. (See the attachment). What he suggested works for the pitch axis, but not for the heading. I tried both the Linux and Windows

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2004-05-21 Thread Giles Robertson
From compiling SimGear (this is only the last part of the clouds-3d mess): SkyRenderableInstanceCloud.hpp:230: warning: argument to `int' from `float' In file included from SkyRenderableInstance.hpp:27, from SkySceneManager.hpp:38, from SkySceneManager.cpp:29:

[Flightgear-devel] Teaser Screenshot

2004-05-21 Thread Durk Talsma
Hey Folks, Looks like I'm getting somewhere now with the traffic manager, so I thought it's time for a screenshot. :-) http://members.chello.nl/d.talsma/two-heavies.jpg What you see is an MD-11, which at 8:25AM, UTC mysteriously materializes at the threshold of runway 24 at EHAM airport. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2004-05-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Giles Robertson wrote: This was sorted out by uncommenting lines 2829 of cloud.cxx: // #if defined (__APPLE__) // // any C++ header file undefines isinf and isnan // // so this should be included before iostream inline int (isinf)(double r) { return isinf(r); } //See below inline int

[Flightgear-devel] OpenAL question

2004-05-21 Thread David Megginson
For at least a couple of weeks, the audio for the PA-28 or C172 on my Dell Inspiron notebook has sounded like an angry mosquito dying of tuberculosis. I think the problem started about the time of the switch to OpenAL (which I remember vaguely). I'm using the current Debian sid versions of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiway and airport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:45:51 +0100 David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/17/04 at 12:58 PM Chris Metzler wrote: At any rate, as far as manually placing them and putting that capability in TaxiDraw, sure, that'd be cool! In the short-term, though, I have another request: a scrollbar

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenAL question

2004-05-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Friday 21 May 2004 19:44: For at least a couple of weeks, the audio for the PA-28 or C172 on my Dell Inspiron notebook has sounded like an angry mosquito dying of tuberculosis. I think the problem started about the time of the switch to OpenAL (which I remember

RE: [Flightgear-devel] New contributor questions: taxiwayandairport stuff; 3D building/landmark model stuff.

2004-05-21 Thread Giles Robertson
(e.g. put in a separate file, or given a separate identifier than T so that it's excluded from export filters if necessary, can be acted on to produce curved taxiway lines, etc.) I think that that could become quite important. I have a great fear that if we ever get round to automatic handling

RE: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2004-05-21 Thread Giles Robertson
Unfortunately not: Making all in clouds3d cloud.cxx:31:1: warning: isnan redefined In file included from cloud.cxx:22: c:/files/mingwin/mingw/include/math.h:324:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition cloud.cxx: In member function `bool SGCloudLayer::reposition(float*, float*,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenAL question

2004-05-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 21 May 2004 20:03: * David Megginson -- Friday 21 May 2004 19:44: For at least a couple of weeks, the audio for the PA-28 or C172 on my Dell Inspiron notebook has sounded like an angry mosquito dying of tuberculosis. [...]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2004-05-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Try moving the following code : #if defined(__MINGW32__) #define isnan(x) _isnan(x) #endif **after** #include cloud.hxx -Fred - Original Message - From: Giles Robertson Unfortunately not: Making all in clouds3d cloud.cxx:31:1: warning: isnan redefined In file included from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: OpenAL question

2004-05-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 21 May 2004 20:03: * David Megginson -- Friday 21 May 2004 19:44: For at least a couple of weeks, the audio for the PA-28 or C172 on my Dell Inspiron notebook has sounded like an angry mosquito dying of tuberculosis. [...]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2004-05-21 Thread Vivian Meazza
Frederic Bouvier Try moving the following code : #if defined(__MINGW32__) #define isnan(x) _isnan(x) #endif **after** #include cloud.hxx -Fred - Original Message - From: Giles Robertson Unfortunately not: Making all in clouds3d cloud.cxx:31:1: warning:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2004-05-21 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Vivian Meazza wrote: It's well broken when trying to compile under Cygwin. Too many error to even start to list in clouds.cxx, I think, but by no means certain could be in clouds_3d. Any suggestions? No suggestion if you don't list at least the first messages, sorry. -Fred

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:01, Melchior FRANZ wrote: BTW: this is my little transparency trick: in my fgfs.mp library file I have this: color foreground, transparent; background:=black; transparent:=white; white:=255/256white; foreground:=white; which lets white actually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: OK, here's a new version, just so you can see how easy instrument face creation with MetaPost is. Note that there's a function @() defined, that maps the real instrument angles to MetaPost angles. So I could directly input all the values as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to get cesna to follow a set of way points.

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 21 May 2004 06:01, Seamus Thomas Carroll wrote: Thanks Roy, I looked at the post and it is dated the day i left so i must have missed it. I would like the autopilot to adjust to new waypoints faster but I do not know how to make the plane turn quicker using the generic autopilot.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Jon S Berndt
FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 21 May 2004 23:26: This @() function proved to be very powerfull and it made creating scales very easy. I changed this to a unary operator #. So one can now write #10 and metapost will replace this by the angle that represents the scale value of 10% RPM. I can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-21 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 21 May 2004 23:41, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Roy Vegard Ovesen -- Friday 21 May 2004 23:26: This @() function proved to be very powerfull and it made creating scales very easy. I changed this to a unary operator #. So one can now write #10 and metapost will replace this by the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to get cesna to follow a set of way points.

2004-05-21 Thread Jim Wilson
Roy Vegard Ovesen said: AFAIKT the waypoint mode is tied to the true heading hold mode. What you can do is to modify the u_min and u_max around line 137 in generic-autopilot.xml to allow the autopilot to command a greater bank angle say 40 degrees instead of the current 20 degrees. But