Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-23 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 21, 2005 09:01 am, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Quoting Innis Cunningham: > > "Curtis L. Olson" writes > > > > >Innis, > > > > > >I had no problem loading the version Ampere sent me in v0.9.8. I did > > >notice there was a large (and seemingly arbitrary) mix of file > > > permission, cap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rain and snow videos or photos

2005-01-24 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 24, 2005 06:16 pm, Roman Grigoriev wrote: > Thanx Ampere! > The main thing I got - blur on terrain and objects and blurry runway lights > and also reflections from wet runway. Ok I try to implement it ;-) > Thanx Speaking of blur, is there someway to apply antialiasing effect in the area

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft loading problem in 9.8

2005-01-24 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 24, 2005 03:45 am, Erik Hofman wrote: > I expect you have replaced the accelerated drivers by a software only > driver now. You should have installed the mesag3-dev package only. > > Erik On January 24, 2005 07:32 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > As someone else mentioned, it sounds like y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-24 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On January 24, 2005 12:50 pm, Jim Wilson wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is anyone getting this slowdown with ATI cards? > > Best, > > Jim If you mean whether I get slow down on airport at night, the answer is yes. In external view, I get about 6-7fps. At night, the framerates get halved. Amp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting

2005-01-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
How about not rendering ground textures at night? Has this been done yet? Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear to demo 747 at Scale 3x.

2005-02-07 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Please take some pictures and videos of the Expo. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] Curiosity about antialiasing

2005-02-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
At the moment, is antialiasing applied to textures themselves? If so, what will happen if antialiasing is applied to the final render/output instead? Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speedbrakes / Spoilers

2005-02-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 10, 2005 08:27 am, James Turner wrote: > BTW, there is no keybinding for reverse thrust : I'm going to test with > some nasal code i found in one of the joystick files, but is there a > free key I should use? Ctrl-R perhaps? For commercial airliners at least, it will make more sense to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GLSL shaders for flightgear

2005-02-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 17, 2005 11:03 am, Dave Culp wrote: > > http://fgfs.narod.ru/fgfs-006.jpg > > Roman > > I had a really slow download from there so I'm mirroring it here: > > http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/3207.0.fgfs-006.jpg > > This should work better, at least over on this side of the Atlantic.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Cool photo

2005-02-18 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 17, 2005 02:42 pm, Josh Babcock wrote: > Found a link to this on fark.com. > > http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=777174&size=L&sok=&photo_nr=&prev_id= >&next_id= > > Josh This photo brings up one question again: curved taxiways. With aircrafts like the A380 and B747, you can't mak

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Okay ... who was it?

2005-02-18 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 18, 2005 08:02 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I'll find out anyway. I can't stand people borrowing things from me and > returning them like *that*! > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/exhibit_A.jpg > > m. Yes, that's a very nice touch. =) On February 18, 2005 12:45 pm, Christian Mayer wr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Cool photo

2005-02-18 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 18, 2005 04:07 pm, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > On February 17, 2005 02:42 pm, Josh Babcock wrote: > > Found a link to this on fark.com. > > > > http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=777174&size=L&sok=&photo_nr=&prev_i > >d= &next_id= >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear booth at Scale 3X

2005-02-18 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 18, 2005 04:11 am, Erik Hofman wrote: > It really is a nice setup. Good work John. > It also looks to me like a pleasant isle of joy in an otherwise boring > event (am I right about that?). > > > Erik lol... I have a similar thought about the event. Nice simulator, pictures and videos

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument headaches

2005-02-22 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 22, 2005 04:20 pm, Paul Surgeon wrote: > The way I see it is an instrument should be able to have it's own set of > animation, input and sound config files as well as nasal scripts. > Then only a single include has to be done in an aircraft config file to > load the instrument at the ri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Running probs

2005-02-22 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On February 22, 2005 06:09 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: > I might suggest that those of us who've seen this sort of problem seem > to have slow 3D rendering. Yes, I have slow rendering. When the ground is within view, the framerate never goes beyond 15. Ampere _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help with B-29

2005-03-15 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On March 15, 2005 07:27 am, Josh Babcock wrote: > I abandoned the idea of using JSBSim mostly though because I can't find any > polar data on the superfort wing. I think DATCOM+can give you the data that you want. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] b-29 alpha

2005-04-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I get the following outputs from FlightGear 0.9.8 on Debian Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/local/FlightGear/bin/fgfs --fg-scenery=/usr/local/FlightGear/share/FlightGear/Scenery-0.9.8 --airport=LFBO --enable-real-weather-fetch --aircraft=b29 --lat=43.62176 --lon=1.377905 WARNING: ssgSGIHeader:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: property control question

2005-04-06 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On April 6, 2005 05:18 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Here is an improved version. It initializes "gear" with settimer, > because otherwise using "/controls/gear" could lead to collisions with > other parts that messed with it at startup. You can instead use a > different property path. And then, we k

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: property control question

2005-04-07 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On April 7, 2005 03:09 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Your standard Nasal > key binding skeleton with one commented out line would do (literally) > nothing to solve this problem. But maybe I just didn't understand your > performance enhancement!? Are you suggesting that we replace all nasal > key bind

Re: Was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] realistic scenery

2005-04-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On April 19, 2005 09:24 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > I can't afford a lot of scsi ... Have you tried getting these off E-Bay? Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

[Flightgear-devel] What happened to Flitetutor

2005-04-21 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I have been meaning to ask this for a while: Does anybody know what happened to the project? Whoever was working on it seems to have just diappeared. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/m

[Flightgear-devel] Congratulation to Airbus for the successful first flight of the A380

2005-04-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I was up all morning watching it. =) http://www.airliners.net/open.file/825950/L/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/825949/L/ Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Congratulation to Airbus for the successful first flight of the A380

2005-04-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
http://www.airbus.com/A380/Seeing/indexminisite.aspx Click on Discover, then Videos for the video of the take off. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Congratulation to Airbus for the successfulfirst flight of the A380

2005-04-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Another congratulation is in order -- successful landing. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-04-30 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I've just upgraded SimGear, but I was getting the following errors when I was trying to compile FlightGear today: localhost:/usr/local/src/FlightGear-0.9.8# make Making all in tests make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear-0.9.8/tests' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../src/Include

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I have tried everything I can think off. I have reinstalled the plib1.8.4 and plib1.8.4-dev packages. I have recompiled simgear. I have even reinstalled all the graphics-related package, but I still get the same error messages when I was trying to compile FlightGear. In the attachment is a l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 07:42 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..I don't see X.org installed in your list, you compiled from source and > put it in the /usr/local tree? No. I put a source in my /etc/apt/sources.list and got the binary from http://www.nixnuts.net/files/. I didn't perform any compilation. Xorg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 03:39 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Oh. freeglut and something that looks like opengl is already there, but the > commend in brackets looks suspicious: > > xlibmesa-gl4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] > > For XFree86? But you are running Xorg's X11R6.8.* now? Mayb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 04:41 pm, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > This does indeed look ugly. I assume that no 3d apps are running HW > accelerated? I don't really know. glxinfo says direct rendering: yes. Xorg.0.log also reports direct rendering is enabled. Enemy Territory also runs, although it is virtually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 04:55 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..their Check.sh is meant for what??? Their own proprietary drivers, or > also for open source X.org It meant to check what version of xserver you are running: XFree4.1.0, XFree4.2.0, XFree4.3.0 and Xorg6.8.0, so people can download the appropiate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 04:31 pm, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > My favorite "strace" could give you some hint in either case: > > A)   $ strace -fF -eopen glxinfo 2>&1|tee /tmp/strace.log > > B)   $ strace -fF -eopen ./configure 2>&1|tee /tmp/strace.log > > If you search through that log file, you'll see *where*

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
First, let me say thank you for all the help, guys. I have reinstalled all the graphics related packages again. For some reasons, it worked this time. I managed to compile FlightGear without problems. But now I am having another issue: FlightGear doesn't run and gives me the following messag

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 07:12 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..play with grep -B 20, 25 etc,  I find it hard to believe this: > > undefined  symbol: __glXLastContext > > ..is causing DRI to fall over. That command doesn't work, nor does grep -B=20.  So I have just attached the entire log. Sorry. Ampere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 2, 2005 10:26 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -B 20 EE -- [9] -1 0 0xf000 - 0xefff (0x0) MX[B]O [10] -1 0 0xff8c - 0xff8d (0x2) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xff8f - 0xff8f (0x1) MX[B](B) [12]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 3, 2005 02:39 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > WARNING: ssgSGIHeader::: Failed to open > > '/usr/local/FlightGear/share/FlightGear/Textures/Sky/cl_cumulus.rgb' for > > reading. > > So? What's with theses files? Are you sure you have these, at this weird > path? But anyway ... Those files aren't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed of CVS version and flying in theHimalayas

2005-05-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 3, 2005 01:52 pm, Paul Furber wrote: > Thanks - I did have it the right way around when running it - just typed > it in wrong in the previous e-mail. I've just downloaded the e080n20 > tileset and there now seems to be a large peak of ~29 000ft on the > China/Nepal border :] Some screenshot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 3, 2005 09:59 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2005 23:17:39 -0400, Ampere wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have gone through the entire log. > > ..put it on a web server and post the url to it here. http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/Xorg.0.log http://www.students.y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
> ..according to your log, it _is_ loaded between (II) LoadModule: "glx" > and (II) Loading extension GLX , despite the first loading failure. Yes, I see that too. It is being loaded as a submodule. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules-dri-trunk/extensions/libGLcore.so /usr/X11R6

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FlightGear

2005-05-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Thanks for all the help guys. It seems the depth-rate setting was preventing FlightGear to run. After I have changed the depth from 24-bits to 16-bits, FlightGear runs fine. Unfortunately, enemy-territory slows down even more under 16-bits (not that it is playable anyway). As far as hardware

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d city

2005-05-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 5, 2005 08:30 am, Giles Robertson wrote: > The major problem is modelling the city anyway; if you are prepared to > model NY accurately, then feel free - but be aware of the size of the > task, and if you already have the data, tell us where it is :) > > Giles Robertson Too bad the Manhatta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: opening window & splash screen

2005-05-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 4, 2005 05:40 pm, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I thought about a progress bar, or better: an info line that says: > "initializing navigation data", "initializing airport data", etc. > That entertains people a lot and makes the startup time appear shorter. > > m. Just an idea: would it be possibl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New 3d clouds

2005-05-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
The new 3D clouds are great! However, on the ground, I noticed the clouds seem a bit grainy. They are also darker than they should be. On closer observation, I see this: http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/fgfs-screen-006.jpg Does anybody know I am seeing these artifacts? Would my use of 16

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New 3d clouds

2005-05-05 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 5, 2005 06:32 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > They look a lot nicer in 24bit depth, there are some issues, but I > assume this is still a work in progress so I'll wait a bit longer before > I start complaining. :-) hehe. I see why you would think I am complaining. I missed the word "why" in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new 3d clouds - strange movement

2005-05-06 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 6, 2005 10:06 am, Karsten Krispin wrote: > If you bank your plane the clouds will move in the opposite direction as > you turn > to - They move  to the right or to the left depending whether you turn > left or right. (And I'am not talking about the movements through the > wind ;)). It is str

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 10, 2005 03:59 am, Erik Hofman wrote: > To be clear, are you talking about a 3d model or about a flight dynamics > model (which describes how the aircraft should handle)? > > In case of the latter, there is already a (beta) C130 configuration file > for JSBSim available: > > http://cvs.sourc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 10, 2005 01:48 pm, Harald JOHNSEN wrote: > I'd like to work on a plane too in my spare time (model, animation or > panel). > Do we know of some aircraft from cvs that need some work or is it better > to start a new one ? > > Harald. There are quite a few aircrafts in the cvs that need to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 11, 2005 09:47 am, Ben Morrison wrote: > How long would you say it would take you to create this model, > just so I have an idea.   It depends. How much data have you gathered? The more data you have, the less guess work you have to do, and the quicker you can get the model to look right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Model: AC130-H

2005-05-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 11, 2005 01:35 pm, Ben Morrison wrote: > When you refer to data, are you referring to the dimensions of the > aircraft? Sort of, but "dimensions of parts on the aircraft" would be a better description. =) Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] swap chase views

2005-05-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
What kind of graphic cards do you have?! Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web site problems?

2005-05-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
> Just an information: Linux + Mozilla no problem Konqueror has no problem either. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-15 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 15, 2005 10:21 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > PS: TODO for 1.0: >     - perfect weather               (almost) done >     - per-wheel gound reactions     YASim: done;  JSBSim: :-(   UIUC: bah! >     - help system                   (a bit unsophisticated, but) done >     - a/c switchable at runt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-16 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
> For those who are currious: > > http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/fgfs-screen-016.jpg > > Erik It looks good, although usually there's only one bolt. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] today's 3d clouds commit

2005-05-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 17, 2005 01:54 pm, Paul Surgeon wrote: > Only 20% of strikes consist of one stroke (pulse along the same path) while > the other 80% are two or more strokes. > The mean stroke occurrence is five to six and the maximum has been measured > at twenty-five. > > Strikes can last up to 1 second in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-05-18 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 18, 2005 06:25 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: > The original glider had no instruments of course. For this model, I've > pinched the instruments panel from the Schweizer 2-33 that was already > in Flightgear. I did this to give me some idea of airspeed, to > compensate for not having the wind in m

[Flightgear-devel] MD-11 is slow (was FlightGear startup time)

2005-05-24 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 24, 2005 07:45 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > for (3): use as few textures as possible; You can: >          - edit material.xml and let it share textures (only one wood > texture) or start fgfs in the desert :-) >          - use aircraft with few and small textures (hint: avoid the MD-11 > :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 26, 2005 04:32 pm, Andy Ross wrote: > > Would it be possible to have a compiled form stroed on disk, which > > is automatically regenerated on startup of FGFS based on rules > > similar to make. If the ASCII version is newer than the compiled > > version, rebuild the compiled version. > > So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear startup time

2005-05-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 26, 2005 01:43 pm, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > How so?  Python does it by compiling a new *.pyc everytime there is a > change to the associated *.py file. > > > > Ampere Beside, you don't compile Flightgear everytime you run it. You compile Flightgear when t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .ac file format

2005-05-29 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On May 29, 2005 12:16 pm, Gerard ROBIN wrote: >       If your whishes are: using GMAX >       In windows environment (is valuable with linux + wine too) >       It is possible to convert from .gmax to .ac If GMax native file can work in Flightgear directly, then there wouldn't be need for convers

[Flightgear-devel] Cannot put character with ascii code 0 into the property tree

2005-05-31 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I have been experimenting with Nasal lately. The focus of my experiment is to have one Nasal script communicate with another using the property tree. In an attempt of communication, a Nasal script of mine placed the following stream of characters to the property tree: 1, 80, 194, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot put character with ascii code 0 into the property tree

2005-06-01 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
> I don';t think the property tree cares much, I expect this is a string > handling "problem" in Nasal because it is written in C(++). Actually, it is the otherway around: Nasal doesn't care, while the property tree does. I hope Nasal stays that way. > Oh wait, Ampere is actually trying to put "

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot put character with ascii code 0 into the property tree

2005-06-01 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 1, 2005 04:23 pm, Andy Ross wrote: > My guess is that the property tree doesn't care either, and it's > simply the output routine that is truncating the string due to the > embedded null.  Is there some sample code to exhibit the problem? > > Andy Do you mean something like this? # **

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cannot put character with ascii code 0 into the property tree

2005-06-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 1, 2005 07:02 pm, Andy Ross wrote: > This isn't fixable without relatively major surgery, so for now I > think you're stuck.  Maybe Melchior's suggestion of storing your data > in Nasal space is the best one for the moment. Okay. I think I came up with something using Nasal. =) Objects i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft models

2005-06-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 3, 2005 12:33 pm, Jon Berndt wrote: > I'm interested in tallying up the existing JSBSim aircraft flight models. > I'd be interested to know (either by posting here or sending me a personal > email) which aircraft you have modeled. It seems there are a lot of models > floating around that ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airports Data + Zoom + SHIPs

2005-06-08 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Perhaps seperating land and water would be the next thing on the agenda? Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] My thoughts regarding aircraft system or "hardware" simulations

2005-06-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
A propsal regarding the generalization of aircraft systems Abstract: Currently, the electrical system seems to be the only system that can be configured by the user. Other systems are either fully hardcoded into Flightgear, or have yet to be modelled. Since dedication to code that simulates

Re: [Flightgear-devel] After crash , Restart ?

2005-06-09 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 9, 2005 05:28 pm, Martin Spott wrote: > I'm curious if it is possible to 'simply' define the whole model as a > "contact point" and let the OpenGL subsystem detect terrain collision. > This would require some return channel from the OpenGL system back > to the application and I have no idea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
hmm... flying undersea. Isn't that what submarines do? Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 11, 2005 06:07 pm, Oliver C. wrote: > I agree with the terrain. > But i think that airplanes need to be able to sink after they crash. :) > So the best way would be to make the terrain and watersurfaces independent > from each other. > This would also have some positive side effects because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-11 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 11, 2005 03:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All! > > I would like to contribute to flightgear project... I'm interested in > converting italian scenery from MSFS (I already know that it is not > possible to distribute stuff that it isn't GPL compatible) and creating an > MD-82 model fo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New developer

2005-06-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 13, 2005 12:42 am, Manuel Bessler wrote: > The stuff is still here: > 1. http://cockpit.varxec.de/fgfs/fgfs_717-200.tar.bz2 > 2. http://cockpit.varxec.de/fgfs/fgfs_717-200_71.blend.gz They are not there. Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing li

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll

2005-06-13 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Water isn't the only other material that should be modelled. There are also other materials such as grass and soil. Right now, I can take a short cut across the grass in any airport without concern, and these sort of behaviours should bring some consequences. =) Ampere

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A380 3D model FDM reference point

2005-06-13 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 13, 2005 02:40 pm, Innis Cunningham wrote: > Hi Martin > > Martin Spott writes > > >Hello, just an informal note > >To my impression the A380 needs an offset vector for the FDM reference > >point in order to make it rotate around its CG. Could the author > >confirm ? > > This is corr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Colditz Glider

2005-06-14 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 6, 2005 06:44 pm, Josh Babcock wrote: > Well, take a look at what I put in, no wires, though I could do that > with about zero trouble if people think it would add to the model. > Personally I don't think it would add much though. Also I think the bar > I put in there is pretty sensible. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: "old" 3d clouds code

2005-06-15 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 15, 2005 04:05 am, Erik Hofman wrote: > There where a few reports that one would need at least 24/32 bit colors > to get it working (although it used to work with 16 bits in previous > versions). It used to work with 16 bits. After I upgraded from the latest CVS version, the 3D clouds don

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: "old" 3d clouds code

2005-06-15 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 16, 2005 01:18 am, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > Look into that. I believed that this was integrated somehow. That looks > phantastic and does things like that. > Watch the video on the bottom of that page. > >Greetings > > Mathias I have just finished watching the video. Yes, th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: "old" 3d clouds code

2005-06-16 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 16, 2005 01:24 am, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > I tried with 24. > On a recent Mesa CVS r200 driver I get the same error message. > With the r200 driver from my distro it just crashes. > > I have short circuted that with an unconditional false return in line 461 > in RenderTexture.cpp. > The c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: "old" 3d clouds code

2005-06-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 17, 2005 01:17 am, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > On Donnerstag 16 Juni 2005 21:12, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > > I have short circuted that with an unconditional false return in line > > > 461 in RenderTexture.cpp. > > > The crash happens in the first call to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] getting the best perfo with FG

2005-06-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 17, 2005 03:17 am, BONNEVILLE David wrote: > Hi again people, > > problem solved ! :D > > I've just recompiled the latest cvs of plib, simgear and FlightGear, turned > on the threads flags, and now I have a FG running up to 60 fps (i have > forced the synchro with the vertical refresh). > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] need help for convertion(importing) fron MSFS into Flightgear

2005-06-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 17, 2005 10:53 am, yue xianf wrote: > hi Gerard: > > Thanks lot, I found the hope to finish my project. > > Clifford What aircraft is it that you intent to port over? Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org htt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-06-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 17, 2005 03:02 pm, Harald JOHNSEN wrote: > I have started to add some volumetric shadows in Flightgear. > It uses the standard stencil method to count shadow volume (let me know > if you want an implementation > without stencil, it can also be done with the alpha buffer). > A few days ago I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-06-17 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Forgive my annoyance, but here are a few more questions. =) First of all, I am seeing a potential problem when the sun is below the horizon (during dawn and dusk) and doesn't cast any shadow onto the ground. Does your code handle this special case at the moment? If so, how? Secondly, do objec

[Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
If I found a lot of inaccuracies in an airport and want to get them fixed, who should I talk to? Thanks in advance, Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting an airport fixed

2005-06-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 19, 2005 04:10 pm, Gerard Robin wrote: >    I have the same request LFPO is wrong: --> take off  point beside the > runway > >  Thanks > -- > Gerard For me, it is the LFBO. 14L/32R is a dirt runway, and there is no taxiway connected to the ends of 14R/32L. =/ I notice another airport aro

[Flightgear-devel] Some opinions, detail analysis, and ideas related to FlightGear

2005-06-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Hello, This thread in the FlightGear section on Avsim is getting pretty informative. The thread started out as a form of feature request, but it eventually focus on the funding issue of FlightGear. Please check it out: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=198&topic_id=855&mo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Le Bourget / Paris Air Show / Aero 2005

2005-06-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 19, 2005 06:22 pm, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > I had the chance to get a pass for Le Bourget 2005. Unfortunately, the > only day I could go was a rainy day. > > Nevertheless, I took pictures that you can see here > http://frbouvi.free.fr/photos/yappa-ng/index.php?album=Aviation%2FLeBourget >2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: carb-heat

2005-06-20 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 20, 2005 09:58 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > >fgfs developers aren't only pedantic, but also lazy.  :-) > >   > > Errr ... busy. :-) > > Curt. Or chaotic. =) Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@fligh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows

2005-06-20 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 20, 2005 12:53 pm, Harald JOHNSEN wrote: > You are a genius, forget my previous reply. > We can't lighten pixels from the framebuffer because of the low > precision (8 bits) but we can of course darken them. > Algo (works better at full night) : > 1) render the scene and all non emissive ge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Just for fun ...

2005-06-20 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 20, 2005 05:01 pm, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/fgfs_gui.jpg  [80 kB] > > m. Oh boy! A bo105 with a cloaking device! =P How much chance do you think I have if I want to sneak up on some Romulans? hehe... Ampere ___ Fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Just for fun ...

2005-06-20 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 21, 2005 01:39 am, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I like these title bars -- they combine two necessary elements (title, > exit button) -- and thus safe some vertical space. Hey, will the dialog shade if I double click on the title bar? =P Ampere ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) River Visual Rwy 19 DCA

2005-06-21 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 20, 2005 10:11 pm, Dave Culp wrote: > Here's some guy flying the River Visual to Runway 19 at DCA. This is a > 19MB avi file. I'll leave this up for a couple days, then remove > it to put the hangar back up. > > http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/dca_visual_19.AVI > > > Da

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights was: Shadows

2005-06-22 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 21, 2005 03:34 am, Roman Grigoriev wrote: > to Harald JOHNSEN: > spot lights in fgfs I had 3 years ago. they worked on vertex program and > registercombiners but everyone afraid of vertex programs and multitexturing > You can see some screens here http://fgfs.narod.ru In my opinion, if the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft ideas ?

2005-06-24 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 24, 2005 11:39 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Got an idea for a new aircraft (not airplane) you'd like to try ? > > http://www.dodsbir.net/Topics/Default.asp > >   Topic: A05-208 > > ..concerns "semiballistic 40-105 mm munitions with enhanced lethality > capable of striking targets of oppo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turn Coordinator is out ==> c172r and others

2005-06-25 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 25, 2005 08:20 pm, Gerard Robin wrote: > Beware instrument failure ! > C172r and others aircraft have a turn coordinator out of order :=( > seems to be property: > /instrumentation/turn-indicator/indicated-turn-rate I notice it as well, but I thought my CVS version is outdated, so I didn'

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear got killed (seems like memory problem)

2005-06-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Hello, I uninstalled Xorg and went back to XFree today so I could do some testing with XFree and the latest FlightGear CVS. I got the following outputs from FlightGear: RenderTexture Error: Couldn't find a suitable pixel format. WARNING: ssgLoadAC: Failed to open '/usr/local/FlightGear/share/

[Flightgear-devel] About 3D Clouds

2005-06-26 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
After removing Xorg and upgrading XFree to the latest CVS version, I am finally able to use FlightGear in 24-bits color. However, I am still not seeing any 3D clouds. I have an ATI Radeon 9200SE graphic card. I remember 3D Clouds was working fine when it (the code for the new 3D Clouds) was f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About 3D Clouds

2005-06-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 27, 2005 04:26 am, Erik Hofman wrote: > Harald at one point added a check to make sure the RenderTexture context > was actually available. It almost looks like this was a bit too drastic. > > Erik Interesting. I happen to keep getting an error regarding RenderTextuer context -- in both 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-06-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 25, 2005 01:49 pm, Harald JOHNSEN wrote: > Paul Kahler wrote: > >Oh does that sound like a bad hack. What happens to objects that have > >specular highlights? Would the illumination be as if the sun were > >shining rather than the spotlight? Lighting is important, but this > >doesn't seem l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..multi-X trick ideas, was: FlightGear got killed (seems like memory problem)

2005-06-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 27, 2005 01:15 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..a tad drastic, for FG development, you could simply set up two > runlevels, say runlevel 2 to run xorg and runlevel 3 to run XFree, > these 2 runlevels could othervise be identical.   > > ..to push this further, you could also use runlevel 4 to run

[Flightgear-devel] Regarding buildings (was Shadows)

2005-06-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 27, 2005 05:00 pm, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > In the first, an oracle building cast its shadow on another one > http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-shadow-1.jpg > > If I go forward a bit, the shadow disappear : > http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-shadow-2.jpg Would it make sense to giv

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-06-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On June 27, 2005 05:40 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Yes, that's a tough one ... think about what happens when the sun is low > in the sky ... an object that casts a shadow on the current view could > be *way* outside the view frustum.  I don't really understand how > shadows work, but you'd almost

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