Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Sim Reset

2005-12-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vassilii Khachaturov schrieb: IIRC a destructor can't call virtual methods, so if the interface needs to do some kind of cleanup it can only be something pertaining to this instance and using just the compile-time resolved calls. I haven't looked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Slashdot: Seasons Givings

2005-12-19 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Curtis L. Olson wrote: P.S. I can still photoshop out most of my gray hair ... :-) Being an OpenSource advocate I hope that you 'GIMP' our those grey hairs that accidentially might happen to be where you didn't expect

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Even more Scenery Objects

2005-12-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/bitmap/FGFS/EDDI_01.jpg It's not that easy to create a screnshot of this large building without losing major detail Watch it at night ! Yes, the version on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: New way to add commandline options

2005-12-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: I see three reasons opposing this idea: 1.) I'm not sure but I assume you can't use : inside a command line option on certain platforms (Windows). I really can't imagine any problems that it might cause under windows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RenderTexture bug

2005-12-13 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: However, there is some strange coloring issue: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~cs233144/fgfs-screen-001.jpg You shouldn't take drugs and then fly!!! CU, Christian :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] W2K or XP?

2005-12-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon S Berndt schrieb: Anyone got a good reason why I should install W2K or XP as preferred over the other one? The difference isn't as big as Microsoft wants you to believe. On modern hardware I'd use XP, on a bit older and slower hardware W2K

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH] Scenery/tileentry.cxx: new feature: allow objects on sea tiles ( generally don't drop objects)

2005-12-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: If FG_SCENERY=A:B and both dirs contain a Terrain/ and Objects/ does the seperator have to be a double colon :? Or, more precisely, is it a ; under Windos? A double colon would cause real trouble under Windos... (imagine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible new thinking for 2D/3D cockpit instruments

2005-12-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Hosgood schrieb: I was deliberately thinking that you **don't** want to use OpenGL for that sort of thing. The GPU has enough work to do rendering the view out of the windows, it would be a waste of its time rendering instruments for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure distribution calculation on planes when landing?

2005-11-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: Dai Qiang wrote: I'm wondering, if it's possible to calculate and record the pressure distribution on all parts of a plane, e.g. gears, wings etc, when it's landing? Landing gear could be done fairly easily, as the force

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any chance for NURBS taxiways?

2005-11-28 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Inzerillo schrieb: Is there any chance we get NURBS instead of polygons for taxiways? That's not for me to decide, but I doubt that it will happen in the near future. Of course this would be a nice improvement for any object in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] [PATCH] (announcement) throwing stale exceptions and missing copy ctor/assignment

2005-11-25 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vassilii Khachaturov schrieb: What has been done in the patch: * whenever an exception object was created on a stack and then thrown (thus causing the dtor for that object to fire!), it was replaced with a STATIC exception object use in the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Tower Simulator

2005-11-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: I just ran across this document http://www.adacel.com/prodserv/downloads/MAXSIM.pdf and thought: Isn't it great that FlightGear is so flexible to provide the visuals for such an application without modification ? Do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] impending v0.9.9 release

2005-11-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Hi all, I would really like to get v0.9.9 out the door this week ... Great! Will there be a Windows binary prerelease to test it? CU, Christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2005-11-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: Innis Cunningham wrote: I would think we are better ploting our own course this may mean we are a bit light on to start off with but with people helping it would take no time at all. Lots of airlines provide timetables

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Aircraft Models

2005-11-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Durk Talsma schrieb: To get AI traffic going in the forseeable future, we could use quite a few low-polygon count aircraft models in various paint schemes. So, I'd be interested to know if anybody with reasonable 3d modeling skills would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-16 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: On Saturday 15 October 2005 23:44, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, I hope I don't say too much if I say that there is work planned on defining taxiways by means of polylines in TaxiDraw. That's still very restrictive. It's a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: A question regarding accurate taxiways

2005-10-16 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Gerlich schrieb: I'm not sure how important giving back to Robin's DB is for the FlightGear community but in the OpenSource manner I'd say we should try to find a way of not doing things twice in two communities. We should try to scratch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: Online forums?

2005-09-14 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment. What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting over to online/web-based forums? I hate forums. At a mailinglist I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcement: First TerraGear landcover database export

2005-09-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: On September 10, 2005 09:28 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside the USA the runway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] RE: Turbine Engine (Concorde, Hunter, and Citation Information Needed)

2005-09-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Georg Vollnhals schrieb: Curt, well argued - our real-world pilots handle these engine startup and shutdown procedures very seriously in helicopters without FADEC, ie. Eurocopter BO105, BK117. Getting the temperatures too high (hot start, ITT++)

[Flightgear-devel] OT: X-15 Pilots Finally Get Astronaut Wings

2005-08-24 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/08/24/1516255.shtml?tid=160tid=14 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDDKHulhWtxOxWNFcRAuu5AKCI9YXHLI1Al3RZxuqWlm+uhCDDfQCgkfEV /UKFr/biGLZJ/iSy3+vluxg= =xAZj -END PGP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: very long startup time

2005-08-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:03:11PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: looking at the trace logs it looks like fgfs goes through every metar station out there: Initializing environment subsystem 2005/08/22 14:56 KSFO 221456Z 0KT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: decryption

2005-08-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Babcock schrieb: OK, so I ordered some flight manuals on CD from eflightmanuals.com, but what they didn't tell me is that they send them in a proprietary encryption scheme for PDF files that requires Windows ME of later which I don't have.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: decryption

2005-08-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: * Which, at least for the US airplanes, are government documents and therefore uncopyrightable. The only legal restriction on their distribution would be their security classification, AFAIK. IANAL, blah blah blah.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sprintf

2005-07-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: Jon Berndt wrote: IIRC, sprintf was a problem for some. Is that still the case? I've compiled under Cygwin, Borland C++, and I think I've also compiled code that uses sprintf under IRIX. sprintf is C standard - and very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sprintf

2005-07-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: The real cross platform soultion would be the C++ std::string No, you can't format (the f in printf) the string using the default C++ string class). You have to use the I/O manipulators

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: licensing problems in SUSE Linux]

2005-07-22 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: Curt forwarded from Lukas Tinkl: we at SUSE recently stumbled upon this problem: some of the code contained in FlightGear contains a non-commercial lincese which forbids us from further distributing it. The consequence is that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: code optimisation

2005-07-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Campbell schrieb: Hi, One comment and some documentation has indicted that FDM doesnt consume much CPU. I ask myself why? The modelling of a generalised rigid body with six degrees of freedom in a rotating frame of reference should max out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Custom scenery integration

2005-07-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine schrieb: Martin Spott writes: I'm currently uncertain if we really can store the _whole_ scenery in PostGIS. Our elevation data currently comes as raster data but maybe it makes sense to convert that into contour lines - which we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shadows

2005-06-27 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Bouvier schrieb: Another nit picking : When an object ( say a building ) is culled because it is not in the view, its shadow is also culled even if it is in the view. 2 screen shots : In the first, an oracle building cast its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Ships

2005-06-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Culp schrieb: If this is in regard to the AI ships driving onto land, the AI ships and AI carrier can accept a flight plan, but the ability to follow the flight plan has not yet been implemented. I won't be hard to do. Once that is done,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] batteries, alternators, volts, amps - electrical system

2005-06-01 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: Just some general info that may or may not be useful. General aviation batteries : Typically lead acid Commercial and military : Typically Ni-Cad (nickel cadmium) [...] On the battery side of things the discharge and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] batteries, alternators, volts, amps - electrical system

2005-05-31 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: I need to do some work beefing up our electrical system model a bit. I'd like to add a simple model for a battery where output varies with time and a simple alternator model where output varies with rpm. I'm a complete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] game engines (ghours)

2005-05-03 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: eagle monart wrote: eagle monart a écrit : hi everyone, is there an idea of switching to another open sourcegame engine. fg is real beatiful but is weak in visuals especially in terrain rendering.we cant edit

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

2005-02-19 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: Putting all the above into a fatigue-routine or a fatigue-class, we can make a call to it everytime the aircraft makes a contact with the ground. We can make a call to it every second, too. Afterall, aicrafts can

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

2005-02-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Christian Mayer -- Friday 18 February 2005 17:22: Melchior FRANZ schrieb: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/exhibit_A.jpg Ups, it happend again. Lasttime was the victim of my engines smaller though (http://www.lfa.mw.tum.de

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Curiosity about antialiasing

2005-02-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: At the moment, is antialiasing applied to textures themselves? If so, what will happen if antialiasing is applied to the final render/output instead? Technically the textures, as they are displayed, aren't antialiased

[Flightgear-devel] Qt 4 will be GPLed for all supported systems

2005-02-07 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've just read at the Heise Newsticker, that Trolltech is planning to release the next version of Qt for all systems (including M$ Windows) under it's dual license. = We can start to use it!! :) The attached text (including the reasons their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] STL help requested

2005-02-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Luff schrieb: Hi folks, I've run into a tricky problem when using stl map, and am hoping someone might be able to point me on the right direction. I have a map of airports, indexed by string, which is the ICAO code: mapstring, ARP*

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

2005-01-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manuel Massing schrieb: Hello, I do have a few questions though : Does the current code that you have handle texture paging? Yes, textures and geometry are paged and decompressed asynchronously in the background (seperate thread). The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

2005-01-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: On Saturday, 29 January 2005 12:54, Christian Mayer wrote: Manuel Massing schrieb: Hello, I do have a few questions though : Does the current code that you have handle texture paging? Yes, textures and geometry are paged

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas release candidate

2005-01-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Elliott schrieb: Hello Dave, I'm using an ATI 9200 vid card with ATI's drivers and I'm getting: Seaching for extensions... GLX_SGIX_fbconfig: NO GLX_SGIX_pbuffer: NO One or more required extension(s) could not be found:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

2005-01-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Ross schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: Manual Massing wrote: Yes, textures and geometry are paged and decompressed asynchronously in the background (seperate thread). The engine supports image compression to save IO (and possibly bus) bandwith

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway lighting - What happened to the new terrain engine?

2005-01-29 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 17:39, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Has anyone actually looked at how much of the base package is taken up by SGI+ format image files? (Which have absolutely abysmal compression ratios, but that's a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun improvements

2005-01-24 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Bouvier schrieb: Erik Hofman wrote : Frederic Bouvier wrote: This is in CVS now ( should show up in a few hours on SF ). In the meantime, a screenshot : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgrun-basic.jpg If you're going this path

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-24 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: Also, I was actually thinking about Wind Turbines earlier today; are you having them face into-wind and altering the rotation speed depending on windspeed? They don't vary that much in real-life (they are governed) but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation

2005-01-24 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: There are 3 possibilities This is a bit different from the wind turbines we have near EDLN (Cologne area). If the wind is too high they feather their blades but still are being turned to face

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8, Mac OS X build

2005-01-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: As religions differ greatly around the globe (even in the countries themselfes) there'll people who helped with their work that have their belive at least not represented (and probably even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in basepackage)

2005-01-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giles Robertson schrieb: 1) Fgrun/fgfs. For the average windows user, this is *highly* counterintuitive. In so far as Windows has an overarching user interface and tool design philosophy, it's integration. The concept of a GUI that launches the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings

2005-01-21 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Hofman schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: The first point is argueable. But that we need a restart just to change planes is a big show stopper! It depends on the goals for 1.0. If you want a version that is easy to use for the end user

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 0.9.8, Mac OS X build

2005-01-20 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Brunschen schrieb: Hi, The Mac OS X build of FlightGear 0.9.8, as available from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/macflightgear/FlightGear-0.9.8.dmg? download, contains a file called 'How to Get to Heaven.rtf', at the root level

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C++ question - solved

2005-01-19 Thread Christian Mayer
to a B inside B:foo when using the B-specific functionality of the parameter. I don't know how to do templates, so this is what I might do until it got too ugly. Hope that helps, Paul On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 15:12 +0100, Christian Mayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A380 - Virtual Screen inside Flightgear driven by SVG commands?

2005-01-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver C. schrieb: Is it possible to implement a sort of virtual screen (like a texture but vector driven not bitmap driven) inside the Flightgear Window that can be put anywhere in the flightgear 3d world, for example inside of a cockpit as a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A380

2005-01-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: Running Nasal code in the rendering loop to do tons of work would not be a very good idea in my opinion. I've looked through an A320 FCOM manual and it would take many thousands of lines of C++ to accomplish a half

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads

2005-01-18 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the web page is comming along nicely! There's one thing that could be added: when you click on the thumbnail a normal sized picture should open. It also would be great if there'd be a thumbnail of the cockpit for that plane as well. CU,

[Flightgear-devel] A380

2005-01-17 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When do we have a flyable A380? It can't be that Airbus was faster than we are: http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/17/0437202.shtml?tid=126 CU, Christian ;) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more google adds

2005-01-16 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: I did another round with google adds today and here's what I've come up with which seems (to me) like it could work out. 1. No adds at all on the main/front page of our site. Adds only on the subpages. Sounds fair 2.

[Flightgear-devel] C++ question

2005-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, can someone help me to solve thise problem: Imagine I've got this class hierachy: class A { virtual bool foo( A bar ) = 0; } class B : A { bool foo( B bar ) { ... } } int main( void ) { B foobar; } this won't compile as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why should maps be power of 2?

2005-01-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Robicd wrote: I've been managing with some 3d objects to put into fgfs sceneries and I've found that faces' texture maps should be sized with power of 2. I'm using .3ds files (with .bmp maps) which don't have such

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

2005-01-13 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: On January 12, 2005 06:07 pm, Christian Mayer wrote: I see more problems with the correct shape of the wings. The models won't get it right and using just some NACA profiles won't work with the higly optimized profiles

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

2005-01-13 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Beeckman schrieb: Are there any decent books about those Navier-Stokes equations and how to implement them in C or java? One description of Navier Stokes are at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_equations there are also many many

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-12 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: Ah, www.multimap.com helped me to figure out my first coordinate: There's a windmill at: Location:Germany X:1294800m Y:6110700m Lat:48:12:51N (48.2142) Lon:11:37:52E (11.631) But how do I add it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

2005-01-12 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfram Kuss schrieb: Erik wrote: This still might be useful if you can get all the moments and coefficients from it. Then you would be able to create a JSBSim configuration file from the model geometry. The idea of using the gfx model you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] May I help with scenery?

2005-01-11 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: The positioning of landmarks which don't fall into either of those categories is best done with as accurate a map as you have available, either using FGSD with a scanned or digital map, or a service like www.multimap.com (for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] alternative terrain engine integration

2005-01-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine schrieb: Manuel Massing writes: I want to start to integrate an alternative terrain engine with flightgear (http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-September/030853.html) For this, I need to adapt flightgear to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-01-10 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Mayer schrieb: Jon Stockill schrieb: I can look up a few positions of objects. What format do you need? Lat/Lon? Just lat/lon, a heading (if appropriate) and the model you want inserted at that point (obviously if it's not a standard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGNetFDM-time

2005-01-09 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine schrieb: ..a _guess_: the 32bit unix calendar ticks over sometime in 2038, while the 32bit Wintendo calendar ticks over every 49? days, I saw this given somewhere on the web as the reason Microsoft used (they still do?) to recommend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Shuttle Mapping Mission Finale

2005-01-07 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Berndt schrieb: Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have completed Earth's most extensive global topographic map. Great!!! To view a new fly-over animation of New

Re: [Flightgear-devel] John: Church Fenton hangars need fixing?

2005-01-07 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: Arnt Karlsen wrote: Due to temporary boredom today I was playing with some visualisation code for the scenery database, and managed to draw this: http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/testing/SceneryObjects.png It looks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: While messing around with my scripts for inserting objects into the scenery (it's now all database driven, with numerous datasets imported) I decided I could do with a few landmarks. Here's a couple of views of the first,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks Christian and Chuck, I think Linux would be the most direct but my comfort level diminishes rapidly. Nowadays Linux is much more userfriendly than what people think. But I can understand that you'll only want to tackle one problem at once. I would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnt Karlsen schrieb: Zip files are everywhere, we aren't going to get sued for using them, ..no? ;-) Never heard of The SCO Group and Microsoft? http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041228040645419 or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Frster schrieb: PS: For Bavaria you can get the official 1:5 (or is it even 1:25000) maps and air pictures for free from the net. But they are only in pixel format (not vector format) and the UI isn't that great to do some harvesting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Just let me know the areas you're interested in. Europe ? ;-)) Which scenery tarballs? I'll get them downloaded, and get on with processing the terrain elevation for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Cole schrieb: I unfortunately do not have an FTP server or the like to make my version of the source code available to you. But since you have some time, I could simply e-mail you the source code that I have built along with some simple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Stockill schrieb: I can look up a few positions of objects. What format do you need? Lat/Lon? Just lat/lon, a heading (if appropriate) and the model you want inserted at that point (obviously if it's not a standard one form the Models

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 09:22, Vivian Meazza wrote: We should do both - that seems to be the solution adopted by most web sites which offer downloads. Why should we be different? We should not expect windows or UNIX users

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Dershowitz schrieb: For GA aircraft (light aircraft) the POH is pretty much all there is, other than maintenance manuals. The POH does not contain complete system information. It contains enough for a pilot to understand the OPERATION of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft/Pilot's manuals

2005-01-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 22:54, Christian Mayer wrote: Well, I've seen the manuals that come with an A310 - box of roughly 1m * 0.5m * folder-height (probably larger) full with overfilled folders. No wonder they pay

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver C. schrieb: | | Could you change the file format from *.tgz to *.tar.gz? | | I ask because *.tgz is used by Slackware as a package format (it's a tar.gz | file with a install script in it) and this is leading to confusion | when you have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver C. schrieb: | On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:37, Christian Mayer wrote: | |Oliver C. schrieb: || Could you change the file format from *.tgz to *.tar.gz? || || I ask because *.tgz is used by Slackware as a package format (it's a | |tar.gz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-04 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: Linux can easily unzip those and Windows users have the unzipper already comming with their OS (when it is WinXP...) But only then - and who wants WinXP without being forced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Individual aircraft downloads

2005-01-04 Thread Christian Mayer
a native, free tool that works out of the box. Jon Stockill schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: BTW: of all Windows versions you only want to use 2000 or XP (= 2000.1). The rest is either unstable (95, 98, ME) or doesn't run modern software (NT) This doesn't alter the fact that there are still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: |The 3D part is easy -- there are relatively few moving parts to |animate. The challenge will be creating dynamic textures to show on |the displays, and that's going to require rolling up our sleeves and |doing a lot of C++

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Megginson schrieb: | On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:39:49 + (UTC), Martin Spott | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |They also have a version with two Lycoming IO-360 for the North |American market, | | | Is that out yet? I'd heard that they were working

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Martin schrieb: | On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 22:36, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: | |Interesting aircraft. | |On January 1, 2005 04:44 pm, Dave Martin wrote: | |The visual model is easy enough | |Provided that there are enough data to do an accurate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb: | Here is an alternate idea: instead of writing our own animation class, may be | we can think about making the displays capable of rendering *small* external | OpenGL applications; such as the OpenGC Project. When we can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Diamond TwinStar Panel

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Surgeon schrieb: | On Sunday, 2 January 2005 18:03, Christian Mayer wrote: | |I see no benefit in adding an dependancy to a library that effectively |can do the same as OpenGL - but only in software. | | | The difference is a powerful text

Re: [Flightgear-devel] What was decided about the guy on -user who's bouncing everything back to sender?

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Mayer
was deleted as spammer at https://www.safe-mail.net/spam Best Regards, SAFe-mail support Original Message From: Christian Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Rejected: Re: [Flightgear-users] Problem with fgrun] Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:40:03 +0100

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] [OT] Spectacular ground transport

2004-12-16 Thread Christian Mayer
Well, I can only respond with an air transport: http://www.flugzeugbilder.de/show.php?id=256867 (I haven't scanned my own pictures yet; if you search for Beluga and MUC you'll find lots of pictures on the net) There an A310 (history of this plane:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-16 Thread Christian Mayer
Thomas Förster schrieb: Am Mittwoch 15 Dezember 2004 14:48 schrieb Oliver C.: On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:35, Paul Surgeon wrote: I hope we either drop PUI (plib's UI) or at least do a major upgrade to it. We use PUI in the menus at the moment and in my opinion the widgets look absolutely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-14 Thread Christian Mayer
Ironhell3 . schrieb: I believe that flightgear is a great game but in my opinion it is not very user friendly.In order to have more users trying our game and thus provide more feedback we have to make some steps: 1) Update the splash screens. We have the same ugly splash screens for the past 3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New nasal features coming

2004-12-07 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross schrieb: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Finally, I get to realize my dream of re-implimenting all FG algorithms using recursion. Not to ruin the joke, but you could do that already. Nasal has always been a fully functional language, with recursion, lexical closures and anonymous lambda

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Inner marker sound

2004-12-04 Thread Christian Mayer
Chris Metzler schrieb: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 09:46:00 +0200 Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway of stopping the inner marker sound going off whenever starting at an airport on the runway? This is a bug I presume because I do not know of any inner markers located directly on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic Management screenshots

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Mayer
Chris Metzler schrieb: I'm curious whether you have ideas on how to generate traffic data (flights and flightplans) for the aircraft that the TrafficManager and AIManager will handle. Are you thinking of doing real-world flights? If so, is there a good place to harvest that data? You can try

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Simgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/simgear/sound soundmgr_openal.cxx, 1.7, 1.8

2004-11-21 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Log Message: I don't understand why FreeBSD doesn't see isnan() after including math.h but it doesn't. Trying the apple approach to fixing isnan results in an infinite loop (making me wonder what happens on OSX?) This is an alternative approach to checking isnan() on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nurbs headaches

2004-11-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson schrieb: I find that when I try to interpolate a nurbs surface through the grid points, the resulting surface misses many/most of the points, which is not what I expected. I also tried a least squares fit which actually I *really* like, however, I'm finding that the least

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nurbs headaches

2004-11-08 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Christian Mayer wrote: What you might try is putting a bezier patch through the points. The Bezier curve guarantees you that it won't leave the convex hull of your points. But it won't go through your controll points (what you actually want to achive to smooth your data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] St. Elmo's Fire

2004-11-02 Thread Christian Mayer
David Culp schrieb: I've been playing with modeling St. Elmo's Fire as an instrument: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/stelmo-clear-sky.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/stelmo-in-clouds.jpg which is convenient, but has some problems. The main problem here is that it's barely visible

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