Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, I assume David Culp is the maintainer of the PC-7 !? Well, I created the PC-7 from the T-6 texan II by converting the 3d model and using an aeromatic generated FDM configuration file. So both of us are the maintainer (although I think David Culp would point at me as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Martin wrote: You probably know by now that I have a serious case of 'show and tell' syndrome. :-) Hopefully, by the time I've finished, everyone will own 6800 class video cards to cope with all the polys (any maybe I'll own one too so I can finish the models) ;-) Looks very nice, but the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 09:03, Erik Hofman wrote: Looks very nice, but the instrument covers seem indeed a bit polygon heavy. To be honest I can't really think of a way to cheat a bit to decrease the polygon count. Erik While I didn't set out to produce low-poly instruments (I wanted to

[Flightgear-devel] Hi res KX-155 texture?

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
Just wondering if anyone has a high-resolution version of the KX-155 navcom radio texture? (the one from CVS is tiny) Thanks Dave Martin ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] P51d charts

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I have been able to take some pictures of a Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions manual of the P-51D05, -10, -15, -20 (British Model Mustang IV Airplanes). Most of the charts in this manual can be found here: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/p51d/ I will leave them there until January 7th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hi res KX-155 texture?

2004-12-31 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Friday 31 December 2004 11:35, Dave Martin wrote: Just wondering if anyone has a high-resolution version of the KX-155 navcom radio texture? (the one from CVS is tiny) When creating instrument textures I've used vector drawing programs with great success. One big advantage is that you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Spott
Dave Martin wrote: Time will tell - at the very worst case, these instruments are actually a lot of fun to make so nothing is lost if they can't be used or if they have to go in the cupboard for a couple of years while hardware catches up ;-) These instruments look really marvellous. I wish

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Erik Hofman wrote: Looks very nice, but the instrument covers seem indeed a bit polygon heavy. To be honest I can't really think of a way to cheat a bit to decrease the polygon count. They look to pristine though ... you need to add some textures with wear and tear ... maybe put some scratches

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread David Luff
Martin Spott writes: I believe there are platforms out in the wild, even not that up to date, that won't be hit that much by ploygon count I myself would love to try it out in order to see how much the polygon count has influence on the frame rate. I think you might be very right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 14:13, Martin Spott wrote: These instruments look really marvellous. Thanks :-) I wish you'd release the stuff so everyone can compare it to the default instrumentation on their individual platform. I'll make them available one way or another once they're all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Spott
Dave Martin wrote: On Friday 31 Dec 2004 14:13, Martin Spott wrote: I believe there are platforms out in the wild, even not that up to date, that won't be hit that much by ploygon count I myself would love to try it out in order to see how much the polygon count has influence on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 15:27, Martin Spott wrote: Dave Martin wrote: On Friday 31 Dec 2004 14:13, Martin Spott wrote: I believe there are platforms out in the wild, even not that up to date, that won't be hit that much by ploygon count I myself would love to try it out in order to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Martin wrote: On Friday 31 Dec 2004 15:27, Martin Spott wrote: Dave Martin wrote: On Friday 31 Dec 2004 14:13, Martin Spott wrote: I believe there are platforms out in the wild, even not that up to date, that won't be hit that much by ploygon count I myself would love to

[Flightgear-devel] Rounding in nav/comm frequencies?

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
Any clues as to why, when I try to display the output of /instrumentation/comm/frequencies/selected-mhz etc on my Comm radio, The output gets rounded down or reduced by 0.01 in some cases but not others. ie: set 120.5 displayed 120.49 set 120.8 displayed 120.8 The animation method I've used:

[Flightgear-devel] CVS Build on Cygwin

2004-12-31 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, Could not find any info on the OpenAL website regards building the libraries on Cygwin. So tried the linux build. Well, it built, but thinking the install is suspect and Simgear complains as well. The headers are in /usr/local/include and the .a library is in /usr/local/lib along with a .dll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rounding in nav/comm frequencies?

2004-12-31 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: | Any clues as to why, when I try to display the output | of /instrumentation/comm/frequencies/selected-mhz etc on my Comm radio, The | output gets rounded down or reduced by 0.01 in some cases but not others. | | ie: set 120.5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rounding in nav/comm frequencies?

2004-12-31 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Christian Mayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: | Any clues as to why, when I try to display the output | of /instrumentation/comm/frequencies/selected-mhz etc on my Comm radio, The | output gets rounded down or reduced by 0.01 in some cases but not

RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Build on Cygwin

2004-12-31 Thread Norman Vine
attached find my home grown Makefile to use copy it into $OPENAL/win and excute make You will have to figure out how to install it dll(s) go into $BIN .a(s) go into $LIB $OPENAL/include/AL/*.* go into $INCLUDE/AL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rounding in nav/comm frequencies?

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 16:01, Christian Mayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: | Any clues as to why, when I try to display the output | of /instrumentation/comm/frequencies/selected-mhz etc on my Comm radio, The | output gets rounded down or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Build on Cygwin

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Spott
John Wojnaroski wrote: Any hints, info, suggestions on fixing the problem... I think there's already a working OpenAL package here: ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/FlightGear/Win32/openal_cyg.tgz Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rounding in nav/comm frequencies?

2004-12-31 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 31 Dec 2004 16:03, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Perhaps we could export each side of the decimal point as seperate integers in the property tree to make life easier for panel designers? Curt. I did look at it and wonder that two seperate values would come in handy. Of course, as far as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D instrument kit.

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Yes, I believe that is true, although it was always the old voodoo cards that had the 256x256 max texture resolution limits. Most cards these days can handle much larger textures. But do the math xres * yres * 3 (for rgb) or 4 (for rgba) and you quickly realize you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] P51d charts

2004-12-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:56:08 +0100, Erik wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have been able to take some pictures of a Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions manual of the P-51D05, -10, -15, -20 (British Model Mustang IV Airplanes). Most of the charts in this manual can be found

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Build on Cygwin

2004-12-31 Thread John Wojnaroski
- Original Message - From: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@flightgear.org Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Build on Cygwin attached find my home grown Makefile to use copy it into