[Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-10 Thread Rob Oates
Hi, I spentthelastfew days working on regionaltextures for Europe.This is just a preliminary release so I can get feedback on these textures. You candownload the texture pack from http://mellonroot.acomp.usf.edu/~phoenix Please note you will have to rename the Europe_materials.xml file to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm on FlightGear website being distributed with freeglut 2.4!

2006-04-10 Thread Steve Hosgood
Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. We had a Fedora Core user come into the IRC channel tonight, unable to get FG to run without crashing. He'd downloaded the 0.9.9 rpm from the links provided on the FlightGear website. It turns out that that .rpm is built against, and distributes, freeglut 2.4; so it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm on FlightGear website being distributed with freeglut 2.4!

2006-04-10 Thread James Turner
On 10 Apr 2006, at 12:01, Steve Hosgood wrote:What's the fix? Insist on only a certain version of Freeglut? In my local build on FC5, I just switched to SDL. And yes, I hit this issue as well, and was thoroughly confused by it. Perhaps configure should AC_WARN loudly when it detects freeglut? (or

[Flightgear-devel] FGFS SDL 16 bpp?

2006-04-10 Thread Pigeon
I just noticed fgfs SDL just won't run on a 16 bpp X. When I run it I get: Fatal error: Failed to set SDL video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual Passing --bpp=16 or --bpp=24 doesn't make a difference. Any ideas? I also just noticed in fg_os_sdl.cxx it is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC2 .rpm on FlightGear website being distributed with freeglut 2.4!

2006-04-10 Thread Steve Hosgood
Chris Metzler wrote: I've got bog standard FC4 and freeglut 2.2.0-16 on my work machine for instance, no sign of freeglut 2.4... He was on FC5; maybe they're distributing freeglut 2.4 at this point. Quite right, they are. Annoyingly, they don't seem to be

[Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-10 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, inspired by the XML Schema delivered with JSBSim, I started to write on for YASim (and I have in mind to create one for the other config files, too). First, for those who do not know what the hack is a XML schema and what do I need it for? A schema is some kind of a formal description of

[Flightgear-devel] Possible bugs in v0.9.9 (Airbus A380 and p51d) ?

2006-04-10 Thread Mike Rawlins
When starting with: --aircraft=p51d I get system crash (no splash screen) with message Reading xml electrical system model from /usr/local/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Generic/generic-electrical.xml Initialising callsign using 'Aircraft/p51d/Models/p51d-jw.xml' YASim SOLUTION FAILURE:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-10 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Hi, inspired by the XML Schema delivered with JSBSim, I started to write on for YASim (and I have in mind to create one for the other config files, too). Bravo! I think this is a great idea. First, for those who do not know what the hack is a XML schema and what do I need it for? FYI,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Rob Oates schrieb: Hi, I spent the last few days working on regional textures for Europe. This is just a preliminary release so I can get feedback on these textures. Hi Rob, this is great work and these textures are the best for the local area I ever had. Thank you very very much! I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: taxiway runway signs

2006-04-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Sunday 09 April 2006 22:52: Melchior FRANZ wrote: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/rwysigns.jpg [27 kB] updated; shows a few new features (most people won't see a difference, though ;-) size now: [35 kB] TODO: add some simple hardware to the naked signs. (Box and stems.) I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: European Scenery Textures

2006-04-10 Thread Sebastian Bechtold
Since we're talking about it: Is is possible to define for specific areas which materials/textures FG should use to render the ground? Something like polygons of global coordinates which say in this area, use that material/texture for cities/forests etc.? I imagine not only different textures

Re: [Flightgear-devel] European Scenery Textures

2006-04-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Rob Oates schrieb: Hi, I spent the last few days working on regional textures for Europe. This is just a preliminary release so I can get feedback on these textures. Hi Rob, I just experimented a little with your textures, changed some content and made them have more contrast, did it a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible bugs in v0.9.9 (Airbus A380 and p51d) ?

2006-04-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Monday 10 April 2006 10:07, Mike Rawlins wrote: The A380 shows up on runway, but flaps won't lower, The A380 doesn't have any animation... yet. and using pageup key does not make aircraft roll down runway. Also, there's no engine sound.   I have removed the engines, because the aircraft is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML Schema for YASim, or: a GUI to build YASim aircraft

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:34:37 +0200 Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi, inspired by the XML Schema delivered with JSBSim, I started to write on for YASim (and I have in mind to create one for the other config files, too). First, for those who do not know what the hack is a XML schema and what do I