Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default Aircraft Candidates

2011-02-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> As for the Dragonfly, the performance just seems unreal, thought I've > never flown on myself. I think we could replace it with the Dromader, > a much higher detail aircraft with a pretty extensively detailed FDM. > What part of the FDM do you think is unreal? Having flown the Dragonfly mys

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possessiveness

2011-02-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Should we now track the paternity of every single file and humbly cry > for permission from the *main Developer* (with a capital 'D') of the > aforementioned file for every single commit ? Or do we want to be > pragmatic and accept that once a file is committed under GPL in git, > any contributor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal-based generic electrical system

2011-02-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I'll jump in with some quick background. > > Originally I developed a system where you defined your electrical system > components and all the connections in a complex xml file. Then a C++ > module loaded this configuration at run time and used a simplistic > approach to propagate the "juice"

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two questions: Texture efficiency and METAR loading rules

2011-03-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> After some more grey hair, Lucky man - at least you still have some hair left! > > 2) What are the rules for loading live METAR? The metar realwx controller checks every 60 seconds for a station reporting metar and loads that data if the station id has changed since the last check. It also rech

Re: [Flightgear-devel] another fuel change...

2011-03-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I changed the fuel.nas recently to reflect the changes in the core code. The /consumables/fuel/tank[n]/* properties for level, density and mass should now automatically be set to reasonable values. I removed the code from fuel.nas duplicating that (converting from gal_us to lbs to ltr to kg etc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear timing over network

2011-03-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I am looking to time sync 3 machines running FG over the network and would > like to sync the sim times to one master machine. > I have them all on nfs but it seems thats not quite the trick. > > So what ever time the master is working on, be it from command at start, or > selecting for example

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Texture efficiency

2011-03-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I'm currently busy with other stuff. But checking on what's going wrong > with loading/unloading clouds and MP models may be worth a closer look. There was a fix for a MP memory leak approx. two weeks ago: http://gitorious.org/fg/flightgear/commit/8962477cfa10850cb459d7de754c9a435cc91293 Torste

Re: [Flightgear-devel] What causes this error?

2011-03-07 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> So, I am wondering: > > 1) Am I seeing something unrelated, which just by a funny coincidence > obscures an error message from the Nasal code that it relevant for me by > generating tons of warnings? > > 2) Am I seeing something related to what I do, e.g. am I using an > ill-formed model somewh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] no engine fuel flow in 737-600 but ok on 737-300 how is it defined?

2011-03-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> > So can anyone advise what is the story here and how the *fuel-flow_pph *is > defined? I assumed it was just a function on the engine in jbsim I need bit > of a primer here. > There is Nasal/system.nas in the 737-300 directory. Around line 200 of that file the code pph1=getprop("/engines/eng

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KX165 - serially feeding data to increment a property value. How?

2011-03-31 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Hallo everybody, > I purchased a few rotary encoder and a bunch of 7segment displays to build > a physical replacement of the Bendix KX165. I'm using Arduino which feeds > data to FGFS on a serial connection. I'd like to update > "instrumentation/comm[0]/frequencies/standby-mhz" property usin

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] The Canterbury Project: Linux Distros merge

2011-03-31 Thread Torsten Dreyer
For those who use Linux, this might be the most interesting news today: http://www.debian.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://grml.org/ All unified in a joint project. Torsten -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic Protocol Input - Float weirdness

2011-04-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> > "Others"? Who? Where in the code should I look for it? What should I search > for? > Me ;-) But even simpler for the microcontroller: the internal representation neither khz nor mhz but channel. For the COMM, channel 0 is 118.000 Mhz and channel 759 equals 136.975 MHz. The formula to conve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OSG caching (was: Texture cache)

2011-04-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I've also been using CACHE_ALL since then - not seeing any problems. But > I haven't checked memory consumption. So, what's the status about the > OSG caching options, should we enable these? Tim? Me, too. I had a few coredumps with the 4-nvidia-cards, 8 monitors (multithreading=automatic) setup

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Generic Protocol Input - Float weirdness

2011-04-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> int > that's the nature of an INT: no fractions at all :-P Torsten -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you nee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: AI/ATC interactions

2011-04-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> HLA is a follow-on to DIS and SimNet developed by DARPA and would require > either an extensive rewrite of FG to be HLA (Stanag 4603) > compliant or a wrapper function, In addition, there is a thing called > Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI) that handles the federates interfaces Matthias Fröhlich ad

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Valgrind logs

2011-04-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Hello everybody, > > a valgrind log of recent FlightGear is available from > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15761796/valgrind.log > (13 MB). A short version containing only the "definitely lost" > backtraces is at > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15761796/definitely_lost.log > (59 kB). > > The largest single

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Valgrind logs

2011-04-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> This doesn't happen for static variables nor for data members. I'd > assume that in case of SGReferenced objects, the same explicit delete is > necessary to decrement the reference counter. Isn't that what SGReferenced objects were made for? Automatic deletion? Minimal but slight more complex exa

[Flightgear-devel] Vostok-1

2011-04-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/84' of git://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata into integration > > commit 4a25745ea96dac35a1069a2f85f0b6e72e38ed14 > Author: Victor Slavutinsky > Date: Wed Apr 13 16:19:53 2011 +0400 > 1) Initial adding of Vostok-1 spacecraft and carrier. $ du -hs Vostok-1/ 156M

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Props: /environment/wind-* obsolete?

2011-04-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> To compensate the lack of feel and indirect visual indicators of the > wind conditions in the simulator I am monitoring the > properties /environment/wind-from-heading-deg and wind-speed-kt. This > worked out pretty good the past two years. I cannot tell when it > stopped working but last night I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Props: /environment/wind-* obsolete?

2011-04-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
ies [1] and you'll find the xml code > enclosed. > > [1] http://fgfs.beggabaur.de/daten/fgfs-metar03.jpg > > > Am Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:25:17 +0200 > > schrieb Torsten Dreyer : > > > To compensate the lack of feel and indirect visual indicators of the > &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag 2011 (sneak preview)

2011-04-29 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Yes, the booth was confirmed. And this is a preview of what will be seen at the booth: http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=11881 don't miss it! Torsten -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Manageme

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Props: /environment/wind-* obsolete?

2011-05-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> [4] http://fgfs.beggabaur.de/daten/fgfs-metar04.jpg > [5] http://fgfs.beggabaur.de/daten/fgfs-metar05.jpg There is a little checkbox in the global weather dialog telling you if you entered metar is valid and could be parsed by the metar parser. The data in image #4 is valid, the data in image

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim turbulence models: revealing an almost hidden gem

2011-05-08 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I just commited a patch to make the JSBSim turbulence models selectable at runtime. The turbulence model can be selected by setting /environment/params/jsbsim-turbulence-model to either "ttNone", "ttStandard", "ttBerndt", "ttCulp", "ttMilspec" or "ttTustin". The Milspec model is selected by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] jsbsim.cxx compile fail with VC++ 2010

2011-05-08 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Just a heads up for today´s Git update. > > JSBSim.cxx(732): error C3861: 'round': identifier not found > > Atmosphere->SetProbabilityOfExceedence( > round(TurbulenceSeverityTable.GetValue( tmp ) ) > > Something else that is not in the MS version of the standard. ;-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim turbulence models: revealing an almost hidden gem

2011-05-08 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Great! Thank you! I really like the turbulence model of JSBSim- feels much > more realistic than the one from YASim. All the credit for the model goes to the excellent JSBSim devs. I just built the bridge that linked it into FG. Torsten -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Props: /environment/wind-* obsolete?

2011-05-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I would assume that random-wind is there by intention and I wouldn't remove it just to prevent user-error ;-) Good to hear realwx is working now for you. Torsten > Ahoy Torsten, > > I think I figured out what bugged me here. Last night I ran FG 2.2.0 > and it still had the issue with the non wo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Testing OSG-trunk / bug issue #268

2011-05-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Ok, thanks. We'll probably have to narrow it down to the exact OSG > commit to see what changed there. If anyone else has a > working/non-working OSG revision in between 11900 and 12419, you're > welcome to let us know. Also, maybe someone has an extremely powerful > machine and could help with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Atmosphere

2011-05-18 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 18.05.2011 14:32, schrieb Ron Jensen: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 21:35:59 Jon S. Berndt wrote: >>> What is the requirement from the FlightGear side for an atmosphere >>> model? >>> I'd like to remove the capability to drive the JSBSim standard >>> atmosphere >>> model from FlightGear, but first I'

[Flightgear-devel] heads up: FlightGear release plan

2011-05-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi everybody, during this year's LinuxTag, Martin Spott, Mathias Fröhlich, Thorsten Brehm and myself developed a strategy and a concept about how to kick out new releases of FlightGear on a regular schedule. Please find our first draft here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Release_Plan For the imp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up: FlightGear release plan

2011-05-19 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> It's as good a plan as any other. There was another release plan? Wasn't aware of it ;-) > However we missed the last planned > release (2.2.0). I'm unaware of the reason(s), but I assume that release > is dead. Yes, we simply declare it dead. To much has changed since the day we branched. > So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: android/ipad development

2011-05-21 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi Curt, > I have an android phone myself, but everyone else involved in this > UAS project is mac so I'll probably get out voted. :-) but remember: iPxxx needs the app store do install software unless you jailbreaked your device. App store is more or less incompatible with GPL software. I onc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] broken textranslate animations

2011-05-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Roland Häder wrote: > > maybe ThorstenB's commit ca668f8a373190093738a69a5b700d6fcc086c7c does > > cause this? He wrote there: > > Fix bug #285 textranslate and scroll animation with negative numbers > > Yes, the commit indeed breaks textranslate for many aircraf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] broken textranslate animations

2011-05-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Thanks, will test it once I have safely landed in Palma De Mallorca > (LEPA). Hope you maintain VMC without a working attitude indicator! > > Okay, okay. Two T(h)orsten in one mailing list ... Three, actually ;-) Torsten (who was the first) -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2d panel visibility

2011-05-31 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 31.05.11 20:00, schrieb Curtis Olson: Are there any other options or ideas that I'm missing? Can you spawn an external application and render it's output window on top of FlightGear? If so, fgpanel might be worth looking at. You find it in utils/fgpanel and an example how to use it is in Ai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up: FlightGear release plan

2011-05-31 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Can you please update http://wiki.flightgear.org/Release_Plan with this > very important information ? Something like a short description of > current state ? > > Thanks a lot, Yves Hi Yves, this particular wiki page was written (mostly by myself) to document our release plan. I tried to make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up: FlightGear release plan

2011-05-31 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> we need to sit on this as > 2.2.freeflightsim.org.. We need a marketing plam somwhat.. I hope we stick > to release schedule.. We are currently well on track. We fixed many bugs from the tracker and now that June has arrived, there are just roughly two weeks until we freeze 'next' for the final

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up: FlightGear release plan

2011-06-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Hi Torsten > > I only missed the statements from your message here in the list, which > is very important to see current progress. Because i.e. Text on > gitorious does not reflect the new plan. Sorry, I was away for some > weeks ... Maybe I will add a "box" or something on top of the wiki page >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - May 2011

2011-06-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> May is over, June is well on its way: time for another newsletter! Looks > like summer already started accross the globe, given the slightly > dissapointing number of contributions. I guess being outside is in favour > of sitting behind a desk for must of us. :) > > Still, a small group of peopl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Object distance fading color

2011-06-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I've pushed a code change to be able to control the amount of light > scattering (or absorption) of the fog by adjusting > the /rendering/scene/scattering property. A value of 1.0 is full > scattering and a value of 0.0 is full absorption (unrealistic). The > default is set to 0.8 now. Erik, pr

[Flightgear-devel] Heads up: fgdata now version 2.3.0

2011-06-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, reaching our first milestone for 2.4.0, the code freeze of the main development stream on June, 17th, I just increased the version number for fgdata to match the version of simgear/flightgear which is currently 2.3.0. If you get a version mismatch upon start of fg, please git-pull fgdat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Could We Sync JSBSim for 2.3.0, Please?

2011-06-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 16.06.11 22:09, schrieb Ron Jensen: > There are some valuable features in JSBSim now it would be nice to have in the > release. Could someone please sync the latest JSBSim into the flightgear code > please? Does the new atmosphere code work well with FlightGear's atmosphere? I remember we had so

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear development entered state "feature-freeze" until July, 17th 2011

2011-06-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Short version for the impatient reader: Please do _NOT_ push any major changes or new features to simgear, flightgear, fgdata until further advice! Long version: Anticipating the release 2.4.0, we reached our first milestone today. The development streams for flightgear, simgear and fgdata on git

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim new atmosphere

2011-06-22 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I'm working on modifying the interface between JSBSim and FlightGear to > work with the new JSBSim standard atmosphere model. There are two or three > ways that the atmosphere model can be modified by the calling application: Hi Jon, since FlightGear has it's own atmosphere model, how will this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download /built-interrasync

2011-06-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
I also know that quoting white-space paths works well in "command.com" Windows shells. But apparently it didn't work when terrasync called the "system" function to call "svn". Unfortunately I have no means to test any of this on Windows. The following patch seem to do the trick for me, it allow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download /built-interrasync

2011-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 24.06.11 11:09, schrieb Vivian Meazza: > Looks to me as if the command has to include no white space, and that's it. No, it may contain white space. It's just that we mix backslash and forward slash in the local path. This: D:/terrasync test\Terrain/w130n30/w122n37 Is a complete mess (from Win

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal: Creating a new node

2011-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 24.06.11 09:22, schrieb xsaint: > Good day, > > I am attempting to create a new node via nasal > I will like to call the node as "TempNode" with a int value of 50 and i > will like to create it at /sim[0]/temp/. > > If the node was created, it will look like /sim[0]/temp/TempNode with a > value

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download /built-interrasync

2011-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
>> Is this built-in function: >> >> svn_path_uri_encode() >> >> any help? >> > Yup, does the trick - no need for fancy formatting. > > I'll see if I can do a damned merge request this side of Monday. > > Vivian > > But isn't this a function of libsvn and we are talking about external svn and libs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: scenery download /built-interrasync

2011-06-24 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 24.06.11 23:59, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: >>> Is this built-in function: >>> >>> svn_path_uri_encode() >>> >>> any help? >>> >> Yup, does the trick - no need for fancy formatting. >> >> I'll see if I can do a damned merg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Matrox TripleHead2Go

2011-06-26 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 26.06.11 19:52, schrieb ecro...@aerolineas.com.ar: Dear All, I am very sorry for bothering, but we need your help in order to learn how to do an specifical configuration of Flightgear.- We are developing a new flight dynamics model in Aeronautical Engineering University of Argentina, and w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Data flow from controls to FDM

2011-06-26 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 26.06.11 21:59, schrieb Alan Teeder: > I have some questions regarding how data gets from the joystick, keypad etc > to the fdm. No doubt I will feel foolish when it is pointed out that it is > documented somewhere, but to date I have had to rely on experimentation and > copying of XML/Nasal cod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposal: Move airplanes to an SVN repository

2011-06-26 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> over ambitious to expected a working and tested solution by release 2.5?. Just to clear the everybodies understanding of release numbers: 2.5.0 is the version number of the development stream after the release branch 2.4.0 has been created. The version number of the release following 2.4.(n) wi

[Flightgear-devel] A new goodie for FlightGear presentations

2011-06-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, some time ago, Martin announced some special hardware for our FlightGear presentations at FSweekend and LinuxTag. Today, after several month of mostly bureaucratic adventures, he managed to ferry our new toy across roughly half of Germany. This is even more noticeable given the fact, th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A new goodie for FlightGear presentations

2011-06-30 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Have you considered using something like this: > > http://www.simkits.com/products.php?groupid=54 > > Hell, No! Isn't buying a complete plug'n play panel contrary to the spirit of an open-source project? Despite the fact that it it goes way beyond the limits of our budget, our own tool fgpanel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A new goodie for FlightGear presentations

2011-07-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> > ATC Flight Sim does exactly what Torsten does ... draw the > instrument gauges in 2D on an LCD display and then put a flat panel > over the top with holes cut out for the instruments to show through. > ATC goes a step further and machines bezels to go around the > perimeter of the opening

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft selection for 2.4.0

2011-07-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Let's start our traditional discussion about what aircraft should be in the base package of the next release (2.4.0). We currently have - 777-200 - A6M2 - b1900d - bo105 - c172p - CitationX - Dragonfly - dhc2 - f-14b - Cub - SenecaII - sopwithCamel - ufo - ZLT-NT Should we change this setup? T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help required with bug 340 (textranslate animation problems)

2011-07-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Anyone got any ideas? Hi Stuart, The correct usage would be textranslate vs-digit5 /autopilot/KAP140/settings/target-pressure-rate-fpm 0.1 1 1 0 0 textranslate vs-digit4 /autopilot/KAP140/settings/target-pressure-rate-fpm 0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help required with bug 340 (textranslate animation problems)

2011-07-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Typo!!! (see inline) > Why? > The order of computation is (example for digit2, propertyvalue=500): > 1. get property value (500) > 2. apply stepping ( 500 step 1000 = 0) > 3. apply factor (0 * 0.0001 = 0 --> don't shift texture) > or for propertyvalue=5500 > 1. get property value (500) 1. get prope

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help required with bug 340 (textranslate animation problems)

2011-07-05 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Thanks! > > No idea how it could have worked before. I've committed an update as > described above. > > However, I'm still seeing some strangeness: > > 1) Sometimes I'm seeing "99" rather than "100" > 2) Even with these changes, the -1000 value is incorrect. > > I suspect that there's some fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft selection for 2.4.0

2011-07-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 06.07.2011 08:56, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: > I keep asking in the forum if anyone knows a plane that reliably > intercepts glideslope when under AP control - so far no one has been able > to come up with one. If someone here knows a plane, please let me know and > I give it a try. > I spe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft selection for 2.4.0

2011-07-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Sorry, I should have been more clear. My original comment was about > airliners and that's what I was still referring to. I fly the SenecaII > quite frequently and have indeed never had any problems with its AP. Ah - ok. I obviously missed you were mentioning airliners. Glad, that it's working f

[Flightgear-devel] Changelog for 2.4.0

2011-07-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I have two tasks for the next release to give away: 1) is anybody willing to donate some time browsing through the commitlogs of SimGear, FlightGear and FGDATA to provide a changelog for the release? It certainly should not contain every single "new aircraft" but an abstract of what cool

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changelog for 2.4.0

2011-07-06 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 06.07.2011 18:23, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: > > Torsten wrote: > > 1) is anybody willing to donate some time browsing through the > > commitlogs of SimGear, FlightGear and FGDATA to provide a changelog for > > the release? > > Durk started with one for 2.3.0. I hope we didn't loose any features

[Flightgear-devel] Bug cleaning week: July, 9th - July 16th

2011-07-09 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, one week to go, before we create the release-branch for 2.4.0. We still have some 80 bugs in out bug tracker at http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/list I'd really love to get this number significantly down before we branch. Please browse to http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turbulence in YASim vs. JSBSim

2011-07-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 11.07.2011 14:47, schrieb Jon S. Berndt: >> Note that the JSBSim environment model is in the middle of a major >> overhaul so I wouldn't make too much of it at this point. It would be >> more interesting to see how it compares after the rewrite. >> >> Erik > > The architecture is, but it should

[Flightgear-devel] Future Weather System, Was: Minor GUI layout improvements

2011-07-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 11.07.2011 14:37, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: > Hi Thorsten, > > I think we've gone beyond what can be done for the upcoming > release, but comments below. What I'd really love to see in the mid-to-long-term range is some kind of unified weather system. It does not really make sense for an average

[Flightgear-devel] Need somebody who speaks French

2011-07-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, I have a discussion with the current maintainers of the Catalina which is going completely into the wrong direction. I think they feel offended by our current feature-freeze state of the fgdata tree and I fail to explain that to them. They are French, I am German and we communicate in Englis

[Flightgear-devel] Release Progress

2011-07-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, our first phase of the release progress will end this Sunday with the creation of the release branch. Because pilots are unable to perform tasks with more than one step without having a checklist, I have created one for the branching process at http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Relea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future Weather System, Was: Minor GUI layout improvements

2011-07-11 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 11.07.2011 22:05, schrieb Stuart Buchanan: > [For a moment I thought this post was from Thorsten Renk, and got _really_ > worried ;) ] Hehe - apologies for having so many T(h)orstens around here. The parents of the mid 60s were not very creative with names... > > Do you see this as a problem wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Future Weather System

2011-07-12 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 12.07.2011 10:18, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: > > Well, there's also a reason - the different design philosophy - and at > some point you may want to consider that before you merge. Rest assured, there won't be any merge of the weather system without you ;-) > > If you compare a system that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG 2.4 consistency

2011-07-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 13.07.2011 19:00, schrieb Curtis Olson: > I think Gene put it well. We need to give them the benefit of the doubt > and cut them some slack due to potential language/translation issues and > if they are newer to the project they need some time to figure out our > project culture and how things

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG 2.4 consistency

2011-07-13 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Also, as we are so often told that git can do everything, why can a > post-release branch not be set up for new source code developments, or a new > release/freeze branch specifically for the new release? I thought that was > the whole raison-d´etre of the devel branch. You certainly can do that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Current Weather System...

2011-07-14 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> I think the one reason for this view is the level of integration with the FG > core, where you've had to work hard to override the global weather system > through no fault of your own. I think with better integration, the > local weather > package will feel much more part of the whole. I moved m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Changelog for 2.4.0

2011-07-15 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 14.07.2011 23:22, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: > Feel free to add/edit/remove http://wiki.flightgear.org/Changelog_2.4.0 Well done - thanks. I changed a few lines after browsing through the commitlogs until I hit the tag for 2.2.0-RC1 Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Minor GUI layout improvements

2011-07-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> ..how about historical weather from e.g. air crash reports? > fgfs --metar="add any metar you want here" -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Metho

[Flightgear-devel] Heads Up: GIT maintenance tomorrow (Sunday 08:00 UTC)

2011-07-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Following our release schedule, I'll be performing some git operations on our simgear, flightgear and fgdata repositories to finally create the branches for the release. I am planning to start tomorrow on Sunday, July 17th at 08:00 UTC and hope to be ready in less than an hour. The tasked to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Minor GUI layout improvements

2011-07-16 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 16.07.2011 17:37, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:34:33 +0200, Torsten wrote in message > <4e214d19.20...@t3r.de>: > >>> ..how about historical weather from e.g. air crash reports? >>> >> fgfs --metar="add any metar you want here" > > ..replacing METAR IDs with a data file that FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads Up: GIT maintenance tomorrow (Sunday 08:00 UTC)

2011-07-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 16.07.2011 13:04, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: > Following our release schedule, I'll be performing some git operations > on our simgear, flightgear and fgdata repositories to finally create the > branches for the release. This will start _NO

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads Up: GIT maintenance tomorrow (Sunday 08:00 UTC)

2011-07-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 17.07.2011 10:05, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: > Am 16.07.2011 13:04, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: >> Following our release schedule, I'll be performing some git operations >> on our simgear, flightgear and fgdata repositories to finally create the >> branches for the releas

[Flightgear-devel] Status for Release 2.4.0

2011-07-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
We just turned into the final approach to our release 2.4.0! I have just created the branches release/2.4.0 for fgdata, simgear and flightgear and created tags version/2.4.0 and version/2.5.0 for the commits containing the version changes. The master branch of fgdata and the next branches of si

[Flightgear-devel] Mailing-list for the bugtracker is up

2011-07-20 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, we now have a mailinglist for all those, interested in the activity of the bugtracker. The name is - guess what - flightgear-bugs. You may subscribe here http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-bugs to receive a message for any new or updated issue. Please do not post bugs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC-AI interaction code (part 1) committed

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Okay, I wish I could do that myself, but I'm a little rusty on the windows > build environment. If anybody could enlighten me which build files should be > changed, I'd be happy to do so (last year I touched the windows build files, > in response to James' Hudson server, but the results were s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Looks like I missed pushing part of my local changes onto gitorious. It > should be working now (apart from updating hte MSVC build files). Hi Durk, starting at KSFO without a parkpos define, I get a segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate::createTakeOff() because firstFlight is set to false and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC-AI interaction code (part 1) committed

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 25.07.2011 20:35, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: >> Okay, I wish I could do that myself, but I'm a little rusty on the windows >> build environment. If anybody could enlighten me which build files should be >> changed, I'd be happy to do so (last year I touched the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> Okay, I'll have a look. I *thought* that I had fixed all initialization > issues this morning, but maybe I introduced a related problem. I expect to > find a solution later this evening. Thanks for reporting! It's probably a good idea to initialize properties in the constructor to NULL and ch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> > Sounds like a good idea. In any case, I have just commited a fix that should > solve the runway initialization problem. OK - that fixed the initialization issue. looking at the code, there is still one rwy initialization on line 517 in createClimb() like those you just moved. And I now get a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 25.07.2011 23:19, schrieb Durk Talsma: > > On 25 Jul 2011, at 22:54, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > >>> >>> Sounds like a good idea. In any case, I have just commited a fix that >>> should solve the runway initialization problem. >> OK - that fixed the in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-26 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 26.07.2011 18:35, schrieb Durk Talsma: > > On 26 Jul 2011, at 07:43, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > >> Am 25.07.2011 23:19, schrieb Durk Talsma: >>> Okay, I'll have a look. Just to make sure: This is a problem that only >>> shows up during program shutdown? &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-26 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 26.07.2011 22:00, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: > Am 26.07.2011 18:35, schrieb Durk Talsma: >> >> On 26 Jul 2011, at 07:43, Torsten Dreyer wrote: >> >>> Am 25.07.2011 23:19, schrieb Durk Talsma: >>>> Okay, I'll have a look. Just to make sure: This is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-26 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 26.07.2011 22:26, schrieb Durk Talsma: > Hi Torsten, > > Thanks for the report. I can confirm the crash, which means that I'm > optimistic that I find a solution tomorrow. I've just seen a similar report > at the forum, so I should have at least two test cases for this. Just noticed: happens a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-27 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 27.07.2011 11:04, schrieb Durk Talsma: >> >> This one happen also at KNID with 87bd2bf, AFAIK, KNID doesn't have any >> ground network. In the meantime I reverted to friday evening FG >> (3723de5) and then it was OK again. >> > > I'm currently committing a fix for this problem. As I already susp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault in AIFlightPlanCreate

2011-07-27 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 27.07.2011 11:58, schrieb Durk Talsma: > > On 27 Jul 2011, at 11:54, Torsten Dreyer wrote: >> >> Here is another one to chew on: How to I close the ATC Dialog? >> It pops up again every time I hit the Cancel button or press Escape. >> > > Great that it work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Improved forests

2011-07-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> > TreeBin* treebin; > > > SGTreeBinList::iterator j; > > > bool found = false; > > > > > > for (j = randomForest.begin(); (j != randomForest.end()) && (!found); > > > j++) { > > > if (((*j)->texture == mat->get_tree_texture() ) && > > > ((*j)->texture_varieties == mat->get_tree_varieties(

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Improved forests

2011-07-29 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> However, I don't think my change will have affected this. > > While the number of trees displayed is increased, the total number > of trees in the scenery is unaffected, it's just that more of those > trees are visible at any given time. > > I'm also not sure if the tree model is shared in this w

[Flightgear-devel] Release 2.4.0: call for help in PR

2011-08-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
FlightGear 2.4.0 will be released in a bit more than two weeks from now. To reach a broad audience, I am looking for someone to write an announcement, initially in English. Also, very welcome are people able to translate this into their native language and distribute it to their local press/fligh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear 2.4.0 data package

2011-08-01 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 01.08.2011 20:18, schrieb ThorstenB: > Hi, > > I checked the FG base package contents. It seems our build rule hasn't > been updated in a while. The following directories / files aren't > packed, though it would seem reasonable to include these: > > data/MP > data/HLA > data/runfgfs.bat > > Not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 02.08.2011 14:41, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: > Following the report of a Forum user, I've just tested ridge lift near > Innsbruck with the ASK-13 with a recent (yesterday) GIT binary. It appears > to me that ridge lift is indeed broken in the sense that the number > computed and visible und

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 02.08.2011 15:15, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: > Am 02.08.2011 14:41, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: >> Following the report of a Forum user, I've just tested ridge lift near >> Innsbruck with the ASK-13 with a recent (yesterday) GIT binary. It appears >> to me that ridg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 02.08.2011 16:37, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: > Am 02.08.2011 15:15, schrieb Torsten Dreyer: >> Am 02.08.2011 14:41, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi: >>> Following the report of a Forum user, I've just tested ridge lift near >>> Innsbruck with the ASK-13 with a r

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2.4.0 Release Candidate 4 ready for download

2011-08-02 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi, with help of many talented people, we are now able to present FlightGear 2.4.0 RC4 for Windows. Please download your copy here http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/Win32/Setup%20FlightGear%202.4.0rc4.exe Bugreports to this list or the tracker http://code.google.com/p/flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridge lift seems broken

2011-08-03 Thread Torsten Dreyer
> It's quite possible that it's broken for a while - there are not so many > glider enthusiasts around, I usually prefer to rely on thermals when I > have time to do some soaring, and the last time I distinctly remember > having used ridge lift is before September 2010... Good we caught it > before

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