[Flightgear-devel] YASim Prop wash and the p51d

2009-06-22 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi Andy, Looking through the code I don't see anything that considers prop wash.  That's still true correct? Assuming it is,  I came across an old posting at http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-de...@flightgear.org/msg07479.html and while this looks interesting, I'm kind of wondering if there'

[Flightgear-devel] YASim Prop wash and the p51d.

2009-06-22 Thread Jim Wilson
Hi Andy, Looking through the code I don't see anything that considers prop wash. That's still true correct? Assuming it is, I came across an old posting at http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-de...@flightgear.org/msg07479.htmland while this looks interesting, I'm kind of wondering if there's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Smoothing issues on some models

2009-06-11 Thread Jim Wilson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Gary Neely wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jim Wilson > wrote: > > > For those who are modeling and are not bothering with setting the crease > > value now (and letting it default to 30) I would strongly recommend > removing &g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Emission animation broken?"

2009-06-11 Thread Jim Wilson
When did this happen? I've got cvs from May 27 and it is working on the p51 panel. Jim On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Vic Marriott wrote: > Hi All,Is there any work being done to fix the lack of 'Emission > Animation'? > > Currently, to test any animated models which use "/sim/time/utc/secon

[Flightgear-devel] Smoothing issues on some models

2009-06-11 Thread Jim Wilson
Several models have developed smoothing problems, including at least one that I originally did years ago. The current 747-400 looks fantastic, by the way, but it could look _a lot_ better with almost no effort. About 5 or 6 years ago the AC3D developer added a "crease" parameter to the ac3d file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Wilson
but I am trying to avoid hard-coding a value. > > > D) It is important to have reasonable defaults. A zero scroll > > value is not a reasonable default. If you don't like my expedient > > of setting the default scroll value to a millionth of the > > size, another opti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Book

2007-01-27 Thread Jim Wilson
usiness topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > > > > > > > > _____

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Z-buffering issue in 2.5D panels

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Wilson
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] ? cockpit lighting ?

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Wilson
nd you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airfoil bending and geometry animation

2006-12-04 Thread Jim Wilson
mations have not been > implemented in any other simulator. Of course, that needs a way to morph > the geometry of 3d objects which is currently not available inside FGFS, > will that be possible in the near future?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Forums?

2006-11-30 Thread Jim Wilson
the core project. Keeping track of all these channels of dialog is just something I won't be able to do. That said... I do have a fairly complete archive of mail in unix format going back 5 or 6 years (only for the -devel, -model, and -cvs lists). This data could be used to build an ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Jim Wilson
"Free" appears, so it might be a while even before a ebay buyer realizes they got stiffed. -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS X universal binary package for 0.9.10

2006-11-16 Thread Jim Wilson
diff -u and post it along with the project files? Rather than the big file? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mac OS X build for cvs-head - some weird behaviors

2006-11-16 Thread Jim Wilson
gt; which I guess it seems OK at this moment. > Hi Tat, Any chance of getting a current (as in tiger+) howto on building cvs under osX? Or even better, a wiki entry? Thanks, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-15

2006-10-23 Thread Jim Wilson
t; Excellent work. Is there some issue with shininess material property in the blender->ac3d conversion? The tires look quite a bit different on the ingame renderings. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reviews etc.

2006-10-23 Thread Jim Wilson
le white lies to over represent the product to his or her customers. I guess you can call me naive, but this reseller sucks big time in my book. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux development...

2006-09-01 Thread Jim Wilson
t is open source and you can interface all kinds of cool and free stuff. It originally was designed for java, but I use Netbeans for that. The people I've set it up for are doing php with it, but I have thought seriously about trying it for C++ work myself. Here's a web page

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Blueprint for Disaster: Enschede 13 mei 2000

2006-08-23 Thread Jim Wilson
ld be: > Blueprint for Disaster: Enschede 13 mei 2000 > > Erik > -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, sec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Net FDM and Hit Detection

2006-08-15 Thread Jim Wilson
t does something like that, at least for the perpendicular to ground axis? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web service

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim Lockup

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: AJ MacLeod > > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 14:16, Jim Wilson wrote: > > Using the configuration as in CVS the p51d seems to be hanging on startup. > > The solver seems to succeed (after 2500+ iterations). Any suggestions on > > where to start? > > It

[Flightgear-devel] FGFS errors from Flight Plan and Electrical subsystems

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Wilson
G_INFO: Reading xml electrical system model from fgfsbase/Aircraft/j3cub/cub-electrical.xml Target Lead script loading ... Target Tracking script loading ... Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, M

[Flightgear-devel] YASim Lockup

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Wilson
Using the configuration as in CVS the p51d seems to be hanging on startup. The solver seems to succeed (after 2500+ iterations). Any suggestions on where to start? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Light inside the cockpit

2006-06-01 Thread Jim Wilson
___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 __

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGLive 0.1 alpha available for testing

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Wilson
e the authority or right to pursue the issue. If someone were to sell FGLive discs then trouble might arrive. Licenses are fine, but copyright law is really about money and demonstrating a quantifiable financial loss is key to any claim. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OT: Crash Tenders

2006-05-11 Thread Jim Wilson
he Bush administration efforts to cut essential services in favor of spending money on the War(s), we will now have these hi-tech vehicles available in the United States: http://www.defrance.org/artman/publish/printer_1430.shtml Did someone mention these are...ahem...cheaper than deploying ful

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Jim Wilson
et-m" that moves the point that the 3D camera is pointing to back to where the wing is thus making aircraft movements appear more natural. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- Using To

[Flightgear-devel] Backwards compatibility issues (was Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog)

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
a crutch. Would it not make sense to always keep things working as they were and pick major release intervals every 2 or 3 years to dump a bunch old stuff at once? Best, Jim Wilson -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ---

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
aking those commands work with the new code is not a good idea. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
not reading the discussion. The second most neglected item (after documentation) in the OSS world is backwards compatibility. Please understand that by mentioning this I do not wish to imply that you are doing anything wrong or different than anyone else. Thanks for the reply! Bes

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [RFC] new waypoint dialog

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Melchior FRANZ > > FYI: these fgcommands have been removed: > > AddWayPoint > PopWayPoint > ClearRoute > old-ap-add-waypoint-dialog > old-ap-pop-waypoint-dialog > old-ap-clear-route-dialog > Why? Does the old code have to be removed?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Better way to edit XML files

2006-05-04 Thread Jim Wilson
ii terminfo file by hand from scratch! > >From any laptop with terminal emulation: cat >ansi and then paste into the >emulator. Better yet, these days it is almost (not completely) reasonable to refuse to work with equipment lacking either an ethernet port or a command line ftp/htt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS version of v0.9.10 ?

2006-05-01 Thread Jim Wilson
ot;. My Mac user friends are always impressed when I open up Terminal, but unlike Windows users, none of them ever want to know what I'm doing. Actually, in my opinion, the Mac desktop really isn't all that great, but I wouldn't dare try to debate that with a dedicated Mac user.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Subsystem run-levels

2006-04-18 Thread Jim Wilson
e loaded. The subsystem superclass could have a "running" flag in order to reduce the code branches in update to a single check once the subsystem knew it had all it needed. I'm not sure how the nasal scripts fit into all of this. While nasal is extremely useful, I can see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS build of FlightGear

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
g > run than building yet-another limited frontend GUI. > > Each Mac user who complains can be considered some more motivation to > get me to do this > > H&H > James > > On 16 Apr 2006, at 15:54, Jim Wilson wrote: > It's working well on my g4 notebook.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS build of FlightGear

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: James Turner > Sent: Sunday, 16. Apr 2006 10:30 -0400 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS build of FlightGear > > On 16 Apr 2006, at 13:31, Jim Wilson wrote: > > > It is downloading now to try it. Can we put the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS build of FlightGear

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
t be slow! > > I have a script that pulls and builds a release bundle now, it needs > some tweaking (property list isn't set, no icon), but it's pretty > straightforward. > It's working well on my g4 notebook. What is the issue with Arthur's wx interfac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS build of FlightGear

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Wilson
st be slow! It is downloading now to try it. Can we put the file on sf.net? I'm willing upload the file if that helps. My sf login is spiderbarker. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer views

2006-04-14 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: simon > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > On your earlier email, you might want to, as I mentioned earlier, create > > separate views for the MP aircraft and swap those > properties around instead. You could always identify those by adding a > property to the viewer

[Flightgear-devel] Re: request for new screen shots

2006-04-14 Thread Jim Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: Pigeon > > http://pigeond.net/photos/flightgear/south-germany/ > > Some screenshots of the custom-scenery.org project. They look > incredible! Wow. They sure do. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer views

2006-04-14 Thread Jim Wilson
views. It'd be better IMO to create the addional views and focus the changes on ways of manipulating the viewer class instances as whole objects rather than trying to go in and shuffle the location properties inside the viewer class. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer views

2006-04-13 Thread Jim Wilson
I've been saying "class" but I'm sure you could implement the whole thing in a nasal script. Either way, this approach should work fine without any modification to the viewer or viewmgr classes. Adding this (as I described here) as extended functionality to the viewer or vie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] request for new screen shots

2006-04-13 Thread Jim Wilson
172P. Of course it should include a pilot model, with animated hands adjusting the throttle and tuning the radio, etc. :-) Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible bugs in v0.9.9 (Airbus A380 and p51d) ?

2006-04-12 Thread Jim Wilson
ile... http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/data/Aircraft/p51d/p51d.xml?cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9 ...and your solution failure problem should be gone. In any case you'll want to download the new version sooner or later just for all the other improvements. Best, Jim -- Jim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MacOS version of v0.9.10 ?

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
that path. > That's too bad. It was a nice package for mac users. Has Arthur given it up? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a gro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible bugs in v0.9.9 (Airbus A380 and p51d) ?

2006-04-11 Thread Jim Wilson
break most of the YASim based aircraft models, but the released versions should at least be solving (e.g. no SOULTION FAILURE). So, basically I'm saying you should probably update everything to v0.9.10. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim and Nasal

2006-04-05 Thread Jim Wilson
't realize this exists in JSBSim. I just happened to know of the feature because you mentioned it to me and also on the mailing list quite some time ago. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989

Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument panels on views from outside the aircraft

2006-04-05 Thread Jim Wilson
t just like the c172 aircraft. Place it on the ground and use animations to make it pan around with the view. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-0.9.10-pre3 - my experiences

2006-03-29 Thread Jim Wilson
hal, > > > The Error reading AI flightplan warning is quite innocent actually. Then it should be logging at SG_WARN level. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- This SF.Net em

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Few 3d Modeling questions

2006-03-29 Thread Jim Wilson
hing you like and you can improve, go for it! Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications in

[Flightgear-devel] Bug in loading saved flights (was CONCLUSION: My problems with saving/loading flights solved)

2006-03-29 Thread Jim Wilson
saved Ottawa flight, that > worked fine too. > > I thought I would share this. May be, it'll save some starter from the agony > in the future. > > Happy virtual flights... > > Yavuz Onder -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-54

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pilot models

2006-03-24 Thread Jim Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: "David Megginson" > > flies them), but when I do use external views, I find it very > disconcerting if nobody's flying the plane, especially the small ones > like the Cub. I like it: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/p51pilo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

2006-02-27 Thread Jim Wilson
nother rate increase. Tell me the price of those projects at least included some test hardware, documentation and deployment. Oh...and just to clarify, these were existing projects you were called in late to fix, right? ;-) Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658

Re: [Flightgear-devel] min and max in annimation?

2006-02-27 Thread Jim Wilson
d start by using "min-deg" and "max-deg" since with "rotate" callbacks the units being output are not arbitrary, rather they are in fact degrees. For some time now, it is the standard in FlightGear/SimGear to try and include the type of units in t

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Resigning as patch committer.

2006-02-21 Thread Jim Wilson
rsonal thank you for your help and understanding over the last years in > getting my stuff in FG. And particularly in correcting the all too frequent > errors! > Let me second this! You have done an exemplary job, Erik. Many thanks, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Mil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] runway lights (non-enhanced version)

2006-02-20 Thread Jim Wilson
hen those lights were done, I seem to remember adding a patch that raised the runway lights up off the terrain depending on viewpoint distance. Maybe that bit of code has been removed? Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge,

[Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Wilson
ould be a text "animation" and image generation (maps, radar). Best, Jim Wilson -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-10 3D cockpit

2006-02-08 Thread Jim Wilson
I am resending this message from a couple days ago (see below). Not sure what happened, but it fell into some sort of black hole. - Jim > From: alexis bory > > Martin Spott a écrit : > > > alexis bory wrote: > > > >> Before going farther I'd like to know if any body else allready do > >> the

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] configure.ac patch

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Here's the same patch without affecting Erik's include path correction. This patch fixes configure.ac so that when an alternate prefix location for simgear is specified, configure tests for the header file jpegfactory.hxx in that specific location only. Best, Jim configure_patch2_diff.gz Des

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] issue with configure finding specified copy of simgear

2006-01-15 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Erik Hofman > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > Umm...not so fast. Read my problem description again. I think you can > > still pickup the wrong plib or simgear. > > Did you actually try the latest version. It _should_ prevent this > problem. If not I till h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] issue with configure finding specified copy of simgear

2006-01-14 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Erik Hofman > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > This patch builds a configure script that will check in the proper location > > for simgear headers if a > "with-simgear" prefix is specified. Without this patch jpegfactory support > is not recognized in Flight

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] issue with configure finding specified copy of simgear

2006-01-13 Thread Jim Wilson
it can be further tested and commented on. I am not an autoconf expert. Best, Jim Wilson configure_patch.diff.gz Description: Binary data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autoconf and FG_JPEG_SERVER

2006-01-13 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Jim Wilson > > It looks like I've run into a problem with FG_JPEG_SERVER getting set in > config.h now. Or possibly something has change to make > this a problem. Simgear is built without it, the header file for Simgear's > jpegfactory isn't

[Flightgear-devel] Autoconf and FG_JPEG_SERVER

2006-01-13 Thread Jim Wilson
It looks like I've run into a problem with FG_JPEG_SERVER getting set in config.h now. Or possibly something has change to make this a problem. Simgear is built without it, the header file for Simgear's jpegfactory isn't being installed, but the flag in FlightGear is being (I think erroneously

[Flightgear-devel] Help creating textures in gimp

2006-01-07 Thread Jim Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Perry > > > No matter what I try, the bucket tool does not work for me. The dancing > ants are there for the selections, but no fill color. I have read the > gimp help file sections that I think apply. I have tried doing the > background in one laye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New FlightGear mousepad

2006-01-05 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Erik Hofman > Sent: Thursday, 5. Jan 2006 10:45 -0500 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] New FlightGear mousepad > > Erik Hofman wrote: > >> Maybe I can make another one with a different background image, so > >> everybody would be free to choos

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model this?

2006-01-05 Thread Jim Wilson
-Original Message- > From: "Ampere K. Hardraade" > > On January 4, 2006 09:31 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > The other small point that I would make is that this individual did > > contribute an aircraft to FG, but later asked to have it removed from > > CVS in protest that certain bugs w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New FlightGear mousepad

2006-01-02 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: "Ampere K. Hardraade" > > On January 2, 2006 03:42 pm, Erik Hofman wrote: > > Any reason for that? Personally I found this setup the most appealing. > > > > Erik > > Yes. When I look at the current arrangment, I get a sense that it is trying > to emphasize that FlightGear is a combat si

[Flightgear-devel] Creating a PA34-Seneca (which FDM to choose?)

2005-12-28 Thread Jim Wilson
> From: Torsten Dreyer > > > Long intro for my question: > What is the best FDM to use, when I have the airplane manual with its > dimensions, performance data, mass-and-balance section and with the ability > to actually fly the plane and get the real data like "what indicated speed at > wha

[Flightgear-devel] Re: PA24-250 model under development

2005-12-22 Thread Jim Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: Melchior FRANZ > > * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 22 December 2005 10:13: > > Blender is clever, but almost impossible to use. > > > > > To get going quickly, while getting acceptable results I would recommend > > AC3D. The $40 or so it costs is money well spe