Re: [Flightgear-devel] October $250 Flight Gear Developers

2009-10-20 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 18 October 2009 10:41:19 am George Patterson wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:59 PM, syd adams wrote: Yup. Apparently there's no limit to the depths they will sink. But they keep bobbing to the surface. :-/ Speaking of prizes and sweepstakes: Can we nominate this for the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG Landscape disappear

2009-10-20 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
This whole thread sounds exactly like what I pointed out months ago. Someone, Curt maybe, said that there was a bug in the way that tiles were prioritized for deletion; that it had changed from a distance-from-user calculation to a time-last-accessed calculation, which had become problematic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG Landscape disappear

2009-10-20 Thread Rob Shearman, Jr.
Sorry. I didn't read enough of my new messages to see that Curt had indeed replied again. Robert M. Shearman, Jr. Transit Operations Supervisor, University of Maryland Department of Transportation also known as rm...@umd.edu From: Rob Shearman, Jr.

[Flightgear-devel] TriangleIntersect errors (also an FPE in SGSoundSample::update_absolute_position)

2009-10-20 Thread James Sleeman
Trying a multiplayer session at KSFO today, starts up fine (with the R22), after about 30 - 40 seconds a constant stream of Warning:: Picked up error in TriangleIntersect (0.488171 0.432994 0.074523,0.419428 0.338607 0.151383, 0.488171 0.338607 0.131757) (nan,nan,nan)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-20 Thread Erik Hofman
dave perry wrote: dave perry wrote: With an update this morning from cvs, I still only hear ATC and that with frequency distortion. Did I miss a required library change? I have openal-0.0.9-0.15.20060204cvs.fc9.i386 and freealut-1.1.0-6.fc9.i386 with fc10. The above is on my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-20 Thread Erik Hofman
I've committed a few fixes to SimGear and FlightGear again. Please report any progress (and if preferably any command line options if something fails). Erik -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-20 Thread leee
On Monday 19 Oct 2009, Erik Hofman wrote: [snip...] The odd part is, Doppler is working for the F-16 and Fokker-100 for example. It's as if OpenAL is limiting the total pitch to 2.0 which means that AL_PITCH and Doppler combined can not be higher than 2 times the normal playback frequency. Or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-20 Thread Erik Hofman
leee wrote: This doesn't apply when the source is approaching though, and I wonder if the people writing the Open_AL code just thought the effect was symmetrical i.e. if the pitch halves for a retreating source then it should double for an approaching source. I thin k I know what the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-20 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 18 October 2009 11:04:24 am Erik Hofman wrote: Durk Talsma wrote: When I start the CitationX, I hear the engine and other sounds. For several other aircraft, including the Cessna 172,and the Lockheed1049h, I don't hear anything. I also get the pops when starting and closing

[Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Location Data

2009-10-20 Thread Statto Software
Hello, I'm trying to figure out where I need to focus on creating better generic landclass scenery and thought maybe locational data taken from the multiplayer server could give me some information on what areas of the world are more important than others. Is there a way to get the latitude

[Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-20 Thread Curtis Olson
Here's a slightly different wrinkle (maybe) on this whole selling copies of FlightGear under dubious premises. In this case FlightGear is prominently displayed in the ebay ad, but later they claim: Copyright This item is copyrighted. Any reproduction, duplication or resale of any kind is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-20 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 13:34 +0200, Erik Hofman wrote: I've committed a few fixes to SimGear and FlightGear again. Please report any progress (and if preferably any command line options if something fails). rpm -qa | grep openal libopenal0-soft-1.5.304-1.33 openal-soft-1.5.304-1.33

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Foundation? (was: Another person selling FlightGear on ebay)

2009-10-20 Thread Tom P
Hi Curt I'm not a lawyer, but the fact that they are using the name FlightGear directly is troubling. I know that it involves quite an extra effort, but I'd suggest the creation of a foundation / no-profit with the power to enforce a trademark, like the Linux Foundation does. A foundation could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-20 Thread Victhor Foster
Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blender-3D-Graphics-Design-Animation-Studio-Software_W0QQitemZ180388068724QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Software_Software_SR?hash=item29fff77d74#ht_6467wt_1021 I'm pretty sure I didn't have to pay £6 for Blender when I got it :D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-20 Thread George Patterson
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a slightly different wrinkle (maybe) on this whole selling copies of FlightGear under dubious premises. In this case FlightGear is prominently displayed in the ebay ad, but later they claim: Copyright This item

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-20 Thread Christian Buchner
The GNU license has been stripped and released with a no reproduction, distribution or resale clause. Well, one needs to order the box and find out. If the program copyright is misrepresented also on the DVD, there is a genuine copyright problem for the seller. If it's only wrongly stated in