Re: [Flightgear-devel] Wiki Spam

2011-12-30 Thread George Patterson
On 31 December 2011 16:15, Ron Jensen wrote: > http://wiki.flightgear.org/Special:RecentChanges > > Someone is spamming our wiki. Anyone around with admin rights? > > Thanks, > Ron > I (with the help of the irc user jano, thanks) have undone the edit that the spammer made to remove the spam links

[Flightgear-devel] Wiki Spam

2011-12-30 Thread Ron Jensen
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Special:RecentChanges Someone is spamming our wiki. Anyone around with admin rights? Thanks, Ron -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or v

[Flightgear-devel] How to compile Terragear-cs ?

2011-12-30 Thread Clément de l'Hamaide
Hi all, I would like to contribute to airports/sceneries. I'm young real pilot and I like to remake the airport where I fly in real life. I've seen that many people have many problem to compile TerraGear. This is why I started to create a similar "download_and_install" script than "brisa script

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Change in telnet string get behavior, or string change?

2011-12-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Geoff, IIRC, I have sanitized the METAR string long ago and stripped the newlines before writing the property. Looks like it has crept back in somehow. I'll see if I can find what happened, not sure if I can make it before the end of the year ;-) Cheers, Torsten Am 30.12.11 21:03, schrieb G

[Flightgear-devel] Change in telnet string get behavior, or string change?

2011-12-30 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi all... I am sure this worked before, but now I seem unable to get the WHOLE metar string from /environment/metar/data... This is in a perl script, using IO::Socket - in the past it worked perfectly ;=)) In the Debug -> Browse Internal Properties I can 'see' the whole string like say - '201

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DDS texures (Was: Improving random trees & buildings)

2011-12-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: blobs? We could try to decompress the blobs? ---> No, patent infringement!!! I call shennanigans. There's no way a process that obvious could be patented and if some mouth breathing derp DID patent it, it needs to be ignored. g. -- Proud owner

Re: [Flightgear-devel] High altitude horizon

2011-12-30 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 16:47 +0200, thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > In case there is any lingering doubt that Flightgear can't deal with > horizon curvature at high altitude: > > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14844 > > (taking the X-15 to 270.000 ft) > > Done with recent L

[Flightgear-devel] High altitude horizon

2011-12-30 Thread thorsten . i . renk
In case there is any lingering doubt that Flightgear can't deal with horizon curvature at high altitude: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14844 (taking the X-15 to 270.000 ft) Done with recent Local Weather (which, as I discovered, is fine with Mach 6) and Terrain Haze shad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Live Multiplayer

2011-12-30 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Scott, Scott wrote: > If you are looking for a place to host this in gitorious (I'm not sure > if it should be part of the FG repository???) Well, I suspect the FlightGear ecosystem is still the best ground for OpenRadar to develop on, therefore hosting it alongside with FG sounds like the b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improving random trees & buildings

2011-12-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- > From: Mathias Fröhlich [mailto:mathias.froehl...@gmx.net] > Sent: 29 December 2011 20:04 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improving random trees & buildings > > > Vivian, > > On Thursday, December 29, 2011 17:36:24 Vivian

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcing Project Rembrandt

2011-12-30 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi Mathias > De: Mathias Fröhlich > > Fred, > > On Sunday, December 18, 2011 10:18:39 Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > Your patronage will be welcome. > > Ok. > My problem is that I have too many open projects currently. So, > promising to help here is something I cannot do today. But Sure, > if yo

flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

2011-12-30 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 10:42 +0100, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: > * If it's just the mipmaps. May be we can precompute the mipmaps using the > cpu > in the database loader thread. This would help all textures not only the ones > that could be converted. May be this is the most generic solution. Ok

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DDS texures (Was: Improving random trees & buildings)

2011-12-30 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi, > De: Mathias Fröhlich > > * If it's just the mipmaps. May be we can precompute the mipmaps using the cpu > in the database loader thread. This would help all textures not only the ones > that could be converted. May be this is the most generic solution. I implemented a mipmap control and gen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local Weather 1.4

2011-12-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> > It's actually surprisingly intricate. For instance, Local Weather allows > for boundary layer gusty winds. For some problems (the wave pattern) you'd > like to have the base (mean) wind at the surface, for others (windsock) > rather the actual wind that the aircraft is feeling. > > I am now int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improving random trees & buildings

2011-12-30 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 00:07 +, Vivian Meazza wrote: > The F16 is just excellent here. I get a slight pause on first switching > from an internal to external view, but I expect that is the texture loading > for the first time. Thereafter it is as near instantaneous as you could > wish. Likewise

[Flightgear-devel] DDS texures (Was: Improving random trees & buildings)

2011-12-30 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi, On Friday, December 30, 2011 00:09:20 Csaba Halász wrote: > I wonder if there is an open standard counterpart that can do the same > as the dds compression? Or is the whole idea patented? (Eww, too broad > software patents are the work of the devil). No, Sadly. It is all about an OpenGL ext

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] FlightGear Base Package branch, master,

2011-12-30 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Right, this throttle % was used in the startup tutorial, so I copied it for consistency... Feel free to change it though. I'll leave in vacation in an hour, so don't rely on me :-) > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > From: martin.sp...@mgras.net > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:31:14 +000