Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Maik Justus wrote: no. The Doppler problems are due to OpenAL bugs and limitations. On most systems (at least at all which are using Open AL software Doppler calculation) I got strange effects. On Linux systems a workaround was to use only the relative velocity of listener and sound,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Maik Justus -- Thursday 23 October 2008: Melchior sent me a note, that actual Open AL might be less buggy, but he still noticed strange effects. I guess we have to define what actual means here. As far as I know by now, there are three variants: (a) original OpenAL by Loki (as Erik pointed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I guess we have to define what actual means here. As far as I know by now, there are three variants: (a) original OpenAL by Loki (as Erik pointed out recently) (b) official OpenAL by Creative (continued from (a)). Development I have tot state that the Creative

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 24 October 2008: (d) A complete rewrite of OpenAL done by me, not released yet and still figuring out how to best push this. I've used this one for at least half a year now when running FlightGear. Frankly, I don't see how (d) can compete with (c), which is used and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Frankly, I don't see how (d) can compete with (c), which is used and cared for by several Linux distributions as well as used and tested by several million people. Do we really want to pull in maintainership of our own OpenAL implementation (for no good reason)? And

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Did I say I'd shut up now? Bah ... ;-) * Erik Hofman -- Friday 24 October 2008: I never said I wanted to put my own implementation into FlightGear. Still, there is a new option available soon. True, I'm sorry. The ultimate question is really only: can we drop our current workarounds for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Frankly, I don't see how (d) can compete with (c), which is Yeah yeah, By the second time I got the message ;) Erik (Sorry, I couldn't resist) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 24 October 2008: Should/can we remove all workarounds and require (c)? Just for clarification: all versions should really be compatible, anyway. So there wouldn't be a requirement to install a particular one. The question is only, if one implementaiton is fully spec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: True, I'm sorry. The ultimate question is really only: can we drop our current workarounds for buggy implementations, and rely on a clean spec-compliant (i.e. working) OpenAL version, and point people to an URL where this can be found for optimal results. Ideally, this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 24 October 2008: Yeah yeah, By the second time I got the message ;) In case you are referring to mail duplicates: As you can see on the message ids, I didn't send it twice. This is a bug in the sourceforge.net mail handling:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Friday 24 October 2008: the remaining problem might be hardware accelerated 3d audio support from the Creative drivers. If that version fails, then what? Ugh ... no idea about that. Wouldn't implementations like openal-soft care for that as well? (Not that I've found any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 24 October 2008: the remaining problem might be hardware accelerated 3d audio support from the Creative drivers. If that version fails, then what? Ugh ... no idea about that. Wouldn't implementations like openal-soft care for that as well?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - FGFX class

2008-10-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Erik Hofman -- Friday 24 October 2008: Yeah yeah, By the second time I got the message ;) In case you are referring to mail duplicates: As you can see on the message ids, I didn't send it twice. This is a bug in the sourceforge.net mail handling:

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear contest

2008-10-24 Thread Curtis Olson
I've been speaking with a manufacturer of graphics related hardware device. Let me just keep it generic for now, even if the list of names to guess from isn't very long. We were discussing the idea of setting up a contest with one of their units being the grand prize. They would benefit of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear contest

2008-10-24 Thread Matthew Tippett
My suggestion would be a pre-recorded flight contest. http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Suggested_Prerecorded_Flights Rationale is as follows 1) Will provide great demo-fodder http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Presentation_Recipe 2) Will provide a nice basis for improving

[Flightgear-devel] AptNav XP810 of 2008 ?

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, does anyone have a copy of Robin's AptNav files for X-Plane 8.10 which is more recent than the 200712XP810 release ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --