Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux (Ubuntu) libsvn not found by cmake

2012-11-28 Thread ThorstenB
Am 28.11.2012 22:04, schrieb Alan Teeder: Yes, I understand that the user can override Cmake defaults. This would however require another fix to the Brisa automated script. My point is that /usr/lib/l386-linux-gnu/ IS the default that the Ubuntu package manager is now using for the svn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Musings on FG on Linux/Windows

2012-11-28 Thread ThorstenB
Am 28.11.2012 20:12, schrieb Stefan Seifert: A good first step would be to contact the maintainer of the FlightGear package in the games repository and ask why build is disabled for all non-openSUSE distributions. Well, that would be me ;-), and since you have already asked: The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SenecaII: cannot start right engine

2012-11-25 Thread ThorstenB
Am 25.11.2012 12:57, schrieb Andreas Gaeb: with the git version from last Thursday, I cannot start the right engine of the SenecaII. Works fine here with current Git. The main problem seems to be that /systems/fuel/fuel-pump[1]/enabled is set to false and immediately gets switched back to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SenecaII: cannot start right engine

2012-11-25 Thread ThorstenB
Am 25.11.2012 16:07, schrieb Andreas Gaeb: It was indeed the primer of the right engine; if I press it, the engine starts. However, the left engine starts out of the box after launching Flightgear by pressing } three times and holding s; the right engine does not. Same for running the Hot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI manager fails to compile with MSVC

2012-11-24 Thread ThorstenB
Am 24.11.2012 14:16, schrieb Alan Teeder: Thanks – FG compiles and runs again. Thanks for the feedback. As you may have noticed, the Jenkins Windows builds were apparently stuck/blocked for 3 days - it hasn't even tried to compile - hence there were no messages (and that's why it says last

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Which navradio code is considered standard?

2012-11-22 Thread ThorstenB
On 22.11.2012 10:08, Adrian Musceac wrote: I've gone ahead and used the new radio code for navaids, but I have a question: which navradio code is considered standard? newnavradio or navradio? navradio is the current/old standard, newnavradio is the new module. Most aircraft use navradio, few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear release (Feb. 17 2013)

2012-11-17 Thread ThorstenB
Am 17.11.2012 22:43, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: 1. A lack of stress testing. We have a four weeks testing period with release binaries publically available, so I am not sure how to improve that. Do we need more testers? Do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug 479 has come back

2012-11-16 Thread ThorstenB
Am 16.11.2012 10:13, schrieb Alan Teeder: Changing --fg-aircraft=C:\FlightGear\MyAircraft to --fg-aircraft=C:\FlightGear\MyAircraft\ , or to --fg-aircraft=C:/FlightGear/MyAircraft has no effect. Pull latest fgdata and see if it has any effect. Is it possible that things were only working

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug 479 has come back

2012-11-16 Thread ThorstenB
Am 16.11.2012 22:28, schrieb Alan Teeder: It all works out of the (git) box now. I have not tried the io.nas that you attached to your post, but can do if you wish. No need to, if it's working now. I believe we've fixed another old and ugly bug here, requiring Windows users to use Unix-style

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug 479 has come back

2012-11-15 Thread ThorstenB
Am 15.11.2012 12:55, schrieb Alan Teeder: Found it ! Here is the culprit: commit dbea0c936103b2530e551be7c51bc6bd7b5218cb Author: ThorstenB Date: Sun Nov 11 19:26:51 2012 +0100 Geoff McLane: realpath for Windows using _fullpath. Alan *From:* Alan Teeder mailto:ajtee...@v-twin.org.uk

Re: [Flightgear-devel] download_and_compile.sh

2012-11-12 Thread ThorstenB
On 12.11.2012 14:25, Pat wrote: I've been learning a lot about Linux development by reading the download_and_compile.sh. I have a few ideas for enhancements to the script. Is anyone keeping a list of requested enhancements to the script? Is this list the right place for discussion of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery not being loaded

2012-11-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.11.2012 05:32, schrieb Jon S. Berndt: I have a new problem, now, though. I do see the scenery (when I get under about 6000 feet - until then I see only white fog) since I gave the path to the directory outside $FG_ROOT where I placed the terrain, but now I no longer get proper HUD

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery not being loaded

2012-11-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.11.2012 13:14, schrieb Frederic Bouvier: multiple separate directories, you can separate the paths with : (works also on Windows). fgfs --fg-root=FGDATA_PATH --fg-scenery=CUSTOM_PATH1:CUSTOM_PATH2:... On windows, the path separator if ; You are right, for scenery it indeed is. But I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2012-11-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.11.2012 10:52, schrieb Thomas Geymayer: Everything works great here. Save own flights, playback own and your flights (Nice approach btw.;) ). Only with jsbsim the my controls button is missing, but that wasn't working before neither... Good. ;-) Right, the my controls button is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery not being loaded

2012-11-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.11.2012 17:39, schrieb Jon S. Berndt: Also, if I specify only the custom scenery path - as in the command line below - I get the errors that follow. Don't know if those are revealing or unexpected ... bin/Win64/fgfs.exe --fg-root=./data --fg-scenery=./scenery --aircraft=CitationX

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery not being loaded

2012-11-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.11.2012 18:23, schrieb Jon S. Berndt: Thanks for the reply. The path handling in FlightGear seems a bit delicate. Not sure if in Cygwin under Windows I need to be more unix-like, or more windows-like in specifying paths. I'll play with that some, but relative paths do work - at least

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery not being loaded

2012-11-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.11.2012 19:05, schrieb Geoff McLane: That's strange no one has done this for WIN32 ;=() I guess most Windows people are using launchers. It's mainly Linux people who love command-lines ;-). #if defined(_WIN32) // with absPath NULL, will allocate, and ignore length char *buf =

[Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2012-11-10 Thread ThorstenB
I have updated the flight recorder / replay system with something I had already planned after last year's update. Two new features: 1. Sessions can be saved to/loaded from disk. Simply fly along, then select Save flight recorder tape from the file menu and press Save. You can load the tape

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows SG DLL build - NO GO!

2012-11-08 Thread ThorstenB
On 08 Nov 2012 Geoff McLane wrote: But maybe we would be better off removing the SIMGEAR_SHARED option if WIN32 ;=)) No objections. Indeed it wasn't intended for Windows. I'll remove the option for WIN32. And of course, I really wonder WHY we added a 'shared' version of SG at all... but that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-07 Thread ThorstenB
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Durk Talsma wrote: No worries. :-). This is actually fairly subjective, and I'm afraid that I didn't explain my concern too well in my initial post. The real issue is salience, which you can describe as the subjective property of a percept to stand out from it's environment

[Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-04 Thread ThorstenB
... is already over now, unfortunately. For those who couldn't attend but are interested in what it was like (make sure to join next year!), here are some photos showing the event and FlightGear booth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70866411@N05/sets/72157631926925511/detail/ More details are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend 2012...

2012-11-04 Thread ThorstenB
Am 04.11.2012 20:39, schrieb Jon S. Berndt: Did you run into Austin Meyer (X-Plane)? No, he was there last year to promote his latest release, but I'm not aware that he attended this year. (There were rumours someone had seen a Curtis Olson at the event, but that is yet another story...;-) ).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear commit breaks Atlas (ot??)

2012-10-15 Thread ThorstenB
FYI the Atlas configure.ac will use -lSimGearCore if ENABLE_SIMGEAR_SHARED is set to yes, which is misleading. I will change this to something more more useful (Suggestion?). I added ENABLE_SIMGEAR_SHARED to Atlas some time last year, since the libraries SimGearCore and SimGearScene (the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch: FOV automatic compensation for wider screens

2012-10-08 Thread ThorstenB
On 7 Oct 2012, at 15:19, Stuart Buchanan wrote: The use-case is to enable or disable particular views if you don't want to have to spend ages cycling through them. I also quite like this option. Some a/c also provide many additional custom views. It's handy to just enable the personal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine sound and HSI problems with Lightning

2012-10-08 Thread ThorstenB
On 8 Oct 2012, at 14:35, Alan Teeder wrote: The HSI is now stable, but does not agree with the other compasses. Is there a gyro alignment procedure that I need to learn? Yes. It's one of the pilot's duties as part of the pre-start checklist ;-). Also something which needs to be done every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine sound and HSI problems with Lightning

2012-10-07 Thread ThorstenB
On 7 Oct 2012, at 09:06, Alan Teeder wrote: If I taxi the Lightning the HSI starts operating normally, and does not fail when I apply the brakes. Something is not getting initialised I guess. Watch the properties /systems/electrical/outputs/DG and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Gitorious] Activity: fredb pushed 1 commits to nextnext...

2012-10-04 Thread ThorstenB
On 4 Oct 2012, at 01:28, James Turner wrote: The translation strings come from FGDATA, so it sounds like either your fgdata hasn't updated correctly, or you're somehow selecting a locale for which we don't have translations? The English language resource is always considered for defaults.

[Flightgear-devel] fgdata trouble

2012-09-21 Thread ThorstenB
On 21 Sep 2012, at 13:03, Anders Gidenstam wrote: The master branch of fgdata has become messed up. A number of commits have become duplicated and some undone (they exist in the history but their effect is gone from HEAD). It has happened again, fgdata history is messed up. It looks as if my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] FlightGear branch, next, updated. 1dbc2c83e5c0514b1a51eb0c2aee9f6dbe577492

2012-09-05 Thread ThorstenB
I'm very suspicious of this - I don't think there's been any post 2.8 commit that could change such a core behaviour. (I don't read every single commit in detail, but I look at the summaries) The change is certainly valid, but I'd be much happier knowing why it worked before and what broke

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear at TU Delft

2012-09-05 Thread ThorstenB
However, in the past couple of weeks ( after a graphics card update for our simulator) we started working with FlightGear 2.8. Thanks a lot for your report! It's really nice and motivating to see FlightGear being used for serious (research) projects and not just for fun/gaming. And a full

Re: [Flightgear-devel] strange screen

2012-09-02 Thread ThorstenB
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Alasdair ali...@btinternet.com wrote: After git pull (sg,fg,fgdata) a couple of days ago, I was presented with a strange screen which I had not seen before. My regular was shown as a sub-screen in the bottom-left corner. Clicking the maximise widget restores

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Running Nasal at simulation rate

2012-08-29 Thread ThorstenB
From: Johnathan Van Why jrvanwhy@gm... - 2012-08-29 13:20 I have a need to run Nasal code at the same rate as the simulation. At this point, I am unsure which to pursue. Which method do you find to be better? To be frank, the whole idea is just bad in the first place - so I vote for #3:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim bug fix that should be backported to FG 2.8.0

2012-07-21 Thread ThorstenB
Am 20.07.2012 11:10, schrieb Anders Gidenstam: Given that there is some risk that the behaviour of carefully tuned flight models change I'd suggest we only update 2.9.0 and do not update 2.8.0 as it is late in its release cycle. Valid point. Can someone with more insight into the patch

[Flightgear-devel] FG2.8.0 on final

2012-07-17 Thread ThorstenB
It's July 17th: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Release_plan Continuing with FG2.8.0's landing procedures, we have turned on final, moving the release candidate to a separate Git branch (release/2.8.0 for sg/fg/fgdata). FG2.9.0 is already lined up on next (and fgdata master), so new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2.8-RC3 Startup Failure for Unknown Reasons

2012-07-17 Thread ThorstenB
Am 17.07.2012 05:14, schrieb Keita Yokoyama: DUMP FILE and .WER REPORT compressed into single ZIP file: http://www.mediafire.com/?3lwhbrd5dd9wdu7 It would be helpful if s.o. with a Windows PC could convert this dump into a human (developer :) ) readable stack trace - using Dumpchk.exe or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PAPI/runway lights size - Rembrandt

2012-07-16 Thread ThorstenB
Am 16.07.2012 16:22, schrieb Christian Schmitt: the size of the PAPI lights has been bothering me for quite some time. It looks just too big for me. Going through the simgear git history I found out quickly that it was changed by commit 1dfde64ac2e6ed0a Use bigger point sprites for airport

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGCom - cmake

2012-07-10 Thread ThorstenB
Am 10.07.2012 15:27, schrieb HB-GRAL: The last weeks Geoff McLane and me forked fgcom temporary at gitorious (http://www.gitorious.org/fgcom) and made some significant changes. Origin source is still available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fgcom/ Schön wieder Fortschritte bei fgcom zu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGCom - cmake

2012-07-10 Thread ThorstenB
Ah well. You guessed the obvious... This was mainly meant for HB-GRAL. Anyway, an opportunity to learn some German! ;-) cheers, Thorsten Am 10.07.2012 20:52, schrieb ThorstenB: Am 10.07.2012 15:27, schrieb HB-GRAL: The last weeks Geoff McLane and me forked fgcom temporary at gitorious (http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-09 Thread ThorstenB
Am 17.06.2012 21:14, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: today is June, 17th and this marks our feature freeze for the sources of SimGear, FlightGear and FGDATA. Within FGDATA, only aircraft not being part of the base package are not part of the feature freeze. Maintainers for those aircraft are kindly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] upcoming release suggestion

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 01.07.2012 05:52, schrieb syd adams: Before the next release , maybe it would be a good idea to disable those 'panel' outlines , which show up when you press 'C' to view hotspots. I don't think this was intentional. The outlines aren't even properly aligned on any aircraft I checked - so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-07-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 30.06.2012 15:02, schrieb Bertrand Coconnier: I don't know if it's only me, but all my efforts to match sg/fg/fgdata version were unsuccessful until I manually deleted src/Include/version.h in flightgear. After a complete rebuild and installation FlightGear was finally able to start but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.8.0: feature freeze starts now

2012-06-26 Thread ThorstenB
Am 17.06.2012 21:14, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: today is June, 17th and this marks our feature freeze for the sources of SimGear, FlightGear and FGDATA. Within FGDATA, only aircraft not being part of the base package are not part of the feature freeze. Maintainers for those aircraft are kindly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sea color

2012-05-11 Thread ThorstenB
On 11.05.2012 10:21, Renk Thorsten wrote: The problem with that consequence is: As you switched all loops off, the Nasal part of Advanced Weather ceased to run completely and all that's left is the same cloud-generating functionality which is responsible for Basic Weather (C++ and shader

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG2.6.0 @ FreeBSD

2012-05-05 Thread ThorstenB
Am 05.05.2012 10:25, schrieb James Turner: On 5 May 2012, at 09:00, Martin Spott wrote: Cool ! I'm checking the FreeBSD port almost every week, but until recently it's still been at 2.4, looks like this will change soon :-) Yep, if any CMake assistance is required, please just ask. Not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue 717: Disabling advanced weather crashes the sim

2012-04-25 Thread ThorstenB
Am 25.04.2012 12:50, schrieb Renk Thorsten: From my perspective, switching between GUIs runtime and trying to mix features is problematic input in the first place. My Agreed. And I don't think it was the intention of the current GUI to toggle between both dialogs, while keeping advanced (or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Random Buildings

2012-04-25 Thread ThorstenB
Am 25.04.2012 13:35, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: Also, there is a significant slow-down in scenery loading. I can certainly confirm ;-). It's not just a longer delay for initial start-up (splash screen takes much longer to drop), it's also causing issues with scenery taking too long to be loaded

Re: [Flightgear-devel] updates to nav.dat.gz

2012-04-24 Thread ThorstenB
On 23.04.2012 13:52, Christian Schmitt wrote: We could, if the xml parser would not simply discard any new runways that are not already in the apt.dat file. If I understood a comment of James in the bug tracker correctly, this, however, always has been and still is the normal behaviour, since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failed to select the language for Flightgear

2012-04-18 Thread ThorstenB
On 18.04.2012 07:03, 刘先生 wrote: I'm confusing that when I use the FGrun,every time I select language from the Advanced Options(e.g. ,I input fr for French),the language of the FlightGear remains English.It remains the same Even when I use the command line to select the language(I input the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Failed to select the language for Flightgear

2012-04-18 Thread ThorstenB
On 18.04.2012 10:34, Gijs de Rooy wrote: Right now, only the language for the command-line help can be switched And even that appears broken now... Or is it just me and some fault in my home-built FG? Indeed. It got broken when the evaluation of command-line options was restructured. I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Workaround: c172p on MacBook Pro with Intel HD3000

2012-04-14 Thread ThorstenB
On 14.04.2012 13:08, Stuart Buchanan wrote: I like the idea of resizing textures at model loading time a lot. The other option would be to switch the shader off. Presumably that would not load the normal map into the GPU. Shader textures are loaded unconditionally, at least into main memory.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Workaround: c172p on MacBook Pro with Intel HD3000

2012-04-14 Thread ThorstenB
On 14.04.2012 15:18, Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Shader textures are loaded unconditionally, at least into main memory. Hopefully GPU loading is optional - but I'm not sure. Textures are loaded in main memory when the model that references them is loaded. Handing textures over to OpenGL is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another segfault

2012-04-12 Thread ThorstenB
Am 12.04.2012 16:50, schrieb syd adams: I've been updating the CitationX , and suddenly Im getting this error and the program segfaults. calc_bearing is not a finite number : Speed nanpos : nan, nanwaypoint 43.8071, 11.2006 waypoint name rotateSegmentation fault The segfault should be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] updates to nav.dat.gz

2012-04-10 Thread ThorstenB
Am 10.04.2012 21:08, schrieb Martin Spott: And there's still one thing to consider: Having one central set of apt./nav.dat files in the Base Package still doesn't address the trend of the FlightGear project and Scenery development proceeding asynchronously. But to be honest, it neither works

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Recent GIT version fails to compile (fgadmin_funcs)

2012-04-08 Thread ThorstenB
Am 07.04.2012 21:20, schrieb Björn Kesten: I think I've upgraded GCC to 4.7 recently, but for the life of me, I can't remember what else got upgraded that might have broken FG compilation. The drawback of running a rolling release system (Arch Linux)... The advantage is: you can beta-test FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Recent GIT version fails to compile (fgadmin_funcs)

2012-04-07 Thread ThorstenB
On 06.04.2012 19:07, Björn Kesten wrote: I hope this is the right place for GIT version related things. Certainly is ;-). utils/fgadmin/src/CMakeFiles/fgadmin.dir/fgadmin_funcs.cxx.o /home/bjoern/fg_git/sources/flightgear/utils/fgadmin/src/fgadmin_funcs.cxx: In function ‘void

[Flightgear-devel] Git frame rate

2012-04-07 Thread ThorstenB
On 06.04.2012 21:25, Heiko Schulz wrote: Nethertheless- perfomance has much increased now! :-) Depending on the aircraft I can get now 30-60 fps at noon with materials-dds.xml, trees and clouds with my standard settings. Likely related: a number of smaller performance improvements, but also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Recent GIT version fails to compile (fgadmin_funcs)

2012-04-07 Thread ThorstenB
Am 07.04.2012 15:33, schrieb Geoff McLane: #ifdef _WIN32 # includedirect.h # includeio.h #define unlink _unlink #define mkdir _mkdir #else // !_WIN32 #includeunistd.h #endif To make windows happy ;=)) and avoid some warnings... Yes, looks good. Indeed, I can't see how fgadmin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rembrandt - Some Feedback

2012-04-01 Thread ThorstenB
With Rembrandt, brightness of the scenery seems to depend on the view's pitch angle a lot. So, when you fly along and pitch up/down heavily (take the ufo), you see the ground becoming brighter and darker. It mainly seems to affect the bright (non-shadow) areas. When pitching up, the ground

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG caching and other OSG issues

2012-04-01 Thread ThorstenB
Am 01.04.2012 18:25, schrieb Mathias Fröhlich: If you work with weak pointers/observer_ptr you need to use the lock method. Ok, you're absolutely right. I wasn't aware of the lock method before, indeed it has to be used here. I'll push a change. Thanks for reviewing this! cheers, Thorsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG caching and other OSG issues

2012-03-28 Thread ThorstenB
on some OSG cache in some places? cheers, Thorsten Am 03.05.2011 21:49, schrieb ThorstenB: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Tim Mooretimoor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:10 PM, ThorstenBbre...@gmail.com wrote: There is a global cache in simgear/makeEffect.cxx (effectMap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Photo scenery patch: request for help

2012-03-26 Thread ThorstenB
Not sure if this adds anything new, but digging in old email, I found Tim's review of the photo scenery patch from about a year ago. I'm not sure if the patch was updated since (or even if it's really the same at all), but there were two issues/questions then: 1. It unconditionally uses

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Rembrandt] the plan

2012-03-26 Thread ThorstenB
Am 25.03.2012 19:49, schrieb Frederic Bouvier: The Rembrandt renderer is enabled with the --enable-rembrandt option. *ALL SHADERS SHOULD BE SET TO OFF* unless someone want to begin to convert other shaders. Basically works here on Linux with proprietary Nvidia drivers. However, when I zoom in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Change in failures.nas

2012-03-25 Thread ThorstenB
Am 25.03.2012 00:46, schrieb Eugenio Mondini: I'd like to understand something that seems to affect only me. As you can see in the forum [0] after a recent fgdata update I couldn't use one plane because it checked against a property in failure-manager part of the tree, that was not appering

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-24 Thread ThorstenB
On 24.03.2012 00:29, syd adams wrote: I,ve noticed for awhile that sounds seem to cut off at the reference-distance rather than max-dist. Is there a new way to do the sound files that Ive missed or is this a bug ? It is nice that sounds actually stop now , but I must be doing something wrong

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-24 Thread ThorstenB
Am 24.03.2012 15:39, schrieb syd adams: I thought the volume was reduced to half at reference-distance That's actually what README.xmlsound still says - but I don't think that's right (it's not halved, but clamped at it's maximum at ref-dist). Maybe the description matched a pre-OpenAL

[Flightgear-devel] Performance issue with sim reset vs Nasal

2012-03-20 Thread ThorstenB
Hi, I noticed an ugly issue with many of our Nasal modules. Not sure if that's a result of changed behaviour years ago, or it's just a common copy paste issue that just wasn't noticed so far. Problem is, lot's of Nasal modules listen to the property /sim/signals/fdm-initialized to

[Flightgear-devel] Missing texture files

2012-03-17 Thread ThorstenB
Hi, after adding some proper error messages in the texture loader, I do see a number of missing texture files being reported. And they don't seem to be in fgdata. Anyone knows what's wrong here? Missing files or broken models/effects referring to incorrect files? Cannot find texture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] auto-coordination

2012-03-09 Thread ThorstenB
Am 09.03.2012 21:46, schrieb syd adams: Hmmm another thought . Wouldn't setting that value to 0.0 still force the rudder to center , still overriding other systems ? No, since Torsten's suggested patch contained a condition auto_coordination_factor-getDoubleValue() 0.0 ) { so nothing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two small weather issues

2012-03-08 Thread ThorstenB
On 08.03.2012 19:21, Curtis Olson wrote: I bet there's a line of code somewhere that looks like: if ( visibility_meter 1000 ) { do_sky_dome_stuff(); } Ha, Curt, I know you cheated! You just looked at the code, right? ;-) simgear/scene/sky/sky.cxx, SGSky::repaint: if (

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About the bug 385

2012-03-04 Thread ThorstenB
Am 04.03.2012 00:09, schrieb jean pellotier: BTW, whitch OSG version do i have to use? last devel version is ok? Any version that reproduces the issue for you. If it still occurs with OSG trunk, then that's also interesting. If it wasn't, well, then you have a solution ;-). But I already

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Project Rembrandt - next steps

2012-03-04 Thread ThorstenB
Am 04.03.2012 19:00, schrieb Stefan Seifert: But whenever talking about git rebase one should mention that THOU SHALT NOT rebase a branch which you've ever pushed. Because if someone ever pulled your What I always do, before pushing an update for the next branch is: git checkout next git pull

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Project Rembrandt - next steps

2012-03-03 Thread ThorstenB
Am 03.03.2012 12:43, schrieb Christian Schmitt: Stuart Buchanan wrote: IMO we should bite the bullet and get it into next this week if possible. There's obviously some risk to our 6 month release schedules that we'll just have to accept. I agree here. Let's merge the Rembrandt work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About the bug 385

2012-03-03 Thread ThorstenB
Am 03.03.2012 03:28, schrieb Robert: 2012/3/2 ThorstenB bre...@gmail.com mailto:bre...@gmail.com But we don't know why this only happens with the ATI, only with their driver versions 11.5 and above, and only on Windows. Thorsten, this bug is also present on Linux (in my case), and I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About the bug 385

2012-03-01 Thread ThorstenB
On 02.03.2012 00:29, jean pellotier wrote: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?can=2start=0num=100q=colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Summary%20Aircraft%20Milestonegroupby=sort=id=385#makechanges It appear in my setup that adding a radar section in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Odd message during latest CI build...

2012-02-28 Thread ThorstenB
On 28.02.2012 18:02, Gene Buckle wrote: The error shown is related to CMake I think. Yes, it was. Result of incorrect syntax in simgear's cmakelist.txt. Should be fixed now - let me know otherwise. cheers, Thorsten --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jenkins thrashing...

2012-02-28 Thread ThorstenB
On 28.02.2012 18:00, Gene Buckle wrote: Yes. I needed to use the machine.:) I've re-enabled the MSVC host. And I just triggered a rebuild for Windows/next. Hope the load stays low... I think the problem is that a build is redone every time fgrun is changed because there is no release

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.02.2012 10:40, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: Best of all, the new features are based on user community requests, and not driven by economic incentives. Some of these features are already in the works for the next FG release [give continuity message about the development] That'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] linking errors with origin/next?

2012-02-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.02.2012 10:16, schrieb Scott Hamilton: I updated my git working directory to origin/next and am getting the following link errors, I'm not 100% sure that git is properly updating everything, I have done a make clean and make rebuild_cache on both simgear and flightgear. Is anyone else

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final 2.6.0 Release Preparations

2012-02-11 Thread ThorstenB
Am 11.02.2012 16:32, schrieb Ron Jensen: I found and fixed a potential NaN and Segfault in the JSBSim propeller code yesterday. It could be considered a blocking bug for 2.6 to me. Thanks, looks like a small and safe enough patch which we should push to the 2.6.0 branch. cheers, Thorsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version file check

2012-02-07 Thread ThorstenB
On 07.02.2012 21:13, HB-GRAL wrote: Is it a good or bad idea for the FGx launcher to check against the version file if it is a valid fgdata folder AT ALL ? I will need some kind of check. Seems a good idea. Same check is hard-coded inside fgfs (of course, fgfs also requires correct content of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version file check

2012-02-07 Thread ThorstenB
Am 07.02.2012 21:34, schrieb Curtis Olson: The main reason for a version check between the binary and the data is that we often make parallel changes to both (similar reason why we do a simgear minimum version check when compiling flightgear.) If there are version mismatches, things could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] screen.nas FONT size

2012-01-31 Thread ThorstenB
Am 31.01.2012 19:46, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: The liberation fonts are to be used with OSGText (check $FGDATA/Docs/README.osgtext). With OSGText, the font is rendered by OSG and you put text objects into the scenegraph just like any other 3d object. You can attach it to the world, your aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: [Flightgear-builds] Build failed in Jenkins: Windows-release #296

2012-01-17 Thread ThorstenB
Am 17.01.2012 23:48, schrieb Frederic Bouvier: Hi, The windows released is not supposed to be built with MSVC 9 using msbuild. We should use MSVC 10 and Cmake, so please ignore these build until they are converted. Regards, -Fred Right, I just created the fgmeta release branch - which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 69, Issue 9

2012-01-15 Thread ThorstenB
On 15.01.2012 10:46, Erik Hofman wrote: GIT will het frozen January 17th except for bug fixes. This would be a bug-fix in my book. Of course, fixing licensing issues counts as a bug-fix. Git is frozen already (= bug-fixes only), we'll create the branch on January 17th to open the main branch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear writes autosave.xml

2012-01-15 Thread ThorstenB
On 15.01.2012 15:59, Martin Spott wrote: James Turner wrote: On 14 Jan 2012, at 11:42, James Turner wrote: While trying to find out about a different issue ('fgfs' not starting at all) I noticed, that it still writes an autosave.xml into ${FG_ROOT} despite the fact that I've explicitly set

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ads Models with current OSG

2012-01-11 Thread ThorstenB
On 11.01.2012 23:15, Olaf Flebbe wrote: Hi, does anybody have the same problem? Several Messages: Unknown Chunk: ***UNKNOWN*** (0xA08A) in fgfs output. Seems to be a diagnostic from the 3DS loader within OSG. I get this (and messy views) with current OSG, fgfs, fgdata choosing for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear branch, next, updated. 59d400d58b082d583959eb8c27c3155eaa301888

2012-01-08 Thread ThorstenB
Am 08.01.2012 16:11, schrieb Melchior FRANZ: On Sunday 08 January 2012 05:09:07 Flightgear-commitlogs wrote: commit 246feef85fedd548f2c198831d7d6e7e3be53e12 Author: ThorstenB FGNasalModelData isn't thread-safe. [...] It s*cks... ;-) It predates a separate model loader thread

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Release 2.6.0 git/fgdata aircraft maintenance

2012-01-04 Thread ThorstenB
On 04.01.2012 13:39, Eric van den Berg wrote: I am not sure who the mig-15 maintainer (same as Vostok-1 problem?) is, AFAIK both aircraft are currently unmaintained as the original author has announced his leave. The ADF produces a left/right audio signal to indicate the NDB direction. It

[Flightgear-devel] Release 2.6.0 git/fgdata aircraft maintenance

2012-01-03 Thread ThorstenB
Hi, in preparation of the Release 2.6.0, two issues affecting Aircraft in fgdata will be fixed by a batch commit. Updates will be pushed to fgdata next week, so shortly before the 2.6.0 release branch is created. If you want to fix these issues for your aircraft yourself, you have to do it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some More Detailed Scenery

2011-12-29 Thread ThorstenB
Am 29.12.2011 06:43, schrieb J. Holden: At the same time I do not support the inclusion of some sceneries I've created in the main FlightGear repository, as users with lower-end machines may wish to use the vmap0 scenery over the more detailed ones - plus there is now a marked difference in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-commitlogs] SimGear branch, next, updated. 54db2e0ab196b659e4297c0d93f088b2212409f5

2011-12-18 Thread ThorstenB
Am 18.12.2011 20:13, schrieb James Turner: On 18 Dec 2011, at 16:44, Flightgear-commitlogs wrote: (rule #9: never believe a source code comment). Ah, but it used too, until I removed the Mac OS *9* supporting code :) Yes, I guessed it was some copypaste issue or some left-over. Actually

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound support broken by AI traffic

2011-12-12 Thread ThorstenB
Hi Erik, Am 12.12.2011 13:31, schrieb Erik Hofman: I've implemented a mechanism to free OpenAL sources that are farther away than max-distance (3km for the current AI models). This might solve your problems, although it is not a one size fits all solution. I'm still getting many error

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound support broken by AI traffic

2011-12-12 Thread ThorstenB
Am 12.12.2011 21:22, schrieb Erik Hofman: That's the problem of the AIModel code that models hardly any properties suitable for sound playback. Not in this case. I had experimented with the AI balloons. I have pushed this to fgdata now - you can use these for testing the issue I reported.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound support broken by AI traffic

2011-12-12 Thread ThorstenB
On 12.12.2011 22:41, Erik Hofman wrote: Ok the only thing the code you proposed to remove does (or should do) is active the sample again when in-range again (distance smaller than max_distance). I've had another report that I suspect has something to do with the same section. If some one want

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft maintenance

2011-12-10 Thread ThorstenB
Following up on the sound file maintenance discussion, I have created a Wiki page to collect information on aircraft maintenance. This is somehow connected to our FG release change log, however it also contains other issues: things that were detected/reported and should be adapted/fixed for

[Flightgear-devel] Stereo sound files and affected aircraft

2011-12-09 Thread ThorstenB
Hi, latest fgfs rejects loading stereo sound files. I guess it's because stereo sounds don't really work with a 3D sound engine. Stereo files still somehow worked with older fgfs versions, at least they produced something audible, so few authors had noticed the issue so far, and hence we now

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stereo sound files and affected aircraft

2011-12-09 Thread ThorstenB
Am 09.12.2011 13:43, schrieb Erik Hofman: On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 12:21 +, TDO Brandano wrote: I think the most compatible solution would be to either downmix them to mono, or convert them to two mono samples to be played concurrently but offset from their original position by an amount

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Stereo sound files and affected aircraft

2011-12-09 Thread ThorstenB
Am 09.12.2011 22:53, schrieb Roland Häder: On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 18:29 +0100, ThorstenB wrote: Here's a full list of sound duplicates: http://pastebin.com/DvCT6AT9 Can you please release this file? Or is it possible to sent it to me directly? I would like to cleanup some of my archives

[Flightgear-devel] Sound support broken by AI traffic

2011-12-02 Thread ThorstenB
Hi Erik et al, sound support is broken here (GIT of today). When I start with the UFO at an airport with AI traffic, e.g. KSFO, then I hear a roar for a few seconds during start-up - but then there is silence for the rest of the simulation. No sound when the UFO moves. On shutdown, I do get a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound support broken by AI traffic

2011-12-02 Thread ThorstenB
Am 02.12.2011 20:44, schrieb ThorstenB: sound support is broken here (GIT of today). When I start with the UFO Sorry, only checking the bug tracker now (yes, should have done that first :) ). Someone reported a related issue, different effect though: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs

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