From owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Thu May 18 22:00:08 2000 Received: by humbolt.nl.linux.org id ; Thu, 18 May 2000 21:59:39 +0200 Received: from mail.me.umn.edu ([134.84.18.15]:60689 "EHLO mail.me.umn.edu") by humbolt.nl.linux.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 May 2000 21:59:16 +0200 Received: from bofh.me.umn.edu (root@bofh.me.umn.edu [134.84.18.23]) by mail.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22893; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:54:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from curt@me.umn.edu) Received: (from curt@localhost) by bofh.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA02637; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:54:19 -0500 From: "Curtis L. Olson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14628.19051.373558.228179@bofh.me.umn.edu> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:54:19 -0500 (CDT) To: fgfs-announce@flightgear.org CC: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org, flight-sim@grove.iup.edu Sender: owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-aviation-list toma@cstone.net, news@flightsim.com, brandor@combatsim.com, linux-announce@news.ornl.gov, Subject: FlightGear 0.7.3 Released X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 FlightGear version 0.7.3 is now available for download. Precompiled binaries are available for the Win32 platform. There is also a new base package that everyone will need to download as well. If you build FlightGear-0.7.3 from source, you will need to download SimGear-0.0.3 and install it first. The FlightGear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source, multi-platform flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. For more information, please visit the Flight Gear web page at: http://www.flightgear.org Version 0.7.3 contains a number of exiting new features. Quite a bit of work has been done on the instrument panel. The magnetic compass behaves like a real "wet" compass, the altimeter and VSI behave realistically, and the nav radios are now operataional. Quite a bit of work has been done on the flight model front as well. JSBsim continues to progress nicely and now has a reconfigurable flight control system. A group from UIUC has contributed an extension to the LaRCsim flight model that allows you to fly several different aircraft ranging from a Twin Otter to an F4 Phantom, to a Boeing 747. Here is a more detailed list of changes. * Added a radio stack 2 VOR/ILS and an ADF to the instrument panel. You can change the frequencies by clicking on the knobs on the instrument panels. You can now navigate with VOR/ADF/DME and fly ILS approaches. * Added a chronometer to the instrument panel. * Added a "wet" compass to the top of the instrument panel. * Compass, vsi, and altitute instruments and vacuum system are more accurately modeled. * Added a magnetic variation model. * Added navaid database management and query code. * Added magvar offset to VOR radials. * Heading bug now display magnetic heading rather than true heading. * Autopilot now has modes to track a VOR and GS. * Added custom joystick client support so sim can be flown from a remote joystick connected to another machine. This is in support of some custom hardware located in the human factors research lab of the university of minnesota. * HUD controls are a bit different "h" toggles through day/night/off modes and "H" cycles through brightness levels. * Norman Vine contributed code to optionally do antialiased hud lines on hardware that supports this. Norman also contributed additional hud cleanups and updates. * Updates to JSBsim flight dynamics code that includes a generic reconfigurable flight control system, a initial state trimming routine, support for wind and weather, support for flaps, independent trim control, config files changes * Updates to LaRCsim flight dynamcis code contributed by UIUC that allows loading aircraft specifications at runtime from config files. UIUC is using flightgear as a platform to do icing research. The UIUC aircraft use the c172 gear model for now which causes some weirdness on the ground for some of the larger aircraft. * Flight model no longer has to be chosen at compile time. * Separated ephemeris code from the actual sky rendering code and gave this whole section a big overhaul. The moon should now consistantly have the correct phase. * Rebuilt the sky dome using ssg. * Removed dependencies on mat3.h and friends (old srgp support lib) * Airport lookups now done through gdbm (a light weight embedded database.) * Converted ssgVTable's to ssgVtxTables which do proper memory management and should facilitate use of compiled vertex arrays once ssg add support for these. * Overhauled autopilot internals, separated out the gui controls from the actual autopilot code. * Cygwin32 build fixes * MSVC++ build fixes * Mac build fixes Curt. -- Curtis Olson Human Factors Research Lab Flight Gear Project Twin Cities curt@hfrl.umn.edu curt@flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org - Archives of linux-aviation: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/linux-aviation/ To unsubscribe: send the command "unsubscribe linux-aviation" in the body of a mail message to . From owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Thu May 25 21:27:04 2000 Received: by humbolt.nl.linux.org id ; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:26:36 +0200 Received: from mail.me.umn.edu ([134.84.18.15]:30984 "EHLO mail.me.umn.edu") by humbolt.nl.linux.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:26:25 +0200 Received: from bofh.me.umn.edu (root@bofh.me.umn.edu [134.84.18.23]) by mail.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28543; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:21:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from curt@me.umn.edu) Received: (from curt@localhost) by bofh.me.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA05093; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:21:34 -0500 From: "Curtis L. Olson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14637.32062.409597.262331@bofh.me.umn.edu> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:21:34 -0500 (CDT) To: fgfs-announce@flightgear.org CC: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org, flight-sim@grove.iup.edu, toma@cstone.net, news@flightsim.com, brandor@combatsim.com, linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov Subject: FlightGear-0.7.3 updated windows binaries X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-aviation-list Priority: High Thanks to some top notch detective work and a little luck on the part of Norman Vine, the bug in the prebuilt FlightGear-0.7.3 windows executable that was causing crashes on many people's systems has been tracked down. I have uploaded a new binary package to the FlightGear ftp server: ftp://ftp.flightgear.org/pub/fgfs The new file you want to download is in the "Win32" subdirectory and is called "fgfs-win32-bin-0.7.3a.exe". You can just install this over the top of your existing installation. If you've already downloaded and installed version 0.7.3 of the base package, you don't need to do that again. For those that are interested in the specifics of the bug: The distributed executable is built with the open-source cygwin gcc/g++ compilers. We think it is important that an open-source project should be able to build with open-source compiler tools. Executables built with the cygwin compilers need to load in a special dll called cygwin1.dll. This ships with the FlightGear binary distribution. The problem was that somewhere along the way, some change we made in our code exposed a bug in the cygwin1.dll that caused a crash on some systems. Updating to the latest cygwin1.dll appears to solve the problem. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson Human Factors Research Lab Flight Gear Project Twin Cities curt@hfrl.umn.edu curt@flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org - Archives of linux-aviation: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/linux-aviation/ To unsubscribe: send the command "unsubscribe linux-aviation" in the body of a mail message to .