[Flightgear-devel] Local Weather - backward compatibility

2011-08-03 Thread thorsten . i . renk
> Please note, the check for > features.can_disable_environment == 1 is gone now. It doesn't make any > sense there. In a current GIT, none of the checks make any sense, because current GIT always has all the features. On the other hand, the purpose of the compat_layer.nas is to provide compatibil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Derrick Washington
Ill try this & see if it works, ill get back to u guys later on this week, away on vacation now. But thanks for responding, if anyone else know of "sure" solution let me know though, but I will be sure to try this out. Oh & yes the com port number is correct, not sure y its that high but it is CO

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scripted compile from source... results in run_fgrun buttons greyed out, or fgfs cannot open shared object file

2011-08-03 Thread Csaba Halász
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:22 AM, marthter wrote: > > > I also have separately installed FlightGear via the package manager, so I > tried pointing FG_AIRCRAFT at what appears to be the Aircraft directory, > > Also when I guessed at what to put for the terrasync exe spot, which I found > in ~/flight

[Flightgear-devel] scripted compile from source... results in run_fgrun buttons greyed out, or fgfs cannot open shared object file

2011-08-03 Thread marthter
I used the download_and_compile.sh script as described here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Scripted_Compilation_on_Linux_Debian/Ubuntu. I have done this all under my home directory under a "flightsim" directory I made, and my system is $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 11.04 $ uname -a Linux software1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: Move airplanes to an SVN repository

2011-08-03 Thread Martin Spott
Tim Moore wrote: > One thing (perhaps the only thing) that was nice about keeping > aircraft in fgdata is that enforced synchronization between the > aircraft and other common nasal and instrument files. However, if they > are split out, maybe we will be forced to be more mature about > backward

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: Move airplanes to an SVN repository

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Moore
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Francesco Angelo Brisa wrote: > Any news about a possible separation of aircrafts data from the fgdata > folder ? > I am afraid this topic is sligtly falling into the "forget about it" folder > :-( > > > Cheers > Francesco > Some of the inertia -- on my part -- com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Csaba Halász wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: COM27 is also a suspicously(sp) high port#. That seems to be quite normal for usb adapters. However you are right that this is the cause of the problem. Quote from msdn: I've NEVER seen it higher th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Csaba Halász
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: >> > COM27 is also a suspicously(sp) high port#. That seems to be quite normal for usb adapters. However you are right that this is the cause of the problem. Quote from msdn: To specify a COM port number greater than 9, use the following syntax:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > I personally have never tested the generic protocol over a serial port on > windows. I'm not sure I have tested any IO over a serial port on windows > since the very early days of the project back when we were building with > cygwin. I do recall at the t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Curtis Olson
I personally have never tested the generic protocol over a serial port on windows. I'm not sure I have tested any IO over a serial port on windows since the very early days of the project back when we were building with cygwin. I do recall at the time being (this is maybe 10 years ago at least?)

[Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified.

2011-08-03 Thread Derrick Washington
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Derrick Washington" Date: Aug 2, 2011 12:49 AM Subject: Generic Protocol Error --> Error opening serial device "COM27" The system cannot find the file specified. To: Hi Curt I have been trying for a few weeks now to get FG to transmit data to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
>> var setLift = func (lift) { >> setprop("/environment/local-weather-lift",lift); >> } > > Please change it on GIT and I'll change it for my next version - however > I'd suggest to name the property > > /environment/local-weather-lift-fps > > for consistency. Done in master and release/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-03 Thread thorsten . i . renk
> Hmmm - just notices you are setting wind-from-down-fps in your local > weather. This is a bad idea as it is a computed value > > wind-from-down-fps = >thermal-lift-fps + >ridge-lift-fps + >local-weather-lift > > That's how it was hardcoded in the "old" weather system and what I > forg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> It's quite possible that it's broken for a while - there are not so many > glider enthusiasts around, I usually prefer to rely on thermals when I > have time to do some soaring, and the last time I distinctly remember > having used ridge lift is before September 2010... Good we caught it > before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 03 August 2011 11:44:23 thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > It's quite possible that it's broken for a while - there are not so many > glider enthusiasts around, But they do exist :) But I only tried it once in FG, since performance with the free radeon drivers is just barely usable. Bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future Weather System

2011-08-03 Thread Vivian Meazza
Thorsten wrote: > > Meanwhile - at the cheap end of the market, Emilian and I have cleaned > up > > most of the textures, made some of the AC3D models single-sided, > > reordered > > the objects, provided unique names, and converted everything to .dds. > > > > This has much improved loading/unlo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future Weather System

2011-08-03 Thread thorsten . i . renk
> Meanwhile - at the cheap end of the market, Emilian and I have cleaned up > most of the textures, made some of the AC3D models single-sided, > reordered > the objects, provided unique names, and converted everything to .dds. > > This has much improved loading/unloading, and given a much better >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-03 Thread thorsten . i . renk
> Fixed in master and release/2.4.0. For some reason that code did got get > upstream when I opened up the system for local weather. Must have been > broken since September 2010!? Thanks for the quick attention! It's quite possible that it's broken for a while - there are not so many glider enthu