Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D models and Blender

2006-03-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:06:51 -0500, Josh wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:16:20 -0500, Josh wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..ok, so _anything_ I add to a model, starts out as a 2x2x2 meter >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new contribution

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Spott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 26 March 2006 02:58 pm, Martin Spott wrote: >> The infrastructure ís currently in the works, but yet not ready for >> use. > You make it sound as if there is not much that can be done on the terrain > side of things and all there is to do is create objects to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:26:41 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: > > The best would be to have a country and state/province field in the > airport DB and that would need to come from Robin Peel unless we want > to have a different DB again. We could straddle the fence and have a second file which maps airpo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new contribution

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/shavlir/Flightgear/wayoff2.png The random hills are actually high buildings in the SRTM data -- the satellite sensed them as elevations without distinguishing ground from buildings. The steep hill at the edge o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new contribution

2006-03-26 Thread shavlir
On Sunday 26 March 2006 02:58 pm, Martin Spott wrote: > The infrastructure ís currently in the works, but yet not ready for > use. You make it sound as if there is not much that can be done on the terrain side of things and all there is to do is create objects to put in that terrain. Is that true

[Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Monday 27 March 2006 01:26: > Must be something daft here can you look at this file for me as i > get this error .. You had exactly the same problem when I posted *working* Nasal code last time: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9899018&forum_id=1919

[Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Monday 27 March 2006 01:14: > Could you help me with the suggestion you made below for the rudder ? Something like this, whereby you feed /controls/flight/rudder-fdm to the fdm. And you need to tweak the values, or write a better coefficient. (Shouldn't be hard, mine is probab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Smithies
Damn , Must be something daft here can you look at this file for me as i get this error .. Nasal parse error: illegal character in /opt/flightgear/share/FlightGear/Aircraft/737-300/Systems/Conditions/Conditions.nas, line 19 I cant see anything wrong , but i'm not an expert at na

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Smithies
Could you help me with the suggestion you made below for the rudder ? Cheers, Justin Smithies On Sunday 26 March 2006 23:49, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Justin Smithies -- Sunday 26 March 2006 23:56: > > How do i also make the flaps and rudder very sluggish ( Not very > > responsive ( Heavy )) > >

[Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Sunday 26 March 2006 23:56: > How do i also make the flaps and rudder very sluggish ( Not very responsive ( > Heavy )) Oh, and the rudder ... There's no controls wrapper for the rudder. The joysticks change /controls/flight/rudder directly. So you just make the FDM not liste

[Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Sunday 26 March 2006 23:56: > Another nasal question then if you can help. > > How do i also make the flaps and rudder very sluggish ( Not very responsive ( > Heavy )) if the volts are below 22 ? For example: var flaps = props.globals.getNode("/controls/flight/flaps");

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Smithies
Another nasal question then if you can help. How do i also make the flaps and rudder very sluggish ( Not very responsive ( Heavy )) if the volts are below 22 ? I know this sounds daft but i am getting somewhere . I will be chaning the checks to hydraulics as soon as i have that running. Just ne

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear/SimGear dsp/dsw files

2006-03-26 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Olaf Flebbe wrote : > Hi, > > sorry for the delay > > I second that config.h-msvc6.in (having cygwin to compile MSVC) is plain > silly. > > You may have noticed that the Version in CVS has a config.h-msvc8 > without the @VERSION@ madness. > Call it silly or madness if you want. In the mean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Smithies
Thankyou just what i needed. Maybe one day i will be as good at nasal as you. ;) Cheers Justin Smithies On Sunday 26 March 2006 22:10, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Or better: > >gearDown = controls.gearDown; >controls.gearDown = func(down) { >if (!down or getprop("/systems/electr

[Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Or better: gearDown = controls.gearDown; controls.gearDown = func(down) { if (!down or getprop("/systems/electrical/volts") > 22) { gearDown(down); } } ... because stopping the gear movement should always be allowed. ;-) Even smarter would be to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new contribution

2006-03-26 Thread Martin Spott
Hello Shavlir, welcome to the club :-) For each of the three mentioned topics I there's a different answer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to improve Chicago: > fix the coastline as it seems to be about a half mile off to the west The infrastructure ís currently in the works, but yet not rea

[Flightgear-devel] Re: nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Justin Smithies -- Sunday 26 March 2006 22:33: > I want to make a nasal script that watches controls/gear/gear-down using a > listener. > > When called this is what i would like to happen. > > If /systems/electrical/volts > 22 then let the gear go up or down. > If /systems/electrical/volts < 2

Free inverse geocoding service (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list)

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have such a file, too (country.nas), but it can't hurt to compare that with > your version and the Wikipedia page. Yes, please send it to me. Thanks. I found a free inverse geocoding service here: http://dma.jrc.it/services/querymap/quer

[Flightgear-devel] nasal help required

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Smithies
Hi all , Can someone help me out here please. I want to make a nasal script that watches controls/gear/gear-down using a listener. When called this is what i would like to happen. If /systems/electrical/volts > 22 then let the gear go up or down. If /systems/electrical/volts < 22 th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear/SimGear dsp/dsw files

2006-03-26 Thread Olaf Flebbe
Hi, sorry for the delay I second that config.h-msvc6.in (having cygwin to compile MSVC) is plain silly. You may have noticed that the Version in CVS has a config.h-msvc8 without the @VERSION@ madness. ... > >* They don't even work for newer Visual Studios > >(Dependencies are broken: Micr

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Buchanan, Stuart -- Sunday 26 March 2006 18:01: > BTW, I have a text file with the mapping from ICAO prefixes to country > names that I wrote a while ago for a mission generator project if you want > it. Might save you some time if you're thinking of enhancing it further. I have such a file, too

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 17:00: > Yes, indeed. Comboboxes need a "dialog-update", as well as the > frequency swapper buttons in the radio dialog, [...] No. This was caused by updating plib to CVS/HEAD, which seems to be broken. Works with $ cvs up -D'2 weeks ago'. I haven't found

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Battery simulation

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I already thought that simulating shelve discharging would be pretty > bizarre :-) In extremely cold temperatures in northern Canada and Alaska, pilots sometimes remove the batteries from their planes and bring them inside with them; sometimes

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 17:00: > * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 09:47: > > I'm still investigating if this change works with all our dialogs. > > Maybe one would have to add a "dialog-update" on some places. > > Yes, indeed. Comboboxes need a "dialog-update", as well as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Battery simulation

2006-03-26 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: On 26/03/06, Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For those of you who feel the desire to model the lead-acid aircraft battery up to a bizarre level you could visit the Gill site: http://www.gillbatteries.com/manual.cfm I'll be buying a new GIll battery in a couple o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Melchior FRANZ wrote: > The airports list is barely usable: there are so many entries > in it that you don't easily find anything. And the slider resolution > is much too high for finding an entry with it alone. Move it > just one pixel, and you jumped over oodles of airports. The arrow > butto

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Battery simulation

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you who feel the desire to model the lead-acid aircraft > battery up to a bizarre level you could visit the Gill site: > > http://www.gillbatteries.com/manual.cfm I'll be buying a new GIll battery in a couple of weeks. For Flight

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 09:47: > I'm still investigating if this change works with all our dialogs. > Maybe one would have to add a "dialog-update" on some places. Yes, indeed. Comboboxes need a "dialog-update", as well as the frequency swapper buttons in the radio dialog, and pro

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft Battery simulation

2006-03-26 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, For those of you who feel the desire to model the lead-acid aircraft battery up to a bizarre level you could visit the Gill site: http://www.gillbatteries.com/manual.cfm Erik -- http://www.ehtw.info (Dutch)Future of Enschede Airport Twente http://www.ehofman.com/fgfs FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloadpage

2006-03-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > Christian Mayer wrote: > >> I was again wondering why most planes on the downloadpage have the same >> version. Looking at the sourcecode of make-aircraft-html.pl it looks >> like the version number is that date the "make-ai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO scenery to cvs data?

2006-03-26 Thread George Patterson
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 22:00 +0100, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > Hi, > > Shall we update the KSFO tile in cvs with the data available in the world > scenery? > Or which copy is the /master/ copy here? > > The problem I try to solve is that multiplayer clients should all use the > exactly same scene

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Sunday 26 March 2006 15:44: > None of this is intended as a criticism of your work, only of > the bizarre complexity of airport codes in the first place. OK. :-) Of course, more fine-grained selections would be nice. A combobox with predefined search expressions for all coun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, whatever. I'm fixing an absolutely crappy and useless > implementation, and the fix is already infinitely better. I never > said it's perfect already. Thank you very much for that, Melchior. None of this is intended as a criticism of

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Megginson -- Sunday 26 March 2006 15:27: > On 26/03/06, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (K ... almost all US airports > > Except P for Hawaii (PH), Alaska (PA), and former and current U.S. > territories. Additionally, individual states use three- or > four-letter desi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloadpage

2006-03-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Christian Mayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was again wondering why most planes on the downloadpage have the same version. Looking at the sourcecode of make-aircraft-html.pl it looks like the version number is that date the "make-aircraft-html.pl" is run (when no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (K ... almost all US airports Except P for Hawaii (PH), Alaska (PA), and former and current U.S. territories. Additionally, individual states use three- or four-letter designators for very large number of airports that do not have I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 15:11: > (K ... almost all US airports ... with IACO codes, that is. :-} m. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web an

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 15:11: > Note that the filter pattern is case sensitive [...] Also not that the [Search] button is only for newbies. Hardcore fgfs users know that validates input fields, too. m. --- This SF.Net email

[Flightgear-devel] Re: airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 26 March 2006 09:47: > If someone wants to test this, then I can post the patches. And if nobody wants (which seems to be the case :-), I can post the patches, too: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/airports.tar.gz [2 kB] You need to comment out the two silly lines in Ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:49, David Megginson wrote: > On 26/03/06, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did do some work on that a long time ago using the ICAO codes to break > > up the data by country but ran into a couple of problems. > > > > 1. There is no state/province field in the

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloadpage

2006-03-26 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was again wondering why most planes on the downloadpage have the same version. Looking at the sourcecode of make-aircraft-html.pl it looks like the version number is that date the "make-aircraft-html.pl" is run (when no version is set in the air

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airports list

2006-03-26 Thread David Megginson
On 26/03/06, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did do some work on that a long time ago using the ICAO codes to break up > the data by country but ran into a couple of problems. > > 1. There is no state/province field in the airports db and it can't be deduced > from ICAO codes. > 2. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airports list

2006-03-26 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:48, David Megginson wrote: > On 25/03/06, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The airports list is barely usable: there are so many entries > > in it that you don't easily find anything. And the slider resolution > > is much too high for finding an entry with

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FG AI bug

2006-03-26 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* David Luff -- Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:48: > I don't know how soon the 0.9.10 release is, but if folk report a > crash-free experience flying with the AI traffic over the next few > days, could I suggest that we enable it by default again for this > release, maybe at level 1 (most sparse). Tha