Ben Russell

Gizmo is now 100% free Open Source. The DRM was removed. If you think we aren't listening you'd have to be nuts. There will still be product DRM. It's just not at the heart and soul of the entire thing. It's producer/artist opt-in. The DRM offered will, again, be one that is cost effective and within means of what I can achieve and ship so that Your Favorite Artists can continue to bring you product to play with. This means that it won't have a million fancy bells and whistles and it will only work smoothly for the vast majority of people. It won't ever work perfectly for everyone. Sorry. If you'd like to make a positive contribution to changing that situation and giving me more time to actually work on making better products for you... you can think about donating. It buys me coding time. I wish it was otherwise, I'd love a fat Games-Company salary, a company car and some aircon. Haven't got it. That's the reality I'm dealing with. If you'd like to talk about it, thoughts welcome. If you just wanna keep having a personal whinge about DRM in general.. oh well, you can do that too, I'll tune out. I've shared my thoughts.

[ img ]http://flickr.com/image.jpg[ /img ] take out the extra spaces in the square bracket stuff.

Your name is mud. You openly condone piracy while attempting to make it "ok" 'ha ha' "cute" by mentioning Apple. The only person you burn is the small independent author. Simultaneously you expected protection from my DRM systems. No matter how many words you try and use to dilute the issue, you fucked up. Goodbye.

See if this helps: http://portforward.com/ Generally you pickup your router and see if it has an IP address written on it. It might be: 10.0.0.1 It may also be: 192.168.1.1 There are several other very common standard numbers. Once you find the IP, enter it in your web browser. Your router doesn't care that you're on a Mac, almost all of them just need a web browser to tweak stuff. Finding the admin username and password may be a little harder. (sometimes also on box, sometimes need to call Internet Provider/Telco)

Some things are best not said at all on a public forum in a public place by a representative of your team, Goran. The issue, which has since been removed by Nic to stop himself looking like the asshole he is, is that Nic decided to throw a little joke around about pirating iOS apps. I'm not amused.

Again, you are missing the entire point of X-Pilots existence. I will not wipe your ass to save your face.

Your closing sentence is pathetic Nic and goes against all we stand for. Feel free to resign. Speechless, honestly.

The Corvalis package should have come complete with a copy of Gizmo that is known to work correctly with the product as-sold. The current version of Gizmo available for download is currently out of sync, we are due for an update, expect it in the next few weeks at the most. Please review your downloaded files and follow the included instructions to install the version of Gizmo that came with your product. Completing these steps should let you register properly. If you still cannot register please reply including your X-Plane version number, the version of Gizmo you have and your OS (Mac/Windows or Linux) and I should be able to help some more. Thanks.

http://www.dump.com/2011/01/03/1957-extreme-crop-dusting-video/

I have reverse engineered and re-written flight servers that work with IVAP and XSB. (I have been using X-Plane for a long time...) For X-Plane, it is fact. Like it or not. For MSFS XSB "3" has better tech.

VATSIM Traffic-Position Update Rate: 5 seconds IVAO( X-IvAp plugin ): Defaults to 5 second update rate, can under certain conditions achieve faster update rates for close traffic. Unsure of current status. Pilot Edge: New modern network plugin feature fast update rates and live human ATC. Currently beta, very promising. Come on, let's get in peoples faces, it's what X-Plane multiplayer needs.

Many of you will remember this tool we came up with about a year ago: Old thread: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=567 I've re-branded it and taken out all the trial modes. After the summer storm of DRM controversy passed, this is the end result: I've had this software sitting on my disk for about a year. Apparently people used it and liked it. We never sold it because it's a pain in the ass, a serious pain in the ass, to make DRM software. The value of this little app is low. You cant take it and make a fortune with it by out-programming me. My motivation to bring this one to market as a locked down DRM product was really low. So low, that even though the app is great, I just didn't finish it. True story. So, this application: Scenery Manager, is exactly the same as detailed in the other thread. The following major changes have been made. - There is no trial mode. Full version only. - The license is GPL v3. Source code is available, contributions wanted and welcome. - You can download the binary installer, for free, to try it out. No hunting down a suspect version from somewhere to "try before you buy". Purchasing a copy is entirely at your "I like this software therefore I will support it" discretion. You can buy a copy here for $5 and support development of this and other X-Plane toys: http://www.store.x-plugins.com/servlet/the-X-dsh-Plane-Utilities-cln-Scenery-Manager/Categories OR You can download a copy here for free: https://bitbucket.org/xplugins/scenery-manager/downloads Currently Windows only for the installer, Mac has bugs, Linux is unknown but should work. This software is free like Linux, you are free to copy and share it as you wish.

Someones going to have to shell out for a copy and see if the appropriate Copyright attributions have been made. Doesn't look good on the surface, but if there's an attributions file in the download, well.... that seems to meet the Creative Commons license requirement. x-objectware is registered to a guy based in Hong Kong. Call me biased, but I don't hold much hope for licensing integrity based on that fact alone. (I don't really care for being PC when it comes at the cost of lieing about reality.)

It would be nice if people took the time to fully read a thread or project status updates. It's nice that a post is "well thought out and well intentioned" but when it's saturated with content that shows that they really are not following the project. Boring.

Ok so... this might do the trick? --Make a new dataref to output our value into, cdr_ stands for custom dataref. cdr_needle_output = xp.newDataref("zach/needle/mach_unit") --Lookup the engines dataref in X-Plane. dr_engine_rpms = xp.getDataref("sim/cockpit2/engine/indicators/prop_speed_rpm") --this function is called once for every logical frame. function main() --[[ X-Plane and C/C++ store data like this prop_speed_rpm[0] prop_speed_rpm[1] ... prop_speed_rpm[7] Gizmo and Lua, like this: prop_speed_rpm[1] prop_speed_rpm[2] ... prop_speed_rpm[8] --]] --Zach Says: The RPM needle is tied to sim/cockpit2/engine/indicators/prop_speed_rpm [2] --"[2]" in X-Plane is "value number 3" ... --The next function asks for values from the dataref, starting at 3. 1 serve please. local rpm = xp.getFloatV( dr_engine_rpms, 3,1 ) local mu = 1.59 * rpm / acf.getKIAS() xp.setFloat( cdr_needle_output, mu ) --write our calculated value into the custom dataref we created at the start end ...and if we take out (almost) all the friendly stuff, 7 lines.. cdr_needle_output = xp.newDataref("zach/needle/mach_unit") dr_engine_rpms = xp.getDataref("sim/cockpit2/engine/indicators/prop_speed_rpm") function main() local rpm = xp.getFloatV( dr_engine_rpms, 3,1 ) local mu = 1.59 * rpm / acf.getKIAS() xp.setFloat( cdr_needle_output, mu ) end ...above code goes into a text file called ./scripts/init.lua .... in your aircraft folder.

Topic split.

My suggestion that you go and buy the ERJ is in fact perfectly genuine. There is no sarcasm attached at all. Use of styling was made to be very clear about what I was trying to say. NOT to be derogatory towards Dans plane. I could've said "If you want a plane with no systems". That's quite simply not true. Exactly how in depth they are I don't know, I would expect Dan to make best use of what the Sim offers out-of-the-box. He's even started using Plugins on some of the Carenado stuff. So. Please, if you would like a very nice looking jet with "moderate" systems modeling please go and buy Dan's ERJ that I have directly linked to above for maximum customer ease and satisfaction.

Here's a whole thread full of answers, further requests, re-iterated answers, more requests, and more of the same answer. http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=176.0 There are many more copies of the same question and the same answer sprinkled about through each CRJ thread.

Given the imminent release of XP-10 and the new weather engine pictures being posted REX would have to be completely NUTS to launch a v9 product right now...

Guys, it's getting really boring reading the same request over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ......... It will be done when it's done. If you want a "lite" version with no >CUSTOM< programming and systems, go and buy Dan Klaues ERJ. The shape is nearly exactly the same. Here: http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=205

Here's the link: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=49687&view=getnewpost&hl=&fromsearch=1 It will be interesting to see what the artists make of it.

Added the word "Wanted: " to your topic title.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Starting as a general policy from here forward. If you make something interesting with Gizmo Home and share it with the rest of us I will happily give you a free license.