Jim Wilson writes: > At one point we breifly discussed a rules based way of placing > windsocks. It actually isn't all that complex, but it needs to be > coded. Basically you'd have to put one near the end of each runway > and just one in the middle at short fields (off to the side of > course, or we'd have a sock in the way).
That's right. There are a few other considerations as well: for example, we want to make sure that we don't place a windsock in the middle of a taxiway. There's also the issue of lighted vs. unlighted windsocks (which we can kludge from the lighting flag for the runway), and in the U.S., there's a thing called a "segmented circle" which shows pattern direction (I think) that sometimes appears around the windsock. > I wouldn't necessarily bother placing it at all rendered airports, > but rather just calculate the placement for the airport you are > taking off from, at the same time the take off position and tower > positions are calculated. Sounds good. We should also allow manual placement when possible, by adding a flag *not* to include automatic windsocks. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
