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

2004-05-20 Thread Al West
On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Looks like Maik's rotor RPM numbers are off > (442 RPM). I can't make sense of the dual tacho. > What doesn't make sense? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.o

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

2004-05-20 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: > * Jim Wilson -- Thursday 20 May 2004 01:46: > > Melchior FRANZ said: > > > Here's a small MetaPost file that I used to make the Bo105 rotor tacho > > > (which is totally made up; need some expert advice first): > > > > Check out: > > http://www.airliners.net/open.file/43832

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

2004-05-20 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 20 May 2004 09:37: What I would [...]: (1) [...] (2) [...] (2) [...] (3) [...] And finally: (7) learn to count m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/

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

2004-05-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ wrote > > * Jim Wilson -- Thursday 20 May 2004 15:18: > > The rotor can exceed the drive shaft speed (e.g. autorotation). Is > > that what you are asking? > > No, I couldn't see where 442 would fit into that scale, and > what 140 should stand for (140 RPM? ... too low; or 14

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

2004-05-20 Thread Al West
On Thursday 20 May 2004 14:02, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Al West -- Thursday 20 May 2004 14:43: > > On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:13, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > Looks like Maik's rotor RPM numbers are off > > > (442 RPM). I can't make sense of the dual tacho. > > > > What doesn't make sense? > > The

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

2004-05-20 Thread Andy Ross
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > hh ... now that makes sense. I couldn't read the word "PERCENT". I guess > one needs to be native English speaker to be able to decipher that. OK, I'll > do this instrument now -- only the rotor hand, though, because there's no > turbine RPM in YASim (?). Maybe I'll make

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

2004-05-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ wrote > * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 20 May 2004 16:07: > > Melchior FRANZ wrote > > > only the rotor hand, though, because there's no turbine RPM > > > in YASim (?). Maybe I'll make the turbine RPM up with Nasal ... > [...] > > N1 N2 ? > > Yes, but there's no way to start/stop

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 a

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

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

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 t

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

2004-05-22 Thread Jon Berndt
> * Jon S Berndt, Fri May 21 16:44:16 CDT 2004: > > FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered > > using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. > > Gimp is always a good choice. However ... > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/textarc.png (27kB) > > m. :-] Sho

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

2004-05-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 22 May 2004 18:50:19 -0500, Jon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > * Jon S Berndt, Fri May 21 16:44:16 CDT 2004: > > > FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have > > > considered using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. > > > > Gimp is always a good c

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

2004-05-23 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt said: > > * Jon S Berndt, Fri May 21 16:44:16 CDT 2004: > > > FWIW, Gimp has a script that creates text arcs that I have considered > > > using if I ever get a chance to make some instruments. > > > > Gimp is always a good choice. However ... > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/textarc.

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

2004-05-24 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon S Berndt wrote: 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/flightge