Hi, Andy Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ilja wrote: > > 1. The trim wheel looks in AC3D like this [...] is just an ugly > > object: [...] The orange mixture stick doesn't look correct too. > > Off hand, it looks to me like the normals are wrong. The bright white > vertices usually result from a normal being far too large. AC3D has > been known to generate some very strange geometry in the past, and > it's possible that it is confusing plib's normal calculation. Try to > look through the file and verify that you don't have any degenerate > triangles, etc...
I will do that. > Or, if you are feeling adventurous, try my plib patch which replaces > the normal calculation step with a smarter one that understands the > difference between smooth and sharp edges: > > http://www.plausible.org/vertsplit/vertsplit2.tar.gz > > (Make sure you are using the CVS version of plib, dump all the files > in the tarball into src/ssg, then rebuild plib and FlightGear). I´m sorry, but I´m using the precompiled FlightGear v 9.3 for Windows and I haven´t got any compiler. > The two implementations share no code, so if the problem persists with > the patch, the bug is almost certainly in your model file. > > > 2. The instrument panel shines through the fuselage: [...] but the dc3 > > model is not alone there, when you look at other aircrafts with 2d > > panels, you can find the same bug (or feature?). So I took > > screenshots from c172, a4 and c310u3a. > > This is a known issue that gets reported from time to time. The 2D > panels use a depth buffer offset to draw the layers, and it ends up > being too coarse on 16 bit depth buffers. Try setting your screen > depth to 24bpp and see if that fixes the issue. > > > It seems to depend on models' surfaces, but what can you see in > > FlightGear v. 9.2? [...] There is no bug! > > Are you sure you didn't change your display settings and/or take the > screenshots on a different machines? Yes, I´m sure. Ilja _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
