Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 1.0.0 compilation error

2008-09-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 01. October 2008, gerard robin wrote: > checking for simgear 1.0.0 or newer... [found 1.99.4] ... yes Well, this should give it away: you obviously have some newer (probably CVS HEAD) version of Simgear installed in /usr. Otherwise, this version would be 1.0.0, too. Regards, Nine

[Flightgear-devel] Correction for the f16's VRP

2008-09-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, attached is a little patch for the f16. It's VRP is obviously wrong, when watching turns on the ground from outside. I did standard slipping-of-the-edge tests and found an x-value of -180in to improve the situation a lot. Regards, Nine ? Aircraft/f16/initfile.xml Index: Aircraft/f16/f16.xm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] is linux ppc version non-functional?

2008-09-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday, 16. September 2008, Saurabh Gupta wrote: > this is > ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] That's six generations and seven years behind current graphics hardware. I don't know too much about FG's requirements, but I'd bet that this card just doesn't matc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Display flightdata in chase view

2008-09-01 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday 01 September 2008 15:44:50 Manfred Janßen wrote: > Hi there, > > is it possible, to display some of the flight data, like heading, > altitude, airspeed in the screen if flightgear is in chase view? > And if, can you give me a short hint where to search for that? Most of the time, you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Including a camera API in Cygwin

2008-07-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday, 23. July 2008, cullam Bruce-Lockhart wrote: > ../../src/Main/libMain.a(renderer.o): In Function > '_ZN6Camera12countCamerasEv': > /home/RAVEN/FlightGear-1.0.0/src/Main/camera.cpp:32: undefined reference to > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' This is a linker-error, not a compiler-error. > I presu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was: Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday, 28. April 2008, Jon Stockill wrote: > Assuming the machine has an internet connection - if you install ntp and > set it to sync from pool.ntp.org you'll never need to worry about such > problems again - it'll sync from an internet clock source within a few > minutes of starting up, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was : Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday, 28. April 2008, Georg Vollnhals wrote: > But checking the result is disappointing. I did it after 3 boot cycles > (2 reboot and one "cold" boot): > > dhcppc2:/home/georg # cat > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource > tsc Maybe your system simply doesn't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stefan "clock=hpet" - was: Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Sunday 27 April 2008 23:53:01 Georg Vollnhals wrote: > default 0 > timeout 8 > clock=hpet This is wrong. The kernel parameters are following the file name in the "kernel" line. This is the section I boot on my server: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### tit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spiele Bild promotes FlightGear

2008-04-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Saturday 26 April 2008 21:08:15 Georg Vollnhals wrote: > > Sorry for that - my new O/S OpenSUSE 10.3 has some difficulties with my > hardware-clock - at least using Wine changes the time and day and I have > to correct that manually. And a time-jump would be nicer backwards > regarding my age :-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault on current HEAD?

2008-04-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Sunday, 13. April 2008, James Sleeman wrote: > On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 14:59 +0100, LeeE wrote: > > Does it segfault every time or is it inconsistent? I'm about a week > > Everytime. I'll try rolling back to an older OSG when I get a chance. Just a note: I'm having the same problem since 2.3.7.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seperated MP-servers

2008-03-24 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Monday, 24. March 2008, George Patterson wrote: > However, if someone would like to see what has been done, please drop > me a private email. > Is there a Perl programmer in the audience? Yep, there is ;) If you want me to do some review or have some area where you could need some help, jus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] model-paging patch - testers wanted

2008-03-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 15:16:29 Vivian Meazza wrote: > I've been testing this patch for some while now. I would strongly recommend > anyone who uses multiplayer to use it. There is no obvious downside, but as > Till said, there is more work to be done. It really needs lots of people to > give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] vsi-6 / Aerostar changes

2008-01-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Curtis Olson wrote: > Don't bother listening to Melchior, he's busy coming up with absurdly long > strings of obscure unix commands that are just a huge waste of time to > type. You can do the same check with this much simpler command and save 26 > key strokes (if you start in the aircraft direct

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots (and "snapshots")

2007-12-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
Christian Mayer wrote: > About the image size: people are looking at the screenshots with their > web browser. So there are window borders, menus, navigation bar, etc. > pp. that also have to fit on the monitor. And it's quite bad if the > "customer" has to scroll to see the full beauty of our scre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300

2007-12-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AnMaster wrote: > Well without a 3D cockpit I don't think it would fit in the base package. > Basically the lack of a decent cockpit would put off users. I really liked the 737, but unfortunately it's been completely unusable for me since I got a wide

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building multiple fgfs binaries from one source tree

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AnMaster wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: >> [...] In the PLIB branch >> we should rather make SDL default, as freeglut is notoriously broken >> ( keys; reportedly slower FPS(?)). And in the OSG branch [...] > > We shouldn't: fg/SDL breaks on Swedish ke

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Chaos in FG development [was: Bomb patch for vulcanb2]

2007-07-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: > Unfortunately, > giving access to this last step of uploading content would involve personal > passwords and the ability to affect my paypal account and a few other > things > that I'm somewhat nervous about handing off. Isn't t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Chaos in FG development [was: Bomb patch for vulcanb2]

2007-07-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 leee wrote: > It is difficult to see a good answer to this issue. On the one hand, > planning > ahead and setting specific objectives for the FG developers to work towards > would give known objectives and a clear development path but at the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control and trim position popup

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Denker wrote: > Let me also point out that the word "gremlin" is in the dictionary. > Its primary meaning explains exactly the purpose of gremlins.nas. Please consider, that not by far not all FG contributors are native English speakers and thus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new pseudo FDM for vehicles (osg branch)

2007-06-21 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > In a vehicle simulation, you need smooth terrain, meaning high resolution > terrain. In a flight simulation, you want low resolution terrain because you > are seeing so much terrain at a time. The two requirements go ag

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 John Denker wrote: > If you want to know exactly why FGFS poops out at approximately > 62,000 feet, look at line 88 of Environment/environment.cxx > >You can contrast that with the ISA table that goes up to 278,000 >feet as found e.g. at th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear source

2007-06-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I noticed, that you are still not using the new script to send the commit messages, that I sent a few weeks ago. Is there some problem with the script or did you just not come around yet to test it? Nine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: > On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith wrote: > > But he has changed the name of the product and removed all reference to > "FlightGear" in his ad, that has to at least be a copyright infringement??? > FlightGear is not public domain where an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Galbraith wrote: > I agree that his actions are slimy, but is this action actually an allowable > form of packaging this software. I am not an expert on this matter, by any > stretch of the imagination, but if I put FG and all of the available ai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BlackBird SR-71

2007-06-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gh.robin wrote: >> So, was this statement only for the Noratlas, or all contributions >> by you that you offer under the GPL? But what's with the "under >> no circumstances" thing from your homepage then? You know that the >> GPL explicitly allows sel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] win32 FG Bugs in PLIB and OSG Plus former FG Versions!

2007-05-28 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Forums Virgin Net wrote: > C:\Documents and settings\userACCOUNT1\Application Data\Flightgear.org > C:\Documents and settings\userACCOUNT2\Application Data\Flightgear.org > Etc. > > It would be useful to create flightgear.osg and flightgear.plib di

Re: [Flightgear-devel] youtube video

2007-05-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: > I've discovered that I really love the AN-2 and the new "fly-by" view mode! > I've posted a youtube video of the FlightGear AN-2 landing at Ranger Creek, > WA (taken with a cheesy digital camera pointed at my computer screen ...):

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Harald JOHNSEN wrote: > > That was in the situation where the MP server does the fdm computation > for the client. The 10 hz comes from a ping of 100 ms between the client > and the server. I think FDM caculations have to be at a certain rate, ind

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Curtis Olson wrote: > > Would you be willing to hack/fixup/modify the original script so that it > produces "correct" results directly? The issue is that it combines files > with the same cvs log message and commit date, but sometimes a commit span

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Architecture for Flightgear

2007-05-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Martin Spott wrote: > Personally I think some thing like distributed shared memory might fill > the gap. I've been doing some literature research on this topic several > years ago, the idea looks pretty promising and different OpenSource > implement

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Palmer wrote: > In your experience, Harald, what has been the approximate ratio of FDM vs > Graphics vs remainder code on CPU time? Has anyone done work on clocking > the various subroutines in FG to determine this? (Perhaps I underestimate >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > While development over the past few years might give the preception that > Flightgear is a game, Flightgear is actually meant to be a serious flight > simulator. Things that go boom are cool in games, but they are als

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interest in adding dogfighting capability

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Palmer wrote: > 1- add missles to submodels Please at least spell it correctly: missile ;) Nine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQikb1QuEJQQMVr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2007-04-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For your weekly CVS summary log reading pleasure I hacked up a little Perl script that merges similar entries, so: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2007-04-25_23:12:42 (sydadams) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Ins

Re: [Flightgear-devel] framerate hesitations...

2007-04-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reagan Thomas wrote: > I have seen some of the discussions regarding multi-threading and I > understand the desire to limit the complexity of program flow. However, > I think that at least *some* specific file IO should be arranged such > that it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Funny rendering bug?

2007-04-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Curtis Olson -- Thursday 05 April 2007: >> It really looks like it might be some sort of osg bug (or possibly >> our usage of osg?) > > Yes. I can confirm the bug, even for KSFO: > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/osg-rende

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: > I'm not aware of a way to do that. The trick would be for me to find the > original files ... which might be a trick. What's the deadline? Of course it's possible and very easy, too. http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ wor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG MP videos

2007-02-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Julien Pierru wrote: > Those videos were taken last year by pigeon. Shavlir, Dave Culp and I were > flying the aircraft in these videos. They would look great on the FG home > page. Good idea! > They use a free flash video player (FlowPlayer). But

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery download map 'alt' tags

2007-02-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Warne wrote: > Hi Curt, > > Just subsitute 'ALT' with 'title', thus: > > - ALT="e000n00 48.44 Mb 1/17/2006" > + title="e000n00 48.44 Mb 1/17/2006" Not exactly. In HTML the alt attribute is mandatory and everyone who surfs with text browse

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Warne wrote: > I have seen ideas around where an image of a 'thing' is shown, and the user > has to type in it's name; thus a picture of a cat, dog, car, house etc. The > algorithm for a computer to do that is nigh on impossible, but a human c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] spam ridden official FlightGear forum

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joacim Persson wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Curtis Olson wrote: > > Beware. Captchas can be breached automatically nowadays. (And Stefan: that > is not specific to phpBB.) I know. But I also know from my own experience, that if you use non-standard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > Ah yes, here it is: > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/profile.php?mode=register&agreed=true > > The problem is, captcha could be get around very easily by professional > spammers. And this particular captcha is really u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pr0n spam ridden official FlightGear forum (+ ATOM/RSS feeds)

2007-01-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I don't know phpBB, but I suppose the miserable situation can be > fixed by upgrading and/or installing addons (captcha or something). > At least I have yet to meet another forum that's as plagues. Perhaps using phpBB wasn't th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] retraction issues

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Campos wrote: > wouldn't be good a list of standard controls? in fact, if i remember, > some time ago that utility that tossed out config files for some > joystick, uses properties assignment... Not any more. Nowadays it uses $FG_ROOT/Input/Jo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Import DAFIF into SQL !?

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: > Want to use an sql database with > flightgear at runtime? Better find an embedded database tool that is > binary > compatible across all platforms ... and is open source ... and compiles on > all the platforms we support ... ! W

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Again: VATSIM and FlightGear?

2006-12-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Major A wrote: > As I wrote in the original email, you don't need to. The only two > things missing in the (free) demo compared to what you get on DVD is > the scenery (which you don't need anyway) and joystick input after the > first 6 minutes have ex

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: more weirdness]

2006-12-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > This adds the contents of "bar.xml" under the node foo/. One could > now declare one property name 'void' Zope Page Templates for example have an attribute for cases where the tag should be omitted, like: Nine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: more weirdness]

2006-12-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: >> Also keep in mind that the xml parser will not accept the following >> >> > > The question here is: is this valid XML? No it's not valid. In such cases space delimited lists are usually used: Nine ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-OSG: periodic hangs at KSFO

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Seifert wrote: > With the CVS-HEAD version of FG I'm experiencing periodic hangs if I > start at KSFO. I finally have found out more about the problem. It vanishes if I deactivate the Nimitz scenario. So it must be something in it,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shut off fading in

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Biwer wrote: > Fred, Richard, > >> Could you start with --enable-freeze (I think it is, it might be >> --enable-pause) and then unpause the sim when the screen is ready for >> you? Try: fgfs .-prop:/sim/freeze/clock=true --prop:/sim/freeze/mas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Vine wrote: > So the question is > > 1: Are screenshots a result of running the program > or > 2: Are screenshots a work based on the program > > I would argue (1) That's the point: it's arguable if it's 1 or 2. But wheter it's 1 or 2 puttin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dene wrote: > Hi Curt, thanks for re-affirming that, > > I am still a little unsure on some things; > > As long as I'm using images in a positive manner then it's OK? who makes > the judgement call on whether my use is positive or not? > Who do you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Friday 17 November 2006 09:56, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the first line of section 0, states: > "0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a > notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under > the terms of this General Public License.", in the > "

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

2006-11-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: > Source files that I used were: > FlightGear: cvs-head (as of yesterday) > PLIB-1.8.4 > OpenSceneGraph: CVS-20061113 > SimGear: CVS-head (as of yesterday), which I check out with cvs - > d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs

[Flightgear-devel] FG-OSG: periodic hangs at KSFO

2006-11-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With the CVS-HEAD version of FG I'm experiencing periodic hangs if I start at KSFO. The sim runs at about 40fps for a second, than just hangs several seconds, then it runs again. Tried to wait a few minutes to see if the hangs would disappear with time

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nose strut absorber animation, anyone worked on that?

2006-11-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon S. Berndt wrote: >> On Sunday 12 November 2006 06:21, Detlef Faber wrote: >>> There is a property "/gear/gear[0]/compression-norm" (at least in >>> yasim), you can use for that. >> I seem to recall seeing similar variable in JSBsim as well, but I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlieghtGear and VATSIM

2006-11-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Wirtz wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know if there are considerations to add VATSIm Support to > FlightGear? There have already been some threads about that topic on this mailing list. In short: adding support isn't really possible due to licens

Re: [Flightgear-devel] reviews etc.

2006-10-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Elliott wrote: > The only > thing that slightly bothers me about someone passing off any of > my work as part of a "FlightGear 2006 Professional" package is > that I don't consider any of my work to be of commercial quality > and I wouldn't wa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBsim trouble -- flight controls don't appearto be not responding

2006-09-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
Heiko Schulz wrote: > There is something else I want to say about the > 3d-model: Too much vertices! The exterior model got > about 10.000 vertices, the interior without (!) the > cockpit and seats got about 10.000 vertices- I think > that's too much, my computer got problems with it. > That's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Schweizer SGS 2-33, AI thermals and other remarks

2006-08-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
Dave Culp wrote: > I have some buttons on my joystick set up for this, and I do get an increased > descent rate when spoilers are deployed. The sgs233 FDM uses the JSBSim > property called fcs/speedbrake-pos-norm, which is controlled by the > FlightGear property called controls/flight/speedbra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view change crashes

2006-08-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Stefan Seifert -- Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:03: > >> Before Melchior's work-around I could reproduce the problem with fgfs >> --disable-auto-coordination --aircraft=harrier --carrier=Nimitz >> Just switch views and it crashes. >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view change crashes

2006-08-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
Lee Elliott wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 03:45, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > [snip...] > >> For what it's worth I can reliably trigger this bug by >> running: "fgfs --airport=N59" Once FG starts up, hit the "v" >> key to switch to the outside view. This seems to trigger the >> bug every ti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: Is there a big mistake on the Bo

2006-08-11 Thread Stefan Seifert
Heiko Schulz wrote: > It should be possible learning to fly a realistic > flightmodel of a helicopter with the mouse. > Well it is already. When I first tried the bo105 it was on my notebook with mouse and keyboard. It ain't easy, but it's certainly possible. Of course it's much more fun on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autosave.xml -- aircraft specific settings

2006-08-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
AJ MacLeod wrote: > Personally I don't think we need a separate file for each aircraft, but I > don't have any particularly strong feelings either way on that one. I > suppose it would make it very easy to return any aircraft model to "standard" > state.. It would be not too difficult to delet

[Flightgear-devel] Hang on exit when using SDL output

2006-07-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
After some months of just hitting ctrl+c I finally tried to find out why FG hangs every time on exit just sitting there doing nothing. I did a backtrace on all threads and guessed, that sound may have something to do with it and it seems like I was right. I have (define devices '(sdl)) in my .op

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YF-23/yasim: how to climb to 163000 ft

2006-07-29 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > $ fgfs --aircraft=YF-23 --airport=knuq --disable-real-weather-fetch > > - full throttle > - climb to 8000 ft > - 90 degree bank > - pull stick fully back > amazingly: you don't bleed off speed, but *accelerate* > - at ~1630 kt (after that the speed decreases) 0 degree bank

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New fgjs tool

2006-07-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I found the old code quite horrible, even after the last improvements. The new method is without any doubt superior. If nobody objects, then I'll commit that tomorrow. Some things should IMHO get improved: New version attached. I added some more info about the dead band

[Flightgear-devel] New fgjs tool

2006-07-02 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, I finally managed to finish my rewrite of the fgjs tool (in patch -p0 form). The old one generated pretty outdated config files leaving users like me wondering why for example it isn't possible to toggle the gear with only one button. It is of course and while hand crafted joystick configs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ch35e ready to go into CVS

2006-07-02 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > PS: I know we can't have everything in cvs, but I keep committing > until Curt pulls the emergency brake. And if it's helicopters, > then I don't even hesitate for a second. :-P > But why not have all available aircrafts in CVS? CVS is a source code management

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat changes ?

2006-06-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Thomas Förster wrote: > Don't know wether svg editors will preserve unknown tags and attributes. If > they do, the physical airport layout can then be changed with a standard svg > drawing program (e.g. inkscape). > That's the nice thing about XML: you just have to put your own tags and attr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Property Browser: old dog, new tricks

2006-06-05 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I don't have a scroll mouse, because I don't like them. The middle > button is too important on Unix to put a disturbing wheel there. > Fortunately, there are other developers who could do this. All you > need is a lot of patience, as getting plib patches committed isn't > t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Introduction to community and Autopilot Replacement

2006-06-01 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jimmy Coley wrote: > My question to the community is this, Are there pros and cons to each > method > that I don't know about, and does anybody know of a different approach > that > might be better/easier? FlightGear supports a few I/O protocols. Why not use them for communication of FG and you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 08:35:51 +0900, alexander wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Anders Gidenstam wrote: There are some drivers for Linux, but nothing that really works. TrackIR manufacturer wants to develop such drivers, but dislike making it open source for some

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

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
That may be a problem, that could affect FGLive, too: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/15/1451229&from=rss Nine --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integ

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: flightgear.org webpage screenshot problem

2006-04-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
Curtis L. Olson wrote: The actual menu structure is coming from a javascript file (.js) that is shared among all the pages so perhaps some browsers don't check for newer .js files the same way they do for newer .html files? Then of course this is the error and should be fixed. Clientside scri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Proposal for 1.0

2006-04-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I don't think we gain much from forking plib. *If* we have people interested in working on plib, those can as well ask for plib write access. (The texture compression was IMHO not "advertized" well, so I'm not really surprised that it was ignored.) Forgive me my ignoran

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 exposes a possible property/memory bug in real-weather-fetch

2006-04-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jon S. Berndt wrote: Using k/j or Ctrl-b or Shift-S - nothing seems to be able to stow the speedbrake/spoilers on the upper surface of the 737-300 wing. Using the j key seems to start it stowing, but it's only momentary. Then, it deploys again. This happens when I use the --disable-real-weather-f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-04 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Jon S. Berndt -- Tuesday 04 April 2006 15:01: * * Melchior FRANZ: --prop:/environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere=1 I don't know what this does [...] try again without the above prop spec. I remember: it's for injecting METAR temperature/pressure int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 re-entry question (JSBSim)

2006-04-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I set the AP altitude-hold target higher and higher, and now I'm flying with Mach 1.00 at 250,000 ft, and I'm a bit worried about heat problems once I started the landing procedure. vspeed ist constant at 2012. Contrails are shooting ahead ... even faster than the 737 ... I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Graphics load (was Possible contribution for someone)

2006-04-03 Thread Stefan Seifert
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Paul Surgeon schrieb: Well I think the best bang for the buck would be via some sort of terrain LOD mechanism. Using primitives to draw every single feature just isn't going to scale well. Terrain LOD and primitives for every feature is not necessarily a contradictio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New 737 textures

2006-03-27 Thread Stefan Seifert
Paul Surgeon wrote: That EasyJet repaint looks much better than the UA one. Would be nice to replace the one in CVS. I'd say, that depends on how much EasyJet.com is willing to pay for the advertising ;) Nine --- This SF.Net email is s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: FG core dump when running Concorde

2006-03-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
Jon S. Berndt wrote: I suppose this points out that it would be nice to have a version of the config file that could work in multiple situations (JSBSim standalone, FlightGear, etc.) - that is, conditional usage. I'm not sure how I'd do that, yet, though. Normally I would say, that the beaut

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 development

2006-03-16 Thread Stefan Seifert
Justin Smithies wrote: Hi all, This may sound daft but i've setup cvs on my server to hold the 737-300 development that me , Markus and others are doing so it does not touch the FG model until the model authors are happy with changes etc and wish to commit the changes to the FG cvs.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
And of course, I forgot something in my last mail: the engine fans are missing the cylinder with the spiral in the model. Nine --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-15 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hello Stefan That is correct those two animations are missing and if you would like to do them again that would be great. Here are the objects that now make up the nose gear. ... So rotating everything from " collar" down should do the steering. And compressing everthing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Thank you.My pleasure.:-) I must say though that Dave Culp wrote the nasal file for the spoiler sequence.A neat thing to try if you havn't already is to accelerate the aircraft to over 80 kts then pull the throttles back and the aircraft should brake to a halt automatica

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Stefan Seifert writes The 737-300 is missing the nose gear animations: turning and compression. Looked at it yesterday, but it's not as easy as it was with the old model because the nosewheel seems not to be a named object anymore. Have to find out how I can give

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: I'd like to ask: is there some development version of the 737 available? I'm tempted to fix some animations that were in the old model, but if I had to guess, I'd say they are already done and I'd hate to waste the effort. As the 737 model has recently been replaced w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 small fixes

2006-03-14 Thread Stefan Seifert
Berndt, Jon S wrote: Second (and more important) a hopefully good guess about the VRP. I used the z value of the old 737, which seems to fit and spent half an hour trying to figure out the y value. I tested giving full left break and 90% thrust which keeps the plane spinning around the left ma

[Flightgear-devel] 737-300 small fixes

2006-03-13 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, just two little improvements to the 737-300: First an increased chase-view distance, so the tail fits into the view. Second (and more important) a hopefully good guess about the VRP. I used the z value of the old 737, which seems to fit and spent half an hour trying to figure out the y valu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
David Luff wrote: Melchior FRANZ writes: OK, you've pricked my consciensce. I'll make a concerted effort to track that one down, since it's undoubtably one of mine :-( I thought it might have been fixed, since I haven't seen it since a couple of bug-fixes were added to that bit of code be so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 electrical systems

2006-03-09 Thread Stefan Seifert
Innis Cunningham wrote: Maybe all the people who are working on the 737 need to get together and work out who is going to do what.You have as it would appear done a lot of the 737 electrical system I also know that Justin Smithies is working on the same system.I am working on the 3D cockpit which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft startup failure, confirmed by others (Concorde / Boeing314A)

2006-03-01 Thread Stefan Seifert
Chris Metzler wrote: Both pigeon and I are experiencing that the Concorde doesn't start. We both run Linux. Attempting to start with the Concorde gives a slightly messed-up splash screen (black blotches near the bottom), followed by an abort. Backtrace included below: This has been since t

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

2006-02-26 Thread Stefan Seifert
dene maxwell wrote: If I chose to stay with the old version front end then I could still expect the functionality I had enjoyed to still be available. This is not the case with 098a MP. 098a MP no longer exists and having supported a household upgrade to cable 'net on the basis of being able t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] enhanced runway lighting.

2006-02-17 Thread Stefan Seifert
Martin Spott wrote: "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: It does sound like you don't specify --enable-distance-attenuation or that your hardware doesn't support GL_DISTANCE_ATTENUATION_EXT [...] That does really help ... would it make sense to add a distance atte

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about --carrier=Nimitz

2006-02-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
Isao Yamashita wrote: --carrier=Nimitz option doesn't work for me. FG gives me some mysterious help text like below : --carrier=[name|ID] Specify starting position on an AI carrier --parkpos=name Specify which starting position on an AI carrier (must also specify a carrier) I did uncomment

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] speech synthesis with festival

2006-02-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I'll start to commit once I got permission. (The old ATC voice thing will lose the /sim/sound/voice property first, which is used as an "enabled" flag, and finally die.) Just that you don't think, this won't be appreciated: I'm very much looking forward to this. It wil

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737 project

2006-02-06 Thread Stefan Seifert
Major A wrote: BTW, a rather nice feature of X-Plane (well, compared to MSFS at least) is the scrolling panel so that you get access to all controls just by scrolling, without popping up subpanels. Are there thoughts of how full-features aircraft panels (737, let alone Concorde etc.) are to be la

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: night slowdown with nvidia GeForce 6200 on linux

2006-01-26 Thread Stefan Seifert
Erik Hofman wrote: Stefan Seifert wrote: I tested the above line on my ATI card. Makes absolutely no difference, neither visually, nor performance wise. Too bad :-( Enhanced runway lighting is already not too bad on my ATI card. I get the same framerate with and without it enabled (not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: night slowdown with nvidia GeForce 6200 on linux

2006-01-26 Thread Stefan Seifert
Erik Hofman wrote: Alex Romosan wrote: or you can add a call to glEnable(GL_POINT_SPRITE): +glEnable(GL_POINT_SPRITE); this allowed me to use GL_POINT_SMOOTH on my nvidia card (enhanced lighting works fine now). i think this would be a better solution (tested only on my nvidia card thou

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