Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI flights...

2007-03-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Syd wrote > HI all , playing around with Traffic , having fun , but noticed a few > things . > Just want to know if Im doing something wrong , or I'm expecting > something that doesnt work yet > Aircraft seem to appear only if you start at about the same > time a s the > departure time: >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] Spitfire throttle boost gauge fails (withfix)

2007-03-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Nick wrote > > Hi all, > > Flying the Spitfire, if you get airborne and then drop the > throttle to zero, > the gear warning alarm klaxon sounds. Hitting 'k' or 'K' to > turn this off > then produces: > > Nasal runtime error: non-objects have no members > at > /usr/share/FlightGear/data

[Flightgear-devel] [ANN]- AIShips - Flightplans

2007-03-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, I've just added to cvs (with Melchior assistance/advice) the facility for AIShips to follow a 'flightplan', and added a scenario to demonstrate it in cvs-data (PAVictoria_demo.xml). This has a couple of ferries running between Port Angeles and Victoria, British Columbia. The new code introduce

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] simgear/math/polar3d.cxx: bothfunctions assume inverted longitude

2007-02-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior > > > * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 25 February 2007: > > I would fix the files if people agree that what I consider a bug is > > indeed a bug. > > I assume that the whole stuff should be dumped and replaced with > geo_*_wgs_84() functions, right? And this is the end of my > one-man thr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interesting blog: Flightgear versus X-Plane

2007-02-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
I've not been able to implement rsync on Windows, and I haven't put much effort into it because the solution is so simple - just open a Cygwin window. As Curt says - no big deal. Vivian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG IVAO client (II)

2007-02-15 Thread Vivian Meazza
Pep. > > > Sorry, I forgot to post the bitmap... Here it is... > > Regarding the command-line thing, it might be good to start > there. However, what should be the right tool to use when it > comes the time to set up the GUI? > I'm not entirely clear about what you require, but your picture

Re: [Flightgear-devel] hsi.xml now responds to serviceable flag (or lack thereof)

2007-02-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
John Denker wrote > On 01/31/2007 05:59 PM, AJ MacLeod wrote: > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect you're only looking at > aircraft > > which use old fashioned simple XML electrical systems. > > > > Most vaguely recent aircraft which have had any significant attention > paid to >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft maintainers sought

2007-01-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee wrote > > due to a combination of reasons it's very unlikely that I'll be doing any > more > FG work in the foreseeable future. if any one wants to pick up and > maintain > any of the aircraft I've started please feel free to do so. > > Mind you, you'll have your work cut out - they're all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire/Seafire mag compass doesn't work in CVS- fixed

2006-12-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
Nick Warne wrote > > Hi all, > > Latest CVS osg > > I found the magnetic compass isn't working in the Spitfire/Seafire. > > After a lot of faffing about (using the Hurricane compass as reference, as > that worked), I found the issue... or rather diff did. > > --- Spitfire/Models/compass.xml 2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osg, libgif and debian sid

2006-12-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
Josh Babcock wrote > > I'm having trouble with OSG and debian's giflib3g-dev package. > When I try to compile OSG, i get the following error. Has anyone else > seen this? If not, I will take it to the OSG list. I am compiling the > version in OSG_OP_OT-1.2-Flightgear.tar.gz > > Josh > You don'

[Flightgear-devel] Cows

2006-12-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, There have been several complaints about our fauna, namely headless cows, over on the IRC channel. I've done one with a head: ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/lowish-poly-cow.jpg it's 180 vertices, so heads ain't free. If no one objects, I intend to replace the headless

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG fps

2006-11-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Olaf Flebbe wrote > > now FlightGear OSG is running almost at the same speed (sometimes > faster) than plib for me. > FreeGlut was the culprit. Switching the the good old glut gives another > 10% FPS boost. And it fixes a bug: For me the c172p with freeglut is > accellerating itself at the runway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG crashes and Reply: osg/plib fps

2006-11-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
Mathias Fröhlich > > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 22:44, Georg Vollnhals wrote: > > I can only confirm the big fps improvement, with the OSG cvs compile of > > this evening I get (nearly) stable 85 fps at KSFO with the Cessna. > > This might say nothing to you, but the *very first* OSG compile sta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS-OSG - Bug

2006-11-18 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote: > Here' a nice effect: > > ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/floodlight.jpg > > But I don't think it's intentional. Something wrong with LMT and GMT > perhaps? It looks as if the illumination of the ac is at noon, while the > scenery is midnight. > > Now if we could d

[Flightgear-devel] CVS-OSG - Bug

2006-11-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, Here' a nice effect: ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/floodlight.jpg But I don't think it's intentional. Something wrong with LMT and GMT perhaps? It looks as if the illumination of the ac is at noon, while the scenery is midnight. Now if we could do that for all the ac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last new OSG version - better framerates

2006-11-16 Thread Vivian Meazza
Mathias Fröhlich wrote > > It would still be interesting why we get consistently bad performance > reports > on win32 and most unix users report equal to much better performance... > It certainly would. My system comprises a P4 2.8 with .5 Gb RAM and a recently purchased nVidia FX 6200 with 256

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC8 update

2006-11-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
I wrote: > I see a great improvement in frame rates - now only about 10% > down. Perhaps a little optimistic: 20% down would be more accurate. Still a very worthwhile gain though. Vivian - Using Tomcat but need to do more?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MSVC8 update

2006-11-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
Olaf Flebbe wrote: > FYI: I did a major overhaul to the build system for MSVC8 (again). Now > with a common infrastructure for building OSG itself, FlightGear/Plib > branch and FlightGear/OSG. Now FlightGear is linked dynamically, even in > the plib case, making support more easy. > > http://www.

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

2006-11-12 Thread Vivian Meazza
Roberto Inzerillo > > Actual landing gear movements in FGFS seem to be limitated to > extension/retraction but I don't see any shock absorbing simulation. Am > I missing something? > Certainly you are: check out the Hunter and Seahawk for nose and main gear oleo animations. Vivian

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last new OSG version - better framerates

2006-11-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
Maik Justus wrote > > Hi Georg, > very good new. Thanks to Mathias for this improvement. > Maik > > Georg Vollnhals schrieb: > > Hi, > > I just did some further tests with the LAST NEW OSG version from Mathias > and > > > > GOOD NEWS, really improved framerates > > > > (test details as already r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site hacked ?

2006-11-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
Andrew Gluszynski > > Hi all, > > I dont normaly post to this mailing list, but i think the web site has > been hacked? > It has, but this still works http://flightgear.org/ Vivian - Using Tomcat but need to do more? N

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred wrote: > Selon Vivian Meazza : > > > Yes, I saw you had fixed that, but that's the only one with that > particular > > problem. Since it worked under plib, and AC3D didn't complain, I would > never > > have worked that one out - thank you. If only th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Frederic Bouvier > Quoting Vivian Meazza : > > > Martin Spott > > > > > "Vivian Meazza" wrote: > > > > > > > Let's hope that you're correct. Right now we have _fewer_ features, > and > > > a > > > > _low

Re: [Flightgear-devel] patch for groundcache.cxx problem

2006-11-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Tim Moore wrote > I was seeing the problem of falling through the earth in w070n40. > With this patch I can run successfully starting with --airport=kpqi. > This patch seems to fix that bug, and without any side-effects that I can see. No doubt Mathias will comment in due course. Vivian -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Spott > "Vivian Meazza" wrote: > > > Let's hope that you're correct. Right now we have _fewer_ features, and > a > > _lower_ frame rate. I hope that adding back the features we used to have > > won't further reduce the frame rate, let a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Let’s hope that you’re correct. Right now we have _fewer_ features, and a _lower_ frame rate. I hope that adding back the features we used to have won’t further reduce the frame rate, let alone adding new ones.   We’re in danger of limiting the use of FG to high end machines. I have a rea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows

2006-11-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olaf Flebbe > Sent: 05 November 2006 22:43 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Cc: Mathias Fröhlich > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] OSG Performance on WIndows > > Hi, > > while double

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG - Bugs

2006-11-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ralf Gerlich > > Hi, > > Ralf Gerlich wrote: > > - transparency issues: > > - runway lights shine through panel: > > http://www.custom-scenery.org/fileadmin/fg_osg/fgfs-screen-001.png > > http://www.custom-scenery.org/fileadmin/fg_osg/fgfs-screen-002.png > > > > - runway lights shine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear starting time

2006-11-05 Thread Vivian Meazza
Olaf Flebbe > > > However, FG-OSG compiled using Olaf's stuff (for which we must be most > > grateful) is both significantly slower to load and run than FG-Plib > compiled > > with MSVC8 here. > > You actually see a slowdown on loading ? > Yes, I haven't timed it exactly, but I would estimate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear starting time

2006-11-04 Thread Vivian Meazza
Olaf Flebbe wrote > Hi, > > > > i noticed that the version of flightgear i built from scratch using > > cygwin takes significantly more time to start up (about 4-5 > > minutes) than the one i installed using the exe-file from > > flightgear.org (about 1-2 minutes). is there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear starting time

2006-11-04 Thread Vivian Meazza
I also did this, with the same result, but then I downloaded the project files from cvs, and everything compiled, after a couple of minor corrections. There were a number of warnings about debugging. I can’t explain it, but I guess there was something subtly different in the set up here.  

[Flightgear-devel] OSG - Bugs

2006-11-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, Just a quick report on some tests with FG-OSG compiled under MSVC8 using Olaf's project files etc. that I've carried out on the models for which I am responsible: Hurricane/Spitfire/Seafire won't start. The starter spins continuously, but the engine won't fire. A4F crashes FG,

[Flightgear-devel] CVS - OSG

2006-11-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, SG-CVS fails to build under MSVC8 atm. It fails in SGQuat.hxx. copysign is not recognised. Replacing sin05ang = copysign(sqrt(sin05ang), sig); with sin05ang = _copysign(sqrt(sin05ang), sig); ^ seems to do the trick Vivian ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] simgear compile errors

2006-10-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Michal Fabik > > Hello, > I've cvs-updated the simgear source a couple of hours > back and encountered the following: > > 1) configure says I don't have openAL installed which > is not true. Reinstalling openAL with --prefix=/usr > fixed this. > > 2) make says > . > . > . > In file included fro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph

2006-10-27 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin wrote > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:52:25AM +0200, Martin Spott wrote: > > > Building OSG on IRIX is really simple, just follow the rules, the same > > for Solaris. Yesterday I tried compiling from CVS on both platforms. > > FreeBSD will f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph

2006-10-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
Mathias wrote: > > Hi, > > I had worked now for some time on an OSG port of flightgear. > > At the moment many things are already working. > - Scenery and 3d models are there. > - Animations work mostly as expected. > - The usual lights including the vasi are there. > - The 3d panel is displaye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin Installation problem

2006-10-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
-fg-scenery=/...) or "generating lights" (when scenery path stays unspecified).   I think Vivian Meazza described a similar problem over here: http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2005-August/038846.html   Hardware problems seem unlikely since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug in concorde (MP)

2006-10-07 Thread Vivian Meazza
Maik > > Hello, > > the concorde visualization has a small bug. When I fly the bo and > another pilot is flying the concorde (in multiplayer) and I look from a > outside view, everything is ok. But when I use (as normal) the cockpit > view, the concorde is only partly drawed. It seems, that the

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Sim Development

2006-09-29 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, You might find this an amusing take on someone else's Flight Sim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcW3hbnR2EI Made me laugh anyway, Vivian - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 1FPS on a Duo Core 2 with 1GB mem and nVidia7900GT 256mb

2006-09-16 Thread Vivian Meazza
Trasca Virgil > > > Hi, > > I have a Intel Core 2 Duo with 1gb ram and nVidia > 7900GT with 256mb. I installed the latest > drivers(91.47) from nVidia for Windows. > > Fligtgear used to work perfectly with 60fps but > starting few days ago without changin nothing in the > configurati

[Flightgear-devel] Seahawk

2006-08-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, Melchior has produced a nice addition to the Seahawk: the "managed view". This adjusts the pilot's view to where he might look during manoeuvres. I have adjusted the g-effects (black/red-out and head shake) to suit. We think it makes a worthwhile enhancement to the realism of flying the Seah

Re: [Flightgear-devel] chrome animation

2006-07-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Syd > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of & sandy > Sent: 30 July 2006 08:23 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] chrome animation > > Is there a way to blend the chrome texture without co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ASI: YASim & Systems/pitot bug ?

2006-07-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior > > Seems that there are two bugs that make the bo105 ASI show > positive speeds when flying backwards: > > 1. YASim delivers a positive "/velocities/airspeed-kt" on backward >flight. > > 2. Systems/pitot.cxx wouldn't handle negative values correctly, >anyway, as it squares the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..fixed, was:..~/.cvspass???

2006-07-03 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arnt Karlsen > Sent: 03 July 2006 17:08 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] ..fixed, was:..~/.cvspass??? > > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:10:03 +0100, Vivian wro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..~/.cvspass???

2006-07-03 Thread Vivian Meazza
Arnt Karlsen > > On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:28:06 -0400, Josh wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > > > ..this works, thanks, but I _should_ be able to use Ralf's Makefile > > > too. The idea is make this useable off a Live CD too. > > > > Oh, I see. Yes, it s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wxradar question

2006-07-01 Thread Vivian Meazza
Justin Smithies asked: > > Me and Syd have implemented the wxradar into our 777-200 model and have > noticed that it will only display the clouds if 3d clouds are selected. > Is there a reason for this or is it simply something that was overlooked ? > The wxradar displays the positions of the 3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer aircraft information?

2006-06-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curt wrote > > Is any information about other multiplayer entities published in the > property tree somewhere? > > Local AIModel based entities publish information about themselves > (location, orientation, etc.) under the /ai/models tree. > > Is there anything similar setup for multiplayer tra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Cygwin Build of FlightGear

2006-06-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Georg Vollnhals wrote > > > > when I try running flightgear. Very, very frustrating. I hate to do > this, > > but I guess I will next try to completely delete all cygwin directories. > > This is just so strange. > This was the only solution for me which worked! > > > > I'd really like to know ho

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Dave Perry > I have had lock-ups on longer X-C flights with the pa24-250 recently > that could be from a memory leak. So I used the system monitor to check > on VM growth. The only 2D pannel used in the pa24-250 is the radio > stack. So I tried commenting out various components of the radio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tacan

2006-06-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Josh Babcock wrote > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Josh > > > > > >> What property can I increment to change the channel on the TACAN? I > have > >> a knob on a TACAN instrument that is supposed to either inc/dec the > >> channel, or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tacan

2006-06-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Josh > What property can I increment to change the channel on the TACAN? I have > a knob on a TACAN instrument that is supposed to either inc/dec the > channel, or the x/y selector, depending on the position of another > switch. I could do this by introducing another property and some nasal > to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-18 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee Elliott wrote > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 20:18, Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Lee > > > > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > > * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: > > > > > Is anyone else seeing a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-17 Thread Vivian Meazza
Lee > > On Saturday 17 June 2006 07:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > * Lee Elliott -- Saturday 17 June 2006 05:02: > > > Is anyone else seeing a memory leak in current cvs? > > > > I would be surprised if we had no leaks at all. But in a short > > test with $ fgfs --aircraft=ufo --airport=kufo ...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-16 Thread Vivian Meazza
06.2006 10:19 CEST skrev Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > snip... > > >I also have a patch prepared which prevents xmlauto.cxx from generating > >spurious instruments, and which uses whichever Heading Indicator that is > >present. That's probably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-16 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curt wrote > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > There is one - nearly - as I said orientation/heading-magnetic-deg. But > it's > > not derived from an instrument, and therefore has no supply, neither can > it > > fail, not does it have any error. Further, use of suc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
Josh > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the course of developing the KC135, I noticed that parts of the > autopilot > > function do not work in that model, copied from the B737 - the bits > > described as vor/loc and app. Investigation showed that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
AJ wrote > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 21:51, Josh Babcock wrote: > > Can't you just supply whatever property regarding the vacuum system that > > the instrument is looking for? > > He could (which ISTR I had to do for the Lightning) but I think it would > be > nice to have the "correct" system ava

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon > > > In the course of developing the KC135, I noticed that parts > > of the autopilot function do not work in that model, copied > > from the B737 - the bits described as vor/loc and app. > > Investigation showed that the cause was simple > > - in JSBSim a jet ac does not have vacuum system.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
existing Heading Indicator is quite inappropriate for even halfway recent military or civil aircraft. > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > In the course of developing the KC135, I noticed that parts of the > autopilot > > function do not work in that model, copied from the B737 - the bi

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, In the course of developing the KC135, I noticed that parts of the autopilot function do not work in that model, copied from the B737 - the bits described as vor/loc and app. Investigation showed that the cause was simple - in JSBSim a jet ac does not have vacuum system. No vacuum - no Heading

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 777-200

2006-06-04 Thread Vivian Meazza
Justin Smithies > > Hi all > Curtis has just uploaded mine & Syd Adams new 777-200 model to > the FG > d/l section. > It has cabin lights switchable , logo lights and strobes / landing gear. > 3d cockpit , although the AP requires some work, so if anyone can tweek > the AP > to work corr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgmap navaids

2006-06-03 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ron Jensen > > Hi Vivian > > > I'm more than willing to be corrected on this one, but my understanding > is > > as follows: > > > > A VORTAC station has 3 frequencies in RL - TACAN, VOR, and DME. > > This is my understanding, too. Further A TACAN "channel" includes 3 > frequencies, Two for TAC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear movies

2006-06-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
Pigeon. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pigeon > Sent: 02 June 2006 14:44 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear movies > > > http://pigeond.net/photos/flightgear/videos/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Light inside the cockpit

2006-06-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sent: 02 June 2006 12:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Light inside the cockpit > > > > Yep, you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgmap navaids

2006-06-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ron Jensen > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sent: 02 June 2006 04:29 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgmap navaids > > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:04 +1000, Pigeon wrote: > > > The

RE: [Flightgear-devel] harrier checkin

2006-05-25 Thread Vivian Meazza
shavlir > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of @uiuc.edu > Sent: 25 May 2006 04:31 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] harrier checkin > > Since those of you who have checkin access never s

[Flightgear-devel] AAR

2006-05-20 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi,   AAR is fun, if a little tricky. These screen shots were taken with an AI tanker.   ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/KC135-KC135-1.jpg   ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/KC135-cockpit.jpg   The KC135 is AAR capable so a full fuel load was

[Flightgear-devel] Air-to-Air Refueling (AAR)

2006-05-18 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, We have now completed and committed to CVS the next stage in development of our AAR capability - user to user AAR over the Multiplayer(MP) Network. This comprises: Updated code in cvs AIModels Updated carrier_nav.dat.gz file A flyable tanker - the KC135 AA TACAN which can now detect MP aircr

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F - AAR Capability

2006-04-29 Thread Vivian Meazza
Dave > > I committed a new facility for the A4F yesterday. It now has a > functioning > > AAR capability with YASim, like the one already available for JSBSim. > ... > > Great. I can't wait to try it out. BTW, now I can stop using the T-38 as > a > refueling demonstrator :) It's still a radar

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F - AAR Capability

2006-04-29 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ron > > I have > > also taken the opportunity to adjust the panel to make it more nearly > like > > that of an A4F, rather than an A4C, although a couple of the instruments > are > > not correct, principally the ASI should be replaced with a combined > ASI/Mach > > instrument. > > Take a look a

[Flightgear-devel] A4F - AAR Capability

2006-04-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, I committed a new facility for the A4F yesterday. It now has a functioning AAR capability with YASim, like the one already available for JSBSim. I have also taken the opportunity to adjust the panel to make it more nearly like that of an A4F, rather than an A4C, although a couple of the instru

[Flightgear-devel] Air-to-Air TACAN

2006-04-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, I've just committed a new facility for FG to cvs - Air-to Air TACAN. Commonly fitted in tankers, you can use it by adding true refueling_demo_1 in your preferences.xml file. You will also need to download the KC135 from David Culp's hangar: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/hanga

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Updated F4E

2006-04-13 Thread Vivian Meazza
Ron Jensen > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/ > > Here is another update to the F4E, same place as it always is > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/F4E.tgz > > Today's update has some cosmetic fixes to the 3D model, it now rotates > around its axises correctly. (Thanks Dave) It also has afterbu

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-09 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > Vivian Meazza a écrit : > > Fred > > > > > > > >> This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : > >> > >> Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file > >> at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Models/str

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-09 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > > Vivian Meazza a écrit : > > Fred > > > > > > > >> This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : > >> > >> Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file > >> at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Mod

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : > > Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file > at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Models/strop.xml > Failed to load aircraft from Aircraft/a4/Models/a4f-blue.xml > (Falling back to glider.ac.) > /FlightGear/cvs/f

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > > This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : > > Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file > at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Models/strop.xml > Failed to load aircraft from Aircraft/a4/Models/a4f-blue.xml > (Falling back to glider.ac.) > I haven't change

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal for 1.0

2006-04-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
AJ MacLeod > On Thursday 06 April 2006 10:21, Martin Spott wrote: > > this is now going to be the third release in a row that relies on PLIB > > CVS, I find this is a bit unsatisfactory. > I've been building CVS with plib-1.8.4 (the last release) for ages with no > particular problems, so I'm not

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-04-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > > Unfortunately, I discovered that submodels no longer work. I downloaded > > Fred's binary of -0.9.10-pre3 this morning, and they no longer work > there > > either. So far as I can see, they are still working under Cygwin as of > last > > night. > > Do you have a test case ? What should

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-04-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > > Unfortunately, I discovered that submodels no longer work. I downloaded > > Fred's binary of -0.9.10-pre3 this morning, and they no longer work > there > > either. So far as I can see, they are still working under Cygwin as of > last > > night. > > Do you have a test case ? What should

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-04-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
x.html > > Please either use MSVC or cygwin headers and libraries, but please do > not mix them. > > Olaf > > > 2006/4/2, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Olaf Flebbe > > > > > > > > Yes there is a patch outstanding. Please go t

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Reminder: upcoming v0.9.10 release

2006-04-03 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curtis L. Olson > Ron Jensen wrote: > > >At the risk of repeating myself, TACAN is broken for everything but the > >carriers. Replacing the two files below makes it work perfectly. > > > >Can someone submit them to CVS before the 0.9.10 release _please!_ > > > >Last month I suggested a change[1]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-04-02 Thread Vivian Meazza
\..\src\Include\config.h-msvc8 ..\..\src\Include\config.h > > The Release Mode was correct only debug was wrong. > > I have no clue what went wrong with exit(). > > Olaf > > > 2006/4/1, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Olaf Flebbe > > >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-04-01 Thread Vivian Meazza
gt; 8?) > > Frederic Bouvier a écrit : > > Vivian Meazza a écrit : > > > >> Olaf Flebbe > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>> Cygwin last time, so I wonder if anyone has a quick and dirty howto > for > >>>> c

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-04-01 Thread Vivian Meazza
Olaf Flebbe > > Cygwin last time, so I wonder if anyone has a quick and dirty howto for > > compiling flightgear and its dependencies in MSVS 2005? I looked at the > > wiki, but I think there are some main problems that I don't really > > Have a look at http://www.oflebbe/oflebbe/FlightGear >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:b1900d...

2006-03-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Spott > "Vivian Meazza" wrote: > > > Hmmm, this behaviour is consistent with the wing stall angle being (far) > too > > small - the wing is stalled on the ground. Having the twist angle > greater > > than the incidence won't help either. If

RE: [Flightgear-devel] compile with MSVC 2005 (the same as msvc 8?)

2006-03-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Frank Olaf Sem-Jacobsen > I thought it was about time that I started to dig through and play with > the code of flightgear with the aim of being able to contribute with one > part or another when I get to grips with it. I am currently dual booting > Windows and Linux, but since my main work envi

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re:b1900d...

2006-03-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Spott > syd & sandy wrote: > > > I've been able to get out of /most/ stalls and spins, given > > enough altitude, but it's vital to ensure that the trims are > > centered, which is not likely to be the case if you've been > > using an autopilot. > > I see. Yesterday I took several YASim a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] b1900d questions.....

2006-03-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Spott wrote > Hello Syd, > two points I would like to comment on: > > syd & sandy wrote: > > > The flight dynamics seem a bit off , Im not sure if anyone modified them > > again , but it seems to want to stall at take off speeds... I want to > > fix that , but I think someone may have t

[Flightgear-devel] Carrier Stuff

2006-03-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi, We now have some more eye candy in our carrier models: working catapult strop, holdback, and JBDs (Jet Blast Deflectors). The catapult tracks have also been lengthened to tae into account the new locations of the holdbacks on the Seahawk and A4F. Some screenshots: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/v

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/seahawk/Models strop.xml,NONE,1.1

2006-03-16 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Spott > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/seahawk/Models > > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv5664 > > > > Added Files: > > strop.xml > > Log Message: > > Part of new strop handling method > &g

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS - Compile Error

2006-03-11 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sent: 11 March 2006 10:02 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS - Compile Error > > * Vivian Meazza -

[Flightgear-devel] CVS - Compile Error

2006-03-11 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi This morning's FG CVS fails to compile with the following error: modelmgr.cxx: In member function `virtual void FGModelMgr::init()': modelmgr.cxx:60: error: `FGNasalModelData' has not been declared make[2]: *** [modelmgr.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/flightgear-cvs/source/src/Model'

RE: [Flightgear-devel] AI objects with hardened surface not possible? Dave Culp?

2006-03-11 Thread Vivian Meazza
Mathias Fröhlich > > On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:44, Georg Vollnhals wrote: > > Of course the ship-model is hardened when put into the scenery as a > > static object. It also works when I make a moving ship-object with fixed > > direction (see listed XML-file at the bottom of this message). > >

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Particles

2006-03-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Tiago Gusmão > > Vivian mentioned that there was an attempt at making particles a few > years ago and it didn't have this problem, does anyone know how to solve > it or has the old code? > PS - the original author was: Luca Masera [EMAIL PROTECTED] V. --

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Particles

2006-03-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Tiago Gusmão wrote > The animation simply adds a plib's particle system to the model branch, > no big deal except that i slightly modified model.cxx so that it doesn't > add geometry to the branch. > > But my current approach has a downside, the particle system is attached > to the aircraft, so

[Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning

2006-03-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hi AJ and I have been doing a bit more work on this model. The exterior is now (nearly) as good as the interior. Hmm, perhaps not :-) Here are some screen shots: ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/lightning-metallic-finis h.jpg ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shot

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: fix for exit crash

2006-03-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ > > > I'm also getting the very annoying "... leaving my airspace ..." crash, > > which looks very similar. > > Can you post a backtrace for that? > It doesn't happen every time, and it isn't happening right now. The next time it does, I'll try to get a bt. V. --

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: fix for exit crash

2006-03-06 Thread Vivian Meazza
Melchior FRANZ > > * Jean-Yves Lefort -- Sunday 05 March 2006 03:06: > > The attached patch fixes a crash which occurs on exit. > > Anyone else seeing this "crash" (which really is a deliberate abort())? > Or is it a BSD feature? I don't know if it is _this_ crash with SG and FG cvs_HEAD under

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F Model

2006-03-04 Thread Vivian Meazza
the tension bar holding at the back of the nose gear strut) ?   I can send some diagrams if you need.   Isao Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I started out by adjusting the catapult strop and holdback attachment points for the A4, and noticed that we had

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