Re: [Flightgear-devel] Why sky writing doesn't works?

2004-09-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: Luca Masera wrote: Have you downloaded the latest version of the data from cvs? The puff files (puff.ac, puff.xml) should be included in ../data/models/geometry. Also, don't forget to uncomment line 21 of FlightGear/src/Systems/system_mgr.cxx to enable submodel support. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile Failure on current CVS

2004-09-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Dale E. Edmons wrote: Hi all, I just did a "cvs update -d -P" and tried to recompile but got the following error(s): Try updating FlightGear CVS again, I just fixed this. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An error of running fgfs

2004-09-02 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > when I run fgfs, I got the following errors: > > GLUT: Fatal Error in fgfs: failed to create OpenGL rendering context. > > Could you please tell me why? This is often caused by the fact that FlightGear wants to run in a higher bits-per-pixel mode. You might wa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fedora Core 2, What glut?

2004-09-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Also, you will need to grab openal (www.openal.org) from cvs and build/compile that. Unfortunately they don't have versioned releases so the best you can do is just grab their current cvs. They recently started releasing snapshots of CVS versions that are considered "safe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight replay

2004-09-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: What is the likely hood of having the ability to save flight replays in the near future? We hardly work with likely hoods. If one of the developers is bored (and feels like it) it might well be it gets included within a week. Otherwise it could take up as long as sever

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New type of ultralight aircraft

2004-09-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Gunnstein Lye wrote: When will flightgear have a model of this?;-) http://www.yves-rossy.com/en/ (see the jet man link at the top right) That wouldn't be too hard to model. Find appropriate airfoil data (lift and drag) and we're almost set ... Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] In-cabin engine and ATC volume.

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: Finally, is there a way to make an operation dependent on two properties in an xml sound file? - I'd like to make a further drop in engine volume dependent on both /sim/current-view/internal AND /sim/general/headphones (or something like that) being true. If you mean, make and aud

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back online

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: P.S.: Erik, I don't seem to have received a reply to my last eMail from you, just tell me if you need more clarification - otherwise some of the questions that I asked are still left open and I would like to get definite feedback regarding the probability for acceptance of my co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiple instruments and systems, and configuration of these

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: Melchior seems to have started migrating stuff from the cockpit subdir to the instrumentation subdir. This should also be made configurable, just like the stuff that's already in instrumentation. Note that this was the intention of the Systems subdirectory, depreciate t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Back online

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..myself, I'd like to see "low tech front ends" to FlightGear, to run in clusters on old junk that cannot do OpenGL. High end upside, is clustered OpenGL, the kind you see in movie theaters. ;-) Just create a library that is OpenGL compatible, and you're free to do anything

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VC jitter

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Lee Elliott wrote: Hello all, ...something not too important for the TODO list perhaps... In a/c that have one or more VC views there's a visible 'jitter' when looking at parts of the a/c, most notably in my experience, with the windshield/canopy frames. While I can imagine that the amount is ab

Re: ..bo!, was: [Flightgear-devel] Back online

2004-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:10:41 +0200, Erik wrote in message Just create a library that is OpenGL compatible, and you're free to do anything that frightens the rest of us. ..http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/caca-sabre.png scary enough? ;-) Great, now I have troubles getting t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs + placement script "done".

2004-09-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. Yay. I finally got time to finish this. Pics, taken during a takeoff run in the 737 at KSDF (I kept the plane on the ground way past rotation speed to get the later snapshots): Is there still interest in these? Hope so. If so, I'll go into more detail and pass them alo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Runway distance remaining signs +placementscript "done".

2004-09-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Giles Robertson wrote: Would adding in ILS/glidescope aerials (where they exist; that's easily checkable off Robin's database) count as too much clutter? There are models for them already (see data/Models/Airport) and Curtis does want to include them but got the same problem as described by Chris

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Submodel question

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: For the moment, we have this line in system_mgr.cxx : // set_subsystem( "submodel", new SubmodelSystem() ); Do we want to keep this line commented for the upcoming release or could we enable it ? I ask that for the next win32 binary build ? Good question. At first I left it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: We'd like to do another release of FlightGear/Simgear in the next week or two. I'm starting to roll together the first round of pre-releases. Mostly this release should fix problems and discrepancies with the v0.9.5 release of FlightGear with not a ton of new development

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another submodel question

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: I am looking for the effect created by submodels and I still haven't saw one. The line in system_mgr.cxx is uncommented and I started with the f16 (--aircraft=f16 ) Now, what I am supposed to see. According to the f16-set.xml file, Ctrl-F is supposed to trigger flares, bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another submodel question

2004-09-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: I am looking for the effect created by submodels and I still haven't saw one. The line in system_mgr.cxx is uncommented and I started with the f16 (--aircraft=f16 ) Now, what I am supposed to see. According to the f16-se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next release - ac that don't work

2004-09-12 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Perry wrote: 3. f104 - no power. This used to work. I'm baffled about this one. It's not clear to me what is causing this. 4. j3cub - Aborted. This used to work. This dos work for me. If it's an "assertion" problem then it is caused by OpenAL. Just try to start FlightGear again and things w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal'ing ...

2004-09-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Hi ! Two things: 1)I would like to be able to display a simple text string at runtime in the upper left corner of the screen using Nasal (in order to display simple in-flight information). I could imagine that something like this already exists, i.e. for disp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim with Solaris8/Sparc and GCC-3.4.1

2004-09-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, I must admit that it's not completely clear to me if this stems from using GCC-3.4.1 or simply from the recent changed to JSBsim (I assume the latter) so I'd be happy if anyone could tell me: make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim' [...] g++

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim with Solaris8/Sparc and GCC-3.4.1

2004-09-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: They really should be fabs() in both cases, both GetState() and GetTolerance() return a double instead of an int. Thanks ! Any idea why this doesn't show up on other platforms ? I think the other compilers just issue a warning and convert the double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS - Problems

2004-09-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: On compiling the CVS download under Cygwin this morning I get the following error: tilemgr.cxx: In member function `void FGTileMgr::update_queues()': tilemgr.cxx:288: error: `size' undeclared (first use this function) tilemgr.cxx:288: error: (Each undeclared identifier is repor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Questions about problems with the particle system

2004-09-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Luca Masera wrote: Hi, I've done some work on the particle system using the primitives of PLIB. I've however some problems. The first and the second screenshots are made with the simulator freezed and the only difference is the position of the head of the pilot. Why the object change their color

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-webpage addition (tardiff created base-package patches)

2004-09-16 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Because of this obvious advantage (particularly for users with slow dial-up connections, but also for those among us who have broadband access, but don't like to wait... ) we would now like to know what the rest of you thinks about adding those tardiff based patches as an OFFIC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound.xml conditions for properties crossing set values.

2004-09-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. I'm trying to figure out how to do the above -- how to cause sounds to play when properties pass across fixed numerical values (e.g. altitude annunciators). The problem is that something like /some/path/to/property 100 doesn't produce any sound at all, while /

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound.xml conditions for properties crossing set values.

2004-09-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Chris Metzler wrote: This works fine except for one thing: starting up. When you start up, no matter where you are or what you're doing right at startup, one of the two conditions above is guaranteed to be satisfied, and so right away you hear the sound that's meant to be heard only when passing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/docs-mini README.sound, 1.2,

2004-09-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: + OpenAL setup for general use (Linux) + - + As of July 2004 it is best to add at least the following line to your + ~/.fgfsrc file on Linux because it wil find out what audio backend to + use, starting with the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem with ballistic sub-model

2004-09-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Vivian Meazza wrote: It's just occurred to me that I'm using my local version, so it's possible that I haven't asked Erik to upload one of the multitude of files it requires to alter one parameter, or there's something wrong with the files I sent in. It's definitely OK here with your model. I'll ch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] webpage update

2004-09-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: Boris Koenig writes: Anyway - if I'm not terribly wrong you should have CVS access, FYI I do *not* have CVS write permission And for a good reason, others might not be able to catch up with the number of CVS commits ... Erik ___ Flig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ideas for a fully interactive ATC-TTS engine (was: A voice for FG)

2004-09-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: - I promise to never again send uncompressed postings to this list ;-) Promises, promises. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c496

[Flightgear-devel] CVS today

2004-09-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I made a terrible mess of the FlightGear CVS repository today by adding (what I thought was) one extra code cleanup I accidentally committed the complete local tree which contained changes that were not ready for release yet. I tried to get it compiling (which succeeded) but got a runtime

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /sim/navdb ?

2004-09-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Hi ! Guess, who's here ;-) A quick question: I'm about to finish several smaller Nasal dialogs, now I wanted to add a simple flight planning dialog using Nasal, I thought I would find the necessary elements for the combo boxes under /sim/navdb within the property tree, but there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] speed-with-pitch

2004-09-21 Thread Erik Hofman
David Culp wrote: It seems to me the autopilot can't chose the correct pitch angle without some knowledge of the current pitch angle, or the airplane's performance. I think it wants to get a zero the angle-of-attack (alpha), which (in theory) could be done by increasing the speed. Erik _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] /sim/navdb ?

2004-09-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: where else exported within the property tree, or is it simply not yet there ? It's not there, and it probably never will be. woohoo - don't say that: I was just about to make a terrible mess of the code ;-) No need, that has al

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Oh yeah, enlarge the C172 a bit, replace the engine with a PT6 and call it "D-FOTO" (based at my home airport EDLN :-) So they do exist, turboprop driven C-172's? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: I'm pretty sure they exist albeit D-FOTO is a Caravan, used for photogrammetry of the nearby brown coal mining. They have a nice 19" rack inside the cabin for analysis equipment, So now you are going to provide me with all kinds of pretty pictures which can be used to cre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-webpage addition (tardiff created base-package patches)

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: But there's another thing in this context - it's about the VERSION file in $FG_ROOT/data not containing pre-release tags, I think Jim Wilson mentioned a couple of weeks ago that this is supposed to be like that, this however causes a problem for those users who want to apply a p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PropertyList - XML files - where to find the sources

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: I have now looked into dozens of source files, but I don't seem to be able to find those files that are responsible for the XML handling, respectively loading & parsing the PropertyList XML files, so I apologize in advance, but: what's the name of the classes that are used or r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Martin Spott wrote: I'm pretty sure they exist albeit D-FOTO is a Caravan, used for photogrammetry of the nearby brown coal mining. They have a nice 19" rack inside the cabin for analysis equipment, So now you are going to provide me with al

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Mat Churchill wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: So now you are going to provide me with all kinds of pretty >>pictures which can be used to create textures? I'm certainly planning exactly this, have been messing around with low budget aerial photography. This device (MK1, now on MK3) http://w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View for a down facing camera

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: I'm sure this has been brought up before, but has anybody ever really *tried* to ask companies that sell satellite imagery on CD-ROM for their permission to use derived work (=> FG textures) freely in an opensource project ? As long as not the actual product itself can be re-cre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lights- view limits at 90 deg of pitch

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Luca Masera wrote: Thanks for the hint about the lights, I've contacted Grigoriev. I've another question about the view. I've added some code to FlightGear to handle a headtracker device but, when I've tested it the view coudln't pitch over 90 degrees up and down. Instead I would that the view

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear base package request & --version parameter to fgfs

2004-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: What do you guys (mainly SimGear & FDM folks) think ? My personal preference would be to add a "const char *get_version(void)" function to SGSubsystem, and add a function "vectorget_version(void)" to SGSubsystemMgr. This would remind everyone who designs a new module to add ve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:58:16 +0100, Mat wrote in message I have been asking Getmapping if it is permissible use for people to buy their CDs and then use the exported image in FG in a personal flight sim. ..wrong question; IMHO you should have said "_GPL_ fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dynamically modifiable menubar

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Generating a dynamic menu structure might be harder than you think, As you didn't yet reply to the ideas that I mentioned in this thread, I simply tried the approach that I described. Good, I am not always able to respond quickly. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: This is really great from the publishers and should be taken for granted! ...not... ? Eh, yes. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UK Photo Scenery

2004-09-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Boris Koenig wrote: Anyway, I am going to give this also a shot and contact some companies that provide aerial/satellite image data, could anybody here provide the details concerning the requirements that need to be met for an image to be suitable to be used as a texture for FlightGear ? One meter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI Tweaks

2001-11-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: > Which window manager are you using? Not seeing this with kde...but I haven't > downloaded the lastest menu stuff (which I am doing right now). In theory this can't happen ... There is one occasion in which this might happen: The system is too busy to handle X events fast

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Messages FDM <--> FGFS

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd like to consider using this to send the sound manager events of interest, > but a protocol for message passing must be reached. Good idea. Then it is possible to play a sound at the touchdown of the seperate wheels. Erik _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Messages FDM <--> FGFS

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > David Findlay writes: > > > Not to mention also have the sound vary depending on how hard or soft you > > hit. Sometimes you hardly hear it, other times if they really crunch it you > > really hear it - loud! > > It already does so: Err, sorry. But what do you me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Messages FDM <--> FGFS

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
>> >> > > That sounds pretty good. Did you make it from scratch? > Whats the deal with the 2 "squeak"s in that directory? They are all my original work. If you like them, you can include them in the base package. (Although I'm not certain the squeak are worth including ...) Erik __

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Float --> Double

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon S. Berndt wrote: > I am thinking that some of our problems in JSBSim may be due to numerical > precision. To rule out this I am considering moving all floats to doubles. The > results of this are something I am not fully able to address, so I am asking > for opinions on this: > > 1) Bad i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim::do_trim: fgic->GetVcalibratedKtsIC() always zero!

2001-11-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Alex Perry wrote: >> I found out, that it's in fact not a problem with the keyboard settings, >>as ^U does still work with "magic carpet" and "larcsim". Furthermore, >>not only changing the altitude in JSBSim via ^U, but also via the new >>property-picker and via telnet yields the same results:

[Flightgear-devel] New Wind Sound

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I'v uploaded a new wind.wav file at:http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/ Before you can use it you have to aplly a small patch. Erik --- /home/erik/src/CVS/fgfs/FlightGear/src/Sound/fg_fx.cxx Tue Nov 13 10:41:25 2001 +++ FlightGear/src/Sound/fg_fx.cxx Sun Nov 18 10:58:36

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Wind Sound

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: > > --- /home/erik/src/CVS/fgfs/FlightGear/src/Sound/fg_fx.cxxTue Nov 13 10:41:25 >2001 > +++ FlightGear/src/Sound/fg_fx.cxxSun Nov 18 10:58:36 2001 > @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ >// >_wind = new FGSimpleSound(fgGetStr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Wind Sound

2001-11-19 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: > >> I'v uploaded a new wind.wav file >> at:http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/ >> Before you can use it you have to aplly a small patch. >> >> > + _crank->set_pitch(1.9); >> > > [...] &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Wind Sound

2001-11-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Alright, I've uploaded a renewed wind.wav file and a patch to FlightGear at: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/ I'm quite pleased with this one. Could you please tell me what you think about it? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Wind Sound

2001-11-21 Thread Erik Hofman
Mally wrote: > Erik wrote: > >>I've uploaded a renewed wind.wav file and a patch to FlightGear at: >>http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/ >> >>I'm quite pleased with this one. >>Could you please tell me what you think about it? >> > > The first thing I noticed when I played the wave file wa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Wind Sound

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Julian Foad wrote: > As for the difference between your wind.wav and the one from CVS, I think your one >does sound better (ignoring the high pitched whine), but I'm really not sure. It has >stronger low frequency components, and I feel that they better represent the wind >turbulence and buf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding airport buildings and runways to fgfs

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Hofman
> However I have one question i.e > > There are already runway objects in fgfs right? > However I can only find .rgb files like grass_rwy.rgb, dirt_rwy.rgb and not > any grass_rwy.ac or dirt_rwy.ac. So I am missing somefile, seems unlikely has > I am able to see runways at kfso and other pl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atlas source requires modification in the Makefile wrt sg libraries.

2001-11-26 Thread Erik Hofman
C Hanish Menon wrote: > Hi > > I also tried getting Atlas up and running on my debian machine. In the process > I found that the Makefile requires to add some additional library files to get the > program compiled on the linux machine. > > I tried informing the Atlas mailing list, but it requ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding airport buildings and runways to fgfs

2001-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Flavio Villanustre wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Erik Hofman wrote: > > >>Runways are in a sepperate file called default.apt >>I'm not sure if it is wise to update this file since it is derived from >>a database maintained for another project (X-Plane). >&g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding airport buildings and runways to fgfs

2001-11-27 Thread Erik Hofman
> BTW, Erik, do you still have that great link to the paper on cloud > display? I have lost it :-(. I had to search for it, but here it is: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/clouds/ Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stall horn question

2001-11-28 Thread Erik Hofman
John Check wrote: > - > In the constructor for FGSoundMgr: > > FGSoundMgr::FGSoundMgr() { > audio_sched = new slScheduler( 8000 ); > .. > } > > Which, if I understand it right, is setting the playback rate to 8Khz. > So even though we're reading samples off the disk at arb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stall horn question

2001-11-28 Thread Erik Hofman
Alex Perry wrote: > > > Sounds reasonable. It would be nice if this could be handled > > transparently on the plib side, but I don't think anyone is working > > real hard on the audio portions of plib these days ... :-( > > Yeah; but one of the reasons nobody is working on it is they're forever

[Flightgear-devel] Fwd: GLAF 1.0 Released

2001-11-28 Thread Erik Hofman
I actually don't know if this is usable for FlightGear but it has some nice features. Erik > GLAF 1.0 -- OpenGL Advanced Functionality > - > > The first version of GLAF, a small library for accessing OpenGL advanced > functionality in a compatible way f

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: SGI Developer Edge - FLASH]

2001-11-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Somebody who wants to participate here? Erik --- Begin Message --- D E V E L O P E RE D G E FLASH 11/28/2001 SGI Global Developer Program

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Competition - SGI binary only [slightly OT

2001-11-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: >>The SGI-based developers of FlightGear might be interested in this ... >>If we submit a team entry, do we all get free passes to the conference ? 8-) >> > > We all get an Octane2 So when do we go? Erik ___ Flightgear-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] creating tilable textures

2001-11-29 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: > > Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > - At one point we were playing around with 1024x1024 textures but > > consider that a single RGB texture at that resolution with > > mipmapping turned on can consume about 6Mb of your cards RAM so I > > think in general we shou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GLX remote display on IRIX

2001-11-29 Thread Erik Hofman
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > > Martin, > > I have had trouble running complex opengl apps remotely between > different linux and sgi (both directions.) I don't think the two glx > implimentations are identical enough, and it may be that flightgear is > doing something too complex for the sgi gl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GLX remote display on IRIX

2001-11-29 Thread Erik Hofman
> When I run FlightGear over the same ISDN line (I don't have any PeeCee at > home) I encounter the following message: > > X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib >length error) Thess messages explain it a bit (but give no apperent solution): http://group

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: SGI Developer Edge - FLASH]

2001-12-01 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Someone with an SGI already needs to build an executable for starters. > Would be fun to arm wrestle to see who gets the new sgi. It wouldn't > hurt our project to win an award now and then. I could burn a cd with > the irix binary and contribute to the written descript

[Flightgear-devel] YASim IRIX patches

2001-12-02 Thread Erik Hofman
For who it concerned, I have placed a patch for YASim with the nessercery updates for IRIX at: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/download/YASim-IRIX.tar.gz It would be nice to hear where these type of patches should go to in the futere (and how they should be sent; diff style or complete files).

[Flightgear-devel] static const in header file

2001-12-02 Thread Erik Hofman
I think i have found a solution to the const definition problem in a header file we had previously. In the header file you could define something like: private: // WGS84 numbers static const double EQURAD; // equatorial radius static const double STRETCH;// equ./polar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Towards 0.7.9? (was: [Fwd: SGI Developer Edge - FLASH])

2001-12-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Someone with an SGI already needs to build an executable for starters. > Would be fun to arm wrestle to see who gets the new sgi. It wouldn't > hurt our project to win an award now and then. I could burn a cd with > the irix binary and contribute to the written descrip

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Global Developer Conference]

2001-12-03 Thread Erik Hofman
partner pavilion or Irix contest area. Please let me know the interest from your group and if there is anyone interested in attending. It may be hard to have your participation without an attendee. Robert -Original Message- From: Erik Hofman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Global Developer Conference]

2001-12-04 Thread Erik Hofman
Alex Perry wrote: > Erik, > I can, if needed, free up the _time_ to go ... the bay area is > relatively close for me, which is why it was feasible to do LWCE and ALS. > However, I don't have any justification whatsoever for the trip to get work > to pay for it or (more to the point) for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another YASim source drop

2001-12-06 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > OK, I've finally cobbled YASim back into a releasable state, so > there's a new source distribution available at: > >http://12.232.180.89/andy/yasim-0.1.1.tar.gz > Hi Andy, Did you notice this previous post of mine: > For who it concerned, > > I have placed a patch f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another YASim source drop

2001-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: > > Honestly, if compilers vary this much, doesn't it seem simpler to just > pick one? There's a gcc variant available on both these platforms > which can compile fgfs just fine. Is it really worth the time and > grief (to m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another YASim source drop

2001-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
D Luff wrote: > Andy Ross writes: > > >>But this also hit on a problem that Christian had with MSVC (along >>with a goodly number of slams, some justified and some not, about my >>coding style). I've been living the last few years under the >>impression that all C++ compilers supported the fo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another YASim source drop

2001-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > > Heh Heh, are you seriously trying to tell us that someone who can > > produce an FDM out of thin air can't do a find and replace on > > for(int i= > > Heh, wrong test. This is a recreational project, so you need to > measure "grumpiness" instead of productivity. This c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another YASim source drop

2001-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: >> >> And honestly, I refuse to believe that Microsoft and SGI ship >> compilers years out of compliance with the specification. There's got >> to be a way to fix this without making me grumpy. :) > Start beliving my friend, it's never

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another YASim source drop

2001-12-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: > > Err, I must confess I actaully found it! (Man, MipsPro has way too > > many compiler switches, it was hidden int the > > -LANG:ansi-for-init-scope=ON flag). > > > > Anyway, I won't bug you any more with t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
John Wojnaroski wrote: >>This is about as ugly as it gets. This will go on your permanent >>record. :-) :-) :-) >> >> > Argggh, banished to the netherworld... I should have realized that! :-0 There's nothing wrong with the netherw.. oh, you did'nt say Netherlands. Pfew. :-) Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear.

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: priority, but are things an average person will immediately notice and > ding us for) then I would be tempted to roll out the 0.7.9 release > soon. (I'm thinking specifically of the startup-onground sinking into > the ground and spinning slowly bug in JSBSim and the accel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting up flightgear.

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Christian Mayer wrote: > It would be really great if 0.8.0 - or even 0.7.9 works with MSVC. The > compiler errors are mostly fixed by now :), but I've got still problems > running FGFS w/o having the maths blow up during the first frame > (happens currently with both, JSBsim and LaRCsim, but on

[Flightgear-devel] Base and JSBSim out of sync

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
I just noticed the base package and JSBSim are out of sync. This was found after i got a core dump while starting FlightGear (I think Christian noticed the same problem). Could you sync with the latest JSBSim CVS again Curtis? Erik ___ Flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Missing file in base

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Tony Peden wrote: > On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 07:39, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > >>Just did a fresh cvs update -dP on the base directory and still get this >>message: >> >>Error loading aircraft file: Failed to open file >> at /home/Jon/FlightGear/Aircraft/c172-set.xml >> > > Check for and remove --fdm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim fixes

2001-12-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > OK, there's another release ready that should fix most (all?) of the > bugs reported so far. This time, it's just a tarball of the files Yep, it's working. Good work Andy. It's fun to fly over the scenry in an A4 or the 747! Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to select '--fdm=larcsim'

2001-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Ross Golder wrote: > lack of a panel, I can 'Ctrl-U' it up a couple of grand and glide around > for a bit quite happily (as a hang-glider pilot, sometimes I can't be > bothered with engines and props ! :) ) I can't currently do this with > JSBSim, which rather that going up 1000ft, seems to bump

[Flightgear-devel] base package access with rsync?

2001-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I have some problems with the local copy of the base package and it seems i have to remove the directory completely and recheck the base package again to get ir right. There is another solution, but I don;t know if this is set up by John (or somebody else). Is there a way to get the bas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim 0.1.3 Review

2001-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Andy Ross wrote: > What would be best, of course, is finding a POH that lists exact power > settings at some reasonable cruise. I didn't do this (does anyone > have an online source for POH performance numbers?), and instead > copied a bunch of numbers in from different sources. So, in fact,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] base package access with rsync?

2001-12-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Erik Hofman writes: > >>I have some problems with the local copy of the base package and it >>seems i have to remove the directory completely and recheck the base >>package again to get ir right. >> > > Specifically, what kind of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] base package access with rsync?

2001-12-11 Thread Erik Hofman
John Check wrote: >>There is another solution, but I don;t know if this is set up by John >>(or somebody else). Is there a way to get the base package with rsync at >>the moment (end if not wouldn't that be a nice addition)? >> >> > > I suppose I could do that. Give me a day or two, I have to t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler error with Cygwin & SimGear 0.0.16

2001-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Deppe wrote: > Gents, > > When compiling SimGear 0.0.16 with the latest Cygwin (Win2K) I get the > following compiler error. Has anyone else seen this? This is a "clean" > SimGear with ./configure; make. > > Everything goes well until... > > Making all in simgear/metakit/unix > make[1]:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler error with Cygwin & SimGear 0.0.16

2001-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: > Paul Deppe > >>When compiling SimGear 0.0.16 with the latest Cygwin (Win2K) I get the >>following compiler error. Has anyone else seen this? This is >>a "clean" >>SimGear with ./configure; make. >> >>Everything goes well until... >> >>Making all in simgear/metakit/unix >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler error with Cygwin & SimGear 0.0.16

2001-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > Do you know if this change will work ok on other platforms, why does > it help? I don't recall anyone submitting this patch to me before, > but I've got about 850 pending messages in my flightgear inbox so it > could still be in there ... it helps me if patches come

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler error with Cygwin & SimGear 0.0.16

2001-12-13 Thread Erik Hofman
Norman Vine wrote: > Erik Hofman writes: >>Eh, no. >>I need the CXXFLAGS from SimGear in Metakit. >> > > AH AH ! > > Is this only for a specific compiler or Machine type Yep. IRIX. > Can you tell me how to identify your machine(s) that need the &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler error with Cygwin & SimGear 0.0.16

2001-12-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: >> >>How about turning over to a "real" SQL database: >>http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/ >> > > Well, our needs are very simple, and likely any package will have it's > share of headaches. I'd prefer just working through the metakit > issues rather than picking another pa

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