Hello all,I've been lurking here for the past few weeks (and on the users list for about a year) and finally decided to post up some of my fgfs experiences. So, I've put together a small site at: http://www.static-lift.net/aero-club/main/home.htmlIt's aimed pretty much at new fgfs users, since I'm pretty new to the whole thing too. In fact, I've only had FlightGear up and running about 2 months now. Hope you find something useful. I'll be updating it as I explore fgfs.--jeff

Very nice pages! I'm looking forward to being able to fly the Etrich Taube, the Albatros, Phoenix, ... in fgfs. :-)BTW: Linux users don't need to download a program to convert images to the SGI image format (*.rgb). GIMP does this already (choosing "aggressive" compression is OK). ImageMagick's convert program does it, too. You can convert several images at once:$ for i in *.bmp; do convert $i sgi:${i%bmp}rgb; doneYour site == bookmarked. :-)

Thanks for the comments. I noticed IIIEEEEE! misinterprets the CSS and places the menu at the wrong place, so for you windows users out there please bear with me until I put in a work-around.Re: GIMP and *.rgb: I too thought *.rgb was exportable via GIMP. But in 2.0 it does not seem to be available. Do you perhaps have a plug-in or an older version of GIMP?--jeff

> I noticed IIIEEEEE! misinterprets> the CSS and places the menu at the wrong place, so for you> windows users out there please bear with me until I put in a> work-around.The submenu isn't without problems in KDE's konqueror, too. Sometimes I have to reload the page to see the submenus. (Didn't look at the code. Maybe a problem there? Here's a good example for working submenus: http://www.blender3d.org/ :-)>Re: GIMP and *.rgb: I too thought *.rgb was exportable via>GIMP. But in 2.0 it does not seem to be available. Do you>perhaps have a plug-in or an older version of GIMP?No, stock 2.0.4 (as distributed with SuSE 9.2). The whole rgb/sgi topic is a bit of a mess. The format is officially called "The SGI image format". And that's how GIMP's exporter calls it: "SGI". Typical extensions for this format, however, are: *.rgb, *.rgba, *.bw, *.sgi, *.al. Yes, that's all the same SGI format, just different extensions. BTW: all of KDE is aware of that SGI format and every KDE app that can read/write images can also read and write SGI images, for instance, kolourpaint or kpaint. But for the general case I recommend the "convert" command line that I posted recently.

I'm using Konqueror, but I can't see the submenus even when I refresh the page. So I took a look at the website on a Windows machine instead.The website is looking great so far. All you need is more content. The page that contains the code for the wheel-spin animation has some error though. Specifically, the XML example has some HTML code at the end.

Hmmm... yeah, I forgot that KDE's khtml has incomplete support for the "visible" attribute. The menus are actually all done with css styles, not like the blender site at all. Maybe one of these days I'll find an Mozilla/IE/Opera/khtml solution I like.I thought that might be the case with GIMP and *.rgb. Didn't know it for a fact, though. Good tip to make it to site. Thanks!I'm sure content will grow. Just figured I had enough that it might be helpful for someone. baby steps, baby steps...--jeff