[Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-21 Thread Curtis Olson
I have something here that I think is kind of fun. I've been fiddling with this off and on since last fall and decided it was time to clean it up a bit and quit hording all the fun for myself. Basically I have taken the F-14b and created a high performance Navy "drone" out of it. It can auto-lau

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread J. Holden
John: Admittedly I work with GRASS solely on the text-based side - rarely if ever touching the GUI - but hopefully I can help: 1) To be honest, it's probably easiest to continue to use d.his and then display the resulting map using the GRASS plugin - QGIS doesn't really have many (if any?) ras

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on "loading scenery" when using many objects

2011-09-21 Thread Csaba Halász
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Thomas Albrecht wrote: > > On machine (much slower than yours: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 1.5GB DDR), FG hangs > when using ~2300 objects. Here, with AMD 605e 2.3GHz, it hangs at around 5800 objects, with the CPU behaviour you described. Going slightly higher, from aroun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 21.09.11 21:43, schrieb John Denker: > > 4) When defining a colormap, there does not appear to be > any way of controlling transparency on a level-by-level > basis. Am I overlooking something, or is this an actual > limitation? Maybe I miss something but you can control transparency for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 21.09.11 21:43, schrieb John Denker: > 3) I suspect that doing reprojections on the the fly only > works for vector data. I tried it with raster data, > expecting to see either a resulting image or an error > message, but saw neither. Is there something I'm missing? It works also for r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on "loading scenery" when using many objects

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Albrecht
Hi Jon! > I've seen something similar before, it's incredibly annoying, and I suspect > you'll eventually track it down to a typo in an stg file. I've also had typos/missing objects in .stgs before, causing similiar effects. However, for testing, I'm creating the .stg with a very simple python s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Durk Talsma
On 21 Sep 2011, at 11:12, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > > /sim/dimensions/radius-m > /sim/dimensions/parkpos-offset-m > /sim/aircraft-class > > > Alright succes!!! Adding this section did the trick of saving aircraft-class and aircraft-operator properti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on "loading scenery" when using many objects

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Albrecht
Hi Geoff, thanks for testing! Indeed, I forgot the texture, sorry about that. It is included in a new package: http://www.mediafire.com/?q99zyzkyu2tw04w For further testing, I wrote a small python script which fills a rectangular area at EHLE (because it's mostly flat there, so I can use hardco

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread John Denker
On 09/20/2011 07:08 PM, J. Holden wrote: > This is somewhat off-topic to FlightGear, so I apologize - but I > respond to John Denker: Having looked over what you are trying to do, > I strongly recommend using QGIS with the GRASS plugin. > > Very rarely do I use any of GRASS' built-in visualization

[Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs apt.dat 850 runway support

2011-09-21 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi there, i just want to announce that I added support for the 850 apt.dat runways to genapts. This work is thought as a compliment to the currently ongoing development towards curved taxiways. The current state is that genapts reads runways and creates them accordingly. Features: -different d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > >> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: >> >>> 11: RC Pilot. Stays under 400' AGL and outside a 3 mile radius from any >>> airport. Probably flying at a club site and doesn't care about air >> s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > 11: RC Pilot. Stays under 400' AGL and outside a 3 mile radius from any > > airport. Probably flying at a club site and doesn't care about air > spaces. > > Has no way to estimate if he's over o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote: > 11: RC Pilot. Stays under 400' AGL and outside a 3 mile radius from any > airport. Probably flying at a club site and doesn't care about air spaces. > Has no way to estimate if he's over or under 400' AGL and probably is > flying a plane that can climb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Curtis Olson
11: RC Pilot. Stays under 400' AGL and outside a 3 mile radius from any airport. Probably flying at a club site and doesn't care about air spaces. Has no way to estimate if he's over or under 400' AGL and probably is flying a plane that can climb 500' per second and hover at 2 clicks of throttle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:59:11 -0700, Alex wrote in message : > To agree with Alan, but with some additional generalizations. > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Alan Teeder > wrote: > > When I ran the research flight simulator for a major aircraft > > manufacturer in the UK (many moons ago when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Alaska mapping/scenery improvements

2011-09-21 Thread Martin Spott
"J. Holden" wrote: > This is ready to be added to the mapserver, at Martin's leisure - and feel > free to add it to your own mapserver. Thanks, noted - I'm still busy doing groundwork, as time permits. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its frien

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on "loading scenery" when using many objects

2011-09-21 Thread lists
+++ Geoff McLane [21/09/11 13:38 +0200]: >If you add that png, I would give it a try with 5000, >but the problems does seem to be in your machine at the >moment ;=(( I've seen something similar before, it's incredibly annoying, and I suspect you'll eventually track it down to a typo in an stg fi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 21 September 2011: > "userarchive" simply marks what gets written to $FG_HOME/preferences.xml Whoops ... to $FG_HOME/autosave.xml. (preferences.xml was used first, but a bad idea and changed later.) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Durk Talsma -- Wednesday 21 September 2011: > Just a quick question: Is this documented somewhere? Don't think so. Only in the code, that is. > If not, I might start a short wiki page documenting the logic behind > "archieve", "userarchieve", and the interactions with the nasal system. "user

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on "loading scenery" when using many objects

2011-09-21 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Tom, He, he, just for ***FUN*** I tried with 4000 objects... See the 'crowded' runway on startup - http://geoffair.org/tmp/fgfs-screen-001.png but more spectacular from the air - http://geoffair.org/tmp/fgfs-screen-002.png and had no problems loading ;=)) But you seem to have missed the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Mechior, Torsten On 21 Sep 2011, at 12:57, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 21 September 2011: >> >> >> /sim/dimensions/radius-m > > I admit that this looks silly: why create properties that contain property > paths, > and not mark those properties with a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 21 September 2011: > > > /sim/dimensions/radius-m I admit that this looks silly: why create properties that contain property paths, and not mark those properties with a flag right away, like with "archive" and "userarchive"? The reasons why I did

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Or just: > > > >/sim/dimensions/radius-m >/sim/dimensions/parkpos-offset-m >/sim/aircraft-class > > > > from where it's read by aircraft.nas already. Excellent! I'm learning something new every day... > But then again: static aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Torsten Dreyer -- Wednesday 21 September 2011: > > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Alaska mapping/scenery improvements

2011-09-21 Thread J. Holden
I believe the Anchorage terminal is in the scenery models repository, but no one I know of has worked on Alaska scenery until this month. While there are some square degrees still conspicuous by their absence, here is 11 square degrees worth of Alaska land cover data, developed specifically for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace

2011-09-21 Thread J. Holden
This is somewhat off-topic to FlightGear, so I apologize - but I respond to John Denker: Having looked over what you are trying to do, I strongly recommend using QGIS with the GRASS plugin. Very rarely do I use any of GRASS' built-in visualization programs - and very rarely do I use any of QGIS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Torsten Dreyer
No it wouldn't interfere because it wouldn't get executed unless you explicitly add it to the *-set.xml's section. Either as a link to a *.nas file or coded inline like this: ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Durk Talsma
hi Emilian, On 20 Sep 2011, at 22:56, Emilian Huminiuc wrote: >> > Adding archive="y" to the property tag?: > myprop > That's how I thought it should work, but I don't get this to work. After some more experimentation, I found that I can save the property using userarchive="y", into autosave

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Tree Question: How to save an aircraft specific property between sessions.

2011-09-21 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Torsten, I looked at your seneca file, briefly, but didn't really find a way to translate this to the 777 sittuation. Being a complete nasal newbie, can I just add this function to any existing nasal script, or could I even put this code into a new file? Say I'm creating a new nasal file ca