[Flightgear-devel] 3d Instrument lights helped by material emission discussion

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Perry
Thanks Roberto (and those who responded to his questions). The examples and discussion was very timely for my efforts to add instrument lights to the pa24 panel. I had included setprop("/sim/model/material/instruments/factor", bus_volts*0.071428571); tied to the nav-light switch in the pa24-el

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Chris Metzler wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:30:11 +0100 > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > >>When I need information about an animation, I look into three sources: >>the model-howto.hml, simgear/scene/model/animation.[ch]xx, and animation >>files in $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/*. The second source shouldn't be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:30:11 +0100 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > When I need information about an animation, I look into three sources: > the model-howto.hml, simgear/scene/model/animation.[ch]xx, and animation > files in $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/*. The second source shouldn't be necessary, > but until some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATC voices (no AI at EGPD)

2006-02-23 Thread Willie Fleming
On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:35, David Luff wrote: > > I wonder if there's any scope for giving it phonetic help/hints for stuff > it doesn't pronounce well, such as "ATIS". In fact, come to think of it, > I'm not sure I know how ATIS should be pronounced - I always assumed it was > "Ay-tis",

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: ATC voices (no AI at EGPD)

2006-02-23 Thread David Luff
Melchior FRANZ writes: > * Justin Smithies -- Tuesday 21 February 2006 23:20: > > Thats the same freq im using and i can take off fly miles away and hear > > nothing. > > I enable ATC and select 3 from density > > I hear ATC and "my" voice ('-key dialog), but there doesn't seem > to be any AI ai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Speech

2006-02-23 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Justin Smithies wrote: > Is it possible to make the speech louder than the aircraft noise ? > Does festival have a setting to increase the volume ? festival will be using a completely separate I/O to FGFS, so is independant of the FGFS sound level. Simply reduce the sound level using the Soun

[Flightgear-devel] Re: ATC Speech

2006-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Thursday 23 February 2006 21:45: > Is it possible to make the speech louder than the aircraft noise ? Yes. Just make the aircraft noise quieter. :-) > Does festival have a setting to increase the volume ? no idea m. -

[Flightgear-devel] ATC Speech

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Smithies
Is it possible to make the speech louder than the aircraft noise ? Does festival have a setting to increase the volume ? Regards, Justin Smithies --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends appli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roberto Inzerillo -- Thursday 23 February 2006 20:01: > I have another simple question anyway. Do I brake something if I set > emission values higher then 1 or lessere then 0 for red,green and blue? No. It's clamped to allowed values (0--128 for shininess, 0--1 else) > Are those values accept

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change materia l emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi Melchior, that was a good thread for me :-) I've come to a good result finally. Now I have a Space Needle which lights on when sun-angle-rad > 1.57 (dusk) and switches off when sun-angle-rad < 1.57 (during the day). And it does it gradually. I have another simple question anyway. Do I brake so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

2006-02-23 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
now. It is available from ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Misc_maf/SGHTMMap-20060223 Let's see where that prooves useful ... :) BTW: I am leaving tomorrow morning for the FOSEM in Brussels. Anybody else there? Greetings Mathias

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change materia l emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
> Everything correct. (And *-norm properties *are* supposed to deliver > values ranging from 0 to 1.) That's what we call a normalized variable, right? > > Well, e.g. the statement "The offset is applied before the factor" > > Eeew ... indeed. That's written in the "rotate" animation and is >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using condi

2006-02-23 Thread dene maxwell
Thanks Melchior, Your explaination makes me think it might be worthwhile revisiting FG099 this weekend and investigate commandline options a little more. does fgfs have the same "--help" feature that so many other associated project have? Kind Regards =Dene From: Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Roberto Inzerillo -- Thursday 23 February 2006 17:26: > Am I saying something correct here or am I totally away from reality? Everything correct. (And *-norm properties *are* supposed to deliver values ranging from 0 to 1.) > Well, e.g. the statement "The offset is applied before the factor"

[Flightgear-devel] update: cvs back online

2006-02-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
CVS services should be back online with a little more breathing room. If you notice any problems with checkouts or anything related to CVS, please let me know as quickly as possible. Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirs

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change materia l emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi AJ, > > I guess I will have to clear things out by myself :-( > > Or you might try the IRC channel; if you're stuck with getting something > to > work, often someone can set you straight very quickly, or cite a useful > example. I'm mostly behind a proxy which does not pass irc protocol :-(

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:42, Robicd wrote: > I was looking for some suggestions because I find the only documentation > available for non programmers (which is the model-howto.html) a little > bit confusing regarding factor, offset and -prop stuff. > I guess I will have to clear things out b

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change materia l emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi Melchior, > > Of course, Melchior, I wasn't complaining :-) Did I? > > It was the "Or is that a bug too?" that made me explode. It's not like > the "material" animation is a bug ridden piece of code. Yes, there was > a bug, but if the animation doesn't work like you expect it to, it's > still

[Flightgear-devel] cvs outage

2006-02-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
There will be a [hopefully] short cvs service outage starting now. A drive is filling up and I need to do some shuffling. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:

[Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Thursday 23 February 2006 11:42: * * Melchior FRANZ: > > Reading the documentation is *strongly* recommended before you complain. > > It's a bug in your XML code. > > Of course, Melchior, I wasn't complaining :-) Did I? It was the "Or is that a bug too?" that made me explode. It's not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using condi

2006-02-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> > Someone with sg access may want to write a better fix for simgear > > (replace string with an exception class). I wanted initially to do that during my exception cleanup patch (which started bigout of my lack of knowledge of the latest C++ standard specs of the exception handling, and then got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using condi

2006-02-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Could be, but I wasn't talking about that, but about a wrong XML > statement. Roberto presumably used something like 1.0. > But the "-prop" in the tag wants to say us that it expects a property path: > /path/to/a/number. And the material animation, like > all other animatio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using conditions in .xml file?

2006-02-23 Thread Robicd
Hi Melchior, As soon as I use the instead of property (and so on with green and blue) flightgear crashes with the following error message: It doesn't crash ... > Unknown exception in the main loop. Aborting... ... but abort, because you entered an invalid property. This has nothing to do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture compression experiments in plib

2006-02-23 Thread Tiago Gusmão
Hi. I'm still waiting for response from the plib-devel list! But until then maybe we could at least include an improved patch in the pre-compiled releases? Cheers Chris Metzler wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:17:32 + Tiago Gusmão wrote: I will post in the plib in the plib devel list jus

[Flightgear-devel] Re: How to correctly change material emission using condi

2006-02-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* dene maxwell -- Thursday 23 February 2006 05:47: > Your comments would seem to say though, that something is being entered > (into the FGv099 commad line) that causes an ABORT Could be, but I wasn't talking about that, but about a wrong XML statement. Roberto presumably used something like 1.0.