Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-08 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Don't know if it'll be of any further use to you but my contribution to an aircraft I *love* http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-14.htm found it while looking for resources on; Bell UH-1 series Iroquois, better known as the "Huey" Cheers :-D ene From: "flying.toaster" <[EMAIL PROT

[Flightgear-devel] URL of Live-CD; Was: ..ot: mail lost at c2i.net

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Spott
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..to start catching up, does someone have an url to the livecd? I submitted a patch to Curt that puts an announcement on the website but he didn't apply it until now. You might look at the German website mirror where I apply the patch manually after each update: http://ww

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-08 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 07:29, flying.toaster wrote: > To answer Mathias Fröhlich kind offer, I have a few docs myself (mainly > Aerofax volume on the Tomcat), and I am using Airliners.net quite > intensely. Photos are as important as good drawings when you want to go > into detail. If I get stuck

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplay Jitter Problem with dual models flying in formation

2006-05-08 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Monday 08 May 2006 21:37, Martin Spott wrote: > Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > > If I find time, I have this on my ever growing todo list - no promise > > here ... > > We're always busy keeping Mathias' TODO-list serialized :-) :) Many interresting things to do ... Greetings Mathias

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-08 Thread flying.toaster
> De : "Lee Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Looks like an F-14 :) > Now *those* are good news :o) > I've got to say that imo this is quite an ambitious project but > it looks pretty good so far. > >From the 3D model perspective it is not more daunting than the Hornet (try to >find a sin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A SenecaII for FlightGear: first version available

2006-05-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:30 +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > Looks great, flies good. I managed some pretty landings after I got a > > feel for it. Is it supposed to pitch down so violently when the flaps > > deploy, though? > No, that has to be improved There is an entry in SenecaII-jsbsim.xml

[Flightgear-devel] 737 Autopilot Enhancements & Developement Interest

2006-05-08 Thread Simon Trusler
Hi All, I've been using FlightGear for about 5 months now and as a Software Engineer, I was interested in how it all worked. Also, during this time I noticed that some of the aircraft are not full implemented. I was unsure whether I could actually make a difference but it appears that I h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FGLive 0.1 LinuxTag edition

2006-05-08 Thread Pigeon
I just noticed there's a small issue, for German locale, IceWM -> Start -> Terminal, it doesn't work, but the normal xterm from Start -> Programs works. Knoppix/Morphix somehow sets locale to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and uxterm (unicode xterm) wants de_DE.UTF8. I've fixed this already in my loc

[Flightgear-devel] thumbnail.jpg for ogel aircraft

2006-05-08 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I made a thumbnail image for the aircraft download page for my ogel aircraft. It is here: http://www.t3r.de/fg/ogel/thumbnail.jpg Anybody out there who commits this to cvs? Thanks, Torsten --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplay Jitter Problem with dual models flying in formation

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Spott
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > If I find time, I have this on my ever growing todo list - no promise here ... We're always busy keeping Mathias' TODO-list serialized :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Major A
> > The only big question is whether the internal FDM of X-Plane or > > MSFS can be overridden with external data just like that. > > Why would you need to override the FDM of X-Plane ot MSFS? > Last time I played with WideFS all it did was put the slave MSFS machines > into > slew mode and pum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Paul Surgeon
How about this idea ... Since the X-Plane XSquawkBox module is cross platform why don't we just write a proxy app for it that pretends to be X-Plane and interfaces directly to FG in the background? That way : 1. you don't need to purchase X-Plane and run it on another PC 2. all FG users can acc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Major A
> > I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it interesting. I'm > > currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on VATSIM more or less regularly, > > As you might expect we had the opportunity at our booth at LinuxTag to > talk to several people about this dilemma. One of our guests expressed > tha

[Flightgear-devel] Re: MS sidewinder force feedback2 xml update

2006-05-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Dave Perry -- Sunday 23 April 2006 01:30: > Here is the edited file for the MS joystick. I others like it better > than the one in CVS, it should be put in CVS. Committed, thanks. :-) m. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to suppo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 06 May 2006 03:39, Major A wrote: > John, > > > Interesting... > > > > I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how > > the third party plugins or datarefs work. I don't know what happened to my reply with all the SF mailing list troubles but ... If we write

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
FYI: these fgcommands have been removed: AddWayPoint PopWayPoint ClearRoute old-ap-add-waypoint-dialog old-ap-pop-waypoint-dialog old-ap-clear-route-dialog m. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, secu

[Flightgear-devel] LinuxTag ...

2006-05-08 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, Last week we had a booth at the LinuxTag in Wiesbaden Germany. We had installed a 3 panel view that attracted many people. We installed a second flightgear computer, the multiplayer server and the google map attached to that multiplayer server. All of them equipped with the refined custom

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flightgear/FlightGearSDL-0.9.10-0.FC.i386.rpm failing on FC5

2006-05-08 Thread Steve Hosgood
andy wrote: Steve The SDL flightgear rpm is working just fine. I re-installed the nvidia drivers from nvidias website rather than from the livan rpms. And that took care of some missing sym links. So, I am up running on FC5 with the fgfs sdl rpms. That's good news for a Monday morning - t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 06 May 2006 22:02, flying.toaster wrote: > 3D model started. > You can check out the 1000 polygons on AVSIM forum > > Cheer up it's only a few months away ;o) Looks like an F-14 :) I've got to say that imo this is quite an ambitious project but it looks pretty good so far. What are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flaps question

2006-05-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 08 May 2006 19:46, Justin Smithies wrote: > Hi all, > I have a quick question that someone is bound to > know the answer to. > > On my aircraft model i need the flaps to step through 7 > positions. But i noticed that the nasal script "controls.nas" > is hard coded to 3 equal pos

[Flightgear-devel] flaps

2006-05-08 Thread Justin Smithies
Hi all,           I have a quick question that someone is bound to know the answer to. On my aircraft model i need the flaps to step through 7 positions. But i noticed that the nasal script "controls.nas" is hard coded to 3 equal positions only. How do i get around that without changing the cont

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FGLive 0.1 LinuxTag edition

2006-05-08 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, looks great here. I've got an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 and the driver works. Very good work. I especially like the screenshots at startup - besides the actual content ;-) Thanks for your effort. People at the LinuxTag booth have asked for a Live-CD all the way. We had none with us but we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 07 May 2006 14:16, Martin Spott wrote: > Major A wrote: > > I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it > > interesting. I'm currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on > > VATSIM more or less regularly, > > As you might expect we had the opportunity at our booth at > LinuxTag to talk to

[Flightgear-devel] Flaps question

2006-05-08 Thread Justin Smithies
Hi all, I have a quick question that someone is bound to know the answer to. On my aircraft model i need the flaps to step through 7 positions. But i noticed that the nasal script "controls.nas" is hard coded to 3 equal positions only. How do i get around that without changing the cont

[Flightgear-devel] ..ot: mail lost at c2i.net

2006-05-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..looks like I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] working again, I lost at least 1/3 of my mail on april 5'th, and _everything_ from the 6'th 'till now, and obviously all of the LiveCD and airship fun. ..meanwhile I screwed up a gasifier demo by essentially drowning it in coolant and was thrown an hot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Major A
John, > >FG->XP: > > > > -- position > > -- attitude > > -- time derivatives of position and attitude > > -- NAV frequencies > > -- transponder settings > > -- PTT (we might be able to use XPLMCommandButtonPress() and > > XPLMCommandButtonRelease() ) > > > Certain of the first four, will hav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A SenecaII for FlightGear: first version available

2006-05-08 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> There is an entry in SenecaII-jsbsim.xml controlling pitch due to flaps. > I changed the signs and it pitches up, but way too much. Yep - the flap behaviour is crap - I'm working on an improved FDM config. Have to get deeper in my old aerodynamics books for that... > > So the TAS dial is manuall

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2006-05-08 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2006-05-01_11:54:14 (fredb) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Docs/model-howto.html Add few words on dist-scale and flash animations, clarification on reparenting and grouping objects, and how to combine animations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-08 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 06 May 2006 22:02, flying.toaster wrote: > 3D model started. > You can check out the 1000 polygons on AVSIM forum It looks to be shaping up every bit as nicely as I expected having seen some of your other models... > Cheer up it's only a few months away ;o) Not to mention a year or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Major A wrote: John, Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. I'm afraid I can't say much more than that at this point -- the only source I have myself is http://www.xsquawkbox

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A SenecaII for FlightGear: first version available

2006-05-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:30 +0200, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > Looks great, flies good. I managed some pretty landings after I got a > > feel for it. Is it supposed to pitch down so violently when the flaps > > deploy, though? > No, that has to be improved There is an entry in SenecaII-jsbsim.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-14 anyone?

2006-05-08 Thread flying.toaster
3D model started. You can check out the 1000 polygons on AVSIM forum Cheer up it's only a few months away ;o) --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplay Jitter Problem with dual models flying in formation

2006-05-08 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Friday 05 May 2006 03:26, Dave Culp wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 08:16 pm, Greg & Lisa wrote: > > I am working on a project that requires visualization of two drones > > flying in formation. Both drones are driven by an external source via > > native-fdm sockets. Even though both drones ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Spott
Major A wrote: > I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it interesting. I'm > currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on VATSIM more or less regularly, As you might expect we had the opportunity at our booth at LinuxTag to talk to several people about this dilemma. One of our guests expressed

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 28 April 2006 19:35: > I've now put everything in place in sg & fgfs that was need to replace > the old waypoint dialog with something fancier. I intend to throw out > auto_gui.[ch]xx, Committed. Please report any problems. I have yet to look for usage of the old waypoi

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch to add "..." to menu bar

2006-05-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Buchanan, Stuart -- Wednesday 26 April 2006 19:46: > I've modified the menu bar so that all menu entries that display a dialog > box have "..." at the end of them, so "Load" becomes "Load..." etc. At first I agreed that this would be desirable. It's a standard among GUI applications. But then I