On Thursday 20 May 2004 08:43, Chris Metzler wrote: > Hi. I should probably be asking this in atlas-devel, but at first > glance it looks pretty dead there; and I'm guessing someone here > has encountered this, or can easily. > > I recently built Atlas from CVS (that took some work, but that's a > different conversation). I then set about generating maps, using > the philosophy outlined on the Atlas website -- some 1024x1024 > images for highres, and 64x64 images for lowres. See the bottom > of > > http://atlas.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=run > > under "Map Resolutions." The maps generated fine; looking at the > ..png's in an image viewer, they all look gorgeous. But using them > in Atlas, I encounter trouble. As near as I can tell, Atlas is > incapable of rendering 1024x1024 .png images. Here's what I find. > > 1. if image files for a location are not present, Atlas shows > the airports and navaids on top of a light blue background (sensible, > since the standard FlightGear assumption is that missing scenery is > water). The same is true if the needed files are present, but are > *not* .pngs (e.g. I just copy some random file in and give it an > appropriate name, so that Atlas can try to load it and fail). > > 2. if the image files for a location *are* present, but are > 1024x1024, Atlas shows an off-white background, with the airports/ > navaids on top of that. > > 3. if I zoom out until I cross the highres/lowres threshhold of > 1:1000000, Atlas tells me it's moving to the low-resolution maps, > and *bingo*, I have maps as a background. > > 4. if I regenerate the low-resolution maps at a higher resolution, > I get the same result as #3, UP TO the low-resolution maps having > a size of 512x512. If I make the low-resolution maps at 1024x1024, > run Atlas, and zoom out to where the low-resolution maps should be > used, I have an off-white background. > > So it seems that 1024x1024 files are the problem. Does anyone else > see this with a current Atlas from CVS? Any suggestions on what I > can do to fix this? Obviously since the webpage was written as it > was, it was intended that making and using 1024x1024 .png files be > possible. What can I do to make this work? > > Thanks for advice, > > -c > > P.S. Oddly, when *making* the 1024x1024 images, Map is able to > display them just fine. It's only when Atlas tries to do so that > problems occur.
I think it's always been like that - I've never been able to use 1024x1024 maps either. As you've found, 512x512 maps are ok, so I use that res. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
