On 08/16/2008 03:32 PM, Tim Moore wrote:
Sport Model was last updated to CVS FlightGear over a year ago. Do you
have any
plans to update it to current CVS?
On 08/16/2008 06:13 PM, I replied:
I could be persuaded.
Do you think it would be helpful?
On 08/17/2008 08:28 AM, Tim Moore wrote:
John Denker wrote:
On 08/16/2008 03:32 PM, Tim Moore wrote:
Sport Model was last updated to CVS FlightGear over a year ago. Do you
have any
plans to update it to current CVS?
On 08/16/2008 06:13 PM, I replied:
I could be persuaded.
Do you think it would be helpful?
On 08/17/2008
John Denker wrote:
5) Using textranslate to implement the frequency digits on a digital radio is
still a
kludge. The xml required to do this is long-winded, to say the least. The
patches
presented here do not remove the pressure for a nicer api. Some sort of
sprintf and
substr
Erik Hofman wrote:
If I understand this correctly I think FlightGear already provides a way
to do that. I've recently attached a 2d-panel text animation to a 3d
model to display all sorts of text information in an Data Entry Display
(DED).
See
On 19 Aug 2008, at 08:15, Erik Hofman wrote:
I just checked and both the led font and lcd font are already
available
indeed.
Here is an image showing the Data Entry Display in action:
http://home.telfort.nl/sp004798/emh/ded.jpg
Side note - this is interesting, I'm still musing on the best
On 08/17/2008 08:13 AM, Timothy Moore wrote:
the stepping
code has been moved to an SGStepExpression in
simgear/structure/SGExpression.hxx, but it should be easy to apply the same
change there.
Easy indeed. Cut and paste. See patches below.
But before we discuss the code in
On 08/17/2008 10:01 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:
This particular patch was greatly discussed
Yes, it was greatly discussed.
and the decision was made
not to include it in the main code base.
There was no consensus on that point.
The bias tag was added as
the fix for this problem.
There was
John Denker wrote:
On 08/17/2008 10:01 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:
This particular patch was greatly discussed
Yes, it was greatly discussed.
and the decision was made
not to include it in the main code base.
There was no consensus on that point.
That's my reading of the discussion,
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 12:11 -0700, John Denker wrote:
On 08/17/2008 10:01 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:
and the decision was made
not to include it in the main code base.
There was no consensus on that point.
The fact that the code is not there speaks for itself.
The bias tag was added as
. Feb 2007 21:34 -0500
To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Textranslate Step and Scroll
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:00 -0500, John Denker wrote:
I come to slightly different conclusions. The main point of
difference
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 15:18 -0500, Jim Wilson wrote:
Hi Everybody,
Just to clarify, I wrote the textranslate and texrotate animations (they are
animations)
while doing the displays for the 747. They are for sliding and rotating
texture mappings
on an 3D object, and have nothing per
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:55 -0500, John Denker wrote:
On 02/07/2007 02:14 PM, Andy Ross wrote:
So if there's a design flaw here, it's at a higher level. Maybe
what's really needed is a digit extractor animation instead.
Good news: The /design/ is not as flawed as it looks.
All
On 02/09/2007 11:08 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:
I stripped the apply_mod() function out into its own small program for
analysis.
The experimental analysis confirms that the code is numerically
unstable.
I don't think there is any way to make it numerically stable.
The instability can be swept
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:00 -0500, John Denker wrote:
I come to slightly different conclusions. The main point of
difference is that I think it would be better to change the
code to establish a reasonable default scroll value, rather
than rampaging through all the existing instruments to add
On 02/09/2007 09:34 PM, Ron Jensen wrote:
[250 lines of stuff we agree about]
Except in your algorithm '0' can never be used as a scroll value.
Well, I fixed that just now. New version:
http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/animation.diff
Anybody who wants to set scroll0/scroll is now free to do
On Saturday 10 February 2007 05:06, John Denker wrote:
On 02/09/2007 09:34 PM, Ron Jensen wrote:
[250 lines of stuff we agree about]
:)
Me too.
I am still working on the osg 2d cockpit stuff to get that fast and reliable.
But we have definitely stuff in the 2d panel code that should be
On 02/07/2007 02:14 PM, Andy Ross wrote:
So if there's a design flaw here, it's at a higher level. Maybe
what's really needed is a digit extractor animation instead.
Good news: The /design/ is not as flawed as it looks.
All evidence indicates that the primary problem with the
While working on 3D cockpit instruments I keep hitting into issues with
internal floating point representation and the textranslatestep tag.
The step tag effectively truncates the property, 29.9199
becomes 29.91, so a (3D) readout reads off one number. The electronics
technician in me
On 02/07/2007 09:47 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:
While working on 3D cockpit instruments I keep hitting into issues with
internal floating point representation and the textranslatestep tag.
The step tag effectively truncates the property, 29.9199
becomes 29.91, so a (3D) readout reads off
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:32 -0500, John Denker wrote:
On 02/07/2007 09:47 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:
While working on 3D cockpit instruments I keep hitting into issues with
internal floating point representation and the textranslatestep tag.
The step tag effectively truncates the property,
John Denker wrote:
Ron Jensen wrote:
The step tag effectively truncates the property, 29.9199
becomes 29.91, so a (3D) readout reads off one number.
I am proposing an new tag, bias, that will act like offset but be
applied before step and scroll
While the bias tag
I wrote:
The patch itself looks sane and easy. But I think I agree with
John, this is a workaround for a design flaw in the step animation
that we should just fix.
Nope, it turns out we really do want truncation. The reason is that
the input property to the animation, at least in Ron's
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