[Flightgear-devel] Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-05 Thread DesmoSS
Greetings,   I am a graduate student in Virginia working with FlightGear towards a MS in aerospace engineering and human factors.  I am trying to alter the existing HUD within FG to reflect a newly developed energy management algorithm.  Ultimately, the pilot could match icons for bank, pit

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-05 Thread DesmoSS
Thanks Christian and Chuck,   I think Linux would be the most direct but my comfort level diminishes rapidly.  I would appreciate an opportunity to review the MSVC++ path if I can get together with Chuck.   Most of this development will take place in Suffolk, and I'm devoting the entire semes

[Flightgear-devel] Re:Development Platform Help Needed

2005-01-06 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 1/6/2005 9:16:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I unfortunately do not have an FTP server or the like to make my version ofthe source code available to you.  But since you have some time, I couldsimply e-mail you the source code that I have built

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

2005-01-11 Thread DesmoSS
Each of the new portables has an option to average the position for up to an hour, making return to the point accurate to within 3-meters. I have found that with 3-birds recognized, the position is usually accurate within 15-minutes. ___ Flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread DesmoSS
I believe that carrot is the elevator trim indicator. It should never be centered, but it should be near the neutral point for S & L flight.   Mike ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/li

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-17 Thread DesmoSS
But again: it is unlikely that this model will be maintained in the future. The standard FlightGear 172 is a JSBSim model, and it works quite well. If there is something specific you need from the Skyhawk model, you might best be served by modifying the JSBSim one. And if you want a YASim l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread DesmoSS
?? I would have figured the HUD symbology is FDM-independent. That would be ideal, however there seems to be a dis-connection between the EOM in the JSB models that's present in the YASim model. Of course, I'm comparing the PA-28 to the c172 models, but the PA-128 will drive the energy mar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread DesmoSS
Can you be specific? Which accelerations are zero. This may be a bug. hud_ladr.cxx defines: // OBJECT MOVING RETICLE // TYPE ENERGY_MARKERS // ATTRIB - ALWAYS //energy markers - compute potential slope if(energy_marker) { if (total_vel < 5.0) { t1 = 0; t2 = 0; } else { t1 = up_vel/total_ve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-18 Thread DesmoSS
The JSBSim interface, /src/FDM/JSBSim/JSBSim.cxx never calls _set_Accels_local() in the function copy_from_JSBSim(). Is it ( the call) easily added to the JSBSim.cxx code as a local fix ? I've looked at both the JSBSim.cxx and Yasim.cxx files, and although I think I see the call in yas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-19 Thread DesmoSS
We can do this, it will just take some thinking. And, yes, Mathias is the expert, here. Thanks for your input, here... I'll sit tight and see if Mathias can respond. Mike ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-20 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/20/2005 2:09:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But is is meant to be fixed at the aircraft and thus rotates due to the aircrafts velocity or is it fixed at the earth and relocated for every frame to display? Or the other question is: what is that hu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-20 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/20/2005 12:49:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or if you really want to cheat: use the Cessna 3D model with the Piper FDM configuration. :) I think that's how this whole thing started... YASim FDM with c172 model results in a YASim solution error -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-20 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/20/2005 3:02:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can use the 172 panel and graphics with another airplane's FDM configuration. A, Could you send me some specifics on the above procedure? I'm playing around within the pa28-set.xml without much suc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172r-yasim solution error

2005-05-21 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/20/2005 8:36:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't test this, but it should work for a quick hack. The result will be an aircraft that looks like a Skyhawk but flies like a Warrior. A, Sweet...!!! Although the aircraft seems to act like a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modifying nav.dat file and waypoints

2005-05-28 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/28/2005 7:24:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does it not work? Do you get an error? Are you not getting what you expect when you tune the navradio to your frequency? I'm actually working thru the same type of problem... my nav.dat files are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modifying nav.dat file and waypoints

2005-05-28 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 5/28/2005 8:59:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have unpacked all of these, removed most of the data, and then repacked them in gzip. They work fine. What are you using to gzip them? Make sure they are ".gz" and not ".tgz". Dave, Good call

[Flightgear-devel] SP_FMDS

2005-06-15 Thread DesmoSS
I've noticed in the cockpit.cxx file the instance of "ENABLE_SP_FMDS" and a search uncovers a trail into the fg_init, config.h, as well as into the HUD.cxx files. There seems to infer the existance of special FDM's, although they seem to be disabled or hidden. Can anyone offer any informa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SP_FMDS

2005-06-16 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 6/16/2005 3:56:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's nothing fancy, currently it covers an FDM from a research group... E- A quick review of the FlightGear/src/FDM/SP file indicates the ADA program calls numerous aux functions into the HUD...some of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Native_FDM suggestion

2005-06-22 Thread DesmoSS
In a message dated 6/22/2005 3:53:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you guys think? I think you should share the specifics of the UDP and Matlab version with those of us that have been toying with this unsucessfully for months... ;^) Mike __

[Flightgear-devel] MSVC error - glut32.lib

2005-07-02 Thread DesmoSS
I am trying to compile FG on MSVC.net (7.0) on a Windows platform. I have been sucessful through plib, simgear and now FG is providing me with a "fatal LNK error 1104: cannot open file 'glut32.lib' ". The 'glut32.lib' file exists in the C:\windows\system32 folder... Can anyone suggest a